And what’s on the A-Side of this classic B-Side?

Another easy one tonight – somehow nobody got it!

Here’s the B-Side…

Duhh, the A-Side.

Here’s one from the Rolling Stones 1978 tour, which is widely believed among many fans to be one of the bands greatest tours, promoting their album “Some Girls”. They returned with a mixture of classic Stones songs like Tumbling Dice, Star Star, Happy, Street Fighting Man and mixed in blues numbers and Chuck Berry covers. It was the first tour featuring songs written with Ron Wood as an official member of the band. No live album was released from this tour, but there are some bootleg recordings, as well as the multi-show King Biscuit Flower Hour FM recording known as “Handsome Girls”. Opening acts for this tour included Van Halen, Journey, The Doobie Brothers and Peter Tosh. Here’s one from Memphis, Tennessee!

This week I dug up the original version of a song made popular by the Bobby Fuller Four, I Fought The Law – which became a top ten hit for them in 1966. The song was originally written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets, after taking the place of the late Buddy Holly on guitar. They released the song as a b-side to their single “A Sweet Love” and never received any airplay. Fuller recorded the song with his band in 1964 on his own record label in El Paso. After some regional success, Bobby Fuller switched to a major record label. They broke the national top ten when they re-recorded “I Fought The Law” in 1965. Just six months after the song made its first appearance on the Billboard Top 100 chart, Fuller was found dead from asphyxiation in his mother’s car in a parking lot near his Los Angeles California apartment. The Los Angeles police department declared the death an apparent suicide, but others believed him to have been murdered. Fuller was just 23 years old. The song was later recorded by Sam Neely, Hank Williams Jr, The Clash, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and was covered live by John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, The Ramones, The Grateful Dead and dozens of other popular bands.

Ian Anderson takes to the violin on a great track from Stand Up, “Fat Man”!

I played Steppenwolf’s “Everybody’s Next One”…

So, what’s on the A-Side?

Easy one.

Congratulations to Dale for winning the trivia, and a Penn’s Peak Radio Prize pack!

Dust was formed in the late 1960’s by Richie Wise and two teenagers, Kenny Aaronson and Marc Bell. Additionally, Kenny Kerner wrote the group’s lyrics, and acted as their producer and manager. THeir debut album was released on Kama Sutra Records in 1971, and was followed by a sophomore release on the same label the following year. While the group only released these two albums, they later became of historical interest to collectors interested in early American heavy metal. The group’s members all went on to other projects. In the mid 1970’s Bell worked with Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys and Richard Hell & The Voidoids. In 1978, he joined the Ramones assuming the name Marky Ramone. Aaronson played with Stories and Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys in the 1970’s and worked as a session musician into the 1980’s. He also toured with Edgar Winter, Joan Jett and Billy Idol. Wise and Kerner went into production with Kiss, among others.

Blue Cheer is best known for their cover of Summertime Blues – reworking the song to give it a completely different feel. In 1968 Blue Cheer put out their second album, Outsideinside. Blue Cheer had to record some songs at Pier 57 in Manhattan as the studio kicked them out for being too loud. When they were recording songs at Pier 57, they were so loud that people on boats complained they could hear the sound at nine miles away. Because they recorded songs both outside and inside, they appropriately named their second album Outsideinside. Here’s one of their loud cover songs on the album, originally by the Rolling Stones – Satisfaction!

I played some Black Sabbath after hearing some very unfortunate news – Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath is battling lymphoma, a type of cancer that battles the immune system. This news comes almost two months after Black Sabbath announced plans to produce its first album in 33 years and embark on a world tour later this year.

Here’s a message to the fans that Black Sabbath posted on their website:
“With the news that Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, his bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time, Iommi is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan – the ‘IRON MAN’ of Rock & Roll remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery.”

Here’s my share of positive vibes going out to Tony!

I played “Free Four” by Pink Floyd from Obscured by Clouds. The album is a soundtrack for the movie “La Vallee” or “The Valley” in English. No one got the movie correct!