imagine being 71 yrs old.... watching a young black guy realllllllly getting into classic rock for the first time. I may be old but we had THE best music of all time. this is the soundtrack of my life
@@Sdlion12 If there was classic rock on a nother planet And time was like ours i bet the 70s would be the best there to THERES Some thing about the number 7 Baby
lol... I work concert and event medicine. A few years ago the updated Chicago came thru town and I worked the show. My comment to my co-workers after observing the crowd demographics, "I bet half these guys had vans w/ murals and plush carpeting back in the day." I'm old so I can say that
The guys in Foghat, started out in Savoy Brown I met them when we did lights for one of their shows, and they all had fevers of 102 or over! We all became friends, so much so that when they's play San Diego, and left the same night for LA, they'd say "Rich, the room's already paid for, have a good night's sleep" Then touring with Earth, Wind, and Fire, we'd miss each other by hours, in the same hotels! Let's hear it for the best boogy bands of the '70's Dave, Rod, Tony and Roger! Foghat!
@@pmar27 i have known two people from kentucky, and they are both seemingly embarrassed about it....i don't get it. they are both, lovely, kind and decent people. and they don't even know each other....
@Jennifer Puhl You know a lot of tunes, but not by the title. For a lot of people it'll be classical pieces they've heard a bit of on a movie soundtrack.
Frampton comes Alive., Montrose's 1974, Tubes, Journey was around Perry wasn't in the band then. Totally different from soft rock journey. You can find old live journey at winterland. 74-76
@David Theisen You made my cool beverage take a fast ride out my damn nose. I hope you’re happy with yourself. (but seriously, comedy gold. Thank you for that my man!)
The sheer joy on this man's face when he realizes he knows the song and can now put names, and sometimes faces, to the music. Just makes me smile. Thanks, man. Love your reactions.
Oh man! The memories!! Field parties, bonfires, crazy teen years! A true head-banger from my younger days, jammin' out with my best friend! 😄 Miss those days.
I’m a day late hearing this one. I’m sitting here alone on my 57th birthday because of F’n Covid. So I turn on RU-vid and and hear this and I’m instantly transported back to the 70’s partying with my friends. I got stoned way to many times to Foghat, or just enough times. Thanks for the memories. Try listening to it stoned. Trippy man trippy. ♥️
Truly one of the greatest rock jams of all time. Never in a hundred years would I think anybody would react to Foghat!! What a treat... Forgotten ear candy. Glad to hear ya back.
In my 57 years on this planet I have been to a lot of county fairs and carnivals. Every single one that I have been to has had at least one ride playing this song. That's what this song reminds me of...county fairs and carnivals.
Agreed!!! I'd have to go with the "Live at St. Pete" version video. Just can't beat Craig Macgregor with this flying finger intro on the bass guitar. Truly one of their best Live Versions.
Watch the movie “Dazed and Confused”. The movie is from (1993). It is based in Austin Texas. Fog Hat’s “Slow Ride” is used in the final scene. There are several other great songs in this movie.
Saw them play this live in a small bar concert in Jacksonville, Fl 1988, a week after getting out of the Marine Corps. Amazing thing is he plays that solo on a small, little Chiquita practice guitar.
Such a great song. I especially love how it's slow and cool and glides along, then at the end it gets faster and faster and until the climax, much like real events behind the underlying theme of the song.
So glad you did the full 8 minute version. Some reactors only do the short 3 or 4 min radio edit one. This version goes from a Slow Ride to a pedal to the metal ride.
Jamel, this is one of those songs that when it comes on the radio I drive about 10mph slower, just on principle. Now "Radar Love" by Golden Earring is the opposite, I drive about 20mph over the limit. Please react to Radar Love, please and thank you.
This song!!!!! Has the best bass line considering the era!!!! Bass has come so far! But this bassist was on board ever since!!! Slapping popping plucking!!! It’s legendary
Foghat - "I just wanna make Love to You" Little story, when I was in college my freshman year in the late 70's, these guys did an outdoor courtyard concert at the University and when they got to the song, "I just Wanna Make Love to you", they invited members from the audience to come on stage and sing the last line to the chorus while they played. Nobody volunteered at first. I happened to be in a little local band at the time (we never played anywhere, lol) and my buddies 'prodded' me to dare and go up on stage. I did, and I can say I actually got to stand on stage with Foghat and sing the line "I Just Wanna Make Love To You". It was one of the highlights of my college days. And the only time I ever saw Foghat live. Just thought I'd share that. :-)
I remember the advent of the Chevy van. So many designs. Airbrush reigned supreme in these days. I was a teenage girl. Don't get in the back of that van! That 70s show is exactly what it was like for us in those days. I can't believe I was in high school in 77. What an era.
Brings back memories of me cruising in my 67 chevelle super sport rocking it on the 8-track! Complete with the heads slightly out of alignment, so you had to wedge a book of matches under the cassette. Those were the days. Hot rodding around town on 25-cent a gallon gas (30 if it was premium)! Song came out in 75.
All musicians have their influences within the business and sometimes it's surprising but not completely. The biggest early influences on the Beatles and the Rolling Stones was a black singer in Florence, Alabama named Arthur Alexander. After both the Stones and Beattles heard his silky voice, the race was on to procure the song for their band. The Beatles won and "second prize" for the Stones was a little number called, You Better Move On which was a huge hit for Mick and the boys in Great Britain. Meanwhile, George Harrison had found his lifelong hero about a hundred miles up the road in Jackson, Tennessee in the fledgling Rockabilly scene in the person of the great Carl Perkins if one needed the other for whatever reason, they were there in a minute. George was beside Carl one last time at his funeral. Meanwhile, Paul McCartney had changed his tune about Arthur Alexander. He no longer wanted to be like Alexander, he wanted "TO BE" Alexander. The American South was loaded with musical talent but it took a bunch of British lads to kick the door down.
Soo weird...just went down to my "designated essential service retailer " scored a quarter...got on my foghat......locked down with the chronic!!! Love the vids!
Chad Boddie He’s in the driver’s seat, the drummer in the passenger and the rest of the band is in the back. The bass line definitely made the song. If he would have been turned down and laying back, I think this song wouldn’t have nearly the feel it does.
I picked up the bass in 1978 and never put it down, Love my Rickenbacker and Fender sounds. JPJones rocks the Fenders and Geddy both styles w CSquire rockin' the Rick, but All My Life the best bass sound has been Foghats bassist. With 16th note precision he has always sounded the cleanist and tightest I have ever heard. I am pretty sure it's a Rickenbacker on this track fingered, so aggressive punchy w the classic growl.
:)...Seen them with Golden Earing... It's crazy how great everything we took for granted is so great now...Fog Hat was just one of those great FM radio song bands...There were SO MANY great rock bands then...The competition was BRUTAL...I knew so many great musicians and bands that never went anywhere...
Yet another, "Oh. This is This song...he he he" moment: PRICELESS! My friend your reactions always bring a bit of joy into the world. Keep it up. Peace and love, out.
I saw these guys around '86 at a place called Val-du-lake in west Michigan. It's a place they had concerts outside in a sand dune like park, on the shores of Lake Michigan. I also saw STYX there as well.
I don't know if you have heard of Billy Squier but my favorite of his is "the stroke" from his 1981 album "Don't say no." Check it out and I would like to see your reaction of it. That is if you haven't already if you did please let me know.
This song takes me back to my boyfriend's van - y'all remember the van - some type of painting/mural on the sides and shag carpet on the inside! The original shaggin' wagon! I remember listening to this song very loudly in that van while slowly looping through the "spots"!
Great song rocked out to it many times 1975 Foghat was originally a rhythm and blues band called savoy Brown and some the band wanted to play more edgy blues so Foghat came along 2 of the members Came up with the word while playing scrabble I think it's a fictitious word Great reaction is always you were my 1st reaction video about 6 months ago because of the pandemic...I stumble across you and you were reacting to Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald which is an amazing sad tragic tale but done beautifully by Gordon and then I binge watched you for about the next 6 hours lol ... Love your energy great reaction keep spreading the music to the masses God-bless God's favour
Bro this song always reminds me of Dazed and Confused! That whole soundtrack is badass 🤙🤙 thanks for the vid man, now I'm motivated enough to pick up the dog doo doo 👊👊💪💪
I got the Soundtrack on CD! It was a two individual disc soundtrack. I've got the Vol 1 CD with the main songs used in the movie on it but I blew not buying Vol 2. I saw it used at a local mom and pop music store 7-8 years ago. I picked it up and I told myself I'd buy it next time. 2 weeks later the place closed overnight, I could kick myself for not buying it that day! I think I walked out with 5 used LP's for like $35 that day! I miss the Vinyl rage of 10 years ago.
Foghat: The greatest southern rock band to come from London, England. My whole life I thought they were American. It makes me think of Dazed and Confused. This came out in 1975. Dazed and Confused was set in 1976.
@@anguitenens The original line-up was all English, but I thought they were American. Literally, just now I found out I share a birthday with the only drummer the band ever had. Different year though.
Saw them when I was a teenager. Loved, loved them. Saw them again in the 90s, just as good! Classic rock IS the best!!!!!! Slow down, go down, got to get your loving one more time. Hold me, roll me, slow ride!!! Yes!!!
This was the song my hubby (then my boyfriend) put on the first time we got busy. And it was in 2001. Song had been around a long time by then but it was still good background music for doing the bump and grind.
I had a 73 Nova with a Craig 8-track, Jensen 6X9's, and a Numark 1200 watt equalizer/booster. This whole album was frequently heard blasting out my windows on our local cruise nights. Wore out 3 8-track tapes of this album. I don't care if I sound like an old fart, God I miss those days!
You got that right!! That version where they cut the last minute out, should be illegal. What pinhead record exec decided to put THAT POS version on the greatest hits album???
In high school we had a juke box in our cafeteria (this was in 1976) and inevitably this song was played every lunchtime, sometimes 2 or 3 times. The entire cafeteria was Rockin out to this song. Great memories of a fabulous song! Thanks for a great reaction video again Jamal!! Shout out to you in this one for doing this song! Thanks Jamal! 😁😁🤣
The lead singer is the late "Lonesome" Dave Peverett. I read an interview where he said the name "Foghat" was a nonsense word he came up with while playing Scrabble with his brother.
Not gonna say anything about this one. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy. GREAT choice. Let's take this ride. Jamal : "What is this? The "Slow Ride" part, my friend. (sick bass line starts)... Jamal: "Aw, Sh.t!" (starts cutting some cool moves...) I just smile ;-) Peace, brother.
Your reaction reminds me of me and my friends listening to this in high school on 8 track, GOOD TIMES. Thanks keep doing what your doing. I'm a follower of yours forever now. Keep it playing and real.
I was at the amphibian club in San Diego, military club, they played there and we danced with them and their wives and girlfriends there. Not the original band, it was 1989, was a great time. When done set club put up some juke box music they came down got drinks, memories.
Mad props to the Reverend William Spooner (1844-1930), without whom we'd never have been able to do funny things with the names Scottie Pippin (Potty Skippin') and Forrest Tucker (I'll let you you do that one)!
Foghat was my very first concert ever in 1978. Pat Travers opened with Tommy Aldridge on drums who performed the greatest drum solo Ive ever seen yet to this day. Very fun night! Thank you for bringing back a fond memory.
The guy 'filling in' on bass is Nick Jameson. He's worth a deep dive on his own. Foghat came into the FFTC sessions with no bass player, having seen the departure of Tony Stevens. Nick was the engineer working the session for Bearsville, and wound up agreeing to lay the bass tracks. Eventually, he'd co-write 'take it or leave it', one of my favorite deep cuts from Fool For The City. Yessiree Mr Jameson brings the funk here. He even went on to enjoy a solid acting career!
1977 got ny first car in high school , a 1968 camaro . it had an 8-track player. I had Foghat-live on 8 track and wore that tape out hotrodding all over socal ( I am from the 619) good times and memories.
A '68 Camaro! You lucky bastard. A 67 to 69 Camaro was always my dream car. Add in some Foghat or other great bands of the era blastin' and you pretty well have perfection.
Yes, the "short" versions were typically for radio play. Back in the 70s, most radio stations didn't like to play anything over about four minutes or so -- and many stations' program directors didn't even want them *that* long; they considered three minutes to be the "sweet spot." So if your song ran longer than that, it was harder to get airplay outside of the relatively small number of "album-oriented rock" stations that would play long cuts. The technology of vinyl was also a factor -- back then, it was hard to get more than about 4 minutes on a single side of a 7-inch 45RPM single, and singles were also a major factor in getting your song out there to the audience because (A) teenagers on a budget would buy the cheaper single rather than the whole album (and then would hopefully listen to the B-side and be enticed to buy the LP), and (B) the 7" single was *the* method to get your song into jukeboxes, which were still very common in bars, diners, bowling alleys, pizza parlors, skating rings, and lots of other places where teens and college students would hang out. Few jukeboxes were capable of playing a full-size 12" LP, and none (that I know of, anyway) were capable of playing one specific track from the LP and not the album side in its entirety.
One the The Best Songs Ever....... PERIOD...... Listened to every morning on my way to school.... when I went...lol. I believe I was an alarm clock for many of my neighbors.
Slow Ride was released in 1975 - oh it takes me back to my teenage years! I still know every note and drum beat. Never noticed how similar that drum section is to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean - interesting observation. Love your reactions and your energy and your love for the music. Keep it coming
I'd have to take that up a notch, Blood Sweat and Tears, fusion, Rock + Gospel + Classical + Country + Jazz + Blues, there's about 8 songs here from this group that need to be explored, Blood Sweat and Tears is it's own, talent rich category.
I didn't hear "Billie Jean" at all. Interesting that you did. It is awesome to see your reactions to some excellent classic rock songs. Keep 'em coming!
I think a lot of times, people are affected subconsciously by music they heard in their formative years. Michael Jackson and the drummer in Billie Jean might have been Foghat fans! :)
True story this song is on one of the guitar heroes and when my nephew was probably 7 ish he’s 20 now he came to me and said auntie I just heard this song have you ever heard of it it’s amazing it’s called slow ride by Foghat and I was so happy because previous to that he had been listening to *NSYNC he also wanted to know if I knew who the Rolling Stones were and that they had a great song name paint it black guitar hero totally Made the type of music he likes take a detour and I was so happy
Bob Ravenscraft It made my day he asked me to make him a mix CD of a list of songs and he wrote me out a list of songs from guitar hero because my brother who is a country fan knew that I would have all the classic rock heavy metal songs And told him to ask me this was a while ago now but it still makes me happy when I think about it
Back again for the third time. Every time I hear this song, reminds me of Todd in Tunica, MS We were there for a bike rally, free concert. he was a body builder and couldn't move very flexible, but got his groove on to this song. Todd if your out there, Dance!
I think hearing my dad play this all the time in his truck or in the garage is what made me fall for bass - as a kid, bass NEVER stood out of course because it's just buried in the background of so much music. But, to hear popping on a '70s rock song just blew my mind, not to mention just how they just shoved the bass tone all the way to the front of the mix of the whole song, it just completely blew my mind wide open about what you could do in music with a bass and really made me want to write music with a lot of unique bass sounds. Such a legendary song; the top musicians of yesterday were just on a Different. Damn. Level. from today's top musicians.
