The Commander Cody Band - Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar Recorded Live: 8/5/1977 - Convention Hall - Asbury Park, NJ More The Commander Cody Band at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
In the 1970s, I loved Commander Cody. Also Dan Hicks and his Hotlicks, Asleep at the Wheel when Chris O’Connell was in the band, Gram Parsons, young Emmy Lou Harris, and the list goes on. Cosmic Cowboys ruled.
Opened my college radio show every night with Comander Cody and ended the show with Boz Scaggs before he was "famous." So much great music in the late sixties and early 70's.
The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944 in Boise, Idaho, died September 26, 2021 in Saratoga Springs, New York).[3]
R.I.P. Commander !!! Thank you for the good times spent listening to you and the concerts I was able to attend. LP's are still on the shelves. I'll dust them off!
I remember my parents a couple of hippies wore out a few albums I believe the talent here is very very underrated if this don’t get you moving you may not have a pulse , love some Commander Cody and the lost planet airmen
I first saw Commander Cody in Minneapolis in the early 70's when they opened for New Riders of the Purple Sage. About a year later they were back, this time as the main band at a theater in the round venue and their opening performer was a guy I had never heard of: Hoyt Axton. A bunch of electric brownies made for an incredible, unforgettable evening.
Riding A Panhead 12 Over Front End No Front Brake Jockey Shift ,in The Rain 300 MilesTo Party With You All Is One Of My Favorite Memories...Rest In Peace George...!!!!
I had the privilege of seeing the Commander Cody band at Manny's Car Wash in NYC - what a fun night! I've seen thousands of live acts, but NONE that had more fun on stage. RIP George. Capt. Blackheart Charlie Key West
I am so happy to hear that! Been a big fan since i 1st heard this song in 1971. I keep up w/Bill Kirchen some & had worried about the Commander. Seen them 4 times back in the day .Thank you
Fats Waller did not play like this. Never. Nor did he ever perform / record this song. Fats was a genius, but he played Stride Jazz Piano, NOT boogie-woogie. Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, and Meade Lux-Lewis - 3 guys who played this style of piano and therefore REALLY invented rock'n'roll - in the 1930's ! - did.
Credits for shooting this go to the team of which I was a part, Monarch Performance Video, with John Scher's low budget B&W cameras, but we had a blast. And I loved every minute of the ol' Commander, even though, yeah, the whole band wasn't quite as good as the more original version (of the Lost Planet Airmen, I mean). But with Nicolette singing, and George pounding those ivories, it was still pretty good.
I just found commander Cody “ozone” album for ten bucks at my local record store, great album! I’m 38 and feel my generation missed out on creative bands like this. I think the drugs were better back then.
The quality was definitely better and you could trust people not too give you bad dope oh wow I miss the 80 s it was our 70 s good paper good shrooms good reefer man oh man the music was the best saw all the big bands back in the day
Yep, this was a great time for music, but of course you realize that Commander Cody was reprising this song that was originally recorded in 1940: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G7mYnyC02IE.html
Heavens to Freddie Slack ! The Commander and his bodacious band really know how to boogie ! Love it ! THANKS for sharing this wonderful "blast from the past" with us !! :-)
Everytime he came to Colorado me and my friend Mark would see himm. Everyone would take the seats in the front. We alwsys made sure to seat on the side where we could watch Georges hands, elbows , knuck lo es p lo ay the keys. Always had s great great time. RIP Mark
Saw them in the mid to late 90's uptown NYC on my Bday that was the best present I ever got. The fellas were smokin it out and the Commander said HOW--DEEEEE. Man are they great!!!!
Now my adult children are playing them on my old vinyls, as well as the rest of both their parents collections from the late-1960s through the mid-to-late-1980s. They bought a record player just to play our record collections.
What a evolution of evolving from 64thru the present every year these guys have blown me away.with their maturity they remain so relevant and never cease to perform in a tighter and tighter perfectly spun entertainment icons I would be hard pressed tó pick a song from every album into a playlist so many multiple chart busters songs on some and bside gems that charts completely missed.I will include in my playlist of stones greatest.gonna take a lot of time as they have a few albums that I may not even know bout .
I LOVED ALL MUSIC HE &THE BAND BLESSED US WITH!!! HE & I shared about 45min. of conservation, just before ending it HE signed my right shoulder & I got it inked in . We both were a "tad" bit over line. There was a lot of space in front of the stage where I danced my ass off.I was wearing white western shirt with pipeing & blooming cactus embroidery on it +y camine boots wth built up soles & heels . Command loved it so did I !!! I tried to compliment Him & the band not distract from them /their show. Anyhoo The Commander said he enjoyed it much. I was lucky to see them several times! Steelin' steelin' at the Seven Eleven !!! Show 'em how to Boogie in Heven !!!
..my dad had Commander Cody on a cassette that he brought with him, mom and my two brothers when then came to visit me in Germany 50 years ago in 1972...which was kinda strange...he allegedly did like that kind of music...or at least wouldn't allow it in the house....I was lucky...I was 5000 miles away..I voukd listen to whstever I liked in the army...great memories...
I love Nicolette, any man that is half of one would.. She's a doll. She also was the one destined to be a star. That part is fairly obvious.. I hate so much her health failed. I'm proud that Bobby Black made it into the steel guitar hall of fame. The others however much I loved um, ran the course as expected. That's usually how it kinda winds down and goes in this line of business.
Can't remember how many times I saw CC and his LPA--first was at Northwestern University. Last time I saw him was 2006 playing on a portable keyboard in a hotel bar in Springfield, IL.
Saw their last show in Berkeley before they moved to Texas -- great energy, Billy C. Farlow flailing away on an ES-335 that wasn't plugged in, just a terrific bar band. Also saw the New Riders of the Purple Sage some time in the mid-70s opening for the Beach Boys and the Dead at the Oakland baseball stadium when they had the Commander come out to play on "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke" --- obviously a memorable treat from a few decades ago. Didn't Nicolette Larson once work at the Tower Records on Telegraph in Berkeley?
There are so many great musicians who never got famous or made good money. I would rank Nicolette Larson right up there. I would love to know who the other excellent singer may have been.
