ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.4

[Mike Pell]

Continuing happily along with this Past Present and Future Series, we are right where we belong, in the Present,

And I'll have some Musical Recommendations for Living In The Present.

Sometimes it's risky business, but we all do it.

Still another is excellent advice, but involves a careful avoidance of selfishness.

It's odd, but even in the Dictionary, there is no real good definition of the Present!

So I'll raise some questions about just how long the Present...well...IS?

I said it was the most elusive of the three!

Come along for the ride, I am pretty happy with how this episode turned out.

 

Here are the links to enjoy the Present however you'd like, at Mike Pell Rockollections:

 

At Podomatic:

 

http://radiopell.podomatic.com/entry/2014-01-14T22_43_55-08_00

 

At Soundcloud: 

http://soundcloud.com/radiopell/04-past-present-future-2014

 

Mike

[Mike Pell]

Jon,

Don't like Elvis, don't like Bruce (which I understand more than Elvis...how can you not like the King?).

But if you don't like them it means you care!
Welcome back Jonny, lol!

Elvis didn't write songs, he did other people's with his unique style- which included fried, in massive amounts of butter, peanut butter and banana sammiches, lol!

The Moody Blues aged and mellowed I guess, happens to us all, or will- even Elvis after he got out of the Army.

But I can still find gems on their later albums.

Sorry, but I am a BIG Spanky & Our Gang fan, always looking for an excuse to play them.

That will continue so more will be heard.

Goodman just ok, Joplin really good.

Everybody does own that album, and I almost felt guilty playing that song- but it was a perfect segue from Steve, and they both lyrically had something to say.

See now, you thought Billy Joel's song was really good, and you say most of his latter stuff was hit or miss, but there are some gems if you look.

Isn't that the same with the Moody Blues, in fact pretty much with ALL groups...the Stones, the Who, etc?

It's the Nature of Life!

Thanks for the listen and writing, and possibly being back to caring, lol,

Mike

[Mike Pell]

RJ,

Did you catch that head trip by the Grass Roots as the lead singer's voice moves from speaker to speaker?
60's bands used to love to do that and I loved hearing it...hey I was just discovering stereo, lol!

One of your Top 5 Elvis songs eh? How'd I l know to play it?

Actually it fit the Theme perfectly.

I've never seen The Voice or American Idol.

But I like that Moody Blues song- had a hard time finding it, and a last minute rescue by checking the Time Traveller box set!

I haven't looked it up or anything, but that particular Moody Blues number I feel is the last New song I have by them.

Think it was just a single, so that's why it was hard to find.
And the Golden Pell to Steve Goodman, as I thought you might, lol!

Yes, that's the same Steve Goodman that David Allen Coe mentions in You Never Even Called Me By My Name, and Steve and his Chicago buddy John Prine wrote that song.

And as Coe says, Goodman did go back and add that ending, lol!

Steve Goodman was brilliant, a folkie who could write serious or funny- for serious check his My Old Man, which I played for Fathers Day one year.

He knew he was dying, much like Warren Zevon, and never let it take his humor away.

A big Cubs fan, he did more than a couple of Baseball songs.

A lyrical joy, get into his music- and I have to play more of him.

Thanks for the listen and writing,

Mike

[Jon]

This was a good show, still not into Elvis. While the song was playing, I asked myself if he sang any original songs? Wouldn't know because I'm not a fan, but it seems that every song I've heard is a cover. Guess that's what happens when you eat grilled peanut butter and banana sammiches.

After "Long Distance Voyager", I believe The Moody Blues lost it. That album rocked, while everything else after it went the soft rock route. Don't know what happened, but it was a letdown buying the followup to LDV, playing it once and never listening to it again. 

Grass Roots, cool. Spanky & The Gang, not cool. Just didn't like that song. Funny that those songs are so different considering they came out in the same year. Grass Roots still sounds "modern", while Spanky doesn't. It just sounds really old. 

Steve Goodman was ok, I guess. Didn't really do anything for me. Janis Joplin was really good. Doesn't everyone own that album?

Billy Joel's song was really good. Most of his latter year stuff was really hit or miss, but there are some gems if you look.

[RJhog (Admin)]

This was a good show Mike.  I enjoyed all of the songs (almost).  

The tunes by The Grass Roots, Elvis and Billy Joel I've heard.  And I really like those songs.  The song by Joel is so moody.  In a good way.  And that's one of my all-time favorite, probably Top 5, Elvis songs.

The one song that I didn't care for, believe it or not, was The Moody Blues offering.  It sounded like a song that somebody wrote specifically for the winner of a vocal contest like The Voice or American Idol to sing when they won.  And that's unusual, because I almost always like it when you play a Moody Blues tune.

And I'm gonna give the Golden Pell to..................Steve Goodman.  Is that the same Steve Goodman that David Allen Coe mentions in his one hit (You Never Even Called Me By My Name)?  If so, then he must win the GP, because even though I've never heard another song by him until now, he's immortal because of that song.