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Originally Posted by David
Did I ever tell you guys that the first time I saw them, I disliked them? I thought they were scruffy and druggy and looked like hard rock onstage. This was in 1976 in Los Angeles. In 1975, I was still a very avid pop music fan and was probably still listening to AM radio (Elton John, Seals & Crofts, Wings, KC and the Sunshine Band, Tavares, Spinners, Rose Royce). But I kind of liked Say You Love Me and Rhiannon on album, which didn’t sound much like the hippies playing live. It took me an Iowa minute to fall in love with them — it was probably when Go Your Own Way got airplay.
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There was a pronounced difference between the studio and live sound—and it’s the latter that most people had to get used to, despite the band having jammed and rocked out live since its inception.
You like KC, eh? That’s another combo where the live shows provided a deeper, sweatier, sexier groove than the radio songs suggested…