DavidE Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I just ran across a video of his on YouTube with Bad English. Funny looking long hair... ;-)What a talented guy. I love his voice and this guy can sing everything from a good rock tune to a sappy ballad.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTPZeo3Lps...ted&search=I remember the first time I saw The Babys. I got home from school and turned on the tv. It was the Dick Cavett show or some other similar whitebread show and here come these Brits with tons of makeup, earrings and wild hair. They were awesome.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOl2wp__yfcI heard him play live on the radio recently and he sounded great.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIet55yYNfY
MCChris Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Missing You is a personal fave. Great vocalist.He's on CMT these days doing a duet of that song with some country chick. He's lookin' pretty crispy.
ZR Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Good call. Great singer. Loved the Baby's. I thought Bad English was going to be great but was let down a bit - sold the CD. Loved their Union Jack album.
jettster Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Just recently picked up a Babys greatest hits CD, forgot how good those guys sounded. Like all of his stuff, Babys, solo and Bad English.I like this Bad English tunehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUMswVj5hg...ted&search=
Bruiser Brody Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 He's on CMT these days doing a duet of that song with some country chick. He's lookin' pretty crispy.My friend Andre went on the road with Waite last year as his road manager/guitar tech. Factoid: Andy Timmons tried out for the Bad English gig..Neil Schon gets the gig. Don't stop believin'.Side bar: I'm hammered.
Turdus Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I think the first Babys record was the best. The 2nd was not too bad. Mike Corby left before Head First, and although the band became more popular, I think the music started to suffer.You want a real treat? A CD called "The Official Unofficial BABYS Album" was just released. 10 demos recorded circa '75 before the first album was released. If you like the first two records, pick this up. The sound quality is decent, but sounds mono to me. The tunes are pretty good..... 70's hard rock!
elduave Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Head First is my personal fave Babys record and I was into the first part of John's solo career. GREAT memories of seeing the No Brakes band at the Warner Theater in DC. I thought the Bad English album was OK. Love John Waite's voice.
Guest pirateflynn Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I have a great promotional Live Baby's album from '77. I'm a big fan.I saw him a few years back with a 3 piece band........ Great show! Frampton followed him and also rocked. Journey was the headliner, but sucked weinie.
elduave Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I saw him a few years back with a 3 piece band........ Great show!That was when Damon from Brother Cane was playing guitar, pretty sure. Shoulda' caught that tour.
Rechts Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Head First is my personal fave Babys record and I was into the first part of John's solo career. GREAT memories of seeing the No Brakes band at the Warner Theater in DC. I thought the Bad English album was OK. Love John Waite's voice.HA! I was at that show too! If you recall, there was a canned food drive in the lobby of the Warner for that gig, because that show was right around the holidays. Great memories of that show.Head First is also my personal favorite. I always loved the song "I Was One", and I think it should have made the Anthology.That Youtube acoustic version of "Everytime I Think of You" is killer.
Turdus Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Somebody start a thread for "Most use of cowbell in a song". Put the opener from the Babys first on the top of the list. Me thinks that song rocks harder than anything else they did.
elduave Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 GREAT memories of seeing the No Brakes band at the Warner Theater in DC. HA! I was at that show too! If you recall, there was a canned food drive in the lobby of the Warner for that gig, because that show was right around the holidays. Great memories of that show. I always loved the song "I Was One". Should we begin the debate about what year it was? I do recall the food drive. Greaseman was there too. I too, love "I Was One". That whole album is killer. Love Don't Prove I'm Right, Every Time I Think Of You, Run To Mexico, Head First, You (Got It)...
Guest pirateflynn Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 " One little boy in a dentist's chair.........."
DavidE Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 Huh.... and I thought I'd be alone in this appreciation! I need to get some Waite/Babys/Bad English CDs.
Rechts Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Should we begin the debate about what year it was? I do recall the food drive. Greaseman was there too. It was around Christmas of 1984. I know it was cold as shit outside, because the girl my buddy was with fell on her ass outside a parking garage walking to the gig, and was mewling about it through the whole show. Then she started bitching about hating the Greaseman (while I was probably wearing my "Habba Do Ga Ga" shirt). We had to stop off at a Giant to pick up some canned goods, because someone in our party was under the impression that the food drive was mandatory....and we got cheap dog food, ripped off the labels, and tossed 'em into the bins on the way into the show. Another thing I'm gonna burn in hell for. Then, at the show, we see this waitress that we used to know from Fritzbe's who had been in a pretty bad car crash a year before (face through the windshield). She is sitting right in front of us, sees us, and turns around to say hello...and her face was just a frankenstein's mess of scars. I mean, it looked like Satan's roadmap. And my stoned buddy freaks out, and says to her..."HOLY SHIT!!!" by way of greeting. Good times, man....good times. Didn't Waite have Randy Jackson playing bass in that band?
Bruiser Brody Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Didn't Waite have Randy Jackson playing bass in that band?Good lookin' out dawg!!!
elduave Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Didn't Waite have Randy Jackson playing bass in that band?Carmine Rojas, mi amigo. Had a Kahler on his bass...
DavidE Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 I really like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjDaYEJsls...ted&search=
Rechts Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 OK, then, didn't Adam Smasher's band also open? I think they played "Back in the USSR", but they sang the choruses thusly:I'm back in the CCCP/You don't know how lucky you be, boys...I may have been kind of stoned, too, now that I think about it...
DavidE Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 One from the No Brakes Tour. Pink DiMarzio guitar?
elduave Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 OK, then, didn't Adam Smasher's band also open? Could be, I recall Greaseman was the actual "opener". I was diggin' the Whiskey Sours.
atquinn Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 I really like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjDaYEJsls...ted&search= Aargh!! AK's voice is too nice for that song. I don't like the arrangement, but I think Tina Turner's voice was much better-suited for it when she covered it (then again, I have issues when it comes to women covering songs that were original sung by men, so... ) -Austin
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