Singer, musician, composer, and rebel Peter Tosh cut a swathe through the Jamaican musical scene, both as a founding member of the Wailers and as a solo artist. He was born Winston Hubert McIntosh on October 19, 1944, in the small rural village of Grange Hill, Jamaica. He toured with the Rolling Stones and had an international hit with a duet with Mick Jagger, then toured again to equally rapturous world audiences as the headlining act. His words would cause an uproar at the One Peace concert, but then unlike fellow Wailer Bob Marley, Tosh always made his true feelings known.
In 1983 did Peter Tosh a phenomenal cover of "Johnny B. Goode" which landed in the lower reaches of the U.S. Top 50. The single was a taster for his new album, Mama Africa, which also arrived that year. With a cast of musicians numbering in the "very many" range, featuring Sly and Robbie among the throng, this is a good record for fans of the book of Peter. "Stop That Train" and "Johnny B. Goode" stand out as the real gems here, but the entire record is worth your attention. The loping, rolling sway of the island sound and the serious message of music is Peter's stock n trade. A good record with a great cover. Can't ask for more than that.
So enjoy todays version of Johnny B. Goode
Listen to "Peter Tosh - Johnny B. Goode" on Spotify
Johnny B. Goode is a real classic Rock 'n Roll tune, written by Berry in 1955, Tune Of The Day will now take a deep dive in this tune and give you readers some nice version of this classic.
The song is about a poor country boy who plays a guitar "just like ringing a bell", and who might one day have his "name in lights". Berry has acknowledged that the song is partly autobiographical, and originally had "colored boy" in the lyrics, but he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play. The title is suggestive that the guitar player is good, and hints at autobiographic elements because Berry was born on Goode Avenue in St. Louis. The song was initially inspired by Berry's piano player, Johnnie Johnson, though developed into a song mainly about Berry himself. Even though Johnnie Johnson played on many other Chuck Berry songs, it was Lafayette Leake who played piano on this song. The opening guitar riff on "Johnny B. Goode" is essentially a note-for-note copy of the opening single-note solo on Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan. Berry has written two more songs involving the character Johnny B. Goode, "Bye Bye Johnny" and "Go Go Go", and titled an instrumental album as "Concerto in B. Goode".
Johnny B. Goode is among the most widely covered rock and roll songs in history. The list of performers includes:
AC/DC, Aerosmith, Bad Religion, BB King, Beach Boys, The Beatles, Green Day, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eddie Meduza, Frank Marino, Men at Work, Motörhead, NOFX, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, Slade, Stray Cats, George Thorogood, Peter Tosh, Twisted Sister, Brian Wilson and Johnny Winter among many others...
Today we will have Judas Priest version of this tune taken from the album "Ram It Down" - 1988 enjoy!
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Saw an old "The Osbornes" when the Os family had a neighbour
that played, what did she call it....fuckin shitty music...
(the neighbour was sitting and playing some acoustic guitar,
playing some ol´songs)and Sharon and their son started to
throw some bagels and thingies on em, Hilarious funny.
The police came to the Os family and said they couldnt
do like that, but Sharon was very firm and said
they are playing in the middle of the night and so forth.
The police asked her politely to call them first b4
throwing bagels..hehe, ah well the police went away.
Then Ozzy woke up and throw´d a ham on them hahaha
That is so extreme ;D
I wanted to play a tune that I like with him.
This is Ozzy, with a very twisted video.. :)
Enjoy my friends!
Thetania
Listen to "Ozzy Osbourne - I Just Want You" on Spotify
Crash Kings is an American rock trio formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The members are vocalist-keyboardist Tony Beliveau, his brother and bassist Mike Beliveau, and drummer Jason Morris. The band's self-titled debut album was released May 26, 2009 on Custard/Universal Motown. "Mountain Man", is the band's first single.
Crash Kings sounds like a Jack White did a team work with Cold War Kids, a piano-driven hook-rock.
Todays tune "Mountain Man" is a great piano rock tune with indie stomp ala White Stripe. Enjoy!
Live @ the Roxy - 2009
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