what a band......
I had a good ear for music even as a kid.... no wait, let me finish. Let me explain. That is not an egotistical statement. You see in 1980 if you admitted you liked anything with a melody in junior high you would get flattened down to hamburger meat. Everything in 1980 was 666 and the definition of a "musician" preferably had something to do with long hair and beards, mustaches, mutton chops etc. IN short, you had to look like a troll from Lord of the Rings.
ENTER SQUEEZE.
I saw their first debut on the Uncle Floyd Show from Newark New Jersey as a kid. They did two songs -- BLACK COFFEE IN BED... and IVE RETURNED. They were able to tell an entire story of breaking up, getting thrown out, sleeping in a car and getting back together again in under 3 minutes. And I really dug Jooles Hollands keyboard playing and the soulful vocals.
I had to smuggle these albums home from the record store and make sure I would not be jumped by our local neighborhood thugs. U2, The Police and Squeeze were not welcome in the east coast neighborhood I lived in. So I had to smuggle anything I got home quickly ... how times have changed.
This is off the album ARGY BARGY.
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cantu fascube 2006
I had a good ear for music even as a kid.... no wait, let me finish. Let me explain. That is not an egotistical statement. You see in 1980 if you admitted you liked anything with a melody in junior high you would get flattened down to hamburger meat. Everything in 1980 was 666 and the definition of a "musician" preferably had something to do with long hair and beards, mustaches, mutton chops etc. IN short, you had to look like a troll from Lord of the Rings.
ENTER SQUEEZE.
I saw their first debut on the Uncle Floyd Show from Newark New Jersey as a kid. They did two songs -- BLACK COFFEE IN BED... and IVE RETURNED. They were able to tell an entire story of breaking up, getting thrown out, sleeping in a car and getting back together again in under 3 minutes. And I really dug Jooles Hollands keyboard playing and the soulful vocals.
I had to smuggle these albums home from the record store and make sure I would not be jumped by our local neighborhood thugs. U2, The Police and Squeeze were not welcome in the east coast neighborhood I lived in. So I had to smuggle anything I got home quickly ... how times have changed.
This is off the album ARGY BARGY.
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cantu fascube 2006
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