Name: Keno
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Subject: Poll Post for the week starting Monday, August 29
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2022
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Poll Post for the week starting Monday, August 29

Sunday night is here, and that means it’s time for me to tell you about this week’s 3 new weekly polls in this Poll Post. So, I’ll write about the Stones poll first, where we enter week 1,204 of voting and week 95 of rating the Stones songs. For this week we return to the Mick Taylor era of the band, with this question: Rate the Stones song “Time Waits For No One” , from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“Time Waits For No One” The Promo Long Version that sounds like the LP version that we are rating

Recorded in November 1973, January 1974, and finished that April, then released on the album It's Only Rock 'n Roll in October of ’74.

"Time Waits For No One" gives the total opposite message that their earlier hit song "Time Is On My Side" gave, as just their titles alone are total opposites. As usual, Mick Jagger wrote the lyrics to this one while Keith Richards came up with the main riff that he plays throughout the entire song, with Mick Taylor coming up with the wonderful, Latin music like guitar solo heard in the song (yet he wasn't credited for it, of course, and he would soon leave the band after this – and directly because of this BS of the Glimmers not crediting the others in the band, was not changing). Some fans claim that Keith didn’t even play on the song and all of the guitars are played by Taylor, but not according to the studio logs. What actually happened was that it was Taylor who missed the initial recording of this song in late ’73 because of heroin issues, but he took over the song’s guitar parts when recording resumed in January on ‘74. Bill Wyman played the synthesizer on this one along with his usual bass part, and Charlie Watts took care of the main beat.

It's hard to believe that the band has never performed this one live, but it was one of the last songs that MT played on and that might be why, as it was his guitar arrangement that was used in the end.

So, the full lineup for "Time Waits For No One" was: Lead Vocal: Mick Jagger; Lead Electric Guitar, 12 String Acoustic Guitar & Percussion: Mick Taylor; Rhythm Electric Guitar & Backing Vocal: Keith Richards; Bass Guitar & Synthesizer: Bill Wyman; Drums: Charlie Watts; with the wonderful Piano played by Nicky Hopkins and added Percussion by Ray Cooper. To rate this week’s song, just click on the following link: Stones Weekly Poll.

Last week at the Stones poll we voted on and rated this: Rate the Stones song 'Something Happened To Me Yesterday” , from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“Something Happened To Me Yesterday” Sheet music for the song

This unusual Stones song scored a 10, taking in 34.5% of the first-place votes. To see just where in the Stones song rating standings this one landed, you can check that out here: Stones Song Ratings & Standings - List Page 5. Or to see the full, finial results from this poll itself, just click here: Stones Weekly Poll - week 1,203.

Let’s now mosey on over to this week’s Classic Rock Poll, where we enter week 843 of polling, and where we continue to vote in the "Underrated Polls" (overall week 66 of these polls, but not in consecutive weeks), in which we look for the most underrated band members from different bands. For this week we will answer this: Who was the most underrated member of Canned Heat (from 1967 till 1973)? .

Canned Heat In ’70, (L to R): Henry Vestine, Adolfo de la Parra, Bob Hite, Alan Wilson and Larry Taylor

Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, this Blues based band was also (at least in its earliest days) a big hippie band, founded by two blues enthusiasts, guitarist/ songwriter Alan Wilson and singer Bob Hite, two close friends. The band's name came from a 1928 song called "Canned Heat Blues", which was about an alcoholic who had turned to drinking Sterno, and called "canned heat" by those who started to abuse it after booze was outlawed in the U.S. during prohibition and became hard to fine. Canned Heat instantly went from being a small-time band to superstar status after appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals in the late 1960s. That, and a few of their early songs were at the same time becoming hits on their own, especially "On the Road Again" and "Going Up the Country".

This is another band where most of the members could be looked at as underrated, while Wilson and Bob Hite were most known in the band, even they weren’t well known. Wilson was the band's main songwriter, but usually had his lyrics published as being written by the entire group. He was a shy guy who didn’t want a lot of attention, so he covered up his work. He could have been the band's co-lead singer, too. But he usually only sang lead on a song or 2 per LP, as he didn't like his high-pitched singing voice, even if fans loved it, and out of their 3 biggest hit singles, he sang the lead on 2 of them, "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again", while "Let's Work Together" was sung by Bob Hite, and on which Wilson played a cool slide (check out the live link provided, filmed just 4 weeks before Wilson’s death). Yes, Wilson was also an excellent, be it underrated, slide guitar player and to boot, he was one of the best harp players around, too. But he suffered from anxiety and depression really bad, while also suffering from mild autism, and in turn abused downers often, and he tried several times to kill himself in unusual ways. Sadly, he became the second member of Rock's 27 club in 1970 (Brian Jones was of course the first, while Jimi Hendrix would pass away just 2 weeks after Wilson and Janis Joplin a month after that), after his body was found in his sleeping bag on a hillside behind Bob Hite's Topanga Canyon home, where he often slept (he hated being indoors because of his autism, so whenever possible, he slept outside). An autopsy called his death an accidental acute barbiturate intoxication, although many of his friends felt it was a suicide.

Singer Bob Hite was nicknamed "The Bear", since he was, size wise, the biggest frontman in Rock. While being only 5-foot-9-inchs tall, he weighted over 370 pounds at times (putting on the most weight just before his death). But he also had one hell of a singing voice. He mainly just sang on their albums, but could also play guitar and while up on stage besides singing most of their songs, he also often played harmonica. He died suddenly at the age of only 38 on April 5, 1981 while between sets with Canned Heat at The Palomino Club in North Hollywood, when he was given a vial of heroin by a fan - which he snorted after also taking cocaine. He then fell into a coma and died just a few hours later.

Another member of this group, bassist Larry Taylor - while he should have been well known before he even joined the group in 1967, wasn't. But it was Taylor who not only played regularly with Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others before joining Canned Heat, it was he who also played the bass guitar parts heard on most of the early Monkees' songs, including playing on most of their hit singles.

Henry Vestine was the lead guitar player in the band, and like the early Stones, he along with Wilson, were known as guitar weavers, and he kept that going with Harvey Mandel, after Mandel took over on guitar for Wilson, along with Joel Scott Hill and Richard Hite (who was Bob Hite's brother and who also played bass for the group after Taylor left the band for a few years in ‘71). Officially it was Hill who took over Wilson's spot in the group after his death, and like last week's band that we looked at here, T.Rex, yes, this band seem to be yet another group that was plagued by the sudden death of band members. Of the 10 members who we will choose from this week in our poll, only 3 survive today, with 4 of the members passing while still in the group. While the band Canned Heat lives on today, the current line-up features none of the original or classic-era members of the band after the passing of Taylor in 2017, other than drummer Adolfo de la Parra, who like Taylor, joined in 1967. Anyway, and like we usually do, only the members of this group from their classic era, will be listed in the poll.

One last side note, Wilson, who could play most instruments, also played the jew's harp while in the band. About a year ago when I last listed a jew's harp for a song we were rating, I got a somewhat nasty email from a person who felt the term was raciest and claimed the instrument's true name was a "jaw-harp". But no, that's not true at all, and that person didn't have a clue in saying that I was using a racist word, as not only would I not call the instrument by its named if it was racist, well, the word "jew" here has nothing at all to do with Jewish people (guess I could add that while I was growing up in a NY neighbor that was half Jewish, well my Jewish friends there never looked at the word "Jew" as being a racist word, as they called themselves "Jews"). The instrument’s name, "jew's harp", derives from the French word "jeu-trompe", meaning "toy trumpet". In French, jeu, which sounds like jew, means "game". So that's where the name comes from, even if the French word for the instrument has always been "guimbarde". So please, no emails on this, it's an innocent word to say, and no I'm not gonna list it as a "jaw-harp" since that name came about as a substitute name from those who didn't know that its real name wasn't racist. BTW, the instrument is very old, the oldest one found is 1,700 years old, and made of bone. Flutes and lithophones (which the jew's harp is one of) are the oldest instruments in the world, dating back from 4,000 to 8,000 years, although some reports claim that flutes made of bone have been around from as long ago as 35,000 years.

To vote in this week's Rock poll for the most underrated member of Canned Heat, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll .

Last week at the Rock poll we answered this question: Who was the most underrated member of T. Rex (aka Tyrannosaurus Rex) (up till 1973)?.

Steve Peregrin Took of Tyrannosaurus Rex, in 1968

The late Steve Peregrin Took, who was actually in the duo Tyrannosaurus Rex, before it was a band renamed T.Rex, was chosen as the most underrated member of the group. Truth being, he was when you look at the others in the band and he was being compared with all of them in this poll. His part in the duo was to play several different instruments, since it was just he and Marc Bolan at the time playing all of the instruments.

To see the full results from this poll, just click on the following link: Classic Rock Poll, week 842. Or to see the list page where the listings for all of the 65 other underrated band members are all listed, just click here for the brand-new list page: Classic Rock Top 10 lists, page 18.

Okay, let’s now look at this week’s Beatles Poll, where week 594 of voting along with week 28 of rating the Beatles’ songs, is here. For this week we ask: Rate the Beatles song, “A Taste Of Honey”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“A Taste Of Honey” The Beatles were singing this one live back even when Peter Best was still in the band

This Beatles' cover song was written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow and recorded by the Beatles on 11 February 1963, and released in the UK on 22 March 1963, and in the U.S. on January 10, 1964. A non-Rock song for sure, and covered by the Beatles because of Paul McCartney, who at this time wasn't writing too many songs for the band yet (John Lennon wrote the overwhelming number of Lennon/McCartney songs back then and would sing lead on the songs that he wrote, while Paul would do the same on his songs). So, since Paul wasn't writing a lot of song at the time, to get to sing lead, he often sang covers, and he loved this song, and the band often played it live at their early shows, even before Ringo Starr was in the band, when Pete Best was playing the drums. Problem was, once this song was recorded, most of their fans didn't care for it, and to this day, that still seems to be true. The song is almost always looked at as the worst Beatle song ever made (other than "Revolution 9", which of course isn't a song at all). At our On Going Beatle Poll, where we vote for "The Least Favorite Beatles Song", we see the same exact results for this question as other such polls have seen, as after the non-song "Revolution 9", this is actually the song that tops that poll's list - and by a wide margin, I'll add. So, does this mean I'm asking us to rate this song this week, so the Beatles 10 rating streak can finally end (all 27 songs rated so far have been rated a 10)? Well, hell no, but we will rate every released Beatle song in time, and it just happens that this is the week that I decided to rate this one. Is there a chance this one could see a 10 rating, too? Well, I'm no longer saying anything as to that anymore beforehand, since I've been wrong the 2 times in the past when I did predict that such a thing should/would happen before a poll got underway, and I was totally wrong once the poll ended. So, I'm not making that mistake again! Thing is, we can never know for sure what will happen before a poll starts off, and an example to that can be found in last week's poll, when we happened to rate what’s the fourth song on the domain’s Least Favorite Beatles Song poll list, that being "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Well, that one scored a 10 last week for its top rating! Beatle fans are just funny and have been that way since these polls got under way over 20 years ago. They seem to hate what appears to be a negative poll question about the Beatles, so most of them skip voting in such polls, like the On-Going Poll that asks for your least favorite Beatle song, as it’s the least voted on On-Going poll on the domain. So, if we go by any past voting patterns by Fab fans, it's that they just won't vote in a poll like this - or should I say, rate this song low, they rather skip voting in such a week.

Anyway, the lineup for this unusual Beatle song was: Paul McCartney – Lead Vocal, Bass Guitar; John Lennon – Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals; George Harrison – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals; Ringo Starr – Drums. To vote in this week's Beatles poll and rate this song, just click on this link: Beatles Weekly Poll.

Last week at the Beatles poll we answered this question: Rate the Beatles song, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, from zero (lowest) to 10 (highest).

“ Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” The front sleeve to the single released in Europe

So, I already noted that last week's song, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", scored a 10 for its top rating, with 34.2% of the vote, or, it becomes the 7th lowest Beatle song rated so far - but still – it scored a 10! To see the full, final results from this poll, just click on here: Beatles Weekly Poll – week 593. Plus, you can also check out the results and Beatle song standings at The Beatles Song Ratings and Standings page.

And with that we come to a close of yet another Poll Post. Well, September gets here on Thursday, along with much cooler temps, which we’ve already been having here in my little mountain town for most of August. Thank goodness for that!

I do hope all of you have a great week ahead!

Keno

• Poll Post for the week starting Monday, August 29 by Keno on 8/28/2022 10:15:20 PM <-- You Are Here
• For me, it's one of their greatest songs ever by gomper on 8/30/2022 10:28:56 PM

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