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Mix & Match #7

[Disclaimer: The mixes and the majority of the tracks from all of these mixtapes are the originals from the late 70’s/early mid 80’s. Vinyl to tape. Play a couple of hundred times. Tape to mp3. Snap, crackle, pop and hums are free of charge]

Not a significant duff-ness factor here.

I bought a music magazine in Wellington in January 1967 on the way to RNZAF Wigram and the 47 Air Crew training course. I read about how Brian Wilson had multitracked this and that and layered sound on sound on sound to make “Vibrations” and I was hooked. S

tuff like that probably crowded out important things (like navigation and airman skills), so that they decided they didn’t have enough aircraft to entrust me with one ( lot of water around New Zealand…) and I should perhaps look for a different career track.

Some stuff here is obscurely good. Great even.
Karla Bonoff rode in on the tailcoats of the LA music mafia and got devoured by the machine – “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” (Hunter S. Thompson)
Sniff ‘n’ the tears, Marc Benno, Greg Copeland. Sunk without a trace.

I remember buying “Night moves” at a record store near the station in Frankfurt (v. dodgy part of town back then) and the guy said sneeringly “It’s just the same old stuff”.
And I said” Yeah, but does it so WELL”. And I’ll stand by that.

It’s probably uncool to like Burton Cummings, but he deserves to be here for his Guess Who stuff.

Only know Robert Palmer in a silk suit with open-mouthed dollies swaying in the background? Listen to him with Feat and bits of the Meters.

And isn’t “Too drunk to remember” the perfect anthem to good times..?
Is for me.

Good vibrations – Beach Boys from 20 Golden Greats
Personally – Karla Bonoff from Wild heart of the young
Gold – Sniff ‘n’ the Tears from Ride blue divide
Front page news – Little Feat from Down on the farm
Walk out in the rain – Eric Clapton from Backless
What kind of love is this – Amazing Rhythm Aces from How The Hell Do You Spell Rhyhthm?
The Fuse – Jackson Browne from The Pretender
Quarter of a man – David Lindley from El Rayo-X
Lost in Austin – Marc Benno from Lost in Austin
Dance dance dance – Steve Miller Band from Fly like an eagle
My own way to rock – Burton Cummings from My own way to rock
Starting place – Greg Copeland from Revenge will come
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd from Rediscover The 70’s (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet)
Lawyers guns and money – Warren Zevon from Excitable Boy
Ship of fools – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from Night moves
No Woman No Cry (Live) – Bob Marley & The Wailers from One Love
Stand and fight – James Taylor from Dad loves his work
Couldn’t get it right – Climax Blues Band from Gold Plated
Too drunk to remember – Carlene Carter from Musical Shapes
Sneaking Sally Through The Alley – Robert Palmer from Best Of The Test (Disc 2)
Someone To Lay Down Beside Me – Linda Ronstadt from Hasten down the wind

Mix & Match 7.mp3 82.4 MB 1:27:54