More disinformation to clear up

(Paul says:)
Over the years, I've been asked many times if I recorded the guitar solo on The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night." This is because, just prior to the lead guitar, it sounds as if Ray Davies says "Ah, Gephart!" I wish it were true so that I could collect some royalties, but sadly, it is not. The song appeared on the "Kinks-size" record, originally released in 1965; I wasn't born until 1970. However, maybe Davies was a prognosticator or prophet... Who knows?

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Additional songs from Saturday's posts

(Paul says:)
Here is the original version of "Counting the Days" and some country tunes that either weren't on Finetune or (in Trace Adkins' case) didn't work properly when put on the country playlist. I thought they were good enough tunes to include separately.

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Here's One for Collective Soul fans...

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(Paul says:)
Last Saturday, I got to go to Wendover and see Collective Soul at the Peppermill. (By the way, that's a great venue, if you haven't been there. We were impressed that it's an intimate setting with great acoustics.) The show was actually rescheduled from about 3 months ago when they had to postpone for health issues, so it was the last night of their tour, and they were pretty loose and feeling good. (My experience from VH's OU812 tour in 1988 is that it is a great time to see a band.)

The only issue we had with the performance was that they were only on stage for about 90 minutes! That includes two encores, and "Run" was played for a long time. There were also a couple of other tunes that had "extended versions" while they worked out some difficulties with the drum kit. (You'll have to ask a drummer what was going on - it sounded good to me, but I could see them working on it while Ed vamped with the crowd, playing AC/DC riffs and breaking into "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier" during "Listen". Otherwise, it was great.

One song that isn't on this list that was played is "I Don't Need Anymore Friends" from the 2007 release, "Afterwords." That was probably the only down point of the evening, as Joel Kosche, the "new" lead guitar player, sang. (I thought he did fine, but the energy level was lower without the enigmatic Ed Rollins singing, for whatever reason.)

So, here's the setlist they played, plus I've added a couple of songs that I have a fondness for that I wish they had played. This mini-list includes "Under Heaven's Skies," "She Said," "Energy," "Needs," and "Counting the Days" (which is the song I couldn't think of on the drive home when I was discussing this and which is probably my favorite CS song). You can also go here for Collective Soul radio, or go to Collective Soul's official website to link to it.

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A Country Playlist With Music I Can Actually Dig

(Paul says:)
OK, I know what you're thinking. You don't like country music, and that's fine if you want to have a closed mind about it. But most of the classic rockers from the '80s have "Gone Country" to find the melodies in the music, and some of this music does - actually - rock.

While I've been preachy about the state of classic rock in the past, it really has just moved to country radio in large measure. Contemporary country is a hybrid of classic rock and traditional country with smatterings of blues and jazz thrown in by the high-caliber studio musicians that play it. (The story of the music is not the pretty faces of the stars; it's the bands that back them up. I know from experience; I played a bunch of these songs in country bands, and country is challenging in its own ways, primarily because you can't bury your mistakes in a wall of distortion.)

Even if you don't think you like country, I hope you'll at least give this list a try and - who knows? - maybe you'll find something you'll like.

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