INCOMING! You’ve heard of a flying V, now you having a flying bass. Bud to rescue… maybe.
“Sledgehammer” is a great tune done in concert by BTO. Fred can just roar like few can and he’s in great form on this song. Randy handles the quiet parts just fine, but it’s the power chords and Fred’s bellowing voice that rocks your spine. BTO has made up for all the Gordon Lightfoots and Anne Murrays that have dribbled across the border from Canada. And for you Peter Gabriel fans, I’ve included his version too, as I was informed NO ONE knows the BTO version. So I’ll give you both! Enjoy!
Thør haz a hammer, Jeff has an axe … 😉 😀
Assuming, of course, it’s Jeff & not Bud. That does appear to be a bass … A musician would have to be pretty desperate to sling their own instrument. Better to use someone else’s and play innocent, beg for forgiveness, or otherwise try to weasel out of the consequences after the fact.
Funny thing about Mr. Half-beard there … I never really did get his type. If a gal like Lorraine had just lit my goat on fire, and apologized for it, I’d have offered her the opportunity to make it up to me, and promised her a sweet return on her investment. Make love, not war. And all that. 😛
If the guitar is being thrown instead of swung or jabbed, that indicates to me that Bud is far enough away to justify this method of using his guitar as a weapon. If such is the case, who’s tapping the bearded man and saying “Excuse Me”. I doubt its any of our heroes as Bud would not want to throw his guitar with them in the line of fire. Another possibility: Robyn or Jeff tapped Bearded Man on the shoulder so he’d turn around to get smacked in the face and Bud said “Excuse me” to THEM so that they’d get out of his way. But then the word balloon should be drawn higher and the point longer to indicate the voice coming from a greater distance.
Sorry but Sledgehammer will always in my mind be associated with Peter Gabriel.
The Bearman gets a very large cookie for that comment. Yay for someone who understands the true heart of rock and roll 😀
As long as it isn’t oatmeal raisen.
Hang on a moment – there are four machine heads on that headstock, but surely Bud isn’t the bass-battering type…hmm…
Bud’s a romantic. No sacrifice is too great for a damsel in distress.
bass to the face, that’s gonna adjust your dental work.
Since I seem to be single-handedly cluttering up the comments today, might as well go for one more:
El Kabong! Learning how to play the kabonger is easy for Senorita Rita … or is that Wilma moonlighting ..?
Nice of you to give a nod to Gabriel Byron, but as much as I like & admire him, “Sledgehammer” was BTO’s first, and sonically, there’s no way Gabriel comes anywhere close. While I’m sure that Bud’s (SG, EB-3?) will get the job done, too bad he’s not playin’ something with a little more heft to it like a Ricky, Precision, or Thunderbird!
For those of you who grew up during the early ’60s, El Kabong strikes again!
“OLAY!!!” *KA-BONG!!!*
Aww, I wanted to be the first to make an El Kabong reference. 😀
El Kabong Strikes Again! 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmemBa1HAzU&feature=related
Man, it would be a bit funny to see a Quickdraw McGraw/ El Kabong reference given the time line. 😀
Also, I was hoping for any other Heavy metal references to flying bass in the late 70s ?
Wow, BTO Sledgehammer, Thanks
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