Ah cool, you listened! Yeah Rare Bird are one of those "also ran" type bands in terms of reputation from the time, but for me they're way more "underrated gem band". They have a bunch of good songs too, I mean here's a short list :-seenoevil II wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:20 pmI can dig this. This guy's voice- it's so smooth- so dead on. Man, people had chops back then, and that includes engineers. I dig the jammy crunched out keyboard sound. One of my favorite bands is Quasi- so this tracks. It's all there, the voice is somewhere between Rick Danko, Phil Lynot, and young Elton John. Good stuff.
- Devil's High Concern - one of the bassiest vinyls I own, great groove. One of those "rock is the devil's music" type songs.
- You're Lost - Huge 10+ minute jam which is almost entirely composed from minor seventh chords, as if that was why the writer made it.
- Title No 1 Again (Birdman) - Classic fast paced riff rock, and I love the lyric "Shotgun in hand, I left a three time loser". also one of the earlier pioneers of harmonised guitar licks, arguably. Nice to hear the bass doing completely different lines to the guitars a lot of the time as well.
- Four Grey Walls - Something proto-AC/DC about this one, the whole stop-start chord vibe.
Oh and their pretty legendary live run through of Beautiful Scarlet where the drummer looks like he's about to explode
Quasi eh? What would you say is the best song or album to start with that's closest to these guys?