by Paul
I associate the hard hitting “Black Betty” from Ram Jam with the year 1977*, when I was in my second year at university, and my first year flatting after being on campus in 1976.
This is actually the first time I have seen a video of it, I had no idea what Ram Jam looked like.
In this fun video out on the lawn in front of the house they definitely look VERY 1970s:
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by Paul
When I came to write this, at first the only Kiss track I could think of was “I Was Made For Loving You”, but then I kept finding more and more that I recognised from the Seventies, when I was a big Kiss fan.
I had the Kiss double album “Alive!”, which unfortunately was among a number of my record collection that went missing, something I only discovered after I returned from a visit to New Zealand in 1982 and took all my records (at least I thougt thery were!) back to Europe.
Anyway, after I located “I Was Made For Loving You” I then found songs like “Black Diamond”, “Deuce”, “Strutter” and “100,000 Years and the memories came flooding back.
So first, here’s a studio version of “I Was Made For Loving You”. (The text at the end says it’s from the album “Dynasty” in 1997, but that’s wrong, it was 1979!)
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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
“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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Tags: Bill Bartlett, Black Betty, Music of the Seventies, Ram Jam, Seventies Rock Bands, Starstruck
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