Foghat – "Slow Ride" (1975)

Slow down, go down

Got to get your lovin’ one more time

Hold me, roll me

Slow ridin’ woman, you’re so fine

Radio Caroline was a legendary pirate radio station that began broadcasting rock ’n’ roll hits to the UK and Europe in 1964 from a converted Danish ferry anchored in international waters:

 (The first record that Radio Caroline played?  “Not Fade Away,” by the Rolling Stones.)

The British government, which was determined to maintain its legal monopoly on radio broadcasting, eventually forced Radio Caroline off the air.  

But the station later resurfaced as an internet streaming station.  Click here to go to its website.

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A couple of months ago, I began to follow Suzy Wilde – the self-proclaimed “superannuated rock chick” who broadcasts a weekly Radio Caroline show from her home in the south of France – on Facebook.

Suzy Wilde

Suzy recently challenged her followers to ruin a band’s name by changing one letter.

At first, this seemed like a rather silly attempt to getting more people to post on her Facebook page.  But many of the responses posted by her readers were quite brilliant.

Here are some of the best:

– Jethro Dull

– Rolling Scones

– Moldy Blues

– Canned Meat

– Poo Fighters 

– Alice Pooper

– Huey Lewis and the Jews

– Guns ’n’ Moses

– The Belch Boys

– The Small Feces

– Cheap Prick

– The Boobie Brothers

– T. Sex

– Pearl Ham

– AC/AC

– DC/DC

– Grand F*ck Railroad

– Blue Öyster Cu*t

and, last but not least:

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“Slow Ride” was a top-20 hit for Foghat in 1975.

There’s not a lot to the song, but Foghat stretched the hell out of it.

Director Richard Linklater chose to play “Slow Ride” over the final scene and closing credits of Dazed and Confused.  It was the perfect choice.

(I miss Joey Lauren Adams . . . )

Click here to listen to the album version of “Slow Ride” – all eight minutes and 14 seconds of it.

Click on the link below to buy the song from Amazon: