Kevin's Watch

Yeah, not many people remember him, but the guy was one Hell of a rock/blues player.

anybody remember this? RARE!!!!!

WILLIE & THE POOR BOYS (1985)

featuring Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman & Andy Fairweather Low, plus Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers, Kenney Jones & Chris Rea, and others.............

they did a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go" that played on the radio for awhile in the 80's....

Yup. Remember Box of Frogs, the Yardbirds reuinion?

haha! I was THINKING that! The Firm is a good example of how that was going on ALOT back then...."superbands", heh...........

I loved The Firm, wish they'd kept recording.

There's a couple of Australian bands that I've been surprised havent made it big overseas in recent years.

Namely, "Powderfinger" and "Something for Kate".

Powderfinger are THE mainstream Australian band of the moment, so big here they're described as the modern Cold Chisel (who, as all of us Australians know, wrote the un-official national anthem Khe Sanh). Their best CD IMO is "Odyssey Number 5"

Something for Kate are more passionate, cryptic, and more earnest in their lyrics, and more "pop" in their songwriting. Their best CD (again IMO) is "The Official Fiction".

Both bands are great live, and I honestly have no idea why they havent become huge worldwide.

Saga.
I don't think they did much in the US. They were pretty big in Canada in the 80's and huge in some Europene markets like Germany, but quickly faded when they started making "love song" albums in the 90's...

Have come out with 3 (?) new albums in the last few years ... trying to capture the 'old magic' ... not bad, but not really bringing anything new to the sound...

They had the two minor hits here, "On the Loose" and "Wind Him Up", both of which I thought were pretty good.

yes, off their biggest album "World's Apart".

I still like their first alot... It is relatively simple with some great hooks and wonderful interplay between guitar and keyboards...

They were hard to classify (as is a lot of the better Canuck stuff I've heard).

Which is prolly why they didn't hit big here (just like The Tea Party).

Just looking back at this thread: Jet had a second album? I had no idea.

Yah, it was a shame that Tea Party didn't do better. They were absolutely amazing. People kept trying to pigeon-hole them :"Oh, they are a cross between Doors and Zepplin:... blahblahblah... they were just a wonderful and creative band that knew how to rock out.

Had the pleasure of seeing them live at a huge day-long festival here (in Barrie I think) during the Canada Day weekend. They closed the evening and absolutely rocked out. Just 3 guys and the sound they get is amazing ... even bigger and fuller than Rush (in my opinion).

They closed with "Sister Awake" starting it as a quiet acoustic number ... then hammering the sh!t out of it! Amazing! then the fireworks go off! ... wow, never forget that.

Tea Party .. did they make it in any other part of the world other than Canada?... Australia? UK?...

And I totally can't understand it, 'cause everyone I've played their stuff for has loved it.

The odd thing was that the first time I heard them (in '97) I was living in Florida and our cable system had Much Music for the Snowbirds.

Cail wrote:I was backstage at a Def Leppard show in 1987 or 88, and it was like Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 years old, drunk, under the influence of some other stuff, completely unattached, and with a backstage pass to one of the biggest concerts of the year.

Cail was a very, very happy man that night.

Don't even get me started on the Monsters of Rock tour in the summer of '88.....

Wow. Seriously. Wow.

Pete Willis had left long before that, but that is pretty cool, Cail.

Pete Willis was gone by then, yes. Great player though. The band became much more popular after his departure, but I don't think their music was ever as good.

I am probably totally in the wrong thread, given the foregoing discussion of '80s bands, but...

I was just thinking yesterday about how un-mainstream our family's musical taste is. It was right after I left the apartment, where Batty was playing a Corrs CD, and fired up the car, where I was listening to Vlasta Horvath. I gather that the Corrs are a big deal in Europe -- yes? Horvath was the winner in 2005 of the Czech equivalent of American Idol. (www.vlastahorvath.cz if you read Czech; www.radio.cz/en/article/72042 if you don't.) My iPod is all Irish trad, except for the Vlasta Horvath CD and one by another Czech pop singer, Jan Halousek, which I don't like as well (it's basically dance music).

Batty's got a CD of European metal bands that she bought at Hot Topic; she was playing that pretty heavily for awhile. Both she and MagickMaker play J-Pop, as well as stuff like Disturbed and A Perfect Circle. Batty also added the Vlasta Horvath CD to her mix.

MagickMaker listens to more mainstream stuff like Linkin Park and Maroon 5. But she also plays some Broadway cast albums (mainly Aida and Rent). And both girls listen to some of my greatest hits albums -- Styx, Billy Joel, the Jackson Five.

So when everything's in rotation, you can go from Maroon 5 to somebody screaming in German to a perky Japanese song to Irish tin whistles to "Rockin' Robin" to "Seasons of Love". It's...odd.

aliantha wrote: So when everything's in rotation, you can go from Maroon 5 to somebody screaming in German to a perky Japanese song to Irish tin whistles to "Rockin' Robin" to "Seasons of Love". It's...odd.

Sounds perfectly normal to me, aliantha.