Music Break

Since I haven't made a musical post since last year, several months ago, it's about time that I put one up.  To start off is Foghat's cover of the Willie Dixon song I Just Want To Make Love To You.  This video, from their 1973 appearance on The Midnight Special, shows that lead singer "Lonesome" Dave Peverett could also play some lead guitar.  The rest of the band are lead and slide guitarist Rod Price, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl.  All except Price had been members of Savoy Brown.

I remember hearing Cheap Trick's So Good To See You from someone down the hall in my college dorm playing it on his record player.  For some reason, the song reminded me of George Harrison's music.

In 1970, The Move released When Alice Comes Back To The Farm, from their album Looking On.  At this time, the band consisted of Roy Wood (guitar, vocals and many other instruments), Jeff Lynne (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Rick Price (bass) and Bev Bevan (drums, percussion).  All four became original members of Electric Light Orchestra in 1970, but Price left in early 1971 before the new band recorded anything.  Wood left ELO in 1972 and founded Wizzard.  Although the video's title says "(feat. Jeff Lynne)", the song really features Wood, who sings lead and plays slide guitar through a wah-wah pedal, and shifts between two time signatures.

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp released his debut solo album Exposure in 1979, which includes You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette.  The song was written with Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates), who provides the lead vocals and piano.  According to the album's credits, the bass is by Tony Levin, the drums are by Jerry Marotta (formerly of Orleans), and the spoken vocals are by Shivapuri Baba.  The video appropriately shows someone smoking in a restroom.

To finish, and speaking of time signatures, here's the title track from Linda Ronstadt's 1982 album Get Closer, written in 7/4 time by Jon Carroll of the Starland Vocal Band.  Musicians on this song include Andrew Gold, Waddy Wachtel and Danny Kortchmar on guitars; Bill Payne (of Little Feat) on electric piano; Bob Glaub on bass; Russ Kunkel on drums; and Patti Austin and Rosemary Butler on backing vocals.  The video shows Ronstadt walking and dancing around a hallway set.  Sometime after the song came out, it was turned into a jingle for a toothpaste ad.