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11/22/2014

Saturday Afternoon Music: California Edition

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 1:07 pm



Two songs about my current home from artists that I have seen in the last week. First, “California” from Radney Foster, who I had the pleasure of watching perform last night at The Mint in Los Angeles:

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Second is “California Wasted” by Toad the Wet Sprocket, which the family got to see last weekend at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano:

Enjoy.

14 Responses to “Saturday Afternoon Music: California Edition”

  1. that toad cd is on prime

    happyfeet (831175)

  2. Is this list really complete?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGO5okcUDBM

    Beat Farmers – California Kid

    “…I’ve got my Colt .45 right by my side

    I’m the California Kid I hope you’re quite prepared to die..”

    Steve57 (c4b0b3)

  3. Thanks.
    Great tunes
    Love the old-timer cars!!

    mg (31009b)

  4. Everlast Santa Barbara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6E_TNgCsY

    Bugg (f0dbc7)

  5. Santa Monica, you get the idea, great song.

    Bugg (f0dbc7)

  6. Well, ok, it’s complete since you haven’t seen the Beat Farmers in the last week. Nobody’s seen the Beat Farmers in the last week. In fact, nobody has seen the Beat Farmers since Country Dick Montana died back in 1995. I used to catch them around town when I was first stationed in San Diego. The last band I saw in Kali before moving to Tejas was one of the surviving members playing in a bar in La Mesa. I can’t be sure but I think it was Buddy Blue.

    Then he died of a heart attack a year or so later. Damn.

    Still, I can’t think of Kali without thinking of the Sandy Eggo born & bred Beat Farmers. One of the rare good things I can think of when I think of Kali.

    Steve57 (c4b0b3)

  7. I saw Toad in Monterey, or rather, Laguna Seca. Good times.

    JD (86a5eb)

  8. CoachHouse… a great place to see ’em. Here’s a lady with a voice that always did it for me…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY005f4E9qA&sns=em

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  9. Good Lord, Steve57. The Beat Farmers were a great band! They were ubiquitous around the SoCal club scene back in the 80s. I’ve been singing their songs for the last few months during my morning walks… they’re the kind you can’t get out of your head… Riverside… There She Goes… and on and on. Country Dick was The Man, but it killed him.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  10. He33s yeah, colonello. I caught part of it. My first tour was with fighters at Nas Miramar beginning in ’89. Wednesday was ladies night at the O club (if anything Top Gun didn’t do it justice), Thursday was ladies night at the 32nd Street Naval Base (always the weakest), Friday was ladies night at the Marine Corps Recruit District O club (those jarheads did better than the shipdrivers with the ladies but not quite like us USN Yankee Air Pirates), and Saturday and Sunday Sandy Eggo was my oyster. I loved the Beat Farmers and caught them any time I could.

    Those were good times. The more I think about it, the more I’m sure it was the Buddy Blue Band I caught as my last live show before leaving Kali. I’m glad it was one of the original Beat Farmers. They were the Alpha and Omega of my SoCal experience.

    Steve57 (c4b0b3)

  11. Really? No John Mayall? http://youtu.be/wqcqZlFMUYQ

    This recording is with just John Mark on acoustic guitar accompanying, Steve Thompson on bass, and Johnny Almond on sax and flute, but Mayall had some other fair players in his group from time to time. One guitar player was Eric Clapton, who went on to some success. The original bassist John McVie and Clapton’s replacement, the great Peter Green, and drummer Mick Fleetwood left to form the original Fleetwood Mac. Mick Taylor followed on guitar until enticed away by a group of London rowdies performing under the name The Rolling Stones.

    California is part of the feel of the classic Room to Move, too. I still prefer the original from Turning Point, but Mayall was two months short of his 80th birthday in this version, respect!

    These modern punks think they invented the ‘beat box mouth’ sound.

    Estragon (ada867)

  12. One of my American icons minus the Licketts.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcyo5dPFXU&index=3&list=RD6FKVMOaAffA

    mg (31009b)


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