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The NYJets: Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That NEVER Ends


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"Now the Gypsy Queen, in a blaze of vaseline.  Will perform the guillotine, what a scene, what a scene"

They don't write them like that anymore.

However, if we are quoting ELP to sum up the Jets Fan experience, I might offer Karn Evil 9:
 

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Suffering in silence, they've all been betrayed.
They hurt them and they beat them, in a terrible way.
Praying for survival at the end of the day.
There is no compassion for those who stay.

There must be someone who can set them free:
To take their sorrow from this odyssey
To help the helpless and the refugee
To protect what's left of humanity.

 

 

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Interesting ... this was the "ELP sells out" album but it brings up a good idea. Ever see the old Twilight Zone where the woeful Hoboken baseball team unknowingly signs a robot? He turns around their season. The Jets are pretty bad at football stuff. Maybe they should bring on AI and robotics guys. I think Lip Gallagher is available.

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13 minutes ago, SouthernJet said:

One of the best 2 minute opening riffs to a rock song ever,, rest aint bad either........

 

 

Been playing piano for a very long time and that is one of my favorite things to play.  I see you are a fellow traveler on the Classic Rock train.  So I'll share one of my favorites:

 

 

The whole album is insanely good but you have to be a 'special' kind of fan to really appreciate the 7 minute drum solo in the middle of Let It Rain.

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55 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Did EL&P give up in the middle of their songs like Todd bowles does?

(I also applaud the Tull bit as I am a huge Tull fan.)

Listen to Trilogy and you'll have your answer.  I don't love the bridge to that song but it is definitely intense.  The complete opposite of 'taking a knee'.

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12 minutes ago, nycdan said:

Been playing piano for a very long time and that is one of my favorite things to play.  I see you are a fellow traveler on the Classic Rock train.  So I'll share one of my favorites:

 

 

The whole album is insanely good but you have to be a 'special' kind of fan to really appreciate the 7 minute drum solo in the middle of Let It Rain.

I worked stage w/Derek and the Dominos on their 1st US appearance. They did a unscheduled (common back then. A band would find small venue, advertise 2 days before gig to break in show before US tour). The played at Rider College before starting US tour next night in NYC or Philly, I forget. It was his dark smack days, kind of out of it, he had me go for booze before show. Still, a thrill........

http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/15/10/1970

 

Nicest guy to work for: Timmy Schmit. This was his Poco days, before Eagles . Invited all crew backstage before show to thank crew and then Poco would light up with the workers.

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4 minutes ago, SouthernJet said:

I worked stage w/Derek and the Dominos on their 1st US appearance. They did a unscheduled (common back then. A band would find small venue, advertise 2 days before gig to break in show before US tour). The played at Rider College before starting US tour next night in NYC or Philly, I forget. It was his dark smack days, kind of out of it, he had me go for booze before show. Still, a thrill........

http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/15/10/1970

 

Nicest guy to work for: Timmy Schmit. This was his Poco days, before Eagles . Invited all crew backstage before show to thank crew and then Poco would light up with the workers.

The one concert I would go back in time to see (Fillmore East).  I worked a few concerts at my school but while we had a few good ones (BB King comes to mind), I wasn't a big enough venue to get the rock gods.

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3 hours ago, SouthernJet said:

I worked stage w/Derek and the Dominos on their 1st US appearance. They did a unscheduled (common back then. A band would find small venue, advertise 2 days before gig to break in show before US tour). The played at Rider College before starting US tour next night in NYC or Philly, I forget. It was his dark smack days, kind of out of it, he had me go for booze before show. Still, a thrill........

http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/15/10/1970

 

Nicest guy to work for: Timmy Schmit. This was his Poco days, before Eagles . Invited all crew backstage before show to thank crew and then Poco would light up with the workers.

Schmitt's harmonies are so good he made a nice living during Eagles' downtime by doing backing studio vocals for almost every hair metal band recording in LA during the 80s and 90s. 

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