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Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (a double shot tonight based on today and the hapless corrupt GOP) (Original Post) nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP
Just Heard This The Other Day ProfessorGAC Jan 2023 #1
Good morning Professor! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #5
My favorite Golden Earring song! Though this performance BEFORE they recorded highplainsdem Jan 2023 #2
nightwing, there's a 1976 Golden Earring song - "Con Man" - with some lyrics that fit Trump. highplainsdem Jan 2023 #3
Good morning Highplainsdem! nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #4
Good morning, nightwing! I'm glad you like this song! Golden Earring gave us highplainsdem Jan 2023 #6

ProfessorGAC

(65,090 posts)
1. Just Heard This The Other Day
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 11:13 PM
Jan 2023

At the golf club playing pool, and the young woman that opens a few days a week is into classic rock and has that Music Choice channel on. There were only a few of us there so she had the volume up on the house system.
Dug it.

highplainsdem

(49,006 posts)
2. My favorite Golden Earring song! Though this performance BEFORE they recorded
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 12:15 AM
Jan 2023

the song in the studio was best, IMO. This concert for German TV's Rockpalast was a couple of months before they recorded the album, but it wasn't broadcast till just after the album came out, so lead singer Barry Hay gives the working title for the song then and the final title was displayed on the screen during the broadcast.

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highplainsdem

(49,006 posts)
3. nightwing, there's a 1976 Golden Earring song - "Con Man" - with some lyrics that fit Trump.
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 01:18 AM
Jan 2023

I posted about it in September:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103482262


Live in London, 1977:

nightwing1240

(1,996 posts)
4. Good morning Highplainsdem!
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 05:31 AM
Jan 2023

Wow, I really like this one and had not heard it before so many thanks! Golden Earring was sooo good and rocked American radio airwaves many times with their two most famous songs.

I was looking at your other post from the past with links to many of their great songs and I appreciate that too!

Have a great day and rock on!

highplainsdem

(49,006 posts)
6. Good morning, nightwing! I'm glad you like this song! Golden Earring gave us
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 02:12 PM
Jan 2023

so much more good music than their two international mega-hits, and "Con Man" is a good example, even though it was never released as a single. The studio version is great, too. I included reviews and a reaction video in the earlier thread to emphasize how good this is.

Re that list of Golden Earring songs in the reply at https://www.democraticunderground.com/103480101#post2 - I've posted some other GE songs since posting that list back in August.

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