Our first Saturday night Live Cut for 2009. Yeah, we’ve been slacking here at Pound Note. Anyway, we came across this gem from 1987. The BoDeans performing Good Work on the David Letterman show.  Sound quality of the video is a little off (no fault of the band), but it’s a great trip back in time.

Dokken released Back For The Attack on this day in 1987 and Burning Like a Flame was the highest charting single. The album reached #13 on the album charts and sold over 3 million copies. The video has some fun animation and a skeleton guitar that comes to life in a Tim Burton movie sort of way. Pay attention to the squid on Jeff Pilson’s base. It looks very similar to the corporate logo of Squidoo.

WATN? Dokken released Lightning Strikes Again in May of this year. The album was it’s highest charting CD since 1995.

Trivia: Current guitarist Jon Levin was the attorney for the band.

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Sure it took Axl 14 years to release Chinese Democracy, but it only took Pound Note 2 months to throw up a GNR video.  Slash once said he was trying to mimic a circus tune when he came up with the guitar intro to the song. Released in 1987, Sweet Child 0′ Mine was the band’s only #1 single.

WATN? After 14 years, they finally released their new album.

Trivia: The song was originally a poem written to Rose’s then girlfriend Erin Everly.

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Foreigner released Inside Information in 1987. The first single was Say You Will and it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Shot in black in white, it’s a lot swankier than any of the videos from the Agent Provocateur album.  The guys appear to be in some NY club watching a couple of high class “pros” pick up some rich old guy. Other than that, I’m not sure what the heck is going on here.  Good song though.

WATN? Foreigner released a single earlier this year. It was their first new recording since the dismal Mr. Moonlight in 1994. Only Mick Jones remains of the original lineup.

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