Tuesday, May 26, 2020

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 16

Well. here's another case of being surprised by a live version of a song I've heard a thousand times. This time it's a song that I already liked, but in other ways the experience was very close to my "Along Came Mary" eye-opender the other day. Like the Association, Rare Earth was a pretty faceless band. I've heard "I Just Want to Celebrate" a thousand times but never saw them do it live and couldn't have picked a single member out of a police line-up. And like the other night, this was in the middle of a much longer video of a music festival, this time the 1974 Cal Jam festival. The one day event featured Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Black Sabbath, Seals and Crofts, Black Oak Arkansas, the Eagles, Rare Earth and Earth, Wind and Fire.



Rare Earth's performance is good, really tight, and faithful to the record, and then it devolves into a dub-like thing with rotating instrumentation. It's not like anyone is showing off that much, like one of those keyboard solo-drum solo-guitar solo segues. All they're trying to do in this live version is maintain the groove. It's highly effective. Here is the whole festival video. Now you may proceed to skip around to watch Sabbath and Deep Purple.performance. Believe me, Rare Earth are not the coolest looking band. (A link to their performance is at the bottom.)


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Watch/Listen:
Rare Earth - I Just Want to Celebrate mp3 at The Bar None
Rare Earth - I just Want to Celebrate (video) at YouTube Live, from Cal Jam 1974

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