John Hiatt - Slug Line
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- čas přidán 15. 11. 2006
- From a Hiatt bootleg DVD called "Dusty Old Tapes". This is one of my favorite Hiatt "oldies". It wasn't overproduced with that 80's pop sound. This seems to be a different version than what I've heard before, there is no "middle8".
- Hudba
Incredible- I was the cameraman on this video.
Shot 2 in one day- Poco was the first- John #2.
Way before MTV
I started a job at a record store in Boston when this came out. The manager would hand out promos to us based on seniority. The week this came out, he gave all the promos to others, but no one wanted this, so he gave it to me. I took it home, played it and was blown away. I've been a Hiatt fan ever since and this is still probably my favorite record of his. I still have it over 40 years later.
I saw him in a club in Los Angeles around the time this song was coming out. He was just as loony, amazing and wonderful as this video portrays!
I found this album in a discount bin in a record store (remember those?) in the early 80s
I'd never heard of John Hiatt but I loved the album cover so I bought it
Always liked it and listened to it a lot
Forty years later I randomly google his name and find this video I didn't know existed. thank-you internet!
what a mix of emotions in this one ,i can hear Procol Harum,Joe Jackson and Graham Parker in this wonderful song !
Thanks for posting!! They cut "You made one mistake - you made me wait" ... this is a great song from a great album. I lived in Hollywood in the 70's and 80's and saw John in concert maybe 30 times - including a tremendous afternoon show at the John Anson Ford Ampitheatre that I wish was on tape somewhere!!
And as the song fades out, my mind goes straight to the next song, Madonna Road. I listened to Slug Line a lot back then. That and Joe Jackson's I'm the Man.
Simply brilliant ! ... Slug Line was the first John Hiatt song I ever heard, and it remains my favourite to this day ... His first 2 albums ( Slug Line and Two Bit Monsters ) are all-time classics, in my opinion, and I much prefer this period of his career to the slicker more produced sound that progressively followed ... They were still good ( being by JH, they couldn't be otherwise ) ... but didn't have the edginess, individuality, or spark of those first 2 albums ... Wayne
Doug Yankus, a great, great guitarist, plays on the "Slug Line" album, as well as on Hiatt's first solo record, "Hanging Around the Observatory" (1974). Before that, Hiatt and Yankus played in a band together in Nashville called White Duck, which recorded at least one LP, "In Season" (1972). I was fortunate to see White Duck live the summer of '72 in Nashville. That was a very cool and original band. Doug Yankus was a monster player.
I've got this song on a CD but it's never been on eof my favorites, but that's OK because everything he does is interesting. He was so young in this video! Don't miss him in the Little Village videos!!
There seems to be very little footage of John Hiatt from the pre- Bring the Family days, so this clip is a rare find. I remember this song and Radio Girl, from the same album, getting a little bit of FM radio airplay, but obviously not enough to make a dent in the charts. The record company was marketing John as a kind of American version of Elvis Costello. Those early JH albums have some good songs, even if they are not the sound for which he became best known.
Costello was friends with Hiatt and wrote this song for Costello. You would be blown away if you knew how many people have made Hiatt songs famous. Songs that he wrote !
MY BRO PLAYED WITH JOHN STILL HAVE THE LP'S
Bowbow bow!!!!!! great song!!! indeed!
SLug Line and 2 bit Monsters are 2 great albums!!! Espacially 2bM! It has a great punkvibe to it and the drumer is awsome. Songs like Fact The Nation and Cop Party are among Hiatts bests song ever!
It's not a Costello cover, but yes, it's a very similar sound. I bought this album when it first came out in 1979, but I'll be damned if I can find it now.
Thank you so much. I wish there were so many songs from Slug Line. This is awesome! Yer right, no bridge.... actually i think that's were it cuts off. It should say: You made one mistake, You made me wait.... well that's fine..... radio edit ;) Rad! 5 and 1/2 stars!
Just read about his new album which reminded that I needed to hear this again...have loved this song since first hearing it around about the time...
This is about a minute shorter from the album (2:03 instead of 3:02), so yeah, some edited obviously happened. It's a 70s album (1979), so it's not going to sound like the 80s albums. So cool (and a bit weird) to see him in these younger days, being more familiar with the Perfectly GG live period.
Ah yes, the angry young man !!!!
They told me how to behave
Like any other public slave
Keep the smile on the face of that consumer
Or you'll become a rumor
So, I got a band of angry sons
Now, we're having so much fun
Tearing up the nation
Weapons out of mikestands
Biting on the glad hand
Still don't understand
That they were packaging a madman
curious but catchy
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Dan Hedaya ! Blood simple !