Category Archive: BS Daily Tune Up
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Free Ride – The Edgar Winter Group (1973)
Don’t even think of trying to name a harder rocking albino person than Edgar Winter because that person does not exist. Winter has been jamming hard since his rise to fame in the 1970s on the...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck Rip Out Mustang Sally
Let’s see, Buddy Guy is awesome and Jeff Beck it totally awesome so putting them together gives us what? Awesomer? We’ll go with that. This is a “late model” version of...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Gimme Some Lovin’ by The Spencer Davis Group 1966 – A Days Of Thunder Favorite
Gimme Some Lovin’ rules. It was #2 in the UK in 1966, #7 in the US, and is Rolling Stone Magazine’s #247 of the top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. We can’t argue with that, because...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Pontiac Blues – Sonny Boy Williamson And The Animals (Recorded 1960s)
While the song Rocket 88 gets roundly awarded the praise for being the first rock and roll song about cars, there was automotive themed music long before the late 1940s when Rocket 88 was recorded....
BangShift Daily Tune Up: The General Lee – Johnny Cash (1983)
During the height of the Dukes of Hazzard’s popularity in the early 1980s, a promotional album was released by the studio behind the show. Most of the songs on it were covers or stuff that...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: East Bound and Down – Jerry Reed (1977)
Jerry Reed is probably better known as an actor now than as a musician but the dude was all over the place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He and Burt Reynolds were an acting tandem in several...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: 455 SD – The Hellacopters (1998)
Swedish garage rock band The Hellacopters formed up in 1994 and they jammed their awesome lo-fi style all the way through 2008 before they busted up and decided to do other stuff. Chances are you...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Want To Be Your Driver – Chuck Berry (1965-ish)
Chuck Berry has a ton of great songs centered around cars in his canon of music. From “Ridin’ Around In My Automobile” to that wild chick “Maybellene” he knew how to jam...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena” by Jan and Dean 1964
She’s the terror of Colorado Blvd, “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena”, and she loves her brand new shiny red Super Stock Dodge. So do we. And even though the song says that if we...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Custom Machine” By The Beach Boys 1963
Why don’t they write simple songs like this anymore that talk about how bitchin cars were and what was done to them? Who knows, but we sure dig listening to the old ones since they are so...
BangShift.com Daily Tune Up: “Little Deuce Coupe” By The Beach Boys
Between Jan and Dean, and the Beach Boys, they transported the ’60s surf music crowd into the street racing and hot rodding scene. Songs about the cars, the races, and the culture were king. No...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Dead Man’s Curve” by Jan and Dean. Corvette vs Jaguar XKE vs Dead Man’s Curve
We’ve had some cool songs on our BangShift.com Daily Tune-Up, and when we ran the Beach Boys “Shut Down” a while back we asked if it was the ultimate street race song. A lot of you...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Drag City – Jan and Dean (1963)
Jan and Dean were on top of the world in the early 1960s. Their tunes like Surf City, this song Drag City, The Little Old Lady From Pasadena, and Dead Man’s Curve all lived at the top (or...
BS Daily Tune Up: Alvin Lee and Ten Years After – I’m Going Home (Woodstock 1969)
Forgive a bit of self-indulgence in today’s Daily Tune Up selection but I had to include one of my favorite songs at some point, right?! This is Alvin Lee and Ten Years After shredding out...