Still pausing but this one is a request:
Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd – Rockpalast Festival 1977
Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (July 24th, 1977)
Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals)
Rick Vito (guitar, vocals)
Charlie Harrison (bass)
Greg Thomas (drums)
Sam Clayton (from Little Feat) (percussion on tracks 9 to 15)
What you have here is the complete performance, as recorded by me after hooking my reel-to-reel tape recorder to my TV set in 1977, later burned to a CDR with my stand-alone CD recorder and even later ripped and saved to my computer.
It was later released on DVD and CD on the German Bear Family label. Track 11 was wrongly titled “Shoot Him” instead of “Shoot ‘em” on these latter releases.
I made artwork for my CDR (included). Later, I had my artwork signed by Rick Vito and Charlie Harrison after a Rick Vito concert while having a (long) drink with them and drummer Rick Reed.
Funnily, the illustrating picture of Charlie Harrison on his Discogs page, although not uploaded by me, is one I took; he’s showing my artwork that he had just signed:
https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/563258-Charlie-Harrison
Incredibly, the same picture is used to illustrate Charlie Harrison’s page on the official Poco website:
https://pocoband.com/scrapbook/the-band/previous-members/charlie-harrison
Charlie Harrison was the bass player for Poco from 1978 to 1984 and as such appears on 6 LPs.
As to Rick Vito and Greg Thomas, googling their names will show you their incredibly prolific careers.
1. Intro +
Lover Of The Bayou (7:14)
2. American Girl (4:51)
3. Mr. Spaceman (3:06)
4. Why Baby Why - Tiffany Queen (5:20)
5. Golden Loom (4:31)
6. Juice Head (3:53)
7. Chestnut Mare (5:36)
8. Midnight Dew (6:07)
9. Dixie Highway (4:39)
10. We Can Do It All Over Again (4:11)
11. Shoot 'em (The Victor Song) (5:37)
12. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (2:44)
13. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To
Everything There Is A Season) (4:59)
14. Mr. Tambourine Man (2:28)
15. Eight Miles High (6:46)
Homemade Artwork Included (front, back, CDr)
8 comments:
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I have this show and it's fantastic! This was the best post-Byrds McGuinn band, with the superb guitarist Rick Vito and the now-controversial drummer Greg Thomas playing hits, Thunderbyrds songs and a few others, including by Vito. This is really worth downloading.
An excellent concert. This is probably McGuinn's best band after the Byrds, with Rick Vito providing a superb lead guitar (he also gets to sing as well). I don't know why McGuinn didn't continue with this band--perhaps the Thunderbyrd album didn't sell well enough for him to continue. But this particular concert shows clearly how exciting this band must have been live. The songs are mostly old Byrds hits as well as most of Thunderbyrd. I actually like these live versions of the songs on that album better than the recorded ones, with perhaps the exception of American Girl, which has a killer sax on the album. Very highly recommended for those who haven't heard this concert. I believe YouTube has a film version of this as well--worth seeing.
Steve, what do you mean, "now-controversial drummer Greg Thomas"?
Wasn't he the musician who was jailed for killing his mother? Correct me if I'm wrong please.
No it was Jim Gordon the drummer
I stand corrected, sorry for the confusion.They were both fine drummers, at any rate.
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