Li'l Cap'n Travis - Teenage Mustache > James Gang - Walk Away"Braces and a teenage mustache
Sit beside me in my Mustang
We can listen to the James Gang
Turn your pretty head and walk away."
Please indulge this song pairing, but it pretty much suggests itself. I talked about Li'l Cap'n Travis in my Sam Cooke post the other day, but this 1:27, seeming afterthought of a song, is well worth the double dip. It's only four lines and sung over rudimentary piano, yet it brilliantly captures a definitive moment of adolescence. I can almost feel my face breaking out.
That surge of hormones is accompanied here by the righteous guitar fury of Joe Walsh, the bong-rattling bass of Dale Peters, and the outstanding drum work of Jim Fox, the James in the Gang. Great riff, fun to sing at the top of one's lungs (preferably while driving and not in church or the grocery store), I'm amazed how the 10 or so guitar tracks work together perfectly, and who doesn't love a Yardbirds-esque martian guitar outro ... or, "train wreck," as it says in the Thirds liner notes. A stone-cold classic.
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