Artist	Song
The Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter
Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells A Story
Elton John	Burn Down The Mission
Joe Cocker	High Time We Went
Traffic	Freedom Rider
The Band	Life Is A Carnival
Steely Dan	Show Biz Kids
Dr. John	Right Place Wrong Time
Bruce Springsteen	Blinded By The Light
Tom Waits	Ol' '55
The Grateful Dead	Truckin'
Santana	Everything's Coming Our Way
T. Rex	Telegram Sam
Roxy Music	Street Life
David Bowie	Rebel Rebel
The Who	The Seeker
Neil Young	After The Gold Rush

Comment:

So, yes, these are so called "classic rock" tunes but at this time and place they were fresh and new. Even the ability to have albums playing in your car on a road trip was new at the time. Cassette decks soon to be followed by 8 tracks. The oldest song here is the first one from 1969. The rest are all early 70s.

I had just finished a four year hitch in the Navy and wanted to drive down to New Orleans from Philadelphia for Mardi Gras 1974. A buddy of mine, another recent ex-GI, went with me. This mix is based on the music we listened to from a box of cassette tapes.

It became a road trip from hell because of the oil/gas crises that developed from the Middle East war at the time. It didn't stop us but really slowed us down. Each time we stopped for gas it took hours in lines. At one point in Tennessee we were running out of gas late at night with no gas stations open anywhere. We pulled into a station that looked like it would open in the morning and parked next to the pump to get some sleep. We woke up the next morning when the gas station opened and there was a line of cars behind us stretching for blocks. We got gas and boogied on down to the Big Easy.

Of course we had a great time at Mardi Gras. It was probably the last year before hotel reservations were required to get into the city. We slept in sleeping bags (when we slept) on the ground in Tulane stadium which was opened up for young people to crash. They don't do that anymore.

The drive back was just as bad with the gas lines. It was a nasty experience that added an extra day each way. We entered PA in the Western end of the state and then realized that we had the wrong license plate number to get gas. You could only get gas on odd or even days depending on your plate number. It was the wrong day for us so we had to back down into Maryland to get gas and cross that state coming back up into PA in the East.

Today's war in Iraq is happening because of those gas lines. Forget the bullshit about Iraqi freedom and weapons of mass destruction. This war is about oil and gas lines and the lessons not learned during that winter of 73-74.

Anyway. we played lots of tapes during this trip and this mix is a sampling of that trip. A Vol. 2 is sure to come.

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