Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch'n'Roll Live

When I was a freshman in college, some Xtian group did a presentation at our dorm about how rock and roll was satanic, and this record was one of the unholy examples.

WECtA is one of those songs that features ¡nataS ¡nataS over and over again.

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"Hot Rod"

this album is bangers

went with Hot and Nasty

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Black Oak Arkansas are putting out a new album this year that includes some new recordings and 10 old songs produced by Tom Dowd in the '70s, but left in the vault until now. The first single, "Plugged In and Wired" (it's one of the new songs), is on Soundcloud now.

http://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/black-oak-arkansas-pugged-in

Amended link:

http://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/black-oak-arkansas-plugged-in

my wife asked me last night if anybody claimed BOA as an influence. it seems obvious that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose both took some notes from Big Jim Dandy, but I dunno if anyone's ever really 'fessed up to it.

this live in london thing that was on TV last night was pretty bangin, the triple guitar attack was quite something live.

"Humbly, but tastefully..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2q3fzBGkM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2q3fzBGkM

That clip above and this clip of Black Oak Arkansas from the California jam are just amazing pieces of time caught in amber. The scenes of the crowd are really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ2HBrfdCnM

Black Oak Arkansas were one of those 70s bands I really didn't know much about at all. I had heard "Jim Dandy to the Rescue" on the radio and had heard that David Lee Roth had gotten some stage moves from Jim Dandy, but this was the first I had seen them. It is a spectacle. You know your band has made it when you get to bomb the audience with your band's sun visors from a helicopter over head. (Wouldn't do that now...)

The show gets even weirder as later on they do a very, very strange version of Dixie. Add that and the country boy "Family" compound above with the "BOA" swimming pool is just amazing piece of video.

That's the problem with rock and roll, not too many bands end up with their own place to 'get it together' in the country with a swimming pool with the band logo on the bottom.

"If An Angel Came To See You...Would You Make Her Feel At Home" - Man, this is a pretty odd southern rock record and band. While I think Ronnie Van Sant loved the ladies, I never heard him sing a song praising the 'Fertile Woman'. I think seeing that BOA video of their compound might have me reading into this a bit much, but it fits after seeing that video. Did 38 Special or Pat Travers have a commune?

'We Help Each Other'

They call us rough, gaudy and crude
ain't got no edicate, ain't got no cuth
we got our own way to see the truth
why should we complicate and lose our
youth

We help each other to find the truth
we help each other you can too
we help each other when we're tired and blue
if you help others they'll help you

Tell me who you can call for
when you're in trouble man
why don't you give each other
a helpin hand

We're a livin example of this practice brother
we helped ourselves by helpin each other
don't try for peace of mind by beingun aware
when you see life in danger for heaven's sake, care
they tell us that progress is definitely there
well yea we know we're goin ya'll but have
you thought about where

Yea we're proud healthy happy and free
we fly the cosmos of humanity
just like our father's together we stand
to hell with evil it'll all be damned
All be damned

We help each other to find the truth
we help each other you can too
we help each other when we're tired and blue
if you help others they'll help you

Just saw that these guys are doing a fairly affordable club show here at the end of January. How are they live these days?

No idea how good they sound now live, but I bet it would be weird as hell scene.

That video at the California Jam is crazy. Not too many bands get to call in an airstrike of sun visors on the fans from above.

Listening now and it never occurred to me:
Was Jim Dandy a Captain Beefheart fan? Sometimes the vox are super cock rock version of Beefheart

I think it would be more via Howlin Wolf, that's the popular guy with that kind of voice although there are more than a few blues singers that get that croak.

They are just a weird band. This tune and intro is just some odd early 70s hard rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omiB0Cs-Oc4

I was behind this truck at an intersection yesterday.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/boa.JPG

Yes!

the placement of the 'AR' on some already-taken real estate leads me to believe this was probably the work of a zealous Black Oak fan sabotaging the earlier work of a Kansas fan.