Focus

[ericcoleman]

"The Gaslight Anthem - "I'da Called You Woody, Joe"" (Watch on YouTube)

Still one of the most twisted hits of the 70s ... and it's fun too

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the fact that those Dutch guys had PHENOMENAL CHOPS!

[ericcoleman]

I picked up Moving Waves and Live At The Rainbow yesterday. I have the live one on LP, but I hadn't heard all of Moving Waves till today. And yeah, amazing stuff. I had forgotten how good they were.

I won't go through the list of the rest of the stuff I bought yesterday ... I'm a little ashamed of myself.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

I've played the song on my show a few times :)

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

File that under "Songs no one will ever cover."

Because they just can't.

[ericcoleman]

I've heard a couple of versions actually ...

good lord I remember this song!

[noise626.livejournal.com]

I was a very young lad living in Germany at the time. I thought it was neat as all get out, but my dad thought it was insane, I was insane, and told me not to play it in the house :)

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I thought the song was impressive before, but after seeing the live performance it is just amazing.

[ericcoleman]

there are several live versions on You Tube, but this is by far the best of them.

Thijs Van Leer continues to play in Europe, with the drummer who is in this video I believe, and is still apparantly pretty darn amazing, even at 60 (or close to it)

[spiritdancer]

filker0 walked by as that video was playing (not seeing it, just hearing it), and commented "That's Focus. And I've got the LP over in the other room". Right after he commented that that music didn't sound like it was the stream from the filkcon that I was listening to earlier.

[ericcoleman]

yeah ... makes sense that he would have it considering the little bit we have talked about music ...