Old Enough to Forget

Good Lord, here we go. Hang on, Strap in, and put in your mouth guard. Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors (1978) Gerry Rafferty - North & South (1988) Visage - Visage (EP) (1981) Greg Kihn Band - Kihnspiracy (1983) Johnny Winter - Captured Live! (1976) Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors (1978) This was long one of the albums I wanted, but never bought. The cover was vintage ted, and the cover was absolutely captivating. This was Ted in a single frame. Sitting here listening this is all new to me. The first pass through I didn't have any credits other than what was on the back cover. I still tend to lean on Double Live Gonzo! as Ted's high water mark, and while over the years I've filled in some of his earlier studio albums, I really never became a true blue fan. I was a pretty solid casual, and still consider myself a fan of his music. Considering Weekend Warriors came hot on the heals of Double Live Gonzo in the fall of '78 I sort of expected more of the same. Which is w...

I picked this up in the dollar bin a couple of months ago, and after some TLC the vinyl cleaned up surprisingly well, I mean really well. The gatefold was in decent shape, but if there were any liner notes they were lost to time. This was an album that intrigued me, and the song I most excited to listen to was "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" as I was curious to hear how different this was from the version I was most familiar with - that being Rick Derringer's 1973 killer from his solo debut album All American Boy. Oddly enough only a few months after Roadwork was released in 1972 The Edgar Winter Group would release They Only Come Out at Night and the rest as they say is history, as that album would yield two of his biggest hits in "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride" both of which would be forever cemented in the foundations of what would become classic rock.  However, this isn't about that album, this about their double live album Roadwork . I was c...