We Used To by Cigar. Old band, but a good new song in that 90s melodic punk style, if you're into that sort of thing.
I was there. It rained and I met a girl. At the end of this, it segues into the Delicate Sound of Thunder film in HD, from 17 years later. Pretty amazing.
It had been awhile, but I spun up Frampton Comes Alive! last night. Still a great album. You can just get lost in the music. I remember watching this Midnight Special back in the day. It blew me away--that guitar playing and... what the hell was he doing with his voice? It was all we could talk about that following Monday in Jr. High. He sold a lot of albums to 8th graders with that performance.
I've seen it credited a few times as the album that killed "classic rock", because it made it too profitable as a product to be ignored by mega-corporate types who were only interested in putting out the most profitable product. A whole bunch of labels were taken over by conglomerate companies that weren't really about music over the years after its success (and profitability), starting about a year after it was released.
I don't know about that. Maybe to a small degree but that album came out in the middle of a massive transition. Disco and Punk were just starting and The Who felt compelled to release "Long Live Rock" as a single a few short years later. I guess you could make the argument that it was a bridge from the Classic Rock era to the pop rock era of Journey, Styx, Kansas, and such. Then, of course, Frampton's image took a huge hit when he did Sgt Pepper with the Bee Gees which made him seem more pop driven than he really was. Humble Pie rocked and so did his early stuff. Only after Alive did he kind of spin out and become a caricature--which also happened to Rock at about the same time. So, in sum, correlation is not causation.
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Boris - W Holy crap is that Grobschnitt album good! Ranks right up there with Hawkwind's "Space Ritual" as one of the best live albums of all-time.
