My Seventies Music

Tag: Rockpalast

  • Jackson Browne – “The Load Out”/”Stay”, “Running On Empty”, “Take It Easy” and “Tender Is The Night”

    In the late Seventies Jackson Browne wrote a song about being a rock musician on tour called “The Load Out”, which morphed into “Stay”, and featured David Lindley on slide guitar/lap steel guitar (and a falsetto voice on the chorus).

    I don’t really remember “The Load Out” part too much, but “Stay” (Oh won’t you stay Just a little bit longer Oh, Please please stay Just a little bit more…) has stuck in my mind all these years.

    In 1978 Jackson Browne and David Lindley, together with supporting artists, played “The Load Out” and “Stay” live in England at the BBC Television Centre in the Shepherds Bush Theatre in London:

    Another track by Jackson Browne I really like, but either didn’t know or had forgotten it was by him, is “Running On Empty”:

    For some reason I connected that song with Bruce Springsteen, and now I see why: the two are friends and have often sung the song together, as here:

    Jackson Browne co-wrote “Take It Easy” with Eagles member and neighbour Glenn Frey, which was a hit for that group. Here is his version:

    Like so many others, when the Seventies ended, Jackson Browne went on to produce more great music, such as “Tender Is The Night” in 1983, here in a live version from 1986 on German television’s Rockpalast (looks a bit like a long haired Tom Cruise 🙂 ):

    Night night, sleep tight…

    Paul

  • J. Geils Band – “Looking For A Love”, “Love Stinks”, “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold”

    The J. Geils Band, which started as an acoustic blues trio in the mid Sixties, went on to have a number of hits in the Seventies, including “Looking For A Love”.

    To be honest, I don’t really remember much, if anything, of them in those years.

    At the end of the decade they moved somewhat from blues-rock to a more commercial sound, charting with “Love Stinks” in 1980, followed by “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold”.

    These are the songs that I mainly associate with the J. Geils Band, and in fact I saw them perform the tracks live in June 1982 at the Munich Olympic Stadium, when they were a curtain raiser for the Rolling Stones.

    I had a seat at the opposite end of the stadium, so I couldn’t see a lot of detail, but I do remember it was one heck of a show.

    This obviously wasn’t the J. Geils Band’s first visit to Germany, as here is a 1979 live performance of “Looking For A Love” at Rockpalast, a popular German live rock TV show:

    I have two versions of “Love Stinks” for you, first the studio sound:

    And now “Love Stinks” live (in this video the synchronisation stinks too…)

    And I eventually found a video of “Freeze Frame” that didn’t have the sound disabled – hopefully this one hasn’t by the time you watch it…

    This video of “Centerfold” isn’t exactly what I was expecting, but it’s kind of fun – these kids were certainly having a great time making it:

    Bit different to the show I saw at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, but I like it, hope you do too…

    Paul

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