The band idea has been proposed

and Steve and Darren are up for it.  Now we just need to find time (always the hard part).

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - U Get Me High

[link] I haven't kept up with them too much in the past decade or so, this to me sounds like a return to their early, now classic, sound.  Crunching guitar coupled with rock organ. Petty has always been a great straight ahead rock song writer.  In my opinion his best stuff is with this Heartbreakers sound behind him, as opposed to the strummy Traveling Wilburys sound he favored in ca. the 90s.

Possibly a band solution on the horizon

It occurred to me while fitness walking today listening to DKFM. The best band situation might be a trio. The most efficient of the Wisconsin bands I was in were trios: Seed Pod 17: Eric, Matt, and me, and before that Rubber Curtain: Leslie, Matt, and Me. In the current case, we could even use the Police as the model because the prospective guitarist is an ambient player, much like Andy Summers, who could provide a lot of depth to the sound as well as solo on top of my keyboard-bass line and drums.  More soon, hopefully.  I haven't talked to the other two about this idea but they both have expressed recent interest in getting a band together.

Chrissie Hynde - Down the Wrong Way

[link] This is from her newly released solo album (which is her first). Great song with good hooks, although the chorus hook sounds a bit disjointed from the verse. Also, I was thinking she was being a bit over the top in the Neil Younginess when I heard it on the radio (WFDU). Turns out, Neil plays guitar on the song. So this wasn't an accident.

Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

[link] Strangely enough, this is an essential song on the soundtrack of my childhood. #32 in the 1976 top 100.  When I think of this song, I think about playing with Matchbox cars.

Hall & Oates

These guys made a lot of great music.  Back in the 70s and early 80s you could crossover between pop and rock, especially with their funk influences very easily and a lot of bands did it.  Here are a few of my favorites of theirs:

Kiss on My List
You Make My Dreams
Private Eyes
Method of Modern Love
Adult Education
Out of Touch

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