Join Greg Easterling for a turntable trip into the past featuring original lp sides from rock's most significant albums and cult classics. It's a great reason to light the lava lamp and blow the dust off your headphones. The Overnight Album Side, weeknights starting around 3am on 97.1FM, The Drive.

Here's what's coming up:

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Mon: The Beatles- Hey Jude, Side 2
Tues: Van Morrison- Wavelength, Side 2
Weds: Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive, Side 2
Thurs: Led Zeppelin- Coda, Side 1
Fri: Beach Boys

Next week: Warren Zevon, REO, CSNY and Jefferson Airplane

Greg's Blog...

Great Guitars: Frampton-Page
We delivered Frampton Comes Alive yesterday morning, the best selling live album of all time, especially impressive since it was a two record set. This was an unexpected success for guitarist Peter Frampton who'd never sold anything close to that many records before. Most of the songs included had been previously recorded by Frampton on several solo outings leading up to this landmark live recording. Many of these live versions are more dynamic than the original studio recordings (ie "Show Me The Way") but it's still a major case of right place, right time for Frampton, who'd also recorded several albums as the original lead guitarist for Humble Pie before he split for a solo career. We jumped right into Side 2 of Frampton Comes Alive with a nice acoustic version of "All I Want to Be" followed eventually by the hit "Baby I Love Your Way" and "I Wanna Go To The Sun". We're spotlighting Led Zeppelin today on our Thursday Artist Portrait and also here on our Overnight Album Side like we usually do. This morning we played a rarely heard side from the 1982 album Coda that came out after the band decided to call it quits in the wake of drummer John Bonham's death. It's admittedly an odds and sods kind of affair featuring some musical leftovers from the band's archives. This was the last official Zeppelin release for a number of years before the box set(s), later live albums and various best of configurations. Side 1 included "We're Gonna Groove" and a nice alternate take of the Willie Dixon Chicago blues classic "I Can't Quit You Baby" which originally appeared on the very first Zeppelin record.
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