Like many bands, I was fascinated to find out whence came the name Three Dog Night. It's something us North Americaners might have no knowledge of and would only find out by looking it up. As far as I can tell it what a term invented in the land down under. Could be wrong.
Referenced arctic winters... as in how many dogs were needed in ones' sleeping area to stay warm.
Inference was that 3 suggested Extreme cold . That was the stated source from an at the time interview.
Curious part is: Why? did I waste the storage to remember it?
Band wasn't very well known in this part of the world.
Beyond that.. Longevity seems to be the main requirement to enter the 'Hall of Fame' .
As in most everybody does eventually.
A hollow accolade.. at best
Inference was that 3 suggested Extreme cold . That was the stated source from an at the time interview.
Curious part is: Why? did I waste the storage to remember it?
Band wasn't very well known in this part of the world.
Beyond that.. Longevity seems to be the main requirement to enter the 'Hall of Fame' .
As in most everybody does eventually.
A hollow accolade.. at best
Yea sure, like The Pretenders. Pfft.
Actually The Pretenders were fabulously underrated by their own hand imo. Isle Of View is when they got their ducks in a row like Supertramp on Paris when they finally got the musical arrangements together correctly. And that was it. They both went out with a Bang. Like many others. Strange that maturity brings about the end. Like reaching a goal but not searching for.
The Buck Rogers littlle robot irritated the heck about me, as well as Lee Majors, the smug stud...
Twiki was just one of the many distractions you had to sit through in order to see Erin Gray looking superhot in Spandex!
Who are the band?
Great guitar work.
At least one man looks like he was with AC/DC, distinctive walk.
Great guitar work.
At least one man looks like he was with AC/DC, distinctive walk.
That man certainly did a good Angus Young impression!
The band members on the recording were: Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice. Other personnel included Billy Peek, Jim Cregan and Gary Grainger on guitars, Phil Kenzie on saxophone, Phil Chen on bass and John Jarvis on organ.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rod-stewart/hot-legs#:~:text=Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice was a recent,Chen on bass and John Jarvis on organ.
The band members on the recording were: Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice. Other personnel included Billy Peek, Jim Cregan and Gary Grainger on guitars, Phil Kenzie on saxophone, Phil Chen on bass and John Jarvis on organ.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rod-stewart/hot-legs#:~:text=Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice was a recent,Chen on bass and John Jarvis on organ.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rod-stewart/hot-legs
It's one of a handful of Stewarts work that I love.
It's one of a handful of Stewarts work that I love.
Rod has been inducted into the US Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a solo artist in 1994 and once as a member of the Faces in 2012.
I should have said that Hot Legs was posted as the song that popped into my mind to dedicate to Erin, after you posted the Wilma video. I don't love Rods solo music, but I love The Faces. I always wished that they would have kept that unit together as long as Ronnie was able to. One of my favorite straight up rock bands of the era. They had grit, groove, and swagger!
So how do you define a "commercial band"? What does that mean? Can you name some others?
That was the first thought that popped into my head.
Yes, though there is no comparison between the two.
The city I lived in in Florida threw an all day long 4th of July celebration at a large city park every year for over 20 years. There was a free for residents concert in the evening followed by a large fireworks display. The concert was usually by a rock or pop band well past their prime, but before the wave of nostalgia resurgence. One particular event featured Three Dog Night. The only memorable moment from that show was when the kid that lived across the street threw a fireworks mortar shell into a porta-potty blowing substance all over the place and releasing a brown cloud that was pretty good at dispersing the crowd and repelling mosquitoes. The venue is 1/2 mile from the Everglades swamp.
Sometime in 1969 I spent a weekend in the ranger's cabin of a Florida State Park in the Florida Keys with some musician friends from high school. There might have been some illicit substances including LSD involved. Several of the participants had brought some records including In Search of the Lost Chord, and On the Threshold of a Dream. My only experience with the Moodies before that weekend was what I heard on the radio, which was not much. That experience created a permanent connection in my brain, and I have been searching for that Lost Chord ever since. I have every Moodies album and all of the solo and duo efforts. They still get played a lot. I lost count of how many times I saw them in concert at 20+. I would have gone to see Justin Hayward in Pittsburgh a few months back, but we had other obligations on the same night.
Is this response normal? Maybe not, but I know others who had a similar experience. Am I normal? Anyone who has read my posts here for very long knows the answer to that question.
BTW, In my opinion the worst period in the Moodies existence was the Patrick Moraz year or two when he kept trying to merge disco into the Moody Blues music.