Boz Scaggs

Silk Degrees is one of my favorite albums. That's as far as it goes for me. I bought the next two, but didn't like them nearly as much.

Great artist and a silver haired fox. He's developing a bit of a gobbler neck but looks good for his age.

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Check out that live version of Jojo on you tube from his 2004 DVD. The sax player's solos are quite impressive.

So weird... although I always knew of him, I only just recently really discovered his music.

A few hours ago I listened to "We're all Alone". It's a cheesy power ballad but I like it. I remember the Rita Coolidge version but I did not know he was the one who wrote it.

Wasn't it's melody ripped off for a Whitney Huston number? It sounds so much like one of her songs... but I can't quite place it....

What can I say?

I like the song he had on the "Two of a Kind" soundtrack, starring DL favorite Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta (back when he was in shape)

Random trivia-He was in the middle of giving a concert at Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center when the '77 blackout struck in NYC.

I recently heard somebody mentioning that he and Steve Miller played together back in the sixties before either of them became famous on their own. Does anybody know the details?

Same here r1 .

I still enjoy listening to it.

R5 The Greatest Love Of All? Boz's song was much better. A ballad for sure but not as mellow(or nauseating) as what Whitney had done.

No idea where one could find such information, R9.

Thanks for posting that link, r5. What a nice song, I had never heard it before. Surprised it has not shown up in movies or been remade. Boz wrote that?!

I love the cry in his voice.

Huge cokehead.

Always like "Lowdown".

My father once bore a strong resemblance to Boz Scaggs. Someone once gave my father a piece of promotional art for the Down Two Then Left album, because of resemblance on the cover. It hung from the ceiling in a corner of my father's den for my entire childhood.

I'm pretty sure that he and my father may have met at least once, back when Boz was a regular at his venue, Slim's, in San Francisco.

Good singer with a unique voice.

I'm glad Dataloungers appreciate Boz Scaggs.

I love "Simone," from the 1980 album "Middle Man."

One of the best blue eyed soul singers ever, and his recent side trips into the standards are pretty awesome

He stole Rita Coolidge's song.

His Baker Street has the best sax (or any instrument) solo...EV..AH..

I've always liked "Love Look What You've Done to Me" and "What do you Want the Girl to Do."

Who would like a guy named after the guy on Charlie's Angles that wasn't even the title guy or the main draw?

R9, Boz Scaggs and Steve Miller attended St Marks in Dallas and were in a band together during their high school years called The Marksmen. I'm from Dallas.

I'll 'fess up to being the person who said they'd fucking [italic]wreck[/italic] Boz Scaggs in the "older celebrities you'd still have sex with" thread. He's immensely talented and there's something really strange in his voice that at the same time is very appealing. It's in the phrasing, I think; just a little off-kilter, sometimes clipped, and a tonal quality in the voice that borders on cracking.

He's also got that wary look in his eyes, even in photos and album covers, like he's just scared to fucking death to even be in front of people but he's still out there, even if it kills him.

John Darnielle tells a story he heard about "Silk Degrees," where Scaggs apparently put so much of himself into the album and worked so hard on it he basically broke down. "It almost destroyed him" I think is the phrase JD used. Call me a vulture or an emotional leech, but there is something completely goddamned attractive about that kind of artistic vulnerability.

Who's the biggest bitch?

Lucille Ball (50s) Eve Plum Marth Raye.

R22 That was Gerry Rafferty not Boz Scaggs.

Boz actually said no to Lowdown being put in Saturday Night Fever. He's done well for himself career wise but can you imagine the royalties from having that one song appearing on an album that sold gazillions of copies?

Linda Eder does an amazing cover of "We're All Alone" on her album GOLD from 2002. Couldn't find a link but check it out if you like Coolidge's version.

I have a soft spot for his late 80s hit "Heart of Mine." Probably too cheesy and MOR for fans of his jazzier stuff but it brings back good memories.

Authentically great artist

Cute in a Speedo.

Lido Shuffle always reminds me of schooldays. I went to school in the '80s but it was still in heavy rotation in the college bars.

Ironically, he's held up the best of the two men he tours with now--Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen.

When they were at their peaks, his was the least of the careers, being considered a 'one album wonder'.

Ah, Bless you OP, I had totally forgotten about "Miss Sun" until this thread. Lurve that song.

I lived across the street from him in San Francisco in the late 70s.

That is all.

R30 I liked that song alot, too. Not a major hit and basically forgotten about today, but a great ballad nonetheless.

He opened for Stevie Nicks once when I saw her about 15 or so years ago. Liked him a lot live.

His son died of a heroin overdose.

Carmella Skaggs still uses his name & she used to be THE socialite in SF, but last heard from she was driving a really old car & she was suing and being countersued by her rich tech couple neighbors because she's batshit. I wonder if she's homeless now.

Wasn't Lido Shuffle a euphemism for a hand job?

I'm listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from May 10, 1980. Boz is at No. 17 with the song "Breakdown Dead Ahead".

Boz Scaggs and Steve Miller were also at UW-Madison together, playing in the Ardells and the Fabulous Knight Trains. Boz dropped out, hung around Austin, the Madison, Wis., of Texas, then busked and make a record overseas. He was invited to join Miller’s band in SF in mid/late 1967.

They had a disagreement and Boz split. The rest is his musical history. He did a Madison concert last summer, and is set to head back this year. Keeps in touch with Ben Sidran, another well-known classmate from the UW.

He strikes me as an introvert. Those who work with him have great respect for him.

I love Silk Degrees, also..."What Can I Say", "We're All Alone", "Lido", "Harbor Lights" ...They're all great songs.

My theme song from Silk Degrees. I had fallen in love with a gay guy for the first time.

When I think about Boz, I think about how much an audience's affection can be manipulated. I saw him in concert at the old Boston Garden before Silk Degrees came out. He opened for, if I'm not mistaken, America. He was booed off stage. About six months later, Silk Degrees had become a huge hit, and I saw him again at the Garden, this time as the headliner. He played the same set, yet he was received with rapturous applause. Same singer, same venue. The only difference is he was famous then, and wasn't before. True, people were there to see the headliner, but the difference in audience response was astonishing.

Favorite song.

Love love love Silk Degrees. Georgia is my favorite track

Was any of you at Lincoln Center the night of the blackout in 1977?

You are a true DL-er, R48; for it, I will say, Yes, I was there. Was you?

No. I wasn't, r48. I was downtown still. Tell us what happened. Did the concert start at all?

I saw him in Toronto a few years ago and he was fantastic. I actually became a bigger fan because of seeing him live. The Silk Degrees songs really resonate live.

Interesting that r28 says Scaggs wouldn't allow Lowdown for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Yet it appeared on the Looking for Mr. Goodbar soundtrack, to great effect. I think it ended up on the right soundtrack.