hollywood10 Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 This is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 I remember the first time I heard "I'm on Fire". I was in the car with my mother. She was driving me from somewhere. Probably not somewhere good. A supermarket, something like that. I went with her cuz I was bored. Teenagers in the suburbs spend a lot of time that way. Our local radio station, which my mother listened to habitually, was weird. It was mainly the most MOR end of the current Top 40. But the DJs had their preferences. They played a lot of Mike Nesmith/First National Band. And they played this new record. Maybe it was payola. I don't know. Anyway, there was "I'm on Fire". I couldn't believe how great is was. I mean: PERFECT. I mean: everything I liked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 Here's another favorite: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 (edited) And a BIG favorite: I don't know why this wasn't one of the monster hits of the mid-'70s. Certainly people who listened to the radio show I did then didn't know it wasn't. Edited November 5, 2023 by Sneakeater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 (edited) I'll bet Twilley minds THIS new development in his arc. Edited November 5, 2023 by Sneakeater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood10 Posted November 5, 2023 Author Share Posted November 5, 2023 Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 I love Twilley and was fortunate to correspond with him a little over the last few years. He was a good man and a true pop pioneer. American T Rex? Power Pop would not be the same without him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 I am surprised I never knew his work well considering how much time I spent listening to The Raspberries, The Rubinoos, the Greg Kihn band and all that power pop stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchW Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 I'm sorting through, and reboxing, my collection of 45s. These are there: RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Great. I will belatedly go back and listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 And he has the advantage over the Flamin' Groovies of never having written a song dissing you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 (I will never stop being intensely jealous of you for that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 As if Cyril Jordan thought that writing a song about me would upset me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 This news tore me down..... On 11/7/2023 at 12:21 AM, Sneakeater said: And he has the advantage over the Flamin' Groovies of never having written a song dissing you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Yeah I was shocked to find out that Dwight Twilley had never written a song dissing @Wilfrid too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 13 hours ago, backyardchef said: This news tore me down..... It wasn’t that one. 😅 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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