Great live version on 11-17-70 album...!!!

 Sasha2001 wrote: 
Digital drugs doesn't do IT !

 pggriff wrote: 
Do you have any idea at all what noise is?

Oh, my absolute favorite album of all time! (Well, it was my first favorite, so it's gone a long way!)

 nigelr wrote: 
Would that be a fantastic fanatic?

 GWillacker wrote: 
You nailed it!! And a great album it is!!!

 pggriff wrote: 
And what a wonderful noise it is.

I remember hearing this in college on an album called 11-17-70 (I believe). I think it was a live recording from a radio broadcast. Sorry I can't be more precise. It was the seventies.

I miss this early Elton sound.

 George_Tirebiter wrote: 
Oh, I saw that movie in the local drive-in (which has since become a wasteland). "I meant to do my work today, but a brown bird sang in the apple tree... And a butterfly flitted across the field, and all the leaves were calling me..."  I darned near lost my virginity to that movie. The whole soundtrack to "Friends" is good.

Eltons best work came out of his collaboration with Bernie Taupin.  I always liked this song.  It was in a not-so-famous movie called 'Friends' that came out in 1971 or thereabouts. 

This gets easier to listen to each time it is played. Or I might be going deaf

 lily34 wrote: 
Captain Fantastic was pretty good but he started going to commercial with Caribou.

E.J. where did you go?  So sad that Sir Elton abandoned the great tunes of his early career.  :-)

 Tim_in_N_FL wrote: 
as jack black says:

"is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?"

 snowcat wrote: 

...Did not know Dee Murray had died, that is sad. He actually toured with Alice Cooper during parts of Elton's down time. In fact, both he and Davey Johnstone, who still plays guitar for Elton, toured with Alice. THAT was a great show!!

 snowcat wrote: 
there are only two Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tracks here on RP. that was one of my adolescent discovery albums, along with Sgt. Pepper. this is great to hear too!

 wyoguy wrote: 
He was a popular singer/piano player. Many hits in the 70s and 80s.

People are funny. How did Elton John ever make any money?

 Tim_in_N_FL wrote: 
His drummer was Nigel Olsson.  He and Dee were simply awesome on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  RIP Dee.

It just doesn't get anywhere.

Nice.  Haven't heard this in years.  I agree that EJ's best work is in the early 1/3rd of his 30+ year career (thus far).  Nice to hear folks appreciate Dee's fantastic bass work.  Seems his drummer is / was pretty well respected for his chops as well but I forgot his name.

 ThePoose wrote: 
I second that!

iritating and repetitive racket

 rbigelo wrote: 

Still around but I doubt much of this stuff live anymore ... too bad. He is coming here with Billy Joel. It's like $250 a ticket. And it is sold out. hmmm imagine that

His early work is so fabulous, a person just has to wonder what happened to him after "Madman Across the Water."

 doc_dave wrote: 
Dee was a fantastic bassist.  Just listen to 'Love Lies Bleeding', his masterpiece.  Died in 1992, RIP.