I realized over the weekend that I forgot a couple of very important moments in the third post of the music series I posted Saturday, and these were big MAJOR omissions.
I saw this one live on broadcast TV as well in late 1977, while spending the night over at my friend Katie’s house. Not only an important event musically for me, but a classic moment that went down in rock & roll history (because of the false start on live TV). Elvis Costello, 1977 (UPDATE, 10/2009 – As with most clips on YouTube that get put up of some of the most magnificent performances in artists’ careers – i.e., their debut or early Saturday Night Live appearances – this one has been removed, for now. If the clip gets put up again or if NBC Universal ever gets their head out of their collective ass and puts up their own YouTube partner channel with these fantastic performances so that they’ll be back in public view where they SHOULD be for people to enjoy these pieces of music history, I’ll pop it back in here. For now, here’s the actual video for the song – unusual in itself for that period of time since video wasn’t widely used in the ’70s for promotion) :
And another event that, along the same lines as The B-52s and the Pretenders, was hugely important… unfortunately I can’t find any footage of what was the actual event where I saw them for the first time (which I believe was on Rock Concert in 1978), but this promo video is from the same time. And featuring one of the world’s greatest drummers in Clem Burke – which is not only my opinion, but the opinion of girl drummer extraordinaire Miss Jo Walker, Christopher & Jay W., and every other drummer I have ever knocked around with. Blondie, 1978:
If I get industrious again in the near future, maybe we’ll hit college days and my point-of-no-return assimilation into the indie scene. I’ll probably just skip high school – while I had some cool stuff like the first couple of U2 albums and some other stuff most people didn’t have in West Tennessee at the time (thank goodness for Night Tracks on TBS!), those days included a lot of Loverboy and .38 Special and Night Ranger and etc., and I don’t need to be reminded of that and neither do you. Ciao for now. ;)
