Chuck Rainey is one of those Zelig-like bassists who turn up everywhere, yet never became a household name. Probably because he never tried to steal the limelight.

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Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side (more…)

It’s what we’ve always wanted: Steely Dan covered Donny and Marie Osmond. And it doesn’t disappoint. By which I mean it’s every bit as terrible as you would imagine.

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This was the signature song of the Marshall Tucker Band, who burned brightly in the Southern Rock arena for most of the Seventies, albeit mostly in their native USA.

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For a while in the early Seventies, just after Glam’s holy trinity of T. Rex, Slade and Sweet had peaked, Mott The Hoople were my favourite band.

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The Edgar Winter Group briefly caught my imagination when I saw them play their signature song Frankenstein on TV in 1973, featuring the late Rick Derringer on lead guitar.

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I was too young to see the New York Dolls in their heyday, though I saw Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers on numerous occasions. The closest I got to David Johansen in those early days was that historically fabulous OGWT in 1973.

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The late Sixties and early Seventies were incendiary times in politics and music – reflected in the fiery brass sections of funk bands like Tower Of Power.

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I’ve only just stumbled upon this deep cut from Thin Lizzy, which seems to have been excavated from the vaults at some point last year.

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Here’s a deep cut from Santana… No, it isn’t. It’s by a school band from Nigeria called Ofege, recorded back in the early ’70s.

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