Headbang tracks & votes - 29 Nov 19

Beers first in the Douglas for most of us and then an excellent takeaway curry - well done, CK - and we managed to start the music not too long after the scheduled 7:30 pm. Newly installed as our starter theme was:

SEPTUAGENARIANS

7 tracks played here and the votes were:

1	Lindsay Buckingham	Big love	51
2	Simon Kirke	Can't get enough	48
3	Bruce Springsteen	Because the night	47
4	Bonnie Raitt	Love me like a man	45
5	Terry Reid	Live life	24
6	Richard Hell	Blank generation	21
7	Rick Springfield	Jessie's girl	16

There were another 11 musical notables who had become septuagenarians since our last get-together - we didn't play any of their music, but, for the record, they were:

Tim Renwick	Lead guitar - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
Eric Carmen	Raspberries/solo
Gene Simmons	Bass & vocals - Kiss
David Allan Coe	Singer & songwriter
Gloria Gaynor
Tony Stevens	Bass - Foghat/Savoy Brown
Kerry Livgren	Founder member of Kansas
Greg Douglass	Guitar - Hot Tuna
Rick Vito	Guitar - Fleetwood Mac - 1987-91
Bob Siebenberg	Drums - Supertramp
James Young	Lead guitar - Styx

OCTOGENARIANS

A new theme - 6 prominent musicians had reached the age of 80:

Ginger Baker	Pressed rat and warthog
James Burton	What'd I say/Johnny B. Goode
Jerry Allison	Peggy Sue
Grace Slick	Somebody to love
Eddie Holland
Tina Turner	Proud Mary

We didn't play any of Eddie Holland's many hit compositions, because we had another new theme:

NONOGENARIANS

Berry Gordy III, known as Berry Gordy, Jr, had his 90th birthday this week, falling in the 60th year since he formed what became Tamla-Motown, so it was appropriate to play a short tribute - the trailer to the recently released documentary, Hitsville - The Making of Motown.

Voting on these 2 new categories was by a simple show of hands - Tina garnered 6 votes, Ginger 2 and Grace 1.

Chronological order dictated that the next theme had to be:

OBITUARIES

I selected 9 notables with a musical connection who had passed recently and we played the following in order of their passing (note their ages):

DA Pennebaker	Film-maker - Don't Look Back	94.0	Subterranean homesick blues
Peter Fonda	Actor - Easy Rider; brother of Jane, son of Henry	79.5	The Pusher
Ric Ocasek	Cars' singer/guitarist	75.5	My best friend's girl
Barrie Masters	Singer - Eddie & the Hot Rods	63.4	Do anything you wanna do
Larry Wallis	Blodwyn Pig/UFO/Pink Fairies/Motorhead/Deviants	70.3	Police car
Ginger Baker	Cream drummer	80.1	Tales of brave Ulysses
Malcolm "Molly" Duncan	AWB sax	74.1	Pick up the pieces
Paul Barrere	Little Feat guitar	71.3	Dixie Chicken
Iain Sutherland	Sutherland Brothers & Quiver	71.0	Arms of Mary

This was no contest - Ginger was unanimously voted Most Missed.

We should also acknowledge the many others who had passed recently - all 15 of them:

Henri Belolo	French record producer - created Village People	82.7
Bob Wilber	Jazz clarinetist & saxophonist	91.4
Danny Doyle	Irish singer	79.3
Freddy Bannister	Music Promoter - Knebworth etc	84.7
Nick de Grunwald	TV producer and late life musician - Channel D	74.1
Clora Bryant	Jazz trumpeter	92.2
Neal Casal	Ryan Adams & The Cardinals; Chris Robinson Brotherhood; solo artiste	50.8
Jimmy Johnson	Muscle Shoals guitarist	76.6
Robert Frank	Photographer & documentary filmmaker - Cocksucker Blues	94.8
Daniel Johnston	"The Devil & Daniel Johnston" documentary. Kurt Cobain a fan.	58.6
Eddie Money	Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist	70.5
Robert Hunter	Grateful Dead/Dylan lyricist	78.3
Jessye Norman	Opera diva	74.0
Kim Shattuck	Muffs/Pandoras/Beards and temp member of Pixies in 2013	56.2
Terry O'Neill	Photographer	81.3

ABBEY ROAD 50

A short section to commemorate that it was now 50 years since this album - in my opinion possibly the Beatles' greatest? - was released. The band, of course, never played it live, but I found some other acts who do and we played side 2's medley all the way through:

Saltwater Roses	You never give me your money/Sun king/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She came in through the bathroom window
Analogues	Golden slumbers/Carry that weight
Paul McCartney	The End

Not forgetting to finish with Paul playing Her Majesty - in front of the Queen!

We thought the best of the bunch were Saltwater Roses - almost note for note.

A number of iconic/historic record labels have had big anniversaries this year so the next theme was:

GUESS THE LABEL

Some were very easy, but one or two caused some furrowed brows:

Specials	Too much too young	2-Tone	40th
Edgar Broughton Band	Apache Drop Out	Harvest	50th
Juicy Lucy	Who do you love?	Vertigo	50th
Nice	Country Pie	Charisma	50th
Tom Waits	Downtown train	Island	60th
Stevie Wonder	Living for the City	Tamla-Motown	60th

Each of these labels has a distinct style, so the Headbangers were asked - if you were going to a party, which of these labels' LP's would you be carrying under your arm, showing off to all and sundry? Island was the clear winner with 6 votes, but 2-Tone got 3.