Album 1. Track 2. Plenty Hard Luck

Welcome back to Those Who Are About To Dive: Chronicling Colosseum, Track by Bloody Track with Dr. Glund, where Chaz Charles and the good Doctor once again fire up the mics, fumble with file links, and let the music take them wherever it damn well pleases. If you’re here for polish and pretense, you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere around Southampton.This episode opens not with Colosseum, but with a moment of reverence. Before getting to the business at hand, Chaz and Dr. Glund pause to honor the passing of Chris Rea — a guitarist’s guitarist, a slide master, a reluctant pop star, and a deeply soulful player whose music quietly shaped generations. What begins as a tribute quickly becomes a full-on digression: stories of Clapton seeking out Rea’s slide technique, European blues scenes, Albert Hall footage, and the strange fate of artists whose biggest hits never quite reflect who they really are.From there, the conversation eventually — inevitably — finds its way back to Colosseum.This episode’s track:“Plenty Hard Luck” — Track 2 from Those Who Are About To Die Salute You (1969)If “Walking in the Park” was the invitation, “Plenty Hard Luck” is the shove. Chaz and Dr. Glund dig into the track’s ferocity, the horn arrangements that cut instead of decorate, and the sheer physicality of a band operating at full tilt. The Dr. admits to once being suspicious of saxophones in rock music — a youthful blind spot he now happily owns — while he beams through stories of seeing Cream, Hendrix, and the Grateful Dead in basement clubs where Marshall stacks barely fit and ice cream sodas were the house specialty.Along the way, the episode drifts (productively) into record-store lore, liner-note archaeology, British blues lineage, and the lost art of discovering music by feel, curiosity, and blind faith in a cool album cover. The Glundian tests are applied, the verdict is unanimous, and “Plenty Hard Luck” emerges as a track that doesn’t charm — it commits.Pour something strong, cue it up loud, and dive back in. Here’s lookin’ at ya, Klay Kole—let’s have a viskey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.