cool.
I've been there 4-5 times, from what I remember I've seen acoustic Tuna, Jorma solo, Steve Kimock, and Jonathan Edwards there. I live about 45 min from Bull Run and 30 min from Tupelo. They both get the same "type" of artist and crowd. The food is way better at Bull Run but I really enjoy both venues. Friendly, intimate places with good sound. The artists seem to enjoy it too.
Boarding House Park in Lowell is a fun place in the summer.
We might have been at the same acoustic Tuna show. If we end up going the the same show in the future at the Bull Run I will buy you cocktail and maybe we can talk music a little before the show. Bull Run has a good concert dinner menu and great burgers.
Never been to the Tupelo. What town is that in as I will have to check it out? I love small venues and the ticket prices are always reasonable.
I have been to Boarding House Park before COVID and saw Allman Betts Band. I paid extra to get the upfront lawn seats which were worth the extra $$$ at the time.
Back on topic this is another album I bought back in the 70's because a buddy highly recommended it. As I was in to metal back then I think I played it once and it sat in my vinyl collection until I got the old turntable up and running again.
Thankfully my musical tastes have expanded with age as this is a fantastic album
Nice turntable - I have a Pioneer linear tracking table - vinyl rocks forever
Some albums (CDs) that came later imo are underrated, like the Band's Jericho, & High On The Hog - also Far From Home by Traffic
stormyrider mentioned Billy Cobham's "Spectrum." What a great album!!!
You have the great Cobham on drums, taking a sidestep from his ground-shaking work with Mahavishnu Orchestra. He brings Jan Hammer on keyboards from Mahavishnu as well.
However, they add in the slinky Leland Sklar on bass and the amazing Tommy Bolin on guitar - neither guy a household name but both beloved and respected in musical circles. The result is maybe the loosest, funkiest, grooviest fusion album ever.
It sold a good amount of copies in its day, and everyone in a jam band has played its songs "Red Baron" and "Stratus." Heck, you can hit youtube to hear those songs played by Jeff Beck or Warren Haynes or Derek Trucks or....the list goes on.
But I'd nominate Tommy Bolin's 1975 "Teaser" album as the most overlooked of all time. It is less well known, less discussed, yet more accessible, in that it has several well-crafted vocal songs. The songs span a wide range of styles, and musicians do know these songs - Van Halen used to play the opening song "The Grind" while Motley Crue covered the title song - yet the album is widely unknown, as is Bolin himself. It does feature amazing musicians: Glenn Hughes, Phil Collins, Prarie Prince, Narada Michael Walden, David Sanborn, Jan Hammer - the list goes on. But it was impossible to find for years (is it out of print again now?) and is known by about as many people know a band like Cowboy. What a crying shame. It is a stone cold killer, one of my top 10 desert island albums for sure.
Musicians love Tommy Bolin. Tribute albums and shows about this guy's musc are able to get people like Nels Cline and Steve Lukather and Joe Bonnamossa and Derek and Warren in, but not enough people have heard this great album.
@jimsheridan: Jim, I looked at Amazon and yes it looks like Teaser is out of print. There IS something called Teaser Deluxe but reading the user reviews it's probably best to avoid it. They've remixed the original Teaser tracks and added a lot of bonus material and according to most listeners the results are not exactly stunning. Add to that Teaser Deluxe is just over $29.
I do have a burned copy of Teaser that a friend gave me many years ago. I'll have to pull it off the shelf..........I bet it's been 8 or 10 years since I've played that. I remember not being blown away but thinking it was pretty good.........then I put it back on the shelf and forgot about it. And I've been reading your posts for enough years now Jim that I value your opinion.
Little Village
Hard to beat the lineup of John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe & Jim Keltner. I forgot they were all on Hiatt's Bring the Family.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Here is another album my buddies used to play constantly in their party dorm room in 1973/74. This was not my type of music in the early 1970's but it grew on me the more I heard it while we were partying back in college. I bought this album in the mid 70's and again probably played it just a few times where it got lost in my large vinyl collection until I got back into vinyl about 5 years ago.
Lucky for me I never got rid of my LP's and Technics 1700MKII turntable when I got CD fever in the mid 1980's and retired my vinyl. Now that my musical taste has matured I am enjoying listening to all these forgotten pristine albums in my collection.
I think it has to be Big Star #1 Record. it is as close to perfect as anything not Allman related can be. Just perfect power pop/brit pop. Chris Bell was a genius, who left us way to young. And Alex Chiton was the perfect tortured genius
@jimsheridan: Jim, I looked at Amazon and yes it looks like Teaser is out of print. There IS something called Teaser Deluxe but reading the user reviews it's probably best to avoid it. They've remixed the original Teaser tracks and added a lot of bonus material and according to most listeners the results are not exactly stunning. Add to that Teaser Deluxe is just over $29.
I do have a burned copy of Teaser that a friend gave me many years ago. I'll have to pull it off the shelf..........I bet it's been 8 or 10 years since I've played that. I remember not being blown away but thinking it was pretty good.........then I put it back on the shelf and forgot about it. And I've been reading your posts for enough years now Jim that I value your opinion.
Actually, I love Teaser Deluxe. Rather than songs that were faded down (I suppose to make the record more commercially appealing) you get the full out versions like on The Grind for example. Clocks in around six minutes instead of three and the playing is stellar. The only cut that wanders off is Lotus. Deluxe is one of my favorite listens. I guess that my mileage varies.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Never been to the Tupelo. What town is that in as I will have to check it out? I love small venues and the ticket prices are always reasonable.
Londonderry, NH, off I 93, exit 4
It would be great to catch up with you at a show!
on topic
I saw Grinderswitch open for the Allman Bros in 74. Went out and bought Honest to Goodness but it didn't make all the trips back and forth to school.
It was of the 1st albums I listened to after I signed up to Spotify this year (no CD player in new car) - it still stands up as a strong album.
RIP Dreq Lombar, JD Petty
I think Ozzy Osbourne's Ultimate Sin record is an undervalued release buried in a catalog of Ozzy albums with bigger hits on them. It's always been one of my favorites though.
I really love Accept's Objection Overruled album, for me it ranks right up there with my favorite work from them.
Space Opera is a proggy country-rock band that only released one album. Electric 12-string galore. Good stuff.
This one.
I listened to the Captain Beyond album last week, I can't believe I didn't hear / listen in the 70s.
Back in the 1970's I used to love digging into the cutout bins looking for interesting albums that I would not normally pay full price for with my limited funds.
I some cases I would buy a cutout and listen to it once and it would get buried in my collection. I got some great albums for less than 2 bucks each in those cutout bins back in the day.
I bought this album back then, listened it once and just got back into it when I pulled my old Technics 1700MKII out and tuned it up about 5 years ago.
Moved the old table to a bedroom system and bought a new 1210GR manual you see in the picture paired with a vintage 1970's Pickering XSV 3000 cartridge . Great sounding album
I listened to the Captain Beyond album last week, I can't believe I didn't hear / listen in the 70s.
Yeah that first album is fantastic and it is amazing they never got much attention back then. I think it was due to lack of label promotion but also the first version of the band did not last very long. It became a real cult album and a number of musicians mention it as a big influence and have done covers of songs.
@stormyrider: I was very fortunate to happen upon Captain Beyond by accident right around the time that first record was released. In 1972, when I was 17, I went to see Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl and Captain Beyond was the opener (Gentle Giant was second on the bill). I don't think anyone had heard of Captain Beyond and they played that first record from start to finish. They knocked the crowd BACKWARDS. I owned the record soon afterwards.
There were multiple Captain Beyond connections to ABB: 1. They were a Capricorn band. 2. ABB Producer Johnny Sandlin (Brothers & Sisters) did the mixing on "Captain Beyond". In his book Sandlin said only this of Captain Beyond: "They were great." 3. CB guitarist Larry Rheinhardt ("Rhino") was briefly a member of The Second Coming with Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley. 4. Reese Wynans was the original ABB organist before Gregg came in to replace him. Wynans played on Captain Beyond's second record, Sufficiently Breathless. It's not in the same league as their debut but it's a strong record nonetheless.
The second Captain Beyond album is so different form the first I was shocked when I bought while in college. I was expecting another heavy prog metal type album so the lighter Latin flavored music did not sit well with me initially.
Once I got over my bias that it was not the same as the first album it started to grow on me. It was actually one of the most borrowed of my albums when I lived in the dorm and as a result it is beat to death and all scratched up so I need to get another copy someday.
@bill_graham: If it's still in print I would nab one NOW
Edit: Here ya go.........
Thanks Rob, I might try to get a used original pressing.
This would be nice but too expensive e for my blood. Interesting press sheet on how the band for the second album came about
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224811782567
You can listen to the entire Sufficiently Breathless record by Captain Beyond right here if anyone cares
alone together-dave mason
aztec two step 1st album
Both great albums
i saw Aztec 2Step 7-8 years ago. They are still quite good. Unlike many of that vintage, their singing voices are relatively preserved
Another big thumbs up on both of these. Mason album is loaded with great backing musicians from the era. Original vinyl was done with a pastel, psychedelic swirl.
I'll add Brian Augur's Oblivion Express's Closer to It.
