Then Play On? (WTF related)
iron_monkey
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Alright, what's the deal with Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" lp? I played it front to back last night and couldn't figure out the appeal...Plaese to explain?
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Seriously, what gives?
I really don't know what it is about this LP that does it for me. It's heavy in its mellowness, and mellow in its heaviness? It just has the vibes. Intimate and out there, and just plain good. It may be one that doesn't catch on instantly, but it will get under your skin if you let it. "Closing My Eyes" and "Oh Well" are the main reasons that side A is always getting a turn.
Alright, alright
I'll spark up another J and give it another go-round...
Yo D**e, whaddya know about that
Coal Kitchen "Bumpin In the Kitchen" b/w "Chained to the Train of Love" 45 (Sunday records)?
Is this a Chi Town thang?
Surely you jest....
uh... of course not...
Actually, I have "English Rose" which is pretty good. Other than that, strictly Rumours, son...
Always a good way to give it a go.
I know not of this one, I don't think. What's it like?
Don't sleep on Tusk, son.
English Rose and Then Play On are my PG era favorites. I'm gonna put on Albatross right now. Dude has the best Fender Strat sound evar.
This is a piece I got from Carfagna a few years ago. No info on the label regarding location. Recorded in 1973. Midtempo funk, not a dancefloor filler or anything but a good spin at the crib or when you're warming up and people are still getting their drink on.
Look out for it on eBay starting tomorrow...
I'm in your corner. DC is the Brain Supreme.
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
If all goes well I will never in my life hear this fucking record
Was this track originally 45-only or what?? It took me years just to find it on a comp...
You cannot deny the universe rulingness of Rumors.
tusk. the shit.
Live In Boston 1969 sets- there are a million
pressings, but a complete/official/restored
one was released fairly recently ... I am NOT
a rock-bootleg junkie type, ie I am usually happy
just to have the studio albums by the rock old masters,
but this is just a great set and will fill that "I need
more Peter Green" hole so many people have ...
Only one good track on that album ("Oh Well"), and even THAT goes south in the middle of the track (during the "mellow" portion).
As far as the band in general, if Peter Green ain't there, then I ain't buyin'. (And I know Then Play On has Green on it, but a weak song from this album is way better than a strong track from Tusk.) To me, the essential Green-era Fleetwood Mac is on their first two (in the US, anyway), Fleetwood Mac and English Rose (which Epic later combined into one two-record set, Black Magic Woman).
Waitaminit, almost forgot about two other essential Mac albums from that time, volumes one and two of Blues Jam In Chicago (also recombined into one album, Fleetwood Mac In Chicago).
The Coalkitchen I know of was from the Chicago area, with one album on Epic to my knowledge (Thirsty Or Not, Choose Your Poison). I've seen an old Chitown music magazine from around the time the album came out ('76 or '77) which compared them to Mother's Finest, since both were interracial rock-soul bands that recorded for Epic. But unlike Coalkitchen, MF had some minor success.
I think one member (Pauli Carman) went on to be in that sappy quiet-storm band from the '80s, Champaign (their hit "How 'Bout Us" is a major guilty pleasure for me...). Carman also had a Columbia solo album or two, in a Jheri-curl modern-soul vein, if that's your thing...
Cool. Thanks, I appreciate the info. Based on your description, this sounds like it could very possibly be the same group
You are here and warm
But I could look away and youd be gone
Cause we live in a time
When meaning falls in splinters from our lives
And thats why Ive travelled far
Cause I come so together where you are
And all of the things that I said that I wanted
Come rushing by in my head when Im with you
14 joys and a will to be merry
And all of the things that we say are very
Sentimental gentle wind
Blowing through my life again
Sentimental lady
Gentle one
Lucky Bastard!
Coal Kitchen were from Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Members Michael Day and Paulie Carman went on to form Champaign, a name based on their hometown, not the bubbly.
Corrosion of Conformity - Eye for An Eye
real real headz know the deal
betcha bozak!
champaign represent
The woman with partial Asian heritage in the band worked a floor below me last year. nice lady.