#Ricky byrd

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Joan Jett with the Blackhearts - the "Bad Reputation" tour (1982) Photo : Veronica Vera.

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Round 5.5 of The Hottest 80s Band Tournament

Mötley Crüe 

Defeated opponents: Cybotron, The Beach Boys, XTC, The Clash

Formed in: 1981

Genres: hard rock, metal rock, Glam metal, heavy metal

Lineup: Vince Neil- vocals 

Mick Mars- guitar

Nikki Sixx- bass

Tommy Lee- drums 

Albums from the 80s: 

Too Fast for Love (1981)

Shout at the Devil (1983)

Theatre of Pain (1985)

Girls, Girls, Girls (1987)

Dr. Feelgood (1989)

Propaganda: the all black, the messy hair, the sloppy makeup, the good makeup, the skimpy clothes, the high heels, the fingerless gloves, I could fix him (I absolutely could not), MORE HAIR. I love these trashy goth bitches

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 

Defeated opponents: The Fall, They Might Be Giants, Hall and Oates, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Formed in: 1975

Genres: Rock, hard rock, punk rock 

Lineup: Joan Jett - vocals, guitar

Ricky Byrd - guitar

Gary Ryan - bass

Lee Crystal - drums

Albums from the 80s:  

I Love Rock 'n Roll (1981)

Album (1983)

Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (1984)

Good Music (1986)

Up Your Alley (1988)

Propaganda: 

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Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth 1984 Boardwalk ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Cherry Bomb 02. I Love You Love Me Love 03. Frustrated 04. Hold Me 05. Long Time 06. Talking ‘Bout My Baby 07. I Need Someone 08. Love Like Mine 09. New Orléans 10. Someday 11. Push and Stomp 12. I Got No Answers —————————————————

Ricky Byrd

Lee Crystal

Joan Jett

Gary Ryan

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Joan Jett Live in New York March 5, 1989 on Broadway Digital 60fps 

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“A BREATH OF FRESH AIR”

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This week:

Ricky Byrd's musical career is a journey characterised by his exceptional guitar skills, collaborations with iconic artists, and a powerful commitment to using music as a force for positive change.

His love for rock 'n' roll and the influences from guitar legends like Chuck Berry and Keith Richards, ignited a passion for the instrument.

He honed his skills in the New York City music scene and in the mid-1980s, Ricky Byrd was invited to join the legendary rock band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, a group already celebrated for their chart-topping hit "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."

Both Ricky and Joan Jett used their platform to advocate for essential social causes. Ricky emerged as a passionate spokesperson for addiction recovery and mental health awareness.

Ricky Byrd joins us this week to share his music and his story.

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Interview with . . . Ricky Byrd

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Ricky Byrd, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and recovery advocate, is still making music and God willing won’t be stopping anytime soon. Byrd’s new single “Louanne” is out now courtesy of Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records. Byrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts. He has shared the stage with legendary musicians including Paul…

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A great cover song transcends the original thanks to the ways the latter only pointed at. For instance, Joan Jett and her band took what the Arrows did, but they transformed the entire thing into something sleazier, if I am allowed to claim this. I mean, the original sounds almost polite in comparison to how Mrs. Jett modifies the composition. As you can hear her vocals get asserted throughout the tune in a winning manner, she also manages to establish her powerful rock star persona that was surprising for the time. Moreover, the backing got a dose of steroids, because the riff the Arrows played became nastier. However, she kept the pop elements of the previous version, which become more pronounced with her changes.

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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Gary Ryan, Joan Jett, Lee Crystal & Ricky Byrd - 1983

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Shameless self-less promotion: I will be on this 24-hour stream to end MS with my former colleague Paul Shaffer and my new best friend, guitar god and RRHOFer Ricky Byrd, tomorrow (Thurs) at 6pm! (And thanks to John Povermo and Dystopia Tonight for running a 16-year-old photo!)

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 1, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 29, 2023

- Rickie Lee Jones, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, John Cragie, Peter Rowan and others highlight first day

Rickie Lee Jones opened the 2023 edition of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - and christened the festival’s new, Horseshoe Hill stage - by reading from her 2021 memoir.

And Peter Rowan played country - not bluegrass - music during his late-afternoon set on the Banjo stage.

These were just two highlights from Day One at the long-running festival, which also included Christone “Kingfish” Ingram redefining the blues and John Craigie finding his quirky spot alongside Todd Snider in folk-Americana.

Seated on the small stage set up to resemble a living room and flanked with clothes drying on the line, an animated Jones embellished her reading from “Last Chance Texaco” with playful asides and wise cracks. She talked about how Laura Nyro made her feel connected and how Neil Young made her realize odd voices can be successful voices.

“I like it up here,” Jones said of being on stage. “I think artists sometime mistake the excitement for fear.”

Jones read about hitchhiking through California as a 14-year-old in 1969 as a foggy drizzle enveloped Golden Gate Park. She had soundchecked with a snippet of “The Horses,” but ended her well-received spoken-word gig by playing her father’s composition “The Moon is Made of Gold” solo and acoustic and earning a standing ovation from the small crowd seated in grass surrounded by tall trees.

Afterward, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites took in a couple of numbers from Vetiver - think the Byrds with a slide guitarist - on the Swan stage as the blog couple headed for Ingram, who played before an audience of thousands on the Towers of Gold stage.

Borrowing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tone and adding equal measures of funk and R&B, Ingram and his band were super-charged during 50 minutes of electrifying blues as they continually tore the music down before building it right back up. The guitarist sang of lost love on “Fresh Out;” walked off stage, but kept playing out of sight, to showcase his band on “Not Gonna Lie;” and engaged powerful call-and-response with his keyboardist during the set, which ended as Craigie took to the adjacent Swan stage.

Backed by electric bass and guitar and playing acoustic axe and harmonica, Craigie mixed humorous stage banter with tunes both playful (“I Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man”) and serious (“I am California”). Stage presence and song craft made fans of the Sound Biteses, who got their second dose of Craigie in as many days following the previous evening’s benefit for Camp Winnarainbow.

Bluegrass legend Rowan was the biggest surprise of the day, turning in a country and blues set that found him alternating between electric guitar and mandolin, supported by guitar, bass, drums and fiddle. This was exhilarating, though low volume at the Banjo stage lessened the impact of the instrumental guitar duel of “T Bone Shuffle” and made “Panama Red” -> “Freight Train” -> “Panama Red” sound like they were coming in on the winds from Ocean Beach.

Small price to pay for the opportunity to hear Rowan perform such warhorses as “Lonesome L.A. Cowboy,” “Land of the Najavo” and “Midnight Moonlight” in novel musical settings in the bucolic landscape of Golden Gate Park.

9/30/23

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hiii i'm not really sure what to do here so what are your favourite albums right now? no specific amount just as many as you think are important to mention :))

also here's a little present :] -> 🎁

- your secret santa

ahh hi!!!!

ok so my favorite album of all time is Maggot by Dazey and the Scouts!! if you like riotgrrrl you should definitely check it out, I think it’s a masterpiece.

Other albums I love are :

With the Beatles by the Beatles

Younger than Yesterday by the Byrds

Montgomery Ricky by Ricky Montgomery

Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. by Simon and Garfunkel

Deep Down Happy by Sports Team

ty for the ask!! :D

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Round 5 of The Hottest 80s Band Tournament

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 

Defeated opponents: The Fall, They Might Be Giants, Hall and Oates, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Formed in: 1975

Genres: Rock, hard rock, punk rock 

Lineup: Joan Jett - vocals, guitar

Ricky Byrd - guitar

Gary Ryan - bass

Lee Crystal - drums

Albums from the 80s:  

I Love Rock 'n Roll (1981)

Album (1983)

Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (1984)

Good Music (1986)

Up Your Alley (1988)

Propaganda: 

Bon Jovi 

Defeated opponents: Salt-N-Pepa, Violent Femmes, Queensrÿche, The Cure

Formed in: 1983

Genres: Hard rock, area rock, pop rock

Lineup: Jon Bon Jovi- vocals

 David Bryan- keyboard 

Tico Torres- drums

Alec John Such- bass

Richie Sambora- guitar

Albums from the 80s: 

Bon Jovi (1984)

7800 Fahrenheit (1985)

Slippery When Wet (1986)

New Jersey (1988)

Propaganda: Genre-defying powerhouse of a band. So many classic songs. Every member was some flavor of hot but Richie was married Heather Locklear hot and Jon was hot enough to make you want to take a risk on a Jersey boy. Their stage show was iconic with Jon, Richie and Alec fitted with wires so they could be lifted up and fly out over the crowd mid-performance. (See the video for Livin' on a Prayer to see this in action) They're still performing to this day and Jon is still married to his high school sweetheart which I think is kind of adorable.

Visual propaganda for Bon Jovi:

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NEW PLAYLIST: WAITING FOR THE SUN

In 1996, St. Martin's Press published a book called Waiting For The Sun by a British writer named Barney Hoskyns. The book is the single best history I've ever read about the California music scene. It spans 50 years, and covers everything from the Jazz of the 1940s to the Hip-Hop of the 90s. But the major portion of the book focuses on the Rock and Pop scenes of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

I enjoyed the book so much that I put together a 90 minute mix tape of music discussed in the book. A couple of years later, with a CD burner handy, I expanded the original to a double CD that featured 38 tracks, and more than 150 minutes of music. I was so happy with the result that I wrote a letter to Rhino Records and proposed they issue a boxed set based on the book in co-operation with the author. I even sent them my track list as a starting point. Of course I never heard from them, and my hopes for a boxed set were dashed.

Here we are a couple of decades later, and we have playlists, and streaming services available. So, I thought I'd share with you the best mix tape / burned CD set I ever made. I still think Rhino missed an opportunity. See if you agree. After you listen to it, you really should read the book. It's the cheapest ticket you'll ever find for that West Coast trip you always dreamed of taking.

Here's the track list, and it should be listened to in the order given here. I spent almost as much time sequencing it as I did picking the songs - all of which spotlight some aspect, and some of the history of the Golden State.

(Disc One)

Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson

Laurel Canyon Blvd. #2 - Van Dyke Parks

California Saga (Pts. 1-3) - The Beach Boys

Hotel California - Eagles

California Nights - Lesley Gore

California - Joni Mitchell

Sin City - Flying Burrito Brothers

Estimated Prophet - Grateful Dead

I Love L.A. - Randy Newman

Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon) - The Mamas & The Papas

Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees

Palm Desert - Van Dyke Parks

That's How We Do It In L.A. - Lindsey Buckingham

California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Livin' On The Fault Line - Doobie Brothers

Gringo - Little Feat

Marina Del Rey - Marc Jordan

Deportee - Gene Clark & Carla Olson

Bad Night At The Whiskey - The Byrds

(Disc Two)

Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean

Trouble In Paradise - J.D. Souther

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Down In Hollywood - Ry Cooder

Valley Girl - Frank Zappa

Werewolves of London (Live) - Warren Zevon

It Never Rains In Southern California - Albert Hammond

Sunset Grill - Don Henley

Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hilldale - Love

Talk To Me of Mendocino - Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Tamalpais High (At About 3) - David Crosby

Prisoner In Disguise - Linda Ronstadt

Poor Man's Shangri-La - Ry Cooder

Say Goodbye To Hollywood - Ronnie Spector

The Last Resort - Eagles

Frank's Wild Years - Tom Waits

Laurel Canyon Blvd. - Van Dyke Parks

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Steve Earle, Marshall Crenshaw, Willie Nile, Ricky Byrd & Yours Truly after our performances last night. What a great lineup it was for Rich Pagano’s charity event at City Winery! Also performing was Kate Pierson (B-52s), Bettye Lavette, Roseann Cash & John Leventhal, Bobby Hardin, Rachel Yamagata, Bobby Hardin, Soulsa, Dave Driver, and I know I’m forgetting some others, sorry - but everyone was Top Shelf!! (at City Winery NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7zCUxuhcF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=