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All right music fans welcome back, it's Dave the real music observer observing real music in real time
For real people just like you and just like me
Today's topic what the heck happened to the band?
Super Tramp, that's the question of this video a great band that really
Started making waves in the 1970s and as the end of the decade peaked
The Desert Island Disc Breakfast in America came out and
catapulted them into
Super duper stardom.
I mean this just wasn't a
Yeah, it's an okay album.
This was a start to finish
[Bm] Many songs on the radio and by the way, even the lesser-known songs
From this album like casual conversations and things like that
Those songs were on the radio
Everything got airplay when they ran out of hit singles FM stations just
Started digging in and playing, you know, just another nervous wreck all of the songs on this album got radio airplay
This was a megaton bomb of an album and it reverberates through rock history even today
The famous waitress on the cover.
I think I saw her the other night when I went to Denny's
It's just it's an iconic picture and
You know, I guess the Brits understand the whole breakfast in America concept better than we do here in the States
According to Roger Hodgson anyway, who by the way if you haven't seen Roger Hodgson
[G] Play live even on YouTube
Go look up a video [E] because you are gonna be just completely blown away
I've been watching this guy probably for about 10 years now
never seen them live never seen supertramp live and
He just kills it.
He's got a minimalist kind of approach to everything kind of guy up there with a saxophone
Guy up there who can play harmonica.
He's out right out front sitting
Playing keyboards and doing it expertly.
I think this guy probably is a musical genius.
I can't
Qualify it with his you know with his schooling or anything like that
he just seems to have such a great command over the music that he plays [B] and
Again hasn't lost anything vocally speaking
Hits the highest note on
Breakfast in America hits all the difficult things that he's got a hit but as far as supertramp
Roger left the band
Kind of while they were peaking
you know, they had a hit called it's raining again, and that was the album that came out after breakfast and
Then it was kind of like okay time to go now and he embarked on a solo career
His first solo album is a very good album
There's a tune on there called in jeopardy that just it just sounds like a supertramp tune and then sleeping with the enemy
Which is this wild crazy?
Intro and it's like eight minutes long the MTV MTV video for that is bizarre
I think Rogers running around in a [E] loincloth and so forth.
It's just
He was just weird
and then you know Rogers career after that kind of started to sort of tank and
Rick Davies the other guy in supertramp kept the band going
Released an album called brother where you bound and he had this song called cannonball
Which appears on most of the best of greatest hits type?
collections for supertramp
the guys I guess tried to
Meet up again in 93 a and M records was thrown a bash and they showed up both of them
They started writing songs together and then that fizzled out
I see there's something else going on with these two and I don't know what it is because
Roger says it was kind of amicable but
Rick Davies, I think seems a little put off by the fact that Roger won't ever
Join up with the band and if you go on these videos
It's it's Roger Hodgson in big letters
The you know the voice of supertramp or the guy who wrote all the [B] songs in supertramp.
I mean whoever's managing him basically flooded
The marketplace with all the information that this is the guy and you could tell because when he starts singing, you know
He was the guy in supertramp
But it's almost as if hey, I'm reasserting myself as the guy, you know
Who did all this stuff and I'm not sure I really like all that
but I understand it because people today have a very short attention span and
They have to be drummed over the head with a club in order to know.
Hey this guy used to be in supertramp
member supertramp
To me.
Yeah, Roger Hodgson everybody.
I guess this was sort of a faceless band
I mean Roger was out there Rick was out there.
Sometimes they were you know doing stuff at the same time
What's fascinating though is as the years have kind of gone by you know
Supertramp keeps trying to reboot themselves and then they shut it down and they reboot again.
They tour around typically
Not here in the States most of the time but they do occasionally get over here
Recently though the last few years Rick Davies has a real
aggressive form of cancer [Bm] and
The last tour I think it was in 2015.
They had to pull the plug on it because of Rick's health
I hear he's doing a little better, but it's a rough
Plasma oriented thing and he needs some serious treatments and I would think if I'm Roger Hodgson
Maybe and Rick is able to get out there and perform a little bit.
Why not do a reunion?
I've heard that maybe Rick's not able to get out there and do anything
but the bottom line is Roger Hodgson because he is more or less the voice of 80% of the
Songs that you know by supertramp, maybe 70 75 percent something like that
He doesn't probably need Rick Davies anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
It's kind of sad because these guys had multiple opportunities to reunite as supertramp and they never did
Roger on his own is fantastic.
So it's kind of a
You know kind of a [D] dual-edged sword bit of a bit of a bitter pill to swallow
That supertramp in their original [B] form probably will never get back together again
I just wish Rick Davies would get better and then we could have that debate
In more robust terms and just say hey Roger
While the guy's still healthy, why don't you hang out and do some gigs because I think the fans would love it and
You know just music geeks like myself would be totally
All over that.
So that's it.
That's kind of what's [E] been going on with supertramp and Roger Hodgson.
Of course Roger is on tour
I think he might be coming to the States.
He's been through a few times
I haven't checked his itinerary, but you can he's got a website of course and lots of great [Bm] music up on YouTube
To check out.
All right, that's my video.
I'm done
I'm Dave the real music observer and I'll be back observing more real music in real time for real people
Just like you right there and just like me here.
For real people just like you and just like me
Today's topic what the heck happened to the band?
Super Tramp, that's the question of this video a great band that really
Started making waves in the 1970s and as the end of the decade peaked
The Desert Island Disc Breakfast in America came out and
catapulted them into
Super duper stardom.
I mean this just wasn't a
Yeah, it's an okay album.
This was a start to finish
[Bm] Many songs on the radio and by the way, even the lesser-known songs
From this album like casual conversations and things like that
Those songs were on the radio
Everything got airplay when they ran out of hit singles FM stations just
Started digging in and playing, you know, just another nervous wreck all of the songs on this album got radio airplay
This was a megaton bomb of an album and it reverberates through rock history even today
The famous waitress on the cover.
I think I saw her the other night when I went to Denny's
It's just it's an iconic picture and
You know, I guess the Brits understand the whole breakfast in America concept better than we do here in the States
According to Roger Hodgson anyway, who by the way if you haven't seen Roger Hodgson
[G] Play live even on YouTube
Go look up a video [E] because you are gonna be just completely blown away
I've been watching this guy probably for about 10 years now
never seen them live never seen supertramp live and
He just kills it.
He's got a minimalist kind of approach to everything kind of guy up there with a saxophone
Guy up there who can play harmonica.
He's out right out front sitting
Playing keyboards and doing it expertly.
I think this guy probably is a musical genius.
I can't
Qualify it with his you know with his schooling or anything like that
he just seems to have such a great command over the music that he plays [B] and
Again hasn't lost anything vocally speaking
Hits the highest note on
Breakfast in America hits all the difficult things that he's got a hit but as far as supertramp
Roger left the band
Kind of while they were peaking
you know, they had a hit called it's raining again, and that was the album that came out after breakfast and
Then it was kind of like okay time to go now and he embarked on a solo career
His first solo album is a very good album
There's a tune on there called in jeopardy that just it just sounds like a supertramp tune and then sleeping with the enemy
Which is this wild crazy?
Intro and it's like eight minutes long the MTV MTV video for that is bizarre
I think Rogers running around in a [E] loincloth and so forth.
It's just
He was just weird
and then you know Rogers career after that kind of started to sort of tank and
Rick Davies the other guy in supertramp kept the band going
Released an album called brother where you bound and he had this song called cannonball
Which appears on most of the best of greatest hits type?
collections for supertramp
the guys I guess tried to
Meet up again in 93 a and M records was thrown a bash and they showed up both of them
They started writing songs together and then that fizzled out
I see there's something else going on with these two and I don't know what it is because
Roger says it was kind of amicable but
Rick Davies, I think seems a little put off by the fact that Roger won't ever
Join up with the band and if you go on these videos
It's it's Roger Hodgson in big letters
The you know the voice of supertramp or the guy who wrote all the [B] songs in supertramp.
I mean whoever's managing him basically flooded
The marketplace with all the information that this is the guy and you could tell because when he starts singing, you know
He was the guy in supertramp
But it's almost as if hey, I'm reasserting myself as the guy, you know
Who did all this stuff and I'm not sure I really like all that
but I understand it because people today have a very short attention span and
They have to be drummed over the head with a club in order to know.
Hey this guy used to be in supertramp
member supertramp
To me.
Yeah, Roger Hodgson everybody.
I guess this was sort of a faceless band
I mean Roger was out there Rick was out there.
Sometimes they were you know doing stuff at the same time
What's fascinating though is as the years have kind of gone by you know
Supertramp keeps trying to reboot themselves and then they shut it down and they reboot again.
They tour around typically
Not here in the States most of the time but they do occasionally get over here
Recently though the last few years Rick Davies has a real
aggressive form of cancer [Bm] and
The last tour I think it was in 2015.
They had to pull the plug on it because of Rick's health
I hear he's doing a little better, but it's a rough
Plasma oriented thing and he needs some serious treatments and I would think if I'm Roger Hodgson
Maybe and Rick is able to get out there and perform a little bit.
Why not do a reunion?
I've heard that maybe Rick's not able to get out there and do anything
but the bottom line is Roger Hodgson because he is more or less the voice of 80% of the
Songs that you know by supertramp, maybe 70 75 percent something like that
He doesn't probably need Rick Davies anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
It's kind of sad because these guys had multiple opportunities to reunite as supertramp and they never did
Roger on his own is fantastic.
So it's kind of a
You know kind of a [D] dual-edged sword bit of a bit of a bitter pill to swallow
That supertramp in their original [B] form probably will never get back together again
I just wish Rick Davies would get better and then we could have that debate
In more robust terms and just say hey Roger
While the guy's still healthy, why don't you hang out and do some gigs because I think the fans would love it and
You know just music geeks like myself would be totally
All over that.
So that's it.
That's kind of what's [E] been going on with supertramp and Roger Hodgson.
Of course Roger is on tour
I think he might be coming to the States.
He's been through a few times
I haven't checked his itinerary, but you can he's got a website of course and lots of great [Bm] music up on YouTube
To check out.
All right, that's my video.
I'm done
I'm Dave the real music observer and I'll be back observing more real music in real time for real people
Just like you right there and just like me here.
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All right music fans welcome back, it's Dave the real music observer observing real music in real time
For real people just like you and just like me
Today's topic what the heck happened to the band?
Super Tramp, that's the question of this video a great band that really
Started making waves in the 1970s and as the end of the decade peaked
The Desert Island Disc Breakfast in America came out and
catapulted them into
_ Super duper stardom.
I mean this just wasn't a
Yeah, it's an okay album.
This was a start to finish _
_ [Bm] Many songs on the radio and by the way, even the lesser-known songs
From this album like casual conversations and things like that
Those songs were on the radio
Everything got airplay when they ran out of hit singles FM stations just
Started digging in and playing, you know, just another nervous wreck all of the songs on this album got radio airplay
This was a megaton bomb of an album and it reverberates through rock history even today
The famous waitress on the cover.
I think I saw her the other night when I went to Denny's
It's just it's an iconic picture and
You know, I guess the Brits understand the whole breakfast in America concept better than we do here in the States
According to Roger Hodgson anyway, who by the way if you haven't seen Roger Hodgson
_ [G] Play live even on YouTube
Go look up a video [E] because you are gonna be just completely blown away
I've been watching this guy probably for about 10 years now
never seen them live never seen supertramp live and
He just kills it.
He's got a minimalist kind of approach to everything kind of guy up there with a saxophone
Guy up there who can play harmonica.
He's out right out front sitting
Playing keyboards and doing it expertly.
I think this guy probably is a musical genius.
I can't
Qualify it with his you know with his schooling or anything like that
he just seems to have such a great command over the music that he plays [B] and
Again hasn't lost anything vocally speaking
_ Hits the highest note on
Breakfast in America hits all the difficult things that he's got a hit but as far as supertramp
_ Roger left the band
Kind of while they were peaking
_ you know, they had a hit called it's raining again, and that was the album that came out after breakfast and
Then it was kind of like okay time to go now and he embarked on a solo career
His first solo album is a very good album
There's a tune on there called in jeopardy that just it just sounds like a supertramp tune and then sleeping with the enemy
Which is this wild crazy?
Intro and it's like eight minutes long the MTV MTV video for that is bizarre
I think Rogers running around in a [E] loincloth and so forth.
It's just
He was just weird
and then you know Rogers career after that kind of started to sort of tank and
Rick Davies the other guy in supertramp kept the band going
Released an album called brother where you bound and he had this song called cannonball
Which appears on most of the best of greatest hits type?
collections for supertramp _
the guys I guess tried to
Meet up again in 93 a and M records was thrown a bash and they showed up both of them
They started writing songs together and then that fizzled out
I see there's something else going on with these two and I don't know what it is because
Roger says it was kind of amicable but
Rick Davies, I think seems a little put off by the fact that Roger won't ever
Join up with the band and if you go on these videos
It's it's Roger Hodgson in big letters
The you know the voice of supertramp or the guy who wrote all the [B] songs in supertramp.
I mean whoever's managing him basically flooded
_ The marketplace with all the information that this is the guy and you could tell because when he starts singing, you know
He was the guy in supertramp
But it's almost as if hey, I'm reasserting myself as the guy, you know
Who did all this stuff and I'm not sure I really like all that
but I understand it because people today have a very short attention span and
They have to be drummed over the head with a club in order to know.
Hey this guy used to be in supertramp
_ member supertramp
To me.
Yeah, Roger Hodgson everybody.
I guess this was sort of a faceless band
I mean Roger was out there Rick was out there.
Sometimes they were you know doing stuff at the same time
What's fascinating though is as the years have kind of gone by you know
Supertramp keeps trying to reboot themselves and then they shut it down and they reboot again.
They tour around typically
Not here in the States most of the time but they do occasionally get over here
Recently though the last few years Rick Davies has a real
aggressive form of cancer [Bm] and
The last tour I think it was in 2015.
They had to pull the plug on it because of Rick's health
I hear he's doing a little better, but it's a rough
Plasma oriented thing and he needs some serious treatments and I would think if I'm Roger Hodgson
Maybe and Rick is able to get out there and perform a little bit.
Why not do a reunion?
I've heard that maybe Rick's not able to get out there and do anything
but the bottom line is Roger Hodgson because he is more or less the voice of 80% of the
Songs that you know by supertramp, maybe 70 75 percent something like that
He doesn't probably need Rick Davies anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
It's kind of sad because these guys had multiple opportunities to reunite as supertramp and they never did
Roger on his own is fantastic.
So it's kind of a
You know kind of a [D] dual-edged sword bit of a bit of a bitter pill to swallow
That supertramp in their original [B] form probably will never get back together again
I just wish Rick Davies would get better and then we could have that debate
_ _ In more robust terms and just say hey Roger
While the guy's still healthy, why don't you hang out and do some gigs because I think the fans would love it and
You know just music geeks like myself would be totally
All over that.
So that's it.
That's kind of what's [E] been going on with supertramp and Roger Hodgson.
Of course Roger is on tour
I think he might be coming to the States.
He's been through a few times
I haven't checked his itinerary, but you can he's got a website of course and lots of great [Bm] music up on YouTube
To check out.
All right, that's my video.
I'm done
I'm Dave the real music observer and I'll be back observing more real music in real time for real people
Just like you right there and just like me here.
For real people just like you and just like me
Today's topic what the heck happened to the band?
Super Tramp, that's the question of this video a great band that really
Started making waves in the 1970s and as the end of the decade peaked
The Desert Island Disc Breakfast in America came out and
catapulted them into
_ Super duper stardom.
I mean this just wasn't a
Yeah, it's an okay album.
This was a start to finish _
_ [Bm] Many songs on the radio and by the way, even the lesser-known songs
From this album like casual conversations and things like that
Those songs were on the radio
Everything got airplay when they ran out of hit singles FM stations just
Started digging in and playing, you know, just another nervous wreck all of the songs on this album got radio airplay
This was a megaton bomb of an album and it reverberates through rock history even today
The famous waitress on the cover.
I think I saw her the other night when I went to Denny's
It's just it's an iconic picture and
You know, I guess the Brits understand the whole breakfast in America concept better than we do here in the States
According to Roger Hodgson anyway, who by the way if you haven't seen Roger Hodgson
_ [G] Play live even on YouTube
Go look up a video [E] because you are gonna be just completely blown away
I've been watching this guy probably for about 10 years now
never seen them live never seen supertramp live and
He just kills it.
He's got a minimalist kind of approach to everything kind of guy up there with a saxophone
Guy up there who can play harmonica.
He's out right out front sitting
Playing keyboards and doing it expertly.
I think this guy probably is a musical genius.
I can't
Qualify it with his you know with his schooling or anything like that
he just seems to have such a great command over the music that he plays [B] and
Again hasn't lost anything vocally speaking
_ Hits the highest note on
Breakfast in America hits all the difficult things that he's got a hit but as far as supertramp
_ Roger left the band
Kind of while they were peaking
_ you know, they had a hit called it's raining again, and that was the album that came out after breakfast and
Then it was kind of like okay time to go now and he embarked on a solo career
His first solo album is a very good album
There's a tune on there called in jeopardy that just it just sounds like a supertramp tune and then sleeping with the enemy
Which is this wild crazy?
Intro and it's like eight minutes long the MTV MTV video for that is bizarre
I think Rogers running around in a [E] loincloth and so forth.
It's just
He was just weird
and then you know Rogers career after that kind of started to sort of tank and
Rick Davies the other guy in supertramp kept the band going
Released an album called brother where you bound and he had this song called cannonball
Which appears on most of the best of greatest hits type?
collections for supertramp _
the guys I guess tried to
Meet up again in 93 a and M records was thrown a bash and they showed up both of them
They started writing songs together and then that fizzled out
I see there's something else going on with these two and I don't know what it is because
Roger says it was kind of amicable but
Rick Davies, I think seems a little put off by the fact that Roger won't ever
Join up with the band and if you go on these videos
It's it's Roger Hodgson in big letters
The you know the voice of supertramp or the guy who wrote all the [B] songs in supertramp.
I mean whoever's managing him basically flooded
_ The marketplace with all the information that this is the guy and you could tell because when he starts singing, you know
He was the guy in supertramp
But it's almost as if hey, I'm reasserting myself as the guy, you know
Who did all this stuff and I'm not sure I really like all that
but I understand it because people today have a very short attention span and
They have to be drummed over the head with a club in order to know.
Hey this guy used to be in supertramp
_ member supertramp
To me.
Yeah, Roger Hodgson everybody.
I guess this was sort of a faceless band
I mean Roger was out there Rick was out there.
Sometimes they were you know doing stuff at the same time
What's fascinating though is as the years have kind of gone by you know
Supertramp keeps trying to reboot themselves and then they shut it down and they reboot again.
They tour around typically
Not here in the States most of the time but they do occasionally get over here
Recently though the last few years Rick Davies has a real
aggressive form of cancer [Bm] and
The last tour I think it was in 2015.
They had to pull the plug on it because of Rick's health
I hear he's doing a little better, but it's a rough
Plasma oriented thing and he needs some serious treatments and I would think if I'm Roger Hodgson
Maybe and Rick is able to get out there and perform a little bit.
Why not do a reunion?
I've heard that maybe Rick's not able to get out there and do anything
but the bottom line is Roger Hodgson because he is more or less the voice of 80% of the
Songs that you know by supertramp, maybe 70 75 percent something like that
He doesn't probably need Rick Davies anymore.
You know what I'm saying?
It's kind of sad because these guys had multiple opportunities to reunite as supertramp and they never did
Roger on his own is fantastic.
So it's kind of a
You know kind of a [D] dual-edged sword bit of a bit of a bitter pill to swallow
That supertramp in their original [B] form probably will never get back together again
I just wish Rick Davies would get better and then we could have that debate
_ _ In more robust terms and just say hey Roger
While the guy's still healthy, why don't you hang out and do some gigs because I think the fans would love it and
You know just music geeks like myself would be totally
All over that.
So that's it.
That's kind of what's [E] been going on with supertramp and Roger Hodgson.
Of course Roger is on tour
I think he might be coming to the States.
He's been through a few times
I haven't checked his itinerary, but you can he's got a website of course and lots of great [Bm] music up on YouTube
To check out.
All right, that's my video.
I'm done
I'm Dave the real music observer and I'll be back observing more real music in real time for real people
Just like you right there and just like me here.