What Are You Listening To Right Now (Part IV)

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All in all, not a bad choice for robot music's first platter. I'm cool with that.

On guitar, we see Alex Weir, who did work with The Brothers Johnson and on keyboards is none other than the genius Bernie Worrell, late of the P-Funk collective.

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The Shadows of Knight on a late Sunday morning. Gloria, of course, is the classic rock station fave, but the entire album is a solid showing for those guys. Even their three originals are decent tunes.

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I see your Shadows of Knight and raise you some Flamin' Groovies:

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And now it is the heavy heavy heavy groove of early early early Funkadelic:

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Working out with Saxon! Right now it's To Hell And Back Again!

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Don Covay & The Goodtimers... 40 Days 40 Nights

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Loudness - Disillusion. Most of these songs are sung in Japanese, with the occasional English tossed in, but it simply doesn't matter. The music is strikingly powerful, even as they are rather mundane metal tunes. Although "Butterfly" has some interesting Rush-like twists. Takasaki is really the star though, he lifts up everything he is involved with.

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Because we got Mothers' Day coming up and I love my mom and this track slams. Pure seventies sunshine with a hard rock twist, all for mama.

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Saxon - Denim & Leather

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A new addition to my vinyl horde: "The Birthday Eve," by Loudness. After listening to Disillusion the other day, I got to looking around and caught this one for cheap so bought it. I'm really digging this early Loudness.

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath because my meeting just ended and I was writing about how it was a song from me youth.

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An absolutely KILLER show by KK's PRIEST headlining the Rock Hard Festival in Germany on May 18th!

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Mariska Veres and Co., aka The Shocking Blue.

While reviewing the song writing credits on the album, the back cover states, "All songs written by Robby Van Leeuwen unless otherwise noted." Not an uncommon thing to find on albums. Looking at the labels, and the rest of the album cover, there is no "otherwise noted" anywhere, so clearly Robby wrote everything on the release. But, uh, no. Because there is a song, track three, side two, titled, "Bool Weevil."

And yeah, it's the same lyrics as the trad song Boll Weevil. You know, he's just looking for a home and all that. Woody Guthrie needs to crawl outta the ground and sue the living shit out of Robby. I mean, come on, what a complete rip off. RIP OFF. The guy thieved that shit faster than Jimmy Page in a sheet music store.

I mean, imagine the massive revenue stream that Bool Weevil brought (and STILL BRINGS) in for Robby Van Leeuwen, when it should have partially went to Guthrie's family. Maybe Arlo could have afforded some nice dentures or at least a toothbrush. Money FLYING INTO Robby's bank account DAILY, so much of it the bank had to hire two extra full time staff just to run the adding machines!

Oh...wait...nevermind.

I do really enjoy this version of "Love Buzz". And I bet Robby really does get some nice royalties for Nirvana's rendition!

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Cheap Trick at Budokan. The Japanese first pressing, with a 12 page booklet of pics and lyrics and a nice message from Rick to the entire country of Japan. I've always found it hilarious that the record is "Live at Budokan" and the opening words are "Hello Tokyo!" hahaha

This pressing, in all seriousness, sounds a mile away better than the version they released in the USA.

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^That's the album that put Cheap Trick on the map in the late 70s. Made us all Surrender to their musicianship.