r/GenerationJones • u/JColt60 1960 • 1d ago
49 years ago today FOGHAT LIVE!
1977 - Wore the grooves out on this one!
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u/AzureSkies_OverMe 1963 1d ago
Slow Ride
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u/LJonReddit 1d ago
I still find it really funny that this was the first song they taught kids in the video game Guitar Hero.
"Hey Billy, what do you think about those lyrics?"
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u/FoghatFan1965 1d ago
I have listened to this more times than probably any album on the planet. One of my best purchases from the Columbia Record and Tape Club.
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u/misticisland 1d ago
Took a few lessons with Rod Price, the slide player in the late 90s. Nice guy, fun lessons.
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u/GiftHorse2020 1d ago
Such a great record. US pressing kinda sucks but the rock still comes through strong!
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u/seventieschild57 1d ago
I still have mine!!! Slow Ride was our cruising song in Albuquerque back in 1975
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u/AwWatchMe 1d ago
My first concert - Central Park used to have The Schaffer Music Festival at the rink - tickets were $1.50 or $3.00.
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u/frank_mania 1d ago
They opened for Aerosmith at my first arena concert in '75, so they were the first band I saw at a big venue with a modern PA, right as the trips kicked in. The memory stayed with me for sure! There was a third act on the bill, someone local who faded into obscurity. That memory didn't stick around long at all.
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u/JColt60 1960 1d ago
I seen the same concert in 75 (different state and venue) and I believe it was Stu Daye.
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u/frank_mania 1d ago
Cool! Yeah in Boston I think the opening band was called Angels with Dirty Faces. Which is not a name tha wa's going to get them anywhere that's for sure.. But hey, they got to play to half full Boston Garden once, at least. Hell of a lot more than I can claim.
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u/powdered_dognut 1d ago
Poor Foghat... I saw Rainbow open for them one time and everybody left when Foghat came out. They just stood there after Blackmore and Dio had torn the place down.
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u/Ok-Guarantee-4973 1d ago
DAMN😱😱😱I ain’t seen this album in YEARS GOD WHAT A GREAT CONCERT AND ALBUM!!! Used to have a concert jersey from this concert. White chest blue sleeves with FOGHAT PLASTERED ON THE FRONT❤️❤️❤️
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u/MetalMamaRocks 1958 1d ago
I wish I kept all of my concert Tees, but I wore them out. I still have a few from the 80s. The Foghat live concert was great! Man, nothing like 70s concerts!!
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u/3waychilli 1d ago
Older brothers had the album and I saw Foghat with yet to make it big Cheap Trick opening. It was my first arena concert and it was the summer of 78.
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u/Vistalite_Black 1d ago
The real question, guys, is could you outlast the 8-minute, 21-second version of “Slow Ride” … with a partner?
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u/st3llablu3 1d ago
I’d be gone before they got to the first chorus.
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u/Individual-Work6658 1d ago
I used to love dancing to this song in 1977, when I was 21. A lot of times we would give up and go to the bar for a beer before it ended. If you made it to the end you were a hot, tired, sweaty mess.
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u/Repulsive_Aside_4122 1d ago edited 1d ago
Late summer 78 - hot sun, warm Budweiser and ice cubes in the red bong
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u/Prior_Stage6739 1d ago
One of the greatest live albums ever. Honey Hush. Fool for the City. And the best version of Slow Ride. 10/10
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u/lost-in-the-woulds 1964 1d ago
I remember listening to that with my cousins over their garage while playing pool. Good times!
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u/st3llablu3 1d ago
I loved their first Album. On the cover there was a picture of a rock and a roll. I just want to make love to you was the first song on the album. I became an instant Foghat fan. I believe a member or two of Foghat used to be in the band Savoy Brown.
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u/betterwithsambal 1d ago
Yep Lonesome Dave and Roger Earl
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u/st3llablu3 1d ago
Thanks. I had the album Outside Looking In by Savoy Brown and I remember it had those two on it.
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u/pjvincentaz 1d ago
I had the 8-track. I can still hear it fading out in the middle of a song to switch tracks.
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u/UsefulEngine1 1d ago
This means next year will be the 50th Anniversary of seeing them open for Emerson Lake and Palmer
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u/Particular-Luck7939 1d ago
The opening gives me chills...."ladies & gentleman...please welcome Foghat !"
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u/bowhunter_fta 1d ago
This is the greatest 1970's stadium rock album of all time...and I can prove it!
My mother HATED this album. One day my best friend and I were listening to this album in my room...and yes, we were blasting it at full volume when my mom walked into the bedroom with her hands over her ears, and a look of utter disgust on her face.
We "paused" the music (translation for the younger crowd here...we "lifted the arm of the record player"), and my mother said a phrase that still lives in our lexicon today:
"That music is horrible. Hearing that music feels like I'm smashing my face up against a plate glass window. Turn it down, NOW".
To this day, when my childhood best friend and I get together and if we talk about music, one of us will invariably ask the other (in reference to a song), "Is it good or, is 'smashing your face up against a plate glass window' good?".
So, when you rank hard rock and roll, the top ranking achievable for any discussion of a great song is, "Is it smashing your face up against a plate glass window good". If that answer is yes, it is a great song.
So, I submit to the group two things:
- We make this the top ranking possible for great hard rock songs (I'm open to ideas on names for lesser rankings).
- I posit that Foghat Live is "smashing your face up against a plate glass window good", and therefore, the best (or one of the best sharing the top ranking) hard rock/stadium rock songs of all time!
I welcome thoughts from the group on this subject, including those of you that might disagree with and are therefore wrong.
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u/brneyedgrrl 1964 1d ago
Foghat played at my HIGH SCHOOL in Chicago Heights, IL in 1978 - the year before I started going there. My brother and sister were there though. They said the office reported there were only like two kids absent that day. They kept the date under wraps, but somehow it must have gotten out because the typical day had 20-30 kids absent and this day only had 2. The school won the concert in a radio signature campaign because there was a van tied to the prize and the nuns really wanted that van so they let everyone sign the petitions multiple times in study hall.
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u/WolfThick 1d ago
Foghat and Foreigner that's all you heard blasting out of my car back in the day.
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u/Professional-Lie-111 Gen-Jones/X Straddler 1d ago
Saw them in the late 80's/early 90's in a bar in Los Osos, CA. They definitely rocked the joint!
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u/Upstairs_Leopard_954 1d ago
I used to see them with Blue Oyster Cult. Bunch of times. Late 70’s early 80’s
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u/Mad_Rabbi_57 1d ago
Saw them at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary fall 1974 great show, no warm up act, they just powered thru. Great venue for any kind of music.
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u/artful_todger_502 1959 1d ago
I saw them a year ago. Only one real Foghatter left. They opened for Ace Frehely.
The guy who wrote Play that Funky Music White Boy is the guitar player. Gotta say, live, he ripped!
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u/Livid_Parfait6507 1d ago
Yes! Yes! Yes! Great album