We've Got a Live One Here: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen: Amazon.ca: Music

1. One Of Those Nights

2. Semi Truck

3. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)

4. Big Mamou

5. San Antonio Rose

6. Eighteen Wheels

7. Mama Hated Diesels

8. Looking At The World Through A Windshield

9. My Window Faces The South

10. Milkcow Blues

11. It Should've Been Me

12. Back To Tennessee

13. Seeds And Stems

14. Rock That Boogie

15. Riot In Cell Block #9

16. Don't Let Go

17. Too Much Fun

18. Hot Rod Lincoln

19. Lost In The Ozone

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Expert musicianship, a diverse repertoire, and an active sense of humor become an explosive mixture in the hands of the Airmen. Recorded during a 1976 tour of England, Live One shows the genre-twisting band in all its maniacal glory. Western swing standards, rockabilly romps, R&B chestnuts, and a rash of truck-driving songs all find their way into the potent blend, not to mention their offbeat, drug-addled originals. Bill Kirchen's nifty guitar work, Andy Stein's punchy fiddle, and Bobby Black's pedal-steel forays provide the meat: no matter how goofy it gets, their formidable musical chops keep it all together. --Marc Greilsamer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Straight Up Good Time Party Music, May 25 2011

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Mark Anderson (Victoria, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We've Got a Live One Here (Audio CD)

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen were a great live act. This live album was recorded in 1976 during the band's tour of England.

I first bought this album when it was first released back in the 1970s as a 2 LP set. Back then I worked in record store when I was in high school and I gave this album a play after a customer brought back a copy with a warped LP. At the time I knew Commander Cody from his early 70s Billboard hit "Hot Rod Lincoln" but, apart from that one song, I knew nothing about this band. One play of this album and I was hooked. I started playing this album a lot in the store and sold a lot of copies to other people who had never heard of Commander Cody. This became a standard party album among the group I hung out with back then.

This is great good time party music performed by a really tight band featuring some great musicians. Commander Cody played a mean honky tonk, boogie style piano, Norton Buffalo was a great harmonica player and Billy C Farlow played some great lead guitar.

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen definitely play country licks but I wouldn't call them a "country" band. Think of them more as a country-boogie or country-swing band.

Categories and labels aside, think of this as straight up foot stomping, toe tapping party music or the type of album you can throw into your car's CD player during a long drive on a warm summer day; it's great driving music. I put it in the car CD player the other day during a commute and found it hasn't lost any of its appeal 35 years after I first heard it. Great album!

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen are not well known these days but, if you want a hard driving country flavored party album, this is a CD you should check out.

One question for Amazon though. Why is this CD over $22 on Amazon.ca and about $10 on Amazon.com?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Like finding an old friend, Mar 16 2004

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R. J. Marsella (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We've Got a Live One Here (Audio CD)

Man, hearing this again brings back some great memories of live performances I caught back in the early 70's. The Commander and his band could rock like nobody's business and that comes across on this CD. For pure American road music , rockabilly and truck driving tunes you can't beat this band. Every show I can remember was foot-tappin' good. These guys could do Texas swing like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys but with a hippie sense of humor thrown in. I'm very glad I stumbled on this and was able to hear this fine music again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You can't ever have too much fun, Jan 22 2003

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Winston Tucker Jr. (Gallatin, TN (just north of Nashville)) - See all my reviews

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That's about how you sum up Commander Cody. You can't ever have too much fun. I first heard them in high school, early 70's, if you must know. A friend had a 45 (remember them?) One side had Hot Rod Lincoln, the other, Beat Me Daddy 8 to the Bar. That was it. I was hooked. I still am. They rocked hard, mixed country, with rock, played to college crowds who wouldn't have listened to the Grand Ole Opry, but they could easily have gone there and played Mama Hated Diesels, and gotten a great ovation. Of course, their long hair wouldn't have gone over with the Opry crowd in the 70's, but the music would have. We've Got A Live One Here is very typical of Cody, rockin', raucous, reelin', rantin and ravin'. They put heart and soul into their music, and it shows. I don't think "Seeds and Stems" would have gone over with a traditional crowd, but the West Coast scene in the early 70's was totally into it. I had almost forgotten about Cody until I started listening to Asleep at the Wheel in the late 70's, and figured out real quick the link between Bob Wills, Wheel and Cody. What a rush! Commander Cody doesn't get near the credit it should for bringing this type of music to the public. If it weren't for them, there might not be Asleep at the Wheel, nor a George Strait, or later a Tim McGraw. They all do Cody type songs, and Bob Wills type songs. While giving credit to Hank Sr. and George Jones, the new artists should pay tribute to the band who made it all possible for them to play country-rock, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. I even learned to like Boogie Woogie thanks to them. Is there anything that rocks like Beat Me Daddy 8 To The Bar? I think not! Rock on Cody!

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5.0 out of 5 stars "we've Got A Live One Here!
This is truly the commander at his best. A very diverse recording, lots of "truck drivin'" music, and of course, Bobby Black on the pedal steel guitar. Read more

Published on April 22 2002 by Jeffrey Knapp

5.0 out of 5 stars THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
The old Commander went over to England in 1976, and came back with this Double Live album (originally on vinyl) on one CD. Read more

Published on Feb 24 2001 by Patrick Earley