'73 flashback

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Released 50 years ago this week:



7/9 good songs for a young Bruce who didn't know at the time whether he was supposed to be a singer-songwriter or a rockin' bandleader.

[Edgy MD]

Pre-Roy Bittan, pre-Steve Van Zandt, pre-Danny Federici, and pre-Max Weinberg, but still recognizeable as the band that would produce what followed, and it occasionally even predicts the swing that Weinberg would later bring in greater force, especially on "Spirit in the Night."

I was crazy for "For You" and almost broke my hand trying to work through the chord palette on it. It probably has more chords on that one track than Springsteen used in the entire decade of the eighties.

[Frayed Knot]

Every once in a while (like, maybe, every four or five years) I'll hit upon a radio program that plays LOST IN THE FLOOD while I'm listening.
Maybe not his best song (though I've always liked it) but just the rarity of hearing it combined with the hint that maybe not Every radio
station is pre-programmed with 1st & 2nd cuts only makes me stop whatever I'm doing at that moment until the song is over.



Also debuting LPs in 1973:
Aerosmith (1/5/73, same day as GREETINGS)
CLOSING TIME - Tom Waits
Marshall Tucker Band
New York Dolls
Queen
PRONOUNCED LEH-NERD SKIN-NERD

Other first timers include: Buckingham/Nicks, Pointer Sisters, Roger Daltrey (solo), Roger McGuinn (solo), Bryan Ferry (solo), Garland Jeffreys, Maria Muldaur, Barry Manilow,

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Let's populate this thread with the chronological anniversaries of the above and more. Lots of big LPs from 73

[batmagadanleadoff]

Let's populate this thread with the chronological anniversaries of the above and more. Lots of big LPs from 73

Okay. 50 years ago today, Deep Purple releases Who Do We Think We Are, featuring their classic rock radio staple, My Woman from Tokyo. Okay. Not great or groundbreaking like Jeff Beck's Truth album getting noticed in the other thread.

You should've made this ask five or six years ago. Then we woulda had the best years of album oriented pop music covered. Better late than never.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I think we did have that thread

[Fman99]

Good source of '73 albums sorted by release date here.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

So... HOLLAND from the Beach Boys was supposed to be a creative reset/change of scenery to reawaken Brian. They packed up their entire studio and relocated to the Netherlands only to discover the gear would need recalibrating to work on the European electric grid. The album wasn't all that bad (the three-part "California Saga" is good stuff) but the record company demanded a single. Brian had left Holland after only a few weeks but wound up giving them "Sail On Sailor."

[Edgy MD]

The "Sail on, Sailor" story is so weird. For my money, it's the last great Beach Boys record, but Brian has almost entirely disowned it over the years. But that may be because he literally phoned in his contribution to the session. It's the only Blondie Chaplin lead vocal in the canon as far as I know, and Chaplin only got the part because it was supposed to go to Dennis and he bailed on the session too. Brian had supposedly written it for Three Dog Night but pulled it back when the label demanded a better single from the Beach Boys. But other accounts differ.

Given all that, and Brian's stuggle to re-find himself creatively, you can understand his resentment. Decades later, he appeared on The Late Show, doing the song with Matthew Sweet and Darius Rucker sharing the vocal lead with him, so somebody must've convinced him of the track's quality over the years. Or maybe he's just happy to be along for the ride.

[Frayed Knot]

I think we did have that thread

Yes, back in in 2020
And that thread currently resides down near the bottom of page one here in the NBBF

[cal sharpie]

March of '73 with Dark Side of the Moon, Larks Tongues in Aspic, For Your Pleasure and Birds of Fire was a pretty special month for teenage me.

For Your Pleasure and Larks Tongues in Aspic were released the same day. Allegedly, Brian Ferry auditioned to be the singer for King Crimson - Robert Fripp wanted a bass player/singer, not a pianist/singer but knew of other guys looking for a singer and referred him to what became Roxy Music.

[whippoorwill]

My favorite Mets year

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

March of '73 with Dark Side of the Moon, Larks Tongues in Aspic, For Your Pleasure and Birds of Fire was a pretty special month for teenage me.

For Your Pleasure and Larks Tongues in Aspic were released the same day. Allegedly, Brian Ferry auditioned to be the singer for King Crimson - Robert Fripp wanted a bass player/singer, not a pianist/singer but knew of other guys looking for a singer and referred him to what became Roxy Music.

you should save this post for March, that's the idea

[Frayed Knot]

March 1st was the date for DARK SIDE OF THE MOON +50

[Edgy MD]

Now re-recorded by Roger Waters, an update presumably demanded by nobody, but one might guess he wants to cut in on his former band-mates' piece of the royalties that the 50th anniversary publicity may generate.

My thinking, though, is that, sheesh, anybody and everybody who would want a copy of Dark Side of the Moon must surely own one (or more) by now.

[Frayed Knot]

Just the number of times guys were forced to buy a second, third, or fourth copy because they kept clumsily
spilling bong water on their original must alone have run into thousands of extra copies sold.

[kcmets]

I think I have that album on 8-track, vinyl, cassette, cd, on a local
hard drive and up in the sky somewheres...

[kcmets]

Forgot about this the other day, 03/31/73...

[Fman99]

Also, from 3/31/73, the Fleetwood Mac album "Penguin," caught in that odd period post-Danny Kirwin and pre-Stevie/Lindsey, when they band was rotating through other guitar players and vocalists in search of a long term lineup. This is the only album from that era to not also feature the very underrated Bob Welch on vocals, guitar and songwriting credits.

As with a number of their albums during this time frame, the singing and songwriting of Christine McVie are the high points of the album (in my opinion that is). I like this one, nice Caribbean feel with the steel drums.

[Edgy MD]

Waitaminute ... Welchie was on Penguin.

[kcmets]

My knowledge of pre-Rumors Mac is astonishingly low. Practically non-existent.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Waitaminute ... Welchie was on Penguin.

Not only did Welch appear on "Penguin", but also on The Mac's next two albums. He was an underappreciated guitarist who scored some big hits in the late 70s as a so-called "solo" artist. (As if he played all the instruments).

[Frayed Knot]

My knowledge of pre-Rumors Mac is astonishingly low. Practically non-existent.

You likely know a bunch of stuff from the previous album, their first following the addition of Buckingham & Nicks.
Simply titled FLEETWOOD MAC despite it being the band's 10th album, it had hits with (among others) Lindsey
Buckingham's 'Monday Morning', C. McVie's 'Say You Love Me' and 'Over My Head', plus 'Rhiannon' and 'Landslide'
by the new girl.
By most standards it would be considered a huge album but it tends to get either overlooked due to the monster
follow-up that was RUMOURS or folks simply assume that all those hits were actually from 'Rumours'

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, even the covers — both featuring grayscale photos with only two band members — get confused.



The two albums can easily be reffered to as "The Rumours Era." The next two can be "The Tusk Era."

[kcmets]

Over My Head is a pretty song, forgot about that one...