by Paul
Alice Cooper took his “Welcome To My Nightmare” stage show to Auckland, New Zealand in 1977.
Having been an avid fan of this master of the whole range from hardest hard rock to the most sensitive of ballads since I first heard the “Billion Dollar Babies” album at the tender age of 16, I had to “get me to the show” (a reference other fans may recognise…).
Only thing was, he was only doing one concert in New Zealand, and my university town of Palmerston North was several hundred miles away.
Undaunted, with a car load of other appreciators, in April of that year we set off in my 1962…
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by Paul
“Frampton Comes Alive” by Peter Frampton with his trademark talk box guitar effects was THE live album of 1976, my first year at university in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
There were three songs on that album – currently the fourth biggest selling live album of all time – that really stood out:
“Baby I Love Your Way”, “Show Me The Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do”.
Here they are:
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by Paul
“Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh of The James Gang fame has always been one of my favourites from the Seventies.
Definitely a touch harder than the “America” tune we had yesterday….
If you’re into blues/slide guitar and all kinds of effects, then this piece from the album “The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get” is for you.
In fact I like it so much that I decided to do videos of more than one version today. 🙂
So first here he is after moving on from The James Gang, with his band Barnstorm, still looking quite young:
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