Yeah, I posted something about this very video a while back. Donald Fagen, Reverend Jim Jones, and Mitch Ryder all choking each other inside a single black turtleneck. Riveting.
"Ghost Rider" has to be one of the greatest first-song-first-side-first-record jernts ever. On par with "Foxy Lady" and the GOAT, Sly's "Underdog."
But yeah, I, too, need to check that other record.
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In a side note: Though I do really like, surprisingly enough, that Inner City's "Good Life" he did, it's amazing how many truly great songs exist as just-okay cover versions by various Mick-Collins-related outfits.
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Crazy Springsteen did a cover of them.
State Trooper from Nebraska is a total bite of Suicide.
Everyone jocks the first album on Red Star, but I reckon this one is almost as good.
I saw them open for the Clash in 1978. Most of the audience hated them, but I thought they were pretty cool.
Patti in the book says they used to scare the fuck out of people.
Ill have to check this.
"Ghost Rider" has to be one of the greatest first-song-first-side-first-record jernts ever. On par with "Foxy Lady" and the GOAT, Sly's "Underdog."
But yeah, I, too, need to check that other record.
...
In a side note: Though I do really like, surprisingly enough, that Inner City's "Good Life" he did, it's amazing how many truly great songs exist as just-okay cover versions by various Mick-Collins-related outfits.
Terrible...most overrated trash rock band of all time...barely competent.
There's a cut called Harlem which is pretty out there.