RIP Eddie Money

I encountered Eddie Money twice, once as a Gaylord wonk and later on as an art student in the East Bay. Both times he seemed nice enough, but had that floaty, not quite there quality.

The best concert track ever:

 

The Smiths
Dick Dale
Depeche Mode
Kraftwerk
Devo
Outkast
Iron Maiden

It's criminal that Dick Dale didn't get in during his lifetime.

And I've ranted about this before, but the "That's not Rock and Roll" argument carries no weight with me. Rock is not required to be white guys with long hair playing guitar. Beyond that, genres boundaries are stupid and meaningless. The Eagles are in. Garth Brooks is not. Anyone want to explain the difference to me? Because the only real difference is his hat.

 

The version of "Surrender" is incredible, but "Surrender" is already a classic song. On record "I Want You To Want Me" is really tepid. The Budokan version blows it out of the water.

 

He looked TERRIBLE in that Geico spot. It was sad/pathetic on an Orson Wells level

He was also reduced to playing really small venues. Should have taken better care of his money.

 

Even if she is RRHOF, Janet Jackson will always be remembered for the Super Bowl.

 

Not to thread jack further, but Cheap Trick and "At Budokan" were also inspiration for This Is Spinal Tap.

 

Was record shopping a week ago and picked up an old Tommy James and the Shondells record in great shape.

It was a good reminder of two things:

1) Really great band. Would totally vote for them for the Hall.

B) The original version of "Crimson and Clover" is almost unlistenable. Just absolutely terrible. Whoever produced it did them an incredible disservice. There's a great song lurking in there -- the Joan Jett cover absolutely smokes the original.

 

1981, he’s on the bottom and as a freshman I hear he’s “headlining” Friday Night at the SAE house kegger party; dude was way gone, could barely talk, let alone sing, but damn it was still so cool to see him there. May he RIP.

 

I always think of them as a "doo wop" group because of their name. This song still holds up (as long as you don't listen too closely to the lyrics).

 

It was 1968-69; everybody was going in the studios, playing with all the knobs, turning up distortion, recording backwards vocals, etc etc. The songs were also recorded mainly to be played on transistor radios or tinny car speakers. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

 

Loved the story about "Mirage." Someone accidentally flipped the master tape to "I Think We're Alone Now" in the studio and Tommy James really liked that chord progression when played backward. In my opinion, Mirage is the better song. (You wouldn't ever think of doing that now with digital recording.)