Music and Motor Sport,

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Now, now. Mention of Daryl Hall.

Hall & Oates, even some of their solo albums, are the artists whom I have more albums of all, and this includes The Boss and Bob Dylan. I even bought John Oates’ autobiography last year, didn’t know his mother is Italian (as I didn’t know that about The Boss). 'Live from Daryl's House' is indeed one of the best life's pleasures.

Few pearls, again, from so many, God bless.

A cover which leaves me breathless each time I listen to it, and that is very very often (a sizeable chunk of those 2.7m views is from yours truly). The Train’s singer makes the song his very convincingly:

A cracking cover with John’s as lead vocals. Ninety miles outside Chicago…

As far as racing goes, I always loved this song and its rhythm section:

Just a great, old-fashioned ballad:

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Almost forgot about this guy, a very old favourite of mine, since when he went by the surname of “Cougar” (which he hated).

This land today, shall draw its last breath
And take into its ancient depths
This frail reminder of its giant, dreaming self
While I, with human-hindered eyes
Unequal to the sweeping curve of life
Stand on this single print of time

Human wheels spin round and round
While the clock keeps the pace

PS: Entirely poignant and appropriate that my 1000th post is about him.

[Carl]

Lucio,

Welcome to the pantheon of gods, where truth, beauty and trophy queens sometime abound!

Cheers, Carl

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[charleselan]

Just love Hall & Oates, Lucio. As I mentioned earlier Daryl Hall is the greatest white soul singer going, and John Oates is pretty good also but doesn't sing enough on the duo's albums these days. My favourite is one of their earliest "Abandoned Luncheonettes", still slightly hippy style but a glorious album from the early 70's, it has the legendary "She's Gone".

H & O are currently touring the states with Train, pity they aren't coming to Europe. I saw them in Birmingham in 2007, excellent but the place was less than half full which i couldn't believe. Three great Live at Daryl's are with Booker "T"; Billy Gibbons and Joe Walsh; also with Shelby Lynne who I like a lot.

P.S. John Oates was into car racing at one time, I bumped into him at Silverstone during the F1 Tyre Testing one year in the 1980's, just ambling down the Pit Lane.

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Aug 15, 2018 16:56:24 GMT Carl said:

Lucio,

Welcome to the pantheon of gods, where truth, beauty and trophy queens sometime abound!

Cheers, Carl

Do I get those babes through the post?

[Carl]

With Christian Louboutin glass slipper in hand, you must sneak into their bedroom and find the perfect foot, after which you may explore other parts of anatomy.

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Sounds like Hugh Hefner!

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Aug 15, 2018 17:08:22 GMT charleselan said:

Just love Hall & Oates, Lucio. As I mentioned earlier Daryl Hall is the greatest white soul singer going, and John Oates is pretty good also but doesn't sing enough on the duo's albums these days. My favourite is one of their earliest "Abandoned Luncheonettes", still slightly hippy style but a glorious album from the early 70's, it has the legendary "She's Gone".

H & O are currently touring the states with Train, pity they aren't coming to Europe. I saw them in Birmingham in 2007, excellent but the place was less than half full which i couldn't believe. Three great Live at Daryl's are with Booker "T"; Billy Gibbons and Joe Walsh; also with Shelby Lynne who I like a lot.

P.S. John Oates was into car racing at one time, I bumped into him at Silverstone during the F1 Tyre Testing one year in the 1980's, just ambling down the Pit Lane.

"Abandoned Luncheonettes", I have that, one of my favourites too, also always quoted by the critics as among their very best. They grew up with the Philly sound and then became themselves mainstays of that.

[charleselan]

Aug 16, 2018 13:24:15 GMT @lucio said:

Aug 15, 2018 17:08:22 GMT charleselan said:

Just love Hall & Oates, Lucio. As I mentioned earlier Daryl Hall is the greatest white soul singer going, and John Oates is pretty good also but doesn't sing enough on the duo's albums these days. My favourite is one of their earliest "Abandoned Luncheonettes", still slightly hippy style but a glorious album from the early 70's, it has the legendary "She's Gone".

H & O are currently touring the states with Train, pity they aren't coming to Europe. I saw them in Birmingham in 2007, excellent but the place was less than half full which i couldn't believe. Three great Live at Daryl's are with Booker "T"; Billy Gibbons and Joe Walsh; also with Shelby Lynne who I like a lot.

P.S. John Oates was into car racing at one time, I bumped into him at Silverstone during the F1 Tyre Testing one year in the 1980's, just ambling down the Pit Lane.

"Abandoned Luncheonettes", I have that, one of my favourites too, also always quoted by the critics as among their very best. They grew up with the Philly sound and then became themselves mainstays of that.

Absolutely Lucio. 

Have you got the Live album they did with some of the members of The Temptations (Eddie Kendricks et al) brilliant live recording. Daryl Hall just worships the old "Soul" singers like Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett to name but a few.

The only thing I have ever purchased from the Apple Store is Daryl's solo recording of "I'm in A Philly Mood", it doesn't come much better than that. 

"Abandoned Luncheonettes" is right up there with the very best, fantastic album which I play on a regular basis.

Like you I also like John Mellencamp particularly when he made some music with the Celtic violin sound, gone off a bit of late sadly. John Hiatt is excellent; dear old Bob Harris introduced me to him back in the 90's. What is the song "Wreck of a Ferrari"?

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Yes, I do have the Live at the Apollo with Kendricks and Ruffin, absolutely fabulous album, sounds beautifully. To give you an idea how long since I have that, my copy is an LP, never had it in CD. I must have bought it when it came out, mid-80s. It's been a while I haven't played it too, it's in my home in Italy, need to dig some videos on the tube now, for the very good memories.

"Wreck of a Barbie Ferrari" is on Perfectly Good Guitar, a great rock album, which sounds like gold to me. John put few albums in a row from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, one better than the other: Warming up to the ice age, Slow Turning, Bring the Family, Stolen Moments and Perfectly Good Guitar. All classics. I was waiting for them to come out like a child in those years and each time I was blown away. Never ceased to be a fan.

Another musician I liked very much, still like him, is Lloyd Cole. The first album, Rattlesnakes, with his group, The Commotions, is a classic, but I liked very much his early '90s albums too.

I bought the album with this song the day the store in Rome received it, they opened the box in front of me. Sounds great on the stereo with a beautiful drums section:

Other great favourites at the time were Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue, Danny Wilson (the Scottish band, Meet Danny Wilson the album). They all were my personal soundtrack in the second half of the '80s.

[charleselan]

Aug 16, 2018 14:42:45 GMT @lucio said:

Yes, I do have the Live at the Apollo with Kendricks and Ruffin, absolutely fabulous album, sounds beautifully. To give you an idea how long since I have that, my copy is an LP, never had it in CD. I must have bought it when it came out, mid-80s. It's been a while I haven't played it too, it's in my home in Italy, need to dig some videos on the tube now, for the very good memories.

"Wreck of a Barbie Ferrari" is on Perfectly Good Guitar, a great rock album, which sounds like gold to me. John put few albums in a row from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, one better than the other: Warming up to the ice age, Slow Turning, Bring the Family, Stolen Moments and Perfectly Good Guitar. All classics. I was waiting for them to come out like a child in those years and each time I was blown away. Never ceased to be a fan.

Another musician I liked very much, still like him, is Lloyd Cole. The first album, Rattlesnakes, with his group, The Commotions, is a classic, but I liked very much his early '90s albums too.

I bought the album with this song the day the store in Rome received it, they opened the box in front of me. Sounds great on the stereo with a beautiful drums section:

Other great favourites at the time were Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue, Danny Wilson (the Scottish band, Meet Danny Wilson the album). They all were my personal soundtrack in the second half of the '80s.

My copy of "Live At The Apollo" is on cassette, now there is a bit of history for you  . Good sound without all this modern day compression.

That is indeed the John Hiatt song and album, excellent. I too like those mentioned from the 1980's but not that keen on Lloyd Cole for some reason. Prefab Sprout and Deacon Blue are excellent bands.

I am a great fan of Chris Rea, a superb guitarist and vocalist who loves motor racing and of course Ferrari, with Italian parentage. So many great albums from that man, and one that really tickles me is "Gods Great Banana Skin" which is so typical of life.

"Cos when a man in the sky points his finger at you; don't you ever think no-one is better than you"

[charleselan]

Here is another gem from motoring mad Chris Rea, the sublime "Soft Top, Hard Shoulder". The film featuring a young Peter Capaldi late of Dr. Who and a lovely old Triumph Herald coupe; although I am certain Chris would have been thinking of his own Caterham 7;

[chrisb]

sorry could never get away with Hall and Oates, but Chris Rea - i could! I have about 6 of his albums including the great blues one you mention John, I do love his M25 song and sing it to myself every time I have to endure the misery of using that wretched road, the M25 really is the Road to Hell, and the next time I am on that 'road to hell' will be in the car not on the bike, so stuck in traffic I will be - deep joy-

sadness takes us today with the terrible news the real Queen of Soul an amazing human being, passed away today, thank you Aretha for so many hours of bliss -rest in peace Aretha thank you

[chrisb]

as a quick aside I have spotify on random and a record that was played to me many years - Too old to rock n roll too young to die' Jethro Tull at their finest and most incorrect 

[Carl]

Although I saw no sign that he was as impressed as I was, some find it curious that George Harrison wrote "Faster" not long after our wordless encounter late in the day at Long Beach in 1978.  

Edit and addendum: 

I had always thought he wrote the song about Jody Scheckter, but apparently it was to honor Ronnie Peterson, truly "the master of going faster".