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Friday, April 14, 2023

BADFINGER | LOST TREASURE - Live in New York 1971: HEAR ROCK CITY

Here at Hear Rock City . . . . .

We had some nice Badfinger the other day* and there are a few follow ups worthy of note especially from Hear Rock City who we don’t feature enough here (they focus on hard rock so it ain’t my forte or area of expertise but they have an occasional gem that is really worth checking out. If you love hard rock they should be on your daily route!)

 Note here the guitar solos and the cracking bass from Pete’s co-writer Tom Evans on these. Lead guitarist Joey Molland is a real treat and clearly knew his chops. Ham remained the distinctive and beautiful voice so backed up the rest on rhythm guitar and often acoustic. Check his playing with George Harrison on the Bangladesh concert. I only wish as I have said before that the Beatles could have rescued them from the notorious manager of the time who caused the incredible pressure on Pete that resulted in his untimely death 

Hear Rock City’s Rocket also added a link to another fine blog in searching for more Badfinger so check out the links




ROCKET says:

Big Time Thanks to MisterManiac!!!
For Sendin' Some Badfinger Bootlegs
To Us Here At The Barn...
IF You Looked Up "Power Pop" in the
Dictionary 
(Kinda Like an Old-School WIKI...)
You Would See Their Picture...
Badfinger Were on Apple Records, SO,
They Were Kinda in the Shadow of the Beatles
For Awhile Anyways...

And As I Listened To THIS:
I Thought This Is Probably What the Beatles
Woulda Sounded Like, 
Had They Continued Tourin'...

This IS Badfinger Live in New York 1971...
Rocket also notes:
NOTE: 
Wow! Thanks to ALL Of YOU for Comments and INFO...
Bootlegs Are Notoriously Wrong with Dates and 
And Song Order and Even Locations...
I Did a Quick Search (Usin' The INFO Brett Gave) and 
Found Not One But Two Other Versions of THIS Bootleg...
That Are Both Different From Each Other AND This One...

The Tragic Story of Badfinger . . . . . .

with some really great notes from new discovery blog Albums That Should Exist





George and Pete - Here Comes The Sun (R.I.P Pete Ham)

2 comments:

Rocket said...

Just Stopped By To Say, Thanks, My Friend, For ALL You Do Sharin' and Such...
With Music and Video and Information and Blogs and Etc...
Rocket

Andy Swapp said...

Oh thanks Rocket! Always good to hear from you, you are always welcome