Battle of the Bands Update

Rolling Stones

In this week's Battle of the Band matchups on Dr. John's Record Shelf, we had four groups in the Teddy Boy Bracket squaring off. Not too surprisingly, the Rolling Stones (seeded no. 1) easily dispatched Humble Pie (16) by an 8 to 1 score; while Mott the Hoople (8) eked out a close victory over Fleetwood Mac (9) by a 5 to 4 margin.

Mott the Hoople

"Jumping Jack Flash" was the Stones song, matched against "Natural Born Bugie" by Humble Pie. Mott's "All the Way from Memphis" rated just a bit better than "Man of the World" by Fleetwood Mac (by the way, since our time frame is 1960 to 1974, the Mac represented here was the pre-Buckingham/Nicks edition, so nothing from Rumours was eligible). So it will be the Stones against Mott in Round 2 (which ought to come up after Christmas, as we work through the big first round pool of groups this Fall). If you'd like to cast a vote for upcoming pairings, you can find the brackets here, here, here, and here (just leave a comment here with your selections-- you can vote for some or all of the pairs). Next week we'll have two more Teddy Boy pairings.