Just was drivin home and imagine my surprise to hear
Mission Bell. Haven't heard that on the radio in quite some time.. and now J D. McPherson. WOW! Good old WORT FM where from 6-8 on any Saturday night you might be hearing Webb Wilder, Buddy Holly or maybe Billy Lee Riley and his little green men.. don't get alot better than this on a Saturday nite in south central Wisconsin!!.

You;re not by any chance speaking of "Mission Bell" by fleetwood Mac from the "Kiln House" album, are you? WW

I was coming out of a meeting in Chillicothe, OH last Wednesday about 5:15PM and turned on the car radio to National Public Radio and heard the familiar opening notes to Don't Slander Me by Webb Wilder doing their version of the Rocky Ericson tune. It's always good to hear our fearless leader on the radio these days.

Wow...cool! WW

Nope, Mission Bell by Donnie Brooks.

Don't know him...WW

You folks are lucky!! The only station the radio picks up at work is a cookie cutter country station that has the same play list every 2 hours for weeks at a time. I swear if I hear "Creepin'" one more time I'm gonna SCREAM!!!!!!!

Wow, that sounds like torture.
Can you get any internet radio?
If so, KDHX in St. Louis is worth checking out.
http://kdhx.org/

Wow, I love that NPR used "DSM"!

Donnie Brooks is a Rockabilly Hall of Fame member due to his #7 hit with 'Mission Bell'. It's the same song Fleetwood Mac also later covered. Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irfbSHm2hpc

VERY cool. Thanks, T.C. WW

I guess I had forgotten Fleetwood Mac had recorded Mission Bell. The DJ on the Saturday nite show I mentioned (WORT-FM) plays alot of rockabilly which is alright by me! Still no snow here in southern Wisconsin.

I was driving to work today and WQUT played Roundabout by Yes. I thought how cool it would be to hear and see T.C. waylaying the Hondo playing that song.

Wow - those cats are really hip shaking to a rather modest beat! Especially when you compare this with Roky's "You're gonna Miss Me" released around the same time - 1966.

I'd like to hear and see Webb waylaying the vocal on 'Roundabout', Tony!

Hmmmm, a key change might be required for that vocal...
And TC will need a Rick bass.

Okay, there will be no waylaying around here without the proper permit

In and around the lake. Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

"We'll spend the day your WAY-AAY!" Well, I'd just keep it in the original key and sing it an octave or TWO down! THEN, I'd call my YES tribute band...MAYBE! I actually saw Yes open for Jethro Tull on the Aqualung tour @ The Warehouse in New Orleans years ago...back when gods walked the earth. WW

I think Tom does have a Rickenbacker Bass.

I do! It's an early '70s black single pickup model 4000 that was my main bass for about 10 years. I bought it new, but made a very unfortunate deal and traded away my Gibson EB-2 AND a pink paisley Telecaster bass for it. I'd love to have those back...

>> Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

Wow, I always thought the lyric was "marlins come out of the sky" and some sort of mental-chemical alteration was in play! Guess ya learn something new every day.

Ya know, I have seen Jethro Tull many times.. but I can't remember seeing YES. And I would think I would remember unless they were not that rememberable to begin with.. It might have been the night I took my brother to see Tull for his birthday and he slept through a drum solo. Jesus Christ on a crutch I was annoyed with him...

Most people reputedly nap during the bass solo...

If ya wanna get really espteric, check out ORIGINAL JT guitarist, Mick Abraham's(Celtic/Hebraic name!) Blodwyn Pig. I think they made two albums, the first of which was "Ahead Rings Out."

I think the bass player from Blodwyn Pig ended up in Savoy Brown, another fine band that never really got the recognition they deserved.

Tull bass player Glen Cornick was an amazing musician as well, as shown by his work on Benefit and Stand Up. I looked at their Wikipedia entry and saw that Steve Howe failed his audition for the band! I guess he got a lot better before he joined Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(band )

Just got my Boot Dad CD. Love every song on this thing. I had the original back in the early 90's. But alas it was stolen (along with all my other CDs at the time).

At a friend's party, the band announced that the next tune would be "See My Way". I was glad to hear that they'd be doing a somewhat obscure tune by The Who (on the "Happy Jack" album). I was surprised to hear a totally different, but very cool, song that I found out later was by a band called Blodwyn Pig.

I used to sing and play bass on that song in the first band I was ever in. WW

Which I'm guessing was just a few years before that party.

Not too long after that, I mentioned it to a friend of mine, who I knew would appreciate a local band doing an obscure Who tune, and asked if he knew the "See My Way" that I had heard. Not only did he know the tune and know that it was by Blodwyn Pig, he happened to have that "A Head Rings Out" album. I'd ask to hear it just about every time I went to his house until I finally bought a copy.

"Marlins come out of the sky!" I love that...WW

Not if they keep trading away their best players ....