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Rare Earth — Get Ready
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Zep
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:26
 
I just wanna celebrate another day of living! 

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 15:39
 
Get Down !!

CoYoT51
(Lima, Perú)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:40
 
Short version but still good.

Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:25
 
Good old song.  I forgot how abruptly it ends.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:24
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
WTF? Would you say Prince is a surprisingly good guitar player for a black boy?
 

Nobody would dare to in today's climate of heightened racial sensitivities.  And that's what makes "pretty good for a white boy" funny.  It turns racial prejudice on its head.  I find it hard to believe this has to be explained.



susyedw
(Tiburon, California)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:24
 
wow, flashback. if it wasn't for flashbacks I wouldn't have any memory at all.

PeeBee
(Down South in The Netherlands)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:24
 
Please play me the long version...CLASSIC.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet CAN I GO HOME NOW?)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 10:23
 
This is good and all...but I've been "bob-ma-tised" by having to listen to an oldies station 24/7 at my last job so I am tainted for life.    YUCK.

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 22:46
 
Very, very nice!

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 09:59
 
 vandal wrote:

My first concert at age 14: Rare Earth.  Eric Carmen and the Raspberries opened. . . 
 

Cool. I still listen to The Rasberries after 40 years.  Eric Carmen sure could hit those high notes.

Wish I would have seen them way back when they looked this this:



However, I think the leisure suit worn in my high school senior yearbook photo had a slightly wider collar, if that's possible.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 16:42
 

My first concert at age 14: Rare Earth.  Eric Carmen and the Raspberries opened. . . 



oenyaw
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 08:43
 
Talk about taking me back.

mfcrowe
(Chicago,, IL)
Posted: Nov 26, 2010 - 16:35
 
Sorry Bill, this is ok but can't hold a candle to the Temptations version

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Jun 20, 2010 - 11:32
 
Great song but this came out in '69 not 2001..

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 07:56
 
philbertr wrote:
Really, really good for white boys!
WTF? Would you say Prince is a surprisingly good guitar player for a black boy? Probably not. On a less insulting note, I finally read the lyric:

Whenever I'm asked what makes-a my dreams real

Not sure what I thought it said all these years, but it sounded like

Whenever I macked to make a madri quill

Which makes no sense at all, especially the poor passengers in my car as I butchered this innocent song.



Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 07:53
 
one of those 'can't sit still' songs!!!!!  Love it! {#Dancingbanana}

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 17:40
 
 Misterfixit wrote:
R. Crumb .. the one and only.  Howsomeever, I do believe that this cover is a pale imitation to the Creations of Crumb.  An imitator, perhaps???
 
I don't think it's Crumb. I could be wrong but it just doesn't look like his work (with the possible exception of the lettering).
I had a Rare Earth live album back in highschool. This song took up an entire side and lasted about 25 minutes, which seemed very cool at the time.


Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:15
 
Woot!  Had a flash back moment .. sitting in the nylon sling seats of a C130, heading out of Okinawa's Kadena back to Vietnam for Yet Another Tour (YAT).  Had this new-fangled "Cassette" thing that I bought in Japan .. don't know if they were sold Back in the World (BITW) yet.

Rare Earth original Cassette, too .. with all Japanese writing.

Gooving along as Rare Earth returned me to Damned Earth.


WayUpNorth
(Windswept Exile)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:13
 
 utopian wrote:
that was great!  i had some flash backs.
 
peace


Dillinquent
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:12
 
Good tune, I don't like this version though.{#Hand}

Zep
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:12
 
Now... How about the Temptations?



That_SOB
(The Dark Side of the Tune)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:11
 
 Got to see these guys in concert about 100 years ago... they kept the crowd on their feet the whole show.
Great talent  —dare say ahead of their time. Sadly, can't remember who they were with (??) 
Tis but a smoky memory.

Tizmself
(Santa Barbara, Ca.)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:06
 
First concert I ever went to was called "The Shower of Stars" in Pittsburgh. I was 13 and Rare Earth was my favorite band. One of the warm up bands was Tony Orlando and Dawn.

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:06
 
Missed it before,,thanks,B.

evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 11:28
 
The first single (45) I got with my first record player...played it over and over.

tom-kenna
(pompano beach)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 11:28
 
MOTOWNS WHITE BOY CATALOG. IT ROCKS!

stevematic
(san diego)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 11:27
 
motown rules  {#Drummer}

toterola
(Further)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 19:41
 
"There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised." -Gil Scott-Heron

Sorry, I couldn't resist. {#Roflol}



lmic
(Narrow Minded Couch Potato)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 19:20
 
 philbertr wrote:
Really, really good for white boys!
{#Lol} I thought it was the Temps!


Grama_Jujee
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 17:45
 
Love it!  Take me back...

alux
(atop the pyramid)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 17:35
 
 KarimMosna wrote:
It depends on which version you play the album version is 21:29, but the single version is only 2:48. I don’t think a 20 minute song has ever been played in Radio Paradise History, so that would be cool. Go and play the 21 minute version if you’re going to play it. Rare Earth is perfect for the Radio Paradise Collection!
 

BillG has been known to play Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick side A uninterrupted, which clocks in over 20 mins. 

philbertr
(Hurricane Target Florida)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 17:34
 
Really, really good for white boys!

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 17:34
 
 iggam wrote:
is that album cover by crumb?
 
R. Crumb .. the one and only.  Howsomeever, I do believe that this cover is a pale imitation to the Creations of Crumb.  An imitator, perhaps???



redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:54
 
 woozurbuddy wrote:
A great blast from the past!  They were an awesome live band...
 

they were Funnnnnnnnnnn, my very first concert!!!, i was in high school, in nyc and they were at the Garden (Madison Sq), along with Sly! God that was such a fun night! It was the first time i saw and felt the pure power that music could have on your life, the Garden was just efffn Rockin' and then on the way home in the cold glare of the subway light, whenever we saw someone who looked like they were at the show we shot em' the peace sign!  {#Good-vibes}

radiojunkie
(Don't get out much)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:46
 
KarimMosna wrote:
It depends on which version you play the album version is 21:29, but the single version is only 2:48. I don’t think a 20 minute song has ever been played in Radio Paradise History, so that would be cool. Go and play the 21 minute version if you’re going to play it. Rare Earth is perfect for the Radio Paradise Collection!

Here we have someone who clearly has not gotten the memo from RP's very vocal Short Attention Span contingent. Just imagine the deluge of outrage that would pour down if the 21:29 version were played — in fact, that happens with anything longer than 3:59!

That said, I really enjoyed this. One of the things about the 70s that didn't suck.


utopian
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:46
 
that was great!  i had some flash backs.


vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:42
 
 dantheman wrote:
In 1971 I was 10 years old and we just moved from Wichita to Dallas. Our whole family hated it there. I found the album Ecology in the street across from our house. Someone must not have liked it and chucked it from their car. It was scratched, but did not skip, and listenable on my all in one stereo. This album is my only pleasant memory for the 6 months we lived there. I still have it.
 
Best post in this section, hands down. . .



SwampYankee
(Berkley, MA)
Posted: Oct 28, 2008 - 08:45
 
They still ARE pretty awesome in concert. We heard them do a live show at the Santa Cruz boardwalk this summer and they sounded great. Even my kids (11 & 12) thought they rocked. 

 woozurbuddy wrote:
A great blast from the past!  They were an awesome live band...
 



jktravl
(Virginia)
Posted: Sep 26, 2008 - 17:04
 
WOW I just put on my party pants

maLeFunKtion
(Scotland)
Posted: Aug 26, 2008 - 03:41
 
A part of the A-Team intro sounds a lot like the riff in this track. Almost made me wanna lock myself in a shed and come out guns blazing in a tank built out of matchsticks and plant pots. {#War}

AlienRelic
(east of Eden)
Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 11:29
 
Wow. Flashback!

jagdriver
(Auburn, CA)
Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 11:29
 
Really nice to dust this off and have a new listen after 35+ years...

dpjag
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 11:28
 
Wow.  I'd forgotten about Rare Earth.  There's always something new here, even when it's old.

esotericderek
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:26
 
I'll have my Earth medium rare, thank you.

exeter
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:25
 
Well, this was unexpected.
esotericderek
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:25
 
Man. I want to play hide and seek with love.

Now you see it...now you don't.



aragon
(Nowhere Fast)
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:25
 
This is a great version!!
Ericac
(Lakeville, MN)
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:24
 
Great song, and I really like this live version.
ddog
(Midwest USA)
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:24
 
Yeah baby!
rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:23
 
you're alright! you're outta sight!