We survived it to another midweek. Enjoy another day that ends with the letter y.
It’s been a bit crazy as of late, so here’s some tunes that are variations of an earlier dark and paranoid time.
Yeah, things are a bit more on edge these days.
Have a safe holiday season, however you celebrate. I grill steaks for Christmas. Have done that for a while now. Keeping to the small immediate family gathering vibe for very obvious reasons.
Cheers!
Passings:
Leslie West, guitarist and vocalist best known for his band, Mountain, and that band’s biggest single, “Mississippi Queen” in 1970, passed away. He was 75. Here is Leslie performing that hit song with Peter Frampton about seven years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMhPgo2fofg
2020 was a long year(s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SPg7MpcrU
Hi Don Durito, thanks for this. Merry Christmas!
I heard “Lunatic Fringe” a few days ago for the first time in many years, it never caught on with the classic rock stations around here.
the stars of the 60s are, unfortunately, going to be passing more and more frequently. And yet, Keith Richards magically endures.
“Lunatic Fringe” managed to get into one of the DJs rotation for a few weeks in late 1981 on a Sacramento area AOR station. Red Rider was probably not an easy band for the marketing types to peg. They were a hard rock band, but they didn’t quite fit in with the other hard rock bands. They weren’t New Wave enough to fit in some relevant stations’ format then. Always liked that song. It had a message, and it in spots sounded like it could fit into a Pink Floyd LP, or at least made an outtakes LP later.
We’re about to lose a lot more of our stars who were active in the 1960s and 1970s. That said, we should be carefully considering the world we are all going to leave behind for Keith Richards.
Merry Christmas to you as well!