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My 10-15-2024 BATTLE OF THE BANDS' Battle Of The Booze took place HERE, and it was between Bruce Stinkweed's Springsteen's 'Spirit In The Night' and The Eagles' 'On The Border' (or, Wine versus Wine).
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This Battle weren't no dog! It was indeed a "battle". At one point The Eagles were leading 6 to 3, but when Stinkweed Springsteen scored the final 4 votes (including mine) it sealed the deal.
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FINAL TALLY:
Bruce Springsteen = 7 votes
The Eagles = 6 votes
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Although I certainly don't dig Springsteen's music like I did in the early '80s, I still own his first two albums, which I think are his best. And the song 'Spirit In The Night' is like an anthem to me, which is entirely entangled with my memories of The League Of Soul Crusaders. So much so that lyrics from the song appeared on the first page of my book manuscript about The League:
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So, Bruce Stinkweed's song will advance to the eventual playoff rounds, and The Eagles' song will fly away, 'bye-'bye.
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I thank each and ever' one o' youz who participated in my BOTB contest, and I hope all y'all will return for my next one on November 1st.
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ROCKTOBERFEST 2024
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Between now and my next BOTB installment, I intend to post two or three entries in [link> MMQE's 'Rocktoberfest' carnival. Mary is exclusively using Rock from the 1980s, but since that is where Rock music lost me, I will be postin' & explainin' my thoughts on Rock from other years.
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Considering how much I yak on this blog about booze, hooch & sampling the "evidence", it may come as a surprise that the first song I want to feature for 'Rocktoberfest' is a song I've always LOVED which is titled 'STONE COLD SOBER'. (Can you believe it-uh?!)
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Here's the lowdown on this mostly unknown & therefore ridiculously underrated rocker:
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| "Jesus is a Locomotive" ~John Eldredge |
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The band FREE came & went before I had started buying albums. So, I never owned any of their LPs. But I always liked their big hit 'All Right Now' and knew that the lead guitarist was named Paul Kossoff. In '77, a 2-LP retrospective album was released titled 'KOSS'. I must have read about it in some music magazine & bought it. I played the "KOSS!" out of that album. Totally fell in love with his guitar tone and style! He just had such a deep 'n' dangerous sound.
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Kossoff's and David Gilmour's playing have always reminded me a bit of each other. It's not fast & flashy, but has a very distinctive low, raw, guttural sound. To me, it sounds like a house being demolished from the foundation UP, rather than from the top down!
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After Free broke up, Paul Rodgers formed Bad Company and Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler. When Kossoff died, the band continued under the name Crawler, with a guy named Geoff Whitehorn taking over on lead guitar. It was never a big hit song anywhere, but in L.A. a song by Crawler titled 'Stone Cold Sober' got some airplay on our F.M. stations and I fell head-over-heels in love with that song! Whitehorn had the Kossoff sound nailed down, and then some!
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I consider it amongst the most underrated Rock songs of all-freakin'-time. Or, well... at least since the mid-1950s, anyway. 😉
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STONE COLD SOBER (1977)
by Crawler
.~ Stephen T. McCarthy
At least I voted with the majority on this one. I agree about "Spirits in the Night"--it's a pretty fine song. So's the Eagles song. They're busy playing at that Las Vegas Dome these days so I guess they don't have time for any playoffs anyway.
ReplyDeleteCrawler and their song are both totally new to me though I certainly know Free. I saw them as one of the opening acts for Alice Cooper in the early seventies. What a great concert it was!
Lee
Yeah, LEE, I liked both of the songs in my Battle this round, but 'Spirit In The Night' just brings too much personal history with it for me to have seriously considered voting for 'On The Border'.
DeleteIt would have been cool to see Free live. Although I know he puts on massive Halloween-like carnival shows, I never liked Alice Cooper's stuffs enough to be interested in going to one of his concerts.
~ D-FensDogG
Hey there Stephen! Thanks for joining in my little rock fest! I should note that the main reason I went with the 80s this go around is because I have played the heck outta the 70s and felt the need to switch it up. Who knows... Maybe next year I will visit the 60s.
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MMQE ~
DeleteI completely understand your reasoning and I know that I am a serious *outcast* when it comes to '80s Rock. Most people think of it as "the good old days".
And truth be told, I should be grateful for '80s Rock because, without it, I may have never discovered my true love: Jazz.
I intend to post a few more underrated recordings before this spooky month comes to an end. "Underrated" (IMO) is pretty much the mini-theme I'm running with in my Rocktober posts.
~ D-FensDogG
I really like your Rocktober song pick. Totally new but so electrifying to my ears. I really dig Crawler's groove. I'm heading over to YT to sample more of their tunes. Thanks for sharing your battle results. It was a tight one!
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DeleteGlad you dug the Crawler tune. Yeah, that one is seriously amped up and it always gets me amped up too!
It's kind of funny that my all-time favorite "Kossoffian" guitar solo wasn't actually played by Kossoff.
I hope to have a new old song up sometime tomorrow.
~ D-FensDogG
Howdy, Stephen T.!
ReplyDeleteDon't know Crawler, but the song's not bad.
The thing about rear-view mirrors is they show you all that was and or all that might be. Either way, you keep glancing back. I enjoyed the Eagles again - since I was here. Thanks:-)
dIEDRE ~
DeleteThanks for checking in on the Results.
All I know is that what I can see in my rearview mirror beats the UNHOLY HELL(!) out of what I can see coming soon through my windshield.
~ D-FensDogG