Well, this month on youtube's Sea of Tranquility channel, the topic was favorite albums of 1976. Here's what I included. One thing, I didn't really rank them since there's so many great ones from that year!!
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Bad Company - Run With The Pack
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets/One More From The Road
Kiss - Destroyer/Rock & Roll Over
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
George Benson - Breezin'
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bulet/Night Moves
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
Billy Joel - Tunrstiles
Jeff Beck - Wired
Rush - 2112/All The World's A Stage
The Rolling Stones - Black & Blue
Ramones - Ramones
Aerosmith - Rocks
AC/DC - High Voltage/Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
James Taylor - In The Pocket
Eric Clapton - No Reason To Cry
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life, Waylon Jennings - Waylon Live
Elton John - Here & There
JJ Cale - Troubadour
Queen - A Day At The Races
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
Eagles - Hotel California
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Kansas - Leftoverture
Boston - Boston
Rainbow - Rising
Commander Cody - We've Got A Live One Here
The Eagles Hotel California is the third biggest selling album in history. Only the Eagles Greatest Hits Vol 1 and Michael Jackson's Thriller have outsold Hotel California.
An album I like from 1976 is the Allman Brothers Band's second live album Wipe The Windows, Check The Oil, Dollar Gas. I don't care for the title and neither did Gregg and Butch. And only Chuck Leavell, Larmar Williams and Jaimoe I understand were involved in the song selection.
The album sold only moderately. About 200,000 copies but the performances are very good. It's a different Allman Brothers Band with one guitar but Chuck Leavell and Larmar Williams do a fine job making this version of the band sound good.
This original arrangement of Southbound is a good example. This is a smoking version recorded live at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in November 1973.
It was a good time to be in high school (fall). The 70's... a simpler time! 😎 🍻
Marshall Tucker Band - Long Hard Ride
New Riders of the Purple Sage - New Riders
J. Geils Band - Live, Blow Your Face Out
Someday, everything's gonna be different
When I paint my masterpiece.
I love WTWCTODG. A great Ramblin Man too. It has the first live version I ever heard of DWYNM/INMCTB as well. Jessica, oh yeah! Come & Go Blues is very nice. The Liz Read is totally a Spacey/Jazzy delight.
I didn't realize how many good albums came out that year. I had just discovered Bob Seger through Live Bullet. Caught him live that same year opening for Johnny & Edgar Winter, Blue Oyster Cult and then Kiss. A year later (After Night Moves) he was selling out arenas as a headliner.
A lot of great Albums on that list. I think of the very late 70s and 80s as dead for really good music but then I am reminded there was some good stuff released.
Jefferson Starship - Spitfire
Ted Nugent - Free for All
we listened to that one quite a bit.
Charlie Daniels Band - Saddle Tramp
An album I didn't really appreciate until years later. It was the first album on Epic and I thought the production sounded slicker than the previous records. It just didn't hit me at first. The CDB jammed on the song Saddle Tramp every time I saw them up to Charlie's passing
Atlanta Rhythm Section- Red Tape
Charlie always put on a great show. He was quite the guitar player with a Gibson Les Paul.
Hi Bill! How are you doing? I remember seeing the CDB open for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Louisville Gardens, way back when. "Fire On THe Mountain" had just come out. I Also remember seeing Wet Willie, the CDB, and Marshall Tucker at Freedom Hall on Derby Eve. I think 1974.
I'd bet you were at both shows.
Also saw the CDB open for the Stones at the Liberty Bowl on July 4, 1975.
Take Care,
CB
The CDB set up mirrored the original ABB. 2 drumers, 2 Les Pauls, keyboards (often a B3) and bass. Mostly the music was stylistically somewhat different. But some songs reminded me of the ABB sound. e.g. "Whiskey" reminded me of "Don't Want You No More".
"no place left to go" was very brotherish.
The CDB set up mirrored the original ABB. 2 drumers, 2 Les Pauls, keyboards (often a B3) and bass. Mostly the music was stylistically somewhat different. But some songs reminded me of the ABB sound. e.g. "Whiskey" reminded me of "Don't Want You No More".
I think Charlie even said that ABB-style set up was on purpose. He had a few albums that were more traditional country prior to the successful Fire on the Mountain (which feature album cover art from Eat a Peach and The Marshall Tucker Band cover artist James Flournoy Holmes).
I'm doing good hope you are too. I retired 3 years ago. I was thinking about you the other day, I've been thinning out my music collection and ran across some shows that I got from you.Hi Bill! How are you doing? I remember seeing the CDB open for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Louisville Gardens, way back when. "Fire On THe Mountain" had just come out. I Also remember seeing Wet Willie, the CDB, and Marshall Tucker at Freedom Hall on Derby Eve. I think 1974.
I'd bet you were at both shows.
Also saw the CDB open for the Stones at the Liberty Bowl on July 4, 1975.
Take Care,
CB
75 and 76 were big years for seeing CDB.
I was at both of those shows.The NGDB show was in February 75 just a day or two after my birthday. I don't think Tommy Crain had joined the band yet. I was a little altered but I remember when they played No Place to Go from where I was at on the floor all the people smoking up front made it look like the stage was going up in smoke.
The Derby Eve Jam was 75 a couple of months later and I think that was the first year in Freedom Hall. it had been at Louisville Downs. CDB came back to the Gardens in the fall with ARS opening. My first ARS show. I went out the next day and bought 3rd Annual Pipe Dream.
January 76 they opened for ABB in Lexington at UK
I'm glad you got to retire. I retired in 2021 with aa broken leg that required some surgery. But all good now! Trying to learn to play a little guitar. I really suck at it but it's fun.
I was at that Lexington show, too. My introduction to too much Southern Comfort. The show was great. I remember the ABB crew getting the set up done early and jamming for a while before the CBD came on.
The day after the too much Southern Comfort was not a good day, lol.
Well, I guess I've hijacked this thread. Sorry, everyone!
One of my favorite shows a long time ago by CDB was at the Pine Crest County Club in Shelton CT.
Outlaws opened with Hughie Thommason and Billy Jones just ripping it. Then Charlie doing the Saddle Tramp set. 76? 77?
