This is a good record to start the new year. Is this awesome, or what? Not only is this a fabulous album cover - but side one, track one is one of my all-time favorite songs. It's called Somebody's Been Sleepin' in My Bed, written by band members Bond, Johnson, and Perry). I cannot believe there is no clip of the song on YouTube. That song is just plain fun. It's an upbeat major chord rocker with a fun sax solo in the last third of the song by, I am guessing, Bob Seger's Alto Reed. Boogie Motal is Foghat's eighth studio album - out in 1979 - the year that I graduated from high school. The cover design and art is by Jim Baikie - a talented and semi-famous comic book artist, which is apparent from what he did on this cover. If you zoom in, all of the song titles on shown somewhere on the front or back cover. And speaking of the cover - this is a single record album, that does not unfold. So I took digital photos of the front and back covers and photomerged them into one image. I also like the round wear marks visible from the records themselves. I scored this on eBay for a couple of bucks. I just had to have it.
That's a wicked cover, not familiar with the song. Gonna have to check it out. Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteDude!!!! Hey KC - I can't thank you enough for the comment, pal. It lets me know someone is reading this thing! So, do a bit of research on the comic artist and that song. Thanks again - happy new year.
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Speaking of Foghat, have you noticed how the main riff of Foreigner's "Long, Long Way from Home" sounds a lot like Foghat's "Driver's Wheel"? Since the latter predates the former, one wonders about some lax borrowing here....
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Foreigner & Foghat's two song progressions are only alike in the first 6 measures of the verses. 2 root chord measures, 2 bars 1 step lower, and up again to the root for 2 more. THAT'S ALL. Thousands of other songs have the same thing anywhere in the composition.
ReplyDeleteAre these the only two songs you own?