Songs that take you back?

[STW996]

Shit we're old.

Yeah but still younger than Firko!

[Curly3]

Them's fightin words, don't pick on our August mate.

[TooFastTim]

don't pick on our August mate.

 

[crankpin]

The first blues I ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvoGmGijU   

Searching around youtube and found this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOwNItKOyo&feature=related

Wondering just how far back this song goes.

Sonny boy Williamson (pre Muddy) Didn't Robert Johnson sing those lyrics (late 1920's)?

Love blues myself 

[Slider29]

Shit-a-brick!!! I like just about all of the music already mentioned. But wait ,.. there's more.The ones that remind me of when it all started, tear- arsing around the paddock circa 1969/70 on my Yammie 90 (what a great bike) are Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, Hot August Night by Neil Diamond (the album) , Simon and Garfunkles greatest hits. Also  The Bee Gees greatest hits vol 1. Yeah Slides we are gettin' old but who gives a shit? I just go onto You Tube, drink beer and have blast from the past.
    When i started racing my Dad was the driver and he chose the music.(cassettes) Del Shannon, Marty Robbins, Carly simon and lots more. All great.
    cheers you blokes, i,m goin' on the tube    Mark

[TooFastTim]

Didn't Robert Johnson sing those lyrics (late 1920's)?

Dunno. Wasn't around at the time 

[matcho mick]

you have the music in you   

[Kenneth S (222)]

This thread is fun and strikes another chord for nostalgia. I move that Saturday nights at race meetings become 'VMX Disco nights' with one of us playing a compilation of 70s & Early 80s hits out of the back of our trailer, I'll even bring the mirror ball!! Woops, did I just admit I have a mirror ball?

I can just here the budding 50yr+ DJ now, KC and the Sunshine Band fading in with "That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it" "Back to back, stack to stack, we spin the hits as they fall, for all you Pre 75 maniacs out there this ones from the year 1975, you can hum this to yourself tomorrow as you blast that berm on your way to a win.....uh huh uh huh I like it, when you take me by the hand, tell me I'm your lovin man.........

I think I'm onto something here!!

[crankpin]

I think I'm onto something here!!

And I think you've lost something. Misplaced your marbles perhaps   

[shorelinemc]

went and seen the moody blues last week,sounded fantastic still.the drummer just turned 70

[Tony T]

went and seen the moody blues last week,sounded fantastic still.the drummer just turned 70

Graeme Edge is 70! 
I must have nodded off for a decade or so...........

[firko]

I must have nodded off for a decade or so...........

A week or two ago I was watching some Swiss rock show on the Studio Channel which featured Robert Plant looking bloody awful...a wrinkled old man with a long blond perm, skin tight leather pants and a wholle bunch of circa 1970 costume baubles and bangles. It was a real eye opener to how much time has passed since the music died..........Old Planty can still belt out a tune though. He recently did a duet album with Alison Krause that's up there with the best stuff he has done since Led Zep folded.

[TooFastTim]

I read (recently?) that Plant and Page remain great friends and both share a passion for the history of blues. The roots of blues has long been a source of mystery to academia and, apparently, Plant and Page beat all the academics and musicoligists and finally established, beyond any doubt, where the chords, melodies etc that make up blues originated. The answer was Muslim Africa. From there those rythms etc made it across the Atlantic with the slaves and the rest is, as they say, history.

P.S. Ole Jimmy might become Sir James. But what about Mayall and Clapton whose influence on music has been equally profound?

[firko]

P.S. Ole Jimmy might become Sir James. But what about Mayall and Clapton whose influence on music has been equally profound?

Eric Clapton deserves a gong as does the great John Mayall but Mayalls problem would be his not being a household name 'pop' star like Clapton, Page, Plant et al. At risk of mentioning the excellent Studio channel again, for the last couple of weeks they've been showing Martin Scorsese's brilliant doco series...'The Blues'. In episode 2 a young contemporary blues guitarist (Corey Harris) travels to West Africa in search of the original source of the blues. He had some interesting jams with a traditional performer from Mali that clearly show a connection where they both play some simple Robert Johnson riffs and seamlessly blend into the local rythhms and cord progressions. Great stuff.
http://www.scorsesefilms.com/blues.htm

[Tossa]

John mayall the man who gave so many budding  and singers a blues start, so many great guitarists got their Start with the blues breakers.  moody blues, For my childrens, childrens, childrens what an amazing album.  'With the power of 10,000 butterfly sneezes" what a brilliant line or was it what i was smoking!!lol