tag:msmokemusic.com,2005:/blogs/mind-smoke-blog?p=70Rock & Roll is a State of Mind BLOG2025-11-04T23:00:00-05:00Mind Smoke Recordsfalsetag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73737342024-03-28T09:00:07-04:002024-03-28T09:01:20-04:00Rock & Roll Library: My 2024 Reading List<img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc9c606f38991093f19bfb10f4cb5f6378509ee4/original/rock-roll-library.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="581" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/42b288e3f2e4033634057c6ad3d2bc4b74d0144d/original/big-red-reading-chair.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="300" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>I finally found the time to read a stack of rock & roll books that I had on a table right next to my big red reading chair. This got me to thinking about just how many truly great books there are about Rock & Roll. It also occurred to me that perhaps there are some of you folks out there who might have missed out on reading of these epic prose works!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff8fab30f82a36d2c652538b7dd989a3d318b145/original/ready-steady-go-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="464" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3jo1i5N" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Shawn Levy, Doubleday 2002)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><i><strong>Ready Steady Go</strong></i><strong> is a wonderful book that transports the reader back to Swinging London in the 60's. Shawn Levy does an excellent job of bringing this era of rock & roll to life.</strong></span></p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bf0e5c0a8164cb6dac9aa4d09c6f3ef1d2e3bb28/original/swinging-london-image.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="410" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Levy's book captures the spirit of the sixties in all its exuberance. A portrait of London from roughly 1961 to 1969, it chronicles the explosion of creativity–in art, music and fashion–and the revolutions–sexual, social and political–that reshaped the world. Levy deftly blends the enthusiasm of a fan, the discerning eye of a social critic and a historian's objectivity as he re-creates the hectic pace and daring experimentation of the times–from the utter transformation of rock 'n' roll by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the new aesthetics introduced by fashion designers like Mary Quant, haircutters like Vidal Sassoon, photographers like David Bailey, actors like Michael Caine and Terence Stamp and filmmakers like Richard Lester and Nicolas Roeg to the wild clothing shops and cutting-edge clubs that made Carnaby Street and King's Road the hippest thoroughfares in the world.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/354a0d26ad2cfcba56e088f8ef3cbd2e5fca36a3/original/swinging-london-image-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="877" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The 1960s in Swinging London brought about a sudden a wave of bob cuts, mod struts, pink-shirted blokes and Scotch-and-cokes. Had it not happened, ‘</strong><i><strong>nothing—nothing—of the modern world we share could have been the way it is</strong></i><strong>,’ writes Levy. Sure, the American journalist/film critic admits, there were youthquakes at other points and in other cities, but this was a </strong><i><strong>cultural paradigm</strong></i><strong> that erased the classes and embraced freedom of expression, exploration and entertainment. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Levy's book, which lifts its title from the era's what's-hot-now! TV hit, spotlights the places and the faces who made dowdy London fabulous: The Snapper, photographer David Bailey, credited as first on the scene; The Crimper, hair liberator Vidal Sassoon; The Draper, Mary Quant, a fearless clothes designer; The Loner, Brian Epstein, who found his calling and when he found the Beatles. For a few years, the most amazing thing in the world was to be British, creative and young." In three main sections structured loosely around the decade's rise, saturation and dark demise, Levy deftly correlates its many moods with such markers as the latest Beatles album, nightclub or drug—first it was booze, then amphetamines, pot, LSD, heroin. An invigorating book, it's packed with can't-miss material on the skirt-chasing escapades of actor flatmates Terence Stamp and Michael Caine; the acid party that jailed two Stones and one famous art dealer; the reaction of London musicians to the coming of the </strong><i><strong>prophet of their downfall</strong></i><strong>, Jimi Hendrix from the States. Levy has gleaned his insights from interviews and from books, but the book reads as if he'd lived the era himself.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec7002d0a6f855ac4b89b50e42a0c3d7ac76d781/original/a-man-called-destruction.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="452" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3hi2xle" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="A Man Called Destruction:The Life &amp; Music of Alex Chilton"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>A Man Called Destruction:</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3hi2xle" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="A Man Called Destruction:The Life &amp; Music of Alex Chilton"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>The Life & Music of Alex Chilton</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Holly George-Warren, Penguin Publishing 2014)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>This was one of my favorite reads this year. Alex Chilton's early commercial success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was never repeated in later years with Big Star and in his subsequent indie music solo career on small labels, but he drew an eager following among alternative rockmusicians. He is frequently cited as a seminal influence by various rock artists and bands.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/346cd7527353183695e21d2fdfd8d2a0564ef7b3/original/alex-chilton.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="300" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>In a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for four decades with a three-fold career -- his early recordings as a blue-eyed soul vocalist with the Box Tops, the idiosyncratic, British-influenced power pop albums he did with Big Star in the mid-'70s (and after the group re-formed with a new lineup in 1993), and the spate of cool but chaotic solo albums he recorded beginning in the late '70s, ranging from the deliberately damaged attack of 1979's Like Flies on Sherbert to the lean but soulful stylings of 1987's High Priest and 1995's A Man Called Destruction. To some, he was a classic hitmaker from the '60s. To others, he was a genius British-style pop musician and songwriter. To yet another audience, he was a doomed and despairing artist who spent several years battling the bottle and delivering anarchist records and performances while thumbing his nose at all pretenses of stardom, a quirky iconoclast whose influence spawned the likes of the Replacements and Teenage Fanclub.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dde16fb44032ef3a457e2b58fbdcc42c57c03383/original/good-night-l-a-kent-hartman.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="450" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3jrhjYH" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Goodnight, L.A.The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Goodnight, L.A.</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3jrhjYH" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Goodnight, L.A.The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Kent Hartman / Da Capo Press 2017)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Goodnight, L.A. covers the year when classic rock ruled supreme in Los Angeles. Last year, I read author Kent Hartman's excellent book about the life and times of The Wrecking Crew but I was disappointed in this particular book. It has a flaccid narrative that reflects the type of music being described within the pages of this book.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>"Within the windowless walls of these well-hidden studios, legends-to-be such as Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Boston, the Eagles, the Grateful Dead, Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, Santana, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Loggins and Messina, REO Speedwagon, and dozens more secretly created their album masterpieces: Double Vision. Rumours. Hotel California. Terrapin Station and Damn the Torpedoes. However, the truth of what went on during these recording sessions has always remained elusive. But not anymore. Longtime music-business insider Kent Hartman has filled Goodnight, L.A. with troves of never-before-told stories about the most prolific and important period and place in rock 'n' roll history. With music producer Keith Olsen and guitarist Waddy Wachtel as guides to the journey and informed by new, in-depth interviews with classic rock artists, famed record producers, and scores of others, Goodnight, L.A. reveals what went into the making of some of the best music of the past forty years. Readers will hear how some of their favorite albums and bands came to be, and ultimately how fame, fortune, excess, and a shift in listener demand brought it all tumbling down." (From the Rock Library website)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/14/obituaries/14Olsen-obit1/11Olsen1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Keith Olsen, Rock Hitmaker With a Broad Résumé, Dies at 74 - The New York Times" height="920" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Keith Olsen</strong></span></p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Waddy_Wachtel_2009_%28cropped%29.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Waddy Wachtel - Wikipedia" height="544" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Waddy Wachtel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Here's a Review on </strong><i><strong>Goodnight L.A.</strong></i><strong> from Publisher's Weekly: "In this breezy look at the golden age of the L.A. studio scene, music writer Hartman (The Wrecking Crew) dishes on the boomer artists whose fortunes rose in the mid-1970s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Loosely structured around renowned producer Keith Olsen and guitarist extraordinaire Waddy Wachtel, the book opens with Charles Manson brandishing a .38 handgun in a Van Nuys recording studio and ends with Nirvana’s release of Nevermind. Between those events, the Eagles, Chicago, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, and plenty of others crafted songs that perpetual rotation branded onto the limbic system of the nation. While this is hardly uncharted territory, the focus on lesser-known figures provides fresh takes on musician lore that keep the pages turning (Kenny Loggins showed up at an audition for Jim Messina without a guitar or tapes, and still got the job). Hartman’s gossip chasing, however, torpedoes narrative coherence and any slim chance of thematic unity: Wachtel and Olsen vanish for entire chapters, and Hartman makes too much of the fact that Boston, the Grateful Dead, REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield, and other notable bands worked with the same circle of session players and producers. Given his evident familiarity with the social and technological shifts of the era, Hartman might have shaped a thought-provoking overview of the last musical mass culture; instead, readers get one-too-many anecdotes about Rod Stewart acting like a jerk. Hartman has written an entertaining look into the recording industry, however, he does little to support his claim that “the album-rock era... brought a previously unheard level of human emotion, storytelling, and expansive musicality to the masses.”</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/257031f87dda5e9b7ff3ad38ab2d1777a3e829cd/original/hollywood-rock-marshall-crenshaw.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="457" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Hollywood Rock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>A Guide To Rock 'n' Roll in the Movies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Marshall Crenshaw, Plexus Publishing 2014)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><i><strong>Hollywood Rock</strong></i><strong> by Marshall Crenshaw is the definitive guide to films that are associated with rock 'n' roll and I found it to be one of the most fun rock books I've ever come across. Arranged alphabetically, the 300+ films each rate a write-up ranging in length from 1/3 to 1/2 page. Very brief cast listings are followed by a comprehensive summary with basic plot, characters, featured artists and songs. Each entry is also rated on 'Music,' 'Attitude' and 'Fun.' Despite its title, the book is international in scope, including English, Australian and German films among others. An appendix on 'More Rock Films' lists more titles that didn't get a full review for various reasons. If there are any music film buffs out there, be sure to check this one out!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>"Sometime between the advent of rock 'n' roll and the birth of MTV, rock stars took to making feature-length films to showcase their talent, and in the process rock 'n' roll movies became a genre of their own. Recording artist and rock historian Marshall Crenshaw has compiled an appropriately irreverent guide to over 850 rock 'n' roll movies. Hollywood Rock presents the good, the bad, and the ugly of music and movies, every one viewed and described by a writer who has a particular interest in the genre. They provide plot summaries, casting information, and a rating system for well-known rock flicks such as A Hard Day's Night, Jailhouse Rock, Grease, The Girl Can't Help It, The Blues Brothers, and Saturday Night Fever, as well as specialist rockumentaries like Cocksucker Blues, The Last Waltz and D.A. Pennebaker's classic film about Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back. Hollywood Rock is a rock odyssey of films from around the world that not only have rock as a subject, but also films whose soundtracks and subject matter are part of rock culture. An invaluable reference source for the video age, the book is a treasure trove of trivia for rock and film fans alike." (All Music)</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82d9d57db229c32e462086c54de1fdc8d1833d17/original/paperback-writer-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="431" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Paperback Writer: The Life and Times of the Beatles,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>the Spurious Chronicle of Their Rise to Stardom, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Their Triumphs and Disasters,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Plus the Amazing Story of Their Ultimate Reunion (Mark Shipper, 1978) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>I blogged about this book a couple of years ago and recently decided to read it again because I think that it's one of the great lost rock & roll books of all time. Mark Shipper’s </strong><i><strong>Paperback Writer</strong></i><strong> is an off-the-wall satire of the Beatles group history and their reunion (which sadly never happened). Released just before Eric Idle's popular mockumentary, </strong><i><strong>The Rutles</strong></i><strong>, this book's biting satiric tone most probably made its publisher describe it as a novel in order to circumvent any legal action.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Sadly, this book is currently out of print but used paperback copies can be found on various sites for a reasonable price. When reading this cool book, keep in mind that </strong><i><strong>Paperback Writer</strong></i><strong> was written in 1978, well before the deaths of John Lennon and Linda McCartney (Shipper pokes fun at both of them).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Here's a synopsis from the </strong><i><strong>Abandoned and Heartbroke blog</strong></i><strong>: "Even before John Lennon's demise it seemed a new Beatles book was published about every two weeks, and </strong><i><strong>Paperback Writer</strong></i><strong> was in some ways a response to that glut. It is a blissfully funny parody; a fictionalized madhouse version of the Beatles story (the premise being that author Shipper interviewed Ringo Star, lost his notes on the way home and decided to make the whole thing up), and it skewers not only the stifling worship fans have laid on the band but the Beatles themselves. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>The last quarter of the novel has to do with a fictional Beatles reunion, and it's where Shipper's teeth start to sink in longer. Having failed on their own (especially John and Yoko's ill-fated team-up with Sonny and Cher, The Plastic Bono Band), the Fab Four reluctantly and under great pressure return to the recording studio to re-create their magic. Unfortunately, time has taken its toll, and the Beatles are reduced to a spate of uninspired and hilariously terrible songs, such as George's </strong><i><strong>Disco Jesus</strong></i><strong> and John's pean to Gilligan’s Island: '</strong><i><strong>Bob Denver, Jim Backus, each day they attack us, with laughter, fun and mirth</strong></i><strong>!' Their much-anticipated tour is a disaster, as their new material meets with stony silence and righteous anger. Frustrated, the Beatles end their ban on older material, and the moment they hit the first chord of one of their early hits, the crowd goes wild, and all is forgiven. Later, exhilarated but puzzled, the band struggles to understand why fans wanted a reunion, when all they really wanted was the Beatles of old, exactly as they were. 'I guess,' McCartney said as he took his wife’s hand, 'it’s because you can’t live in someone’s past and live in their future, too.'"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Here's more info on the book from the rockcritics.com site: "This 'spurious' re-telling of the Fab Four’s story (it’s in fact classified as a novel) is both factually absurd and emotionally honest. For as silly and as nasty and as far-fetched as Shipper’s telling of the Beatles story gets, you never doubt for a second that he’s writing it from the inside–that is, as a huge fan of the group, as someone whose life was transported by their music, as someone who completely gets it. He chops away at so many pretensions that are part of the Beatles mythology, but it’s not a hatchet job–though it is vicious, in spots–and you feel throughout that he’s poking as much fun at himself and at other critics and at the rest of the Beatles audience as he is at the four members of the group themselves. I love how he twists details from the actual Beatles story way out of proportion–like the way A Hard Day’s Night is played as a Bergmanesque meditation with the lads spending the duration of the film in a library. Even with all of Shipper’s ersatz albums and historical mangling, the book is a very accurate critique of the Beatles’ real-life strengths and weaknesses, especially as the latter attribute manifested itself in much of their solo work. At the time I reviewed PW, John Lennon was of course still with us, which meant that a Beatles reunion was technically possible though highly unlikely. And I think some of us who wrote about music then really didn’t want to see that reunion happen, both because the Beatles would be hard-pressed to recapture their ’60s magic, and because the reunion would be taken as vindication by all the Classic-Rock businessmen, from RS’s Jann Wenner to Cincinnati’s WEBN-FM, which was playing tripe like the Eagles and Elton John and presenting them as the legit heirs of the Beatles. In 1978, I wanted the newer artists–the Ramones, Blondie, Elvis Costello et.al. –to take over the scene, and if that meant that the scattered Beatles should stay out of the way, so be it. I don’t think Mark Shipper was as dialectical about the punk revolt as I was, and yet the conclusion of his Paperback Writer is a bittersweet prediction of the inevitable disappointments inherent in a Beatles reunion. Beneath the radar flashes of his jokes, Shipper was warning all of us not to pin too many hopes on such a tenuous prospect."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d18b13b5f3db10341b019a0eef40339b64829ad2/original/rock-roll-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="360" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Also, from the rockcritics site is this excerpt from an interview William Crain did with former Rolling Stone magazine journalist, John Morthland about Mark Shipper and Paperback Writer: "This is one of the things I've been thinking about since we talked last time and you asked me about really good writers early on that no one's heard of now. The thing is there were some, many I still can't remember the names of now, but a lot of them went on to other stuff as a conscious decision. And he was one of them; I believe he (Shipper) works at an Ad Agency. At that time, he did a certain amount of writing for the rock press, mainly for the sort of off the wall press like Creem and a magazine at that time called Phonograph Record Magazine that was a lot more wide open than something like Rolling Stone. And he wrote at places like that for some time but I don't think he ever aspired to be a professional writer. I could be wrong. When Paperback Writer came out there was absolutely nothing like it at the time, the idea that you could make up the whole history of a band was really great. I think it was eventually picked up by a publisher, but I know he published it himself first. And certainly, within the more rambunctious school of rock writers that book was really a legend, and really cool and just a great idea. And actually no one's really done it since, with another band. Lester Bangs started to do it with the Stones and he gave it up. I've read some of it and you know, it's hard once you've read Paperback Writer, it’s hard to read anything else like that, he did it first and he did it as good as it can be done. It's a really amazing piece of work."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab514f42f856050d92dc59b7b2208e79c98e2840/original/paperback-writer-2.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="520" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Final thoughts: Mark Shipper's </strong><i><strong>Paperback Writer</strong></i><strong> is an essential rock & roll book because it's a madcap satire of Rock Mythology in so many ways. I've always considered that one of rock & roll's most essential qualities is humor and this book proves that in a most brilliant way.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10046efefbc2443e36b7cc80944dbc29033fb772/original/high-on-rebellion-inside-the-underground-at-maxs-kansas-city.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="599" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Yvonne Sewall Ruskin, Thunder Mouth's Press 1998)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><i><strong>High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max’s Kansas City</strong></i><strong> is a heartfelt memoir about one of the all time great rock & roll clubs in New York city. Written by Sewall-Ruskin, the wife of the late Mickey Ruskin (the original owner of </strong><i><strong>Max’s Kansas City</strong></i><strong>), </strong><i><strong>High On Rebellion</strong></i><strong> brings to life the cultural changes taking place in NYC in the 60's and 70's.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://cdn.cms.prod.nypr.digital/gothamistgallery/2016/4/9/0e4cdb323.jpeg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Martin Scorsese Rebuilt Max's Kansas City Yesterday - Gothamist" height="2448" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><i><strong>Max's Kansas City</strong></i><strong>, an all-in-one restaurant-bar-nightclub, opened its doors in December 1965 at 213 Park Avenue South, near Union Square, in Manhattan, just as American popular culture was poised on the brink of a seismic shift whose aftershocks continue to reverberate. Max's quickly became the place to be in the nexus of underground life where art, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and Superstars ignited a cultural conflagration that will never be extinguished. Everyone who was anyone was there (and many Anybodies were there before they became Somebodies): Mick Jagger, Faye Dunaway, Larry Rivers, Jim Morrison, Julie Christie, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Robert Mapplethorpe, John Waters, Halston, Bianca Jagger, Philip Glass, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Fran Lebowitz, Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty, Tuesday Weld, Twiggy, Frank Zappa, Peter Max, Joan Baez, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Velvet Underground - and the list goes on and on. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a783846c6cf1f4a5ebc94d86805e48317816b50a/original/maxs-kansas-city-mickey-ruskin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="232" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Mickey Ruskin (owner of Max's Kansas City night club)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><i><strong>High on Rebellion</strong></i><strong> celebrates Max's with over 200 never-before-published black-and-white photographs of face after famous face, you-could-have-been-there-profiles, memorabilia, and hundreds of personal reminiscences and testimonials: Together these make for a tribute to a place that was like no other, where the creative chemistry of thousands of artists, film-makers, musicians, writers, poets, photographers, models, movie stars, and socialites combusted into the longest-running party in history - and a crucible for the culture and history of an era."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>From the evilcyclist.wordpress.com site: "</strong><i><span><strong>High on Rebellion</strong></span></i><span><strong> reads like an online memorial page — Remember that time… It is not set up in chapters and paragraphs as such, but rather groupings of comments from patrons and employees strung together to form a coherent story. Leee Black Childers also inserts short biographies throughout the text. The big names hung out at Max’s and there is no shortage of name-dropping throughout the book. An employee tells how Mickey told Janis Joplin to leave because she looked dirty and unkempt. That was the same reason Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were not allowed in. Mickey allowed a lot of things but being physically dirty was not one on them. Lou Reed was even interviewed or contributed to the book; but unfortunately, many of the big names are no longer alive. Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jim Morrison and many others have not survived and live as memories in this book. </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>There was also two personalities of Max’s. In the daytime, it was a nice restaurant with monied clients. One story is about a lunch customer that happens to enter Max’s at night. The next day she returns and asks Mickey if he had any idea what went on in this place at night. Night brought out the artists, poets, and musicians and with them came the drugs, drunken debauchery, and wild times. There were times of chaos. The reader will feel this chaos as the story moves from storyteller to storyteller. The reader will almost feel like he or she is in the backroom amongst the mayhem and celebrity. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Artist’s would trade their work for credit which kept many of them fed. Musicians got their first taste of New York there. Bruce Springsteen played there with Bob Marley opening. Aerosmith’s first New York show was at Max’s. Deborah Harry waitressed there. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin visited Max’s. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed were regulars. Max’s was the starting place for many and the hangout for the famous. Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin has put together a piece of music and art history in what feels like a living record. Rather than just documenting she allows the survivors to reenact the history in their own words with little narration. A great history told in a unique way."</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c1898c69f8145253be3ebe924c95a466e82943f8/original/great-jones-street.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="856" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2CzemVg" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Great Jones Street&nbsp;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Great Jones Street </strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Don DiLillo, Houghton Mifflin 1973)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Great Jones Street is an intriguing novel about myth, language & rock & roll. DiLillo creates a master satire of Bob Dylan in the form of rock star Bucky Wunderlick who narrates the story here. DiLillo is a great novelist; he constructs twists and turns that jump out at the reader at the most unexpected times.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>From the Literary Fruit site: "DeLillo’s concepts are pretty </strong><i><strong>far out</strong></i><strong>. He’s always 3 steps ahead, taking every idea to its logical conclusion and often beyond. That makes the book – published in 1973 – less dated than you might expect. It’s interesting – and inevitable – to read it in the context of the author’s subsequent career, which features great novels like White Noise and the towering Underworld. Although there is a lack of set pieces (the tour de force passages you find in Mao II and Underworld, for example), you still get wordy speeches from the characters, and arresting descriptive passages. You can kind of see where it fits into his progression as a writer; it’s a slightly undeveloped grape with elements of the fine wine that is to follow...DeLillo’s visions are uncompromising and occasionally brutal; by contrast his prose is often surprising and can take your breath away with its beauty. The two have to come together well to form a satisfying work."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>From Wikipedia: "Dissatisfied with the life that his fame, fortune, and revolutionary image has bought, Bucky Wunderlick retreats to an unfurnished apartment on Great Jones Street in Manhattan and tries to pare things down. His girlfriend arrives with a sample of a drug that wreaks havoc on the language centers of the brain. His possession of the drug, as well as his iconic status in the counterculture, attracts the attention of a domestic terrorist organization known as the Happy Valley Farm Commune. A skinhead-like offshoot known as the Dog Boys also rampages through Wunderlick's apartment building. Bob Dylan is reputed to be one of the models for the character of Bucky Wunderlick. A key subplot involves the theft of Bucky's unreleased Mountain Tapes. These are clearly inspired by Dylan's Basement Tapes, which would not be released until the summer of 1975 and were still shrouded in mystery. Ambitious but neurotic guitarist Azarian reflects less-than-complimentary stories about The Band's Robbie Robertson. Wunderlick's general sense of withdrawal and contrariness fit the public image of Dylan." </strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/95be4c1b0921a0ca5415ddfd6a708f428c59b8ab/original/remain-in-love-chris-frantz.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="456" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Remain In Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>(Chris Frantz, St. Martin's Press; Illustrated Edition)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>The first time I discovered this book I found it to be an excellent read. The second time I read this book I found it to be extremely wonderful. Chris Frantz, the most level headed Talking Head, does a great job capturing The Talking Heads years of making music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>"Frantz’s book tells the story from his perspective: his upbringing, his art school days and meeting both Tina Weymouth and David Byrne, the three of them decamping to New York to a dingy loft a few blocks from the hallowed CBGB. Through Remain In Love, Frantz traces the earliest sparks of their music, to their downtown Manhattan origins, to their artistic and creative breakthroughs, to the eventual and somewhat abrupt collapse of the band and what came after. In the meantime, a whole host of iconic characters appear — there are lunches with Andy Warhol, there are run-ins with everyone from Patti Smith to Debbie Harry to a random drunk Mick Jagger. It’s portrait of a legendary passage in rock and New York history, told by someone from one of the bands that made that era legendary to begin with. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>While Frantz doesn’t necessarily veer into the goriest or most scandalous directions of other rock memoirs, there’s a fair bit of brutal honesty along the way. A few very famous people show up, and not all of them are portrayed in the most flattering light. That’s maybe truer for David Byrne than anyone. Throughout, Frantz paints a frustrated, confused image of the Talking Heads frontman, repeatedly describing instances of Byrne stealing other people’s ideas, dismissing his collaborators, or generally being unable to be a decent friend. It can be a bit dispiriting to read, even if you might’ve had a sense of it all anyway thanks to the fact that Talking Heads are one of the only remaining great bands that have refused to reunite." 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Chances are, though, if you weren't in the audience, you've never heard the band.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Vagrants started when Peter Sabatino and his buddy Larry Weinstein saw </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15229570"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Beatles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong> at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in August 1964 — literally next door to Sabatino's apartment building — and he and Weinstein decided that this was what they wanted to do. Weinstein's older brother Leslie was a good guitarist, so he joined up. Jerry Storch, whom they knew as a champion bowler at the local lanes, revealed one day that he played piano and had some songs, so they invited him to join.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Weinsteins were thrown out of their basement for making too much noise, and Storch got the manager of the bowling alley to let them set up in its lounge. The last element was a drummer. Roger Mansour met the others one day when the principal called them in to lay down the law about their long hair. Mansour had already been drumming for another band, but The Vagrants sounded more interesting, and anyway, the principal had suspended them all.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>A girl at the bowling alley got them a gig playing a Sweet 16 party, and they got paid $100 for it. More gigs followed, and by early 1965 they were playing one of New York City's coolest clubs, Steve Paul's Scene. Sabatino, Weinstein and Mansour enrolled at Quintano's School for Young Professionals, a high school for performers, and by the summer of 1965 they were approached by two guys with a label, Southern Sound, who asked them if they wanted to make a single. Naturally, they did."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0deaa7e4bda5822aff30c2cba80f6669f074c319/original/vagrants-1.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="896" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6c4765a7c2902592ec6ff5d55be4c6bdf9fe6244/original/vagrants-2.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="787" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://i.discogs.com/45R-u_zKx0TkR5F2nQmHI1Rf8UTqw-e0-PjPqzauiGQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:578/w:578/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1OTM2/MzctMTM5NzQ5NTQz/NS00MDE1LmpwZWc.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Vagrants – Oh Those Eyes (1965, Vinyl) - Discogs" height="578" /><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NxkWcb1ryIA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NxkWcb1ryIA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Vagrants single, </strong><i><strong>Oh Those Eyes</strong></i><strong>, is a bratty, paranoid garage rocker, with snappy guitar work by Leslie Weinstein, but it went nowhere. They got a summer-long gig in Hamptons Bay, on Long Island, and became friendly with a band working one of the other clubs, The Young Rascals. One thing The Rascals had that The Vagrants didn't was a Hammond B-3 organ, an expensive instrument Storch coveted. Returning to Manhattan at the end of the summer, the band wound up at another hot spot, The Rolling Stone — a club run by popular disc jockey Scott Muni — where they played for 18 weeks. A wealthy fan learned that Storch wanted the B-3 and took him to a music store, whipped out $2,500 cash and asked that it be delivered to The Rolling Stone.</strong></span></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Um2MGVZ2LuLBtqVbq3kvpruWAgUNadQ4W0z6Q6_dJR5vho_Z2Z3U3KyCxS_0irtCFgRP_C8f3bSkaQXk3cfyRNJf2rKLOkOpqBnDjmso1TcoCxJIbwyjJwoQgM3pNAr9iYZ1PmWd33_CdCQcsMkcEC-n7_VxCUhUbokJc85ilZ2P-Srsxr6P_Htd/s562/The%20Vagrants%20-%20Photo%2015.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="URBAN ASPIRINES: The Vagrants: The Great Lost Vangrants Album... Plus 1987 + I Can't Make A Friend (1965 - 1968) 2011" height="562" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Vagrants' members were hot. They got residencies in all of Manhattan's best clubs and visiting rock stars sat in with them. One of their gimmicks was to take a hit, like The Beatles' </strong><i><strong>No Reply</strong></i><strong>, and slow it way, way down and turn it into a white soul showcase — a trick Vanilla Fudge later built a career on. A tall, skinny, troubled songwriter, Bert Sommer, began writing material for them, and they made some singles for Vanguard Records, but again, nothing.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f2e65a107cb9e76fda2c04170cb45f93c3be5208/original/vagrants-newspaper-ads.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="2060" /><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/03/29/vagrants_welk-music-group_custom-6e99a45822de892f46018deab5149c7aa4aa4bc3.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Vagrants: A Hot '60s Band, For Exactly Four Years : NPR" height="990" /><img src="https://www.concertarchives.org/image_uploads/photo/image/588392/large_Newsday__Nassau_Edition__Fri__Oct_13__1967_.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="the vagrants Concert Photos | Concert Archives" height="1055" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Vagrants became the house band at </strong><i><strong>The Action House</strong></i><strong> in Long Beach, a place with mob connections, getting $1,500 a show and working 28 days a month. They added pyrotechnics to the show: Bombs would go off at the climax of one of their songs. One night, one of the bomb-boxes under Storch's organ wasn't completely out at the end of the night, and the entire stage — with the B3 — burned, taking The Vagrants' equipment with it. Their booking agency didn't flinch: They re-outfitted the band the next day, so The Vagrants could keep making them money.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>But they still didn't have a hit, so Atco Records, with whom the band had a deal thanks to The Rascals, called in Felix Pappalardi, fresh from producing Cream. He, his girlfriend Gail Collins and Bert Sommer collaborated on "Beside the Sea," a single for The Vagrants to record.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>But again, nothing. By this time, the band had gotten out of control. Larry and Leslie Weinstein fought all the time, most of them were taking drugs, and the lack of success was getting to them. In the summer of 1968, Jerry Storch quit, and although the band staggered on for a while longer, it was over.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Today, Roger Mansour is a missionary in Haiti, Larry Weinstein has a restaurant, Jerry Storch is a rabbi and Peter Sabatino has a catering business when he's not fronting The New Vagrants. Leslie Weinstein? He changed his name to Leslie West and joined Pappalardi to form a band called Mountain. But that's another story.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GkQLyRJItKg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GkQLyRJItKg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f777369592f618b03e5c6b0f52fc0d88a98658e2/original/the-vagrants.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="466" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Here's an excerpt from a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bestclassicbands.com/leslie-west-interview-4-30-18/?fbclid=IwAR0j90VFnuGHOJFkhAdMf7HSytE9Oni8l-mWeOMly7rkxxqvKKGsJ-iA7a4" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Leslie West interview on the Best Classic Bands Website"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Leslie West interview </strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>on the Best Classic Bands Website:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>"Interviewer: The Vagrants were the house band at a joint on Long Island called the Action House. Do you remember it? </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Leslie West: That was the only place that we could work regularly! I remember Billy Joel was with the Hassles, and there was a group called the Illusion, another called the Rich Kids. There weren’t that many groups. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Interviewer: True, but they all had the same blue-eyed soul style, including your band. They were all trying to be like the Rascals, with the Hammond B-3 organ. That’s what we were trying to do. In those days, there weren’t that many places to play. When people say, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Leslie West: I remember the good old days. If you really think back, maybe there were one or two days that were really great and the rest of them were like shit. How many days were really great? I was just learning how to play then—we were making rules up as we went along.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qr8b5ksAyL4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qr8b5ksAyL4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Interviewer: How did the Vagrants come to record Otis Redding’s </strong><i><strong>Respect</strong></i><strong>? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Leslie West: We went up to Atco, Atlantic Records, in New York city, with my manager at the time. We rented the studio and while we were fooling around, Tom Dowd, the famous producer, walked in and heard us. He said to my manager, ‘</strong><i><strong>What label are you guys on?</strong></i><strong>’ My manager said, ‘</strong><i><strong>We’re not on a label</strong></i><strong>,’ and Dowd said, ‘</strong><i><strong>What’s the matter with Atco?</strong></i><strong>’ We turned around and said, “Nothing.” So, he signed us. Then when I recorded </strong><i><strong>Respect</strong></i><strong>, one day I go up to Atlantic, which was on 60th Street and Broadway at the time. I get out of the elevator—I was going to pick up copies of the single. Right in front of me is Otis Redding. I started shitting a brick. There he is in a sharkskin suit and I said, ‘Mr. Redding, this is my group’s single, </strong><i><strong>Respect</strong></i><strong>.’ He looked at it and he signed it, ‘</strong><i><strong>To Leslie with respect</strong></i><strong>.’ I wish I still had it. But Atco signed us by freak. We didn’t have a label. We marched around Broadway, to the Brill Building, knocking on every door trying to get a record deal. You had a demo that you did for $49. It was almost like one of those booths where you record your voice. But this is a real studio, and at the time there were groups going around recording themselves and hopefully they could get a deal out of it. We pounded the pavement and luckily, or unluckily…</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>Interviewer: How did you go from there to Mountain? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>That was really quite a leap. Atlantic assigned a producer to The Vagrants, and the producer was Felix Pappalardi. He hadn’t produced Cream yet and I see this guy coming in and he looks like Sonny Bono, with the mustache and the scarf, and I say, ‘</strong><i><strong>Who’s this fucking guy?</strong></i><strong>’ But we hit it off and he did two singles with us. One of them was </strong><i><strong>Beside the Sea</strong></i><strong> and the other was </strong><i><strong>Sunny Summer Rain</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/25a2e982eb8747b1b7ecc5e6beaf08d7.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="The Vagrants music, videos, stats, and photos | Last.fm" height="988" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><span><strong>From </strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.longislandpress.com/2017/08/18/18-times-rock-history-was-made-on-long-island/" data-link-type="url" contents="The Long Island Press" target="_self"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>The Long Island Press</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><span><strong>:</strong></span><strong> "The mob-connected Action House was paying The Vagrants an exorbitant $1,500-a-night fee for a grueling 28-day-a-month schedule. This led the garage rockers to get creative with their performances. They incorporated pyrotechnics into their act, having fireworks explode as one of their songs reached its peak. One night after a performance, however, a leftover explosive wound up torching the stage along with all of the band’s instruments. This somehow did not throw them off schedule; the booking agency had them equipped with new instruments and ready to play the very next day."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>CONCERT POSTERS FEATURING THE VAGRANTS</strong></span></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiID4W2XIGvIYjfKSyiSrNPg-rGdesT5uMA8uQ-E_0V3RMAGgSfRHf0s26pwymi-JnWcUQdmHXTRfuUSRhhe5FBXC_SinsXZynAew2thet18r9lNT_OmpQCws9_6clAm6cI8DRIibg19bmuZqYh0cflEbodSb3H1wcfqvhIPqeqoNtWhDHxoOzVNBD6/s1000/The%20Vagrants%20-%20Poster%202.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="URBAN ASPIRINES: The Vagrants: The Great Lost Vangrants Album... Plus 1987 + I Can't Make A Friend (1965 - 1968) 2011" height="1000" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmnNbxtdVMP7JPzMe1Jz38UwRpS1C3ZpqIk0zVf2yi3t3RgIKFkULOaq4QgK8uda4DVSf0KdWmzrZuqVeUfjXZH_fpFmMCkqEN3nOU2taDFif2oTbqgETd2QZ5-prTRA4x9hN-X6PCFo0VVnZ1if2zVrs8mvRv2klM7SWJ8dApAU3ABBjPuU40ny8/s976/The%20Vagrants%20-%20Poster%203.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="URBAN ASPIRINES: The Vagrants: The Great Lost Vangrants Album... Plus 1987 + I Can't Make A Friend (1965 - 1968) 2011" height="976" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhcDLlpQqTtLgrZJO3zgCcNlwRFIZeNNXDHfHiBadb5cMBfVyMW_wsQOlsQWEfVcJQYfrptNS5axe6a62fECW-ktkLD1FS8OqPQqpGTpWsnlGdNNiZHvXcAhNwDSSShQWZHXkghP7mQ7-f5RjT7uDi2X365Zn1rIF41CQN6BTcr3JZOhIici8FOfk/s570/The%20Vagrants%20-%20Poster%205.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="URBAN ASPIRINES: The Vagrants: The Great Lost Vangrants Album... Plus 1987 + I Can't Make A Friend (1965 - 1968) 2011" height="570" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2021/01/27/TELEMMGLPICT000249596382_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Leslie West, guitarist and singer with hard rock pioneers Mountain – obituary" height="2500" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>LESLIE WEST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>A multitude of rock guitarists have credited West as an influence on their playing over the years, including Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schenker" title="Michael Schenker"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Michael Schenker</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ramone" title="Johnny Ramone"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Johnny Ramone</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong> among others.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>West was renowned for helping popularize the Gibson Les Paul Jr. guitar, with a single </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-90" title="P-90"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>P-90</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong> pickup, along with the use of Sunn Amplifiers, to create a tone which became his trademark sound. According to former </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_World" title="Guitar World"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Guitar World</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong> editor-in-chief </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Tolinski" title="Brad Tolinski"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Brad Tolinski</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>, West achieved his trademark early '70s guitar tone via a Sunn Coliseum PA that ran on 6550 tubes, rather than a traditional guitar amplifier.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://media.sweetwater.com/api/i/q-82__h-750__f-webp__ha-e2757206ed9e0cde__hmac-6cb3cc1495ce4958d074689f29fc9b5d374ce154/images/guitars/LPSPTVNH/210930136/210930136-body-large.jpg.auto.webp" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="gibson les paul special - tv yellow 1" height="750" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>West frequently used two </strong><i><strong>Les Paul Juniors</strong></i><strong>, one </strong><i><strong>TV Yellow</strong></i><strong> and the other a sunburst. West also used a modified </strong><i><strong>Gibson Flying V</strong></i><strong>, with the neck pickup removed (he used the hole for an ash tray) and a P-90 pickup fitted at the bridge position. West also had a two-pickup Flying V (serial number 906965) which he used after the ‘ash tray’ Flying V broke. West also used a plexiglass Electra guitar, which is a Japanese copy of the better-known Ampeg-made Dan Armstrong guitar, for slide.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f561f97ab945728bfc0f604f724be54a76c7de64/original/sunn-coliseum-pa-head-1967-68.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="218" width="474" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Leslie was also associated with Sunn amplifiers, and used a Sunn Coliseum PA head, when it was shipped to him by accident. He claimed that this is the amp that gave him his signature sound.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>The Sunn amplifiers that West used were of the late 1960s era and were not factory stock. The four-channel amplifier heads' preamps were wired as cascading preamps to channel one, out to the amp's power section. This is what produced the long compressed sustain and distorted overdrive of the great Mountain sound that he is well known for.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://whnt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/12/AP20359804659219.jpg?w=1280" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Leslie West, guitarist of rock band Mountain, has died at 75 | WHNT.com" height="1024" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>R.I.P. 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data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong>Return To All Blog Posts</strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65636732024-03-19T05:30:24-04:002024-03-19T05:30:25-04:00It Happened in 1966: Andy Warhol's Plastic Exploding Inevitable<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b254d4fefd2e253639282d09b99f24a565fa458/original/early-epi-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/607a47fe71b179c801883223fcd1518c8be17741/original/andy-warhols.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"A Pop person is like a vacuum that eats up everything, he's made up</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>from what he's seen. And that's why people are really becoming</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>plastic; they are just fed things and are formed and the people who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>can give things back are considered very talented."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>- Andy Warhol</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Our Story Begins Here....</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"During 1965, Andy Warhol accelerated and amplified his scope to match the culture's momentum. In October, he announced that he was </strong><i><strong>leaving art </strong></i><strong>and staged a happening: a 40-foot long silver balloon was launched into space from the Factory roof. Filled with helium, it was a forerunner of the Silver Clouds that remain a staple of every Warhol retrospective today. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Four days after the helium happening, Warhol travelled to Philadelphia for a major retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. This was planned as something different: Columbia Records executive Norman Dolph was hired as a DJ, while curator Sam Green removed the art from the walls to ensure its safety. The blank space was more like a discotheque than an art gallery. To the sounds of It's All Over Now, Barefootin' and Ian Whitcomb's campy You Turn Me On, the crowd of 2,000-4,000 slowly boiled over. Chanting "we want Andy and Edie", they cornered Warhol and his immediate retinue up a staircase against a closed-off ceiling, which had to be jimmied to assist their escape. Warhol was terrified but thrilled: he had become a rock star.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By this time, Pop Art had become a media sensation, with major articles such as "The ins and outs of Pop Culture" (Life, August 1965). Prominently citing Warhol, Gloria Steinem's piece was so wide-ranging that it made the simple point: Pop had become the condition of contemporary life. Within this climate, Warhol's hook-up with an underground pop group was inevitable. In fact, the Velvet Underground were not the first musicians with whom Warhol sought to collaborate: the Holy Modal Rounders and the Fugs were filmed and photographed performing in the Factory during July 1965. For some reason, it didn't work: the Velvets were younger and more malleable. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Within the context of late 1965, the Velvet Underground would not have seemed too far out. The charts were full of strange sonorities: droning dirges (</strong><i><strong>Ticket to Ride</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>See My Friends</strong></i><strong>), trance-like drug reveries (</strong><i><strong>Mr</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>Tambourine Man</strong></i><strong>), brutally riffing Stax rockers (</strong><i><strong>Satisfaction</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Day Tripper</strong></i><strong>) or monomaniacal on-the-one grooves (</strong><i><strong>Papa's Got a Brand New Bag</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>In the Midnight Hour</strong></i><strong>). There were, however, a few stones in the pathway of the VU's putative pop success. They sang about the wrong drugs: not the beatific allusions inspired by marijuana and LSD, but the desperate void created by heroin. And their attitude and sound instantly polarised audiences - as the Sex Pistols would do, 10 years later. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/william-s-burroughs.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="William S. Burroughs - Quotes, Books & Beat Generation" height="1000" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>William Burroughs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lyricist Lou Reed was inspired by the outcast writers of the 1950s, who charted America's underbelly before it</strong></span> <span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>became fodder for fashion spreads. William Burroughs, James Purdy and Hubert Selby Jr were right off the map, right off the edge of the respectable world, but again they were describing - often in deadpan, demotic prose - a recognizable, empirical reality. The Velvets' secret weapon, John Cale, had studied with the avant-garde composers John Cage and La Monte Young. He wanted to bring down the walls of Jericho with his amplified drones, feeling that music was a revolutionary force that had the power to affect the environment. Rhythm guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Mo Tucker were both from Long Island. They wanted to rock, as in Bo Diddley and motorcycle gangs: bad-ass music for bad-ass people in bad-ass times.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With socialite and model Nico added by Factory film-maker and fixer Paul Morrissey to up their pop quotient, the Velvets became part of Warhol's multimedia environment - first called Up-Tight (unlike Stevie Wonder's exultant single, released in November 1965, this was a feel-bad experience) and then, in April 1966, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. When they teamed up with Warhol, their abrasiveness was amplified into an all-out assault. One of the earliest reviews comes from their 8-13 February 1966 residency at the Cinematheque on West 41st Street. Archer Winsten observed in the New York Post how the VU prodigiously amplified, prepares itself in a tuning session, then produces a rhythmic beat proving that the session may not have been necessary</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.The VU were not ego-driven. At Rutgers University in New Jersey on 9 March 1966, they dressed all in white. The effect, according to Sterling Morrison, was "invisibility". Like a mirror, they were showing America a truth it did not want to face: although they did not start the war in Vietnam, although they did not produce or sell heroin, they got the blame.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In late April, the band recorded the basis of an album at the Scepter Records Studios in New York with Norman Dolph. These nine tracks - different mixes or versions of the songs on The Velvet Underground and Nico, minus There She Goes Again and Sunday Morning - got them the contract with MGM/Verve. (The recordings only came to light 40 years later when an acetate was bought at a New York flea market for 75 cents.) That same April week, Newsweek published its "Pop" issue which highlighted Warhol and the EPI: "What's happening now is happenings - where music, dancing, movies, everything happens at once and assaults all the senses." </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, many strands of art, music and entertainment were all coming to the same point, by different means - the total focus on the instant that is the hallmark of: many eastern religions; the happening; the drug experience; the ecstasy of dancing; the total synaesthesia of Pop Art. After all, as Warhol stated in Newsweek: '</strong><i><strong>I guess it'll all get so simple that everything will be art</strong></i><strong>.'" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/19/velvet-underground" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Guardian"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Guardian</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7bVvB0xS280" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7bVvB0xS280?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3390a09b639ca9ccff8c84a27dfd7d07da24147b/original/lou-reed-and-andy-warhol.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Reed & Andy Warhol</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The intersection of two masters of the late 20th Century, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, resulted in a spontaneous combustion of music, film, poetry, visual effects and underground culture that spawned generations of followers and redefined art in the modern world. Warhol called it The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Andy Warhol had been looking for a rock band to manage, and when he first saw The Velvet Underground, it fired his imagination.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Cale’s droning viola betrayed his classical music training with John Cage and LaMonte Young; Moe Tucker’s primordial drumming and androgynous vibe defined the group’s feel; Sterling Morrison’s primitive guitar stylings and facility on bass and keyboards fleshed out the sound of The Velvet Underground. But it was vocalist and songwriter Lou Reed who attracted Warhol instantly with his streetwise sneer, odes to casual drug use (Heroin, I’m Waiting For The Man), sacrificial death (The Black Angel’s Death Song), sadomasochism (Venus in Furs), and his boyish downtown charm paired with a nonchalant attitude the two shared. When Warhol insisted on the addition of chanteuse and actress Nico as a lead singer for the Velvets, Reed reluctantly obliged, writing Femme Fatale, I’ll Be Your Mirror, and All Tomorrow’s Parties, Warhol’s favorite Velvets song.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89ce7b805367e3bb0a0cddbe0674570b2fbd2b73/original/1966-pei.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warhol seized on the opportunity to create a traveling road show that leveraged his fame and integrated multiple media, showcasing his increasingly experimental films, dancing, poetry and mayhem, along with stroboscopes, slides and projections. This confluence of live music, multi-media and performance art was christened </strong><i><strong>The Exploding Plastic Inevitable</strong></i><strong> and toured the U.S. in select cities for over a year, inciting varying degrees of confusion and hostility...the ripples and repercussions of the EPI would be felt for decades, influencing everything from post-hippie expressionism to punk rebellion, from underground art experimentation to Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group, from bohemian performance poetry slams to EDM raves." (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.themusicsettlement.org/calendar/2019/09/13/when-andy-met-lou-andy-warhol-lou-reed-the-velvet-underground-and-the-exploding-plastic-inevitable-night-1--bop-stop" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Music Settlement"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Music Settlement</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On April 1, 1966, the Velvet Underground and Nico began their residency at 19-25 St. Mark’s Place in the space that would become the Electric Circus, as part of Andy Warhol’s ‘Exploding Plastic Inevitable.’ It was this month-long series of performances, attended by a who’s who of Downtown’s avant-garde and Uptown’s glitterati, which perhaps more than anything shaped the Velvet Underground’s reputation as the leading edge of the radical rethinking of cultural possibilities emerging from New York at this time.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5462b36750636f4394769d7a9f0d10a1263b4446/original/1966-andy-warhol-plastic-inevitable-hill-auditorium-ann-arbor-michigan.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/feca389c8494e977bfdbf1775cf8692699ef7925/original/the-velvet-underground-together-with-andy-warhol-and-factory-performers-gerard-malanga-and-mary-woronov.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Performers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Music: Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dancers: Actress Mary Woronov and Artist Gerard Malanga</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The EPI stemmed from a series of Warhol’s experimentation with the world of rock music and intermedia performances. As early as 1963, Warhol was in the midst of forming a rock band called the Druds with Patty and Claes Oldenberg, Lucas Samaras, Jasper Johns, Walter De Maria, La Monte Young, and Larry Poons. This project, albeit short-lived, demonstrates Warhol’s early engagement and experimentation with music. The installation consisted of excerpts from Eat, Sleep, Kiss, and Haircut, played in a loop with a soundtrack composed by Young consisting of 4 different, singular tones played at maximum volume. An early trial of intermedia performance, the installation was ill-received, called a </strong><i><strong>festival side-show</strong></i><strong> by critics and eventually shown without Young’s loud and imposing soundtrack. Barbara Rubin and Gerard Malanga introduced Warhol to the Velvet Underground in late 1965 at their performance at Café Bizarre. He decided to become their manager, allowing them to practice at The Factory space and placed Nico, a striking German model, actress, and singer, just newly arrived in New York, as their frontwoman. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group’s initial performances were entitled Andy Warhol Up-Tight, first appearing at the annual New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry dinner at the Delmonico Hotel in January 1966. This particular performance included the Velvet Underground and Nico with Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick dancing on stage. Filmmakers Barbara Rubin and Jonas Mekas rushed into the crowd, shoving flood lights and cameras into the faces of the stunned attendees, asking questions such as 'Is his penis big enough?' and 'What does her vagina feel like?' Eventually, the name Andy Warhol Up-Tight morphed into the Erupting Plastic Inevitable and finally the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, dropping Rubin and Mekas, replacing their guerrilla-like assaults with a complete auditory, synesthetic experience. Initially, the EPI was seen as a clash of disparate components and was surprised, confused, and a little amused at the oddity of the production. But Warhol was never one to remain static—the EPI was just one example of his innate ability to thoroughly explore the newest scene while lending his creativity to different media. Diving deeper into my research, the production started to make sense as a cohesive work within the context of Warhol’s other pieces—particularly his experimentation in film...or a total work of art. I realized that the EPI was not simply meant to shock or entertain but to interact with and envelop the audience in a way that made the viewers an essential part of the work.</strong></span><span style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span> <span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.warhol.org/my-mind-was-blown-experiencing-the-warhols-epi-gallery/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="My Mind Was Blown: Experiencing the Warhol’s EPI Gallery"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30, 75%, 60%);"><strong>My Mind Was Blown: Experiencing the Warhol’s EPI Gallery</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/097c12725fe1c3362fe948506d9dc10216d2c23b/original/street-shot-of-the-dom-and-warhol-velvets.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85c2a52a849f5af61411d1263276932870ef6722/original/andy-warhol-new-mod-dom.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/974b3a9d0e58b03bc138ac53267385bb63f1c3b7/original/pei-velvet-image-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1965, after being introduced to the Velvet Underground by filmmaker Barbara Rubin; Andy Warhol became the band's manager and suggested they use the German-born singer Nico (born Christa Päffgen) on several songs. Warhol's reputation helped the band gain a higher profile. He helped the band secure a recording contract with MGM's Verve Records, with himself as nominal </strong><i><strong>producer</strong></i><strong>, and gave the Velvets free rein over the sound they created. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During their stay with Andy Warhol, the band became part of his multimedia roadshow, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which combined Warhol's films with the band's music, which made use of minimalist devices, such as drones. Warhol included the band with his show in an effort to use rock as a part of a larger, interdisciplinary-art work based around. They played shows for several months in New York City, then traveled throughout the United States and Canada until its last installment in May 1967. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The show included 16 mm film projections by Warhol, combined with an amazing light show designed by Danny Williams. Because of the punishing lights, the band took to wearing sunglasses onstage. Early promo posters referred to the group as the </strong><i><strong>erupting plastic inevitable</strong></i><strong>. This soon changed to the </strong><i><strong>exploding plastic inevitable</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/00ae8230ca99d3ac9fdec7e29ddc7e3b9c454af4/original/gerard-malanga-dancing-with-a-whip-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gerard Malanga</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0cbfc61cce3342f961feb628fffe3fb1751a99a6/original/actress-mary-woronov-and-artist-gerard-malanga-dance-to-bands-performing-at-the-multimedia-show-on-may-29-1966.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mary Woronov & Gerard Malanga</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In April 1966, the Velvet Underground began their residency playing with Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable at the Dom, where Factory newcomer Mary Woronov joined in. '</strong><i><strong>Gerard Malanga felt we would be center stage and liven things up</strong></i><strong>,' Woronov said. '</strong><i><strong>So he brought me on with the black leather suit and a whip, and we worked out a dance with a sort of S&M kind of theme</strong></i><strong>.' Their routines were supposed to be dark and theatrical, but they sometimes veered into goofier realms. '</strong><i><strong>For Waiting for the Man, I would lift weights</strong></i><strong>,' Woronov said. '</strong><i><strong>For Heroin, Gerard would run around with a plastic needle that was two feet long and shoot up. It was sort of an act, to music</strong></i><strong>.' Meanwhile, the Velvet Underground unleashed sheets of sound as Warhol slipped colored gelatin slides over film projector lenses or just stood on the balcony, observing the crowded scene." (Downntown Pop Underground, Abrams Press 2018)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b099e1bd776f99c2476cac966813e8ab430f7bb5/original/1966-poor-richards-pei.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In 1968 a fledgling critic by the name of Wayne McGuire sent an unsolicited article to Crawdaddy! magazine proclaiming the Velvet Underground to be '</strong><i><strong>prophets of a new age, of breakthrough on an electronic: intermedia: total scale</strong></i><strong>.' Describing them as '</strong><i><strong>the only true intermedia group in the country</strong></i><strong>,' McGuire situated them within the context of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, or EPI, an overwhelming expanded cinema production collaboratively orchestrated from 1966 to 1967. At the height of its development, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable included three to five film projectors, often showing different reels of the same film simultaneously; a similar number of slide projectors, movable by hand so that their images swept the auditorium; four variable-speed strobe lights; three moving spots with an assortment of colored gels; several pistol lights; a mirror ball hung from the ceiling and another on the floor; as many as three loudspeakers blaring different pop records at once; one to two sets by the Velvet Underground and Nico; and the dancing of Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov or Ingrid Superstar, complete with props and lights that projected their shadows high onto the wall. Advertisements for the EPI emphasized the variety of included effects, touting in addition to Warhol and the music: Superstars Gerard Malanga And Mary Woronov On Film On Stage On Vinyl: Live music, dancing, ultra sounds, visions, lightworks by Daniel Williams; color slides by Jackie Cassen, discotheque, refreshments, Ingrid Superstar, food, celebrities, and movies, including: Vinyl, Sleep, Eat, Kiss, Empire, Whips, Faces, Harlot, Hedy, Couch, Banana, Blow Job, etc., etc., etc. all in the same place at the same time.3 The cumulative effect was one of disruptive multiplicity and layering, as the Velvet Underground, Nico, and other of Warhol's superstars appeared amidst the barrage of sounds, lights, images, and performance. Critics who saw the shows consistently labeled the effect '</strong><i><strong>decadence</strong></i><strong>' or '</strong><i><strong>perversion</strong></i><strong>.' The showing of such anodyne films as Eat (1964), they more consistently pointed to such scenes as Malanga's sadomasochistic reprogramming in Vinyl (1965); Mario Montez's drag in films like Harlot (1964), Mario Banana (1964), and More Milk, Yvette (1965); the slyly allusive activity of Blow Job (1964); or the explicitly pornographic engagements in Couch (1964) were all accompanied by the Velvet Underground's lengthy, atonal improvisations and dark, provocative songs like </strong><i><strong>Heroin</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Venus in Furs</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Sister Ray</strong></i><strong>." (My Mind Split Open - Center For Comparative Media)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7A7wA3zbSZ0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7A7wA3zbSZ0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30d23083ffd9ea57a2725a78f5cb289bb2da5385/original/ronald-namath-image-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Interview with Filmmaker and Photographer Ronald Namath </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On filming Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(www.bauhaus-imaginista.org):</strong> </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronald Namath: Before filming Exploding Plastic Inevitable (or EPI), I was living in Chicago, and studying at the Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus) from 1962–67 (B.S. in Photography, 1965; M.S. in Cinematography, 1967). The method of teaching used at the Institute of Design (or ID) allowed one to explore various media so as to fully understand the nature of any particular medium and its creative potential. This was in contrast to the established method of teaching, which involved learning a particular tradition or style of art. The Bauhaus method encouraged one to explore creative possibilities within any particular medium, without limitations. It’s very much the difference between teaching and learning. With teaching, someone tells you how to do it; with learning, you discover for yourself the essentials through your own experimentation. Added to this was art history, which provided a perspective on one’s own explorations. This combination of medial exploration and art history proved an excellent way to explore the mediums of photography and film. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The initial exploration of the photographic medium at ID involved working with light, paper and chemicals, without a camera. Light and dark shapes were created solely through the interaction of chemical and light. The next phase was to include objects on the paper and expose these to light. In addition, the various chemicals were used in an experimental manner to create imagery. All this provided a broad understanding of the medium of photography. One of the most significant ways I learned to explore photography (and one that later had a strong influence in the making of EPI) involved printing multiple negatives superimposed together. This allowed multiple levels of space/time to be experienced simultaneously, an effect that would eventually be used in the editing of Exploding Plastic Inevitable to provide an immersive experience similar to the original EPI multimedia events.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Are there artistic techniques that you learned at the ID that were used for Exploding Plastic Inevitable?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronald Namath: My experience of this learning method was the fundamental ground for filming—and much later, being able to recreate Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable using digital technology. The strategy I used while filming the EPI, addressed in your last question, was based of some of the basic visual elements I first experimented with in my 8mm films.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>How did it happen that you filmed the Exploding Plastic Inevitable?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronald Namath: Having extensive prior experience with immersive and multiple-screen projections environments, I realized that it was such a significant event that it should be filmed. I inquired and learned that it had had not been filmed yet by anyone. So, I made plans to do recordings of it when it came to Chicago. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What kind of venue did the EPI take place in and how many people attended the shows?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronald Namath: Warhol premiered the Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the Velvet Underground and Nico on the lower east side in New York City in late April of 1966. It opened at the Dom and performances during that month were sold out. It attracted all types of people—uptown socialites like Jackie Kennedy, downtown poets like Allen Ginsburg and Barbara Rubin, artists, musicians and Midtown career people. It also attracted a great deal of publicity and was a major news happening at the times, with many news crews on the scene, including Walter Cronkite, then America’s most well-known news anchor. The EPI was a raging success. Warhol’s immersive media projection environment/discotheque created a new art form. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the success of the EPI in New York, Warhol arranged for the Velvet Underground to cut their first LP album at Scepter Records, which later became the infamous disco Studio 54. The EPI then went on tour to Los Angeles and San Francisco. It came to Chicago in June of 1966 for a week of shows at Poor Richard’s, a nightclub with space for a couple hundred people. It previously had been a church … not a traditional church, but some kind of a free church. It was a big hall without windows, filled with lights shows and projections, no air conditioning, people dancing and very humid air.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/173c0608988f3198e46a2d4e1fcfab63a8c8ed1b/original/velvet-underground-concert-poster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Larry McCombs’ account of his experience at</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poor Richard’s, Chicago, 24 June 1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It’s hot, godawful, sticky, sweaty, miserable hot. The Place is jammed and there’s hardly room to move. The waitress does her best, but it takes a while to get your drink and you’re dying of thirst. There’s all sorts of mirrors and lights overhead, some of them rotating. Lights shining and blinking in a complex pattern, up one wall and along another. Red dots start moving through and around and among them, in a different pattern (or is it the same?) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suddenly on the side wall there’s a black and white movie, poor quality, like a badly done home movie, of a man eating. He eats slowly, savoring each bite, staring blankly off into space. He goes on eating. Music and noise begins to come from somewhere. Now on the end wall there’s another movie. People moving around–a girl?–several boys–one tall, well-built blonde, lifting weights, posing, dressed in Levis and open black leather jacket with a white T-shirt underneath. He moves with a strange combination of cruelty and sensuous delight. The man on the side wall goes on eating, staring blankly at this scene once in a while. The lights continue to dance over and through the movies. The music gets louder; a voice begins to talk but you can’t understand the words; there are shouts and screams occasionally. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There’s a man strapped to a chair, stripped to the waist, being whipped. Are those his screams? No, they aren’t in time. The man goes on eating. The girl smokes. Is she part of the whipping scene, or has she somehow slipped over from the eating movie? The music is very loud now, with a driving rock and roll beat. The muscular blonde is moving slowly about with a whip which he curls about his body. Suddenly, he flings himself into dance, while the whipping goes on behind him. Suddenly that film moves to the top of the screen and below it appears another view of the same scene, earlier or late? The whipping is in the foreground, or is it a dance? Lights, noise, screams, - the man on the side of the wall eats slowly, fondles a cat, stares at the audience. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Various tortures, fights, dances–all mixed together, Inextricable. Lights shining unbearably bright in your eyes. Dancing lights on the wall. Nasty torturous dancing with whips and lighted matches. The man eats, watches, watches you. Louder, faster, noisier. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suddenly the films end. The noise and music go on. Several people have appeared from somewhere. They stand in front of the screen, tuning instruments. The noise of their tuning, the electric buzzes and hums, begins to blend with the noise and music from the films. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then they gradually take over. Behind them on the wall are movies of a girl. One, two, several views of her in different movies. Close-up, far away, they begin to zoom in and out in time with the music. Eyes, mouths, noses, she stares, blinks, licks her lips. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On stage now is the cruel blonde man, with his whip, dancing with the tall masculine blonde girl in silver lame costume. The lights have become a dim blue flicker, but a flicker that goes faster and slower and pauses now and then, just as your eyes get used to each kind of flicker. Dancers on the floor, with huge strips of silver material that flash above their heads as they dance. Clean-cut, straight looking kids, working hard at dancing to the noise. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DAEGU4OtzGg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DAEGU4OtzGg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bright green and red spotlights, the dancers silhouetted on the walls in great grimacing poses. The musicians occasionally revealed, sweating over their instruments, grinding out a noise that has music in it somewhere. They’re watching the movies, watching each other, watching you. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Too much happening–it doesn’t go together. But sometimes it does –suddenly the beat of the music, the movements of the various films, the pose of the dancers, blend into something meaningful, but before your mind can grab it, it’s become random and confusing again. Your head tries to sort something out, make sense of something. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The noise is getting to you. You want to scream, or throw yourself about with the dancers, something, anything. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The noise builds to a climax and ends. The dancers pause. Everyone looks a bit weary. The musicians diddle around with their instruments and amplifiers. The lights and films go on. One of the musicians is a girl. Or is it? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They start again. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There’s an electrified violin making horrible bag pipe sounds against the noisy background. It’s grating, terrible, and yet your mind latches onto that bit of tune against all the chaos. It’s almost a relief. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The films are doing strange things. The blonde girl becomes a brunette–girl or boy? Showers of colored lighs suddenly burst upward from the drums with a crash of cymbals and shoot across the ceiling and walls like a fireworks burst. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The dancers on the floor are looking tired and ecstatic and bored, all at once. The music gets noisier, the viola is frantically screaming a tune, higher and higher. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the screens, some of the views of the girl are replaced by films of the blonde boy and silver lame girl, dancing, fighting, torturing each other with the whip. The real pair are there too, making weird shadows on the wall, the boy dancing, but writhing in torment with his hands over his head. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="FBfnukdsmSs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FBfnukdsmSs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The music is lost in the chaos of noise. Are there children chanting or singing? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The amplified viola goes higher and higher, becomes a shriek, a feedback noise, a regular dit-dah-dit of unbearable Morse code screaming above the other noise. It all builds to a tremendous climax. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then it goes on and on and on and on. You wish it would stop. The musicians build wilder and wilder. The drummer hits a shuddering beat that you feel through the floor. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HsR4ghMfq0U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HsR4ghMfq0U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It’s all coming to an end. But it doesn’t. It goes on. The lights flash in your eyes. The noises all blend into one and your mind tries to sort out little bits of rhythm and tune. The screaming Morse message is still there, but you only hear now when you listen for it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The dancers on the floor are sweating, looking like they can’t bear any more of it all. But it goes on and on. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Finally it all comes to a shuddering screaming end, the music and noise die down, the films flicker out. Only the colored lights still dance across the walls. The musicians and dancers leave, looking wilted. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You sit there for a while, finally find your waitress, finally leaves, it’s hot. What can you say?"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff81159d04ee14c5f9cba1ee5448f73d29b9450a/original/boston-tea-party-1967-epi.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nico & Velvet Underground </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ferris Wheel </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9a59c9be05a9e2a46d3936c2e88b715b69b9343f/original/boston-tea-party-film.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(1967, sound, color, 33 mins. Dir: Andy Warhol)</strong>: </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques. Sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound. It is a significant find indeed for fans of the Velvets, being one of only two known films with synchronous sound of the band performing live, and this the only one in color. It’s fitting that it was shot at the Boston Tea Party, as the Beantown club became one of the band’s favorite, most-played venues, and was where a 16-year-old Jonathan Richman faithfully attended every show and befriended the group. Richman, who would later have his debut recordings produced by John Cale, and later yet record a song about the group, is just possibly seen in the background of this film.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27daa77f0db7dac88d20fede8c67601afbcf3958/original/pei-the-trip-sunset-strip-la.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The day after the Velvet Underground's 2 May contract with MGM Records began, they began what was intended as a two-week residency at the Trip on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It was advertised on the back page of KRLA Beat newspaper - </strong><i><strong>FLIP OUT! SKIP OUT! TRIP OUT!</strong></i><strong> (a Donovan quote from his song about the club) - with the logo of the Trip itself: a cartoon of Batman in profile. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By then, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a barrage of flashing lights, multi-screened films, sadomasochistic mime, and music amplified beyond distortion to the point of pain. It was the most fully worked-out staging, up to this time, of the high 60s Pop drive towards the dissolution of hierarchies, linear perception, and overt meaning. In LA the entourage were staying in the Castle (a haunt, at different times, of Bob Dylan and Love) and Warhol himself was bathed in mass media: offers of TV work - introducing a series of '</strong><i><strong>campy movies</strong></i><strong>', doing a TV interview, reading bad reviews of the EPI ('</strong><i><strong>I think people will come if there is a really terrible one</strong></i><strong>'). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Paltridge, a West Coast journalist, picks up the story three weeks later in San Francisco. In the intervening period, the Velvets and the EPI had been stranded in LA, caught in two legal disputes, in one of which they were suing the Trip's owners for the balance of their contract: $3,000. This incident has been presented as an example of West Coast hostility to the VU, but there was another possible factor.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e54067d827b18abe37ca143e4d9fcb99c3dae7ae/original/pei-1967-fillmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The real hostility began in San Francisco, where the Exploding Plastic Inevitable show arrived on 27 May. The first signs were encouraging. The Chronicle ran a favorable interview on 23 May. Four days later, the paper printed another interview by columnist Merla Zellerbach, who faithfully reproduced bon mots like '</strong><i><strong>we're pop people, formed by television</strong></i><strong>'. Asked to explain the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Warhol simply said: '</strong><i><strong>It's a totality</strong></i><strong>.' Paltridge's lapidary description of the show pictures a relaxed enough scene. The Fillmore audience includes '</strong><i><strong>teeny-boppers, lots of teeny-boppers; hairdressers on leave and their dates, smart hippies and sloppy hippies</strong></i><strong>'. The assault begins slowly: 'Paul goes off to round up the Velvets. Andy starts one of the projectors. Giant picture of Nico eating a candy bar...Andy turns on another projector. Giant picture of Edie Sedgwick in black bra and panties sitting on an unmade bed with a handsome boy wearing jockey shorts. '</strong><i><strong>What you mean, Andy?</strong></i><strong>' asks Edie's voice over the loudspeaker. The Velvets set up their equipment. Nico comes out on stage. Nico: '</strong><i><strong>The song is I'll Be Your Mirror.</strong></i><strong>'" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This </strong><i><strong>successful shock therapy</strong></i><strong> did not go down well, however, with the cheerleaders of the San Francisco scene. Paul Morrissey provoked the Fillmore's owner, Bill Graham, into an explosion that Warhol recalled with relish in POPism: 'You disgusting germs from New York! Here we are, trying to clean up everything, and you come out here with your disgusting minds and whips!'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During that month, Verve also released the Velvet Underground's first single: All Tomorrow's Parties, backed with I'll Be Your Mirror. The label printed off a few hundred promo picture sleeves, depicting the group in a narrow band of light: a window into another world peopled by strange, blank-looking young men and androgynous women. Sung by Nico, the lyric was </strong><i><strong>a very apt description of certain people at the Factory at the time</strong></i><strong>, Lou Reed later told journalist David Fricke; 'I kept notes of what people said, what went on, and those notes would go directly into songs.' All Tomorrow's Parties was a snapshot of the Factory at its height: the parties, the ragged costumes, the ego peeled open like a banana once the speed had worn off. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The music was avant-garde in the extreme: it was one of the first pop songs to use prepared piano (where the instrument has its sound altered by placing external objects on the strings or between the keys) and a kind of prepared guitar (all of the strings on Reed's guitar were tuned to D). Then this was edited into a two-minute 52 seconds single mix. Nico also sang the flip, </strong><i><strong>I'll Be Your Mirror</strong></i><strong>. Warhol suggested that the single be pressed with a built-in scratch to make it repeat on the title phrase - although at that point the technology was not there. In total, this was an information-packed, content-rich 45, a total Pop Art product: nothing could have been more NOW.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The show went out on the road again in late autumn, but the timing was off. The pop sensation of the moment was the Beach Boys' </strong><i><strong>Good Vibrations</strong></i><strong>: positivity and California were in, New York negation out. December 1966 saw the issue of the second Velvet Underground single: </strong><i><strong>Sunday Morning/Femme Fatale</strong></i><strong>. It sold even less. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even though pop culture was changing around them, their momentum of 1966 carried Warhol and the Velvet Underground into 1967 with hardly a break. In March, the same month that Marshall McLuhan published his ground-breaking survey of the high 60s, </strong><i><strong>The Medium is the Massage</strong></i><strong>, The Velvet Underground and Nico was released. Despite the fact that some of the material had been recorded months earlier, the album had been delayed by production problems and, it was later claimed, music industry politics.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The presentation of the Velvet Underground's album was lavish: a gatefold sleeve, beautifully printed color photos of the group and the EPI, and plentiful notes. Despite the lavish package and the quality of the music, the album grazed the Billboard Top 200 and then disappeared. This failure - for all concerned still thought in terms of pop, ie chart success - spelt the end of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which performed for the last time in May 1967, at Steve Paul's the Scene club in New York. The group split from Warhol soon after. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The EPI's sophisticated yet brutal mixture of film, art, music, fashion and mediation revealed roiling emotions that were too much for the pop culture of the time, but its influence has been as vast as it is uncontested. The EPI now seems like a basic blueprint for the multimedia anesthesia of 21st-century pop culture - a vision for the future that came to pass. OMM!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ec41d99028359a06775b8c794b97a672fceb1e0/original/pei-warhol-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cb67c6a4eccf93179d2f11a72bc4c9e2904ac8a9/original/1968-velvet-underground-shrine-aud-la.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e26a8b678af66931868474e8673e67f4967755e9/original/pei-chrysler-art-museum-provincetown-ma.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bc7e85b5d6bc40c6d88cb89e16cb513f63f45832/original/1966-velvets-valleydale-ballroom-columbus-oh.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"For The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the late Autumn saw a trudge around the Midwest, playing to small and barely appreciative crowds. Confronted b the titanic instrumental blasts @ the Valley Dale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio, on November 4th managed only a few desultory claps and a couple of muted shrieks of recognition when Nico, still the featured performer, came up front to sing her numbers. Two days later, the EPI played Cleveland; the review in the local paper stated, '</strong><i><strong>What Happened? NOTHING</strong></i><strong>!' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The EPI was not concerned with psychedelia, even though it took on some of its appurtenances; the idea of total immersion in a multimedia environment; the idea that the audience was part of the performance. Having had its publicity peak in the spring, it was in dancer of becoming passe. It became obvious that he tide was slowly ebbing away from the EPI." (</strong><i><strong>Jon Savage, Faber & Faber, 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded</strong></i><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7904733a33d0928c7be847094342371c8baf5548/original/epi-october.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9cf6f0c6ddd00dc24a9bfdffc4738bee9b688231/original/pei-ad-1966.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Today, the Grand Valley Dale Ballroom sells itself as the leading special event and banquet facility in Columbus, Ohio. 'Getting married at the Grand Valley Dale Ballroom,' its website says, 'is Oh! So! Romantic!' At least part of the romance lies with the ballroom's history as a music venue, where Frank Sinatra and Perry Como trod the boards: 'The History of Valley Dale,' runs the slogan, 'is a Story of Good Times.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For some reason, the Story of Good Times neglects to mention the night in 1966 when Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable came to town. On stage, amid strobe lights and Warhol's films, the Velvet Underground and their German singer, Nico, played a set of songs you could claim, without hyperbole, would change rock music for ever: Heroin, I'm Waiting for the Man ("it's about scoring dope," deadpanned Lou Reed), All Tomorrow's Parties, Venus in Furs. Judging by the lo-fi recording included on this six-CD box set, the audience appears to have received the lot in horrified silence.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You can mock their lack of foresight – the very sound and vocabulary of rock music is expanding before their very ears and they seem to hate it – but can you really blame them? On the most prosaic level, by the time they get to the future classics, they've already been subjected to the erroneously titled, 27-minute long Melody Laughter. It begins with formless noise, the feedback alternately shrieking and groaning like wood under stress. After about a quarter of an hour, it resolves itself into something vaguely approaching a song, albeit one decorated with improvised vocals by Nico: not, it has to be said, one of music's natural scat singers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The giant musical screw-you that constituted their opening number aside, how could anyone in 1966 have hoped to get a grasp on the Velvet Underground's music? Some call the album on which some of these songs were released a few months later the most influential record in rock history: certainly, it's hard to imagine what rock music would sound like today if the album had never existed. But nearly half a century after it was released, it still feels mysterious and unknowable. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With hindsight, you can hear vague intimations of music that came before it. At one extreme, the drone of John Cale's viola was informed by the avant-garde minimalists with whom he'd studied before joining the band, while the piano thumping through All Tomorrow's Parties and I'm Waiting For the Man had its roots in LaMonte Young's X for Henry Flynt, which "required the performer to repeat a loud, heavy sound every one to two seconds as uniformly and as regularly as possible for a long period of time". At the other, there was R&B: There She Goes Again famously pinched its vamp from Martha and the Vandellas' Hitch Hike, while Maureen Tucker learned her ultra-primitive drumming style playing along to Bo Diddley albums. Lou Reed's obsession with free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman must have informed some of its dissonance, while his love of doo-wop is evident in the album's gorgeous ballads; an example of which is </strong><i><strong>Sunday Morning</strong></i><strong>, which carries a distinct hint of the eerie, reverb-drenched atmosphere of the Flamingos' </strong><i><strong>I Only Have Eyes For You</strong></i><strong> or Nolan Strong and the Diablos' remarkable 1954 single </strong><i><strong>The Wind</strong></i><strong>. But they're vastly outweighed by moments that defy any rational explication. Even today, you listen to Heroin, lurching from its measured, vaguely folky opening to screaming noise and back again, or </strong><i><strong>All Tomorrow's Parties</strong></i><strong> – a kind of glorious, stately din – and think: how did anybody end up sounding like this?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even the Velvet Underground themselves sound a little confused at the new terrain they're mapping out – among a selection of rehearsals taped at Warhol's Factory lurks a recording of an increasingly frustrated Reed attempting to teach Venus in Furs to a baffled Nico: '</strong><i><strong>It goes 'Strike dear mistress and cure his heart.</strong></i><strong>' '</strong><i><strong>VOT?</strong></i><strong>' That seems to have been almost everyone's initial reaction to The Velvet Underground & Nico. Now, 45 years on, it's as enigmatic and resistant to explanation as ever. All you can do is succumb to it." 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Bill Haley and his Comets had existed in an earlier, more country-flavored form as The Saddlemen but by the time they were ready to rock, they changed their name as Bill Haley & The Comets in 1952. Their frontman (Bill Haley) was already a veteran of many years of showbiz striving, paying the bills any and every way, including as a western swing showman.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As time went on, Haley and The Comets suddenly had an unlikely phenomenon in the delivery room of rock’n’roll. In terms of the mark they left on popular culture and the fondness with which they are remembered, Bill Haley and the Comets will always be remembered by rock & roll fans around the world.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.originalcomets.org/images/bill2-haley-and-the-comets-.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="Bill Haley & the Comets – Rocks Pioneers! | PopBopRocktilUDrop" height="432" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Haley was 30 years old when </strong><i><strong>Rock Around The Clock (</strong></i><strong>which was his signature song), suddenly became a gigantic hit in 1955 when the song was part of the soundtrack for the juvenile delinquent movie </strong><i><strong>Blackboard Jungle</strong></i><strong>. In short order, Haley appeared in another movie called </strong><i><strong>Don't Knock The Rock</strong></i><strong> which featured Haley as he appeared on the screen alongside Little Richard. Overnight, Rock & Roll had suddenly appeared on all of the teenage radio stations across the USA!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZgdufzXvjqw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZgdufzXvjqw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When </strong><i><strong>Rock Around the Clock</strong></i><strong> appeared as the theme song of the 1955 film </strong><i><strong>Blackboard Jungle</strong></i><strong> starring </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Ford" title="Glenn Ford"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Glenn Ford</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, it soared to the top of the American </strong><i><strong>Billboard</strong></i><strong> chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the </strong><i><strong>rock era</strong></i><strong> and the music industry that preceded it. </strong><i><strong>Billboard</strong></i><strong> separated its statistical tabulations into 1890–1954 and 1955–present. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://img.texasmonthly.com/2011/05/Faling-Comet-0001-1-e1484190261844.jpg?auto=compress&crop=faces&fit=crop&fm=jpg&h=1400&ixlib=php-3.3.1&q=45&w=1400" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Falling Comet – Texas Monthly" height="1400" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the record rose to number one, Haley became widely popular by those who had come to embrace the new style of music. With the song's success, the age of rock music began overnight and ended the dominance of the jazz and pop standards performed by Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Eddie Fisher, and Patti Page. </strong><i><strong>Rock Around the Clock</strong></i><strong> was also the first record to sell over one million copies in both </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK" title="UK"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Britain</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Germany</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hsQAAOxy4fVTELO3/s-l1200.webp" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK" height="943" /><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6ssSp7AiubA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ssSp7AiubA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The following year, Haley would quickly appear in the first real rock'n'roll film </strong><i><strong>Don't Knock the Rock</strong></i><strong> alongside Little Richard.</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VAY2Nqu6i-c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VAY2Nqu6i-c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Haley went on to have a worldwide hit with </strong><i><strong>Shake, Rattle and Roll</strong></i><strong>, another rhythm and blues cover in this case from </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Turner" title="Big Joe Turner"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Joe Turner</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, which went on to sell a million copies and was the first rock 'n' roll song to enter the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" title="UK Singles Chart"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Singles Chart</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in December 1954, becoming a gold record. He retained elements of the original (which was slow blues), but sped it up with some country music aspects into the song (specifically, Western swing) and changed up the lyrics. Haley and his band were important in launching the music known as </strong><i><strong>Rock and Roll</strong></i><strong> to a wider audience after a period of it being considered an underground genre.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RsGgcOZWQLQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RsGgcOZWQLQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Haley and the Comets were the first rock and roll act to appear on American musical variety series the </strong><i><strong>Ed Sullivan Show</strong></i><strong> on August 7, 1955, on </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBS</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in a broadcast that originated from the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Shakespeare_Theatre" title="American Shakespeare Theatre"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shakespeare Festival Theater</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in Stratford, Connecticut. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/5/22/1400767560381/Bill-Haley--His-Comets-011.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="Bill Haley: Rock Around the Clock – the world's first rock anthem | Music | The Guardian" height="276" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Later on in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe. Sadly, Bill Haley's popularity was soon being eclipsed in the United States by the younger </strong><i><strong>Elvis Presley</strong></i><strong>, but Haley and The Comets continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia during the 1960s.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/9e/41/499e4117018fef7745d54dc1ff5d02b1.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, 1955. The fathers of rock and roll. | Elvis presley photos, Bill haley, Elvis presley" height="431" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eventually Bill Haley was surpassed by the popularity of Elvis Presley. Even though Bill Haley wanted to get back to country music, Haley was obliged to keep churning out his hits and, worse, writing and singing generic rock'n'roll songs with anonymous Comets (about 100 in total can claim to have been in his backing band). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/kennydenton.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Bill-Haley-Studio-2-Wembley.png?resize=641%2C1024&ssl=1" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Bill Haley My First Meeting With a True Charismatic Star" height="1024" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From Texas Monthly: "Twenty-five years later, he was holed up in a pool house in Harlingen, drunk, lonely, paranoid, and dying. After three decades of silence, his widow and his children told the story of Bill Haley's years in Texas and his sad final days.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>I</strong></span><strong>n the last desperate months of his life, Bill Haley would come into the local restaurant at all hours of the day and take a seat, sometimes at the counter and other times in one of the back booths. He was always alone. He wore a scruffy ball cap, and behind his large, square glasses there was something odd about his eyes. They didn’t always move together. More often than not he would order coffee—black—and sometimes a sandwich, maybe turkey with mayo. Then he’d light up a Pall Mall and look out the window or stare off into space. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After a while, though, Bill Haley would start to shift in his seat and look around. And then he’d start to hum </strong><i><strong>(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock)</strong></i><strong>, the best-selling rock song of all time. Haley was hoping that people would hear him and say, ‘</strong><i><strong>You’re Bill Haley, aren’t you?</strong></i><strong>’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eventually Bill Haley would turn to the person next to him or even rise and walk over to a nearby table. The patrons would look up at the tall stranger looming over them. ‘</strong><i><strong>You know who I am?</strong></i><strong>’ he’d ask. ‘</strong><i><strong>I’m Bill Haley!</strong></i><strong>’ Then he’d take off the cap and they’d see the curl, and he’d pull out his driver’s license and they’d see his name. Sure enough, there it was: </strong><i><strong>William John Clifton Haley</strong></i><strong>. 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As time went on, I spent endless afternoons in school daydreaming about Wolf's music which ultimately led to how I ended up getting up onstage to play music in the first place. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3da5803ec9d822bb38cd7d06a0c2b97d4bedbc7d/original/howlin-wolf-recordings.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/340678-Howlin-Wolf" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Howlin Wolf's&nbsp;music"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Howlin Wolf's music</strong></span></a> <span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>served the same basic function as that old school book, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. &amp; E.B. White"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr, and E.B. White</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s</strong></span><strong> </strong><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> succinct instruction on how to work with the written word. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For me, Wolf's music provided much of the same type of instruction; the difference being that Wolf's music gave me a template through which I discovered how to transform pure expression into music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/24714caa0207a2ccbeb82ea634be69f49da2af0e/original/1966-verdun-france.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first time I had ever heard Howlin Wolf's music was back in 1966 when some kid brought in a Howlin Wolf single to our music appreciation class at school. </strong><i><strong>"Music appreciation class?!" </strong></i><strong> Yes, they actually had classes like that back in the day! Speaking of which, I distinctly remember that I ended up getting kicked out of music appreciation class once for jumping up and dancing when the teacher played</strong></span> <span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Bread Butter & Egg Man</strong></i><strong> by Louis<u> </u>Armstrong. I guess I was appreciating the music a little too much, eh? </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3dd94c1375290e76166445b8cfa2b4087c8a0b6f/original/howlin-wolf-single.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Howlin Wolf song that was on that 45 rpm single that changed my life forever was a tune called </strong><i><strong>Moanin' At Midnight</strong></i><strong>; a song which provided me with a magical gateway to much of Howlin Wolf's work. </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://www.americanbluesscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Howlin.Wolf_.tumblr_m42zreXwcs1rulrbfo1_1280.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="C.C. Rider the Venerator: Howlin' Wolf – American Blues Scene" height="933" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Moanin' At Midnight</strong></i><strong> filled the room with a crazed voice that lapsed into a kind of talking-in-tongues trance mode that was shackled together with an ample helping of rusty harmonica wheeze along with Hubert Sumlin's guitar part that weaved n' bobbed around the song like a drunken sailor. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rMGvXoitlLI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMGvXoitlLI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The sounds that were swirling around my head had me taken aback. This recording struck me as an incandescent romp in which the Wolf-man shrieked and moaned his way through the song in a manner that left me gasping for breath. Really. </strong></span></p><img src="https://www.jazzmessengers.com/61265-thickbox_default/philosophers-stone.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Wolf Is at Your Door - Jazz Messengers" height="800" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For me it was the beginning of how the true sound of music came to exist in my imagination. It was the start of hearing the world differently and presented itself as an invitation to the dark spirit that lingers within us all. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2cd31c189f600d106a7d41f0fe886b814f47bd30/original/chef-from-hell-banner.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="2448" width="3264" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As I write this blog post, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'm reminded of two of my favorite Howlin Wolf stories. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first one took place back in the 1980's. Besides making music, I slung hash for a living and was the Chef & part owner of The Bayou, a Cajun restaurant in Bellmore, NY called The Bayou. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e52b7265aa96e21602a8918047336a37af564fb8/original/myf-11.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="1151" width="1544" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mighty Young Fish:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Goldstein, Billy “The Mountain" Cairns, Mark Mancini, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre & Peter Conway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Several times a month, I'd do a show with a band called The Mighty Young Fish; a band I was working with at the time. One night we we're cranking along, playing </strong><i><strong>Little Red Rooster</strong></i><strong>, a classic Willie Dixon song that Howlin Wolf made famous, when I suddenly saw a heavy-set woman who looked like one of Tina Turner's Ikettes gone to seed. The lady started waving both of her hands in the air, motioning me to come over and have a word with her. As soon as we brought </strong><i><strong>Little Red Rooster</strong></i><strong> to a close, she's comes over and whispers in my ear: </strong><i><strong>"I got a friend outside who wants to sit in with you guys." </strong></i><strong> Really? Hmmm... awright, what the hell... I tell her to have her friend come on up and join us on the bandstand. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/abc63dd75c62ec7f64e749a731b0c9a2134ebbd2/original/hubert-sumlin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="442" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hubert Sumlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Much to my surprise, a thin fella with graying hair steps up and it turns out to me none other than Howlin Wolf's guitarist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Sumlin" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Hubert Sumlin"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hubert Sumlin</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>! Seeing as it was the one and only Hubert Sumlin sitting in with us, we went on and played a bunch of Howlin Wolf songs. Later on, Hubert packed up his guitar, got into the gold Cadillac that he had arrived in and drove off into the Long Island night with his Ikette lady friend. I never saw Hubert Sumlin again and, for many a year afterwards, I always wondered to myself if I really did play with Hubert Sumlin that night or was it some kind of bizarre daydream. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/00a964c67c5eea1ec439d3e90a58378e465de679/original/howlin-wolf.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My second story that concerns Howlin Wolf's music in my life took place back In 1970, right before I left Massachusetts to head down to college in Dayton, Ohio. Armed with a fake ID, I journeyed down to a Howlin Wolf show at a great club in Boston called </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/08/pauls-mall-733-boylston-street-boston-ma.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Paul's Mall"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul's Mall</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After playing a spirited set of his classic material, Wolf was making his way back to his dressing room when I stepped right in front of him and said "Mr. Wolf sir, I'm a really big fan of your music!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wolf, who looked 10 feet tall to me, reached out to shake my hand when I noticed that his hand looked as big as a coal shovel. 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This joint was run by a fella by the name of Steve Paul, who had begun his career in the rock world working as a publicist for the famed Peppermint Lounge club in NYC. Paul, who had a talent for spotting the next big thing in rock music, made his mark on the music scene by being a savvy judge of musical talent. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b91f784253bd04c075a24e17b89eb7bdb2d9605e/original/jimi-hendrix-the-scene.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="394" width="700" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul was among the first clubs on the East Coast to book The Doors (who were booked for a three-week run) early on in their career. The club also became a favorite hangout for Jimi Hendrix, who enjoyed stopping by frequently for late night jam sessions whenever he was in town. This led to other rock stars showing up to jam as well and soon everybody who was anybody was making the scene. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/da209186c892432fd260966cee1451d18d1187e7/original/local-artist-star-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="366" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An Early Show @ The Scene</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jun 19 - Jun 30, 1967 Steve Paul's 'The Scene' is host to a number of WOR-FM's 'Rock In Stereo' gatherings, designed to attract their listenership to live performances of artists from their playlists. During one of these shows, the Doors put on a hard-driving, earthy show, and Jim's subtle movements sway rhythmically to the dynamics of the music. Variety comments: 'Lead singer of the foursome, Jim Morrison is an attraction in himself as his understated gestures perpetuate the verbal themes of the Californian's songs.' (Bent, Variety, June 1967.)</strong></span><br> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f6b7cef2a506801cfb78858961c67e2898440ccc/original/steve-paul-image.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Young Steve Paul</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Born in New York in 1941, Paul was the son of a high-school principal but never intended to follow a traditional career path. Fascinated by the nightclubs he saw on the silver screen, he dreamed of opening his own. 'I’d create me a world of reality within the world of reality. Make your dreams come true,' he wrote in Hullabaloo magazine in 1967. He started out doing public relations for a couple of New York restaurants and helped popularize the Peppermint Lounge, the Manhattan bar associated with the twist craze of the early Sixties. By 1965 he had enough money to turn a labyrinthine, cavernous, 5,000sq ft club, located on 46th Street near Times Square, into Steve Paul’s The Scene." (The Independent)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"According to a groovy self-penned article in the May 1967 issue of Hullabaloo magazine, his ambitions for the impresario field were formed via frequent childhood viewings of the Late, Late Show: </strong><i><strong>The owners of nightclubs in ['30s and '40s] movies had loads of people to keep 'em company. Huge sofas and many phones in massive modern offices. Rising stages. Hidden safes loaded with cash. Beautiful girls in abundance. Bodyguard chums and not a blanket in sight. Doctors and do-gooders and firemen and free-thinkers had to go to bed at night. Nightclub owners didn't. Someday I'd grow up and own me a nightclub...I'd create me a world of reality within the world of reality. Make your dreams come true. It can happen to you. It would be called The Scene. Big S(cene) in name. Little s(cene) in reality (within reality). A place where together people could get together. I'd own it. But so would you. I'd work there. But so would you. I'd play there. But so would you. We'd all give what we could. For the scene's common good.</strong></i><strong> From what I can gather, the club initially opened in '65 to great fanfare. In the article, Paul writes of the Lovin' Spoonful, the Young Rascals, and Sammy Davis, Jr. gracing the stage. In Popism: The Warhol '60s (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), Warhol writes of a Scene party attended by himself and Edie Sedgwick; other guests included Liza Minnelli and Peter Allen, Baby Jane Holzer, "and Marion Javits and Huntington Hartford and Wendy Vanderbilt and Christina Paolozzi, who was the first model to appear nude in Harper's Bazaar," among other breathlessly dropped names." (It's All The Streets You Crossed So Long Ago blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2aa9f2e157cb6d17ff0ad1a2815b0cfe66ae7662/original/steve-paul-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fe0ed22339f7956ac0028e4d77355ad135569b3/original/steve-paul-2-magazine.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/73aeb4b41dc9b89ddfd9e85868f1c8e6518dd31b/original/greg-shaw-of-bomp-records-fame.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Greg Shaw (of Bomp Records fame)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Greg Shaw (of Bomp Records fame)</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a piece written by Greg Shaw in Hullaballoo magazine circa 1967: "Steve Paul's The Scene is a popular midtown nightclub at 46th St. and 8th Ave. It sports a labyrinth floor plan which extends through a bizarre network of brick walled cellar rooms and passageways. While the club caters primarily to the jet-set, it also attracts a growing number of the hippie community. Steve Paul once described the purpose of his club in this way: 'To use music as a common denominator for the fusion between music, musicians, people who like music, and people who are music in their very being.' Steve Paul, who had an uncanny eye for spotting new stars, would often feature new talent at his club long before word of them had gone out. Among the wide variety of performers featured at The Scene are the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Traffic, the Rascals, Fleetwood Mac and The Chambers Brothers. </strong><span><strong>The Scene attracted swarms of jet-setters, Broadway dancers, motorcycle riders and Manhattan’s moneyed elite through two incarnations in its six-year life…The Scene was as a refuge for performers, stagehands and artists, including stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli, who might burst into impromptu song. Richard Pryor might tell jokes. Tennessee Williams liked to stop by. Andy Warhol filmed an underground movie of Scene patrons watching an underground movie. After a few years the scene at the Scene began to lose steam, and it went dark. Then the poet Allen Ginsberg and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, among others, stepped in with financial assistance. Mr. Paul’s focus soon changed to rock music.” </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b301818183be76635e45d7e225ecdf6f1bdf4da/original/richard-goldstein-writer.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.richardgoldsteinonline.com/about.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Richard Goldstein"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richard Goldstein</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (rock journalist)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Steve Paul's knack for spotlighting unbroken acts amid all that nightglow musk, made the show erratic but exciting...It is to his credit that his entertainment was live and breathing...The Scene was its own attraction. Steve Paul got his pictures in a lot of newspapers. Newsweek chronicled 'the sad demise of The Stork Club and the explosive emergence of The Scene' in one week. The Scene was THE club in New York in the true sense and the business sense and the hip sense and the decency sense...Steve Paul is the Jack Parr of rock & roll. He doesn't sing or dance or tell funny stories. He brings it all together. The only fringe benefit is fame...As emcee, he sometimes sits at the feet of his entertainers. No one has actually seen him cry onstage but he claims he has for so long that everyone believes it. It's part of the cool." (Richard Golstein, The Village Voice 1967)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca147d53a907e108918592befb6ad0e2949d3ef0/original/steve-paul-scene-poster-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c9a80fae0508e7cc1ad17f8d0993a5390d9f655/original/scene-ad-young-rascals.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/989dcd8b5bbc9515196298b9ff413c765e292bf7/original/feb-1967-cashbox-wrote-this-glowing-review-of-young-rascals-at-the-scene.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The physical layout of the club, which most folks compared to an underground disco type club, was described in a Classic Albums documentary on the making of the Hendrix lp Electric Ladyland by Jim Marron (The Scene's Maitre d') as follows: "It had three rooms that focused in, like, a cross on the stage, and as a subterranean basement, it had the sort of Paris-cave-disco style to it." (NY Times 2012)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/779048be5de7fc0c3fc3f460a3b5f768dc2f79f0/original/the-scene-ad-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Admission to the club was strictly controlled by Steve Paul, who was twenty-three years old at the time of the commencement of the club's second incarnation. Other regular attendees included photographer </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Linda_McCartney" title="Linda McCartney"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda Eastman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who later married </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tiny_Tim_(musician)" title="Tiny Tim (musician)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tiny Tim</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who often opened the sets. In 1967, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Doors" title="The Doors"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> played for three weeks at The Scene, becoming the biggest draw in the history of the club. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/61a44846fa5276cb8b959c8f88cfe981755fd0ff/original/scene-ad-thanksgiving.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f78e5c67d117cd7778401feb981b2ba2976a6a87/original/david-henerson-hendrdix-book.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Henderson's biography of Jimi Hendrix, </strong><i><strong>'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky</strong></i><strong> (Doubleday, 1978) describes the vibe that was going down at The Scene: “Out front, a big lighted entrance; inside are narrow rectangular panels leading up to a dim box office. You sweep past into a zigzag-shaped maze-like room with tiny tables and tiny-backed chairs. But up on the tiny stage, two feet off the floor, the music happens...It was dark and intimate, almost labyrinthine, yet you could go there and party, or play and just sit alone and drink, and no one restrained you either way. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/static/hendrixscenead.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="The two nights in 1968 that Milwaukee experienced Jimi Hendrix at The Scene" height="470" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi soon found the Scene Club irresistible...Fans did not hassle you there. It was dark and intimate, almost labyrinthine, yet you could go there and party, or play and just sit alone and drink, and no-one restrained you either way. And most important of all was that he could play there. He could play any time he wanted to. He could woodshed right in the middle of New York City. The Scene Club was like a mini-forum model for every arena he would ever play. The shouting stark frenzy of the close room is what he brought with him to every stage around the world. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was always the small intimate room he was really playing to. The thousand and one nights of playing long into the Scene Club's night. When the chairs would finally be upside down upon the tiny tables. When Steve Paul himself would finally have to pull the plug, while Jimi alone in his universe would be totally unaware of the hour or of the devotees and workers who patiently waited within the exhilaration of his sound. At the Scene, Jimi would completely let himself go--playing all he knew and didn't know, going beyond sharing--playing all. Trying to get it all out.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e0441a17e2a22bd7f3ecb5a14c03d3957b0a1600/original/doors-the-scene-1967.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors @ The Scene</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Doors played their last set at The Scene on a Saturday night. At 3 AM, when all the paying customers had left, Steve Paul locked us all in and gave a party for the boys, who had been the biggest draw in the history of his club. And on his part, Steve had been a good and groovy employer; I remember John asking Jim why he (Jim) would get to The Scene so well in advance of the time they had to perform, and Jim's answering, 'Well, I like to hang around Steve Paul and listen to him rap. He's funny.' Anyhow, there was a case of champagne for the closing night party, and it didn't matter that it wasn't quite chilled because everyone was happy, sloppy and tired, and it was a beautiful party. Robbie did his imitation of a shrimp, and Jim found something lying on the floor which looked like a balloon but wasn't, so he blew it up and let it go, whereupon it landed in Ingrid Superstar's champagne glass, which made Jim laugh, and everyone loved each other without any uptightness. It would be good if everything the Doors ever have to do ends so nicely." (Hullabaloo magazine.)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3d2498b99da0b0065f1a074adb87a589d094e678/original/linda-mccartney-photographer.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="741" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda Eastman (photographer)</strong></span></p><img src="https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/styles/asset_thumbnail_480x360/public/audio-files01-2019/cover-image_13-lillian-roxon-ny-1965-72dpi.jpg?h=e91a75a9&itok=WMkRCBdm" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Lillian Roxon - music journalist, Mother of Rock | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia" height="360" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lilian Roxon (music journalist)</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/27338894be70d6d07602a0c9ce2bcdc902c4993a/original/colin-photographer.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="455" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Colin Beard (photographer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This post on the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://mildequator.com/performancehistory/concertinfo/1967/670612-15.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Mild Equator site"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mild Equator</strong></i><strong> site</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> that features comments from photographer Colin Beard captures the vibes at club on a night The Doors appeared at Steve Paul's The Scene: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Roxon" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Lilian Roxon"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lilian Roxon</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> wanted us to go to the 'The Scene' disco that was the all the rage in New York, particularly for those involved in the Pop scene. She also wanted me to meet a female 'Pop' photographer called </strong><i><strong>Linda Eastman</strong></i><strong>. Lilian thought that Linda and I, both being photographers, both involved in the Pop scene were bound to hit it off so she made a date for us to meet at the disco. On the way to 'The Scene' with Lily and Lilian, I learned that Linda Eastman was the daughter of George Eastman, the Eastman-Kodak magnate which for some reason made me feel anxious. Perhaps it wasn't so surprising - I was on my way to a blind date with a girl who was not only conspicuous as a photographer in the biggest arena of all, but she possessed a family name that was synonymous with photography. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda was already at the disco when we arrived, surrounded by friends or contacts, chattering breathlessly, hailing familiar people across the darkly lit floor. Lilian introduced me as 'Australia's leading Pop photographer - been in London for four months - photographed absolutely every body, darling - The Stones, The Who. Absolutely brilliant, darling - you two should have lots in common.' It was noisy in the Disco, records playing full volume with boosted bass and people shouting ever louder to make themselves heard. It was not a good time to get to know a stranger. After the initial introduction, she barely looked at me again. I watched her eyes dart excitedly from person to person and her red painted lips like a caricatured puppet chatter silently and it all felt like an hallucination. I wandered off. I lost myself amid the bubbling disco lights and watched the people dancing. Suddenly, the music stopped and the babbling voices seemed to dissolve into an unnatural silence which I initially suspected was the effects of the cannabis smoke that hovered pungently around my nose. There was an announcement over the PA system, but it made little sense to me but I noticed that clusters of people were sidling across the dance floor and sitting cross-legged in front of the low stage. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The lights went down until it was almost pitch black but I could make out dark shapes shuffle onto the stage. '</strong><i><strong>Ladies and gentlemen - The Scene presents - the latest New York sensation - The Doors!</strong></i><strong>'. The shriek of the electric guitars pierced the darkness, bringing with it flashes of vibrant blue light. A lithe figure towered over me his snake-like hips strangely twisted and wrapped around the microphone stand. (After the Doors set) Jim Morrison left the stage as mysteriously as he had appeared, leaping into the adjoining darkness in two spectacular bounds. The audience screamed and stamped their feet in unison. 'We want 'The Doors - we want Jim - more, more, more.' But they weren't getting more. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4649b911ebbb012d998246dd37cdd34f2a00a2f3/original/tiny-tim.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="422" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Instead, a strange pale-faced man (Tiny Tim) trotted onto the vacated stage. His hair was long and hung carelessly about his face in ringlets, his nose long and beak-like and he carried a tiny ukulele under his arm. I watched as he leaned his long, awkward body towards the microphone, and plucked each string of his ukulele to check the tuning. The ukulele looked ridiculously toy-like within his large clumsy hands, but the cords rang out sonorously followed by a tuneless falsetto voice - 'Tiptoe, through the tulips, through the tulips - come walk with me.' Was this man serious? The audience were jeering at him, mocking him, laughing at him - he did have courage or else a very thick skin. I spent the rest of the evening at the disco dancing with the girl who had been set on fire. She was a strong looking girl, dark haired with the full lips and slightly lumpy cheek bones that suggested New York Jewish parentage. I didn't run into Lyn Eastman again that night."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2a6f72916f4c1bc0f42508efdfedba96e673a405/original/scene-ad-end.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9dc715474ebd88dc4ec52b3c2f8da5d493c1c88d/original/the-scene-ad-44.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8b722d669d71fabbb6912474958c08ca583c6cc/original/linda-eastsman.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda Eastman</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Before moving to London and snagging a certain Beatle, Linda Eastman honed her photography skills while regularly making the Scene. Her friend Michael Weber provides an atmospheric account of the club and her picture-taking techniques: We met at The Scene in the heart of Hell's Kitchen, the most happening music joint in New York City. Linda was rumored to be the heiress to the Eastman Kodak fortune, a myth perpetrated by the fact she often sat with The Scene's resident millionaire, Deering Howe, as in John Deere tractors. Here was this perfectly clad debutante schlepping two Nikons around her neck while everyone else was tripping-out in their caftans. To say Linda stuck out like a sore thumb would be putting it mildly, but she was no heiress. The Scene was the place the top groups got together to jam when performing at New York's bigger venues. Getting past owner Steve Paul at the door was no mean feat, if you got past Teddy first, his sharkskin-suited Maitre‘d, up on the sidewalk. Paul was a brash 21-year-old kid, and if he did ordain your entrance to his club it was not before he unceremoniously put you down. That was his cover charge, a patented one line insult. Rarely, if ever, did he charge his regulars admission. I can't remember Steve ever insulting Linda, though. Her passion was photographing musicians and his was giving them a home. Linda and Steve were simpatico. Tiny Tim always warmed up the house, strumming camp show tunes on his little ukulele while singing along in that nasal falsetto he made famous years later on the Johnny Carson Show. When Tiny decided to finish, it could be one song it could be seven, the Super Groups would get up and jam. That's when Linda sprang to action. She worked seamlessly, blending in with the act. No matter who they were, how famous or infamous, Linda got in their face. That's how she got her portfolio together. For a while Linda was as much a fixture at The Scene as Tiny Tim. That's really saying something." (from the popular blog </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://streetsyoucrossed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The secret behind Steve Paul's success at his club was due to his knack for booking acts right before they achieved mass popularity. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/da209186c892432fd260966cee1451d18d1187e7/original/local-artist-star-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="366" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6cc40bc335fbd04175be966ae20412f37cacd1da/original/the-mccoys-1968.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="449" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McCoys" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The McCoys"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The McCoys</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, a combo best remembered for their iconic pop hit </strong><i><strong>Hang On Sloopy</strong></i><strong>, were The Scene's resident house band. As a result of their work at The Scene, they would later end up getting a gig as Johnny Winter's backup band on his </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Winter_And" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Johnny Winter And"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Winter And</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> album which featured the hit single, Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo. The McCoys bandleader, Rick Derringer, would go on to establish himself as a solo artists with the 1973 release of his debut album, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Boy_(Rick_Derringer_album)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="All American Boy"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All American Boy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> which was released by Steve Paul's Blue Sky label.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+cvQ3ohwL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="s/t: Reid, Terry: Amazon.ca: Music" height="1000" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/afed3d4f63171a3ca62271145bbede5a191b4cb7/original/scene-nov-1968-terry-reid-review-billboard.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5b51d4b788c2ed5a4315ac3213aee70d8eef6e7c/original/hendrix-johnny-winter-jamming-the-scene-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix & Johnny Winter jamming circa 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the things that added to The Scene's hip reputation was the spontaneous jams that took place on the club's stage from time to time. Jimi Hendrix, who was doing sessions at the nearby recording studio The Record Plant for his Electric Ladyland album, would show up and sit in with bands along with other club regulars such as Steve Stills, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles and Johnny Winter. One of the most notorious jams featured a drunken Jim Morrison attempting to simulate the act of fellatio on a somewhat bemused Jimi Hendrix while Morrison moaned into the microphone and rolled around the tiny stage. I guess you had to be there folks.</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a1a094655ffa0ee1213747e3e6d20fee58cf5836/original/1969-the-scene-the-nice-ad.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4c28a09711b11f80879d3cd1047669e376ed08f9/original/1969-the-nice-at-the-scene-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Nice performing @ The Scene 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a662dbea49e79165d8270699ddae223ed036dd6e/original/the-scene-may-1969-billboard-magazine-review-pacific-gas-electric.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9bde5845df52d602e467875f141d81c5769fd404/original/february-1968-record-world-covers-spirit-as-they-debuted-at-the-scene-in-nyc.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/65cf78e45fbf8aba00efdbbd822532d689d57f52/original/star-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOME OF THE ACTS WHO PERFORMED @ THE SCENE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Young Rascals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Vagrants</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tiny Tim</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sha Na Na</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Cooper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 Year's After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny & Edgar Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Seeds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhinoceros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pacific Gas & Electric</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Crazy World of Arthur Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mandala</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Checkmates</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood Sweat & Tears</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Chambers Bros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three's A Crowd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beacon Street Union</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soft White Underbelly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Blues Project</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Hammond Jr.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NRBQ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rationals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Nice</strong></span></p><h4 style="text-align:center;"> </h4><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some footage from Steve Paul's The Scene circa 1970</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="IE30uAP9CDQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IE30uAP9CDQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/089a3476104d0a3bad7511a08952fc428a6f5fa1/original/the-steve-paul-scene.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the May, 1967 issue of Crawdaddy Magazine: "Steve Paul is producing a series of two-hour color TV specials on pop music and people and the interaction between them; the show will be seen on Channel 5 in New York and certain other Metromedia stations across the country. Steve's club, the Scene, has recently been the late-night home of some very nice New York jam sessions, particularly while the Cream, the Chicago Loop, and Wilson Pickett's band were working nearby in Murray the K's Easter show at the RKO 58th."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="x29ggn68PqE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x29ggn68PqE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Not long after the demise of the TV show, The Scene began to flounder, then it sank. The Jet Set took off with as much noise as it had made in landing and the click of high heels became an empty echo on Steve Paul's dance floor...Paul says, 'We were busy being busy instead of grooving. '</strong><i><strong>It was a matter of repeating spontaneity</strong></i><strong>.'...Steve Paul walks a line he sets for himself, somewhere between hustling and grooving." (Richard Goldstein, Village Voice 1967)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f92206601eb7c4e6d7c428a4f6a41fd414d03c46/original/scene-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1ec800a70b86284d7d34b83cf03df2531d5651ab/original/the-scene-moby-grape-the-doors.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d828d19dc3d7c2e64b6923c1eb83c7bcb7d5675e/original/steve-paul-22.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Paul</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the years that he owned The Scene, Steve Paul also worked as the personal manager of several artists who appeared at his club; working closely with Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer (who was leader of The McCoys) and David Johansen, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1968, Steve Paul became the manager of Johnny Winter. Paul had travelled from New York to Texas to successfully promote his managerial abilities to Winter, after reading a Rolling Stone review of Texas music by Larry Sepulvado, in which Winter was described as "</strong><i><strong>the hottest item outside of Janis Joplin</strong></i><strong>". Based on Paul's negotiating abilities, Winter shortly thereafter in 1968 signed the then-largest recording contract ever offered by Columbia Records: $600,000, payable over five years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1973, Paul started Blue Sky Records, a label promoted and distributed by Columbia Records. Between 1973 and 1982, it became the principal recording label for Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer and David Johansen, all of whom were managed by Paul. Through Johnny Winter's involvement as a producer, the label is also credited with reviving the later career of Muddy Waters. The label largely ceased operations with Winter's departure in 1983, which coincided with the termination of his management relationship with Steve Paul.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/646739d47aeece243d7da5c3d8daf1e973b54bee/original/steve-pauls-the-scene-after-its-glory-days-had-faded.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18ba7eaf17c8aeb03a34bcfdf3b2fffba076f498/original/steve-pauls-scene-ad-in-billboard-for-sale.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Due to the changing trends in the mercurial rock scene and various internal problems (financial and otherwise), The Scene eventually had to shut its doors sometime in the late sixties. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Scene closed on 12 July 1969. According to Sterling Morrison, of the Velvet Underground, the closure was prompted by Steve Paul's refusal to pay </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Protection_money" title="Protection money"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>protection money</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to the New York </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/American_Mafia" title="American Mafia"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mafia</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. This resulted in fights being started at the club, placing its liquor license in jeopardy.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In Clinton Heylin's excellent book </strong><i><strong>All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground In Print 1966 - 1971</strong></i><strong> (Da Capo Press, 2005), Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground, in a 1970 interview, comments about the last days at The Scene: "The Mafia was beating people up. They were having these incredible fights...so Steve Paul just shut it down... The liquor laws work in such a way that if you have a trouble spot your liquor license can be revoked. So organized crime comes in and says, I want a piece of the action, and they say, no, you can't have it. So they just start these giant fights there. And the clubs lose their license. That's what happened at Arthur's. The Mafia people will even beat themselves up just so the police will come. That's what happened at The Scene."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e48b478273d890fe64f8b0aa29a9057a9975aceb/original/steve-paul.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="363" width="500" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stephen Neal Paul, club owner, manager and entrepreneur: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Born New York 28 April 1941; Died New York 21 October 2012</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>…and the band played on</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5709a6ade59ecf51de75349d4288c34a5b9a90e3/original/where-the-scene-once-opereated.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The photo above was posted in a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/50315246329" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Facebook Group </u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>called </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/50315246329" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Steve Paul's The Scene"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Paul's The Scene</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (highly recommended read on Facebook) The picture is of the location where Steve Paul’s The Scene once existed. The ghosts along West 46th Street still remember the good times. Amen.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2eca3dc6a66ce37f2ef72c4b70e4880994e5b041/original/further-investigation-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://rocktourdatabase.com/venues/steve-pauls-scene?page=1" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Concerts @ The Scene"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Concerts @ The Scene</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d168c31a41a32d873671ee1d8962d61856fc15/original/mind-smoke-records-promo-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/499640d6bbe53698aab44dbe4a41051be44addde/original/freelance-vandals-banner-for-albums.jpg/!!/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="206" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS MUSIC</u></strong></span></a></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/70650092024-03-07T04:27:32-05:002024-03-07T04:27:32-05:00The Strange Saga of the Rolling Stones' Cocksucker Blues<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a736cc23ba9c10e2f3b1f207604b90710f8919ad/original/the-saga-of-the-rolling-stones-movie-cocksucker-blues.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d06c333cd66e37bbc78b29d3d61a4666cd32d266/original/robert-frank-image-1972.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This is the story of </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>, Robert Frank's Suppressed Rolling Stones Documentary of their 1972 tour. The film captures the Rolling Stones onstage, backstage, and in intimate situations that hardly anybody would want to be captured on film. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The film was shot in grainy 16 mm a la cinéma vérité which involved several having multiple cameras available for anyone in the entourage to pick up and start shooting. Some of the movie's scenes included backstage parties, drug use, roadie and groupie antics, and the Stones themselves with their defenses down.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Disclaimer from Cocksucker Blues: 'Except for the musical numbers, the events depicted in this film are fictitious, no representation of actual persons and events is intended.'</strong></span><br> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/051651eb2fc91cd2dd669a6c697b1815d0e48ff3/original/cocksucker-blues-featuring-the-rolling-stones.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A 2016 Review by Richard Brody that appeared in the New Yorker Magazine:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When Robert Frank and Danny Seymour began working on their documentary about the Rolling Stones on tour in the United States, in 1972, the band hadn’t been in the USA for three years—not since the catastrophic concert at the Altamont Speedway that’s the subject of the Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zwerin’s film, </strong><i><strong>Gimme Shelter</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>, by contrast, is about the Stones themselves—onstage, backstage, and in intimate situations that hardly anybody would want to be filmed in. That’s why it’s so rare: soon after its completion, the band, wanting to keep some of their behavior under wraps, went to court to ban the film’s screening, and the court imposed sharp limits on its public showings. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This movie’s subject is the unholy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, along with a few other incidental indulgences. The very title comes from a song by Jagger that’s heard early in the film, thanks to the producer Marshall Chess, who talks about it onscreen from his berth in a hotel room.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87ab4541f72819148dff7915643e19f06b1e042a/original/stones-1972-on-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There are some great performances and some great music scattered throughout the movie—Frank and his cinematographers film the Stones in concert, the highlight of which is a joint appearance with Stevie Wonder on </strong><i><strong>Uptight</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Satisfaction</strong></i><strong>—but it takes a little while to get there. Before the Stones take the stage, they work and putter in a hangar-like rehearsal space, and hang out in a hotel room. Jagger himself, wandering around in his underwear, handles a camera, and another member of the band pounds out some hearty piano blues, and Jagger and Keith Richards meet a journalist and endure an interview with ironic good humor. </strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6086bbe7245417422f653a327cffa920a40a7c96/original/rolling-stones-tongue-logo-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Next, the Stones are onstage doing a frenetic rendition of </strong><i><strong>Brown Sugar</strong></i><strong>, and then they’re on their private jet, the outside of which is adorned with the band’s “Hot Lips” logo and the inside of which quickly devolves into a sex party that makes the airplane scene in “The Wolf of Wall Street” look starchy. There’s intercourse and a blow job out in the open, while members of the band stand around playing percussion instruments. At one point, a young woman is undressed and lifted and spun around, and, though her shrieks at times sound like laughter, her protests and demands to be put down are unambiguous. Even if it’s a playful moment, it’s an ugly one and a painful one to watch. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The concert footage isn’t especially probing—for that matter, the movie’s cinematography over all isn’t especially probing. (Some of it was intentionally casual—loaded cameras were left on site for anyone to use.) It’s surprising to compare Robert Frank’s composed photography with his decomposed cinematography, as if it were the difference between a slide (in the microscope sense)—a single exemplary and perfectly trimmed slice of existence seized and frozen—and the unbounded flow of life itself, with the very borders of the frame yielding to the power of sudden possibilities and wild impulses.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad988d0b855b525bf53c3723499d6c21ba05ccf8/original/film-footage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From an article by Greil Marcus in the Village Voice circa 1975:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"A film title: </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>. It is 1972; we are with the Rolling Stones, in a big house somewhere in the hills around Los Angeles. Mick is lying on a bed. The camera pans down to his waist, and he begins to massage his crotch, in a slow, circular motion. He opens his pants and puts his hand inside. He moves it more deliberately and the camera comes in tight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Richards is standing up at a piano, playing a lovely gospel-blues. The camera cuts away; the music continues on the sound track. Keith reappears, and shifts to boogie-woogie with such perfect syncopation the frame seems to shake in time. Mick appears in Keith’s place, working out a ballad, note by note. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘</strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>,’ says Marshall Chess, head of the Stones’ label. 'Yeah, Mick wrote it on a contract he had to fill… He wrote it for a play in New York, ‘Trials of Oz’… He did it for a porno album we were gonna do. Dr. John wrote a song for it too, ‘How much Pussy Can You Eat’… ‘Cocksucker Blues’… Here, I’ll put it on.' He turns on a tape.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It is some song. Very hesitant, sung high and lonesome, more like </strong><i><strong>No Expectations</strong></i><strong> than any other Stones tune, and more like Hank Williams than that, the music has the ragged edge Mick gives to everything good he does. “Well, I wait in Leicester Square…/I was only talkin, to the light…' Then hard, angry: 'Where can I get my cock sucked?/Where can I get my ass fucked?'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>That is the opening of the legendary </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>, a three-year-old film by Robert Frank, the great photographer who came to the United States from Switzerland in 1947, and, after publishing his historic collection, </strong><i><strong>The Americans</strong></i><strong>, in 1959, gave up his first trade to make movies. Much of the cover art for </strong><i><strong>Exile on Main Street</strong></i><strong> was taken from </strong><i><strong>The Americans</strong></i><strong> and from Frank’s second book, </strong><i><strong>The Lines of My Hand</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/61259855a04c312c9aeabf5dcbd5ae9656c9ea69/original/danny-seymour-and-robert-frank.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Danny Seymour and Robert Frank</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Working with Danny Seymour, Frank then toured the country with the Stones in 1972 to make a film. But “Cocksucker Blues” has become a legend not simply because of its title, or because it is about the Stones, or because (save for the Stones’ collaboration with Jean Luc Goddard in “One Plus One”) no rock and roll group has ever made a movie with an artist of Frank’s stature. “Cocksucker Blues” has become a legend because it has never been shown. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was never shown because the Rolling Stones, who own it, don’t want it shown. The rumors why have been simple: Frank, it has been said, shot the Stones fucking groupies and shooting heroin. Prefacing his film with the disclaimer, “except for musical numbers, all events depicted herein are fictitious, and any resemblance…” and closing it with a cast listing (“Junky played by…”), Frank shot some Stones associates and hangers-on doing both, but not the Stones. That would, to most, make the Stones guilty by association anyway; it would also keep a good part of the Stones audience barred from the theaters. But Frank does not feel this is precisely why the Stones have locked his movie up.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77cabe8900e89508007e93bb5fd4cedeb8e2c20c/original/mick-in-make-up.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jagger thinks the film is a downer; that it does not celebrate the Stones, nor show that they are the greatest rock and roll band in the world (as “Gimme Shelter,” for all of its horrors, pointedly did); that it would not bring fans shouting to their feet nor send them into the street shaking their heads in awe, which is clearly what a film about the Rolling Stones ought to do. Especially after Altamont. So Frank’s 16-mm footage, some in color, some in black and white, and his harsh, biting, mono sound mix, were replaced — by </strong><i><strong>Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones</strong></i><strong>, a straight concert document with brilliant quadraphonic sound, a film that failed to get the Stones across nonetheless.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank made his movie anyway, and last Wednesday he drove to Berkeley and showed it for the first and possibly last time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Luddy, director of the Pacific Film Archive, the most resourceful and wide-ranging outlet for movies in the country, and his friend Jean-Pierre Gorin, talked Frank into adding the picture, unannounced, to a bill of two rock performance flicks. Frank made no money from the 900 people, mostly Berkeley students...Frank arrived with his print following two hours of Cream, was introduced, and spoke briefly. '</strong><i><strong>I made this film with the Rolling Stones in 1972</strong></i><strong>', he said. '</strong><i><strong>It seems like 200 years ago. It was very difficult to make. I like it. I’m happy to show it, even if it isn’t completely… legal</strong></i><strong>'. </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e18d94f037eca4e3f0c0c7460d1e984efdb8cdd/original/stp-on-the-plane.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Robert Frank & Mick Jagger on board the band's jet</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Once past the opening sequence, the movie settled down as well. Nothing really happened; the occasional memorable events and images had no context. The movie was seamless, and it convinced you that the tour it was tracking had no more shape than the movie. Frank did not judge, make points, condescend, sensationalize, or humanize. He did not play for jokes, or horror either. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The crowd’s reaction was proof Jagger was right about the movie as far as he went. Almost any given close-up of Clapton or Ginger Baker in the execrably filmed and recorded Cream movie brought more conventional rock fan response than all but a few bits of “Cocksucker Blues.” Save for a stunning montage of Jagger in “Midnight Rambler,” shot in dark reds and edited in time with the song from footage shot at several different concerts, and the irresistible excitement of Mick and Stevie Wonder dueting on “Satisfaction,” the live music was brief and not too frequent. The sex footage, which included a nude couple humping in the aisle of a plane as the Stones, shaking maracas and tambourines, egged them on, was never erotic; it was, like most of what took place in the film, dispirited and forced, a matter of some people going through the motions.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And it was a sense of the Rolling Stones going through the motions that I took away from the film — that and a few outbreaks of life. In </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong> one sees the Stones working hard, the way laborers and panicky businessmen work hard, but you never see them take any pleasure or satisfaction from their work, nor see them feeling out their genius and their unity as you did in “One Plus One.” You see the Stones, and everyone else, at play, if that’s the word: mugging for the cameras, trying out Frank’s gear. There is a fine shot of Jagger returning the salute of a TV recruiting sergeant. But except for a brief respite in a black pool hall somewhere in the South, no one seems to be having any fun. “Ah, to get away from all those people,” Mick had moaned a short time before, as the Stones, crowded with Bianca and Frank into two station wagons, headed down a two-lane highway, Mick telling tales of southern cooking as the cars passed a prison, and an arm reached out from a barred window, two fingers raised in a V the Stones might have seen, and might not have.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The most appalling scene of the film is backstage in New York as, in color, Truman, Andy, Lee, and their troupe make their entrance, trying and easily succeeding in showing that they are far less interested in the </strong><i><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></i><strong> than in each other, and then Mick, in black and white now, running for his dressing room, raging, looking sick, yelling </strong><i><strong>Fuck you!</strong></i><strong> as a photographer pursues him...This is the only time in the movie that Robert Frank and the Rolling Stones in any way connect.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25d8a93576197ce19b5c3f947fda04595c190efb/original/robert-frank-inertia.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'</strong><i><strong>25 years of looking for the right road</strong></i><strong>,' Frank wrote in 1972, but he found on the Stones’ road neither anything that deserved the word fate, nor ever anyone at home. He found only a queasy inertia — the inertia of the frantic movement of the Stones on stage, and the inertia of them sitting in their rooms. That was something Frank could record, but that was all he could do with it."</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d928cf14c8ccbf30f4f43915c3174d72bd8e1ac2/original/rolling-stones-live-in-exile.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the salon.com website:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Due to ongoing legal difficulties, the rest of </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong> is unlikely to see legitimate release, but many of those who've seen it regard it as one of the greatest rock movies ever made. It's hard to know what the Stones expected from Frank, whose previous films, including the Beat landmark </strong><i><strong>Pull My Daisy</strong></i><strong> (1959), showed little interest in conventional narrative of either the fiction or nonfiction variety. (At one point, Frank theorized he was chosen because his friend Danny Seymour, who appears in the film, was adept at procuring hard drugs, which made him a valuable commodity in the Stones' circle.) In any case, the Stones didn't like what they saw -- or at the very least considered it unwise to release. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's the Disclaimer from Cocksucker Blues that was shown in the beginning of the film: '</strong><i><strong>Except for the musical numbers, the events depicted in this film are fictitious, no representation of actual persons and events is intended</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band successfully sued to prevent the release of </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong>, with showings limited to those at which Frank was physically present (a requirement that has been slightly loosened in recent years as the 85-year-old Frank's ability to travel has been curtailed). Video was verboten as well, of course, although VHS bootlegs and now Internet downloads have always been within the reach of the curious and determined. It's also made appearances on various streaming video sites, although its tenure is inevitably short-lived.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What was perhaps more damaging -- and, to the outside observer, most intriguing -- is just how dull the life of the world's biggest rock 'n' roll band could be. At times, Frank goes out of his way to portray the drudgery of life on the road, as when he intercuts footage of a couple shooting up in a hotel room with scenes of Keith Richards quietly playing cards. In one sublime sequence, a lugubrious Richards makes a slurred and unsuccessful attempt to order a bowl of fruit from a woman in a Southern hotel."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e3cdcff68abc24a490d22c28c24df3f580fe1b1f/original/keef-on-a-plane.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong> is widely known for its moments of debauchery, like the orgy that took place on the Stones' private plane; it should be noted that spectacles would hardly have damaged the reputation of a band whose image was based in excess.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strangely, the Stones are pretty much absent for many scenes of debauchery in this film; including those hangers-on of the touring party and a sperm-spattered naked woman who lies on a hotel bed as she is lost in postcoital reverie. </strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37f01fecfa1720429f915f648a7830a20aecbebc/original/stones-waiting-to-go-on-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Here's a Perfect Sound Forever article on the film by John Dougan</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Looking back on this film, Robert Frank spent two years cutting the film. Jagger, after viewing a work print, declared it '</strong><i><strong>a fucking good film' but added 'if it shows in America we'll never be allowed in the country again.</strong></i><strong>' A rancorous legal battle ensued, further contributing to the film's legend, and a settlement was reached, stating that the film could only be shown a limited number of times per year, as part of a retrospective of Frank's work, and only with the filmmaker in attendance. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All Frank had done was film what we all knew (or at least imagined) the Stones did on the road: they took drugs, hung out with (and employed) people who took drugs, and cavorted with celebrities and groupies. In the end, still smarting from the debacle of the </strong><i><strong>Gimme Shelter</strong></i><strong> film, the band decided that the prospect of more negative publicity was not what they needed, and </strong><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong> was simply far too much reality to let loose for public consumption. And while dope shooting and groupie fucking have contributed mightily to the film's infamy and </strong><i><strong>must-see</strong></i><strong> reputation, Frank's film is not only about the wages of sin and excess (although it's about that, and it's heartbreaking), it's about the tedium of touring. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Cocksucker Blues</strong></i><strong> is perhaps more significant for its depiction of how boredom becomes sedimented in the lives of even the most successful and pampered touring rock band.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c7fb3c76f4b0a71a3eb2aad4e4cf9b423a34014e/original/stp-book-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's an excerpt from S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones, author Robert Greenfield captures the grindingly familiar ritual: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"There are other, less celebrated moments of orchestrated outrageousness: Richards and sax player Bobby Keys, in a dull and enervated scene, enact one of rock's uber-clichès, tossing a TV out of a hotel wind. Jagger fondles his crotch and then films himself in a ceiling mirror in a moment both narcissistic and onanistic. Later, he snorts a couple of lines of coke just before going onstage – or so we are led to believe; the camera cuts away at the last minute. If documenting boredom led to Frank's decision to "re-create" aspects of the sybaritic universe in which the Stones dwelled, he also grimly, and rather poignantly, provides a glimpse of the human devastation left in its wake. Stanley Booth, whose 1984 book Dance With the Devil remains the ultimate insider's account of life amongst the Stones, ruefully noted that "if Keith and I kept dipping into the same bag, there would be no book and we would both be dead." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Danny Seymour, the film's junkie soundman, wasn't so lucky and, years later, died out on the mainline. Marshall Chess, son of Leonard and nephew of Phil, who at the time was running the Stones record label, is never shown imbibing, but would soon be sucked into the undertow. He would eventually make it out alive.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d69e168155287280d8978e3fe7610179b3bd6227/original/mick-taylor-jagger-richards-make-this-sepia.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hotel corridors and hotel lobbies. Coffee-shop breakfasts and all-night parties and forty minutes in the afternoon to see the sights. The sharpest people don't even bother. Even within the Stones Touring Party the Stones are once again removed from the outside world.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2759b09b1d629eca7b1b3776b796f2ede39a86ae/original/rolling-stones-fort-worth-concert-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After Texas, they become nearly invisible. They stayed in hotel rooms until just before the limos leave, then sweep through the lobby and are gone. They dress in special backstage rooms where only the Inner Circle is welcome. The only time they're in plain sight is on the plane. 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They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls — offered the band their unbridled devotion throughout the 1960' by gathering at concert venues in a way that the world had never witnessed before. Without their help, the Fab Four would have never become the legends they are today. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Being a Beatles fan was a wild ride that meant attending sold-out shows, and waiting at whichever airport the boys were flying into to welcome them with shouts of glee. It also meant weathering criticism from misogynistic journalists and far-right pastors who thought that mass hysteria and demonic influence were the only possible explanations for the band's popularity. Here's what it was really like to experience Beatlemania, in all its glory and chaos. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beatles concerts were places of exhilarating chaos. As the Week reports, they were typically rife with screaming, crying, and fainting. They also involved a stranger occurrence: the ritualistic pelting of the Beatles with a British candy called Jelly Babies. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Due to their frenzied behavior at concerts, Beatles fans were often derided as crazy and irrational by critics, especially those who were male. An article called </strong><i><strong>The Menace of Beatlism</strong></i><strong>, written by journalist Paul Johnson for The New Statesman in 1964, was particularly harsh. In the article, Johnson calls the Beatles 'teenage fans 'moronic' and dismisses their concerts as '</strong><i><strong>a collective groveling to gods who are blind and empty</strong></i><strong>.' He ends his rant with a controversial assertion: '</strong><i><strong>Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In a 2013 article in The Guardian, journalist Dorian Lynsky interviewed several women about their early experiences with the Beatles fandom. Many of them cite their </strong><i><strong>Beatlemania</strong></i><strong> years as critical to their adolescent journey. One woman, Bridget Kelly, describes that time in her life as '</strong><i><strong>a place between childhood and adulthood</strong></i><strong>' where she could get in touch with her emotions and release her inhibitions — '</strong><i><strong>let go and go mad</strong></i><strong>.' Others emphasize the way that Beatles fandom let them discover and articulate their romantic preferences: by choosing John, Paul, George, or Ringo as their favorite, they were making a statement about the kind of men they might like to date later in life." (www.grunge.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://www.myrareguitars.com/guitar-pictures/AC15VR-large.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="How to Sound Like The Beatles... On a Budget | MyRareGuitars.com" height="612" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BEATLES EQUIPMENT ON THE ROAD </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>John Lennon </u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1964 Rickenbacker 325 semi-hollow electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1964 Gibson J-160E acoustic/electric guitar (used as a back-up) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vox Continental electric organ</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Paul McCartney </u> </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1962 Hofner Violin hollow body bass </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1961 Hofner Violin hollow body bass (used as a backup) </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>George Harrison </u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Gretsch Tennessean hollow body electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Rickenbacker 360/12 thin line electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman hollow body electric guitar (used as a backup) </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Ringo Starr </u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ludwig 22-inch-bass 4-piece drum kit </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Number 5 drop-T logo bass drum head</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 12th London Palladium London UK</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a30ddeb7da64c8dfe5963bddb371e83556882279/original/1964-beatles-jan-12-london-palladium.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On January 12th, 1964, the Beatles made their second appearance on the top TV show ‘Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They had first appeared on the show on October 13th 1963. The scenes inside and outside the theatre that day has been seen as the start of ‘Beatlemania’ – though it had actually just taken the media a long time to catch on to the scenes that had been surrounding the Beatles for many months. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If anything, the crowds outside the Palladium for their second appearance were greater than the first. As usual the show was compered by Bruce Forsyth. The Beatles sang ‘I Want to Hold You Hand’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’ ‘Money (That’s What I want) and Twist and Shout’" (beatlesinlondon.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/63be247a7de20969302aa2a1ab2d5135af611d47/original/1964-beatles-versailles-on-stage.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 15th - February 4th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paris France Olympia Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a58eeb975cd0b604bb1743ec54c5b7b34ded114/original/1964-beatles-american-tour.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles Tour America</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles sweep through the great US cities, drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The term ‘Beatlemania’ was invented by Canadian hack Sandy Gardiner, first appearing in the Ottawa Journal, November 1963, to describe “a new disease” sweeping the globe. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to legend, Beatlemania taking off in the U.S. can be largely attributed to a 15-year-old Marylander named Marsha Albert. After seeing a news segment about the band, Albert called a local radio station in Washington, D.C., and asked, “Why can’t we have music like that here in America?” The DJ then tracked down a copy of “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” and the station playing the record caused demand to skyrocket and other stations to play The Beatles as well. Worth noting: A DJ named Dick Biondi attempted to make The Beatles “happen” by playing them on stations in both Chicago and Los Angeles but the songs didn’t take off in either city. Perhaps that’s in part because Biondi misspelled the band as “B-E-A-T-T-L-E-S.”</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7b807a57ae5795429f258e5bb052a5750dee313e/original/1964-beatles-first-fan-shot.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"All told, the first official tour of North America would have the group play a staggering 32 shows in 26 venues in 24 cities in just 33 days. In the end they would walk away richer by $1 million -- in today's dollars, about $7.5 million. The Beatles booking agent said, 'In the more than 15 years that I have been in this business, I do not know of any attraction that has come close to this sort of money in so short a tour.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> For talents like Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland, promoters were accustomed to paying appearance fees of $10,000 to $15,000 ($75,000 - $112,000 today). They were shocked to learn it would take $25,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 in guarantees ($150,000 - $300,000 now) plus a percentage of the gate. But each was eager to cash in on Beatlemania. During the tour, the group encountered total chaos in every city they played. They endured bomb threats, blackmail plots, teenagers who infiltrated their hotels dressed as maids, and even a prediction from a famous astrologer that they would all die in a plane crash. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elaborate plans were drawn up to transport the Fab Four to hotels and venues. These included the use of ambulances, police paddy wagons, armored trucks, and, in one case an empty fish truck. Hucksters as well as managers of fine hotels gathered up bed linens, pillowcases and even the carpet the Beatles walked on to be cut and sold off to fans that were eager to get their hands on anything the Beatles touched. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps no musical act before or since will ever rival the Beatles on their groundbreaking tour of 1964. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr would not only leave an indelible impression on their fans in the United States and Canada, but also leave the continent with devotees hungering for more." (Chuck Gunderson, Some Fun Tonight)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/73b94a0215060001c161bd659e23abf728a1b67d/original/1964-beatles-new-zealand.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was record-shattering, precedent-setting, groundbreaking, earth-shaking and moneymaking. The Beatles' 1964 tour of North America would forever change the concert industry. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one hit in America, the Fab Four came to the United States with high hopes, performing on the widely popular Ed Sullivan Show both in New York City and Miami Beach and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. In just 15 short days, the Beatles conquered America. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the heels of the successful Sullivan shows, Beatles manager Brian Epstein and Norman Weiss of NewYork's General Artists Corporation drew up an ambitious plan to present the Beatles to America's teenagers in a series of concerts that would crisscross the nation. The group would play in L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, venues from Chicago to New Orleans, Boston to Jacksonville. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All told, the first official tour of North America would have the group play a staggering 32 shows in 26 venues in 24 cities in just 33 days. In the end they would walk away richer by $1 million -- in today's dollars, about $7.5 million. GAC's Weiss marveled, "In the more than 15 years that I have been in this business, I do not know of any attraction that has come close to this sort of money in so short a tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For talents like Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland, promoters were accustomed to paying appearance fees of $10,000 to $15,000 ($75,000 - $112,000 today). They were shocked to learn it would take $25,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 in guarantees ($150,000 - $300,000 now) plus a percentage of the gate. But each was eager to cash in on Beatlemania. During the tour, the group encountered total chaos in every city they played. They endured bomb threats, blackmail plots, teenagers who infiltrated their hotels dressed as maids, and even a prediction from a famous astrologer that they would all die in a plane crash. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elaborate plans were drawn up to transport the Fab Four to hotels and venues. These included the use of ambulances, police paddy wagons, armored trucks, and, in one case an empty fish truck. Hucksters as well as managers of fine hotels gathered up bed linens, pillowcases and even the carpet the Beatles walked on to be cut and sold off to fans that were eager to get their hands on anything the Beatles touched. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps no musical act before or since will ever rival the Beatles on their groundbreaking tour of 1964. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr would not only leave an indelible impression on their fans in the United States and Canada, but also leave the continent with devotees hungering for more." (CBSnews.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8abe9540d90f2707647306ba0c1455e35f28541/original/32-1964-crop.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"At the start of 1964, the Beatles were at the top of the charts in the UK, but had just started to attract audiences overseas with songs from their first two albums Please Please Me and With the Beatles. Radio airplay and a broad marketing campaign in the U.S. quickly drove huge record sales and enormous enthusiasm among new fans -- the band and their sound were something new and exciting, and they were coming to America. John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison set off on a series of tours in 1964, starting in Europe, later visiting the United States, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Beatles fans were so excited and determined to see the band that police sometimes resorted to using fire hoses to hold them back. Their first televised concert in the U.S. was on the Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964. 73 million viewers watched that performance -- 34 percent of the American population. Below are images of the Beatles' big year, in roughly chronological order, as the world discovered Beatlemania. This is the third of five entries focusing on events of the year 1964 this week (and next Monday). Later entries will feature images from Alaska's Good Friday earthquake and the New York World's Fair." (Billboard Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_I86zzmGoZk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_I86zzmGoZk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Beatlemania in 1964: </strong><i><strong>'This has gotten entirely out of control' </strong></i><strong>: Brian Sommerville is a balding 32-year-old Londoner whose jaw juts out like the southeast corner of England when he thinks he is about to say something important. At Kennedy International Airport in New York on February 7, 1964, Sommerville's jaw was projecting so far he was almost unable to open his mouth to speak. A thousand screaming teenagers were trying to wriggle toward a thin white line of nylon rope that had been stretched across the terminal building lobby. Three thousand more were screaming from behind bulging metal railings atop the roof, where they were the guests of New York disc jockeys, who had invited them to take the day off from school. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles brought with them to America a phenomenon known as Beatlemania. So far, Beatlemania has traveled over two continents. In Stockholm, the arrival of the Beatles was greeted with teenage riots. In Paris another congregation held screeching services at the airport and the Beatles' performances at the Olympia Theater were sold out for three weeks. In the Beatles' native Liverpool, sixty youngsters collapsed from exposure after standing all night in a mile-long line of 12,000 waiting to buy tickets to the Beatles' performance. When a foreman shut off the radio in the middle of a Beatles record at a textile mill in Lancashire, 200 girls went out on strike. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While the Beatles toured the United States, three of their singles were in the top six and their albums ranked one and two in the record-popularity charts. In 1964, Beatle-licensed products grossed $50,000,000 in America alone. As for the Beatles, their total income that year reached $14,000,000." (The Guardian)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c53853cc6392fed0ca5c029f98ac15e0f3fd6282/original/jack-parr-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It should be noted that before we get to the famous night of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, history tells us that their very first appearance on American television was on the Jack Parr show.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eceb8ef283d05750a32a3078682061a2b56c09d8/original/beatles-ed-sullivan-shwo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 9th Ed Sullivan Show New York City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JC0MEF6d1eU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JC0MEF6d1eU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="c3Sww5ENDlY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3Sww5ENDlY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f5ecebb01ea5555817327cde96e2e7e9c15fe58/original/1964-beatles-ed-sullivan-with-pauls-hofner-bass.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"By 1964, Beatlemania was in full effect on both sides of the pond and it was already bubbling away before The Beatles made their now-iconic debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite what many people believe it was not the first time The Beatles had been on American television. The group were the focus of news pieces the previous year as the US established media tried to wrap their heads around these four mop-top lads from Liverpool. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles were being touted as the next worldwide craze and the first band to come out of England worth losing your cool over. It meant that a spot on Ed Sullivan’s variety show was an almost guarantee. The show’s reputation for launching acts was beginning to gather momentum and the chance to be broadcast to 100 million televisions-set owners was surely too big to turn down for the Fab Four. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yet, the band knew their worth even then. Instead of happily signing on the dotted line for the payment of ‘exposure’ the group demanded their travel fees be covered as well as a $10,000 appearance fee. It was unprecedented and saw the show’s producers, for the first time, trying to negotiate a deal with their scheduled act. If The Beatles would perform three shows, they would have a deal—The Beatles were coming to America. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The show will go down in history as one of the most organically engaged with shows of all time. The Ed Sullivan Show could draw in an audience when needed but this was unheard of.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite over a third of America tuning in to see the moment The Beatles broke America, Ray Bloch, the show’s musical director wasn’t so keen on the band, he said to The New York Times: '</strong><i><strong>The only thing that’s different is the hair, as far as I can see. I give them a year</strong></i><strong>.'” (Far Out Magazine)</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0095dd9679c09dd41388d7e6867ba1e3e2cdb95c/original/beatles-1st-concert-in-us.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/777ba74b7e39613710a350e4698362c7c848cc2c/original/1964-beatles-washington-d-c.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="b8jzt_xUEdM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b8jzt_xUEdM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 11th Washington Coliseum Washington D.C.</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d762a85f53eb2610899155960629803c72c73a4a/original/beatles-dc-ticket-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 12th Carnegie Hall New York City</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d5ee156981ba80084815e7bf9aa971cfeafa5f57/original/beatles-carnige-hall.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Organized by famed promoter Sid Bernstein, the Beatles performed a pair of concerts at New York City’s celebrated Carnegie Hall on February 12, 1964. Having just returned from their appearance at Washington, DC’s Coliseum, the Beatles sold out both shows, for which the Briarwoods served as the supporting act. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles’ appearance at Carnegie Hall marked the first occasion in which a rock act played at the esteemed concert hall. Beatles producer George Martin had planned to record the concerts for a future live album, although he was denied permission, despite Capitol Records’ efforts, by the American Federation of Musicians. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The idea for recording a live album had materialized back on February 3rd, while Martin and the Beatles were still in England. Capitol fashioned a deal in which the Beatles’ producer would oversee the recordings with Voyle Gilmore, Capitol’s East Coast A&R (Artists & Repertoire) head. After securing permission from Carnegie to record on the premises with a pro-forma $600 fee, Capitol began making preparations to have a mobile unit on hand. But it was all for naught. Before Martin could so much as adjust a microphone, the American Federation of Musicians registered its objection to Martin’s participation, given that he would be acting as nonunion personnel on a recording session. While Capitol dutifully offered to cover the Englishman’s union dues, the union simply wasn’t willing to establish a precedent. As far as manager Brian Epstein and the band members were concerned, no Martin meant no Beatles. And with that the live album was kaput. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the concerts, Bernstein attempted to book the Beatles for an appearance at Madison Square Garden during the following week for a $25,000 fee along with a $5,000 donation to the British Cancer Fund, although Epstein demurred with promises of a future engagement. As it turned out, the Beatles never played at the Garden, the famed venue where John Lennon would make his last performance before a paying audience with Elton John in November 1974 (Lennon’s final stage appearance occurred at a star-studded tribute to Sir Lew Grade in New York City in April 1975). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles’ performance at Carnegie Hall on February 12, 1964, also marked the last time that Bernstein booked a concert at the fabled venue. As Bernstein later recalled, “Carnegie Hall didn’t have to worry about its sacred property or paintings on the wall. They shook a little bit and they asked me never to come back again!” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As Lennon later recalled, the Beatles left the hall with few, if any happy memories, in spite of the venue’s reputation. “Carnegie Hall was terrible!” he remembered. 'The acoustics were terrible and they had all these people sitting on the stage with us and it was just like Rockefeller’s children backstage and it all got out of hand. It wasn’t a rock show; it was just a sort of circus where we were in cages. We were being pawed and talked at and met and touched, backstage and onstage. We were just like animals.'” (kennethwomck.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d9d827593e32221ea51cea32db8f7396314e64e/original/beatles-carnegie-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The unrelenting spotlight and grueling schedule were starting to wear on the Beatles. The constant encroachment and the extraneous obligations were exhausting. There were none of the boundaries they were used to in England. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the morning of Feb. 12 they were put on a slow-moving train rattling up the East Coast, while manager Brian Epstein and his staff flew the shuttle back to New York. The boys, for their part, were chaperoned by an entourage of journalists who refused to give them a moment’s peace. “We enjoyed it in the early days,” George recalled, but “the only place we ever got any peace was when we got in the suite and locked ourselves in the bathroom.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But that wasn’t about to happen anytime soon. The platforms were mobbed with several thousand fans when the train pulled into Pennsylvania Station. At the last minute, the cops detached the Beatles’ car from the rest of the train and diverted it to an isolated platform. A plan to take them up a special elevator was foiled by fans, so the boys charged up the closest set of stairs and jumped into a taxi idling on Seventh Avenue. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They were overdue for rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, where they were scheduled to appear twice that evening. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even for the Beatles, Carnegie Hall was no ordinary gig. The place was a shrine; the name alone humbled any musician. But if the Beatles were in awe of entering the place, they didn’t show it. They relaxed in the prestigious green room just behind the stage, chain-smoking American cigarettes and drinking lukewarm tea, completely unfazed by the remarkable surroundings. On the walls just outside hung autographs of the hall’s most famous denizens: Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Caruso, Pons, Handy, Cliburn, Casals, Rostropovich, Callas. Until that night, Bill Haley & the Comets and Bo Diddley had been the only rock ’n’ roll acts to set foot in Carnegie Hall. Apparently, its board of directors didn’t dig the groove. Neither Elvis nor Buddy Holly was granted a date, not even the Everly Brothers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As the lights went down, the 2,900 concertgoers, most of them teenage girls, delivered a protracted scream that never let up for the duration. “It was mayhem,” recalled Dan Daniel, a longtime local DJ. “It was the most piercing, uncomfortable sound I’d ever heard." (entertainment.time.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/65cf78e45fbf8aba00efdbbd822532d689d57f52/original/star-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Roll Over Beethoven” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“From Me to You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Saw Her Standing There” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“This Boy” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“All My Loving” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Wanna Be Your Man” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Please Please Me” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Till There Was You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“She Loves You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Want to Hold Your Hand” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Twist and Shout” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Long Tall Sally”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SPRING UK TOUR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 26th Empire Pool London</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5842d42bb80c8aaf763eaae331dc745b9851681/original/1964-beatles-nme-poll-winners-all-star-concer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a119b52b9dd45fb533d9c793062ea604ad00e962/original/1964-beatles-nme-concert-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 29th ABC Cinema Edinburgh, Scotland</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f844f9504d855988e6790a25a0270161dec6f535/original/1964-beatles-scotland-edinburgh-april-29.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b5a4b0363dfb0dd377379b0f2feab339e653c502/original/1964-beatles-edinburgh-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e793a34b98bc75a0b76cb6b5d50c069e2dd5721/original/1964-beatles-edinburgh-fans.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 30th Odeon Cinema Glasgow, Scotland</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbcfee824ef9816dde7d14c92c03521715350753/original/1964-glascow-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 31st Prince of Wales Theatre London, UK</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cabd1fee2cfe18834f671d4a50a78816b5c65dda/original/1964-beatles-prince-of-wales-london-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5f69d4985d16f799559d9a9e041250bbfec9399/original/1964-beatles-prince-of-wales-london-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WORLD TOUR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles 1964 world tour was the Beatles first world tour, launched after their 1964 UK tour. The reception was enthusiastic, with The Spectator describing it as "hysterical". It was followed by their subsequent North American tour in August that year.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In early June of 1964, the Beatles were set for a summer tour of Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and New</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zealand. But on June 3rd, the morning before the tour, Ringo collapsed during a photo shoot. The Beatles were at Prospect Studios in Barnes, London with `Saturday Evening Post' photographer John Launois when it became apparant that Ringo's health was in jeopardy. Ringo was immediately taken to University Hospital in London where it was discovered that he had a high fever and severe tonsillitis. With Ringo resting in the hospital, it was decided by Brian Epstein that the tour should not be cancelled. Brian convinced the other three Beatles to reluctantly agree, and Jimmy Nicol was hired as a substitute drummer.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Typical Set List for this tour:</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Twist and Shout" (John Lennon) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Saw Her Standing There" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You Can't Do That" (John Lennon) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"All My Loving" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Wanna Be Your Man" (Ringo Starr) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"She Loves You" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Till There Was You" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Roll Over Beethoven" (George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Can't Buy Me Love" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This Boy" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Long Tall Sally" (Paul McCartney)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 4, 1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Copenhagen, Denmark</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cfcd735c158cf2c5f1f0b56b7bd4e4ca6685041e/original/jimmy-nicholls-copenhagen.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On June 5th, the three Beatles and Jimmy Nicol exited Denmark for Holland, arriving in Amsterdam. The group held a press conference at Schiphol Airport in the VIP Room.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yemuX-PbZYU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yemuX-PbZYU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 10, 1964 Hong Kong China</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffd337e6461bb8517cc39983372c269d672a320b/original/beatles-hong-kong.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles arrive for a one night stand in Hong Kong.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 12th thru June 30th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Australia & New Zealand</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HrzUoUhHhSQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HrzUoUhHhSQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8368aeceee2f1d4bec7b76212bac6770791f73ce/original/beatles-austrailia-12th-june.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It may sound like a joke in search of a punch line, but the trio all have their own stories about The Beatles’ 1964 tour of Australia. It’s hard to overstate how a big a deal the tour was; in one way or another it touched just about everybody who was there to experience it. It was all too much for the bouncers, hearing a bloke yelling 'John I love you', 'Paul I love you', so they threw some kids out of the concert. </strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/511a0d9f60dedb4e2a80cbed75911cc35446fd3c/original/australian-fans-64.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the high water marks in Australian cultural history, the Beatles tour was the catalyst for Australia's teenagers to escape the shackles of their parents and the social torpor of Menzies-era Australia. The visit came at the height of the group’s early fame, when they were still working through their boy band phase, singing songs about love, holding hands and not a whole lot else." (abc.net.au)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12th - August 19th</strong></span></p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Europe</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/44cdf8ab29a14a5c8d8e2bcb06833e17782a4a5a/original/beatles-july-12-brighton.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12th The Hippodrome Brighton</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f59193cbe0d2629d4c3d273da57a6cb26f0d70b/original/hippodrome-brighton.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a11e0133edbb49d4ea29aaba1ed0ccc73dd721d/original/sunday-paladium.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 23rd, Sunday Night at the Palladium London</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e00874059eed6b397b8377d70aa2dcb748fd5a22/original/beatles-palladium-64.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 28th & 29th Stockholm Sweden</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8291ddaff666e80977e4faee4ab8cc755e00ce1f/original/beatles-stockholm-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 2nd 1964 Bournemouth</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/169170bdf4ed2becceee9fbb34231afb5996eda2/original/beatles-bournemouth-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 9th Scarborough Futurist Theatre</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf450d3527f891132a2332ac679b0440a688e09b/original/futurist-theatre.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 16th, Blackpool Blackpool Opera House</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jPJE6yipB0U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jPJE6yipB0U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While this video is very herky jerky, it captures some of the madness of the Beatles Tour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 18th Atlanta Stadium Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a90ddd0d0d09fef8257449d43005c081df7de97f/original/1965-beatles-atlanta-stadium.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 20 Las Vegas Convention Center</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cac23928c53887e0b3fede39df777becf815a0b3/original/1964-beatles-las-vegas.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/442d16622cc4576f1e1ce91f65afc68867a21de4/original/1964-beatles-las-vegas-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4618385f7b8119953ac0102acbee40298615d919/original/1964-beatles-las-vegas-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 21st Seattle Center Coliseum Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff2374d508265089f94f426f2de5d14ce6430422/original/1964-beatles-seattle-coliseum.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In August 21, 1964, the Beatles give their first concert in Washington state. They played at the Seattle Center Coliseum to 14,300 screaming fans. The stage is raised 12 feet for the Beatles' protection. Scalpers sell the $5 tickets for $30. Just after 8 p.m. the show starts with the following opening acts: Bill Black Combo, Exciters, Righteous Brothers and Jackie de Shannon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Beatlemania</strong></i><strong> swept Seattle days before the Fab Four's arrival. Woolworth's Department Store sold Beatle wigs, Beatle Bobbin' Head dolls, trading cards, and record albums, proclaiming 'It's a mad fad, dad' in their advertisements. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Security was stepped up at the Edgewater Inn Hotel, where the Beatles would be staying. A 350-foot-long plywood fence covered in barbed wire was erected, and arrangements were made for the harbor patrol to prevent waterbound Beatle fans from approaching the building by boat. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the day of their performance, the lads from Liverpool held a press conference at the hotel, and answered questions with their usual aplomb: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "Well, it was said in Las Vegas and in Frisco that your performance couldn't be heard because of the noise. Now, how do you feel about this? Do you consider it might hurt your future concerts?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "It's been going on for a couple of years, you know." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "How many more years do you think it will go on?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Don't know. We're not..." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN: "We're not taking bets." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "Have you got any idea? Will it be three? Four? What do you think?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GEORGE: "Till death do us part." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(laughter)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Later, Paul McCartney was asked what he might do after he was through with singing:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Don't know. Probably John and I will carry on songwriting." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN: (jokingly) "I'm not doing it with you." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Oh, no!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(laughter) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>That evening, the opening acts took to the stage beginning at 8:00 p.m. At 9:25 disc jockey Pat O'Day from radio station KJR, Seattle's leading Rock and Roll station, introduced the Beatles. The crowd went wild. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Screaming fans made the noise in the Coliseum deafening and few if any could hear the songs. The Beatles played: "All My Lovin,' "Twist and Shout," "You Can't Do That," "She Loves You," "Can't Buy Me Love," "If I Fell In Love With You," "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "Boys" (sung solo by Ringo Starr), and "Roll Over Beethoven." They ended the concert with "Long Tall Sally." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the concert, hundreds of teenage girls rushed the stage in the hopes of catching the eyes of their idols. Police and firefighters did their best to prevent injuries, but 35 people required first aid treatment, ranging from bumps and bruises to all-out hysteria. One girl was restrained on a stretcher, all the while screaming "Paul! I love you!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles waited an hour before leaving the Coliseum in the rear of an ambulance that returned them to the heavily guarded Edgewater Inn on the waterfront. They earned $34,569 for their performance. The next day they left for Vancouver, British Columbia. MacDougall's Department Store purchased the carpet from the room they stayed in, cut it up, and sold the pieces for souvenirs." (historylink.org)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 22nd Empire Stadium Vancouver, Canada</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HwD2hDnwtFg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HwD2hDnwtFg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b87fc9ae43622006049b8acb8740b46face2aadf/original/1964-vancouver-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bc792e306174aa13441df65db88bd89677c5e29f/original/1964-beatles-vaancouver-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8976a262a5dbde8250c8b266553c397f292cebf6/original/1964-beatles-vancouver-wild-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On August 22, 1964 the fab four made their way to Vancouver to perform in front of thousands at Empire Stadium. Screams from the fans were so loud that the emcee (Red Robinson) and the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein had to interrupt the performance to appeal for calm, it was no use. Thousands of teenagers rushed the stage and hundreds were crushed against the restraining fence. After 29 minutes the Beatles bolted from the stage and were whisked away in limousines with a police motorcycle escort. The classical music critics sent by the newspapers to review the show griped, 'Seldom in Vancouver’s entertainment history have so many (20,261) paid so much ($5.25 top price) for so little.' Jack Wasserman, who with Jack Webster was on the field, covering the show for Jack Cullen’s Owl Prowl on CKNW, said it was a '</strong><i><strong>damned disgrace</strong></i><strong>'.” (vancouverisawesome.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 23rd Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c91a272f08c95de55338df4555246858c40fcb3/original/1964-hollywood-bowl-la.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 26th Red Rocks Amphitheater Boulder, CO</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/da68c4d8e34a81ac0bf18bd1097e759b522f1f1a/original/1964-beatles-red-rocks-ampitheater.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3bfb3287db5a662b3f839f9e75efcd4cd8531cf1/original/1964-boulder-concert-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The following day, the concert was front page news in the Daily Camera, which carried an Associated Press story that described how fans showered the band with jelly beans, reportedly the musicians’ favorite candy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the Fab Four left town, The Brown Palace Hotel sold pieces of bed sheets hotel officials claimed The Beatles had slept in. The Hotel's instructions were to mail a letter and 25 cents to the hotel. The hotel sent back a small square of sheeting affixed to a card. Many of the fans who attended the concert still has her fabric swatch, a keepsake from a memorable summer day." (rockhappenedatredrocks.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 27th Cincinnati Gardens Cincinnati, OH</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1be8a7c907c5300cd5547aa84cee2cb3e4b735e3/original/1964-beatles-cincy-gardens-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a3d816f08a41f3fa1b6bb6983dbc00c9ed7a588/original/1964-beatles-cincy-gardens.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 28th & 29th Forest Hills Stadium Queens, NY</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/950ecc416de713131af57a67135470bb30ab08a5/original/1964-beatles-forest-hills-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec49e6dd662a2d2aa1ea26b37ada4924e320bc51/original/1964-beatles-forest-hills-live-action-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 30th Atlantic City New Jersey</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1f902f1da63ac9bafa20e53693cbc73eb71fba4a/original/1964f-atlantic-city-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d439f8c5e810909b85cf2520f6a4007eab155249/original/atlantic-city-1964.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Atlantic City was the place to be in the summer of '64. Summer's end brought the 1964 Democratic National Convention to the city and, a few days later, a whirlwind visit and concert by the Fab Four.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"While staying at the hotel John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song Every Little Thing, which appeared on the Beatles For Sale album at the end of 1964. During the filming of “The Beatles Off the Record” McCartney was quoted in saying “John and I got this one written in Atlantic City during our last tour of the States. John does the guitar riff for this one, and George is on acoustic. Ringo bashes some timpani drums for the big noises you hear.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fans spent most of the day waiting for the band to come out of their room on the 7th floor. It was not until 6 pm that fans were alerted that the doors to the show were opening at 8:30. In the blink of an eye the line was wrapping around the outside the Atlantic City Convention Hall. People of all ages (mostly teenagers) buzzed and looked in awe at the signs that read 'The fabulous Beatles.' For fans in the South Jersey area this was a dream come true!" (shorelocalnews.com)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sept 2nd Convention Hall Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eadd3f4b48dc7303bbcf7c92b4eb20b045fdc49b/original/1964-beatles-philly-poster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/505ff666189e63f6d821784f5c6bd057836f81d5/original/1964-beatles-philly-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 3rd Indiana State Fair Indianapolis, IN</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/df916a7898214ff225c9ab51a6aa20a4a83e4d5b/original/1964-beatles-indiana-state-fair.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KFW806Eh6HA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFW806Eh6HA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ee7d778e4859372b57b4c4de23d60c35b2a9836/original/1964-beatles-indiana-state-fair-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Deep-fried Pepsi is impressive, but surely the Indiana State Fair's finest moment was the booking of the Beatles. For two shows, one at 6 p.m. in the Coliseum, the second at 9:30 in the Grandstand. It was Sept. 3, 1964. Among the people who saw the Beatles perform that day in 1964, were a boys who'd grow up to figure prominently in Indiana politics; Mike McDaniel, a lobbyist and former Republican state chairman. Years later, when he was interviewed, McDaniel noted that he 'rubbed against the car the Beatles arrived in and got a good look at all of them.' He said his favorite Beatles were Paul and Ringo." (indianaregistser.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 4th Milwaukee Arena Milwaukee, WI</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8db77abfcc186f1da1278828d85e1d5fb55b18fc/original/1964-milwaukee-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Hht5mRFpxo0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hht5mRFpxo0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f85a2a92fd8af014df8bd4fd43550d4de25082f/original/1964-beatles-milwaukee-sentinel.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Milwaukee Meets The Beatles: On September 4, 1964, the Beatles played their only show in Wisconsin. Writer Dean Robbins tells us about the madness that greeted them on their first American tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The madness started the minute the Beatles’ plane landed in Mitchell Field. This was the lads’ first American tour, at the height of Beatlemania. That meant hundreds of fans showed up to swoon at the sight of them. But the 80 police officers on hand wanted nothing of the sort, so they arranged for the plane to land far away from the crowd. Then they shuttled the Beatles through a back exit, where no one could see them. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band complained, to no avail. Later, at a press conference, Paul McCartney accused the police of pulling a 'dirty trick' to keep them from greeting their fans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles didn’t treat the local press any more respectfully than they did the local police. A reporter asked them what they planned to do when their bubble burst. Guitarist George Harrison answered, simply, 'Ice hockey.' Tickets for the show at Milwaukee Arena topped out at $5.50. Red Cross workers, armed with ammonia inhalants, stationed themselves around the arena to treat fainting girls. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As for the performance, it was drowned out by the screaming of 12,000 fans. The screams were so relentless that no one could tell “All My Loving” from “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Nevertheless, the Beatles rocked, and they playfully engaged the crowd between songs. Everybody there remembers having a good time." (wisconsinlife.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 5th Chicago Amphitheater Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78eae061e02a00ae65306f16d923e1cf660a44af/original/1964-beatles-chicago-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2fbfc77313796d6e57d120d199eb74175b96ea05/original/1964-beatles-chicago-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c09f44f4063a5045f862e2dd84d812eb9547519c/original/1964-beatles-chicago-ticket-contest.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="47YhmXa8WSc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/47YhmXa8WSc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 6th Olympia Stadium Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="64x7xJqlde8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/64x7xJqlde8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Following their performance at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, the Beatles and their entourage were flown to Detroit Michigan on September 6th 1964, as the 14th stop of their 1964 North American Tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Motor City was the place of origin for the music the Beatles had professed to love in almost every interview and press conference -- The Detroit Sound, and the recording artists of the Tamla-Motown label. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles would perform two shows at Olympia Stadium. The press conference was held backstage at the Olympia between the two performances. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From here, the Beatles would fly from Detroit to Toronto as their 1964 North American Tour pressed onward.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fdf5a3d5f37582be260e91064968a2111eb923a8/original/music-spacer-small-200-on-lps-and-singles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="200" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 6th Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ed602fa019e45b428daa2af7a9311c0337e8a79/original/1964-jacksonville-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On September 6th, The Beatles were scheduled for two shows in Jacksonville, Florida. After the first show, they demanded that they would not perform before a segregated audience for the second show. When the management would not agree with their request. they booked a date in Montreal, Canada.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UHIDnFd3Ltw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UHIDnFd3Ltw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8eWECN9-sY4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8eWECN9-sY4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles performed a concert in Florida only once. And they were willing to cancel the Sept. 11, 1964, date at Jacksonville's Gator Bowl when they learned the audience was to be racially segregated. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The policy was in defiance of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson that July and banned segregation in public accommodations. For the group, which was heavily influenced by African American music, the idea was anathema, and the four Beatles demanded that black concertgoers sit with their white counterparts. They issued a statement five days before the show that noted, "We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From then on, the Beatles demanded integrated audiences upfront. In 2011, a contract from their 1965 show at San Francisco's Cow Palace surfaced as part of an auction. One clause reads succinctly, “Artists will not be required to perform before a segregated audience.” It sold for $23,000, well above the expected price of somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 7th Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto Canada</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/007eb1bc7141718302352a2d6173f24e880ad4d9/original/toronto-tickets.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles performed two concerts on this night at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada. A total of 35,522 tickets were sold for the shows, making $93,000 for the group. They flew to Toronto in their charter Electra airplane and, after signing autographs for immigration officials, were driven to the King Edward Hotel. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Between the car and the hotel Paul McCartney's shirt was torn by an overzealous fan. He and Ringo Starr were separated from John Lennon and George Harrison, but the police managed to restore order and they arrived in their suite safely. Once there, however, they found a 14-year-old girl hiding in a linen closet.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 8th Montreal Forum Montreal, Canada</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fee59051dc2b8ff9b507662d5e6a6180efa5025/original/1964-beatles-montreal.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/71a49eb5567bcf7a4014f6d47722d6d731496a71/original/1964-montreal-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fea1cb4eb5f86e9a29316f5ba0d383a53eee404f/original/1964-beatles-montreal-walking-out-to-play.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 12 Boston Garden Boston, MA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d3225550781ad97080b5c7df53285f4051ef47f/original/1964-boston-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c847ab5eca0c8054f375b7d8b330535671cd6ef/original/1964-beatles-performing-boston.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On September 12, 1964, it was Boston’s turn. All summer, the Beatles weighed heavily on the minds of New Englanders as the images of girls shrieking and fainting at their concerts disturbed parents and inflamed teenagers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital tried to explain the frenzy as a sort of natural reaction that was being fueled by parental disapproval.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the band finally arrived in Boston, they tried to stay low-key. Their plane arrived at 3:40 a.m. at Hanscom Field Air Force Base under tight security. Crowds were minimal. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They stayed at the Madison Hotel, on an upper floor of the building located next to Boston Garden whose sign was a familiar landmark to people of a certain age. Any effort to keep a low profile failed, however, and hundreds of fans stampeded the hotel to get at the quartet. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A quick press conference – crashed by three fans – let the band giggle with the media over their success and teed up the main event that evening.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the start of the show, the Boston Garden was packed with an official head count of 13,909 fans, each with tickets priced at $3.50 to $5.50. Girls screamed and fainted, Causeway Street was flooded with thousands who couldn’t get in but wanted to witness the event anyway. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band took the stage at 9:15, and a dozen songs later – which went virtually unheard because of the screaming fans – history was made with a 35-minute show. The British had conquered Boston again. The boys were on a flight to Baltimore before midnight as thousands of fans lingered outside the Boston Garden hoping for one last glimpse." (New England Historical Society)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 13th Baltimore Civic Center Baltimore, MD</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77b3dc04f6581a0fe75540ae6cf716192d039886/original/1964-beatles-baltiore-newspaper-ad.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab33082370b37ce9e03f67b7a1a1b76216fd636c/original/1964-beatles-baltimore-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 14th Pittsburgh Civic Arena Pittsburgh, PA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd2398cc24ac567126616437d5d87fce5becf816/original/1964-beatles-pittsburg-kdka-radio.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a73f88c9b19d922d214325fa79d1a6d1ca162d67/original/1964-beatles-pittsburgh-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On the the 21st show of the tour was held at the Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. For the city of Pittsburgh and thousands of local Beatlemaniacs, it was a day that would live in infamy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tickets went on sale in the spring at a cost of $5.90, and were available by mail-order only. This was almost double the going rate at the time, but the concert still sold out in a day and a half. The total take was $75,000, of which the Beatles were guaranteed $25,000 and a share of the gate. This was the first time that an act demanded and received a percentage of the gate as well as a guarantee. In the end, the Beatles were paid $37,000 for the show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One problem encountered by the promoters was finding a place for the band to stay. Because of the fear of Beatlemania, no Pittsburgh hotels would take the band for the night, so they were forced to commute to Pittsburgh out of Cleveland.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the morning of September 14, local radio stations KQV and KDKA had Beatle fans primed and ready for the happening. They spent the entire day of the show playing Beatle songs, along with updates on the band's anticipated arrival. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The plane carrying John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr touched down at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport at 4:36pm. They were met by a crowd of some 4000 fans, many of whom had been waiting since morning. There were 120 police officers providing security at the airport, including fifteen on horseback. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles were escorted from the plane into a waiting limousine. Accompanied by six police cars and two motorcycles, they drove off towards Pittsburgh. Over 5000 teenage fans lined the Parkway West to see the motorcade. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another 5000 screaming fans were waiting outside the Civic Arena when the motorcade arrived at Gate 5. After settling in, the four Beatles attended a press conference, then enjoyed a meal before the concert. The Beatles used the Penguins locker room, which was finely decorated with items donated by Kaufmanns. The band members later commented that it was the nicest dressing room they encountered on their U.S. tour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A paid crowd of 12,603 fans packed the arena for the show. The opening acts included The Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, and Jackie DeShannon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the preliminary acts were over, the crowd was in a feverish frenzy, chanting "We want the Beatles." After a short break, KQV's Chuck Brinkman stepped up to the mike and proudly said, "KQV presents the Beatles." It was history in the making.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The crowd noise pretty much drowned out the music, but it didn't matter. They Beatles played their set to the delight of everyone in attendance. The show lasted a little over an hour. When it was over, the Fab Four were quickly packed into their limousine and rushed back to the airport for the flight to Cleveland." (brooklineconnection.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 15th Public Auditorium Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3f7e13b234da78e1f5121843e4f3de3a266e465c/original/1964-beatles-cleveland-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0adb59c8a87efe9b0418c293e01491dd99cf8c53/original/1864-beatles-cleveland-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5762d3bfdfaf064ed5b024bda134b89fe33473f5/original/1964-beatles-cleveland-on-stage-with-police.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e399fb7aba9556c6bb4c4303b29522ed8b69c152/original/1964-cleveland-fans-stuf.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 16 City Park New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3545c0e7063ed921775ad07acac12d0b57bd10d6/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was, by all accounts, a full-tilt episode of Beatlemania. The British foursome played a stadium full of hysterical fans in City Park on Sept. 16, 1964, their songs all but drowned out by the screams of teenage girls. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was their only New Orleans concert, the highlight of a visit less than 24 hours long.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans was the 22nd stop on the Beatles’ 25-city, 31-concert North American tour. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played in City Park for an enraptured crowd of 12,000. The audience included hysterical teen girls, young children — and terrified parents." (www.nola.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/798241801dbfd773dc95d90168fa3e9e8f04c7d3/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-fans-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12cd6c813fd86ad3df7278a3e36ce6abef9337d6/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-beatles-day.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 17th Municipal Stadium Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d8c06aa78803682cce7737aaeec4f7eba712c12/original/1964-beatles-kansas-city-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/605c4bf0cb51d13664f59e47e8eef3fe7818f7eb/original/1964-beatles-kansas-city-yeah-yeah-yeah.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 18th Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AO7nA_7CqdA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AO7nA_7CqdA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfae56587ed8a773a6577710edce64b5de7f24a3/original/1964-beatles-dallas-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The night before the Fab Four were scheduled to perform what would be their only North Texas concert ever, they arrived at Dallas Love Field following a gig in Kansas City. As they arrived at the Cabana Motor Hotel, fans in the lobby broke a plate of glass and had to be treated for minor injuries. Paul McCartney made a quick phone call to console a 13-year-old fan in Grand Prairie who was forced to surrender her tickets to the show, and he and the remaining band members were promptly escorted to what is now the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As they arrived to the venue an hour later than scheduled because of an overwhelming number of fans stifling their commute, they engaged in a brief press conference and got onstage to perform a nearly 40-minute set. Fans in the nosebleeds dashed across the auditorium and let out screams that reporters described as grating and unbridled." 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Ed Sullivan, Steve Lawrence, and Eydie Gorme were the hosts. Tickets sold for as much as $100 but there were only 3682 seats in the theatre. It was a sellout, of course, and there are reports of 100,000 fans outside with 200 of New York's finest keeping them under control. This was the last concert date of their first full American tour." 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It could never be the same as this one and it's probably something we will remember the rest of our days. 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It was a raucous, often crowded place, with free-flowing tequila, pretty good barbecue, not a few 10-gallon hats and performers like Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman, Albert King and Roy Orbison. The Lone Star was never exactly in sync with its upscale neighborhood but its noisy, nutty, anarchic spirit was well represented by a 40-foot iguana on the roof.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/eed873ab053b78597ccb5cedeaa7f55c97b0405e/original/lone-star-cafe-roof.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span><o:p></o:p></span><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HISTORY OF THE LONE STAR IGUANA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Made of wire mesh and polyurethane foam, the Iguana, an inanimaate cartoonish figure of Jurassic Park propotions with an open, spiky-toothed mouth, spiny quills along its back and a great curling tail, was a downtown icon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the 80's </strong><span><strong>Made of wire mesh and polyurethane foam, the iguana, an inanimate cartoonish figure of Jurassic Park proportions with an open, spiky-toothed mouth, spiny quills along its back and a great, curling tail, was a downtown icon (and occasional cause celebre) during the 1980's. It graced (some said disgraced) the roof of the Lone Star Cafe, a Texas-themed music bar and all-around honky-tonk at Fifth Avenue and 13th Street in Manhattan." (NY Times)</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8VT77l2gE4I/TxM5ihw6MDI/AAAAAAAACTQ/6KqRHJ87S9A/s1600/schrafft%2527s.1938.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Jerry's Brokendown Palaces: Lone Star Cafe, 61 Fifth and 13th Street, New York, NY" height="289" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/46ac0877c12343775860ab67d42dd59d8b665406/original/lone-star-when-it-was-schraffts.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1936 a brownstone was demolished to make way for a new two-story Schrafft's, probably the most popular chain of diners in the city during the '30s, '40s and '50s. A revolving door led to a cocktail bar to the right and a spiral staircase to the second floor on the left.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Schrafft's chain bought and demolished the previous building. One of the top floors was the home and studio of artist Ben Solowey. Solowey was a representational painter who exhibited alongside Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, and Hopper in places such as the Met, Whitney, Chicago Institute of Art. he also did charcoal portraits from life of performers on Broadway, opera, film, and dance on assignment primarily for the New York Times and Herald Tribune. His wife, Rae, has said that they had to move because their building was torn down to make way for a Schraffts. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In an effort to revamp their not-very-hip image, the folks at Schraffts hired Andy Warhol to do a commercial about the chain. But it was what it was, and ultimately closed a few years later.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fc815efe93dbf4ad82119add09e78f69f1566853/original/lone-star-logo.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From 1976 to 1989, The Lone Star Cafe, became the city's most popular country music concert venue. The Texas-themed Lone Star Cafe opened in February 1976 and became the premier country music venue in New York and booked big names and especially acts from Texas, like </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asleep_at_the_Wheel" title="Asleep at the Wheel"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Asleep at the Wheel</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison" title="Roy Orbison"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roy Orbison</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Star_Cafe#cite_note-squat-1"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-squat_1-0">[2]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Nelson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman" title="Kinky Friedman"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kinky Friedman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison" title="Roy Orbison"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roy Orbison</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delbert_McClinton" title="Delbert McClinton"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delbert McClinton</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Fender" title="Freddy Fender"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddy Fender</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Sahm" title="Doug Sahm"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doug Sahm</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jeff_Walker" title="Jerry Jeff Walker"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Jeff Walker</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, were among Texas musicians who frequented the Lone Star Cafe.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Star_Cafe#cite_note-rocker-2"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-rocker_2-0">[3]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ely" title="Joe Ely"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Ely</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Shaver" title="Billy Joe Shaver"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Joe Shaver</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> also appeared at the Lone Star.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://vassifer.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c18b253ef0192abd41eb6970d-800wi" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="19870217_lonestar2" height="288" /><img src="https://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/tw_pdfs/tw_lone_star_2-7-86.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Timothy Wood: Band Shows" height="472" /><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yKMFJNFiz9M/TxNF77G48xI/AAAAAAAACUI/ho4s5XqIbHk/s1600/217048_10150551567935398_587270397_17858426_6057950_n.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Jerry's Brokendown Palaces: Lone Star Cafe, 61 Fifth and 13th Street, New York, NY" height="488" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soon enough the Lone Star hosted a number of musical acts, and particularly featured acts from Texas. Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman and Billy Joe Shaver all did regular shows there. The Blues Brothers and James Brown also did shows there, with Brown recording a live album there in 1985.</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b4652e41d213077a14d6f4e09a62ac7b475074f9/original/the-lone-star-cafe-new-york-at-61-fifth-avenue-at-the-corner-of-13th-street-from-1976-to-1989.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.joenickp.com/books/willie.html" target="_blank" title="Willie Nelson biographer Joe Nick Patoski"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Nelson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and Roy Orbison made their first New York appearance at the Lone Star, in 1979 and 1980 respectively. </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/music/2020/07/22/TELEMMGLPICT000175723548_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqIydc_Sq3KyS-mXcsDYjR8zvz--4IhMfOqTm-fbrNc1A.jpeg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="More than just 'a bunch of white guys': John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and the birth of the Blues Brothers" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Belushi and Dan Akroyd debuted as the Blues Brothers at The Lone Star Cafe in 1977. </strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/65cf78e45fbf8aba00efdbbd822532d689d57f52/original/star-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Other Lone Star headliners included… </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRQC75ivTsbuHT6QlEhHLHI26nNNblGQjnEr3kIKeN4z16Ne1WMcLk5Xm0Xb8QbdI-1MfA&usqp=CAU" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="09-04-2022 Hoy hubiera cumplido años el que para muchos fue el pionero del rockabilly Carl Perkins · LH Magazin" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Perkins" target="_blank" title="Carl Perkins (Wikipedia)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carl Perkins</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c05208d81b81fd803ad1a4114a6e0626d3fef416/original/delbirt-elvis-costello-lone-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Delbert McClinton & Elvis Costello</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8060944305b787d532ed58af54e5f575c7410dcc/original/kinky-friedman-lone-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kinky Friedman</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Singer/songwriter and 2006 Texas gubernatorial candidate </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.kinkycigars.com/" target="_blank" title="Kinky Friedman Cigars (official Web site)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kinky Friedman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> was long-running attraction, and his 1987 detective novel </strong><i><strong>A Case of Lone Star</strong></i><strong> is set in the milieu of the club.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7c0207fe10aca93c403ab11edce43d92ee1775bb/original/albert-collins.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert Collins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One night I stopped by the Lone Star to catch the one & only Albert Collins. What I didn't expect was that Albert Collins decided to go wild on his heavy guitar. The sound was so loud that I had to step outside the club. My ears were ringing for several days. “</strong><i><strong>Say What?!!</strong></i></span></p><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NSi0NMLrwM/TpWA6oxolcI/AAAAAAAAQRw/gddszZZ-GjU/s1600/51578lonestar.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" height="540" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m0cjIdL2nNY/TpWBKleBEqI/AAAAAAAAQUs/uiBwH8jwGjg/s1600/101678lonestar.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="585" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e3af3188f3ed0573368bbfeae88e23dc642e012c/original/lone-star-cafe-ad-22.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="2709" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9A1v77Q-sI0/TpWAxdi6wxI/AAAAAAAAQQI/qF992-EoYiE/s1600/13078lonestar2.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="441" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/f2cee099a318777394f1cf46955a2f5f/2387357" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="Live at the Lone Star Cafe, New York, NYC, April 14, 1986 by Buddy Guy & Stevie Ray Vaughan (Bootleg, Electric Blues): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music" height="296" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jFcyJ0KLfZY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jFcyJ0KLfZY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BUDDY GUY & STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN > April 1986</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4dac0077f04b25cf2e73bd06786c5e453313ec1b/original/roy-buchanan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roy Buchanan </strong></span></p><img src="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f9983a4a6b35b129d3d2c68/4:3/w_2771,h_2078,c_limit/Petrusich-Jerry-Jeff%20Walker.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Long, Lonesome Roads of Jerry Jeff Walker | The New Yorker" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Jeff Walker</strong></span></p><img src="https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/12311324_10207672163419298_7308938312887157434_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p552x414&_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7f8c78&_nc_ohc=iM9iJTYgE_cAX-tJeM-&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfB-UoHfgVrMBV5SBP5yUBQ5W97KicKQvPgN34v_73XQEg&oe=65F749CA" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="No photo description available." /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="W1m2vVtNN-c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W1m2vVtNN-c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jaco Pastorious & Jimmy Page</strong></span></p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/52/db/7e/52db7e94eba0b0bd65b6d68f78106863.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Bob Dylan and The Band in Concert at the Lone Star Cafe | Bob dylan, Dylan, Star cafe" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dvU2mrhX5zI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dvU2mrhX5zI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan & members of The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2wa25TNHLQk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2wa25TNHLQk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LIBBY TITUS NEW YORK NIGHTS @ THE LONESTAR CAFE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8bf98bbee1b095c4617e35e2aa621adaafebd549/original/3-29-3-30-lone-star-dr-john.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="263" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's my story of hanging out with Dr. John @ The Lone Star Cafe:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3/29/1983 Lone Star Café (NYC) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Freelance Vandals opened for Dr. John and Maria Muldaur for two nights at The Lone Star Cafe. Maria Mauldaur turned out to be a genuine diva & demanded that she get the star dressing room, thereby forcing the noble Dr. John to share dressing room digs with us. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We invited Dr. John to share our dressing room and right away we broke out a bottle of Jack Daniels while we all told war stories about the music business.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of the night, Miss Mauldaur somehow managed to have Dr. John, his band and the Freelance Vandals ejected from the upstairs dressing room area for singing a drunken version of Muldaur's hit song, </strong><i><strong>Midnight At The Oasis</strong></i><strong>, at the top of their lungs. A fun time was had by one & all!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fc815efe93dbf4ad82119add09e78f69f1566853/original/lone-star-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="375" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the Lone Star Café closed down in April 1989, owner Mort Cooperman had already opened the larger Lone Star Roadhouse at 240 West 52nd Street. The new venue was closed down circa 1992.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When the Lone Star closed (briefly resurfacing as the Lone Star Roadhouse in midtown for a little while, the lizard went into hiding, only to reappear on a pier down off N. Moore Street in TriBeCa for a little while, only to vanish again and relocate, somewhat fittingly, to Texas (where it remains today, I believe).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The space on Fifth Avenue turned into a bar/club called Mr. Fuji's Tropicana for a bit in the mid-90's. When Mr. Fuji's closed shortly thereafter.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The building sat dormant and rotting for some time before it was finally dismantled. Today, there's a brand new building in its foot print with massive windows that overlook the avenue -- perfect for some wealthy tycoon to glare out of at the little people." (from the Flaming Pablum blog)</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/01/06/obituaries/06wade3/06wade3-superJumbo.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Bob Wade, Sculptor of the Outlandishly Large, Dies at 76 - The New York Times" height="1749" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I still have dreams about that big ass Lizard!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" height="432" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>CHECK OUT THE FREELANCE VANDALS LIST OF ALBUMS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p 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Pennebaker<p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d6e2e7c1c70a9b7a2eb092ae64a9e2c88e4b168/original/faces-in-the-crowd-icon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b3d43010c30b88b326b107034eb9121670586f46/original/d-a-pennebaker.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One Sunday back in 2019, I woke up to the news that D.A. Pennebaker had passed away at the age of 94. While Pennebaker was a well known film maker to many folks, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look back on the artistic contributions he made to the music documentary genre over the years. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Much like the way that such artists as The Beatles and Bob Dylan had transformed the album format into something completely new, Pennebaker's vision and talent did the same when it came to using the medium of documentary film to capture the cultural impact that rock music had on the American youth culture.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2758a3f0044bf46c76f0419a0336248f2b75c080/original/d-a-pennebker.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From The Guardian website: "The history of documentary film-making would look very different without DA Pennebaker, who has died aged 94. Though best known for his revelatory film </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong>, about Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour, Pennebaker made bold and idiosyncratic films across a broad range of subject matter, from White House politics, show business and the car-maker John DeLorean to global energy supplies and a competition among elite French pastry chefs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DA Pennebaker was also a pioneer of portable cameras that could record sound synchronized with images, a technical leap that revolutionized documentary-making and inspired the “</strong><i><strong>direct cinema</strong></i><strong> movement of the late 1950's'."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4c6c433ea53aaae2cd2fe0ab22222218ecc0df69/original/dylan-dont-look-back.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“After falling under the influence of experimental filmmaker Francis Thompson, Pennebaker directed his first film, </strong><i><strong>Daybreak Express</strong></i><strong>, in 1953. Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of the same name, the five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City is the earliest known example of Pennebaker's penchant for blending together documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1959, Pennebaker co-founded Drew Associates with Richard Leacock and former LIFE magazine editor and correspondent Robert Drew. A crucial moment in the development of Direct Cinema, the collective produced documentary films for clients like ABC News (for their television series, Close-up) and Time-Life Broadcast (for their syndicated television series, Living Camera). Their first major film, Primary (1960), documented John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey's respective campaigns in the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic Primary election. Widely considered to be the first candid and comprehensive look at the day-by-day events of a Presidential race, it was the first film in which the sync sound camera could move freely with characters throughout a breaking story, a major technical achievement that laid the groundwork for modern-day documentary filmmaking. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1963, Pennebaker and Leacock left the organization to form their own production firm, Leacock-Pennebaker, Inc. Pennebaker would direct a number of short films over the course of two years. One of them was a rare recording of jazz vocalist Dave Lambert. The documentary got attention in Europe and a few weeks later, Bob Dylan's manager, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Grossman" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Albert Grossman"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Albert Grossman</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, approached Pennebaker about filming Dylan while he was touring in England. The resulting work, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_Look_Back" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Don’t Look Back "><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Dont Look Back</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>became a landmark in both film and rock history.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/52356175f94492159dc47ed49ace6478ae712376/original/d-a-pennebaker.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-d-a-pennebaker/" data-link-type="url" contents=" Film Comment magazine"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Film Comment magazine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, an interview with D.A. Pennebaker:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When you were filming, were you creating the scene in your head? I guess I was. I was thinking of where does it go. The essence of a scene for a writer is “Then what happens?” Everything has to build to “Then what happens?” And then you go to the next then what happened. It’s a series of steps, storytelling steps. “Then the first bear said”—you know that from when you heard it as a child. If you cut it too short, what happened to the bear? Because that’s how [where] you react. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grossman was Bob Dylan’s manager. Why do you think he hired you for </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong> [1967]? He didn’t hire me. In fact I paid for the film. He just said come along. Nobody paid me anything. I was told that I could do it. It was as simple as that. I don’t know where Albert knew me from or anything else. I know that Dylan had seen my early film, Daybreak Express. Sara Lownds, the woman he married, had actually worked for us at Drew Associates. I gave her a print I think. He knew about the film. Whether he liked it or didn’t like it, whether he was even involved in the decision to make the film, I didn’t know. I never asked. I think Albert decided to do it because he wanted Dylan to become familiar with being filmed. I think he had a mind of maybe making a deal with Twentieth Century or somebody and making a movie. </strong></span></p><img src="https://nebula.wsimg.com/feae1d18b455f081d1b5e9593fee609f?AccessKeyId=EAA7183376C60AD0B9B9&disposition=0&alloworigin=1" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Albert Grossman" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert Grossman (Dylan's manager)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert saw Dylan’s future very clearly, more than anybody else I knew. He saw that he had to be dealt with carefully. That you couldn’t just throw him into a role or put him in a situation. He wouldn’t even let him go on TV. He said, he’s got to be protected. I always respected that. I kind of loved Albert myself, I thought he was interesting. At one point I even asked him to manage me. Which he said was too complicated, he couldn’t do it. I asked Columbia [Records] if they would put up the money for the movie, but they said no. So instead I had a kind of handshake deal with Dylan, we would split whatever profit there was after I made back the money I put into it. Which I never knew how much because of my accounting, but it didn’t cost much because it was just me. I had a guy go along to record the concerts, but I didn’t use much of the concerts. Very little. I didn’t want to make a concert film. Originally I thought that that was what Albert wanted, to help sell the concerts he intended to do in the US. But after the first three or four days, I was much more interested in the way Dylan talked to people around him. I kind of thought this is like the early days of Byron, when he was made head of the theater group in Ireland while he was still a teenager. I thought Dylan’s kind of a poet , and he doesn’t even know that, he doesn’t understand what a poet is. He’s trying to figure out what he is. And that’s such an interesting thing to film. I thought I won’t pay much attention to the music, I’ll just use it when it’s accommodating. Each day I would think, I want to hear him talk about this particular poem, or just lines he would use. There were certain lines in the songs, “ships with tattooed sails”— I wanted to hear him say that, and then hear him talk to people where you kind of heard that kind of language. “She’s true, like ice, like fire,” things like that just knocked me out when I heard them. And I thought since there was no script, I had no producer, nobody to even equivocate with, I could kind of decide these things the way you would if you are writing a book or painting a picture. You decide them on the spot of where you are doing it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Can you talk about your relationship with Dylan? Did it feel like you were collaborating? Was he aware of your presence? </strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Always, always, always was, but he didn’t care. It was a homemade camera. It wasn’t like I was going to be any kind of dangerous filmmaking incursion into his life. There were no lights, no equipment at all except the camera. And that’s all he would ever see. Sometimes I didn’t even have a sound person. I would take a Nagra and put it in the middle of the room and turn it up. Like the stuff where they’re all singing, there’s no sound person there. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>How did the “Subterranean Homesick Blues” scene come about? So we brought all these shirt cardboards with us to London, I had about a hundred of them, and the last couple of days we sat around and everybody kind of did them. I did some of them myself but I don’t remember which ones I did. We went out and we tried to do it first in the garden back of the hotel and a cop came up and was very upset that we were doing it, was tapping me on the shoulder and I was trying to get rid of him. We said, '</strong><i><strong>This isn’t going to work</strong></i><strong>.' So then we went to the alleyway because nobody cared what we did there. And we just shot one take, I set the Nagra down and turned it on, and Dylan did the things. And Allen was there with Neuwirth and the two of them. I didn’t care what they did, I didn’t care if they were in or out of the film. I just wanted it to be as off the cuff as it could be."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MGxjIBEZvx0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MGxjIBEZvx0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's worth noting that the opening scene in </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong> that featured Bob Dylan standing in an alley flashing cardboard signs to the tune of </strong><i><strong>Subterranean Homesick Blues</strong></i><strong> made such an impact on the rock culture that it eventually led to the standard practice of using music videos to promote music which eventually led to the beginning of MTV.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5eb2d6b622ce4b2fc4ad29ad28f2c6dcde22a0a2/original/dylan-bootleg-series-4.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xLG0T2IeGBY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xLG0T2IeGBY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, Pennebaker would also be behind the camera for Dylan's 1966 tour of England. This film would see release in several different forms (Martin Scorsese's </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Direction_Home" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="No Direction Home"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No Direction Home</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> documentary and Dylan's own </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_Document" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Eat The Document"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eat The Document</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>). Pennebaker's cinematic version of the 1966 tour which was titled </strong><i><strong>Something Is Happening</strong></i><strong> remains unreleased at the present time. All of the recorded music that was gathered during this documentary was later released as Bob Dylan Live 1966 which was Vol. 4 of the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8b980eac44da2b5997a45b644d13b4295fc5381/original/monterey-pop-festival.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4b960239ce2a6234ee0faab4c5adb05ba33aa3af/original/monterey-pop-festival-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xNrygTqx0FA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xNrygTqx0FA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1967, Pennebaker created a documentary about the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Monterey Pop Festival"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Monterey Pop Festival</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>; a 3 day event which marked the beginning of rock music festivals becoming part of the youth culture's celebration of music which continues to the present day. "...the Monterey Pop Festival, which is now regarded as an important event in rock history on par with 1969's Woodstock Festival. Pennebaker produced a number of films from the event, capturing breakthrough performances from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding and Janis Joplin that remain seminal documents in rock history.” (Wikipedia) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From Film Commentary magazine's interview with D.A. Pennebaker:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Your next film was Monterey Pop, which in its way was just as influential as </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong>. It’s a film that couldn’t have been made without those cameras. They tried before, but it’s the first concert film that was synch sound. The one at Newport [Jazz on a Summer’s Day], they had a 35mm camera, but all they could do was stand at the back of the hall and use a long lens and film everybody at once. You couldn’t go onstage with people or get backstage, you couldn’t do anything like that until you got synch cameras. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You had never seen some of the acts before. How did you determine what to film? I knew Otis [Redding] a little bit because I met in him L.A. I left [Bob] Neuwirth in charge of set lists and I think he just made up which songs. It didn’t matter, we just wanted everybody to be shooting the same song so we could edit it. We had a light on the end of a stick, a red light, Neuwirth was in charge of that. When the light was on, that was the song that we were going to try to film. We were trying to save film, so we would have one song for each group. But people like Hendrix would get on, and nobody would stop shooting no matter if the light was on or off. Everybody shot everything he did. The same with The Who and with Janis. We ended up shooting an awful lot of material that no one had planned on shooting. I didn’t know who Ravi Shankar was. I heard his music, I thought it was pretty interesting, so I sent Jim and Nick to film it. And when I went down to the stage there, those two guys were so hot on the guys playing, I thought they don’t need any help, so I’ll just film the front row of the audience. I think it’s one of the most dynamic examples you could ever see of two guys shooting together, not just each of them filming something, they’re also watching what the other one’s doing. Making it work as a kind of choreography. Also, what you don’t see in most concerts happened here. Musicians would play and then go sit down and watch other people play. It was like a village gathering rather than a moneymaking thing. Standing on the stage and looking out, what I saw was this blending of San Francisco and Los Angeles watching each other’s music and being interested in it, wanting to like it. It was amazing to me. Everything was on the edge of something new. Suddenly there was this sense that a whole new music was being born. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But you had to structure all that material. There were so many musicians that in the end editing down was hard. People I knew and liked personally, we had to say no. We made a version in which I had The Electric Flag with Michael Bloomfield in it. Truman Capote said, “That’s tacky.” I thought what the fuck do you know. But the next morning I came in and looked at it and I thought there was something about it. We played it somewhere and I thought Truman was right, I was right to take them out. It’s a better film without them, even though they’re terrific. I was thinking about how to fashion it, what kind of film to make about it. The big thing about festival films, especially where there were hippies and things, was you’d have a little sociology thrown in. Somebody would do an interview on drugs or about being a hippie, whatever it was. So you had to deal with sociology between songs. I wanted the whole thing to be like putting on a record. Put on a record, you listen, and when it’s done put on another record. And nobody talks to you about drugs or any shit like that. And I wanted to have quality. People were worried about that. People who normally would have helped us with distribution thought we were too slick, too I don’t know. Anyway there was a problem there."</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d15f8b83b855381791bd8da77c725f5635eb67b1/original/norman-mailer-films.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After </strong><i><strong>Monterey Pop</strong></i><strong>, Pennebacker did some work for Norman Mailer the novelist who had begun to try his hand at making art films. Acting as Mailer's cinematographer, Pennebaker worked on the following films; </strong><i><strong>Wild 9</strong></i><strong>0,</strong><i><strong> Beyond the Law </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Maidstone</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/db11e4214ca456638deaa5b4215de7454b7f8794/original/da-pennebaker-early.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around this time, Pennebaker also entered into a collaboration on a project with the French film director Jean-Luc Godard that never saw the light of day. The story goes that Godard wanted to create a film about the effect that the Vietnam war was having on American culture. Pennebaker would end up releasing </strong><i><strong>1 PM</strong></i><strong> in 1971 which was his own version of that project.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/29c5a1863f776f58ef31631c6d694326db16616d/original/sweet-toronto.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pennebaker continued working on musical based projects in the early 1970's "When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film. This could be the musical event of the millennium, which in 1969 still had a ways to go. Even as we were figuring out how to raise money to do it, John Lennon was thinking the same way, and, little did we know, was planning to show up himself, along with Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and the newly created: Plastic Ono Band. The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival was fantastic and we filmed everybody that moved and recorded a lot of great music, but it was really the four rockers we were after. And The Plastic Ono Band was just something that flew in out of the blue. Their performance was one of the most dramatic endings I’d ever seen at any concert, and I knew it ended something but I wasn’t sure what. When the film was rough cut, John Lennon called and asked could he see it. So I flew to London, got a projector and drove to Ascot for our first audience: The Lennons. We all ended up in their bedroom because that was the only room with a white wall to project on. Sitting there on the floor watching that music come to life, I could feel John getting more and more into it. He was excitedly telling Yoko all about the performances of his heroes like you would with your high school yearbook. Suddenly I was inspired to rent Carnegie Hall and screen it there as a Christmas show, which I did with. . . stereo interlock sound. The hall was filled twice, with a standup crowd. It was a filmmaker’s dream. We called it </strong><i><strong>Sweet Toronto</strong></i><strong> until one day Janis Joplin came by to see it and right in the middle of Chuck Berry she yelled out, “Keep On Rockin'!” So we used that for the title for another version of the film but without Lennon and Yoko." D.A. Pennebaker on the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://phfilms.com/films/sweet-toronto-keep-on-rockin/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Pennebaker Hegedus website"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pennebaker Hegedus website</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85a771cd6ee0120719f1eca6ec5220bf207e650e/original/keep-a-knockin.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Pop Matters website: “This brief documentary by legendary rock ’n’ roll verité artist D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop Festival, Don’t Look Back) provides a glimpse of a '50s firebrand’s re-emergence as a novelty act amid the final days of a decade he helped to create, but in which he had played almost no role. Dressed in a ridiculous outfit – his white jacket covered in beer-coaster-sized mirrors – and wearing his famously bouffant wig, the queerest man in showbiz stepped onto that stage in immediate, and utter, control of his act. His band rushing up the tempo on nine of his classic songs (including </strong><i><strong>Long Tall Sally</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Good Golly, Miss Molly</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Jenny, Jenny</strong></i><strong>, & </strong><i><strong>Tutti-Frutti</strong></i><strong>), Richard hammered the piano for the first few numbers before getting up on top of the thing and dancing like a maniac. The crowd, maddeningly under-filmed by Pennebaker, seems to love every minute of it.”</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a1eaf88ba2f5f6e7d906e41b72a1d1ca6e1727a/original/ziggy-stardust-movie.jpeg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gmmmqGsi-iw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gmmmqGsi-iw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1973, Pennebaker filmed David Bowie’s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars_(film)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>; the farewell concert which retired Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust persona.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5a1bcb83b2e232297fd48b0deaf06a51aa60962/original/d-a-pennebaker-older.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>D.A. Pennebaker Interview from the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://cavehollywood.com/d-a-pennebaker-on-david-bowie/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="cavehollywood.com"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>cavehollywood.com</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> site:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Q: In 1973 you did the film David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars.” I would also imagine you connected with him, who knows, maybe afterwards, partially ‘cause he nicked the line ‘spiders from Mars’ from Kerouac’s “On The Road,” and has acknowledged beat writer William S. Burroughs’ cut up method on his own songwriting. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A: There’s a kind of aspect to this kind of film making, “Don’t Look Back,” “Ziggy,” “Down From The Mountain,” that you don’t much learn it but it’s a rigor that you have to sort of go through. When you first start a film, like when I first met Bowie, the first shot I ever took of him was still the best shot I ever took of him. It’s on my wall somewhere. It’s like that moment you want to fix a face so that the audience will remember that face forever. Because it’s really hard in a documentary getting people on stage. They all look alike. No matter how different they are. One is blonde, one has brown hair. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q. But with David Bowie and his Ziggy character you were walking in to a situation where things were pretty colorful and theatrical already underscoring the music being created. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A. Yes, but the dressing room was where you see him just sitting there, so that in the beginning you use a long lens, that’s why I use a zoom, and you can stand far away and the sound person can be close and you can really get on stage physically So people know that he looks different from somebody else. If you take these faces right you do portraits. But then as the movie goes forward somewhere down the line there comes a point where you don’t need to do that anymore so you go to wide angle. And usually with wide angle you usually don’t have a finder ‘cause you got to line up and pull the camera up and you start getting what is happening rather than picture to music. From then on everybody is going to recognize who’s who and you don’t have to worry about it, and that’s the way the films go, most of them. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q. You walked in to a cosmic moment in history. Bowie came to the party with the whole package, and you were getting his last “Ziggy” show. Were you a fan before you did the project? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A. No. I didn’t know who he was! I thought it was Bolan. I thought I was going to see Bolan and I loved glitter rock and I didn’t know much about it. At the time before ‘Ziggy,’ I was out on the Mississippi on a raft and ABC got hold of me and said ‘we want you to go do a film of David Bowie.’ I thought they said Bolan, Marc Bolan. I think, ‘this is great, glitter rock’ But I said ‘I can’t, I’m on this raft.’ They called back a day later and said ‘you gotta go and we’ll fly you out…’ We couldn’t get out of New York because there was some sort of strike so we actually had to take a tour plane that we snuck on to with our equipment to Italy, to Rome. There had been a big thing of terrorists at the airport there so they arrested us. Guys got out with machine guns. We finally got through that and got to London and we got there two days before the concert. So we saw one concert that night. I saw him once and I shot some stuff ‘cause I wanted to see if we needed to lift the lighting or anything. And the lighting I could see was really crucial to this. We couldn’t fake it. I shot some stuff and we took it down that night to a lab and they processed it and we looked at it and I made a couple of changes, like the blues were too strong and I went over it with the lighting person. And the next night we did the whole concert and there were only three of us. We had a skeletal crew and a Brit we hired with a camera way back in the rafters to get a broad shot in case we ever needed it, but we never actually used it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q. And the glitter critters in front of the stage really knocked me out in the film. What about Bowie in the dressing room? There was a little Ringo action. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A. There was a lot of kinetic energy around Bowie. He was like an orchestra leader. I was a fan of the ‘Ziggy’ album and we used to play it all the time when I was mixing that film. I had it set up actually a real Dolby and we showed it in this little room where the sound was fantastic and that was the sexiest film you ever saw in your life. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q. He had the ability to project to both men and women. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A. Absolutely. I mean, I could practically feel myself getting a hard on watching it. (laughs). I don’t know. He represented sexuality without it even being a man or a woman. It was an element of it. Q. Did you see any artistic similarities to Dylan? A. Maybe. Dylan used to dress up and do funny things. He’s kind of like David and I told Dylan once this and he was sort of anxious and said, ‘yeah…’ I remember him on the phone. They were kind of alike, but they didn’t seem alike at all, so it surprised me."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3d817e6dd71cadd4182603dae8e54fa9ea6d7b77/original/pennebaker-hegedus.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1976, Pennebaker became acquainted with Chris Hegedus, an experimental filmmaker who had begun to concentrate on documentary films. Pennebaker and Hegedus ended up working together as collaborators and would eventually marry in 1982. Pennebaker and Hegedus would go on to work together as a team until the end of Pennebaker's life. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pennebaker and Hegedus created many significant documentaries together which included most notably </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Over_Broadway" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Moon Over Broadway"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moon Over Broadway</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1998), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_from_the_Mountain" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Down from the Mountain"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Down from the Mountain</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2001), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Startup.com"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Startup.com</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2001), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Stritch:_At_Liberty" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Elaine Stritch: At Liberty"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elaine Stritch: At Liberty</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2004), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken:_God_Spoke" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Al Franken: God Spoke"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Al Franken: God Spoke</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2006), and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Pastry" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Kings of Pastry"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kings of Pastry</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2009). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pennebaker's films, usually shot with a hand-held camera, often eschew voice-over narration and interviews in favor of a </strong><i><strong>simple</strong></i><strong> portrayal of events typical of the direct cinema style Pennebaker helped popularize in the U.S. Of such an approach, Pennebaker told interviewer G. Roy Levin published in 1971 that </strong><i><strong>'it's possible to go to a situation and simply film what you see there, what happens there, what goes on, and let everybody decide whether it tells them about any of these things. But you don't have to label them, you don't have to have the narration to instruct you so you can be sure and understand that it's good for you to learn.</strong></i><strong>' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In that same interview with Levin, Pennebaker goes so far as to claim that </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong> is '</strong><i><strong>not a documentary at all by my standards</strong></i><strong>'. 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Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73542452024-02-20T12:54:38-05:002024-02-20T12:54:39-05:00Rock & Roll Library: My Winter Reading List<img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc9c606f38991093f19bfb10f4cb5f6378509ee4/original/rock-roll-library.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/42b288e3f2e4033634057c6ad3d2bc4b74d0144d/original/big-red-reading-chair.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While my life suddenly got deconstructed due to a lack of gigs right after Christmas, I tried to ignore the madness of the outside world by finally finding the time to read a stack of rock & roll books that I had on a table right next to my big red reading chair. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This got me to thinking about just how many truly great books there are about Rock & Roll. It also occurred to me that perhaps there are some of you folks out there who might have missed out on reading some of these epic prose works. </strong></span></p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dde16fb44032ef3a457e2b58fbdcc42c57c03383/original/good-night-l-a-kent-hartman.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goodnight, L.A.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Kent Hartman / Da Capo Press 2017)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goodnight, L.A. covers the year when classic rock ruled supreme in Los Angeles. Last year, I read author Kent Hartman's excellent book about the life and times of The Wrecking Crew but I was disappointed in this particular book. It has a flaccid narrative that reflects the type of music being described within the pages of this book.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Within the windowless walls of these well-hidden studios, legends-to-be such as Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Boston, the Eagles, the Grateful Dead, Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, Santana, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Loggins and Messina, REO Speedwagon, and dozens more secretly created their album masterpieces: Double Vision. Rumours. Hotel California. Terrapin Station and Damn the Torpedoes. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://www.dacapopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/9780306824371.jpg?w=450" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Goodnight, L.A. by Kent Hartman | Da Capo Press" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>However, the truth of what went on during these recording sessions has always remained elusive. But not anymore. Longtime music-business insider Kent Hartman has filled Goodnight, L.A. with troves of never-before-told stories about the most prolific and important period and place in rock 'n' roll history. With music producer Keith Olsen and guitarist Waddy Wachtel as guides to the journey and informed by new, in-depth interviews with classic rock artists, famed record producers, and scores of others, Goodnight, L.A. reveals what went into the making of some of the best music of the past forty years. Readers will hear how some of their favorite albums and bands came to be, and ultimately how fame, fortune, excess, and a shift in listener demand brought it all tumbling down.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Review from Publisher's Weekly: "In this breezy look at the golden age of the L.A. studio scene, music writer Hartman (The Wrecking Crew) dishes on the boomer artists whose fortunes rose in the mid-1970s. Loosely structured around renowned producer Keith Olsen and guitarist extraordinaire Waddy Wachtel, the book opens with Charles Manson brandishing a .38 handgun in a Van Nuys recording studio and ends with Nirvana’s release of Nevermind. Between those events, the Eagles, Chicago, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, and plenty of others crafted songs that perpetual rotation branded onto the limbic system of the nation. While this is hardly uncharted territory, the focus on lesser-known figures provides fresh takes on musician lore that keep the pages turning (Kenny Loggins showed up at an audition for Jim Messina without a guitar or tapes, and still got the job). Hartman’s gossip chasing, however, torpedoes narrative coherence and any slim chance of thematic unity: Wachtel and Olsen vanish for entire chapters, and Hartman makes too much of the fact that Boston, the Grateful Dead, REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield, and other notable bands worked with the same circle of session players and producers. Given his evident familiarity with the social and technological shifts of the era, Hartman might have shaped a thought-provoking overview of the last musical mass culture; instead, readers get one-too-many anecdotes about Rod Stewart acting like a jerk. Hartman has written an entertaining look into the recording industry, however, he does little to support his claim that “the album-rock era... brought a previously unheard level of human emotion, storytelling, and expansive musicality to the masses.”</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/257031f87dda5e9b7ff3ad38ab2d1777a3e829cd/original/hollywood-rock-marshall-crenshaw.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood Rock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Guide To Rock 'n' Roll in the Movies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Marshall Crenshaw, Plexus Publishing 2014)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Hollywood Rock</strong></i><strong> by Marshall Crenshaw is the definitive guide to films that are associated with rock 'n' roll and I found it to be one of the most fun rock books I've ever come across. Arranged alphabetically, the 300+ films each rate a write-up ranging in length from 1/3 to 1/2 page. Very brief cast listings are followed by a comprehensive summary with basic plot, characters, featured artists and songs. Each entry is also rated on 'Music,' 'Attitude' and 'Fun.' Despite its title, the book is international in scope, including English, Australian and German films among others. An appendix on 'More Rock Films' lists more titles that didn't get a full review for various reasons. If there are any music film buffs out there, be sure to check this one out!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sometime between the advent of rock 'n' roll and the birth of MTV, rock stars took to making feature-length films to showcase their talent, and in the process rock 'n' roll movies became a genre of their own. Recording artist and rock historian Marshall Crenshaw has compiled an appropriately irreverent guide to over 850 rock 'n' roll movies. Hollywood Rock presents the good, the bad, and the ugly of music and movies, every one viewed and described by a writer who has a particular interest in the genre. They provide plot summaries, casting information, and a rating system for well-known rock flicks such as A Hard Day's Night, Jailhouse Rock, Grease, The Girl Can't Help It, The Blues Brothers, and Saturday Night Fever, as well as specialist rockumentaries like Cocksucker Blues, The Last Waltz and D.A. Pennebaker's classic film about Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back. Hollywood Rock is a rock odyssey of films from around the world that not only have rock as a subject, but also films whose soundtracks and subject matter are part of rock culture. An invaluable reference source for the video age, the book is a treasure trove of trivia for rock and film fans alike!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10046efefbc2443e36b7cc80944dbc29033fb772/original/high-on-rebellion-inside-the-underground-at-maxs-kansas-city.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Yvonne Sewall Ruskin, Thunder Mouth's Press 1998)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max’s Kansas City </strong></i><strong>is a heartfelt memoir about one of the all time great rock & roll clubs in New York city. Written by Sewall-Ruskin, the wife of the late Mickey Ruskin (the original owner of Max’s Kansas City), </strong><i><strong>High On Rebellion</strong></i><strong> brings to life the cultural changes taking place in NYC in the 60's and 70's.</strong></span></p><img src="https://fiu-original.b-cdn.net/fontsinuse.com/use-images/144/144297/144297.jpeg?filename=r-131_maxskansascity1976_gruen144-1078c76b-4fcc-4a76-9f77-c7f07d78e2e1.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Max's Kansas City logo (1965–1981) - Fonts In Use" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Max's Kansas City, an all-in-one restaurant-bar-nightclub, opened its doors in December 1965 at 213 Park Avenue South, near Union Square, in Manhattan, just as American popular culture was poised on the brink of a seismic shift whose aftershocks continue to reverberate. Max's quickly became the place to be in the nexus of underground life where art, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and Superstars ignited a cultural conflagration that will never be extinguished. Everyone who was anyone was there (and many Anybodies were there before they became Somebodies): Mick Jagger, Faye Dunaway, Larry Rivers, Jim Morrison, Julie Christie, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Robert Mapplethorpe, John Waters, Halston, Bianca Jagger, Philip Glass, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Fran Lebowitz, Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty, Tuesday Weld, Twiggy, Frank Zappa, Peter Max, Joan Baez, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Velvet Underground - and the list goes on and on. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>High on Rebellion</strong></i><strong> celebrates Max's with over 200 never-before-published black-and-white photographs of face after famous face, you-could-have-been-there-profiles, memorabilia, and hundreds of personal reminiscences and testimonials: Together these make for a tribute to a place that was like no other, where the creative chemistry of thousands of artists, film-makers, musicians, writers, poets, photographers, models, movie stars, and socialites combusted into the longest-running party in history - and a crucible for the culture and history of an era.</strong></span></p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/474x/3a/4f/5d/3a4f5d98dbdcf530f6d29979b2e9da97.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Mickey Ruskin | Historical figures, Historical, City" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mickey Ruskin, owner of Max's Kansas City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the evilcyclist.wordpress.com site: "</strong><i><span><strong>High on Rebellion</strong></span></i><span><strong> reads like an online memorial page — Remember that time… It is not set up in chapters and paragraphs as such, but rather groupings of comments from patrons and employees strung together to form a coherent story. Leee Black Childers also inserts short biographies throughout the text. The big names hung out at Max’s and there is no shortage of name-dropping throughout the book. An employee tells how Mickey told Janis Joplin to leave because she looked dirty and unkempt. That was the same reason Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were not allowed in. Mickey allowed a lot of things but being physically dirty was not one on them. Lou Reed was even interviewed or contributed to the book; but unfortunately, many of the big names are no longer alive. Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jim Morrison and many others have not survived and live as memories in this book. </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was also two personalities of Max’s. In the daytime, it was a nice restaurant with monied clients. One story is about a lunch customer that happens to enter Max’s at night. The next day she returns and asks Mickey if he had any idea what went on in this place at night. Night brought out the artists, poets, and musicians and with them came the drugs, drunken debauchery, and wild times. There were times of chaos. The reader will feel this chaos as the story moves from storyteller to storyteller. The reader will almost feel like he or she is in the backroom amongst the mayhem and celebrity. </strong></span></p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/a1/e9/23a1e9a1b1dbcf4b8dd13482301cf047.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="The New York Dolls play Max's Kansas City, 1973 : r/OldSchoolCool" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls in action @ Max's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist’s would trade their work for credit which kept many of them fed. Musicians got their first taste of New York there. Bruce Springsteen played there with Bob Marley opening. Aerosmith’s first New York show was at Max’s. Deborah Harry waitressed there. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin visited Max’s. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed were regulars. Max’s was the starting place for many and the hangout for the famous. Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin has put together a piece of music and art history in what feels like a living record. Rather than just documenting she allows the survivors to reenact the history in their own words with little narration. A great history told in a unique way.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/71ae9f1c2aa3acbc4eb26f9c4eddfc6f208d261c/original/guns-cash-manager.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Steve Overbury)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ah yes...here's a juicy read that covers the side of the music business that one rarely gets to see; from thugs, to con men to businessmen this book reveals just about every inside story about rock & roll artists and their managers who have wild tales about their superstar clients.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"For decades, British bands like The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Wham!, and even the Spice Girls have dominated the music industry and made countless millions for themselves, their record companies, and most importantly, their managers. And some of those very managers became almost as famous as the bands themselves, protecting, promoting, persuading, and occasionally punishing on their clients' behalf. Brian Epstein was a household name while Malcolm McLaren, Don Arden, and Peter Grant became infamous. Others like The Clash’s Bernie Rhodes and Pink Floyd’s Steve O’Rourke were happier out of the limelight, but they shared the same strange devotion to their upstart charges. This book celebrates this special breed—often flawed low achievers but true believers, hard-nosed wheeler-dealers, and schemers who were as at home talking to drug dealers and the Mafia as they were to corporate lawyers. Of the 12 managers featured, at least five of them were drug enthusiasts, while others liked having guns to hand. Four of them died young—one committed suicide, one may have been murdered. Two others escaped a premature death by the skin of their teeth. Although times have changed and Simon Fuller has given us a masterclass in 21st management, one thing remains the same: like the bands they ran, the managers were all world-class."</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dc8f8e787d2370de05e161b1883c0922da679dc/original/wayne-kramer-book.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HARD STUFF - Wayne Kramer (Da Capo, 2018) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The sub-title of this book -- </strong><i><strong>Dope, Crime, the MC5 and My Life of Impossibilities </strong></i><strong>-- gives the reader an accurate summation of what lies within the pages of this book. Wayne Kramer (founding member of the MC5) has written a harrowing memoir that details his initial rise to fame and the struggles he deals with beyond those moments. This is one great autobiography which (thankfully) lacks all of the fakery that usually accompanies a memoir such as this. Kramer is frank and to the point and bares all in this excellent rock memoir.</strong></span></p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/435dbf9307ce6243013204afe079642372cc4440/original/1969-mc5-rolling-stone-magazine-cover.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>"In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, The MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, they were raw, primal, and, when things were clicking, absolutely unstoppable. Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, The MC5 was a reflection of the times: exciting, sexy, violent, chaotic, and out of control, all but assuring their time in the spotlight would be short-lived. They toured the country, played with music legends, and had a rabid following, their music acting as the soundtrack to the blue collar youth movement springing up across the nation. Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of, and there was power in reaching for that, but it was also a recipe for disaster, both personally and professionally. The band recorded three major label albums but, by 1972, it was all over. Kramer's story is a revolutionary one, but it's also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. The '60s were not all peace and love, but Kramer shows that peace and love can be born out of turbulence and unrest. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, from Key West to Nashville and sunny L.A., in and out of prison and on and off of drugs, his is the classic journeyman narrative, but with a twist: he's here to remind us that revolution is always an option." (Rolling Stone Magazine)</strong></i></span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">A</span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82d9d57db229c32e462086c54de1fdc8d1833d17/original/paperback-writer-1.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paperback Writer: The Life and Times of the Beatles,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Spurious Chronicle of Their Rise to Stardom, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Their Triumphs and Disasters,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Plus the Amazing Story of Their Ultimate Reunion (Mark Shipper, 1978) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I blogged about this book a couple of years ago and decided to read it again because it's one of the great lost rock & roll books of all time. Mark Shipper’s Paperback Writer is an off-the-wall satire of the Beatles group history and their reunion (which sadly never happened). Released just before Eric Idle's popular mockumentary, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://abandonedandheartbroke.blogspot.com/2013/07/great-rock-books-i-have-read-part-2.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Rutles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>The Rutles</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, this book's biting satiric tone most probably made its publisher describe it as a novel in order to circumvent any legal action. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, this book is currently out of print but used paperback copies can be found on various sites such as Amazon for a reasonable price. When reading this cool book, keep in mind that Paperback Writer was written in 1978, well before the deaths of John Lennon and Linda McCartney (Shipper pokes fun at both of them). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a synopsis from the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://abandonedandheartbroke.blogspot.com/2013/07/great-rock-books-i-have-read-part-2.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Abandoned and Heartbroke blog"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Abandoned and Heartbroke blog</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>: "Even before John Lennon's demise it seemed a new Beatles book was published about every two weeks, and Paperback Writer was in some ways a response to that glut. It is a blissfully funny parody; a fictionalized madhouse version of the Beatles story (the premise being that author Shipper interviewed Ringo Star, lost his notes on the way home and decided to make the whole thing up), and it skewers not only the stifling worship fans have laid on the band but the Beatles themselves. The last quarter of the novel has to do with a fictional Beatles reunion, and it's where Shipper's teeth start to sink in longer. Having failed on their own (especially John and Yoko's ill-fated team-up with Sonny and Cher, The Plastic Bono Band), the Fab Four reluctantly and under great pressure return to the recording studio to re-create their magic. Unfortunately, time has taken its toll, and the Beatles are reduced to a spate of uninspired and hilariously terrible songs, such as George's Disco Jesus and John's paen to Gilligan’s Island: 'Bob Denver, Jim Backus, each day they attack us, with laughter, fun and mirth.' Their much-anticipated tour is a disaster, as their new material meets with stony silence and righteous anger. Frustrated, the Beatles end their ban on older material, and the moment they hit the first chord of one of their early hits, the crowd goes wild, and all is forgiven. Later, exhilarated but puzzled, the band struggles to understand why fans wanted a reunion, when all they really wanted was the Beatles of old, exactly as they were. 'I guess,' McCartney said as he took his wife’s hand, 'it’s because you can’t live in someone’s past and live in their future, too.'" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some more info on the book from the rockcritics.com site: "This 'spurious' re-telling of the Fab Four’s story (it’s in fact classified as a novel) is both factually absurd and emotionally honest. For as silly and as nasty and as far-fetched as Shipper’s telling of the Beatles story gets, you never doubt for a second that he’s writing it from the inside–that is, as a huge fan of the group, as someone whose life was transported by their music, as someone who completely gets it. He chops away at so many pretensions that are part of the Beatles mythology, but it’s not a hatchet job–though it is vicious, in spots–and you feel throughout that he’s poking as much fun at himself and at other critics and at the rest of the Beatles audience as he is at the four members of the group themselves. I love how he twists details from the actual Beatles story way out of proportion–like the way A Hard Day’s Night is played as a Bergmanesque meditation with the lads spending the duration of the film in a library. Even with all of Shipper’s ersatz albums and historical mangling, the book is a very accurate critique of the Beatles’ real-life strengths and weaknesses, especially as the latter attribute manifested itself in much of their solo work. At the time I reviewed PW, John Lennon was of course still with us, which meant that a Beatles reunion was technically possible though highly unlikely. And I think some of us who wrote about music then really didn’t want to see that reunion happen, both because the Beatles would be hard-pressed to recapture their ’60s magic, and because the reunion would be taken as vindication by all the Classic-Rock businessmen, from RS’s Jann Wenner to Cincinnati’s WEBN-FM, which was playing tripe like the Eagles and Elton John and presenting them as the legit heirs of the Beatles. In 1978, I wanted the newer artists–the Ramones, Blondie, Elvis Costello et.al. –to take over the scene, and if that meant that the scattered Beatles should stay out of the way, so be it. I don’t think Mark Shipper was as dialectical about the punk revolt as I was, and yet the conclusion of his Paperback Writer is a bittersweet prediction of the inevitable disappointments inherent in a Beatles reunion. Beneath the radar flashes of his jokes, Shipper was warning all of us not to pin too many hopes on such a tenuous prospect." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Also, from the rockcritics site is this excerpt from an interview William Crain did with former Rolling Stone magazine journalist, John Morthland about Mark Shipper and Paperback Writer: "This is one of the things I've been thinking about since we talked last time and you asked me about really good writers early on that no one's heard of now. The thing is there were some, many I still can't remember the names of now, but a lot of them went on to other stuff as a conscious decision. And he was one of them; I believe he (Shipper) works at an Ad Agency. At that time, he did a certain amount of writing for the rock press, mainly for the sort of off the wall press like Creem and a magazine at that time called Phonograph Record Magazine that was a lot more wide open than something like Rolling Stone. And he wrote at places like that for some time but I don't think he ever aspired to be a professional writer. I could be wrong. When Paperback Writer came out there was absolutely nothing like it at the time, the idea that you could make up the whole history of a band was really great. I think it was eventually picked up by a publisher, but I know he published it himself first. And certainly, within the more rambunctious school of rock writers that book was really a legend, and really cool and just a great idea. And actually no one's really done it since, with another band. Lester Bangs started to do it with the Stones and he gave it up. I've read some of it and you know, it's hard once you've read Paperback Writer, it’s hard to read anything else like that, he did it first and he did it as good as it can be done. It's a really amazing piece of work."</strong></span></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winter is among us!</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f000040f50a72c47cacc5108a37af47c761e5d22/original/johnny-pierre-christmas-fever.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STOP ON BY & CHECK OUT OUR LIST OF MIND SMOKE ARTISTS!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img 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Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/69783012024-02-15T12:13:08-05:002024-02-15T12:13:08-05:00Alive As Yesterday: 1989 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cd8db9f604396ff12838d381edcb75dce370cbc0/original/1989.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a8ae0fbd8cd99da6d58a36ecec13e9efdfdc7b62/original/1969-the-who-london-coliseum-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kpy_zkAo3X4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpy_zkAo3X4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d89fcbce67228b848c313594e36612d2ed9c156/original/1989-grateful-dead-alpine-valley.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iCAMsqx3q3M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iCAMsqx3q3M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alpine Valley Music Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>East Troy, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6b2775e4ff33807d4d5ae751a2850f40c64cef1f/original/1989-jerry-garcia-band-electric-wiltern-theatre.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Garcia Band Electric</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wiltern Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>379 Wilshire Blvd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5cf24b6abf2882ee16626aa0a00e40b2a16a8f2c/original/1989-lou-reed-the-new-york-tour-frankfurt-jahrhunderthalle-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zy7caDxIexo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zy7caDxIexo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Reed</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2def9e84517fdba19a32908d6f903c0cfdcb80fc/original/1989-nirvana-murphys-pub-cincinnati-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nirvana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grinch</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Murphy's Pub</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cincinnati, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cramps</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flat Duo Jets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Palladium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/997bbecc0202ea94fce384d47162abbb2550361c/original/1989-paul-mccartney-america-1989.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1989 American Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0a3c833459170de7d26c4dcef1eacea4aea30ec5/original/1989-ramones-australasoam-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zPq71KZhDQc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zPq71KZhDQc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HHssBQdpAu0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HHssBQdpAu0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1989 Australasian Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f22b09233a6a6057efd072a9bb8d5d76e26b5fc4/original/1989-stevie-ray-vaughan-the-frank-erwin-center-univ-of-tx-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Erwin Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Texas at Austin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3ee9d3973dd9bc6e3285b87a7050c03b9701acc8/original/1989-soundgarden-phantasy-nite-club-lakewood-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soundgarden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prisonshake </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Primus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phantasy Nite Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lakewood, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a623b856619860e565d4e5a7445b871c5be634c2/original/1989-nirvana-shortys-underground-cincinnati-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nirvana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Volcano Suns</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Day For Night</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shorty's Undergroung</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cincinnati, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fd2514aa6bf8fce20febe4e5dc0eaa279ba78203/original/1989-the-replacements-starry-night.jfif/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jfif" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zqnJXmfkH50" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zqnJXmfkH50?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Replacements</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Starry Night venue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d399f76539a521614d358dae1cbaa4f05bd1b452/original/11989-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GO2ScjvzQZA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GO2ScjvzQZA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1989</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e3e85d943a6c28d200985f4eddd331e49fc4581/original/oingo-boingo-santa-cruz-civic-aud-santa-cruz-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oingo Boingo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Cruz, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/46799cc0fecb9f84b274c6b6ee6973bc1b692bd6/original/janes-addiction-visage-night-club-orlando-fl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jane's Addiction</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Visage Nightclub</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orlando, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fbf44ac27e2c8a09d3cc5aebae75a15d2eae384a/original/it-came-from-up-north-screaming-trees-pine-st-theatre-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Screaming Trees</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nirvana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tad</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RawHeadRex</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pine St. Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c34ab9d4d33a03c7f88d49f81cfbfcca979e9b63/original/festa-del-redentore-pink-floyd-venice-itally.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3sXZLFKeO54" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3sXZLFKeO54?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fiesta Del Redentore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venice, Italy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/97be0671261a56b010765916ca724bf68ee3c87c/original/u2-love-comes-to-town-tour-japanese-tour-1989.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="O1zXhR7qDso" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O1zXhR7qDso?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> B.B. King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tour of Japan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10a81e0be0bea711f8d7f53eacebf249aae69bf4/original/rolling-stones-steel-wheels-world-tour-1989-l-a-memorial-coliseum-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UQxb528YyKc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UQxb528YyKc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guns N' Roses</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Living Colour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>L.A. Memorial Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2c58220b7b9593f6de342fee27ff050923c1ad2c/original/a-solo-acoustic-evening-neil-young-red-rocks-morrison-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WhjJLZDVRrA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WhjJLZDVRrA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Neil Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Maria McKee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Red Rocks Amphitheatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Morrison, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5155429c0c66c80ef3d6bdf997dabda7502ccb02/original/ringo-starr-and-his-all-starr-band-japanese-tour-1989.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WaWj2HgN7Fw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WaWj2HgN7Fw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1989 US Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8bad671a49d6695f2a64e9f409e3d15903227884/original/paul-mccartney-liverpool-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0Ty8NTNj6JI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Ty8NTNj6JI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>King's Doc Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liverpool, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53a604fbfa6e6d23f4da2114deb0036169762250/original/r-e-m-green-world-tour-1989san-diego-sports-arena-san-diego-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jaPKKYezMX8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jaPKKYezMX8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Green World Tour 1989</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Diego, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d8c95e45d256a35cfb0858b47c221cbd7e47ce4/original/the-who-folsom-field-boulder-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JNpJlNSeaHI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JNpJlNSeaHI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Folsom Field</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boulder, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9d41e80755ed0a646dcdf6a9731e2c192755c697/original/rolling-stones-steel-wheels-north-american-tour-1989.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NASYGTIpzvk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NASYGTIpzvk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ROLLING STONES STEEL WHEELS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1989</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71570552024-02-14T03:39:29-05:002024-02-14T03:39:30-05:00Ash Wednesday: The Day After Mardi Gras<p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/771020b4e9601dbd4320037ce6246feb4cb66023/original/ash-wednesday-the-day-after-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>HEY DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>WHY ARE THERE BEADS & MASKS IN MY TOILET? </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>WHY IS THERE GLITTER IN MY FRIDGE? </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>UH OH, WHAT'S THAT ON THE FRONT LAWN? </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>WHY DO I HAVE A TATTOO OF A MONKEY ON MY STOMACH?</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LNodK9KDDeM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LNodK9KDDeM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/88c74c0747d7a21ae1c6dfcef4dcb8320b350f66/original/alex-mcmurray-wwoz-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Here's a song by one of my favorite New Orleans songwriters, </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Alex McMurray</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sQ7oZvSPa1E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sQ7oZvSPa1E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0a77a548d5728167fd2bcd8bf74968f95277a4ec/original/anders-osborne-day-after-mg.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Another great New Orleans songwriter is the one & only </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Anders Osborne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="r10xMDb8uS0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r10xMDb8uS0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6b699465721f967b30acd6d3738ace78f74e7d39/original/anders-osborne-coming-down.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I highly recommend Ander Osborne's COMING DOWN album which is available @ </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://shop.mc-records.com/products" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>M.C. Records</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. That album is magical! My favorite track on the album is </strong><i><strong>Summertime in New Orleans</strong></i><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rSgnGpzN-5I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSgnGpzN-5I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8cd0935167958e23efa686a2dfcb3d32cb229b9b/original/memphis-slim.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis Slim</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis Slim spent most of the 1930s performing in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk" title="Honky-tonk"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>honky-tonks</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, dance halls, and gambling joints in West Memphis, Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. He settled in Chicago in 1939 and began teaming up with the guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy in clubs soon afterwards. In 1940 and 1941, he recorded two songs for Bluebird Records that became part of his repertoire for decades, </strong><i><strong>Beer Drinking Woman</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Grinder Man Blues</strong></i><strong>. These were released under the name "Memphis Slim," given to him by Bluebird's producer, Lester Melrose. Slim became a regular session musician for Bluebird. Many of Slim's recordings and performances until the mid-1940s were with Broonzy, who had recruited Slim to be his piano player in 1940.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After World War II, Slim began leading bands that generally included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues. Early in 1950, Slim started using two tenor saxophones instead of the alto and tenor combination, and he made a trial of adding the guitarist Ike Perkins. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Willie Dixon, which brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. The duo released several albums together on Folkways Records, including </strong><i><strong>Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon at the Village Gate with Pete Seeger</strong></i><strong> (1962).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1962, Memphis Slim moved permanently to Paris, and his engaging personality and well-honed presentation of playing, singing, and storytelling about the blues secured his position as one of the most prominent blues artists for nearly three decades. He appeared on television in numerous European countries, acted in several French films and wrote the score for </strong><i><strong>À nous deux France</strong></i><strong> (1970), and performed regularly in Paris, throughout Europe, and on return visits to the United States. In the last years of his life, he teamed up with the respected </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>jazz</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> drummer George Collier. The two toured Europe together and became friends. After Collier died in August 1987, Slim rarely appeared in public, although he reunited with Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy for a gig at Antone's in Austin, Texas, in 1987.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Two years before his death, Slim was named a Commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of France. In addition, the U.S. Senate honored Slim with the title of Ambassador-at-Large of Good Will.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a Memphis Slim song called </strong><i><strong>Havin' Fun</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that I use every Ash Wednesday to close out my Mardi Gras week</strong></span></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;"><i> </i></span></h2><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h099RLEpXP8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h099RLEpXP8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd382f05a75200994a5e68f972db2b3d2c02c929/original/dscn7260.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So Long Mardi Gras!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'll be see you next year!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yeah you rite!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER LOOKING FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd382f05a75200994a5e68f972db2b3d2c02c929/original/dscn7260.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LIFE IS SHORT…</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HAVE SOME FUN WHY'DONCHA!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/62179912024-02-13T12:53:09-05:002024-02-14T03:06:27-05:00Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday 2024!<p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/06e6fd6f8609a14a83c26c547c6ee842915aa7cc/original/fat-tuesday-on-long-island.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today is one of my favorite days of the year! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's the culmination of the Mardi Gras season!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86f807a199865260e21e7ac4eb60bb9045dd2f92/original/its-fat-tuesday-let-the-fun-begin.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3c120b6bd228dba7d249535294ec02dceaf50003/original/what-the-heck-is-fat-tuesday.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras is French for </strong><i><strong>Fat Tuesday</strong></i><strong>. It's also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, depending on where the celebration is taking place. No matter the name, it's a day of revelry that includes parades, parties and gastronomic indulgence before the Christian fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It marks the last day of the Carnival season, basically a six-week period of partying around the globe. What began as a holiday rooted in religious tradition has become a cultural phenomenon, leading to parties for the sake of partying, and not necessarily in anticipation of 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d4151be648866326a9a51e1c763e259815cd2cc/original/hmmm-fat-tuesday.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>WHAT TO DO IF YOU GO TO NEW ORLEANS FOR MARDI GRAS</u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras Fever:</strong> <strong>Don’t be afraid to express yourself. At this point in time, Mardi Gras is celebrated by anyone and everyone.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dance and make eye contact with people on the parade floats. You’ll get all the throws if you do!</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>See where the celebrations take you. If you see a band, go after them!</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eat a big meal before going out. New Orleans is filled with delicious food; line your stomach with it so you’ll survive to the next day.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drink all the water you can tolerate.</strong> <strong>Water is your friend.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea1949ed12997b099fdb90f226a3be263e7f16d9/original/jp-sweet-lo.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No matter how many years </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Loretta & I have celebrated Mardi Gras together </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the essential ya-ya vibe remains the same!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18e72acd4dc3c26085f290649255b218468b3f87/original/journey-mg-2020.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Chief Journeyboy is in full costume!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8a4f1218e836e41ae4d53e2e0379e27dbffd3928/original/sir-leroy-mardi-gras-2019.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mind Smoke Manor's Sgt @ Arms aka Sir Leroy is ready for party duty!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64083f72fb2d42fdf8139ce9fe387b0eac49a6ee/original/amber-beer.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beer is on ice!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8b55c5e4ed4b927395366f9cd7e5a73210ef545/original/hurricane-cocktails.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Hurricane Mix has been mixed to the max!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ef3ba919ce12d99e5e6d17ab583523e333a82b64/original/pot-of-gumbo.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There's a big ol' pot of gumbo simmering away on the stove!</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fLFpTLEnrqU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLFpTLEnrqU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER LOOKING FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/116381e2874062b505fcf996d9b8f754c2e9ff2e/original/music-icon-3.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE'S SOME ESSENTIAL FAT TUESDAY SOUNDS!</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v7hxqp2reVc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v7hxqp2reVc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters - 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Wild Tchoupitoulas</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZsDUXo5TcZY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZsDUXo5TcZY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HOT 8 BRASS BAND - SEXUAL HEALING</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f6431b5b2b2ac5852e446571e90fde08938dc8d2/original/bourbon-street-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c02e847312f058e7c26fff47bfd8371b0ec88351/original/fess.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jZRP8KcGky8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jZRP8KcGky8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Carnival is a butterfly of winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>whose last real flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another season is the season of another butterfly,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>and the tattered, scattered, fragments of rainbow wings</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>are in turn the record of his day.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>– Lafcadio Hearn </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZJzIzDfFSjo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZJzIzDfFSjo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Theme From Game Of Thrones - New Orleans Swamp Donkeys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YVgKfvMiP5g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YVgKfvMiP5g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kid Thomas - Medley: Milneberg Joys / Dippermouth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c9c675c968612e4515d5376754a85a8516ed7bee/original/song-image-rebirth-brass-band-t-shirt.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="X_AOwrXev60" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X_AOwrXev60?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rebirth Brass Band - Do Whatcha Wanna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wt1v3QMarFw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wt1v3QMarFw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anders Osborne & Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MH2eRRh4Bls" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MH2eRRh4Bls?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buckwheat Zydeco - Hey Ma Petit Fille</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a106432ce995648a0c56154e0d42352c8097fc1/original/wwoz-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>TUNE IN WWOZ & GET A TASTE OF MARDI GRAS FEVER!</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Throughout the day & night in New Orleans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WWOZ will be bringing the FAT TUESDAY groove!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Click on the icon above & dig the sounds!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/96f4cfe09e3729f55c446b33f7de830051abfafa/original/party-13.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some shots from a Mardi Gtras hoedown we had </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>@ Mind Smoke Manor awhile back! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Good Times were had by one & all!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f12f3559b2a0853a4768d3eb48ccdc4e8904fe50/original/party-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/569f9504dca67c2fb9fcc3c526b16eadcdd326c9/original/party-7.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1871a7d5530d6b6f19bdf7e95c97df557d245eee/original/party-17.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20d28887aacc85053f8af3e5e5ff017e2e3f0e77/original/crazy-kupersteins.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://www.dailyarthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Mardi-Gras-Icons-Collage-Sheet-scaled.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Mardi Gras Icons Clip Art Set – Daily Art Hub // Graphics, Alphabets & SVG" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Fancy Moses!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The clock on the wall says it's time to finish up this here blog post </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>with some audio memories from WWOZ from back in the 80's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>which was compiled by my fellow raconteur…</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/91394090e210259554150e602d8b797e98d3c018/original/johnny-in-amber.jpg/!!/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John C. Engelhardt AKA “Syracuse Cool”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong>Here's </strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong><u> </u></strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/tracks/direct/3131492686/1668876.mp3" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong><u>Syracuse Cool's Download Link</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:hsl(30,75%,60%);"><strong><u> </u></strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong>& catch some tasty Mardi Gras WWOZ Memories</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8fd2bdcd6500ba05ca08a0c85366cb87ea868a6/original/happy-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER LOOKING FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73388892024-02-12T11:27:14-05:002024-02-13T07:07:18-05:00It's Time For My 2004 Mardi Gras Playlist Part 2<img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/40768642055c6ae7f37ca35501b9fb59b4a44ad1/original/mardi-gras-music-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always been a music collector whether it be Christmas music, songs by one hit wonders, Tom Waits rarities or various obscure tunes from a wide variety of genres. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of my favorite music genres to collect is New Orleans Mardi Gras songs. Every year, I create a new Mardi Gras Playlist and along with some of the yearly staples (like Prof Longhair's </strong><i><strong>Go To The Mardi Gras o</strong></i><strong>r </strong><i><strong>Hey Pocky Way</strong></i><strong> by The Meters), I usually seek out songs I haven't come across before. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The songs of the Carnival Season play an integral part of New Orleans' Mardi Gras cultural identity. Since the 1700's this music has enhanced the traditions of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Along with the costumes, the food and the parades, the music enhances the spirit of Mardi Gras!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ae740972b530bf8a62cd0cd291a421f08c91197/original/the-history-of-mardi-gras-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras music is not so much a style of music as it is an aural milieu comprised of various forms. Among them: orchestral and big-band arrangements played at tableau balls; Mardi Gras-themed rhythm-and-blues numbers that pour out of jukeboxes, “cutting-loose” jazz tunes that drive revelers to </strong><i><strong>shake booty</strong></i><strong> and pump umbrellas in the air; Afro-Caribbean chants and percussive rhythms associated with Mardi Gras Indians; and parade-time beats from school bands marching between floats in parades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The nexus between Carnival and music reflects the festive, let-the-good-times-roll culture of the Crescent City, where parading and dancing have long been obsessions…indeed, this spirit of joie de vivre — i.e., the Mardi Gras spirit — is almost a precondition of the sounds for which the Crescent City became famous. As Dr. John, arguably the foremost living interpreter of the city’s musical traditions stated ‘New Orleans music was not invented, it just kind of grew up naturally, joyously, just for fun.’ </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Being a musician in New Orleans is all about having fun with the music, and at no time is this more evident than during Carnival season. The same Mardi Gras spirit that prompts revelers to shed inhibitions and seek ritual transformation has a way of encouraging playfulness and spontaneity on the bandstand, as well as countless variations on old Carnival favorites such as </strong><i><strong>Carnival Time</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Hey Pocky Way</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Second Line</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Go to the Mardi Gras </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Big Chief</strong></i><strong>. And it seems that almost every year brings the release of new would-be anthems, as bands try to repeat the feat of the ReBirth Brass Band, whose infectious brass/funk number </strong><i><strong>Do Watcha Wanna</strong></i><strong> exploded during Carnival 1991. Thus, the Carnival songbook is continually expanded and reinvented, helping fuel a brisk business in releasing the Mardi Gras equivalent of Christmas-music anthologies. As long as there have been parades, dances and balls in New Orleans, there has been a steady demand for musicians.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/62c21d455857fd6b156bd0d447f45716a04265d4/original/fats-domino.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FATS DOMINO</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fa7d3f86343a1fcb86047f0bd93a5657e707d50a/original/dave-bartholomew.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DAVE BARTHOLOMEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fats Domino was signed to the Imperial Records label in 1949 to be paid royalties based on sales instead of a fee for each song. Fats and producer Dave Bartholomew wrote </strong><i><strong>The Fat Man</strong></i><strong>, a toned down version of a song about drug addicts called </strong><i><strong>Junker Blues</strong></i><strong>; the record had sold a million copies by 1951. Domino released a series of hit songs with Bartholomew (also the co-writer of many of the songs), the saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin “Red” Tyler, the bassist Billy Diamond and later Frank Fields, and the drummers Earl Palmer and Smokey Johnson. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were the saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Vgf0effW-xI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vgf0effW-xI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="P61RXyLAk5I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P61RXyLAk5I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1f58ab54a4cdfb8f50b631b10e908bf77d23e534/original/danny-barker-jazz-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DANNY BARKER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>In 1946, the balladeer Danny Barker played guitar and sang four tracks for a short-lived New York label that constitute the first songs of Mardi Gras Indians – a term of no media currency back then. “Indian Red,” has had many reincarnations since.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Barker also sang a paean to Big Chief's woman killed in a crossfire, </strong></span><i><span><strong>Corinne Died On The Battlefield</strong></span></i><span><strong>, which Willie T. and Bo Dollis refitted as Corey Died On The Battlefield for the Wild Magnolias in 1973.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Another tune, </strong></span><i><span><strong>Chocko Me Feendo Hey</strong></span></i><span><strong>, was popularized in 1954 as Jockomo by Sugar Boy and the Cane Cutters and 10 years later as a refrain in Iko Iko by the Dixie Cups. Barker didn't create the lines but was the first to use them in studio with a long reach back to streets of his youth.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tootie Ma Is A Fine Big Thing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Tootie Ma was a big fine thing</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Ho Natay, swing that thing.</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Tootie Ma was a big fine thing</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Ho Natay, swing that thing</strong></span></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Tootie Ma says sure is fine</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Ho Natay, swing that thing</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Tootie Ma says sure is fine</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Ho Natay, swing that thing</strong></span></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Finest gal you ever saw</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Done some things against the law</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Took my ma, broke my pa</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>I'm gonna knock on her door</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bZi1Da90etw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZi1Da90etw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It might not be one of the best Mardi Gras songs, but you’ve got to check out singer Benny Grunch for his honest appraisal of New Orleans’ sad luck of lavatory facilities during carnival season with his song!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="77pe0ciezO4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/77pe0ciezO4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8be2edb69da96e64b91ca6e6d75514a7292bb150/original/soul-rebels.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOUL REBELS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="awCy-529Q3g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/awCy-529Q3g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cc397cf3e04f690451db4887a4f2affe78a294b0/original/rebirth-brass-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hear ye! 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From the neworleans.com site: “Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mardi Gras Indian tradition goes back at least as far as Reconstruction, though it wasn’t until the 1950s that the sounds associated with that tradition began to be translated into popular music. Sugar Boy Crawford’s Jockomo, released on the Chess label in 1954, became a jukebox classic. And Huey Piano Smith used the Indian chant </strong><i><strong>Oom bah way, tu way pocky way</strong></i><strong>, in the very first line of his hit </strong><i><strong>Don’t You Know, Yockomo</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER LOOKING FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dWuB0uZa4_c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dWuB0uZa4_c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lloyd Glenn : Rompin' Rhumba</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Born in San Antonio, Texas, from the late 1920s, Glenn played with various jazz bands in the Dallas and San Antonio areas, first recording in 1936 with Don Albert's Orchestra. He moved to California in 1941, joining the Walter Johnson trio in 1944, and finding employment as a session musician and arranger. He accompanied T-Bone Walker on his 1947 hit </strong><i><strong>Call It Stormy Monday</strong></i><strong>, and later the same year made his own first solo records, billed as Lloyd Glenn and His Joymakers.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1949 he joined Swing Time Records as A&R man, and recorded a number of hits with Lowell Fulson, including </strong><i><strong>Everyday I Have the Blues</strong></i><strong> and the #1 R&B hit </strong><i><strong>Blue Shadows</strong></i><strong>. He also had major R&B hits of his own, with Chica Boo, which also made #1 on the R&B chart in June 1951. At the same time, he continued to perform as pianist in Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. Glenn left Ory in 1953, about the same time that he was contracted to Aladdin Records, where he both produced and played on, B.B. King's 1960 album, My Kind of Blues.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="S-eVMHOcBdU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S-eVMHOcBdU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Floyd Dixon: Hey Bartender</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Widely known as </strong><i><strong>Mr. Magnificent</strong></i><strong>, Dixon specialized in jump blues and sexualized songs like </strong><i><strong>Wine Wine Wine</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Too Much Jelly Roll</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Hey Bartender</strong></i><strong>. In 1993, Dixon was honored with the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1993.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oEso9WXwj0I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oEso9WXwj0I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mooney & The Soul Rebels Brass Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drink A Little Poison (4 U Die)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1976, Mooney moved to New Orleans, and soon he was playing with host of musicians in the New Orleans </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R&B</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> circuit including Earl King, The Meters, Snooks Eaglin and Professor Longhair</strong></span><a title="Professor Longhair"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1981, Mooney formed his own band, Bluesiana, with whom he has been recording and touring since.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mooney_(musician)#cite_note-LarkinBlues-1"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-LarkinBlues_1-5">[1]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> He has released albums from several different labels including </strong><i><strong>Against the Wall</strong></i><strong> on the House of Blues label in the U.S., and also others from the German labels CrossCut and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruf_Records" title="Ruf Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ruf</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. In 2000, he returned to Blind Pig to release </strong><i><strong>Gone to Hell</strong></i><strong> which featured </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John" title="Dr. John"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> as a special guest. </strong><i><strong>All I Want</strong></i><strong> followed two years later on the label.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="f62u637mhaI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f62u637mhaI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters - Talkin' Bout New Orleans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters, during their dozen or so years of existence (circa 1965 – 1977), helped develop the New Orleans R&B sound of that era along with influencing the musical style known as </strong><i><strong>funk</strong></i><strong>. In 1968, the band decided to work under the moniker, The Meters.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1969 they began working with producer Allen Toussaint and came up with such cool singles as </strong><i><strong>Sophisticated Cissy</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Cissy Strut</strong></i><strong>, Look-Ka Py Py and </strong><i><strong>Chicken Strut;</strong></i><strong> all of which charted nationally. These Neville Brothers singles were all instrumentals that was influenced by the work of the Memphis-based group Booker T and the MGs. Over time, the Meters expanded their musical style to include material that featured vocals that honored the New Orleans’ second-line tradition.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1974, The Meters scored big with a song called </strong><i><strong>Hey Pocky A-Way</strong></i><strong>. Their use of Mardi Gras Indian material became a perennial New Orleans favorite. Around this time, The Meters added Art’s brother Cyril to take on the role of a lead vocalist and percussionist.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As time went on, The Meters continued to work with Allen Toussaint as he created hits for various artists such as Dr. John’s </strong><i><strong>Right Place, Wrong Time</strong></i><strong> (1973), LaBelle’s </strong><i><strong>Lady Marmalade</strong></i><strong> (1975); and Paul McCartney’s </strong><i><strong>Listen To What The Man Said </strong></i><strong>(1975).</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="w5ocoXOAEkU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5ocoXOAEkU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Cleary - The Crave (Jelly Roll Morton) @ Brooklyn Bowl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Cleary is a British-born American funk and R&B musician who left the UK to live in New Orleans where, over the years, he absorbed the </strong><i><strong>musical culture and life of New Orleans </strong></i><strong>. Cleary is widely known for his excellent work as a pianist along with being a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and excellent songwriter.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the present time, Cleary's current band is Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen. Their album </strong><i><strong>Go Go Juice</strong></i><strong> won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album in the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="486A57qqqys" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/486A57qqqys?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John - Careless Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the very start of the 20th century. </strong><i><strong>Careless Love </strong></i><strong>was (and still is) one of the most widely known Carnival songs. It was initially part of the repertoire of the immortal Buddy Bolden band in New Orleans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To this very day </strong><i><strong>Careless Love</strong></i><strong> has remained a Mardi Gras standard. Over the years, </strong><i><strong>Careless Love</strong></i><strong> has also been sung by Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Odetta, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Dr. John, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Frankie Laine, Skip James, Snooks Eaglin and Harry Connick Jr.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Well that wraps up Part 2 of my 2004 Mardi Gras Playlist</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hope y'all enjoyed these tasty New Orleans sounds!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1c1895908f93ea58469fc0d232a7c3bf23ff717f/original/its-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>If you got a case of Mardi Gras Fever</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Check out some of our genuine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u> MARDI GRAS SINGLES</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65130852024-02-11T08:28:17-05:002024-02-26T08:43:28-05:00Mardi Gras Time Machine<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/94b825eb4125f41c6e50a901782c5a1e04275242/original/image-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first formal parade on Mardi Gras day was held in 1838 when a newspaper report on that Ash Wednesday told of a procession of masqued figures through the public streets...with every variety of costumes...from Harlequin to the somber Turk and wild Indian.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Civil War put a hold on festivities from 1860 to 1864 - then Comus returned in 1865. Twelfth Night Revellers paraded in 1870 and was the first krewe to have a queen and to stage a grand march. Miss Emma Butler was the first queen of a Mardi Gras ball - in 1871 - and her king was the Lord of Misrule.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10868291ba42bcb024d9a8725e33e54a3b1acae4/original/image-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1872 King Rex Parade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By 1873, Mardi Gras float construction had moved from France to New Orleans, and krewes began using floats as a way to express opinions and mock public officials and hot-button topics of the day. Mardi Gras became an official holiday with the signing of the “Mardi Gras Act” in Louisiana in 1875.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This 1873 carnival season also saw the birth of Momus although the krewe actually had their first celebration on New Year's Eve of 1872. Momus and his Knights held a gala ball at the French Opera House following this, the first of the Momus parades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Momus (the Greek god of ridicule, mockery and censure) noted for the satirical bent of its parade - the topic of which was kept secret until the floats hit the street. Momus considers anyone fair game - including presidents of the United States.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20eca65b0e597529efad5c707a28a546c6f25670/original/image-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1885 Mardi Gras Parade on Canal Street</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1885 New Orleans' famous yearly event, Mardi Gras, was celebrated on February 17th. J.M. Maury was crowned "Rex - King of Carnival" that year, and led the event's culminating Fat Tuesday parade, mounted upon a white stallion. The highly anticipated parade began at City Hall and ended at the Canal Street wharf, where eighteen steamboats awaited the scores of revelers and led a water procession to the exposition grounds. The enormous crowd assembled inside the Main Building's Music Hall, where an ornately-draped throne awaited Rex's arrival. After Rex was seated, the day's events continued with music, oratories and other festivities. Fat Tuesday was then concluded with a grand display of fireworks over Lake Brilliant, on the south side of the exposition grounds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1890 was the year of the Proteus/Comus incident. Proteus had moved to Mardi Gras night after Comus had come on financially hard times; then Comus was back - and wanted their traditional spot. Neither captain would give - and through a comedy of errors both arrived on Canal Street at the same time. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A mysterious reveler costumed as a domino interceded - Proteus was held back and Comus proceeded through. Both paraded on the same night the following year, but without incident and in 1892 Porteus returned to the traditional Monday before Mardi Gras.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dc916c1ae5a98ec2b6ce21b846d0e9cc27fd61b/original/image-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1900 Mardi Gras Procession on Canal Street</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c9b37326c877bff6066543596d457b23ce6d92e6/original/early-1900-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Early 1900 Mardi Gras Revelers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8c33d421e016b6aef764e93d934f657e6dbb1818/original/image-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1905 Mardi Gras Revelers in the French Quarter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras krewes began organizing among various communities, such as the Tramps, the forerunner of the all-African American Krewe of Zulu, which launched in 1909.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The forerunner of Zulu - the Tramps - was organized in 1909, followed by the Social Aid and Pleasure Club in 1910. The first king of Zulu was William Story who mocked the old-line organizations by carrying a banana stalk scepter and wearing a lard-can crown. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a7e5ae73aa482d28929d75b9fbd3ab346c843e84/original/zulu-parade-1.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These first Zulu parades were a spoofs of the uptown krewes - and fortunately for the city, Zulu never lost his sense of humor and remains one of the highlights of Mardi Gras.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4eb6f959469d043dadbad9b2f5039b6f868c693e/original/image-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1910 Mardi Gras at The French Market in the Vieux Carre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2ef865f098431e503aaa758f903675b65253c48/original/image-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Circa 1910</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Mardi Gras reveler with his face painted,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>his jacket torn and a can of tomato pulp attached to his head.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d0bfb6a95eed4ceee89a81d0390d8dd8422fbba1/original/image-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1922 Times Picayune Newspaper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras expanded to the West Bank in 1932 with the founding of the Krewe of Allah, and to Metairie in 1956 via the Krewe of Zeus.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4909de4ab322f1418aaf81c3c0be4acd20dc7a9f/original/image-9.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1934 Massive Mardi Gras Crowd Gathers on St. Charles Ave</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/32037b2cbcba201a14759587b8abf6a5f89e04d0/original/image-10.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1936 Carnival Time Romance is in the air! </strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/94442393d17a8024641ae03dcd3af45f72b021ca/original/image-11.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1937 King Cotton @ The Children's Carnival Parade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3ceac5084c1d067bd0ed74764d539b4e9b294c4/original/image-12.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1938 The Zulu King with the Zulu Krewe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>African-Americans in New Orleans have been part of the city’s Carnival celebrations since its inception. The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club is the most-visible African-American Carnival organization in New Orleans. Founded in 1909, Zulu has a rich history which runs through the entire fabric of the city. In the past, enslaved Africans and the Gens de couleur libres were not allowed to participate in the pageants, parties, and parades of Mardi Gras. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prior to the Civil War, open gatherings of enslaved African-Americans were strictly controlled. After the Emancipation, the end of the war, and the 13th Amendment, public demonstrations and celebrations became common. Black folks were able to, at a minimum, take to the streets, carrying the Mardi Gras spirit from home to home. As Carnival in New Orleans evolved and grew, so did the participation of African-Americans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Early in 1909, a group of laborers in a club named “The Tramps” went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy that included a skit entitled, "There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me" about the Zulu Tribe. According to legend, after seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. The rest, as they say, is history. Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians, however, seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Conversations and interviews with older members indicate that, back in the day, the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or “Club.” The Tramps were one such group. The group that founded Zulu was probably made up of both members from the Tramps and other ward-based groups and members of a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community. For a small amount of dues, members received financial help when they got sick or there was a funeral to pay for. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While the men marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King. The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of "lard can" crown and "banana stalk" scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story in the early days were similarly attired. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The year 1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today Zulu is famous for their coconut throw – quite possibly the most coveted throw in all of Mardi Gras. Zulu’s honor guard is called the Soulful Warriors; and they have characters including Big Shot, Witch Doctor, Ambassador, Mayor, Province Prince, Governor and Mr. Big Stuff. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a17679534c165c6466d0f874e0d3174edb85833f/original/louis-armstrong-zulu-king.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The most famous Krewe of Zulu king was Louis Armstrong who reigned in 1949.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/829e9af18720dbd102f4858e73d7af802f984a49/original/image-13.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1942 Big Chief Pocahontas hitting the groove!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2d9c1eb04ce79ca5709ae7a4475716f92089cc2/original/image-14.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1945 The First Mardi Gras after World War II</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1935f0331fc433ffb911e943955f45e365df32a3/original/image-15.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1955 Louis Armstrong with the Zulu King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/22d47d9cfe2fa1868002ce40cac2dc4c5f73221d/original/image-16.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1955 Aluminum Masked Revelers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9a59da7467eef7a8836a72a0965778a7ccadfd0/original/image-17.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Mardi Gras Parade on Canal Street</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I lived in New Orleans for several years in the 1960's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>& I remember going to this parade with my Dad</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08ba6047b43bc7ae05b561d6f31628921a1c9e81/original/image-18.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1965 Mardi Gras Night Parade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e522220064481ce2b8e991baf5e38acfd41e13e3/original/image-20.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1977 Mardi Gras in the French Quarter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/989f44dccff23790672e2546cfe075553e186329/original/image-21.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1977 The year the Saturday Night Live gang did their show @ Mardi Gras </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 20, 1977, Saturday Night Live was not live from New York on Saturday night. For one thing, it aired on Sunday and at 8:30 p.m., rather than its usual late-night time slot. For another, it filmed over 1,300 miles southwest of New York. High on the success from the show’s first-season Emmy sweep, Lorne Michaels dreamed up an ambitious, near-impossible feat of television comedy: SNL would relocate to New Orleans for Mardi Gras halfway into season two for a two-hour live special. Of course, simply approaching the orbit of Mardi Gras —a notoriously hedonistic festival complete with a parade named after Bacchus, the god of wine — is enough to lay waste to anyone’s plans. The idea of filming live comedy there on the fly is an absurd sketch premise unto itself. Naturally, what started as an earnest attempt for America’s hottest comedy show to try something splashy quickly imploded: A drunken audience pelted the performers with coins, guest stars missed their cues, frustrated cast members threatened to walk off, and scripted bits were bungled. For better or worse, Saturday Night Live never tried anything like this again.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c57fe6f219335770b74fc8009d1c5c5b038d892e/original/image-22.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1979 Professor Longhair performing during Mardi Gras</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5qcxSxKNOEk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5qcxSxKNOEk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Professor Longhair - Tipitina 1979</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ba9d17bc2da14540675dfe90b6915ceb4f91e63/original/image-23.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1982 Gay Pride Mardi Gras Parade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e569b5c2f8dc01742d611d40c39faa9a57a249b9/original/image-24.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2011 Dr. John hanging with the Skull & Bones Gang</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20c716239d35fa9fe7bc3809d714149f6bfcbbe7/original/image-25.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2013 Mardi Gras Street Dancer in the French Quarter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27601d17b55507936c5b89a2a36b954611cb95ec/original/image-26.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2014 Costumed Revelers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/74eaf30d871bbb981e505befd17a3795bd4ee7ae/original/image-27.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2015 Parading in the French Quarter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d05a7ccbca9a4c3f5a227f15a387fe160765db14/original/image-28.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2016 The Mystic Krewe of Barkus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mystic Krewe of Barkus is a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade where participants are dogs costumed according to a central parade theme. The annual event is organized by the Krewe of Barkus, a nonprofit organization that promotes adoption and rescue of homeless animals in New Orleans.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1b6e3fcfa52dc17fcbdd0d43718e29bd07ffda21/original/imfw-19.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2017 Krewe du Vieux Vic & Nat'ly Float</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the Krewe of Clones (founded in 1978) decided to become more respectable, Craig "Spoons" Johnson and Don Marshall decided to keep the parade's original raucous, art-inspired spirit alive by starting Krewe du Vieux Carré. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At first, the ragtag krewe had 16 subkrewes, and a collection of mule-drawn or hand-pulled handmade floats. But by 2001, KdV had its first title float, and its membership was growing. Its numerous subkrewes with names like Krewe of C.R.U.D.E., Krewe of L.E.W.D. and Mystic Krewe of Spermes meet in the "Den of Muses," a warehouse space, to bring together their costumes and floats. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 2006, KdV was the first parade to march post-Katrina, and garnered national attention for its tenacity and lightheartedness in the face of tragedy. That year's theme was "C'est Levee." Other themes over the years have included "Habitat for Insanity" and "Where the Vile Things Are." 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From the neworleans.com site: “Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c7e138719289519f9d4aaf87b3b37eb85d94e97d/original/mardi-gras-chief.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The origins of the black Indians of New Orleans are contested. Many Mardi Gras tribal members point to black-Indian relationships in the French, Spanish and later American colonial periods wherein Native Americans assisted in the escape of slaves and establishment of maroon communities on the margins of New Orleans and nearby plantations. Some Mardi Gras Indians assert Native American ancestry. Others insist on the primacy of West African and Afro-Caribbean sources in dance, song style, rhythms and over all comportment. The presence of local Native American tribes, mingling with enslaved, free people of color and French and Spanish locals attending dances and festivals during the 18th and 19th century in Congo Square near today’s French Quarter is also described as a source of today’s black Mardi Gras Indians. With their fanciful names and stylized costumes, the arrival of Wild West shows in the city in the 1880s is also given credit as a source of visual representation and rhetorical style.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ffn_bo9nuY8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ffn_bo9nuY8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Membership in a Mardi Gras Indian tribe is voluntary and based on social networking rather than birthright. Tribes are organized with very specific roles for each member, following a system begun by early tribes such as the Creole Wild West and Yellow Pocahontas. The big chief is the tribal leader, often assisted by second chiefs and queens. The spy boy marches several blocks in front of the chiefs and queens, seeking out other tribes. He relays directions to the flag boy, who notifies the chief by waving a flag or stick. When tribes meet, the wild man clears a path among the onlookers so the chiefs can face off. Changes in the tribe membership often lead to changes in these positions, but the hierarchy of the tribal organization—akin to a military unit—is strictly maintained. Matters of any significance fall under the authority of the chief. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fraternity within the tribe and competitiveness with other tribes characterize Mardi Gras Indian culture. The Indian embodies a particularly masculine representation of fierceness that has historically relegated women to supporting roles; there are few queens, and men virtually always fill the other ranks. In this way, the big chief and other tribe members correspond both to the figure of the Native American who “won’t bow, won’t kneel” in the face of adversity, as well as the protagonists of African-American songs and stories of “big men” such as John Henry and </strong><i><strong>bad men</strong></i><strong> such as Stagger Lee.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-b7Gg_A3_XQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-b7Gg_A3_XQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The language of the Mardi Gras Indians is the most elusive and mysterious aspect of the culture. Made up of English and French as well as invented words, the speaking and singing of the Indians is a form of verbal art that resists precise translation but is widely understood by Indians. In many Indian songs, </strong><i><strong>hoo na nae</strong></i><strong> is synonymous with the phrase </strong><i><strong>let’s go get ‘em</strong></i><strong>,”while the meaning of the frequently heard refrain t</strong><i><strong>uway pockyway</strong></i><strong> is entirely dependent on the context. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5877b5a9249f2342827fedd3407bd0414eeb9d1/original/image-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The songs of the Mardi Gras Indians are the most popular and accessible aspect of the culture. At Indian gatherings, songs are arranged in call-and-response fashion, with the chief improvising a solo vocal and the tribe responding with a repeated chant: </strong><i><strong>shallow water oh mama!</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>big chief got a golden crown!</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>A second line</strong></i><strong> (an informal parade) of percussionists accompanies the chants with tambourines, cowbells, and found objects such as beer bottles. Popular chants have also become the basis for rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and hip-hop recordings, including James </strong><i><strong>Sugarboy</strong></i><strong> Crawford’s 1954 rhythm and blues recording of </strong><i><strong>Jock-A-Mo</strong></i><strong>. The music and spectacle of the Indians has also spawned tribute songs, such as Earl King’s </strong><i><strong>Big Chief</strong></i><strong>, popularized by pianist Professor Longhair in a 1964 recording." (64parishes.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yh9lG5Q3tHA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yh9lG5Q3tHA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Chief - Professor Longhair</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yS7OoSuiius" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yS7OoSuiius?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Street Parade - Earl King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The most popular song associated with the black Indians of New Orleans is </strong><i><strong>Big Chief</strong></i><strong>. Written by the late New Orleans guitarist-composer </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_King" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Earl King"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Earl King</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, also the originator of the Mardi Gras anthem </strong><i><strong>Street Parade</strong></i><strong>, the song was first recorded in 1964 for Watch Records. The session included Mac Rebennack, who later became known as </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Dr. John"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, on guitar and Professor Longhair on piano. King whistles and handles the vocals on “Big Chief Part 2″ (“Me big chief me got ’em tribe/got my spy boy by my side”), considered to be the session’s definitive version.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hDuEly52p7Q" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hDuEly52p7Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2a8c62fd3eae1418885f94101850e6b48cfbcd27/original/image-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Historical records suggest that blacks were dressing up as Indians to celebrate Mardi Gras as early as 1746. Intermingling of the two races soon led to a boom in mulatto babies. Some of these Creoles even used their costumes to sneak into the secret society Mardi Gras balls. This development ultimately prompted the Spanish government that ran New Orleans at the time to ban them from wearing masks. So instead they stuck to the black neighborhoods around Congo Square. That is, until the 1811 slave revolt led to a complete ban on all gatherings by people of color, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free men. In 1866, after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of former slaves joined the U.S. Army’s 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments. These were established by the United States Congress as the first all-black regiments to serve during times of peace. Approximately 50 to 60 Plains Indians marched on the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 1885, all of them wearing traditional costumes. Some historians suggest that the first Mardi Gras Indian gang– “Creole Wild West”– was formed later that year, but CWW members suggest their origins date back to the early 1800s.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Regardless, we know that the Mardi Gras Indian tradition remained largely underground for decades, dividing geographically into loosely organized gangs (now known as tribes). They would secretly gather to sing and chant in the ancient tribal tradition. They worked all year long to create colorful suits bedecked with intricate hand beading, false gems and decorative feathers. They would also craft matching accessories such as staffs, shields, and tribal flags. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Mardi Gras day, the police were often kept busy protecting the tourist-focused French Quarter, so the Mardi Gras Indians would take to the streets of their neighborhoods to strut their stuff and honor the Indians who had helped them obtain their freedom. When they met with a rival tribe, some reports suggest that it often led to violence, with stabbings and shootings relatively common. But other Mardi Gras Indian historians (including Cherice Harrison-Nelson, founder of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame) argue that these reports of violence were greatly exaggerated. </strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER LOOKING FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RTxZbvpsvQg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RTxZbvpsvQg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mardi Gras Indians first entered American pop culture consciousness in 1965. That’s when New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups had a hit with </strong><i><strong>Iko Iko </strong></i><strong>(a cover of 1953’s </strong><i><strong>Jock-A-Mo</strong></i><strong>, by Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters). The lyrics described a quintessential collision between two tribes, who exchange taunting chants: </strong><i><strong>My flag boy and your flag boy were sittin’ by the fire. My flag boy told your flag boy, ‘I’m gonna set your flag on fire.</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But powerful Big Chiefs such as including Bo Dollis (Wild Magnolias), Donald Harrison Sr. (Guardians of the Flame), and Tootie Montana (Yellow Pocahontas) came together in the ’70s and put an end to the violence. Together, they moved this iconic African-American tradition into the New Orleans mainstream. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Few in the ghetto felt they could ever participate in the typical New Orleans parade. Historically, slavery and racism were at the root of this cultural separation. The black neighborhoods in New Orleans gradually developed their own style of celebrating Mardi Gras. Their krewes are named for imaginary Indian tribes according to the streets of their ward or gang. The Mardi Gras Indians named themselves after native Indians to pay them respect for their assistance in escaping the tyranny of slavery. It was often local Indians who accepted slaves into their society when they made a break for freedom. They have never forgotten this support. In the past, Mardi Gras was a violent day for many Mardi Gras Indians. It was a day often used to settle scores. The police were often unable to intervene due to the general confusion surrounding Mardi Gras events in the city, when the streets were crowded and everyone was masked. This kept many families away from the parade, and created much worry and concern for a mothers whose children wanted to join the Indians. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/nola.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/5c/b5ceba72-25af-5027-ad2c-fe1a5c64afff/5d14cede95690.image.jpg?resize=750%2C500" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Should we call them Mardi Gras Indians, or should we be calling them something else? | Mardi Gras | nola.com" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today, when two Mardi Gras Indian tribes pass one another, you will see a living theater of art and culture. Each tribe's style and dress is on display in a friendly but competitive manner. They compare one another's art and craftsmanship. The Big Chiefs of two different tribes start with a song/chant, ceremonial dance, and threatening challenge to Humba. The Big Chief's demand that the other Chief bows and pays respect. The retort is a whoop and equally impressive song and war dance with the reply, </strong><i><strong>Me no Humba, YOU </strong></i><strong>The good news is Mardi Gras day is no longer a day to settle scores among the Mardi Gras Indians. Now that the tradition and practice for the Indians to compare their tribal song, dance and dress with other tribes as they meet that day, violence is a thing of the past. The Mardi Gras Indian has invested thousands of hours and dollars in the creation of his suit, and will not run the risk of ruining it in a fight. This tradition, rich with folk art and history, is now appreciated by museums and historical societies around the world. It is a remarkable and welcome change from the past.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MARDI GRAS INDIAN BATTLE</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HDwys-_BtUI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HDwys-_BtUI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GOLDEN EAGLES ON MARDI GRAS DAY</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bx-zYRyIjfA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bx-zYRyIjfA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MARDI GRAS INDIAN CULTURE</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c9584669d77857a9907c747ba5087fcf87b9c5a/original/image-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be932033d0ec7d1efacff0b2932e67b3483e91dd/original/image-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c6ac5ef28dd208267835708c95302f3acef9b66/original/image-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h2olg_Zk2V8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h2olg_Zk2V8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Folklife in Louisiana site: "The honor of being an Indian Chief carries with it many responsibilities. Time and money must be spent throughout the entire year creating and painstakingly sewing together the costumes. Naturally, the Chief must have the most beautiful and most elaborate outfit in his group. He is in competition with other tribes to out-dress their Chiefs. He must also command the respect of his tribesmen, teaching them to follow his commands, so that their dancing and singing is as sharp as it can be. He must motivate them to participate in long practice sessions and help them to design their own costumes. Additionally, the Chief represents his community at various functions throughout the year...The art of sewing Indian costumes, as well as accompanying cultural tradition was passed on to Charles by his uncle, who undoubtedly devoted many painstaking hours towards teaching the intricate and detailed craft. This art is complicated and involves special tools and special knowledge which can only be taught by someone who has been involved in the tradition for many years. Pride is an important aspect of the Mardi Gras Indian culture--pride in a job well done, in one's own creation, and in one's own heritage. Charles has expressed his joy in being able to pass on this information "so that the younger generation will understand and be proud of their history. Even though they are poor in other ways, they can be rich in pride for being able to create something so wonderful as a Mardi Gras Indian costume, which embodies art, culture, and history." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/uploads/headers/bannerhistory2_1547156605.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Mardi Gras Indians History and Tradition | Mardi Gras New Orleans" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With names like </strong><i><strong>Creole Wild West</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Yellow Pocahontas</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Wild Magnolias</strong></i><strong>, the Indian men and families work for months to sew elaborately-colored bead and feather </strong><i><strong>suits</strong></i><strong> that are shared traditions of creativity drawn from images of Plains Indians hunting, making war, riding horses or other pursuits. Many of those who “mask Indian” also design and sew highly individual works that may come to them in dreams. In spite of the term, very few Mardi Gras Indians actually wear masks, though many paint their faces and use long hair, braided wigs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Each tribe is divided into a hierarchy with a Big Chief at the top, and various supporting second chiefs, queens, and princesses. Special roles are taken by a spyboy who keeps a lookout for other gangs of Indians and a wildman who may clear a path in the crowded street between tribes so that the chiefs may meet to face-off in ritual dances and chants that demonstrate power and demand respect. Historically this could lead to violence, but in recent decades, under the leadership of the late chief Allison ‘Tootie’ Montana, the chiefs and tribal members have moved toward competing with their costumes, song and dance to be the </strong><i><strong>prettiest</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0842703983daf3b0967a9f822c69551ddd13b6a0/original/image-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="n643nLCbMoE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n643nLCbMoE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Each chief is expected to be a good singer capable of improvising songs over a dense rhythm section of bass drums, tambourines and various bottles, sticks and bells. The words may comment on his prowess and the day’s activities with the full tribe and followers in backing chorus. One song, “Sew, Sew, Sew,” describes the work of the men preparing costumes; another, “My Big Chief Got a Golden Crown,” offers praise to the leader; “Indian Red” is a hymn-like song of prayer to the Native spirits assembled in a clubhouse or home at the start of an Indian practice or parade. Words of some songs and street commands like “J’a q’ mo fille na-nay” or “Tu way pas qui-way” show of mix of French Creole and secret group language that defies direct translation</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27d397fb84ab9facb2420efdc151b10d66a4a6c7/original/image-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mardi Gras Indians who walk and dance in the streets of New Orleans have often received less attention than Zulu, the famed African American parody-filled float parade, or elite white Uptown krewes like Rex and Proteus with their originally mule drawn wagons of elaborate papier-maché theme floats. However, the black Indians have also come to signify African roots and communal power in a city where class disparities based on race have been profound. Famed Indian chiefs like Monk Boudreaux, Bo Dollis and the late Donald Harrison Sr. became better known in annual New Orleans Jazz Festival appearances, sound recordings and international touring. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://gardenandgun.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GG0119_SouthernFocus_01.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="A Dazzling Mardi Gras Spectacle – Garden & Gun" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the immediate post-Katrina flood period (2005), Mardi Gras Indians famously returned early to their ritual and festival ways and were viewed as emblematic of the will of black New Orleanians to return to and rebuild their distressed city in articles from the local Times-Picayune newspaper to the New York Times. At today’s Carnival in New Orleans the Mardi Gras Indians continue their pomp and pride-filled march through the 21st Century.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="P00axcsvmds" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P00axcsvmds?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Chief Monk Boudreaux</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fe558091d620ab6ea250a4aaeb539dcf41b39e0f/original/image-9.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Esv7RV3jDbc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Esv7RV3jDbc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Isaac Edwards: 93 year old Mardi Gras Indian</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wQQzs-g5yDU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wQQzs-g5yDU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Handa Wanda - Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1971, Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias were the first Indians to make a commercial recording of their own music, using a group of funk musicians to arrange Dollis’s </strong><i><strong>Handa Wanda</strong></i><strong>. Under the musical direction of pianist, composer, and arranger Wilson Turbinton (</strong><i><strong>Willie Tee</strong></i><strong>), the Wild Magnolias recorded two LPs in the early 1970s and toured the United States and France.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YvMofiuaW98" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YvMofiuaW98?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Wild Tchoupitoulas album</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Indian funk was given a sizable boost in 1976 when the Wild Tchoupitoulas tribe recorded an album, titled </strong><i><strong>Wild Tchoupitoulas</strong></i><strong>, with arrangements by the city’s most acclaimed funk group, The Meters. On the record and in performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, lead vocalist Joseph Landry (</strong><i><strong>Chief Jolly</strong></i><strong>) was accompanied by his nephews, the Neville Brothers. Like Willie Tee, the Nevilles—Art, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril Neville—grew up listening to the Indians on Mardi Gras Day.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EMFLPTKTq8g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EMFLPTKTq8g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Suit - Wild Magnolias</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Music composed for these recordings, such as the Magnolias’ </strong><i><strong>New Suit</strong></i><strong> in 1975 and the Wild Tchoupitoulas’ </strong><i><strong>Meet De Boys on the Battlefront</strong></i><strong>, released the next year, now stand alongside </strong><i><strong>Big Chief</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Iko, Iko</strong></i><strong> as the most prominent and durable signs of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Musical recordings and staged performances brought extraordinary recognition to what had been a relatively obscure and even secretive community practice, attracting a much larger public to the tradition of masking and chanting. The increased attendance at Indian parades on Mardi Gras Day and especially the proliferation of official cultural presentations—museum exhibitions of costumes, Indian parades at local festivals, concert performances of traditional chanting—owe much to the ongoing popularity of Indian music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80a14a89b6d6e312ff047f0dc515fba977121285/original/image.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="Parade and Celebration for BIG CHIEF BO Dollis SR" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG CHIEF BO DOLLIS INTERVIEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>From an article @ Perfect Sound Forever (furious.com): "Taking the second line beat of New Orleans and turning it into a party on plastic, the Wild Magnolias Indian tribe (note: not Native-American but </strong></font></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.furious.com/perfect/sinclair/mardigrasindians.html"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>Mardi Gras Indians</strong></font></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>) take chunks of Big Easy musical history and churn it into a stew as appealing as a good bowl of gumbo- they quote and cover everyone from Huey 'Piano' Smith and Fats Domino to the Meters and Dr. John. Their call-and-response chants have the familar ring of gospel as they shout out their catch-phrases so much that they become funky mantras. The real miracle is that leader (Big Chief) Theodore 'Bo' Dollis and his tribe (group, if you like), including the inimitable Joseph 'Monk' Boudreaux, have kept the party going something fierce for a quarter century now after the fact- how many of you reading this can say the same thing? I sure as hell can't.</strong></font></span></p><img src="https://i.discogs.com/gnBs7kyLEvyW2iCxCg1wjOpZ0QKh_QrKBHcNFWeBN-s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTcy/NTktMTUzNDU4NDY0/My01NjIwLmpwZWc.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Wild Magnolias – They Call Us Wild (1975, Vinyl) - Discogs" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>After a few lengthy breaks, the Magnolia tribe came back strong last year with </strong><i><strong>Life Is A Carnvial </strong></i><strong>(Metro Blue) and several national tours to spread the word that they were back in force. The show that I caught recently in New York at Central Park was only overshadowed by the amazing romp I witnessed them do (in full gear no less) at the New Orleans Jazz and Hertiage Festival last year.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>I had the chance to talk to pow-wow with the Big Chief after their triumphant Central Park show along with their manager Glenn Gaines, who would get so jazzed up during the show that he'd come out to play tambourine and toss beads into the waiting audience.</strong></font></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: Could you talk about how you started out playing music early on?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>On carnival day, we used to have Indian practices. We would go to local bar rooms and rehearse in the late '60's, doing Mardi Gras tunes, singing </strong><i><strong>Mardi Gras Day</strong></i><strong>. I met up with Quinton Davis, the guy who's in charge of the (New Orleans) Jazz and Heritage Festival. He was going to Tulane University at the time. He came to the Indian practice and he asked me to sing one of the carnival tunes for a 45. I told him that I'd try. So he put a band together called the New Orleans project with Willy Tee and a whole bunch of other great musicians.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-iF_WXAH5iI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-iF_WXAH5iI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>So we went into the studio to do </strong><i><strong>Handa Wanda</strong></i><strong>. It's something we still play today. After we did that, he had gotten us a contract with Barclay Records in France. That's how our whole career started.</strong></font></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: What was it about New Orleans that made up such a rich, constant flow of music that helped you start your career?</strong></font></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>I wasn't really trying to become a part of the New Orleans music scene. I was just dressing as an Indian, enjoying myself. I'd been doing that since the late '50's. So, by the time I met up with Quinton, he just got me to do it more commercially. Before, we'd be walking up and down the streets in our costumes with tambourines, bass drums, conga drums. We'd just sing whatever would come out of our mouths. We'd make up songs as we go.</strong></font></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/86973f674e7d00d61e053ccdb7b66eb379fb7eca/original/bo-dollis-2.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: How did you get involved in a Mardi Gras Indian tribe originally?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>I got involved because of a neighbor. I was about nine-years-old and used to go and watch him prepare his Indian suit, sewing it up. So he'd ask me to help him with it. My momma caught me doing that and told me to go inside. I said 'I'll make me an Indian suit one day.' What he did was that he gave me an old Indian suit that he had. I redid it and changed this and changed that. Then, I started out as an Indian. By then, my momma was cool with it but my daddy didn't go along with that. He said that Indians used to fight.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>There was a turf thing going on at that time. Downtown Indians couldn't come uptown. Back of town Indians couldn't come into other areas. They were really fighting. But when I started, all that ended. Instead, the way that they would compete is to see who had the best costume out there. It wasn't fighting anymore- it was more a challenge with the costumes.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: Why did all of that change?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>Well, I guess as time went on... to me, it didn't make any sense. Getting beat up just because you were from uptown. The younger Indians, they tried to change all that. A lot of the older Indians were dropping out, getting too old. (laughs) We used to walk around seven or eight miles, going uptown or downtown. So all the fighting stopped and we started with the songs, challenging each other with lyrics. That's how we challenge each other now. With music, who had the baddest drummer leading the second line.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: When did you see this change?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>I would say around... the late Fifties. Around '57 or '58. You still had a few little squabbles but it wasn't a whole tribe doing it.</strong></font></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/56e9f6fe8a8b69a7c757fce4ecbfe0770fa47158/original/wild-tchoupitoulas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WILD TCHOUPITOULAS</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qePeiI83eTA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qePeiI83eTA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: What can you say about another famous Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Wild Tchoupitoulas? Any rivalry there?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>I never had a rivalry with them. (George) Jolly used to be my second chief. What he did was that he came to me and said '</strong><i><strong>Bo, Jolly live way out front.</strong></i><strong>' He used to manage me 'cause he didn't have a tribe. So he said he wanted to get a tribe where he was the chief. When he started out an Indian tribe, I used to go there and help him out. He had about 12 Indians out there. He started the Wild Tchoupitoulas, there wasn't any bad blood or anything. I love to see more Indians. The more Indians out there, the better Mardi Gras you have. It's not any fun being out there, not seeing other Indians around. You're there to show them your costume. But me and Jolly never fought. It was the Wild Magnolias, Wild Tchoupitoulas all the way around.</strong></font><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: Most people from outside of New Orleans don't understand the make-up of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. Could you talk about that? You have people like a Spy Boy and a Flag Boy in the tribes, for instance.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://cdn.aaihs.org/2018/04/Flickr-Derek-Bridges-Mardi-Gras-Indians.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans - AAIHS" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>Spy Boy, what his job is... if you have a good Spy Boy, you can find any gang in the city. He knows just where they are. If you're on a bad street, you're going to miss them. Spy Boy is out looking for the tribes. Spy Boy pass a signal to the Flag Boy that a gang is coming. So the Flag Boy is supposed to relay that back to the Big Chief. It's up to the Chief to say 'Meet 'em' or 'Go another way.' But you never go another way. You always gotta send a signal that we're here. Spy Boy and Flag Boy have to meet and find these other gangs and doing all the serious walking around town to do that. You gotta be out there and you gotta be good. You have some Spy Boys that know just where they are. They can get 'em (the other gangs) from the middle or catch 'em from the back. Lot of gangs don't like to be cut from the back. Can't get all the Indians back in time to protect the Chief. Spy Boy is supposed to meet a chief but I don't let mine do that. I always to turn his gang around.</strong></font><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/c_fill,h_560,q_60,w_960/v1/clients/neworleans/Mardi_Gras_Indian_f4b44578-1008-4d37-b1e9-d410cbc3d6a8.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Costume and Masking Culture | New Orleans" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: What do you think makes up a good Indian costume?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>The most important thing is probably how much time you can put into it and how much money you can put into it. It's who got the best rhinestones, who got the best crown, who got the best designs in the rear of their crowns, who made the perfect Indian suit. Everyone tries to make the perfect Indian suit. Some just outdo others.</strong></font><strong> </strong></span></p><img src="https://frenchquarterly.com/sites/default/files/music-spring2013-1.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Big Chief " /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Chief Monk Boudreaux</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: You're also with another tribe called the Golden Eagles, right?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>That's Monk Boudreaux. I don't record with them but we perform together. We came up together and put together a musical group. It had a few other guys with us that we put together to make the commercial side of it.</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: What do you see as differences?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>My Wild Magnolias costumes might be more bigger than what Monk would have on for Mardi Gras. He'd been doing his costumes since back in the '50's and he always had more rhinestones on it. If you've ever seen my costume, you'd know it was bad though. In terms of size, he does his much smaller.</strong></font><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://riggsentertainmentllc.com/entertainers/images/image-73-20190911_020343.jpg?x43103" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="New Orleans Wild Magnolias – Book from Riggs Entertainment LLC" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>PSF: I saw the full costumes you have when you played at last year's Jazz and Heritage festival. They were amazing- these huge, elaborate dresses. I imagine that's pretty hard to take on tour, right?</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><font face="Arial"><strong>My suit... It takes so much out of me when I try to do a gig with the whole costume on. It's real heavy and it's HOT! I can't perform in that all the time. So when we came out here to do a tour, I just decided to wear my regular clothes. But the other Indians on the stage wear theirs. Sometime, Monk don't wear his. It would get so hot and it would take a lot out of him. (laughs)</strong></font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3597cce0ccf1700cc5b44e0523e43d0750e793ed/original/mardi-gras-indians-practice.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras Indians @ Rehearsal in a local bar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Indians also gather together on Sunday afternoons for what they call </strong><i><strong>Indian Rehearsals</strong></i><strong>. At the rehearsals they sing Mardi Gras Indian songs, dance, and fellowship. This may be seen as a modern-day extension of festivities held by blacks on Sunday afternoon in Congo Square, New Orleans, many years ago.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras Indians are a prominent and vital thread in the tapestry of local culture. Once seen only on Mardi Gras day and St. Joseph’s Day night by a select few, today the Indian has become a fixture at events all over the city and throughout the year. “Super Sunday” has become a popular springtime outing for a diverse crowd of spectators who come to see the tribes in three neighborhoods: Uptown, Downtown, and the West Bank. At the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, tribes parade through the fairgrounds and appear onstage. Chiefs such as musician Donald Harrison Jr. and the late plasterer, Tootie Montana, became respected public figures and voices of the community through their Indian-related activities. 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I can remember my Dad taking the family many times on Sunday to a wonderful restaurant called Galatoire's. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/00c0651ad5abab044e904eb71e45f9878a2e191c/original/galatoires1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Founded in 1905 by Jean Galatoire, this infamous address distinguished itself on Bourbon St. from its humble beginning. From the small village of Pardies, France, Jean Galatoire brought recipes and traditions inspired by the familial dining style of his homeland to create the menu and ambiance of the internationally-renowned restaurant. In its fifth generation, it is the Galatoire family and descendants who have carried the tradition of New Orleans’ fine dining restaurants and influenced its evolution.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-ORmPXTCz7E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ORmPXTCz7E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/758266c575e6da34d2351aac3574a07191cacfaa/original/mick-rock-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My love of New Orleans music would implant itself in my own music career that seriously started in 1977 when I moved to Long Island and became a member of a band called the Freelance Vandals. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0a6797dcf83a5121545b21592d56a051f33eeb53/original/chef-from-hell-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Years later, when I decided to take a hiatus from the music biz, I got into the food service business and eventually became a chef and a restaurant owner. In those days my nickname was </strong><i><strong>The Chef From Hell</strong></i><strong>; most probably due to the use of fiery herbs and sauces along with the influence of Chef Paul Prudhomme (a creative individual who brought Cajun / Creole cuisine back into the mainstream in the 80's). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HSnFCRyQJKE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HSnFCRyQJKE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4KVl1lZvVmQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4KVl1lZvVmQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4928b24553036f79dd4ddab36b36f74d696861b9/original/mardi-gras-food-stuffs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Over the years as a Chef, I had a great time creating my own Cajun / Creole dishes at my various restaurants; The Bayou in Bellmore, NY, Big Daddy's in Massapequa, NY and Yazoo City in my hometown, Lindenhurst, NY. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b62c9d931c90a09866dad94efac9a8092b7d75aa/original/big-daddys-mardi-gras.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Throughout these years my most favorite time to cook was during MARDI GRAS WEEK which was a week long celebration starting on the Tuesday before Fat Tuesday and then on Fat Tuesday itself. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/40645282cce569158651eb26c51cef870f3e3550/original/cajun-creole-food.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the dark age before electricity and refrigeration, it took master cooks – culinary magicians – to deliver miracles out of the kitchens of the South; now, with good directions and modern equipment, it is possible for anyone with enough interest to do almost as well…when the chemistry is right, a Southern meal can still be an aesthetic wonder, a sensory delight, even a mystical experience.” John Egerton SOUTHERN FOOD (Alfred A. Knopf 1987)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qMu5SAVkuRM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qMu5SAVkuRM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f4c566c947653bc19569e4fdddc43cc8015d79de/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER IN A MOOD FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9568a51ecf22da6828623e4f2c538b18fe460afc/original/mg-kitchen-plate.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WHAT'S FOR DINNER?</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ab845b752a61dee3589e5793c67d2e8cdc75bd07/original/mg-kitchen.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE MUFFALETTA SANDWICH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/75aa6e1c460764d1df162de6a2f87ded1895c0f2/original/giardineria.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GIARDINIERA: ITALIAN PICKLED VEGETABLE MIX</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8f80ba57c8d994a2f59b83952770480fd6064ff8/original/muffaletta-bread.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MUFFALETTA SANDWICH BREAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/009b894597fff1a76eb48d866348c9b11e30b6a4/original/rock-books-2.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_left border_" /><p> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>INGREDIENTS</u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1 large round bread loaf, 9 inches in diameter (often referred to as a "Bishop's Loaf"</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1 cup Giardiniera (an Italian pickled vegetable mix) Giardiniera</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1/4 cup Black Olives, chopped coarse </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1/4 cup Green Pimento stuffed Olives </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Olive Oil </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 oz Genoa Salami, sliced thin </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 oz Prosciutto Ham, sliced thin </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 oz Capicola, sliced thin </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 oz Provolone thin, sliced thin </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Muffaletta-SQ.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Muffaletta Sandwich Recipe - Chili Pepper Madness" /><p> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>COOKING PROCEDURE</u> </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Preheat your oven to 350 degrees </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drain the Giardinera of any liquid and place it in a food processor </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Add the black and green olives </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drizzle in a little olive oil & pulse the ingredients until you achieve a chunky vegetable mix </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Set this mix aside </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slice the round loaf in half horizontally </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Layer the bottom of the loaf with the processed vegetable mix </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Layer the sliced cheese and meats over the vegetable mix </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Place the top half of the bread on top of the meats </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bake the sandwich in a 350 oven until the cheese is melted and the meats are warm; about 25 to 30 minutes or so</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Remove the sandwich from the oven and let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slice the sandwich into quarters and have yourself a great time!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GhzjiGn4cMs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GhzjiGn4cMs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e8d5f230f25bb26e432e1c16179cfac23d389582/original/muffalette-hmmm.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There are two schools of thought when it comes to the famous Muffaletta sandwich. Some folks like it prepared cold much like a deli sandwich whereas others prefer the sandwich served hot. My preference is to heat it up and enjoy all that melted cheese. Yeah baby!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/472d67247cde54f6ceb3773f75c9e8108cc84f9e/original/muffaletta-finished-at-last.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE'S WHAT A MUFFALETTA SANDWICH LOOKS LIKE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AFTER IT'S BEEN HEATED UP…MMMMM!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b6dfece9fc3511628d57b453dee6e2a28cf7cc5f/original/muffaletta-charm.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HISTORY OF THE MUFFALETTA SANDWICH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/78345c226748e5858d71fbb5bd228e72f9289891/original/muffaletta-collage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The muffuletta—a mammoth sandwich of round sesame bread layered with Genoa salami, ham, mortadella, cheese, and olive salad—is one of New Orleans’s signature dishes. Clearly, the muffuletta is Italian in its ingredients, and yet the sandwich does not exist in Italy. Instead, it is a New Orleans tradition, born and bred in the city, and a testament to the Sicilian community that settled there in the late 1880s and early 1900s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Farmers, vendors, dockworkers, and street hawkers set up shop close to the French Market in an area that became known as “Little Palermo.” At the turn of the twentieth century, there were more than a dozen macaroni factories, several Italian bakeries, and a multitude of importers and small grocers in the neighborhood. It was the symbiotic relationship between these people, their recipes, customs, and traditions that shaped the story of the muffuletta.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c00b780e13122152b55df58a03f67dd96b435db6/original/four-muffaletta-sandwiches.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muffaletta…muffuletto…muffulettu…muffalatta…or muffolettu? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There are several ways to pronounce and spell muffuletta. Some theories on the variations are that they stem from the Italian word </strong><i><strong>muffa</strong></i><strong> (mold) or, more likely, from the Latin term </strong><i><strong>muffula</strong></i><strong> (small sack or mitten).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Muffuletto </strong></i><strong>first entered the New Orleans lexicon not as the name for the sandwich but for the type of bread. It seems likely that the sandwich eventually took its name from the bread that is its foundation. Gene Bourg, a former food critic for the </strong><i><strong>Times-Picayune</strong></i><strong>, claimed in a 1988 article that the name transferred due to the practice of reusing the labeled paper. Even today, the custom of wrapping a quartered muffuletta sandwich in the leftover bread paper is sometimes still used.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The muffuletto loaf came to New Orleans from Sicily, where it is associated with religious festivities such as St. Martin’s Day, All Souls’ Day, or the Eve of the Immaculate Conception. The loaves are characterized by a soft and spongy interior and light crust. Most are large, round, often flattened and, like New Orleans’s own muffuletto loaf, come topped with aromatic seeds, such as sesame or fennel.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These traditional golden loaves are perfect for filling. Early advertisements from importers show that the ingredients needed to make a muffaletta sandwich were readily available in the French Quarter at the turn of the century. Yet the first filled muffuletto loaves in New Orleans probably looked and tasted more like those found in Sicily—seasoned with olive oil or lard, olives, oregano, anchovies, and ricotta or caciocavallo cheese. Smaller seeded rolls were also used to make a spleen sandwich called a “vastedda,” which is still eaten in the markets of Palermo today but has disappeared from New Orleans’s culinary landscape.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0155f822c324ee77f66631e81ddc3f3c593584e1/original/best-muffaletta.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prior to the mid-1950s, the muffuletta sandwich did not appear on written menus. The lack of the name’s early mention does not mean that the sandwich didn’t exist: it either had no name or existed under a different one. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Some residents of the French Quarter remember asking for an </strong><i><strong>Italian Sandwich</strong></i><strong> at Central Grocery or at the neighboring Progress Grocery. Montalbano’s Delicatessen at 724 St. Philip Street sold a sandwich called the </strong><i><strong>Roman</strong></i><strong> or </strong><i><strong>Roma</strong></i><strong>. Clearly a muffuletta, a sandwich that was described as an enormous round sandwich, was made to order on a scale, with however much cold cuts, cheeses, or olive salad a customer requested.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3597c12ccfeb807d5eccba65309b893c109bf60b/original/centra-grocery.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Central Grocery and the </strong><i><strong>Original</strong></i><strong> Muffuletta: There are as many legends about the origins of today’s muffuletta sandwich as there are ways to pronounce it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The most common theory is that it originated in 1906 at Central Grocery (923 Decatur Street in the French Quarter) by owner Salvatore Lupo. According to his daughter, Marie Lupo Tusa, ‘</strong><i><strong>At lunchtime farmers would go to my father’s grocery and would buy small quantities of Italian cold cuts, cheese, and olive salad. My father also sold a round, puffy, Sicilian-style bread called muffuletta that was baked in small quantities by a Sicilian baker in the neighborhood. In the beginning, the farmers ate the bread along with the cold cuts, cheese, and olive salad. Eventually, my father suggested to his customers that he put it all together as a sandwich for them. The sandwich was referred to as a muffuletta because that was the name of the bread. In Sicily, there was no such thing as a muffuletta sandwich—only the muffuletta bread.</strong></i><strong>’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a9c154d7a9307463a33b2943b1033831e3ca7866/original/mg-kitchen.webp/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the 1970s, the muffuletta was clearly established on the local and national food scene, as it was listed on menus and discussed in the media. This humble sandwich—a must-eat for tourists and the cause of cravings for many locals—stands as a reminder of the vibrant and important Sicilian community that helped to create New Orleans’s rich and layered history.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OFpCCX-zBts/TBzqSpyefZI/AAAAAAAALmo/W213uVDN2cs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Muffuletta+1.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Deep South Dish: New Orleans Style Muffuletta" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Can't Believe I'm Still HUNGRY!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f4c566c947653bc19569e4fdddc43cc8015d79de/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER IN A MOOD FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd382f05a75200994a5e68f972db2b3d2c02c929/original/dscn7260.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Life is short…have some Mardi Gras fun why'doncha!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65080222024-02-08T07:13:05-05:002024-02-09T02:59:16-05:00The Legacy of Brass Bands in New Orleans<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c3ce39f7a6321b57eda6c9b80e9c21f0ac8cf848/original/legacy-of-new-orleans-brass-bands.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Happy Mardi Gras Week to one and all! If any of you have ever been to New Orleans, I'm sure you would agree that there ain't nothin' like catching the sounds of a New Orleans brass band. When these bands begin to play magical sounds fill the air!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The history of the marching band in New Orleans is a rich one, with the various bands performing at virtually every major social event the city has to offer. They perform at funerals, picnics, carnivals and parades. The relationship between jazz bands and brass bands is one of co-influence...Jazz bands of this era began to go beyond the confines of the 6/8 time signature the marching bands utilized. Instead, New Orleans jazz bands began incorporating a style known as </strong><i><strong>ragging</strong></i><strong>; this technique implemented the influence of ragtime 2/4 meter and eventually led to improvisation. In turn, the early jazz bands of New Orleans influenced the playing of the marching bands, who in turn began to improvise themselves more often.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GYK-APtZR-0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYK-APtZR-0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The development of the New Orleans brass band was entwined with a new musical form that emerged around 1900. Jazz synthesized ragtime, blues, spirituals, marches, European dances, Latin American rhythms, and American popular songs into a specifically African American musical style. It emphasized collective improvisation, audience participation, rhythmic syncopation and repetition, and the use of pentatonic scales and </strong><i><strong>blue notes</strong></i><strong>. Jazz performance styles influenced the New Orleans brass band, allowing it to develop as the most significant black brass band tradition in the United States. While jazz developed into an American art form, brass band music remained closely tied to the rhythms of everyday life in New Orleans. The jazz funeral, the city’s most emblematic sacred tradition, revolves around the beat of the brass band, beginning with slow dirges and ending with up-tempo dance songs as the spirit was “cut loose.” In second line parades, community organizations called Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs hire brass bands and parade through their neighborhoods for miles each Sunday afternoon. Over the years, the music and dancing at funerals and parades have been continuously updated in terms of tempo, style, and repertoire, allowing these traditions to remain vital to each new generation of New Orleanians." (96Parishes.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZdhLVsDAtz4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZdhLVsDAtz4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It should be noted that the use of brass marching bands came long before jazz music through their use in the military, though in New Orleans many of the best-known musicians had their start in brass marching bands performing dirges as well as celebratory and upbeat tunes for New Orleans jazz funeral processions from the 1890s onward. The tradition drove onward with musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Henry </strong><i><strong>Red</strong></i><strong> Allen and King Oliver. The presence of marching bands lives on today in New Orleans...Much of New Orleans music today owes its debt to the early marching bands, even those marching bands which predate the birth of jazz music. In the late 19th century marching bands would often march through the streets of the city in second line parades. Some of the earliest bands originated from the Tremé neighborhood, and the city gave birth to such bands as the Excelsior, Onward and Olympia brass bands. The Onward and Olympia bands each have sustained incarnations that continue performing to this day. Modern examples of the brass band tradition can be heard in the playing of groups like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band or the Rebirth Brass Band.</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/685cd64eb17eb94303f0911e82239aa468f95258/original/danny-barker.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Danny Barker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bZi1Da90etw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZi1Da90etw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Awhile back I came across a book by the one and only Danny Barker that provided a wealth of information about the birth and subsequent development of the traditions of New Orleans Brass Bands. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Danny Barker was a third-generation jazz musician born in New Orleans in 1909. His grandfather Isidore Barbarin, a locally famous musician, was born in 1871, just six years after the Civil War and the formal end of slavery. Barker, a guitarist and banjo player who began playing music early in life under the eye of Isidore and other musicians in the Barbarin clan, would go on to play with Cab Calloway, Sidney Bechet, Benny Carter, Jelly Roll Morton, and many more jazz legends. Barker also became one of New Orleans’ greatest historians and champions of brass bands. His book A Life in Jazz recounts the earliest days of black marching bands, the birth of jazz, and the many permutations the music took between his grandfather’s heyday and 1986, when the book was first published. With a perhaps apocryphal story, Barker shares what he and others say was the first music-filled procession, which took place at the turn of the 17th century. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and his younger brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, (now remembered as Iberville and Bienville) explored the area around the mouth of the Mississippi River, looking for good areas to claim for King Louis XIV. Iberville would found the first permanent French settlement in the Louisiana Territory in 1699, while Bienville established New Orleans in 1718. Barker writes, '</strong><i><strong>One old writer relates that, with the founding of New Orleans by the brothers Bienville and Iberville, there was a body of soldiers with the explorers and that a trumpet player with the military band died and was buried in the military fashion with music in the funeral procession and at the grave site.</strong></i><strong>' While Barker says that other writers recall celebratory funerals by the city’s black population even during slavery, it wasn’t until emancipation in 1865 and the resulting freedoms afforded to black musicians that brass bands really took off. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time Barker was born in 1909, Isadore, his grandfather, was playing cornet and alto horn with the Onward Brass Band, one of the city’s best organized groups. As a child living with his grandparents, Barker remembered that all the talk around the house was about music—which players could play, which players couldn’t, and which gigs Onward had won or lost to some of its fierce competitors like the Excelsior Brass Band. Then as now, benevolent societies in the city’s black wards would pool the money of their members in order to throw big funerals for the recently departed. Onward, Excelsior, and countless other professional and family bands would compete for the funeral gigs, just as they’d maneuver to play any other social occasion. While playing in Onward alongside musicians like Manuel Perez and Joe </strong><i><strong>King</strong></i><strong> Oliver, Barker's grandfather also worked as a carriage driver for one of the busiest undertakers. The arrangement gave him early intel on when a society’s member was deathly ill or when a funeral was being planned, and he’d angle with the club or the grieving family for Onward to be hired. In his book Barker describes the the scene from the funeral after the crowd had let the hearse pass, 'In a few minutes the big bass drum strikes three extra-loud booms and the band starts swinging ‘The Saints,’ or ‘Didn’t He Ramble,’ or ‘Bourbon Street Parade,’ and the wild, mad, frantic dancing starts, and the hundreds of all-colored umbrellas are seen bouncing high above heads to the rhythm of the great crowd of second liners. The revelers—and especially children with a budding interest in music—were enthralled by the musicians and the scene they seemed to conjure from their horns. Barker recalls how sad it was to be stuck in a classroom and hear a band strike up down the street, and what a joy it was to cut class to join the parade." (Reverb.com site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c91a9a3c820451320983503e0e3167dab76f3b29/original/buddy-bolden.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Bolden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Along with the music scene at the funerals, there was another new time of music that came to be known as jazz. This new music was led by musician named Buddy Bolden who came to known as one of the first hot jazz players as he and his band performed at social clubs, bars and dance halls in New Orleans. Bolden and his band were active from 1895 to 1907. Bolden was a loud and brash cornetist who was one of the first to play so freely—reciting a melody from memory and brazenly riffing on it as he pleased—that he came to be regarded as one of the first true jazz players. Bolden’s band, which was popular from around 1895 to 1907, and others like them would play at the many social clubs, street corner bars, and dance halls in the black wards of New Orleans. As time rolled on both jazz and brass bands became popular elements of the music one would discover in New Orleans. </strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER IN A MOOD FOR SOME MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="397ne_szA7A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/397ne_szA7A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bunk Johnson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1945, trumpeter Bunk Johnson assembled a brass band of </strong><i><strong>pickup </strong></i><strong>musicians to make a record for Bill Russell’s American Music label. The album New Orleans Parade was the first thorough audio documentation of a New Orleans brass band and was followed by landmark recordings by the Eureka Brass Band in 1951 and the Young Tuxedo Brass Band in 1957. These and other records attempted to faithfully capture the most traditional ensembles playing established repertoire, such as the dirge </strong><i><strong>Just a Closer Walk with Thee</strong></i><strong> and the upbeat spiritual </strong><i><strong>Sing On</strong></i><strong>, but the Eureka’s performance of the jazz standard </strong><i><strong>Lady Be Good</strong></i><strong> demonstrates that brass band music had always been a form of popular music that accommodated emerging songs and styles. By the early 1960s, rhythm & blues songs had become commonplace in brass band performances. During the 1960s and 1970s, Olympia Brass Band was renowned for its enormous range and flexibility. Saxophonist Harold Dejan and trumpeter Milton Batiste would lead the band in a modest style for traditional funerals and concerts for tourists while adding the more progressive sound of Fats Domino and Professor Longhair for second line parades in the community.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the late 1960s, worry arose among musicians about the future of the brass band tradition. Many young instrumentalists attuned to the politics and aesthetics of the black power movement were playing funk and soul music exclusively. As result, musician and scholar Danny Barker formed the Fairview Baptist Church Christian Marching Band specifically to recruit young players and indoctrinate them into the tradition. The Fairview band (and its later incarnation as the Hurricane Brass Band) sparked a revival of traditional brass band music and became a training ground for numerous musicians. Clarinetist Michael White’s Liberty Jazz Band and trumpeter Gregg Stafford’s Original Tuxedo Brass Band are but two examples of Fairview alumni maintaining successful careers as traditionalists.</strong></span> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ygXaXFUkUqU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ygXaXFUkUqU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirty Dozen Brass Band - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Also out of the Fairview band came new musical approaches that redefined the brass band tradition and greatly expanded its audience. Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen helped establish the tuba as the defining instrument, performing for tips in Jackson Square and in community parades with the Chosen Few Brass Band. Most significantly, four musicians who had played in the Fairview and Hurricane bands—Gregory Davis, Charles Joseph, Kirk Joseph, and Kevin Harris—joined with Roger Lewis, Ephram Townes, Benny Jones, and others to form the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Beginning on the streets and in local nightclubs such as the Glass House in the early 1980s, and eventually on record and on tour, the Dirty Dozen blazed a trail that the majority of younger bands have followed. The Dirty Dozen made the </strong><i><strong>back row</strong></i><strong> (tuba and drums) more prominent, especially with Kirk Joseph’s virtuosic tuba parts, and also revamped the “front line” (trumpets, trombones, and saxophone), modeling their style after modern bebop jazz. The music was funkier and faster than that of their predecessors, as heard on the landmark 1984 recording My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now, which brought the group international acclaim and sparked what became known as the brass band renaissance. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3E1VBCcA76E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3E1VBCcA76E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This video of Rebirth Brass Band marching through the French Quarter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>will give you an idea of the magic energy of a Brass Band in action</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While dozens of popular bands have followed in the footsteps of the Dirty Dozen, none have been as effective as the Rebirth Brass Band in building a dedicated audience by making tradition their own. Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, tuba player Philip Frazier, and bass drummer Keith Frazier founded the band in the early 1980s while students at Clark High School and eventually established themselves as the leaders of the local scene. The primary innovator of the brass band tradition at the turn of the twenty-first century, Rebirth composed signature songs such as </strong><i><strong>Do What’cha Wanna </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Feel Like Funkin’ It Up,</strong></i><strong> both built around Philip Frazier’s memorable tuba melodies. Their performance schedule balances second line parades, weekly shows at the Maple Leaf Bar, and frequent performances throughout the United States.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beginning in the 1990s, hip-hop has shaped the sound of contemporary brass bands, most notably in the original songs of the Soul Rebels. Beginning as the Young Olympians, a traditional band mentored by the mighty Olympia Brass Band, the members broke off to form the Soul Rebels and made waves with their debut album </strong><i><strong>Let Your Mind Be Free</strong></i><strong> in 1994. The title track is a showpiece of the modern sound, flowing in and out of spoken-word raps, group chants, and Calypso-inflected horn parts. Like the most popular songs of Rebirth, </strong><i><strong>Let Your Mind Be Free </strong></i><strong>has become a local standard that every brass band must be able to perform. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dnfVQzVA1Mw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnfVQzVA1Mw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans Nightcrawlers - Funky Liza</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZsDUXo5TcZY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZsDUXo5TcZY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the New Orleans brass band has only grown in stature. In the space of a few years, the Hot 8 Brass Band has gone from playing strictly parties, parades, and club gigs to performing regularly in Europe and across America. New bands made up of students, such as the Baby Boyz Brass Band, whose members attend McDonogh 35 High School, now point to Rebirth and the Hot 8 as their mentors. The tradition has thrived, in part, because it continues to express the experiences of new generations without ever losing its identity as a distinctive and durable form of local music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oEso9WXwj0I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oEso9WXwj0I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Brass bands survived and flourished by incorporating popular music. Contemporary brass bands are no exception to this tradition. The brass band repertoire since the turn of the twentieth century reveals how the band members adapted popular music into their own style to fit the band’s instrumentation, technique, and aesthetic. Early brass bands built their repertoire both from the music played at funeral processions and that of immediate appeal. Often bands were hired to play for public events where the audiences may not have been familiar with hymns and spirituals. To make the audiences comfortable, the brass bands performed familiar pieces, such as marches that were also played by military and town bands at the time. Popular dance music — such as the foxtrot, cakewalk, two-step, and eventually ragtime, a jazz precursor — were also incorporated into brass band literature. This practice of developing repertoire became part of the present day tradition that attracts an audience through well known melodies. Adding syncopation through the second line beat and improvisational techniques into unique arrangements allowed brass bands to unite popular music with the spiritual roots of their heritage." (University of Iowa, New Orleans Brass Bands Traditions and Popular Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kAC7pTFueaw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kAC7pTFueaw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's one of the most fantastic Mardi Gras tunes!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="85EBNWN83k8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/85EBNWN83k8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The MAIN EVENT is one wild ride!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>IF YER IN A MOOD FOR SOME TASTY MARDI GRAS SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CHECK OUT OUR NEW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-huge" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TOMORROW'S BLOG POST!</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3491dcd997f4070de4d303e01b5576168b1905c7/original/mardi-gras-eats.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38bdab5548f15267a15310ecf7726887b36a3cf6/original/no-muffaletta-sandwich.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IT'S TIME FOR A MUFFALETTA SANDWICH!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73353942024-02-07T07:47:48-05:002024-02-07T12:23:35-05:00Celebrating The Piano Players Who Created The Magical Sounds In New Orleans!<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1051b1af1ecb8f227a55a5501e8d63dfd2a6e9ec/original/professor-longhiar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PROFESSOR LONGHAIR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Henry Roeland</strong> "<strong>Roy</strong>" <strong>Byrd</strong> <strong>(December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair</strong> <strong>or </strong><i><strong>Fess</strong></i> <strong>for short, was an American singer and pianist who performed </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_blues" title="New Orleans blues"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans blues</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>rhythm and blues</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and later in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz after the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1970. His piano style has been described as "instantly recognizable, combining rumba, mambo, and calypso.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3ebb5456b365372d4a4e7c095079e6d93e0a2f35/original/fess-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Professor Longhair began his career in New Orleans in 1948. Mike Tessitore, owner of the Caldonia Club, gave Longhair his stage name. Longhair first recorded in a band called the </strong><i><strong>Shuffling Hungarians</strong></i><strong> in 1949, creating four songs (including the first version of his signature song, </strong><i><strong>Mardi Gras in New Orleans</strong></i><strong>) for the Star Talent record label. Union problems curtailed their release, but Longhair's next effort for </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Records" title="Mercury Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mercury Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> the same year was a winner. Throughout the 1950s, he recorded for Atlantic Records, Federal Records and other local record labels.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="U9s8uQxhVII" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U9s8uQxhVII?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Professor Longhair had only one national commercial hit, </strong><i><strong>Bald Head</strong></i><strong>, in 1950, under the name </strong><i><strong>Roy Byrd and His Blues Jumpers</strong></i><strong>. He also recorded his favorites, </strong><i><strong>Tipitina</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Go to the Mardi Gras</strong></i><strong>. He lacked crossover appeal among white and wide audiences. Yet, he is regarded (and was acknowledged) as being a musician who was highly influential for other prominent musicians, such as Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Dr. John.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0wAMr3V5lN4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0wAMr3V5lN4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After suffering a stroke, Professor Longhair recorded </strong><i><strong>No Buts – No Maybes</strong></i><strong> in 1957. He re-recorded </strong><i><strong>Go to the Mardi Gras</strong></i><strong> in 1959. He first recorded </strong><i><strong>Big Chief</strong></i><strong> with its composer, Earl King, in 1964. In the 1960s, Professor Longhair's career faltered. He became a janitor to support himself and fell into a gambling habit.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zQv8WH_giN8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zQv8WH_giN8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After a few years during which he disappeared from the music scene, Professor Longhair's musical career finally received a well deserved renaissance and wide recognition. He was invited to perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1971 and at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1973. His album </strong><i><strong>The London Concert</strong></i><strong> showcases work he did on a visit to the United Kingdom. That significant career resurrection saw the recording of the album </strong><i><strong>Professor Longhair – Live on the Queen Mary</strong></i><strong>, which was recorded on March 24, 1975, during a private party hosted by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McCartney" title="Linda McCartney"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda McCartney</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on board the retired </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary" title="RMS Queen Mary"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RMS </strong><i><strong>Queen Mary</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="O9JTSkTFH5s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O9JTSkTFH5s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the 1980s his albums, such as </strong><i><strong>Crawfish Fiesta</strong></i><strong> on Alligator Records and </strong><i><strong>New Orleans Piano</strong></i><strong> on Atlantic Records, had become readily available across America. </strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_Ni86fbehf8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Ni86fbehf8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1974 he appeared on the PBS series </strong><i><strong>Soundstage</strong></i><strong> (with Dr. John, Earl King, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meters" title="The Meters"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>). In 1980 he co-starred (with Tuts Washington and Allen Toussaint) in the film documentary </strong><i><strong>Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together</strong></i><strong> which was produced and directed by filmmaker Stevenson Palfi. That documentary (which aired on public television in 1982 and was rarely seen since), plus a long interview with Fess (which was recorded two days before his sudden death), were included in the 2018 released project </strong><i><strong>Fess Up</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/917c76c02bb517b096ca13a82c6e29a3eb99c5e5/original/professor-longhair-crawfish-fiesta.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1979, Longhair signed with the Chicago-based Alligator Records to record his first full album, </strong><i><strong>Crawfish Fiesta</strong></i><strong>. (His sessions to date had resulted in only a few songs at a time, sporadically released as singles.) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QaXRYHZ_QJ0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QaXRYHZ_QJ0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, Longhair died on January 30, 1980, just one day before the album was released. His posthumous accolades include a Grammy award in 1987 for a reissue album, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Professor Longhair remains one of New Orleans’s most important cultural icons.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ba0b89cc4c70f727b133f299d14b581d0a53bd11/original/dr-john-with-fess.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John stated in his autobiography, </strong><i><strong>Under A Hoodoo Moon</strong></i><strong>, Professor Longhair was the guardian angel of the roots of New Orleans music. He was a one-of-a-kind musician and man, and he defined a certain style of rhumba-boogie funk that was New Orleans R&B from the late 1940s all the way through to his death in 1980. All New Orleans pianists today owe Fess. He was the guru, godfather, and spiritual root doctor of all that came after him.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a clip from a digital restoration of </strong><i><strong>Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together</strong></i><strong>; one of the last things Fess did before he passed.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4CmtUCB_hDg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4CmtUCB_hDg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY</u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Albums"><strong><u>Albums</u></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Rock 'n' Roll Gumbo</strong></i><strong> (1974)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Live on the Queen Mary</strong></i><strong> (1978)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfish_Fiesta" title="Crawfish Fiesta"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Crawfish Fiesta</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1980)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The London Concert</strong></i><strong>, with </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_%22Uganda%22_Roberts" title='Alfred "Uganda" Roberts'><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alfred "Uganda" Roberts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1981) (also known as </strong><i><strong>The Complete London Concert</strong></i><strong>)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Last Mardi Gras</strong></i><strong> (1982)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Live 1975 Recording</strong></i><strong> (1982)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Party_New_Orleans_Style" title="House Party New Orleans Style"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>House Party New Orleans Style</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>: The Lost Sessions, 1971–1972</strong></i><strong> (1987)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Ball the Wall! Live at Tipitina's 1978</strong></i><strong> (2004)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Live in Germany (1978)</strong></i></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Live in Chicago (1976)</strong></i></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Compilations"><strong><u>Compilations</u></strong></span></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Piano" title="New Orleans Piano"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>New Orleans Piano</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1972) (also known as </strong><i><strong>New Orleans Piano: Blues Originals</strong></i><strong>, Vol. 2)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mardi Gras In New Orleans 1949–1957</strong></i><strong> (1981)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge</strong></i><strong> (1991)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology</strong></i><strong> (1993)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Fess' Gumbo</strong></i><strong> (1996)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Collector's Choice</strong></i><strong> (1996), half an album of hits</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Way Down Yonder in New Orleans</strong></i><strong> (1997)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>All His 78's</strong></i><strong> (1999)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Chronological Professor Longhair 1949</strong></i><strong> (2001)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tipitina: The Complete 1949–1957 New Orleans Recordings</strong></i><strong> (2008)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Primo Collection</strong></i><strong> (2009)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Rockin’ with Fess</strong></i><strong> (2013)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7b847f3f2e672d7dabe170600a253af54052d1a3/original/fess-bust.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To this very day, Fess was a one-of-a-kind musician and man, who defined a certain style of rhumba-boogie funk that was New Orleans R&B from the late 1940s all the way through to his death in 1980. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d188a96bd1e08bebfb1e0aa465a0d8c547a89be6/original/red-wind.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May the angels always be with Fess…</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Amen!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="aW5WORGKJ_E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aW5WORGKJ_E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ca66c8b289c555eff2f47380384bd252bad885c4/original/dr-john-on-the-keys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DR. JOHN AKA MAC REBBENACK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At an early age, Mac Rebbenack developed a desire to become a musician. “When segregation was at its height, Mac Rebbenack was one of the few white musicians to play a role in the city’s golden age of rhythm and blues<u>,</u> supporting legends like </strong><i><strong>Huey Piano Smith</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Allen Toussaint</strong></i><strong>, and Earl King at venues including the famous nightclub The </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://64parishes.org/entry/dew-drop-inn"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dew Drop Inn</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. His own recording life began in 1959, and from then on he enjoyed a prolific career. Beginning in the late 1960s, his recording and stage persona of “Dr. John the Night Tripper” incorporated elements from New Orleans’s Voudou and carnival traditions into a mystical, shaman-like figure.” (64 Parishes article)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time Mac Rebbenack was 16 years old he had managed to find a way to be a member of various studio combo's and he managed to play on sessions by Professor Longhair.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1963, after having been busted for drug use, Mac headed to Los Angeles, joining other New Orleans musical expatriates such as Alvin Robinson, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://64parishes.org/entry/shirley-and-lee"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shirley Goodman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and Jesse Hill. Producer/arranger Harold Battiste helped him find work backing a variety of big-name artists, including soul acts like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, pop stars Sonny and Cher, and blues rockers Canned Heat. As Mac became well known in the studios and ended up playing on the Rolling Stones’ definitive </strong><i><strong>Exile on Main Street</strong></i><strong> album and John Lennon’s </strong><i><strong>Rock ’n’ Roll </strong></i><strong>album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Mac's solo career began in earnest in 1968, when he signed with Atco Records and released his first album, </strong><i><strong>Gris-Gris</strong></i><strong>. The record introduced the character of </strong><i><strong>Dr. John the Night Tripper</strong></i><strong>, a psychedelic take on New Orleans’s Voudou religious practices. The name </strong><i><strong>Dr. John</strong></i><strong> is a reference to a nineteenth-century Voudou practitioner who claimed to be descended from West African royalty. Rebennack developed a cult following for his wild performances, with their freak show overtones. Mystical, occult themes marked his subsequent releases for Atco, including </strong><i><strong>Babylon</strong></i><strong> (1969) and </strong><i><strong>Remedies</strong></i><strong> (1970). His 1971 album </strong><i><strong>The Sun, Moon & Herbs</strong></i><strong> featured guest appearances by Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In short order, Rebbenack made a big leap in 1972 with an album called </strong><i><strong>Gumbo</strong></i><strong> which was based on featured New Orleans standards. The Gumbo album was quickly followed by </strong><i><strong>In The Right Place</strong></i><strong> (1973) album which was produced by Allen Toussaint and backed up with music support by The Meters. In The Right Place was an album that covered several New Orleans R&B standards with only one original, is considered a cornerstone of New Orleans music. The next album, </strong><i><strong>Destitvely Bonnaroo</strong></i><strong> (1974), found Dr. pushing a wild variety of sounds as he stretched out musically.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1ec9087c28b9912a53207a70abd1634ea6fd50a7/original/doc-pomus-and-dr-john.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the late 1970s to 1991, Dr. John co-wrote over 115 songs with legendary Brill Building songwriter Doc Pomus. Some of the songs created with Pomus were recorded by Marianne Faithfull, B.B. King, Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, and others. On March 17, 1991, Dr. John performed </strong><i><strong>My Buddy</strong></i><strong> at the funeral for Pomus.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the mid-1970s Dr. John began an almost 20-year collaboration with the R&R Hall of Fame/Songwriters Hall of Fame writer </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Pomus" title="Doc Pomus"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doc Pomus</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, to create songs for Dr. John's releases </strong><i><strong>City Lights</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Tango Palace</strong></i><strong>, and for B.B. King's Stuart Levine-produced </strong><i><strong>There Must Be a Better World Somewhere</strong></i><strong>, which won a Grammy for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording in 1982. Dr. John also recorded </strong><i><strong>I'm On a Roll</strong></i><strong> – the last song written with Pomus prior to his death in 1991 – for the now out-of-print Rhino/Forward Records 1995 tribute to Pomus titled </strong><i><strong>Til the Night Is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus</strong></i><strong>. The tribute included covers of Pomus-penned songs by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hiatt" title="John Hiatt"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Hiatt</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Colvin" title="Shawn Colvin"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shawn Colvin</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson" title="Brian Wilson"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brian Wilson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lobos" title="Los Lobos"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Lobos</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_DiMucci" title="Dion DiMucci"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dion</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanne_Cash" title="Rosanne Cash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rosanne Cash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Burke" title="Solomon Burke"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Solomon Burke</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Reed</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1WryZ7MQ36c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1WryZ7MQ36c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Thanksgiving Day 1976 Dr. John performed </strong><i><strong>Such a Night</strong></i><strong> at the farewell concert for </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, which was filmed by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Martin Scorsese</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and released as </strong><i><strong>The Last Waltz</strong></i><strong>. In 1979, he collaborated with the legendary Professor Longhair on Fess's (another nickname for Henry Byrd) last recording, </strong><i><strong>Crawfish Fiesta</strong></i><strong>, as a guitarist. The album was awarded the first W.C. Handy Blues Album of the Year in 1980 and was released shortly after Longhair's death in January 1980.</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/29590cc15b3a61635ee11aa6a8445de0ebc4ecc7/original/dr-john-at-mardi-gras.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the mid-1970s, Rebennack was focusing on a blend of music that touched on blues, New Orleans R&B, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley" title="Tin Pan Alley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tin Pan Alley</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> standards, and much more. In 1975, his manager, Richard Flanzer, hired producer Bob Ezrin, and </strong><i><strong>Hollywood Be Thy Name</strong></i><strong> was recorded live at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, California. The studio was transformed into a New Orleans nightclub for the sessions. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="z8q2OJdqbxo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z8q2OJdqbxo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1981 and 1983, Dr. John recorded two solo piano albums, </strong><i><strong>Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>The Brightest Smile in Town</strong></i><strong>, for the Baltimore-based Clean Cuts label. In these two recordings he played many of his own boogie-woogie compositions.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e5a620e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1152+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F76%2F8f%2F4188ccbf8bd941f6b02d908f3051%2Fla-1559866600-jebk529dew-snap-image" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Dr. John, a chief musical architect of the New Orleans sound, dies at 77 - Los Angeles Times" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In September 2005, Dr. John performed Bobby Charles' </strong><i><strong>Walkin' to New Orleans</strong></i><strong>, to close the </strong><i><strong>Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast</strong></i><strong> telethon. This was for the relief of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hurricane Katrina</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> victims, following the devastation of his hometown of New Orleans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY</u></strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris-Gris" title="Gris-Gris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Gris-Gris</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1968) (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atco_Records" title="Atco Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Atco</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 33-234 [monaural]; SD 33-234 [stereo])</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(Dr._John_album)" title="Babylon (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Babylon</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1969) (Atco, SD 33-270)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedies_(Dr._John_album)" title="Remedies (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Remedies</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1970) (Atco, SD 33-316)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun,_Moon_%26_Herbs" title="The Sun, Moon & Herbs"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Sun, Moon & Herbs</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1971) (Atco, SD 33-362)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John%27s_Gumbo" title="Dr. John's Gumbo"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Dr. John's Gumbo</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1972) (Atco, SD 7006)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Right_Place" title="In the Right Place"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>In the Right Place</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1973) (Atco, SD 7018)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desitively_Bonnaroo" title="Desitively Bonnaroo"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Desitively Bonnaroo</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1974) (Atco, SD 7043)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Anytime, Anyplace</strong></i><strong> (1974) (Barometer, BRM 67001)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Cut Me While I'm Hot (The Sixties Sessions)</strong></i><strong> (1975) (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJM_Records" title="DJM Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DJM</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, 2019)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Night Tripper</strong></i><strong> (1977) (Crazy Cajun, CCLP-1037)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Malcolm Rebenneck</strong></i><strong> (1977) (Crazy Cajun, CCLP-1040)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>One Night Late</strong></i><strong> (1977) (Karate, KSD-5404) same tracks as </strong><i><strong>Anytime, Anyplace</strong></i></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_(Dr._John_album)" title="City Lights (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>City Lights</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1978) (Horizon/A&M, SP-732)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_Palace_(Dr._John_album)" title="Tango Palace (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tango Palace</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1979) (Horizon/A&M, SP-740)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Love Potion</strong></i><strong> [AKA </strong><i><strong>Loser for You Baby</strong></i><strong>] (1981) (Accord, 7118)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, Vol. 1</strong></i><strong> (1982) (Clean Cuts, 705; CD: Clean Cuts 720)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brightest_Smile_in_Town" title="The Brightest Smile in Town"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Brightest Smile in Town</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong> (Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, Vol. 2)</strong></i><strong> (1983) (Clean Cuts, 707; CD: Clean Cuts 722)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Sentimental_Mood_(Dr._John_album)" title="In a Sentimental Mood (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>In a Sentimental Mood</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1989) (Warner Bros., 25889)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27_Back_to_New_Orleans" title="Goin' Back to New Orleans"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Goin' Back to New Orleans</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1992) (Warner Bros., 26940)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion</strong></i><strong> (1992) (Kid Rhino, 70496) children's album</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_(Dr._John_album)" title="Television (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Television</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1994) (GRP/MCA, 4024)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterglow_(Dr._John_album)" title="Afterglow (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Afterglow</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1995) (Blue Thumb/GRP/MCA, 7000)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anutha_Zone" title="Anutha Zone"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Anutha Zone</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (1998) (Point Blank/Virgin/EMI, 46218)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Elegant" title="Duke Elegant"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Duke Elegant</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2000) (Blue Note/Parlophone/EMI, 23220) (a tribute to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Duke Ellington</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Creole Moon</strong></i><strong> (2001) (Blue Note/Parlophone/EMI, 34591)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or d'Udda</strong></i><strong> (2004) (Blue Note/Parlophone/EMI, 78602)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippiana_Hericane" title="Sippiana Hericane"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sippiana Hericane</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2005) (Blue Note/Parlophone/EMI, 45687)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mercernary</strong></i><strong> (2006) (Blue Note/Parlophone/EMI, 54541) (a tribute to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Mercer</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_That_Care_Forgot" title="City That Care Forgot"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>City That Care Forgot</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2008) (429/Savoy, 17703) (with The Lower 911)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas - Music from the Motion Picture</strong></i><strong> (2009) (429/Savoy, 17748)</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John#cite_note-62"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-62">[62]</sup></strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_(Dr._John_album)" title="Tribal (Dr. John album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tribal</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2010) (429/Savoy, 17803) (with The Lower 911)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked_Down_(album)" title="Locked Down (album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Locked Down</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2012) (Nonesuch/WEA, 530395)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ske-Dat-De-Dat:_The_Spirit_of_Satch" title="Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2014) (Concord/UMe, 35187) (a tribute to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Louis Armstrong</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Happen_That_Way" title="Things Happen That Way"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Things Happen That Way</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (2022) (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounder_Records" title="Rounder Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rounder</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, 1166101698)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fc8fd8f96cd27585d643ae33a806007ea05ae0b7/original/dr-john-1998-jazz-fest-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, Dr. John passed away on June 6, 2019. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>His music will live on forever.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I imagine that Dr. John is making some music somewhere </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>with Professor Longhair…</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yeah you rite!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fb3fe6f79392373b02328502f483f076b9d3ca6/original/merch-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a62a2a098d9e5793d90c7210c6b3fd2b06474e27/original/allen-toussaint-on-the-street.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALLEN TOUSSAINT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint was born on January 14, 1938 and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans where he learned the formal rudiments of classical music from his sister, Joyce. As time went on Toussaint was a big fan of boogie-woogie and blues pianists such as Albert Ammons, Ray Charles, Lloyd Glenn, and especially Henry Roeland Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="afPrC0H0vNI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afPrC0H0vNI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toussaint's home became an informal meeting and practice space for aspiring musicians and singers in the neighborhood, in part because Naomi Toussaint, a well-known hostess and cook, encouraged young musicians. Allen Toussaint has said that these early sessions were important preparation for his later work as a pianist and arranger.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It should be noted that a young Toussaint began sneaking into the legendary New Orleans nightclub the Dew Drop Inn, where many of the city’s finest musicians, known informally as the Dew Drop Set, could be found. He entered the club’s weekly talent shows, where other musicians began to notice his playing. His first big break came in 1955 when Huey </strong><i><strong>Piano</strong></i><strong> Smith, who was touring with guitarist Earl King, was unable to make a show in Alabama and Toussaint filled in for him.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At a young age, Toussaint decided that he would prefer to concentrate on studio work. As many musicians began to be aware of Toussaint's talents, Fats Domino’s bandleader Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino’s bandleader, hired Toussaint to play piano on a session while Fats was on tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nhi1X7LZDNs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nhi1X7LZDNs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around this time Allen Toussaint managed to get the job of arranging saxophonist Lee Allen’s 1957 instrumental hit </strong><i><strong>Walkin’ with Mr. Lee</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1958, Toussaint recorded his first album, </strong><i><strong>The Wild Sound of New Orleans</strong></i><strong>, credited to </strong><i><strong>Al Tousan</strong></i><strong> and released on RCA Records. The instrumental LP contained the song </strong><i><strong>Java</strong></i><strong>, which was a hit a few years later for trumpeter Al Hirt. Though the album did not sell well at the time, it is now a valuable collector’s item.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As time went on Toussaint beggan to work for Joe Banashak’s Minit Records label, where he began to produce, arrange, and play on an amazing run of chart-topping singles. Minit’s first big hit was Jessie Hill’s </strong><i><strong>Ooh Poo Pah Doo</strong></i><strong>, which reached the R&B Top Five in 1960. Minit Records biggest hit was Ernie K-Doe’s </strong><i><strong>Mother-in-Law</strong></i><strong>, which topped the charts and hit number one in 1961. Other Minit hits from this era include </strong><i><strong>Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Fortune Teller</strong></i><strong> by Benny Spellman, </strong><i><strong>It Will Stand</strong></i><strong> by The Showmen, </strong><i><strong>Over You</strong></i><strong> by Aaron Neville, and </strong><i><strong>It’s Raining</strong></i><strong> by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://64parishes.org/entry/irma-thomas"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Irma Thomas</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Toussaint also worked recording sessions for other record labels, such as </strong><i><strong>Ya Ya</strong></i><strong> by Lee Dorsey for the Fury label and </strong><i><strong>But I Do</strong></i><strong> by Clarence </strong><i><strong>Frogman</strong></i><strong> Henry for Argo. Many of the songs that turned out to be hit singles were credited to </strong><i><strong>Naomi Neville</strong></i><strong>, which was taken from his mother’s maiden name.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around this time, Joe Banashak also started the Instant label which brought forth more Toussaint-arranged hit singles such as Chris Kenner’s</strong><i><strong> I Like It Like That</strong></i><strong> and Art Neville’s </strong><i><strong>All These Things</strong></i><strong>. Several of the Minit hits were highly influential for early British Invasion bands which included the Yardbirds cover version of </strong><i><strong>A Certain Girl</strong></i><strong>, along with the Rolling Stones covering </strong><i><strong>Fortune Teller</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d55e7b16280ae08d98417ed6fe733f7676ac6d82/original/allen-toussaint-in-the-studio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1973, desiring a state-of-the-art studio that could compete with facilities in Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Marshall Sehorn and Toussaint built Sea-Saint Studios in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. Toussaint’s productions changed to a harder-edged, more contemporary funk sound on albums by The Meters and The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tribe. Toussaint's production of Dr. John’s 1973 LP </strong><i><strong>In The Right Place</strong></i><strong>, with backing by The Meters, featured the number nine single, </strong><i><strong>Right Place Wrong Time</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As time went on, Allen Toussaint began working with a wide variety of rock, country, and blues artists beyond New Orleans, including </strong><i><strong>The Band</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Wings</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Robert Palme</strong></i><strong>r, </strong><i><strong>Joe Cocker</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Etta James</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Albert King</strong></i><strong>. His production of Patti Labelle’s </strong><i><strong>Nightbirds</strong></i><strong> album led to the 1975 number one disco hit </strong><i><strong>Lady Marmalade</strong></i><strong>. Glen Campbell had a number one hit with </strong><i><strong>Southern Nights</strong></i><strong> in 1977, while Boz Scaggs, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, and The Pointer Sisters covered other Toussaint compositions. Even new-wave rockers Devo recorded a version of Working in a Coal Mine! During the 1970s, the prolific Toussaint also pursued a solo career, recording four solo albums during the 1970s, first for Scepter Records and later for Reprise.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It shoud be noted that Allen Toussaint had a magical touch when creating a musical vibe for various songs and artists.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CtCsQI3rEGQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CtCsQI3rEGQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7be9fb308c6402750ca217bf8151d496eb64223c/original/allen-toussaint-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT PT 1</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Tousan – Java (RCA)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Tousan – Whirlaway (RCA)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diamond Joe – Fair Play (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chick Carbo – In the Night (Instant)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chris Kenner –Johnny Little (RCA)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – A New Kind of Love (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – But I Couldn’t (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Benny Spellman – Lipstick Traces (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K Doe – A Certain Girl (MInit)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K Doe –Mother In Law (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stokes – Young Man Old Man (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stokes – Whipped Cream (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie West – Hello Mama (Deesu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KC Russell – Younka Chunka (Uptown)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warren Lee – Star Revue (Deesu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warren Lee – Ever Since (I’ve Been Loving You) (Deesu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Ride Your Pony (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Operation Heartache (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Johnson – Little Girl (Big Top)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Johnson – Walk On By (Big Top)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Benny Spellman – I Feel Good (Atlantic)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankie Ford – I Can’t Face Tomorrow (Doubloon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aaron Neville – Where Is My Baby (Bell)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)</strong></span><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://funky16corners.com/podcasts/viva_shows/f16radio_121115.mp3" target="_blank"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>_</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>_____________________</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT PT 2</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Emperor Jones (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – A Time For Everything (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Humpback (Jetset)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Gone Gone Gone (Jetset)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Worried Over You (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Until the End (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Wait For Me Baby (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – A Love Problem (Decca)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – If I Were a Carpenter (Deesu)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – I Don’t Want to Hear It (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Sometime (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Nearer To You (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Mean Man (Sansu)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Benny Spellman – Sinner Girl (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diamond Joe – Gossip Gossip (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prime Mates – Hot Tamales (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Curly Moore – We Remember (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art Neville – Bo Diddley Pt1 (Sansu)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Williams and the Tick Tocks – A Little Tighter (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Do Me Like You Do Me (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rubaiyats – Omar Khayyam (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – You You (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wallace Johnson – If You Leave Me (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wallace Johnson – Baby Go Ahead (Sansu)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;">________________________</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT PT 3</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – Get Out of My Life Woman (Bell)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – Hands Christian Anderson (Bell)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – We the People (Bell)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – Sweet Touch of Love (Scepter)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – Country John (Reprise)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris –There’s a Break In the Road (SSS Intl)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diamond Joe – The ABC Song (Deesu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Earl King – Tic Tac Toe (Wand) 1970</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Earl King – Street Parade (Kansu) 1970</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Johnson – Frisco Here I Come (Volt)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhine Oaks – Tampin’ (Atco)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Four Corners Pt1 (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On) (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Give It Up (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – A Lover Was Born (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further (Polydor)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters – Cardova (Josie)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters – Good Old Funky Music (Josie)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K Doe – Here Come the Girls (Janus)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie West – Fairchild (Josie) 1970</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Pop Popcorn Children (Atco)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – The Book (Deesu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aaron Neville – Hercules (Mercury)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Labelle- Lady Marmalade (WB)</strong></span><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://funky16corners.com/podcasts/f16c_radio/f16radio_122515.mp3" target="_blank"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>_</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>______________________</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT PT 4</u></strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kent Allan – What Have I Done (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – Cloudy Weather (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – I’ll Never Leave You (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stokes – Crystal Ball (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stokes – One Mint Julep (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art Neville – Too Much (Instant)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Raymond Lewis – Nice Cents Worth of Chances (Instant)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Skipper – Restless Breed (Smash)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – CC Rider (ALON)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Poor Me (Alon)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K Doe – Hey Hey Hey (MInit)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Blues Tears and Sorrows (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rubaiyats – Tomorrow (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Can’t Last Much Longer (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diamond Joe – Look Way Back (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Selfish Woman (Brown Sugar)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Love Affair (Brown Sugar)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KC Russell – How Tired I Am (Uptown)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – There Should Be a Book (Amy)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Calvin – You Got Me (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie and Allen – Baby Do Little (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint – I Got That Feelin’ Now (Bell)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>William D Smith – Take Your Pick (Do Your Trick) (WB)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>William D Smith – I Feel Good With You Baby (WB)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Meters – Here Comes the Meter Man (Josie)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wallace Johnson – On My Way Back Home (RCA)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wallace Johnson – I Miss You Girl (RCA)</strong></span><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://funky16corners.com/podcasts/f16c_radio/test/090216.mp3" target="_blank"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>_</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>_____________________</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DISCOGRAPHY OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT PT 5</u></strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Hook Line and Sinker (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – Show It (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Betty Harris – I’m Gonna Git Ya (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Beverly (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Where Is Love (Decca)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen & Allen – Tiddle Winks (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen & Allen – Heavenly Baby (Minit)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art Neville – Come Back Love (Instant)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Calvin – Easy Easy (Sansu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K Doe – Fly Away With Me (Janus)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Dorsey – Sneaking Sally Through The Alley (Polydor)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Meters – Chug Chug a Lug (Reprise)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>O’Jays – Lipstick Traces (Imperial)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mel Taylor – Young Man Old Man (WB)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Harper – A Certain Girl (Tou Sea)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mohawks – Ride Your Pony (Pama)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Get Out Of My Life Woman (Elektra)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Esther Phillips – From a Whisper To a Scream (Kudu)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pointer Sisters – Yes We Can Can (Blue Thumb)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldridge Holmes – Cheating Woman (Atco)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>William D Smith – We All Wanna Boogie (WB)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhine Oaks – Oleancler (Atco)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Robert Palmer – Sneaking Sally Through the Alley (Island)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fEe9dy8miqE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fEe9dy8miqE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dccb8a889865aeb8b240638911484bd7080725d2/original/jame-booker-on-the-groove.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JAMES BOOKER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As a child James Booker was considered a genuine prodigy and he went on to cut a wide swath on the New Orleans music scene. He is best remembered for his lively performances where he would create a wild mix of Blues, Jazz, Boogie Woogie, Gospel and Classical sounds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"At the age of ten, Booker was given morphine after being struck by a speeding ambulance and from then on suffered from mental health disorders and drug addictions.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker’s sister, Betty Jean, performed regularly as a gospel singer on the New Orleans radio station WMRY, and it was during his visits to the studio with her that the station manager took notice of the young man’s prowess at the piano and put Booker on the air as well. He played on the jazz and blues show, but he would occasionally break into complicated compositions by Bach and Sergei Rachmaninoff. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The broadcasts were heard by producer Dave Bartholomew, who invited Booker to the Imperial Records studio; there they recorded the single, </strong><i><strong>Doing the Hambone</strong></i><strong>. Booker was fourteen years old and the youngest musician to ever record on the label.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eMSDOBSFjW0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eMSDOBSFjW0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1960 Booker enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge, but his drug habit followed him; he left school and returned to the music business, in large part to supply his drug habit. He recorded the organ-driven single </strong><i><strong>Gonzo</strong></i><strong>, named for a character in the 1960 film The Pusher, which hit the charts for eleven weeks, peaking at number forty-three.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For most of his adult life, Booker made his living as a sideman behind a wide range of musicians: Joe Tex, Aretha Franklin, Fats Domino, Maria Muldaur, Ringo Starr, the Doobie Brothers, and “Mac” Rebennack—better known as Dr. John—among many others. Dr. John once highlighted Booker’s singular talents by describing him as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced,” but even he had to fire Booker after the piano man’s drug addictions and erratic behavior became too much to handle.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yX3UL31rTaM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yX3UL31rTaM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1960 Booker enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge, but his drug habit followed him; he left school and returned to the music business, in large part to supply his drug habit. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker recorded the organ-driven single </strong><i><strong>Gonzo</strong></i><strong>, named for a character in the 1960 film The Pusher, which hit the charts for eleven weeks, peaking at number forty-three.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For most of his adult life, Booker made his living as a sideman behind a wide range of musicians: Joe Tex, Aretha Franklin, Fats Domino, Maria Muldaur, Ringo Starr, the Doobie Brothers, and “Mac” Rebennack—better known as Dr. John—among many others. Dr. John once highlighted Booker’s singular talents by describing him as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced,” but even he had to fire Booker after the piano man’s drug addictions and erratic behavior became too much to handle.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/339b13ac212532bd9626cdba4a23fea740950f1f/original/dew-drop-inn-ad.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1970 Booker was arrested for possession of heroin outside of New Orleans’s famed Dew Drop Inn and was sentenced to serve two years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. During his incarceration, he worked in the prison’s library and developed a musical program for inmates. His good behavior paid off: after six months behind bars, he was granted parole. Upon his release, he returned to New Orleans, where he found that the music scene had hit a slump. Seeking gigs, he violated his parole by leaving the state. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eventually the charges for his parole violation were dropped, and Booker returned to Louisiana in 1975 after stints around the United States. He appeared at that year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and once again caught the attention of studio scouts, perhaps as much for his outlandish cape, gold-starred eye patch, and wig as for his piano style. Booker went on to tour Europe at various music festivals and enjoyed the status of a celebrity among aficionados of New Orleans music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around 1978 Booker stopped going on the road and began two gigs that became legendary for their length, brilliance, and erratic nature. </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/def145fddb11ebdf1bab5bf36992a5877617fb80/original/james-booker-the-maple-leaf-bar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker's Tuesday night shows at the Maple Leaf Bar in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans yielded two posthumous albums on Rounder Records, which are full of ranting, hellacious singing, and torrential playing despite the creaky upright piano. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KonalXX05Ws" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KonalXX05Ws?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GPd8yjSYxsM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GPd8yjSYxsM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a5fa447a4b17d172b2133f5d3a182d3c00c397f6/original/bayou-maharaja.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker also played regularly at the Toulouse Theater in the French Quarter as the intermission and after-show pianist for the One Mo’ Time show, the only locally produced New Orleans theater piece that went on tour to international acclaim. There are no official recordings of Booker from the Toulouse Theater, but dozens of hours of bootleg tapes have surfaced. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker’s main influences included Ray Charles (particularly his highly emotive and bluesy vocals), Fats Domino, and—for personal flamboyance—Liberace. Unlike most pianists who came after Professor Longhair, Booker’s playing showed no Caribbean inflection. Instead he developed new variations on the basic boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, inventing at least a half-dozen such modes. </strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba125cceb3c6e79e10d6a61cc5d5c185b811ba49/original/booker-harry-connick-jr.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Booker & Harry Connick Jr.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The most prominent of Booker’s acolytes is Harry Connick Jr., whom he tutored during Connick’s childhood. Connick—who describes Booker’s style of playing as </strong><i><strong>spiders on the keys</strong></i><strong>—can incorporate many of his mentor’s innovations to an astonishing degree and has paid tribute to Booker in songs and performances. Other disciples include Dr. John (who learned organ from Booker and adopted some of his teacher’s </strong><i><strong>butterfly stride</strong></i><strong> mannerisms), Joshua Paxton, George Winston (who helped to get Junco Partner reissued), and Davell Crawford.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker’s personal problems with heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse hindered his professional and personal life, and led to his early death on November 8, 1983, in the emergency waiting room of New Orleans’s Charity Hospital. In a city known for elaborate funerals for its musicians, Booker’s service was sparsely attended. He was buried at a family plot at Providence Memorial Park in Metairie. Booker’s legend has grown since his death, and his work—which still captivates listeners—encompasses the triumph of sublime musical virtuosity amid an often tragic existence." (Tom McDermott, James Booker, 64 Parishes)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TmLxcYaWHHU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TmLxcYaWHHU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="T9H6stgIzQs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T9H6stgIzQs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MVMD4ajmV2A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MVMD4ajmV2A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4907b964941772081f1fc0bc6c506eb5c32e9dba/original/james-booker-header.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="btx6ajkhPNA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/btx6ajkhPNA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the documentary, </strong><i><strong>Bayou Maharajah</strong></i><strong>...Booker emerges as a complex figure, dogged by demons and an on-off addiction to heroin. '</strong><i><strong>When I moved to New Orleans in 2006, I heard his name a lot,</strong></i><strong>' says its director, Lily Keber, who hails from Georgia. '</strong><i><strong>Local musicians would tell these mad stories about Booker throwing up on his piano, or playing with syringes stuck between the keys. He was a mythical figure by then, not least because his records were so hard to find. Then I finally heard his songs playing on the jukebox in a local dive and that was that. I was hooked</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For those who only know of the New Orleans rhythm and blues piano tradition through the likes of Fats Domino and Professor Longhair, Booker's playing may come as a revelation. Melding blues, jazz and classical, it pays scant regard to the traditional rules of song or composition. Live, Booker often talked through the intro of a song and extended the ending for ages, adding one musical flourish after another. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>His genius, though, often took second place to his waywardness. Various musicians attest to Booker's madness and self-sabotage, as well as the drug busts and no-shows that harmed his career. He toured East Germany wearing an afro wig stuffed full of marijuana and once appeared on stage at Tipitina's in New Orleans wearing a nappy fastened by a huge gold pin. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jH_kz_AxzBU/maxresdefault.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="David Torkanowsky - Dr. John Tribute - Live from WWOZ (2019) - YouTube" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Musician David Torkanowsky recalls the moment: 'From behind the nappy, he pulls out a .357 Magnum, puts it to his own head and announces to the audience, '</strong><i><strong>If somebody doesn't give me some cocaine right now, I'm going to fucking pull the trigge</strong></i><strong>r.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the Maple Leaf, Booker was often ignored by audiences, who would talk through his songs. Occasionally, the faithful were rewarded with a set that reminded everyone how gifted he was.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/james-booker_cover.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="An introduction to James Booker, " /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although Booker backed a vast array of musicians – from Little Richard to Aretha Franklin, from Ringo Starr to the Doobie Brothers – he always found free rein for his musical genius as a solo pianist. '</strong><i><strong>There's nobody that could even remotely come close to his playing ability</strong></i><strong>,' his close friend, the pianist Harry Connick Jr, tells Keber in the </strong><i><strong>Bayou Maharajah</strong></i><strong> documentary. '</strong><i><strong>I've played Chopin Etudes, I've done the whole thing, but there is nothing harder than James</strong></i><strong>.'" (The Guardian)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fREw546NWAg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fREw546NWAg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee8d144990dbd85e229ba3ad70fa577249ab1bb6/original/james-booker-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Discography"><strong><u>Discography</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Singles"><strong><u>Singles</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1954, "Doin' the Hambone"/"Thinkin' 'Bout My Baby", </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Records" title="Imperial Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Imperial Records</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1958, "Open the Door/Teenage Rock", </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Records_(United_States)" title="Ace Records (United States)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ace Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>: 547 (as Little Booker)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1960, "Gonzo", </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_Records" title="Peacock Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peacock Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>: 5-1697, FR1061</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Studio_albums"><strong><u>Studio albums</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Lost Paramount Tapes</strong></i><strong> (DJM, 1974)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Junco Partner</strong></i><strong> (Hannibal, 1976)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_(James_Booker_album)" title="Classified (James Booker album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Classified</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (Demon, 1982)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Live_albums"><strong><u>Live albums</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Piano Prince Of New Orleans</strong></i><strong> (Black Sun Music, 1976)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Blues And Ragtime From New Orleans</strong></i><strong> (Aves, 1976)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>James Booker Live!</strong></i><strong> (Gold, 1978)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!</strong></i><strong> (Rounder, 1987)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_the_Bayou_Maharajah" title="Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (Rounder, 1993)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Spiders on the Keys</strong></i><strong> (Rounder, 1993)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Live at Montreux</strong></i><strong> (Montreux Sounds, 1997)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>United Our Thing Will Stand</strong></i><strong> (Night Train International, 2000)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>A Taste Of Honey</strong></i><strong> (Night Train International, 2006)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Manchester '77</strong></i><strong> (Document, 2007)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Live From Belle Vue</strong></i><strong> (Suncoast Music, 2015)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1976 Vol. 1</strong></i><strong> (Jazz Line, 2019)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>True - Live at Tipitina's - 04/25/78</strong></i><strong> (Tipitina's Records, 2021)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Compilations"><strong><u>Compilations</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>King Of New Orleans Keyboard Vol. 1-2</strong></i><strong> (JSP, 1984–85)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mr. Mystery</strong></i><strong> (Sundown, 1984)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Let's Make A Better World</strong></i><strong> (Amiga, 1991)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Lost Paramount Tapes</strong></i><strong> (DJM, 1995)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>More Than All The 45s</strong></i><strong> (Night Train International, 1996)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>New Orleans Keyboard King</strong></i><strong> (Orbis, 1996)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"James Carroll Booker was a complex character, a true musical genius, tormented and defeated by his own worst tendencies. Yet James Booker played with a speed, imagination, and touch that has left such masters as Arthur Rubinstein, George Winston and Harry Connick Jr. in silent awe.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As to how James Booker lost his eye, nobody knows - a cheap journalistic trick, of course, but one of which Booker would approve. Booker was a showman, and a showman loves and needs mystery. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker told Johnny Vidacovich that record producers beat it out of him after Booker worked some flimflam. He told Dr. John that John F. Kennedy did it. To Charles Neville and many others, Ringo did it, thus the star on the black patch he wore. He told Kent Taylor he lost it in Angola, but would not say how. The truth was likely too painful for Booker to share. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> James Booker had the marvelous gift to be able to set aside the tragedy of his own life - the addiction, the paranoia, the loss of family - and communicate joy through the keyboard. His own compositions are imbued with irony and humor, not only in the lyrics, but in his voice, and again, not just his voice but the piano itself." 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73380022024-02-06T03:54:47-05:002024-02-06T14:39:15-05:00It's Time For My 2004 Mardi Gras Playlist Part One!<p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1c6e4c8cd298ddd15d262ef7dd461a0972a26ba3/original/mardi-gras-playlist-new-orleans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/66c877707a07b0521dad45165c2416579fb0a859/original/last-supper-in-new-orleans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clock On The Wall Sez</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's Time For Some Tasty Mardi Gras Sounds!</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9268d606f8791f4e393f415a4da4eab36138ac21/original/galactic.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's start things off with Galactic welcoming us all to Nawlins!</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lXEWTdhXCjg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lXEWTdhXCjg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GwBRCQ-mSjw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GwBRCQ-mSjw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Galactic's sound has evolved from organic New Orleans funk to a more modern style, incorporating elements of hip hop, electronica, fusion, and jazz. This change has been largely characterized by the increased use of electronic effects on guitar, bass, saxophone, and drums. Drummer Stanton Moore uses phrase samplers to sample a rhythm which he can then play over, producing intricate and layered drum sounds. Ben Ellman, saxophonist and harmonica player, often distorts his instruments to the degree that they sound similar to an electric guitar. In 2007, the band began to produce their own albums. This opened them up to more studio experimentation and exploration resulting in their loop, edit and production heavy album </strong><i><strong>Ya-Ka-May</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a397d088b5e5768a2b95802ac97b27c47fce7c89/original/tipitinas-exterior.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Galactic has long considered the legendary New Orleans music venue Tipitina's an unofficial home base, having recorded a live album there and having performed there regularly since the beginning of their career. This includes annual performances on Halloween, New Year's Eve, during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and a yearly "sunrise set" on Lundi Gras (the day preceding Mardi Gras), appropriately playing until the sun rises on Mardi Gras day. In 2018, the members of the band made their association with the venue official, purchasing the venue from the previous owners, Mary and Roland Von Kurnatowski.</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f97c560f54faf601104eae681ae188dd607434e7/original/beau-jocque-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Next up is the late great Beau Jocque who was a dynamite zydeco artist. </strong><i><strong>The Slide And Dip It</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>(Zydeco Mix)</strong></i><strong> track turns you inside out and shakes you down to yer core!</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iMfed2mvOoE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMfed2mvOoE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beau Jocque was known for his gruff vocals, his fusion of many musical styles into zydeco, and above all, for the powerful energy of his rhythm and sound. Backed by the Hi-Rollers, he became one of the top dance-hall acts of his musical decade. He wrote, recorded and performed many songs in both Louisiana French and Louisiana Creole languages, as well as in English.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c4543a3bc8ae384ac69eb73ab8872b45c54265aa/original/beau-jocque.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beau Jocque's rapid rise to the top of the zydeco circuit created some tension with the older musicians, who felt he hadn't paid his dues. Zydeco pioneer Boozoo Chavis even recorded a song called "Boozoo's Payback" that included the lyrics "He plays my music and he does me wrong, but he can't sing my song", directed at Beau Jocque.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a2350c7462c149e24a7c2c3813095771b3e575a2/original/rock-n-bowl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the rivalry was also good for business. The Mid-City Lanes Rock n' Bowl in New Orleans staged annual mock battles billed as "Boo vs. Beau" during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which each year drew more than 1,000 patrons and set attendance records at the venue. One year, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts (of the Rolling Stones) paid the $5 admission charge to experience the showdown. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d26af3f205c32ebce22bb42594b921ae8ea38ea0/original/beau-jocque-boozoo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boozoo and Beau had a friendly rivalry. The two musicians often traded insults in public but they were supportive of each other in private. Beau Jocque often played Chavis' songs during his performances, and even performed at a benefit concert to raise money to pay the costs of surgery for Chavis' wife. The final "Boo vs. Beau" battle in New Orleans was held on May 2, 1999 at the Rock n' Bowl.</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ba060bca4be3d09f297756bd440fb8cbaf9659f9/original/buckwheat-zydeco-turning-point.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I first came across the music of Buckwheat Zydeco when a fella named Pete was the manager for the Freelance Vandals. Some time later when Pete got married he hired Buckwheat Zydeco for his wedding party. I got curious and purchased this album that was out at the time called </strong><i><strong>Turning Point</strong></i><strong>. Man oh man! I suddenly got hypnotized by the sound of this whole album. Check it out if you haven't heard it…Buckwheat Zydeco & his tight band brings the heat on the title track! Shazam!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gAi2AKZUlEo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gAi2AKZUlEo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a5c117ce90fa9e456b7147225c2d42263a2c74d9/original/toussaint-cresent-city-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f8ff95be0eaa806cb2502b135f6b0f383b6ad2d/original/allen-toussaint-thinking.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When it comes to songwriters in New Orleans, Allen Toussaint is the champion for sure! Over the years, Toussaint produced many song that enhanced the growing hits on the charts that became known as “The New Orleans Sound”: </strong><i><strong>I Like It Like That</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Mother-In-Law</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Java (instrumental)</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Fortune Teller</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Night People</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>A Certain Girl</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Sneaking Sally Through The Alley</strong></i><strong> and many more.</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5da37024f4220eb098b9ed198520f22e292ddce3/original/image-13.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Crescent City Gold</strong></i><strong> is the moniker for a "dream team" of some of New Orleans R&B's greatest musicians. Four of these great players, drummer Earl Palmer, baritone sax player Alvin "Red" Tyler, pianist Edward Frank, and tenor sax player Lee Allen, have been studio musicians since the 1950s, and they amply demonstrate their 40 years of musical experience on </strong><i><strong>The Ultimate Session</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000014771/files/2022-05/dr-john-allen-toussaint.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Dr. John and Allen Toussaint to Receive Honorary Degrees from Tulane University Along with Dalai Lama | Nonesuch Records" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joining them are two musicians who are slightly younger, yet whose credentials are completely above suspicion: Mac Rebennack and Allen Toussaint (it is a tribute to the authenticity of The Ultimate Session that Rebennack is billed by his real name and not his more familiar stage name, Dr. John). These two contribute most of the compositions on this record. </strong><i><strong>Red and Lee</strong></i><strong>, named after the one-two punch of Tyler and Allen, is perhaps the most immediately attractive tune on the disc, featuring a fantastic sax melody, Earl Palmer at his best, and some extremely skanky guitar from Mr. Rebennack. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The record is of such historic importance (and so downright funky throughout) that it is worth tracking down for fans of New Orleans R&B. This track is possibly the best groove I've ever heard come outta New Orleans fer sure!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="14qy02ukVVQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14qy02ukVVQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b2a730bf862998317f861ab024472521ce4ee438/original/dirty-dozen-brass-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I was on my Honeymoon in New Orleans back in 1984 when I discovered the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Suddenly, this album took me to a different place. I had seen bands like the Preservation Hall band and others but this one seemed to have something very different. Pure magic!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cdab56b58699e9fdf6739c547dcfe2ee5e44f81a/original/hee-hee-hee.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a397d088b5e5768a2b95802ac97b27c47fce7c89/original/tipitinas-exterior.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A New Orleans Memory 1984: While Sweet Lo & I were on our Honeymoon in New Orleans we went down to Tipitina's to catch The Dirty Dozen Brass Band….so as we go into Tipitina's we see The Dirty Dozen getting ready on the stage. We looked around and…Hey! Aside from the bartender, we suddenly realized that we're the only people in Tips! The Dirty Dozen start their set and they're kicking some serious ass! We keep looking around to see if any other folks have showed up but NO we're still the only people in Tipitina's! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dirty Dozen finished out their set and then one of the Dirty Dozen guys came over and handed us the $4 we paid to see the show and said, “We ain't doing a second set.” We went over to the stage and thanked all of the Dirty Dozen players and told them how much we enjoyed the set. We could feel a mystical vibe as we walked out of Tipitina's. Sweet Lo and I looked at each other and said, “</strong><i><strong>Did we just get a private show featuring The Dirty Dozen?</strong></i><strong>” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ygXaXFUkUqU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ygXaXFUkUqU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f000040f50a72c47cacc5108a37af47c761e5d22/original/johnny-pierre-christmas-fever.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE'S MY LIST OF ESSENTIAL MARDI GRAS ALBUMS!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7e0e705c2ed795ac6c0f54aa7798325d2c820245/original/crawfish-fiesta.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Professor Longhair - Crawfish Fiesta</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d45a9d1bd08d4ff4e7f25997f5a986b1e4b31d94/original/allen-toussaint-southern-nights.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/17e9e2002a2c4cff9c47c7af77a5e887d0011b88/original/dr-john-going-back-to-new-orleans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John - Going Back To New Orleans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ef471f119fbbbbc2b14e0b1d38479d1d617cd0f7/original/the-wild-tchoupitoulas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Wild Tchoupitolas</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f97c560f54faf601104eae681ae188dd607434e7/original/beau-jocque-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beau Jocque - Check it out, Lock it in, Crank it up!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://i.discogs.com/PD-69qthnjeNHut8Co2Y1mRgrbE3vaee_D85iF4qOc4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0ODA0/ODgxLTE2MDU3MDcy/MDQtODA4NS5qcGVn.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Neville Brothers - Fiyo On The Bayou | Releases | Discogs" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Neville Brothers - Fiyo on the Bayou</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rvMGbAoFL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Osborne, Anders - Coming Down - Amazon.com Music" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anders Osborne - COMING DOWN</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4e6913c84bbe5554babfda80d12bf9317338f5a2/original/jon-cleary-occapella.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Cleary - Occapella!</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://i.discogs.com/-5Ttpy-eJxcPa5_tsQy5SD7pJnxSXPhh0WtsDFeAKrA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI4ODE3/MTMtMTY0NDY3ODU4/NC02MTIzLmpwZWc.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – My Feet Can't Fail Me Now (1984, Vinyl) - Discogs" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirty Dozen Brass Band - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/17b655ed1e07bf70731d6353b113d86c4985464b/original/james-booker-montreaux-1988.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Booker - Montreaux 1978</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ESSENTIAL STUDIOS IN NEW ORLEANS</u></strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjYI1ZgStM1sFqGqFabQV9C-0R_NZMPL-VLA&usqp=CAU" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="Cosimo Matassa's Studio - Music Rising ~ The Musical Cultures of the Gulf South" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cosimo Matassa</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/025/668/220/original/illustration-monochrome-retro-microphone-for-voice-music-sound-speak-radio-recording-jazz-blues-rock-vintage-mic-clip-art-with-contour-for-graphic-design-isolated-on-white-background-vector.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="Vector illustration. Monochrome retro microphone for voice, music, sound, speak, radio recording. Jazz, blues, rock vintage mic. Clip art with contour for graphic design. Isolated on white background 25668220 Vector Art at" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J&M Recording Studio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>838 - 840 North Rampart St</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The original site is one of rock’n’roll’s most hallowed spots: essential tracks such as “Tutti Frutti” and “I Hear You Knocking” were recorded here, before studio owner Cosimo Matassa moved his facilities to Governor Nicholls Street across the French Quarter. The original space is now a laundrette.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/025/668/220/original/illustration-monochrome-retro-microphone-for-voice-music-sound-speak-radio-recording-jazz-blues-rock-vintage-mic-clip-art-with-contour-for-graphic-design-isolated-on-white-background-vector.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="Vector illustration. Monochrome retro microphone for voice, music, sound, speak, radio recording. Jazz, blues, rock vintage mic. Clip art with contour for graphic design. Isolated on white background 25668220 Vector Art at" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cosimo Recording Studios</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>521 Governor Nicholls Street</strong></i></span><br> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After leaving North Rampart Street, Cosimo Matassa set up a new operation on Governor Nicholls Street. It was here that the legendary Allen Toussaint laid down the blueprint for the New Orleans sound of the 60s and 70s.</strong></span><br> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5daa2b873b3829d0042fbb54a6f6237a252c4bfb/original/allen-toussaint-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Toussaint</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sea-Saint Studio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3809 Clematis Street</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the 70s, Allen Toussaint set up his own recording studio here in the Gentilly area. The building is now home to a hairdresser’s.</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e00b907fb53fe295b2dfb9711502985fb4584944/original/we-got-a-party-the-party-boys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>We Got A Party - The Party Boys</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Every year, this particular track is always jumping into my Mardi Gras playlist! The gang that's singing the tune aka </strong><i><strong>The Party Boys </strong></i><strong>really bring a wild mojo vibe to the party! If I didn't know better, I'd be thinking that them Party Boys been hittin' the hooch!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tQf1f1zNp9A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQf1f1zNp9A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4e6913c84bbe5554babfda80d12bf9317338f5a2/original/jon-cleary-occapella.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Cleary</strong> <strong>(born August 11, 1962) is a British-born American Funk and R&B musician who is based in New Orleans, where he has studied the “</strong><i><strong>musical culture and life of New Orleans</strong></i><strong>”. Cleary is an accomplished pianist as well as being a multi-instrumentalist.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Several years ago, I happened to be in New Orleans and stopped by my favorite record store, Louisiana Music Factory, and lo and behold there was Jon Cleary playing a musical history of all the great piano players that he studied on in New Orleans. It was a most wonderful moment in time.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The next track on the playlist is a song called </strong><i><strong>Fortune Teller</strong></i><strong> (written by Allen Toussaint)</strong> <strong>under the pseudonym Naomi Neville); the original version was by Benny Spellman but as you're about to hear, Jon Cleary takes hold of this song & takes it to an entirely different dimension!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qqiuMzkr4DE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qqiuMzkr4DE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cb6d9b020cb1cfb675a1f4473c2eefac65cdb562/original/tom-waits-small-change.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1976, Tom Waits created a beautiful song about New Orleans that was called </strong><i><strong>I Wish I Was In New Orleans</strong></i><strong> on his </strong><i><strong>Small Change</strong></i><strong> album. This Tom Waits piece definitely captures the essence of New Orleans. The tune has a wistful melody and lyrics that combine both sadness and joy as the song rolls along. It's such a beautiful piece that has always stayed with me.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/14353e7e0d383ab4d879c06e3e71c168a2494466/original/waits-i-wish-i-was-in-no.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="T_f3Zk18abk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T_f3Zk18abk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I WISH I WAS IN NEW ORLEANS (TOM WAITS)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>To that tenor saxophone calling me home</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And I can hear the band begin When the Saints Go Marching In,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>I'll drink you under the table, be red-nosed, go for walks,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>The old haunts what I wants is red beans and rice</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And wear the dress I like so well, and meet me at the old saloon,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>Make sure that there's a Dixie moon, New Orleans, I'll be there</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And deal the cards roll the dice, if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And Claiborne Avenue, me and you Sam Jones and all</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>And I wish I was in New Orleans, 'cause I can see it in my dreams,</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me</strong></span></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><strong>New Orleans, I'll be there</strong></span></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d433d899d1caba731427eeb10d2335808950985/original/mardi-gras-videos.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ed7308abf77c9d58b761969ef2e6b8c8c26989d7/original/billie-dee-dee-preservation-hall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This track brings back many New Orleans memories for me. I was living there in the early 1963 when my Dad took me down to Preservation Hall in the French Quarter where I heard the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dee Dee Pierce play </strong><i><strong>Peanut Vendor</strong></i><strong> which to this day is a magical song that conjures up the memories of old New Orleans. Life is so beautiful sometimes.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1b5rAsKweX4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1b5rAsKweX4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>…and so that concludes today's </strong><i><strong>Part One</strong></i><strong> of this year's Mardi Gras Playlist!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laissez les bon temps rouler!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d5d2c6a8c8ff6d080f2b6308b6a007a32573c54c/original/ernie-k-doe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I’M NOT SURE, BUT I’M ALMOST POSITIVE, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THAT ALL MUSIC CAME FROM NEW ORLEANS.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – ERNIE K-DOE</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd382f05a75200994a5e68f972db2b3d2c02c929/original/dscn7260.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ea826bca8ec28c79891d8309c257f810b3575b0e/original/stop-hey-whats-that-sound.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If you got a case of Mardi Gras Fever</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>purchase some of our</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f915c81f904719c76da4a29ae9f51e8977edfc11/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u> MARDI GRAS SINGLES</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73422102024-02-05T03:29:51-05:002024-02-05T03:29:52-05:00Mardi Gras Week Starts Tomorrow!<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/41babf2c84d26f484b253487c41fd76d5c549f46/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today we're going to take a look at</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>what goes on during Mardi Gras!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/44394489cc2877700a155e2f393f76949bcf2db8/original/image-2-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in all of Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday (the start of lent in the Western Christian tradition). Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the Mardi Gras season. In the final week, many events occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities, including parades and balls (some of them masquerade balls). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/723860cc2e37c9c3148dd873f72d32ecae196471/original/imkage-3-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carnival, the riotous and bawdy festival celebrated across Europe and in the Southern region of the United States, has been in existence almost since the beginning of civilization itself.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EkIZwXbSh-Y" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EkIZwXbSh-Y?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The parades in New Orleans are organized by social clubs known as krewes; most follow the same parade schedule and route each year. The earliest-established krewes were the Mistick Krewe of Comus, the earliest, Rex, the Knights of Momus and the Krewe of Proteus. Several modern "super krewes" are well known for holding large parades and events, such as the Krewe of Endymion (which is best known for naming celebrities as grand marshals for their parades), the Krewe of Bacchus (similarly known for naming celebrities as their Kings), as well as the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club—a predominantly African American krewe. Float riders traditionally toss throws into the crowds. The most common throws are strings of colorful plastic beads, doubloons, decorated plastic "throw cups", Moon Pies, and small inexpensive toys, but throws can also include lingerie and more sordid items. Major krewes follow the same parade schedule and route each year.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/590f7558a315a3a53fe24b20332bc57dc718e345/original/image-5-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By 1837, unofficial parades were held in the streets of various southern cities. By 1872, the Krewe of Rex held their first official parade. The parade was in honor of the visiting Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. It is here that the official colors of Carnival were instituted. The Krewe of Rex chose the royal colors of the Romanoff family of Russia as their backdrop. This choice of colors continues to be used to this day. The colors are purple which stands for justice, gold for power and green for faith.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3ece76aeab345c555b2e8817ec6c96ff22550944/original/carnival-mask-intro.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MASKS & COSTUMES</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Masks and costumes have been associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations for centuries. And even today of the masks commonly seen in New Orleans on Mardi Gras are the same types popularized by the two-to-three-week-long Carnivale in Venice that culminates with Fat Tuesday. But masking and costume-wearing in New Orleans also has a specifically American history, as it was another way for revelers who were officially excluded from the festivities to join in, by concealing their identities. This phenomenon was particularly pronounced during the Jim Crow era of the early 20th century. For example, the African-American men now known as Mardi Gras Indians first paraded down the city’s back streets in Native American costumes, in a nod to Native Americans who took in and protected runaway slaves. Another poignant example, the breaking of the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition, can be found in the African-American prostitutes who dressed up as </strong><i><strong>Baby Dolls</strong></i><strong> — a persona chosen because that’s what male clients called them — in hopes that the costumes would help them land work at a time when sex work was racially restricted. Legend has it that the custom of throwing Mardi Gras beads from parade floats started sometime in the 1880s when a man dressed like Santa Claus was cheered when he tossed some beads into the crowds along the parade route. In short order, other Carnival Krewes adopted this popular Mardi Gras tradition. The throwing of beads and fake jewels, from parade floats to those watching down below, is thought to have started in the late 19th century, when a carnival king threw fake strands of gems and rings to his “loyal subjects” sometime in the 1890s. By the early 1920s, one of the Krewes, probably Rex, started regularly throwing strands of glass Czech beads, a precursor to the plastic beads seen today. Other </strong><i><strong>throws</strong></i><strong> — such as </strong><i><strong>doubloons</strong></i><strong> marked with the names of the krewes that make them — followed after." (The Culture of Mardi Gras)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BEADS</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Though there’s some debate over the extent to which ancient beads are evidence of advanced syntactical language, the cross-cultural importance of beads goes so far back that much of its meaning has been lost to time. Since antiquity, humans have used beads to reflect cultural identity and social status. Fast forward to today—and today, specifically, being Mardi Gras—and New Orleans is arguably the planet’s most bead-drenched city. (The environmental implications, it seems, are no match for tradition. Mardi Gras has been called the season of madness in New Orleans. The ritual of Mardi Gras has survived Hurricane Katrina, Prohibition, and the Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that. The earliest Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, an import from France, date back to the 17th century. The first krewe, the local term to describe the clubs that organize Mardi Gras festivities, was founded in 1858. By around 1870, krewes were throwing trinkets, baubles, and candies to crowds during parades. A decade later, they were throwing medallions. Beads occupy a paradoxical space at today’s Mardi Gras celebrations. They can be both the centerpiece of festivities and the trimming. They’re prized objects, and yet many strands of beads—or pairs, to use the proper New Orleans lingo—are discarded, metallic snakes left curled in gutters. They’re simultaneously coveted and cast aside. Strands have become longer, in general. Machine-made beads largely replaced hand-strung beads. Glass was replaced with plastic. Opaque plastic medallions gave way to transparent plastic ones. Medallions gradually got bigger and bigger. Most recently, beaded strands for medallions have been swapped out for satin cords. These details all factor into a deeper understanding of a celebration that’s, for all its lunacy, much more complex than it may appear. Mardi Gras beads, to the uninitiated, are just chintzy party favors doomed for the landfill. But they’re also a link to the past, a symbol of a celebration that’s been going on for as long as recorded history.” (The Atlantic)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rG7Ke9AWVbE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rG7Ke9AWVbE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/500622cdf1a6f4f25f15607f075fa9c6206c5a7b/original/image-8-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Krewe of Rex was the first carnival krewe </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>to throw trinkets to the crowds during a street parade. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This event also marked the premiere of the official Mardi Gras song, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>If Ever I Cease To Love.</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>If ever I cease to love, if ever I cease to love </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>May the moon be turned into green cheese </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>If ever I cease to love</strong></i></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xjVcmyxPMoA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xjVcmyxPMoA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d7c4bf1a81df57a323025dcb53d7a65f0922fb1f/original/image-9-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the 1800's and 1900's, many Carnival Krewes came into existence; along with walking clubs and Social Aid and Pleasure clubs. These clubs existed for the purpose of parading, having fun and helping their communities through various charity efforts. In their earliest days, Krewes were dignified and very serious about their procedures, parades and the themes behind their parades. Majestic and historical themes were commonplace as the Krewes treated their subject matter with elegance to their celebrations. One of the first of these types of Krewes was the Zulu Krewe. Throughout the years, however, the newer Krewes took more of a tongue-in-cheek approach to all things Carnival.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ce1cce0aadf9bfda055c9ddc59fc1363a7d74fa5/original/image-10-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the early 1900's, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure club made its mark on Carnival. Zulu was comprised entirely of working class black Americans. In their parade, they mocked the snobbishness of Krewes like Rex and Comus. In fact, their parade float was a comical caricature of the Krewe of Rex. Instead of masking in the royal colors of Rex, the members of Zulu wore blackface. When the Zulu tradition began, the Zulu King wore a crown made out of an old can of lard as opposed to the bejeweled crown of King Rex. The Zulu Queens were all men dressed in drag and the royalty of Zulu sported names like the "Big Shot of Africa." Zulu was also the first Krewe to connect the marching band street jazz sounds of the black neighborhoods to the Carnival Season.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="quyHJODhyvo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/quyHJODhyvo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This 2006 Washington Post article describes how the true spirit of Mardi Gras continues to endure into the New Millenium: "What's remarkable about Mardi Gras in New Orleans is the extent to which the entire city has institutionalized this defiant laughter, so that every class, race and condition shares it. In a noisy, messy, highly varied and inevitably imperfect way, Mardi Gras amounts to all New Orleanians reminding each other that they're all in this fate thing together. Nothing signals that more than the climax of Mardi Gras, just before it all ends tomorrow, when Comus, the symbolic king of New Orleans's vestigial old family aristocracy, and Rex, the "king of the people," ceremonially come together at the end of their krewes' elaborate balls at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium...But the point is that carnival isn't just about having a good time. It's about reCarnival is very much a cultural and psychological survival mechanism for almost all New Orleanians, black and white, rich and poor, and for the city as a whole. It's the great shared experience of perhaps America's most culturally diverse city -- a giant municipal block party in which each neighborhood, age and ethnic group acts out and shares with others its particular finger-at-fate coping mechanism, minding oneself that good times are a precious part of life -- not to be traded casually for an extra hour at the office or a fleeting illusion of power or significance."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/808e42eb0fccc2db00fa4926399a63bd716fa978/original/cajun-mardi-gras-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CAJUN MARDI GRAS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Courir de Mardi Gras (literally to “run” Mardi Gras) is a rural and lesser-known Cajun counterpart to urban celebrations of Fat Tuesday in such cities as New Orleans and Lafayette. For the courir, disguised revelers convene before dawn at a predetermined locale, typically a participant’s farmstead. They form a costumed band that travels either on horseback or by tractor-drawn trailers throughout a rural community, calling on neighbors, relatives, and friends. Playing the dual role of a jester and beggar, the revelers sing, dance, and perform comic antics in exchange for “a little fat chicken,” guinea hens, rice, sausage, onions, or lard—all ingredients for a communal gumbo that is served later that evening. Fowl are generally donated alive, requiring revelers to chase and capture chickens and guinea hens. The tradition functions as a ritualistic means of creating, sustaining, and defining the boundaries of rural communities in southern Louisiana.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dId4-fyqgAc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dId4-fyqgAc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Though there are approximately thirty versions of the courir de Mardi Gras, the celebrations can be distinguished by the participants’ method of travel. While some runners travel on horseback, others ride on tractor-drawn wagons, and a few use a combination of horses and wagons. There are all-male, all-female, mixed gender, and—most recently—all-children runs. The use of whips constitutes perhaps the most striking difference among the revelers. In whipping celebrations such as those in Tee Mamou, l’Anse LeJeune, and Hathaway, captains wield thick, braided burlap whips to keep order. Scholars believe the whipping ritual descends from a pre-Christian festival known as Lupercalia, in which participants would run past bystanders, whipping them with a goat skin thong as a fertility demonstration. Some revelers willingly endure the whippings, which are not violent in nature. In others, part of the tradition includes attempts by the runners to take the whip away from the captain. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f6d563c40bfb22e9a54462c175e91b3310002a11/original/cajun-mardi-gras-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Both all-female and all-male runs are led by unmasked male capitaines. The men often wear a cowboy hat or baseball cap while carrying flags symbolizing their authority. Capitaines act as mediators between the Mardi Gras runners and the community. In exchange for providing entertainment for the community, they procure ingredients for the gumbo. Moreover, it is the capitaine’s responsibility to assure homeowners that the revelers will not steal from them or damage their property.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nRsiJtDJyCg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nRsiJtDJyCg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Singing is another important component of the rural Mardi Gras celebration, and two basic variants are found in celebrations across Acadiana. The first type—lyrics sung with instrumental arrangement—is organized with a minor modal chord progression. These songs describe the characteristics and purpose of the Mardi Gras run: “</strong><i><strong>We get together once a year, to ask for charity/Even if it is just a skinny chicken, or three or four ears of corn</strong></i><strong>.” The song concludes with an invitation to “join us for gumbo later tonight. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KCBn9UYqhp4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KCBn9UYqhp4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A number of Cajun musicians—including the Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire—have recorded different versions of this composition. The second song variant is a French drinking song that is performed a cappella as revelers approach a home. In the </strong><i><strong>Tee Mamou Mardi Gras</strong></i><strong>, for instance, approximately ten people line up shoulder to shoulder over several rows and sing the song while slowly creeping toward their neighbor. This particular variant describes a dwindling bottle of alcohol.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e81e3c7ef2be740bd83688d23afbfb995b71968a/original/image-13-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joy of heart, good cheer and merriment </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>are wine drunk freely at the proper time." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bible, Sirach 31:27</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f92508f24aa14adc0a47206fd307f5b8565c0a04/original/mardi-gras-party.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Also if yer still hungry for some New Orleans vibe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>then start making plans to go to the</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>APRIL 25 Thru MAY 5</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://www.offbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/jazzfest2024poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/72529d454a21ad922471dde4cdd34cfe40cc7213/original/carnival-mn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Life Is Short…So Have Some Fun Why'doncha!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d9734c49ce4a31386364fac3328c421635493f01/original/a1-promo-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If Yer In A Mardi Gras Mood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Check out our new Mardi Gras Music page!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MARDI GRAS</u></strong></span></a><a data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u> SINGLES</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9b1974f276aee34834f4be0b7b52e852cd8113b1/original/across-the-river-to-algiers-single-haiku-monday.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This tune which was created by</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Haiku Monday is full of energy!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a8d6e68df923da71c79657c8e24bb89ea10f700c/original/little-girl-blue-haiku-monday.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This track is part of Haiku Monday's album, </strong><i><strong>The Ghost of Pontchartrain</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>Expanded Edition</strong></i><strong> that features a unique solo performance by Alex Maes, the band's guitarist.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9d95b2895c0c164b1b785e122420374b76942d77/original/tishomingo-blues.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a sweet jazz tune as played by Nick Sassone, a brilliant jazz artist.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fb95befcb34ceb6988efb42fd8821c9364d29400/original/pickin-jazz-guitar.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's time to Swing the good thing!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2083a8244e59f97051e0c6711187325d6e22a6eb/original/i-am-the-ghost-single-cover-1.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbMjAwLDIwMF1dLFsiY3JvcCJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="I Am The Ghost by Little Slim & The Eyeballs" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As darkness begins to fall on New Orleans The Ghost has begun to cause havoc.</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ca6a75f96a631f801da1d9ba0f039f6c2419f67f/original/spy-boy.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbMjAwLDIwMF1dLFsiY3JvcCJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Spy Boy by Haiku Monday" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Spy Boy gets ahead of the Indians and gets them ready for the upcoming shakedown against another Indian tribe. Yeah you rite!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/eb7693672ad18b3376641699ccfd56535b6d1a34/original/jambalaya-single.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Check out The Hideaways as they groove into a cool Hank Williams tune as Mardi Gras is alive!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ef71c33104738eb32c7f2df5fc542cc2ac2f9399/original/the-day-i-met-my-waterloo-biscuit-kings.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As the Mardi Gras Parades went by, the days were filled with memories.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1fcb84d211b1cd0e091f4965487a66096ef52bf3/original/mighty-young-fish-green-onions-single.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A wild breakout of blues sounds from the Mighty Young Fish!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f85063fa4b546460169682006fcd9a760e78f799/original/whiskey-town-illustration.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Something Happened when the sun went down and the Mardi Gras revelers woke up in Whiskey Town...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6300bb7be7089628689d4aef8db97d39f0a14e39/original/cemetery-moonlight.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Walking in a New Orleans graveyard is always a challenging way to spend a night.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/be02014479830966e3874ebe1b1df3dc354d14b8/original/dr-john-at-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John sez,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Yeah! You Rite!”</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/66039672024-01-31T07:59:32-05:002024-02-13T07:57:11-05:00Rock Geography: Whisky A Go Go (Expanded Edition)<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8b230c7a6627e870df392410eb99905f74be00e3/original/whisky-a-go-go-logo-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today, on this latest edition of Rock & Roll Geography, we take a stroll down to California to check out The Whisky A Go Go, one of LA's most historic music landmarks. Still in business today, this venerable club is located along the infamous Sunset Strip at 8901 Sunset Blvd (between the Clark and Hilldale streets). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The story behind the Whisky a Go Go begins in 1947 when a dance club of that name was opened in Paris, France under that name. By the late 50's, the concept of dance clubs or "discotheques" (as they were called then) began to spread to the U.S. In fact, plans were afoot to open a string of Whisky A Go Go discotheques across America. In 1958, one of them opened in Chicago, another in the Georgetown section of Washington D.C. in the early 60's.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1ce76d00a9f3cb314081272da92b8a49e1f33f2e/original/elmer-valentine.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elmer Valentine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Whisky A Go Go that most rock & roll fans know & love was opened on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles by a group of investors consisting of Elmer Valentine, Phil Tanzini, Shelly Davis, Theodore Flier and Mario Maglieri. Originally true to the European concept of being a club which featured recorded music only, Elmer Valentine, noticing the proliferation of live music on the Sunset Strip, quickly realized that only live music would put his little boite on the map. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Elmer Valentine opened the Whisky à Go Go in January of 1964. Johnny Rivers, later famous for the song 'Secret Agent Man,' was the headliner. The club was an instant smash, a cultural trendsetter from the outset; we have Valentine to thank for introducing the terms </strong><i><strong>à go go</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>go-go girl</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>go-go cage</strong></i><strong> into our vernacular, and, more significantly, for helping launch the careers of some of the best rock ʼnʼ roll bands ever. '</strong><i><strong>Once the Whisky started to happen, then Sunset Boulevard started to happen</strong></i><strong>,' says Lou Adler. '</strong><i><strong>L.A. started to happen, as far as the music business—it blew up</strong></i><strong>.' Indeed, the mythologizing of psychedelic San Francisco and Brill Building–era New York often obscures Los Angelesʼ status as the seat of American pop in the 60s, the city that gave us not only the explicitly California-identified Beach Boys and Jan & Dean, but also the Doors, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Mamas and the Papas, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sonny & Cher. (To say nothing of the fact that Phil Spector, a man often presumed to be a New Yorker, was actually an L.A. kid who recorded the bulk of his celebrated Wall of Sound output at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard.) Today, the words </strong><i><strong>Sunset Strip</strong></i><strong> may automatically summon a mental montage of sleaze— cocaine, skull tattoos, breast implants, hamburger grease—but 35 years ago there was no place more sunshiny and brimming with possibility. '</strong><i><strong>It was an amazing time</strong></i><strong>,' says Gail Zappa, who met her future husband, Frank, when she was 21 and working as Valentineʼs secretary. 'In those days [on the Strip], people with long hair who had cars waved to each other—long hair was a mark, a signifier. Like ʻ</strong><i><strong>Wow: thereʼs another one! Weʼre actually making progress!</strong></i><strong>ʼ The Strip offered the Aquarian good vibes of Haight-Ashbury with a Hollywood difference: better-looking people and no body stink.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Whisky was the hub of this remarkably fertile scene, a place for the aforementioned acts to perform and/or hang out, and for these actsʼ fans to share in the rapture. Valentine was the sceneʼs unlikely paterfamilias—an ex-cop and jazz aficionado from Chicago who was already past 40. 'Back then, we really believed in </strong><i><strong>Donʼt trust anyone over 30</strong></i><strong>, but Elmer was different,' says Cher. 'He was the one older person we trusted.' The kids loved Valentine not only for his peaceable demeanor and soft, jowly mug—Jack Nicholson has described him as looking like 'all seven of the dwarves'—but also because he genuinely enjoyed their music and their company." (David Kamp, Vanity Fair)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25dc3e831e92c16f2c461c3eb584f3502b1257e6/original/1964-whisky.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/43c47da25ea41dc4122fd3f9811a6889168b9420/original/johnny-rivers-live-poster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fd297550427b768970da88ea38202d1fd039fc0d/original/johnny-river-whisky-a-go-go-lp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The world-famous Whisky a Go Go opened on Jan. 15, 1964 with a concert by Johnny Rivers. A DJ named Joanie Labine (the first DJ at The Whisky) played records in a booth that was suspended to the right of the stage in between Johnny Rivers’ sets.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3e726987b9ed9db919d4f300f1035be485bf399/original/joanne-labine-first-female-dj-at-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ItTGFd_HGmE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ItTGFd_HGmE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joanne Labine the first DJ at The Whisky</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Labine entertained the crowd by dancing and the idea of the go-go dancer was born. Very soon a ‘costume’ of the go-go dancers also emerged: a girl wearing a short, fringed skirt and high, white boots: a trend that will spread to all discotheques and nightclubs all across the country.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="cl-wJu6wkJg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cl-wJu6wkJg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad5cb13120affc5205343a521f2187b91897a5ef/original/johnny-rivers-crowd-the-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7fb7c0a9487a438c259d2ae4066caad4a68e0215/original/1964-jayne-mansfield.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/758aba3a77c3ebcf517a4af10bd4b3a663fdcd02/original/ringo-george.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8f0abcce324422c5b649a94e0eb08ea01d33441/original/john-lennon-jane-mansfield.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jayne Mansfield & John Lennon @ The Whisky circa 1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When the Beatles arrived in Los Angeles that year on their first American tour, they let it be known that the Whisky was the place they wanted to see. Elmer Valentine took it upon himself to personally chauffeur John Lennon and Paul McCartney to the club—and brought Jayne Mansfield along for the ride as a bonus. 'John was putting Jayne on,' says Valentine. '</strong><i><strong>Jayne, those arenʼt really your tits, are they?</strong></i><strong>ʼ ʻ</strong><i><strong>Yes they are!ʼ</strong></i><strong> ʻ</strong><i><strong>No, no, I can tell'</strong></i><strong>. Lennon got her to show them to him.” (David Kamp, Vanity Fair)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ac969db4454e064e0a9255ba51dfcb12e2c0e506/original/1965.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e3a9d9dc02fe4345ee08b66fc42a4a625b68d76e/original/whisky-dancers.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Whisky A-Go-Go became the principal hangout of Sunset Strip musicians and hipsters in the 1960s - and it was hip enough for Dustin Hoffman's character Benjamin to be seen running out of The Whisky in the 1967 film The Graduate. Johnny Rivers was the first sensation to come out of the club, soon after it opened (on January 11, 1964), and that is when the club initially started the whole ‘trend’ of having a mini-skirted girl dancing above the crowd in a cage. Somehow, the Whisky became the cool place for bands to play. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Whisky always had two or three bands playing, but they were not always billed. Often the unbilled bands were simply local bands, but it being Hollywood and all, sometimes unbilled local groups acting as the house band went on to become hugely famous. Bands all apparently got union scale, regardless of their status. At times, the billed bands couldn’t make it, and another band was substituted. While this is common in nightclubs, what was uncommon about the Whisky was that the band substituting could be just as good or better, and possibly even better-known, than the band it was replacing. These listings are generally from advertisements, and at times they overlap or conflict with other performances by these groups. It was not uncommon for a group to be booked for a week at the Whisky and then to skip a night for a larger gig. It appears that the Whisky was open six or seven nights a week, with local groups playing when no one well known was billed." (www.chickenonaunicycle.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc6adebfc54d9f76269c8d392b954d6663beb004/original/dancers-in-cage.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Between the sets of live music, club goers were entertained by go-go dancers who danced in cages suspended from the ceiling!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e1864700e8d7be1013043aa430e84811a7c015c/original/floor-dancers.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Just about the only person who didnʼt care for the go-go girls was Johnny Rivers. When they danced during his sets, he let Valentine know how peeved he was: RIvers said, '</strong><i><strong>When Iʼm playing, I want people to listen to my music. I donʼt want any sideshows</strong></i><strong>.ʼ It was agreed that the girls would contain their enthusiasm while the star artiste played, though Rivers turned out to be the only Whisky act ever to make such a demand. Generally, everyone involved in the Whiskyʼs first year reveled in the exhilaration of instantaneous success. Riversʼs built-in following ensured that the Whisky drew sellout crowds from the night it opened. The novelty of rock ʼnʼ roll on the Strip, plus the added novelty of the girls, attracted national media attention and Hollywood stars. Within months of the Whiskyʼs debut, Life magazine had written it up, Jack Paar had broadcast an episode of his post-Tonight weekly program from the club, and Steve McQueen and Jayne Mansfield had installed themselves as regulars, Watusi-ing away on the dance floor almost every night while flashbulbs popped." (David Kamp, Vanity Fair)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2036576f70501e684bd124f3860065bc5e0137d6/original/whisky-logo-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/641170396230b271ecca2cd70d43963a670dbe9b/original/whisky-wild-dancers.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Gibson, who ran a PR group called The Group that represented such popular bands as The Byrds, The Doors and Buffalo Springfield, said, "If you had to put your finger on an event that was a barometer of the tide turning, it would probably be the Sunset Strip riots." While the 'riots' were immortalized in the 1967 film Riot on Sunset Strip, there was no one particular incident; rather, a summer long simmering tension between longhairs, police and shop owners along the street. "The cops would hassle kids for being underage," claims Rodney Bingenheimer, who now hosts a radio show on KROQ, but was then dubbed by Sal Mineo, the Mayor of the Sunset Strip. "The Sunset Strip was like Las Vegas. People would actually walk from La Cienega to Gazzari's at 2 and 3 in the morning. It was a 24-hour party, but it was all very innocent. It wasn't until later that the scene turned ugly and people started taking a lot of drugs. It was still a mod thing then." The Whisky entered the national spotlight as the youth riots made the news. The club's hip credentials expanded with the appearance of such sixties icons as The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, The Doors, Cream, Led Zeppelin and other seminal rock acts of the day. The prevailing sentiment among musicians at the time was "if you're playing LA, you have to play the Whisky."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de31631048670c9728fa1b84a4450f8c07cb9e6e/original/capt-beefhears.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Capt. Beefheart & The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/395303a3376819525bdb1e3e2618427c6b746153/original/frank-zappa.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For most of America, the Whisky was one of the coolest things going in 1965. It quickly spawned imitators, complete with hit-spewing Rivers-alikes and hastily hired go-go girls frugging in hastily erected cages; even the Whisky itself spawned two short-lived satellite franchises, in San Francisco and Atlanta. Patty Brockhurstʼs unthinking little shimmies of joy were reverberating throughout popular culture: from the Strip to the soundstages of Shindig and Hullabaloo to prom halls to the White House, where First Teen Luci Baines Johnson was shakinʼ her ample thang Whisky-style before the year was out.</strong></span> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3aab6a3c365013d1c38099ff92f37dfca20e6052/original/zappa-the-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"If there were dissenting voices, people who found it all a bit corny, no one in the mainstream paid them any mind. But certainly the voices were there—the voices of the folkies, loons, and freaks looming on the horizon. People like Frank Zappa, who reflected in his memoir, “During this period in American Musical History, anything with ʻGo-Goʼ pasted on the end of it was really hot. All you were required to do, if you were a musician desiring steady work, was to grind your way through five sets per night of loud rhythm tracks, while girls in fringed costumes did the twist, as if that particular body movement summed up the aesthetic of the serious beer drinker.” (David Kamp, Vanity Fair)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7afad479bca867951a6c4276e96bdbb2286c3db9/original/1966.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/63784540a903fb751e967f74dece6ed179c8c138/original/arthur-lee-love-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 25,1966 Love, The Leaves </strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love, featuring guitarist and singer Arthur Lee, had been the hippest group in Hollywood for some time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb7fbfbcb25cceaccbe0ca962c1635c1c55d5501/original/otis-plays-the-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 1 - 7 Otis Redding plays The Whisky </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="uLOSMVvK5NA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uLOSMVvK5NA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During his 7 day run, Otis Redding recorded a live album at The Whisky in 1966. Bob Dylan apparently attended one of these shows, and proposed writing a song for Otis (reputedly Just Like A Woman).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An article in the LA Times (A Special Time In Rock: 1966 On The Sunset Strip by Roy Trakin) describes the emerging music scene in Los Angeles at this time: "Before the Byrds played Ciro's in 1965, the pop music scene in L.A. consisted of people like Johnny Rivers, Trini Lopez and the Walker Brothers playing old-style nightclubs like PJ's (the site of what was later the Starwood rock club at Santa Monica and Crescent Heights) and Sneaky Pete's (now Duke's Coffee Shop). The bohemian folk scene held forth at Doug Weston's Troubador on Santa Monica off Doheny, Ed Pearl's Ash Grove on Melrose (now the Improv) and the Unicorn at Sunset and San Vicente."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e81a9196dfb96690c43ea25bbcbf45b6868fb75/original/buffalo-springfield.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 3, 1966 Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Buffalo Springfield, opening for the Grass Roots, had only been performing in public for a few weeks at this point.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/93b8350c7b8d13145fd0ee2af78936f333eb9981/original/doors-whisky-a-go-go-audition.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 9, 1966 The Doors (audition) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors, then playing other, lesser clubs in Hollywood, have a successful audition and by June they become the “house” band for the next few months, playing every night regardless of whether other acts are booked.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1cf8b7896c0ad2714d460c5bdf71086f57f60052/original/whisky-them-with-van.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/15cee0ddcd86861b7c11c53d2ce1556cb30e1911/original/them-the-doors.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/24022f9a09010b19da3a5904865dca6b7d909dd5/original/the-doors-1966-whisky-a-go-go.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="btgYoGY6KFE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/btgYoGY6KFE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors begin their run as the house band at The Whisky a Go Go opening for every group to play there from May 23 to August 21, 1966. They typically performed two sets per night. Exposed to a wide-ranging audience, The Doors began to experiment daringly. Allegedly, the experiments often took the form of drug trips, and weekly tales of The Doors’ freaked-out adventures flew.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During this period The Doors opened for artists as Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band, Buffalo Springfield, Love, Them, The Turtles and Johnny Rivers. The Doors perform as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go for the final time on August 21,1966. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/757dab919b7a3cd5abffe82129ddc9b68d9ee262/original/jim-morrison.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Morrison misses their first set and the other band members play without him. Before the second set, they go looking for him and find him in Room 203 of the Tropicana Hotel. Jim has dropped acid and is wearing only underwear and a pair of boots. The guys quickly get Jim dressed and drag him to the Whisky for their next set. The last song they perform is “The End” and Jim improvises the Oedipal section into it for the first time, inserting lyrics about his mother and father. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim later explained what happened in a 1967 interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “One Sunday night at Whisky a Go Go — we were the second band — something clicked. I realized what the whole song was about, what it had been leading up to. It was powerful. It just happened. They fired us the next day.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f02363e3d09797e92851da1966181efa22b5b969/original/jim-van-morrisons.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 2-18, 1966 Them, The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strange as it may seem today, Van Morrison’s moody but dynamic performances as the lead singer of Them were a significant influence on Jim Morrison’s Lizard King persona as lead singer of the Doors.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d6732639025352dea087a6cddf2e54bfb3d1ba31/original/buffalo-springfield-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 22, 1966 Buffalo Springfield, Sons of Adam </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield substituted for Love on this date, and Jim Fielder played bass for an indisposed Bruce Palmer. Fielder would briefly end up as a member of the Springfield (from March to May 1967).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec18a383e84462d7192479f599059b5e5d8d0d8d/original/whisky-poster-turtles.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25731a9620119df993c3b95813841a837e5e79b1/original/love-sons-of-adam.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3676602ba1bb685ec474d4ef643f3f5d743614f4/original/whisky-a-go-go-logo-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s a list of some of the cool shows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that happened at the Whisky A Go Go in 1966: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rascals </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Butterfield Blues Band/The Leaves </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love/The Leaves </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grass Roots/Hard Times </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beau Brummels </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Otis Redding </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors (audition) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Rivers/Buffalo Springfield </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band/Buffalo Springfield/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love/Buffalo Springfield/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Them / Capt. Beefhert & The Magic Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Them/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gene Clark and The Group/The Locos/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Turtles/First Review/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Rivers/Chambers Brothers/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love/The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chambers Brothers/Hard Times </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mothers of Invention </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beau Brummels </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love/Sons of Adam </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Love/Buffalo Springfield/Sons of Adam </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sir Douglas Quintet/The Sparrow (one week) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield/The Poor </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane/Peanut Butter Conspiracy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Turtles/Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1df284eafe98e13c3599f9534af5e3988e937c5a/original/1967.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5a05453bcca3d512ce65e189c8dc75a474d6b79/original/dancers-whisky-33.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/66dc70fb5c73266aae256ba9ac681d9ec31fd6e6/original/whisky-ad-1967.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/deab7a40269fe58b15719a6ed6b3ef7c99227fcf/original/1967-van-them-the-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Them (featuring Van Morrison) @ The Whisky circa 1967</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e109c9dd9e85c655a53a17b499a1338d98fd7e3/original/whisky-byrds-doors-may-16.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 16-21, 1967 The Doors, The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Two of the most famous bands to graduate from the Whisky herald the return of rock to the club. According to Chris Hjort’s chronology, due to an illness to Jim McGuinn, the Byrds do not play on the first night (May 16), and possibly not the next night either.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77bd902b612d70dff5095b5a3ad6786cc40c3658/original/jim-hendrix-1968-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b56d1cd5651266c4a212c672538dbfe4eca6eba0/original/jimi-hendrix-flyer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/44e12994530e2d8383af1a80740190abfad6e84d/original/jimi-hendrix-on-stage-67.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 2, 1967 Jimi Hendrix Experience</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> The Experience played a surprise guest set at the Sam & Dave show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ecdcedeff2e3f3896ab66d2279b3742461bf230/original/cream-performing-at-the-whiksy.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 4-6, 1967 Cream, Rich Kids </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cream, on their first American tour, had just come from two amazing weekends at the Fillmore, and would never play a venue this small again.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/459f2a70bd1719e8634368b7f12dd61445080558/original/electric-flag.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 7-10, 1967 Electric Flag, Rich Kids </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Electric Flag was created by ex-Butterfield Blues Band guitarist Mike Bloomfield as a sort of all-purpose super group. It had many talented musicians and lots of promise, but never put it all together. These shows were among the earliest gigs of the band, right after being billed at the Fillmore with Cream the week before.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c167090e8a8701097b956c102583622ff0eaf393/original/1967-animals-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4859ac38e36de73b27bf90104f9de912f6836d12/original/animals-1967.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 25-29, 1967 Eric Burdon & Animals, Spirit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cc02ef1d5d308fe35150273cadcdd6e573ae3aea/original/blue-cheer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 5-10, 1967 Blue Cheer</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blue Cheer were the loudest and hardest of San Francisco bands, very different from almost anything else coming out of the Bay Area. Blue Cheer actually played a benefit concert at the Santa Monica Civic on December 9 (Saturday night). It was common for bands billed at the Whisky to open a show somewhere else in LA and then go back to the Whisky to play later sets.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/241ad053ebce17125d034b93fa1e469aae243aca/original/janis-at-the-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 14-17, 1967 Big Brother & The Holding Company, Sweetwater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Janis Joplin and her group Big Brother and The Holding Company also became regulars at The Whisky. Mario Maglieri (manager of The Whisky A Go Go) describes one night sitting at a booth with Janis: 'She was a great entertainer, but a raunchy chick. Dirty nails, stringy hair. Looked like she hadn’t bathed in a month. And she had that raspy voice. Well, she was at the Whisky one night. I was sitting next to Janis, don’t know what the hell we were talking about. The waitress came up to the table. Janis says to her 'Gimme a drink'. So the girl brought over a Southern Comfort on the rocks. And what do you think Janis said? 'I want the whole fuckin’ bottle!' That was Janis. I truly loved her musically and as a person. She was just a great chick, you know what I mean?' " (Whisky A Go Go site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3676602ba1bb685ec474d4ef643f3f5d743614f4/original/whisky-a-go-go-logo-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s a list of some of the cool shows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that happened at the Whisky A Go Go in 1967: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peanut Butter Conspiracy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors/The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sam & Dave / Jimi Hendrix Experience </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mitch Ryder Revue </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Burdon and The Animals </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kaleidoscope/Sunshine Company </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peanut Butter Conspiracy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape / The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gene Clark </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cream/Rich Kids </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Electric Flag </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jackie Wilson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hour Glass (later to become The Allman Brothers Band) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bo Diddley/Jimmy Smith </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds / Steppenwolf </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother and The Holding Company/Sweetwater </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Country Joe and The Fish</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/785aa7afc928612e22e293041e7b57bf5c966263/original/1968.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab7975fa091cf2f7fc78ccfdd3269914dc70e70e/original/1968-jan-25-26-steppenwolf-john-mayall-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steppenwolf & John Mayall's Bluesbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 25th - January 26th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3c527a04583fcb947c8cdf191cb53950217ce167/original/march-11-13-sunshine-co-blood-sweat-tears-spirit-whicky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 11-13, 1968 Blood, Sweat & Tears </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The original line-up of Blood Sweat & Tears, featuring Al Kooper on vocals and keyboards was still intact.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/925e13d229e22503825f5f5ae846f0c9ee763ef1/original/green-tambourine-lemon-pipers.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 28-31, 1968 Lemon Pipers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Lemon Pipers were from Cincinnati, and were currently riding the charts with their hit </strong><i><strong>Green Tambourine.</strong></i></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fcbb3872dc575c3622ebdd05263a6b61e63964b5/original/april-6-james-cotton-blues-band-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85e5ab3e0a842c70d59ada66deca782caf31f584/original/april-11-traffic-whicky-april-13-spencer-davis.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 7-11, 1968 Traffic </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This was Traffic’s first American tour, and featured the trio line-up of Steve Winwood, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b43119fcdafafeffd23b8cd1a90c6cf4fdb3ca3d/original/6-13-1968-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 13-16, 1968 Three Dog Night, Smokestack Lightning</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ba8c3f469b7996cead7c5464bed1ec5fc329c69/original/1968-july-17-canned-heat.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 17-21, 1968 Canned Heat, Fraternity of Man </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fraternity of Man, later to become infamous for Don’t Bogart That Joint, grew out of a Hollywood band called The Factory. Among other members were ex-Mother Elliot Ingber and future Little Feat drummer Ritchie Hayward.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/26ae44772942b88e8b8f6409adc798829fdba1ba/original/eric-burdon-aug-22-25-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 21-25, 1968 Eric Burdon & Animals, A.B. Skhy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A.B. Skhy were from Milwaukee, where they had been known as The New Blues. They had since relocated to the Bay Area.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f55b84cd2f3cc1e66b72d16c81b58094b5dfe1a3/original/whisky-ad-byrds-flying-burrito-bros-sept-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 16-19, 1970 The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Second Coming </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Flying Burrito Brothers were introducing new singer Rick Roberts, having fired Gram Parsons in late June. John Einarson reports the detail (in his fine 2009 book Hot Burritos) that The Burritos did not perform on the first night (Wednesday September 16) because Chris Hillman hands were sore from karate lessons.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee9854ab271bb570acab973ce21a30299bb135ad/original/sept-25-29-united-states-of-america-the-rockets-oct-steve-miller-blues-band-with-chicago-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 25-28, 1968 United States of America, The Rockets </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The United States of America were a unique enterprise driven by UCLA Musicology graduate student Joseph Byrd, and featuring as vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz (who played with Country Joe McDonald in the 70s). They released one album on Columbia and played a short East Coast tour. However, founder Joe Byrd left the group after some gigs in San Francisco at the Fillmore, so while Moskowitz was still in the group for the Whisky shows, Byrd had left. U.S. of A broke up, and Byrd went on to record the album American Metaphysical Circus as Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81f88d81c88021419746d40fb023cd95361f9c90/original/velvet-underground-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 23-27, 1968 Velvet Underground, Chicago Transit Authority </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Velvets, with Doug Yule now replacing John Cale, were recording in Los Angeles in between performances in California.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b6b01b8f6f5115ac39a1e5e4ee41ae21266d565/original/nov-27-dec-1-taj-mahal-flying-burrito-bros.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 20-24, 1968 Kaleidoscope, Black Pearl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 27-December 1, 1968 Flying Burrito Brothers, Taj Mahal </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kaleidoscope, with future El-Rayo X front man David Lindley, had invented World Music some years before the world was ready for it. Jimmy Page considered this configuration of the group (with bassist Stuart Brotman and drummer Paul Lagos) them his favourite band ever, and may have gotten the idea of bowing his guitar with a violin bow from Lindley’s similar efforts in Kaleidoscope (along with that of an English guitarist named Eddie Philips). </strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3676602ba1bb685ec474d4ef643f3f5d743614f4/original/whisky-a-go-go-logo-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s a list of some of the cool shows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that happened at the Whisky A Go Go in 1968: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hugh Masakela/Steppenwolf </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers/ Steppenwolf </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Burdon & The Animals/Eire Apparent </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hour Glass </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood, Sweat & Tears </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hour Glass/Word Salad </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King/Evergreen Blue Shoes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat/Fraternity of Man </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tim Buckley/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mothers of Invention/Alice Cooper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Siegal Schwall Blues Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Illinois Speed Press/Initial Shock </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Michaels/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Miles Express </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground/Chicago Transit Authority </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three Dog Night/A.B. Skhy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood, Sweat & Tears/Spirit </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal/Big Mama Mae Thornton </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground/Cold Blood </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kaleidoscope/Black Pearl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three Dog Night </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Brothers/Taj Mahal </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harvey Mandel/Pollution </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Terry Reid/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Michaels/Chicago Transit Authority</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f024dc9943adaa9d00662fe4b1698e8f06574cdb/original/1969.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20fd5b4df4fac6486ac8e7ee49b543f618e151c1/original/1969-whisky-a-go-go-the-gtos-gram-parsons-chris-hillman-the-flying-burrito-brothers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The GTOs, Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman & the Flying Burrito Brothers</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b7f014a44d56592aa65b67e43a9ab1de55573753/original/jan-2-5-led-zeppelin-alice-cooper-jan-9-tim-heardin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6636acf752c8c0f4ec866ca7c1a389184a60ecf4/original/jan-1969-led-zeppelin-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 2-5, 1969 Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin were on their first American tour. The first night at the Whisky was only the band’s fifth show in the United States. The first album had been recorded, but not released, so while Jimmy Page was remembered from the Yardbirds, the group was completely unknown. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to Alice Cooper, the two unknown bands flipped a coin the first night to see who would go on first. Jimmy Page does not remember that specifically, but agreed that such decisions were often decided this casually between bands.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca0c665a6c635a70be304799ac6f24ea6897d59e/original/whisky-a-go-go-jan-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f36cfd27f15d579acdf31ec695e5b065961de157/original/led-zeppelin-bonham-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) rocks out @ the Whisky circa 1969</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2409158ae2564990213c77316087ba6e1d6953fd/original/allman-bros-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a06583f47dad4cd845cddefb699df72836af2191/original/bob-seger.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/88a1ab5ba3fc46d399a12fa28989ae0a2979ab9f/original/review-bob-seeger-the-cat-bros.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 24-26, 1969 Bob Seger, Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Seger, already a veteran of the Detroit scene, released his first Columbia album </strong><i><strong>Ramblin Gamblin Man</strong></i><strong> in early 1969.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81f88d81c88021419746d40fb023cd95361f9c90/original/velvet-underground-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October / November, 1969 Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Velvet Underground were playing an extended run of shows in California, mostly in San Francisco where their music was not well-received. </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3676602ba1bb685ec474d4ef643f3f5d743614f4/original/whisky-a-go-go-logo-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s a list of some of the cool shows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that happened at the Whisky A Go Go in 1969: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin/Alice Cooper/Buddy Miles Express </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tim Hardin/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lothar and The Hand People/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delaney & Bonnie & Friends/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison/Flying Burrito Brothers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda Ronstadt/Alice Cooper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It’s A Beautiful Day/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slim Harpo/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Brothers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hugh Masakela & Big Black/Chicago Transit Authority/Illinois Speed Press </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cat Mother and The All-Night Newsboys/The Flock </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Brothers/The Churls </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sir Douglas Quintet/Flock </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dunn and McCashen </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Move </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Zombies </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry/Five-Man Electrical Theatre </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground/Collectors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Humble Pie/King Crimson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bobby “Blue” Bland/Smokestack Lightning </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grand Funk Railroad</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52d1db260b3f8500c5db62139b98e052e067be38/original/1970.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c28bc08bdd99de464453c46fc16915e63903818/original/whisky-a-go-go-color-exterior.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4723ec9643af5f43621bde4ef3cb85570af80e2b/original/allman-bros-at-the-whisky-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Allman Brothers @ The Whisky</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/219d822968f79722769d78bb15364505da8bdb65/original/1972-steely-dan-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 6 - 10th 1972</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/84488f7610f772d022f0b0ce25e42572292d8131/original/1973.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c2723b5dc1a20febbe907a541fc8186b2db69dc/original/ny-dolls-whisky-1973.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NY Dolls outside the Whisky circa 1973</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd4fb0b53149276b8190dc765429881dcf2d1adf/original/rory-gallager-color-shot.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 9-13, 1973 Rory Gallagher</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a373ac3169635f3ceba8f2c3011f08388ba42883/original/rory-gallagher-boomerang-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba368e8fb1654007494a0e1b75ebc5f2a416c48b/original/alex-harvey-band-whisky-1975.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alex Harvey Band @ The Whiskey circa 1973</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cfd324a67479ca830b013aa6b8967c2822f78e0c/original/whisky-a-go-go-exterior-shot.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the 1970's, business at The Whisky A Go Go began to slow down.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7db921b05d65334f2fad6598dd3898d27ef8a792/original/1975.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In early 1975, Hollywood’s Whisky a Go Go was on the rocks. The famed Sunset Strip nightclub, which during its late 60s and early 70s peak had played host to acts ranging from The Byrds and The Doors to Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys, faced serious financial problems. Record labels, which had used the Whisky as a key platform for promoting their rising rock acts, now turned their attention to securing warm-up slots for their new artists on arena and stadium tours. The economy, too, had gone south, with inflation making it difficult to keep ticket prices down. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another blow came from the presence of newer and hipper Hollywood clubs, like the Starwood and the Roxy. ‘</strong><i><strong>We can’t get big crowds regularly</strong></i><strong>,’ owner Elmer Valentine told the Los Angeles Times. ‘We are competing with every little rock & roll club and every concert.’ In March, Valentine, a former Chicago cop who’d held an interest in the nightspot since 1964, conceded defeat. He announced that he’d decided to convert what was once the nation’s premiere rock club into a disco, of all things. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After a few lackluster months of business, Valentine dispensed with the trendy dance format and shuttered the club. He’d then begin leasing the Whisky to some enterprising gentlemen from back East who’d offer up cabaret entertainments like sex-themed shows and musical comedies, to little acclaim. On rare occasions, rock promoters put on one-off shows at the Whisky, such as in September 1975 when the pioneering female rock group the Runaways took the stage at the historic venue. But by late 1976, the once-proud Whisky had no relevance when it came to rock, and in fact, seemed destined to go to seed. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ac723c6173069fe925ebe2e3761c78ddd30f635/original/1977-blondie-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-TvucSMR4Is" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-TvucSMR4Is?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Valentine also recruited the Runaways manager Kim Fowley to help book the club and his “New Wave Nights” soon gave way to high profile acts like Blondie in early ’77. Like the early shows of Love, these performances are now part of local lore, with Debbie Harry ripping a wedding dress during ‘Rip Her to Shreds’, or crawling around and panting like a dog during ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, with Joan Jett on stage.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/17c5624e5007ac3b560f209302733509d2ba9f39/original/the-runaways-whisky.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After a few lackluster months of business, Valentine dispensed with the trendy dance format and shuttered the club. He’d then begin leasing the Whisky to some enterprising gentlemen from back East who’d offer up cabaret entertainments like sex-themed shows and musical comedies, to little acclaim. On rare occasions, rock promoters put on one-off shows at the Whisky, such as in September 1975 when the pioneering female rock group the Runaways took the stage at the historic venue. But by late 1976, the once-proud Whisky had no relevance when it came to rock, and in fact, seemed destined to go to seed. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite the Whisky’s decline, Valentine never gave up hope that he might find a way to return it to its former glories. In the summer of 1976, Valentine rang up former Spirit manager Marshall Berle. '</strong><i><strong>Around that time</strong></i><strong>,' the angular Berle recalls, '</strong><i><strong>I got a call from Elmer asking if I would help him re-open the Whisky</strong></i><strong>.' Berle, who’d maintained personal and professional relationship with Valentine since 1964, was happy to assist. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the weeks that followed, Berle and Valentine began hatching an audacious if not improbable plan to bring the Whisky back to life. Instead of booking well-established performers backed by major labels, they’d feature emerging local bands, most of whom lacked record deals, at the club. Unlike the commercially successful acts that had built the Whisky’s reputation, these groups played abrasive music that was generally unsuited for mainstream radio. By the fall, Valentine was all in on this scheme: he’d revive the Whisky by turning the nightspot into the headquarters for Los Angeles’s burgeoning punk and new wave scene.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soon after Berle heard from Valentine, he called Runaways manager and Los Angeles music entrepreneur Kim Fowley. Berle knew that the intense, six-foot-five Fowley would immediately reach out to L.A. scenester and promoter Rodney Bingenheimer, a diminutive man with a distinctive pageboy haircut, and get him on board as well. This pair was sure to have their finger on the pulse of what was next in rock music and know which local street bands seemed poised for a breakout. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The duo didn’t disappoint. By the early summer of 1976, punk and new wave had come to the fore in New York and London, and had begun creeping into Los Angeles. Bingenheimer and Fowley started spotting growing clutches of teenagers dressed in ragged denim and stained leather, hanging in the parking lot of the Sunset Strip’s Rainbow Bar and Grill. They’d talk to these street kids about the bands they were forming and groups from back East and overseas, like the Ramones, Blondie, and the Sex Pistols, that they all dug. The pair, too, kept abreast of the inchoate scene’s undercurrents through Runaways’ guitarist and vocalist Joan Jett, who’d come to identify with it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then in August, the Pasadena-based KROQ hired Bingenheimer to spin records for four hours on Sunday nights across the AM and FM airwaves. He’d be the first DJ in L.A. to play Blondie and the Sex Pistols too. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As autumn arrived, this new movement continued to take shape. As momentum built on the street, Valentine made his move. In mid-November, Valentine announced the club’s reopening in the pages of Billboard, stating, '</strong><i><strong>I feel that punk rock, which is so hot in New York now, may well be due to hit Los Angeles</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Thanksgiving weekend, that proposition began to be put to the test when the Whisky once again opened for business as a rock club. With Fowley serving as MC, the nightclub featured two local (and Fowley-backed) new wave bands: The Quick; and Venus and the Razorblades. With teenagers filling the room, the Whisky’s resurrection had begun. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6686cf41d7ea7e70eae18cdb543b929a762cdb3d/original/van-halen-1977.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just days later, the scene’s eclectic nature was on display on the Whisky stage when Berle and Fowley paired Venus and the Razorblades with a decidedly un-punk rock band from Pasadena, Van Halen. Berle, who just weeks earlier had caught a sold-out Van Halen concert in Pasadena, had hired them to play the club.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By late December, Valentine and the others sensed that the punk and new wave movements seemed ready to break wide open in Los Angeles. Fowley, perhaps the most unsung scene maker in rock history, wasted no time in hyping the Hollywood music movement.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By early February, the Whisky featured its highest profile act to date when rising new wave stars Blondie, with a young Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in support, performed a multi-day stand at the club. Photographer Jenny Lens, whose work vividly documented the LA scene, wrote in Punk Pioneers, “Debbie [Harry] walked onto the stage wearing a Humphrey Bogart beige trenchcoat, black beret, and holding a New York paper announcing freezing weather.” As the set continued, she unbuttoned the coat to reveal an outrageously tiny black dress and thigh-high black leather boots.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fad3763b90a64869f2ad3ed6bd7db4efaba8edcd/original/tompetty-debut-gig-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a6005df08c0aa282fce446efe32a3282aea53317/original/review-tom-petty-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As it had a decade prior, in the late 70s the Whisky once again served as a phenomenal launching pad for new rock talent. By 1980, Van Halen, Blondie, the Jam, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had all become stars. John Cougar joined them in that status by 1982. In contrast, the Germs never broke out of Los Angeles, and the band disbanded for good in late 1980 when Pyn, now calling himself Darby Crash, committed suicide by injecting a massive dose of heroin.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bcb77f48dac032e5b7ee0bf9ec98ebdd8e75ae9c/original/1977.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3bab868918d2b33354195049a80d7db893fe2d29/original/joan-jett-rodney-bingenheimer-whisky-1977.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joan Jett & Rodney Bingenheimer hanging out @ The Whisky circa 1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eefc69515c9c1f73ef452024d0edd87e7da7f25a/original/ramones-whisky-1977.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones rock The Whisky circa 1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/736f14b7d9e6c8ebea53ade06a76ed7f942c67a5/original/whisky-ramones-marquee.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbcbda27a8d31f354c729352d599fa1d3f02005a/original/august-1977-ramones-whisky.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eeae96440e0e3939b978c4e86bd24411b58d6dd7/original/1980s.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2bf2850ee92671f9251a815aa33ff9e58c94e4f7/original/van-halen-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d484d451fc7c41f0b8a593cc7a12419c1915d38e/original/motley-crue-onstage-whisky-1981.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/019fa7a2d11c0d409628c021d23be97082058d7c/original/motley-crue-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DGjqonSBn1M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DGjqonSBn1M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Mötley Crüe started their career on The Sunset Strip, as they performed many nights at the Whisky A Go-Go. The band also filmed their “Kickstart My Heart” video at the Whisky. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1981 Mötley Crüe were rehearsing, playing shows and partying in ways that defied conventional living. Nikki, Tommy and Vince were living in an apartment up the street from the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. They found girls to help pay for drinks, drugs, clothes, and food, and when that failed, they stole the necessities from the stores down the streets. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nikki Sixx still remembers when they sold out the Whisky A Go Go three nights in a row: 'That was one of the highlights of our career.' He says. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>He also recalls the wild parties they had here: 'Did I tell you about the time I tied a girl up in the Whisky bathroom with Mick’s guitar cable, and then went to get a bump of blow from Tommy? I forgot she was in there!' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'Vince Neil is a doll when he’s sober, but one time he whacked one of my guys with a pizza because he parked his car in the back instead of the front,' says owner Mikeal Maglieri." (Whisky A Go Go website)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8237013835e57cb578c099086269dc2d8b5de231/original/guns-roses-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5acce178dd3f52161b59ea88d74d8fa87f4ed9d3/original/guns-roses-poster-whisky.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Formed in LA in 1985, Guns N’ Roses emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene as one of the great stadium rock acts of its time and one of the best-selling bands in music history. Guns N’ Roses performed at the Whisky during its formative years, and band members – including guitarist Slash and keyboardist Dizzy Reed – have performed there in various capacities since their platinum-selling heyday. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86af0bad9b46582d52b3cefd001b29b9c846cc32/original/whisky-matches.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64502a89671a2c2d0b225c62d8b974158f36d94a/original/elmore-valentine-later-years.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elmer Valentine in his later years</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As time went on, Valentine withdrew from the club and the music scene and slipped into retirement. Though Elmer didn't do much socializing anymore, he spent his time happily at his house up in the Hollywood Hills, smoking herb and listening to his favorite jazz albums.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6b04ada177231c16358f2da7242583ab5e90fddd/original/elmer-has-left-the-building.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elmer Valentine, the primary force behind The Whisky, passed away in December 2009 at the age of 85. A few hundred friends and fans gathered at The Whiskey to remember Valentine's contribution to the rock & roll culture. Besides the folks sharing their memories of Valentine, there was music performed by Johnny Rivers, Stephen Stills, Chris Hillman and John Mayall. The ghost of Jim Morrison was ejected from the party after overturning several tables and chairs.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fe0da396a0036f5eebe63abc4405f06b286ab17b/original/present-day-whisky.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Today, the Whisky stands open for business on the Sunset Strip, and features a wide-range of local and national talent. Yet the days when Berle and Valentine could fill the gig calendar and then consistently pack the house are long gone. To help limit the club’s exposure to financial risk, the Whisky requires local bands to purchase upfront, and then resell, blocks of tickets in order to gig there, a scheme that musicians decry as a “pay-to-play” policy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite this state of affairs, ambitious musicians still leap at the chance to play at the storied Whisky. And why wouldn’t they? When bands take the stage there, they are performing in the shadow of greatness, one that stretches back to 1964. Over and over again, as a look back at 1977 reveals, the club has served as the local mecca for musical trends that change rock history. When the next big thing in rock arrives, ground zero may very well again be at a little club on the Sunset Strip." (medium.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8dce1f714481fcdf005f0cc7cc9658ab9bef7b94/original/love-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="R3UIj0gUxtc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R3UIj0gUxtc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Whisky A Go Go has been immortalized in various rock songs many times over, the best case probably being the popular ditty Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark and Hilldale from the album, Forever Changes by the popular Whisky Band, Love which was fronted by the mercurial Arthur Lee.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77b3a265aca30d50b662b0e2435b4b950413d578/original/join-our-mailing-list-guitar-image.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/46f79f77d60778da31b817d3213f91cbd051b063/original/cool-sounds-msr.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mardi-gras-singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d656efc22c8150a4dfd3344f65bdf656e6cc894/original/1970-the-kinks-youngloods-ritchie-coliseum-univ-maryland-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kinks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Young Bloods</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ritchie Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Maryland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>College Mark, MD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steel Mill (early Bruce Springsteen band)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sandy Bull</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Hooker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Matrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a6afbd62a47036cb2743b828539050bbd5a6f2a/original/1970-the-byrds-whisky-a-go-go-flying-burrito-bros.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7cdf35c4bde6d674a3c6bae11bc3843cb66b555a/original/1970-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage-matric-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>with Jerry Garcia, Marmaduke & Mickey Hart</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Matrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/44d731e818e0f92540ad6e6ded31dd234d0778c8/original/1970-howlin-wolf-muddy-waters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yXfFJD7P1Ic" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXfFJD7P1Ic?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Battle of the Blues</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Howlin Wolf vs. Muddy Waters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Club Paradise</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d7cc323b73b849b9df84981bd3ca9caf10ef4698/original/1970-bb-king-the-houserockers-vfw-hall-greenville-ms.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="K6vitkawCdI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K6vitkawCdI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>B.B. King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Houserockers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>V.F.W.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Greenville, MS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b3c485aa95607a6fc0862625f90efdb6b26efbd2/original/1970-action-house-grateful-dead-ad.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Action House</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Island Park, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf49f0ce32fa684e81a025e2be24a5a316f8ed1a/original/1970-grateful-dead-euphoria-san-rafael-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3H-CW12fBNA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3H-CW12fBNA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rubber Duck Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Euphoria</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Rafael, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfc990cfc0fddde01aaea12db6718a26a27d27bf/original/1970-brooklyn-rock-rock-palace-brooklyn-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Great Jones, Cactus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly, Country Joe & The Fish</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Young Bloods, Big Brother</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown, Buddy Miles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Haystacks Balboa, Lee Michaels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brooklyn Rock Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brooklyn, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a8e86eb6a00e933d665b741cdc92e6daa0d4eb5c/original/1970-doors-long-beach-arena-long-beach-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kE32pvvaDT8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kE32pvvaDT8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Bros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9bfc08de3090639a3b4749aa3d6fd27e89f81eee/original/1970-janis-joplin-van-morrison-cole-field-house-univ-of-maryland-college-park-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1Nwwhhnak7I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Nwwhhnak7I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cole Field House</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Maryland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>College Park, MD</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c53886f9ece4dbd0f44df58cf31f5eba85628f85/original/1970-quicksilver-paul-butterfield-jo-jo-gunne-selland-arena-fresno-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Butterfield Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jo Jo Gunne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Selland Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fresno, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa9051756bd52d032ca2688757937c9f3f6e9024/original/schaefer-music-festival-central-park-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4f0ba9c714b2c2a83fcb334968a20f0d6616ba00/original/1970-schaefer-music-fest-central-park-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf599f4a0558ef0e662914e9848bfbedb27feff6/original/1970-new-york-pop-festival-randalls-island.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Pop Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Randall's Island</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1a57f2d9ffc17f8dc5c0b0471100b82ce8f9084/original/1970-ike-tina-turner-revue-seattle-center-arena-wa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l 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Four Seasons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jam Factory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cassell Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Virginia Tech</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blacksburg, VA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4652479f5d6795038865af46c58c5f5a15459a1/original/pink-floyd-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GNzgvLzxhzU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doug Kershaw</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2ca0f73ae9037e249dc66788865bfc43282964c/original/r-r-state-of-mind-blog-mailing-list-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/28b3eae992b6e3afea2cff44bd3a16e0932e4795/original/1970-the-who-james-gang.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="l1saEQSD7JI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l1saEQSD7JI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Gang</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spectrum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d8d9f4200e173285e655b533466f92f455870e7/original/1970-laura-nyro-the-band-berkeley-community-center-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MMwq4teVMtg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MMwq4teVMtg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laura Nyro</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley Community Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff9b545f1b4c0cf275b02fc30e09fc623444196c/original/led-zeppelin-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds, Poco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commander Cody</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brotherhood of Light</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lee Hooker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold Blood, Mason Proffit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterly, AUM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Oak Arkansas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a730031d4cede919e1dcbc9c059681e76bc4b33/original/1970-beach-boys-paul-revere-the-raiders-portland-civic-auditorium-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beach Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Revere & The Raiders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Allison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie Weller & Joe Jr.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/31c0f42e4fe276ecf0cdca92c0bbe1b6038d3809/original/1970-youngbloods-family-dog-show-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a8a115c7a84c0622f73975e606d83fee6003c461/original/the-youngbloods.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Youngbloods</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commander Cody & His Lost Airmen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeffrey Cain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family Dog</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d5094375e0b8b924edb11cb92f7c08ccaf82ec4a/original/jefferson-airplane-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9ea6f0b5c7d5774c1394366fcdda147d774fd457/original/jefferson-airplane-a-weekend-with-winterland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana, It's A Beautiful Day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cc5da88683cee4b61f0e52d2fd78aa649e220323/original/1970-velvet-underground-the-unicorn-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="385eJy9dPHA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/385eJy9dPHA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Unicorn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d00bba621b88c61e7e1caa2f5f4bd473bc7e31a9/original/1970-chuck-berry-sacramento-city-college-sacramento-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Class Reunion Picnic</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Revere & The Raiders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fabian</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Shirelles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Anthony</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bo Diddley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mary Wells</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Coasters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento City College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento, CA</strong></span></p><h3> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d66fe4c7223bc8645c974e05e5b66abf9f57ae1a/original/1970-mountain-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ed2fcd3f2e168b54e97c5cf17340b74d0ee2b934/original/mountain.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blues Project 2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><h3> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/84c1a1936cfdcd6f25e7bcb43531df6c960faff9/original/1970-free-concert-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Free</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amazing Blondel, Suck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Marsupilami, Luther</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Woolacombe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>North Devon, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/17c9a9183b4c4980c0d9d23b38b190ad1743963b/original/1970-the-band-miles-davis-the-hollywood-bowl-los-angeles-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="N79OAlMi2nI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N79OAlMi2nI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miles Davis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood Bowl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0a86ba436b31a4cc87f62ace86b76dd839845174/original/trans-continental-pop-festival-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dIYumgR92B4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dIYumgR92B4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blogs/mind-smoke-blog/posts/1970-the-saga-of-the-festival-express" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="FESTIVAL EXPRESS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FESTIVAL EXPRESS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delaney & Bonnie, Mashmakan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James & The Good Bros, Charlebois</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ian & Sylvia with Great Speckled BIrd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Guy, Eric Anderson, Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Rush, John Sebastian, Smith</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3964fe144c275a1f1c8be8062cbbe3c04747ec81/original/1970-isle-of-wight-poster-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="J2pOoqDzEh8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J2pOoqDzEh8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors, The Who, Jimi Hendrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jethro Tull, Joan Baez, Chicago</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Years After, Joni Mitchell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sle & The Family Stone, Family, Taste</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Procol Harum, Cat Mother, Leonard Cohen & The Army</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Voices of East Harlem, John Sebastian, Richie Havens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moody Blues, Pentangle, Arrival, Melanie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Emerson Lake & Palmer, Tony Jo White, Mungo Jerry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cactus, Spirit, Miles Davis, Lightho</strong></span>use</p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ralph McTell, Good News</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd4cafee8f656ce80ac404e262e9e0325fd9a264/original/1970summer-jam-west-ontario-motor-speedway-ontario-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SUMMER JAM WEST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beach Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vE6UeEY7ApI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vE6UeEY7ApI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Walsh & Barnstorm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesse Colin Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ontario Motor Speedway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ontario, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/01630dbb8457f4cb21accf25532b9305eb5a7ad0/original/1970-summer-concerts-convention-hall-boardwalk-asbury-park-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CONVENTION HALL ON THE BOARDWALK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Yars After, Mott The Hoople</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jethro Tull, Cactus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Association, Mouintain, David Ra</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grand Funk Railroad, Bloodrock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Mathis, The Temptations</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana, Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Guess Who, Rare Earth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, Delaney Bonnie & Friends</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/51e34f1d75e42c3b6f9f7c282d5eb61a3ec35bfc/original/goose-lake-park-rock-fest-jackson-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="o7RFG000QGo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o7RFG000QGo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GOOSE LAKE ROCK FEST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 Years After, Savage Grace, Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, Ram, Bob Seger</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Sebastian, Alice Cooper, Litter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SRC, James Gang, Stooges</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Drake Shake, Flock, 3rd Power</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mighty Quick, Brownsville Station</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flyring Burrito Bros., Suite Charity</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goose Lake Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jackson, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cd2ded98113098979b76ae7c0e47ad7652389b46/original/fleetwood-mac-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hRu7Pt42x6Y" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hRu7Pt42x6Y?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munchen Deutsches Museum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18f111e3a74ff33b01d88a2d6f8c729a2c4c2faf/original/1970-led-zep-baltimore-civic-center-baltimore-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fIQMktyP90s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fIQMktyP90s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baltimore Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baltimore, MD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea1e3becde90c4c58725a1b10ba6640a997d8b8d/original/1970-fleetwood-mac-james-gang-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Gang</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8af400824cacbd8705f216a8369b7bef97e71aa1/original/1970-stevie-wonder.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Wonder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edwin Starr</strong></span></p><p 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Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kent, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b09e4b0790034eb787ad30250a79b492016b00a4/original/1970-csny-portland-coliseum-oregon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/13521048ff9a9cdde1f023e4e27d2dc90fb179c7/original/1970-csny-fillmore-east-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="km5SvbIvJYI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/km5SvbIvJYI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/221e1ec11be0d86419fd3f9879e852a7a0d6130a/original/1970-grateful-dead-sopwith-camel-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3H-CW12fBNA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3H-CW12fBNA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sopwith Camel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf0f82b99a3719f6a13cc2110bca284ded96654e/original/1970-grateful-dead-the-daily-flash-the-rising-sons-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Daily Flash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rising Songs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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/></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love with Arthur Lee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Gang, Black Sabbath</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sha Na Na</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvin Bishop, Tower of Power</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1914f6f356c16c5b6ce0ed751836148ce3531e0d/original/1970-derek-the-dominoes-with-duane-allman-syracuse-war-memorial-syracuse-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Derek & The Dominoes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toe Fat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Onondaga War Memoria</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Syracuse, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dc339fe6a6a2aadd89918e23407191e1535dbc1d/original/the-who-univ-of-leeds-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TmfQQC1bsf4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TmfQQC1bsf4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Leeds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c6ff16b0a51a07c1c8d36985278f372a9ba3432c/original/1970-alic-cooper-the-opera-house-chicago-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lennon & Yoko Ono </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Commander Cody </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ed Sanders, Bobby Seale, Teagarden & Van Winkle </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Archie Shepp & Roswell Rudd, Jerry Rubin </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Up, Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger, David Peel & Fr. James Groppi </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09e23976464c58d94ddc1bc2b74ed48ffac24e1e/original/1970-derek-the-dominoes-torqua-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Derek & The Dominos </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bram Stoker & Adolphus Rebirth </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Marquay Club </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Torquay Town Hall </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Torquay, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3576cb620480be7e6d582b7dd799f08d80ace121/original/1970-rascals-swing-auditorium-san-bernadino-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rascals </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Southwind, Cock Robin </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Swing Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Bernardino, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e85a2c6c0bf967c922e0e05cb1f37596e5b026b2/original/1970-anaheim-stadium-the-who-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="K5xcfXbgxiM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K5xcfXbgxiM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim Stadium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/038504180a7d2be635a92c3c1252014c582feefd/original/1970-the-doors-scramento-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento Memorial Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee08bf421d935217f0d7dc9bbbc3d80b35557579/original/1970-van-morrison-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KyfRMRvp88g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KyfRMRvp88g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blodwyn Pig</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blues Image</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c043d30d74b84fcf96e8df88641556ff067095fa/original/1970-mc5-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="74jS3dW0DtE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/74jS3dW0DtE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stone The Crow</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/713f5e18d5623fc5e08af8b530687dea89367c9e/original/1970-jimi-hendrix-band-of-gypsys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OorZ_oc6CaM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OorZ_oc6CaM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix & The Band of Gypsys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Voices of East Harlem</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfa9bdf908fa1bf2787f0a595da8af1ec4723174/original/1970-van-morrison-doug-westons-troubadour-west-hollywood-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doug Weston's Troubadour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Hollywood, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/03398739cd31f4206ded69c6c12e0bbe3d367dc6/original/mind-smoke-record-store-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ecfba5b48d7883be416c2fdfb8456124eeb0b4b5/original/get-vandalized-rti.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Over the past 40 years, the Freelance Vandals have been one of the most legendary bands on the Long Island music scene. During the height of the band's popularity, they opened shows for such artists as NRBQ, Dr. John and John Hiatt and received positive reviews in such publications as Creem Magazine, Variety, The New York Times and Newsday.</strong></span><span style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3f40558ce7f3f80b2d7a8bab69b23204309064d8/original/facebook-songwriter-image-for-single-300.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FREELANCE VANDALS ALBUMS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2f20d0bf7ba4f282e0a3692dce2bc2b25c99a30e/original/cover-the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW RELEASE! It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/649c963d39a5aa706a09dc77dee97c87caa61af2/original/fv-out-of-order.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded live @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) on Easter Sunday 1981. Featuring Billy "the Mountain" Cairns (Drums / Vocals), Mike Adams (Bass / Vocals), Chuck Ciany (Vocals / Sax / Guitar), Jack Finch (Keyboards), "Diamond" Ray Finch (Vocals / Lead Guitar) and Johnny Pierre (Vocals / Rhythm & Slide Guitar). Rock & Roll is a State of Mind!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/654f7263697a99bb65f53e715d840ad976ca290d/original/fv-yer-money-or-yer-ears.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded Live 1983 @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) Billy Cairns - Drums / Vocals Mike Adams - Bass / Vocals Tommy Yamasaki - Tenor & Soprano Sax / Percussion "Diamond" Ray Finch - Lead Guitar / Vocals Johnny Pierre - Lead Vocals / Guitar Chuck Ciany - Guitar / Vocals / Percussion / Sax Al Speed - Keyboards / Vocals Jack Finch - Keyboards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ab551f04e8b7cd68e67bd13344d1c2d26a31dc/original/live-the-music-box-1978-fv.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's 1978 and The Freelance Vandals are getting wild and crazy @ The Music Box in Bellmore, NY on New Year's Eve!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/753a0f26229ba572aff31c375e944cd77d39ef75/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This live set captures the Freelance Vandals in action @ The Pastime Pub in Amityville circa 1980! Special Thanks To John C. Englehardt for his artwork and The Michael Tully Archive for providing a cassette of this show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3f40558ce7f3f80b2d7a8bab69b23204309064d8/original/facebook-songwriter-image-for-single-300.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FREELANCE VANDALS ALBUMS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/858c0597e9f1b52bdcc2ba29e8f9d3d6e39755a9/original/fv-cover-image-a.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-gig-list" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FREELANCE VANDALS GIG LIST</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><a class="no-pjax" href="/singles" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="SINGLES" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a96ef1e7cc0d08128a283f9ab0252fd5aba05e09/original/singles-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a><a class="no-pjax" href="/albums" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="ALBUMS" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ff4bbdc084401ec58f5a7570576a3aa844be0eb/original/albums-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65743632024-01-24T09:37:56-05:002024-01-27T04:33:22-05:00Rock & Roll: The Psychedelic Years (Expanded Edition)<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/04e1401ae7ffd2ed98d946aa4d92a315abbfcebb/original/rock-roll-the-psychedelic-years-expanded-additon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Psychedelic rock was a musical genre that emerged in the mid-sixties due to the popularity of such mind-altering drugs as LSD, mescaline, cannabis and peyote mushrooms. The roots of Psychedelic Rock begin here: On Friday April 16, 1943 (a day later to be known as </strong><i><strong>Better Friday</strong></i><strong>) a Swiss chemist named Albert Hoffman, who worked for a company called Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, synthesized a drug called lysergic acid diethylamide which would later be known as LSD-25. In the course of experimenting with the drug in his lab, Hoffman accidently dosed himself with LSD-25 and began to experience hallucinations. When Hoffman reported what had happened to his supervisor, he described his experience as “an uninterrupted stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness…accompanied by an intense kaleidoscopic play of colors.” The following Monday, when Hoffman returned to work in his lab, he decided to experiment further with LSD-25 by dissolving 250 micrograms of the drug in a glass of water. Within an hour of consuming the drug, Albert Hoffman began to embark on the first deliberate acid “trip”.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/efb46a9a0306340929c5037ab9a1fcb7fba0d224/original/sandoz.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eventually, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals decided to market the drug for use in the treatment of people suffering from various types of psychotic illness. Sandoz also worked with the CIA who employed LSD-25 and other mind altering drugs for use in interrogations. "The CIA and the military never did find the truth serums or mind-bending weapons that they sought from LSD, psilocybin, and a vast array of other psychedelic drugs. Nor did the psychopharmacologists ever find in psychedelics the wonder drugs that they had hoped for (in part, perhaps, because the powers-that-be eventually put a premature stop to their research). However, this strange conglomeration of historical actors and forces— powerful drugs developed by a profit-driven pharmaceutical industry, well-funded and well-intentioned research scientists and doctors, and the anything-goes mentality of the Cold War intelligence agencies— did succeed in unintentionally spawning a cultural revolution that would, it is not an exaggeration to say, transform the United States and the world in its wake. " (Rick Dodgson. It’s All a Kind of Magic University of Wisconsin Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://c.pxhere.com/images/04/76/f2c5788c3b2f0ec7dda0e80e67a0-1420095.png!d" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Free Images : mandala, meditation, pattern, psychedelic art, symmetry, design, organism, kaleidoscope, modern art, visual arts, fractal art, window 3508x2480 - hazem elsheltawi - 1420095 - Free stock photos - PxHere" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Birth of Psychedelic Rock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Psychedelic Rock was derived from the term psychedelia which is the term tagged to people whose culture is strangely affected by psychedelic drugs with their art generally expressing bright colors and animations. This type of music is made popular by bands such as The Beatles, The Byrds and The Yardbirds. The musicians intended to express mind-altering experiences with hallucinogenic drugs through their music and lyrics. Perhaps under the influence of LSD or (Lysergic acid diethylamide), cannabis and other hallucinogenic drugs, these musicians were able to made music that are truly powerful and influential. Psychedelic rock is best characterized by soft and meaningful lyrics, heartwarming solos and complex melodies and song structures. They make use of electric guitars, keyboard especially organs and harpsichords. They also make use of studio effects such as the backward tapes, planning and phasing and they associate their music with the non-western style and Indian Music." (from the ebonmusic site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69a2f83bd7db105086ee423734aa5399e75c39ae/original/seeing-sounds-and-listening.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's evident that the 1960's was the era of The Hippie Movement. Although, this movement had its roots in the social movements of the 19th century Europe, it was a new wave of social recognition and rebel against system and norms of society. The fundamental idea of this movement was to create and follow the Counterculture, hence gaining the title of Counterculture of the 1960's. The protest and rebellion towards the standard culture of 1960's revolved around the phenomenon of ‘experimentation’ and ‘freedom’ regarding social norms and living standards. This idea of experimentation was also expressed in the form of art and music. As the use of psychedelic drugs had generally become popular in that era, it widely became a source of expression of freedom for the hippie movement as well. As the result of experimentation, rebellion and expression of social power, the Psychedelic music was born. Undoubtedly, the Psychedelic music might have been influenced by the drug use, but on a bigger perspective, the drug intake was itself a form of protest in the 1960's. Consequently, it would not be completely deceitful to claim that the Psychedelic music was the product of the inception of a new culture...At the beginning, many rock artists started composing records of psychedelic nature and soon psychedelic-rock became a popular genre in 1960's. Summer of Love, John Lennon, The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones were the most famous musicians and bands that introduced psychedelia into the rock music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Psychedelic rock has some unique characteristics in terms of song structure, lyrics, instruments, and much more unique elements that produces a so-called “psychedelic” sound. It often uses soft and meaningful lyrics, heartwarming solos and complex melodies and song structures. They make use of electric guitars, keyboard, especially mellotron, organs, and harpsichords. They also make use of studio effects such as the backward tapes, planning and phasing and they associate their music with ‘non-western’ style and Indian Music. Plenty of people still associate psychedelic music with the usage of narcotics, psychotropics, or substances to that effect; this sort of opinion comes with the thought of the musicians intending to express mind-altering experiences with hallucinogenic drugs through their music and lyrics. Perhaps under the influence of such drugs for example ‘LSD’ (Lysergic acid diethylamide), cannabis, and other hallucinogenic drugs, these musicians were able to create music that were truly powerful and influential. *Nevertheless*, psychedelic music is still, to my opinion, truly enjoyable even without a dose of said drugs." (medium.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc66479333768151a9499d837ccaf7c11b5caf83/original/what-is-psychedelic-music.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>WHAT IS PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC?</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“What do you think of when I say psychedelic rock? Most likely images of the counterculture of the 1960’s, Woodstock, and big names such as Jimi Hendrix or The Doors are your first thought. In fact, many of the bands we consider to be pillars of classic rock are considered psychedelic rock bands. Even the earliest psych albums are influential to this day, each post 1960’s decade heralding a revival of the genre. Important features are heavy reverb, a large key presence (especially electronic organs), Eastern instruments and musical themes, long instrumental sections, and surreal lyrics that often reference the use of hallucinogenic drugs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With the accessibility of modern music and the surge in popularity of the alternative rock scene, artists such as Tame Impala and Mac DeMarco enjoy great popularity and ensure the genre stays alive and well. Perhaps a surge in psychedelic style is not only due to the recent push to reduce jail time and stigma surrounding drugs (particularly marijuana), but also for a decidedly political and jaded youth. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For me, the genre and subsequent sub-genres and revivals remind me of the reason I started becoming an avid music listener in the first place; growing up on albums like Disraeli Gears and The Dark Side of the Moon were integral in the development of my personal music taste and exploring my own definition of music. Maybe this is why we love psychedelia- it reminds us of our parents, our grandparents, or our very first album. Perhaps it reminds you of the first song you heard on the radio, or a distant buzz over the speaker while shopping. Thus, it is even more important that we learn how psychedelia came to be… </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The year is 1965. A clear youth counterculture has begun to emerge, experimenting in their usage of drugs such as weed, psilocybin, and LSD. A little over a decade has passed since the term “rock and roll” has been coined; this is when the 13th Floor Elevators emerge on the Austin music scene, inspired by folk and blues. A year later, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators is released, its liner notes and album art explicitly advocating the use of LSD as a means of freeing the soul and expanding the mind. 13th Floor members Roky Erickson, referred to as the “godfather of psychedelic rock,” and Tommy Hall are credited with coining the term “psychedelic rock”. Hall’s use of the electric jug in particular is a key element of reproducing the feel of an acid trip in music, emulating a bending of reality and a trance-like state. The lyrics also incite a distant, out-of-body feeling, from lyrics about “liquid distant castles” to “living on monkey island”. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although moderate in success, the album is arguably one of the most influential in establishing the genre and helped Austin grow as a hub of music in the South. Other notable artists to emerge out of the Texas psychedelic rock scene include Janis Joplin, Red Krayola and Bubble Puppy. At the same time, author Ken Kesey and a group called The Merry Pranksters were touring the San Francisco Bay Area handing out acid (not yet outlawed), accompanied by early performances by The Grateful Dead, and visuals created by oil projections in what would later be known as “The Acid Tests”. As LSD became more influential in youth culture, it became more and more clear across the nation that it would shape the next wave of music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The following year, The Beach Boys release </strong><i><strong>Pet Sounds</strong></i><strong>, not only hailed as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time, but the defining album in bridging psychedelic rock and pop music, thus introducing the genre to the mainstream. The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts; following this, The Beach Boys began to produce a series of psychedelic albums (Wild Honey, Sunflower, etc.) that, although not as successful commercially as their prior albums, showed a clear shift in both their sound as well as mainstream music’s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1969, psychedelic rock reached the peak of its popularity. This is the year we get the Woodstock Festival, one of the most definitive moments in rock and roll. This is the height of youth counterculture, and within the same year it comes crashing down with many “acid causalities”, nervous/psychological breakdowns caused by a mixture of fame and heavy hallucinogen abuse. Some of the most notable acid casualties include Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett, with several “27 Club” members dying the following year from a variety of reasons. With the death of many of the “greats” of psychedelic rock comes the death of its popularity in the mainstream, its sub-genres readily taking its place. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although a few psychedelia bands remained, throughout the 80’s it mostly served to influence new genres such as shoegaze. It retreated into the alternative scene, and in the 1990’s bands such as The Flaming Lips and Super Furry Animals sought to revive the genre to its former glory. Although they achieve some popular success, this “neo-psychedelia” is still decidedly underground. It is not until around 2001, with the so-called “revival” of rock and roll and a flourishing and increasingly popular alternative scene that many neo-psychedelia bands form and thrive, such as Animal Collective, and Pond. This new wave of psychedelic rock maintains some of the key features of psychedelia, but more frequently blends with electronica and pop. In the mid-2000’s there are several breakthroughs into the mainstream with hits such as “Electric Feel” by MGMT and “Do You Realize??” by the Flaming Lips. As the indie scene began to take on a particularly large role with youth in 2010-onward, so did psychedelia and its influences. Today, we see the development of subgenres like acid house and trance music developing from the once again rising psychedelic rock scene. Whether a lifelong fan or a listener trying to branch out, perhaps it’s time to spin that dusty acid rock vinyl at the bottom of the bin just one more time.” (The Radio UTD site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1c53a87a697922709bbffafcac1e6a8f145d941e/original/psychedelic-beatles.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"For entire swathes of the record-buying public, their first encounter with psychedelic music was provided by </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> – the game-changing Beatles album, released in August 1966, that contained so many of the exotic elements that came to define the form. It beguiled, ensnared and, in some cases, disturbed the listener with its fresh, unorthodox textures: reality-shifting tape reversal techniques, tape loops, undulant sitars and opaque lyrics. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Of course, nothing simply materializes out of nowhere. The mind-remapping initiatives eagerly showcased on </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> represented a flowering that couldn’t help but burst forth; in a beneficially reciprocal loop, contributors to The Beatles’ expanded worldview included musical peers such as the coolly enigmatic Byrds and the previously surfing-fixated Beach Boys. Bob Dylan, too, though musically far removed from the psychedelic sounds of The Beatles and co, exerted his influence as a conundrum-generating lyricist, and, crucially, as the genial host who allegedly turned John, Paul, George and Ringo on to marijuana in a room of New York’s Hotel Delmonico in August 1964. Furthermore, when George Harrison’s dentist irresponsibly spiked the coffees of Harrison, John Lennon and their wives with LSD at a dinner party in April 1965, his recklessness would have profound implications. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As is well known, the concluding (and most extreme) track on </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> was actually the first to be tackled when sessions began in April 1966. </strong><i><strong>Tomorrow Never Knows</strong></i><strong> drew its eerie lyric ('</strong><i><strong>Lay down all thought, surrender to the void – it is shining</strong></i><strong>') from Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead – a much-discussed tome of the day which Lennon had picked up in London’s Indica bookshop in Mason’s Yard. (The bookshop in question, a beacon for London’s arty inner set, was also supported by Paul McCartney.) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lennon’s desire to sound like '</strong><i><strong>the Dalai Lama singing from the highest mountain top</strong></i><strong>' inspired producer George Martin – a meticulous and ingenious facilitator – to route the vocal through a rotating Leslie speaker, normally used in tandem with Hammond organs. Lennon’s startling, otherworldly declamation consequently sat atop a forbidding edifice of super-compressed drums and chirruping, pinging tape loops, ridden on separate faders during the mix to form the track’s hallucinatory sound collage. In addition, a hard, bright, backward guitar solo bisects the track like ribbon lightning, while others entwine themselves around the mushily enticing somnolence of ‘</strong><i><strong>I’m Only Sleeping</strong></i><strong>’.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9bdf2fc84e80b81423d3101a18c37dfa19085b6/original/psychedlic-mop-tops.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles’ first experiment with reversed tapes on the vocal coda to </strong><i><strong>Rain</strong></i><strong>, the B-side to the band’s </strong><i><strong>Paperback Writer</strong></i><strong> single, had been released two months previously. Lennon always claimed that the notion came about as he accidentally played the tape backwards on his Brenell tape recorder at home, but George Martin maintained that it was he who suggested applying the technique – an equally credible claim....Also keenly aware of the prevailing swirls in the upper atmosphere were The Beach Boys. Psychedelic music will cover the face of the world and color the whole popular music scene,' Brian Wilson enthused in a 1966 interview: '</strong><i><strong>Anybody happening is psychedelic. As ambassadors of universal love, brotherhood and spiritual betterment, they were theoretically bang on trend with the tenets of “flower power</strong></i><strong>' (psychedelia’s entry-level adjunct), while October 1966’s </strong><i><strong>Good Vibrations</strong></i><strong> deserves a seat at the very head of the table for the audacity of its multi-layered construction and its impressionistic shimmer alone. The Americana-encompassing SMiLE album project – which Wilson embarked upon after being introduced to erudite fellow songwriter Van Dyke Parks in early 1966 – promised to boldly broach a whole new series of frontiers.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a7d6dfa64849203c79821d0ab360cfaa7585cdd/original/13th-fl-elevators.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Among other pioneering psych adopters were Texas’ 13th Floor Elevators – raving garage-rockers in essence, but lent a philosophical mystique by the studiously earnest LSD evangelism of lyricist and electric jug player Tommy Hall. Their November 1966 debut album, The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators, couldn’t have nailed their freak flag to the mast any more overtly. Hall, by no means an acid dilettante, anonymously penned a provocative sleevenote which countenanced a “quest” towards a higher consciousness – and the churning, roiling ‘Fire Engine’ contains a punning paean to the intensely hallucinogenic drug DMT (dimethyltryptamine). The Elevators’ unstinting acid regimen – actually taking to the stage tripping as a matter of principle – contributed in no small part to Erickson’s pitilessly swift mental decline. The Elevators even shocked the emblematic Grateful Dead, the key figures in San Francisco’s psychedelic scene, when they gigged in the city in August/September 1967.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://morganmussell.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/young-jerry-garcia1.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The day the music died | The First Gates" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No mean acid crusaders themselves – guitarist Jerry Garcia was affectionately nicknamed Captain Trips – the Dead came to epitomise cosmic freedom for generations of festival-going, tie-dyed Deadheads, right into the 21st Century. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e4f090cf32a3323b744b6baf6c204a7e0e00706/original/strawberry-alarm-clock.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strawberry Alarm Clock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nearly 400 miles south, Los Angeles had its own burgeoning music scene – one capable of accommodating the psychedelic soul of The Chamber Brothers (whose ‘Time Has Come Today’ nearly cracked the US Top 10 in December 1967), the fitful brilliance of the ill-assorted West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (‘I Won’t Hurt You’ from Part One being a faintly creepy, low-glowing highlight) and the opportunistic psych-lite of the exuberantly overdressed Strawberry Alarm Clock, paisley-bedecked human soft furnishings whose ‘Incense And Peppermints’ went all the way to No.1 in May 1967.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bb695ed7b03ad68c709b9f7a75b7d174fff01f5e/original/love.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/LOVE60s.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Love (band) - Wikipedia" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Two of LA’s most original acts, however, only skirted psychedelia by default. Love, the well-ahead-of-the-curve multiracial ensemble fronted by the redoubtable Arthur Lee, may have sported a modishly bendy logo and cover art on 1968’s unimpeachable </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong> – but in its gentle, troubled introspection, the album was already looking over the next hill. ‘</strong><i><strong>The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This</strong></i><strong>’ does at least constitute an interlude of experiential wonder (“Hummingbirds hum, why do they hum?”), and even features a token wrap of tape manipulation as the track ends.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The band, Love, is mainly known for creating one of the great masterpieces of the psychedelic era, </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong>. Though many of their California peers still believed in the </strong><i><strong>flower power</strong></i><strong> offered by the 1967 Summer of Love, songwriter Arthur Lee saw the dark side of the hippie movement’s drug-fueled excess. </strong><i><strong>A House Is Not a Motel</strong></i><strong>, about the evil of war, ends in a chaotic dual guitar solo and Lee screaming out, '</strong><i><strong>What’s my name?</strong></i><strong>'...Lee’s skepticism with the hippie movement offers him as a kindred spirit with other figures like Hunter S. Thompson, who doubted the ability of </strong><i><strong>peace and love</strong></i><strong> to stand up to the challenges of war and racism that enveloped the country. Love’s ability to be both inside the movement and outside, on account of Lee’s skepticism and his being one of the few black bandleaders in the West Coast psychedelic scene, gave his music a sense of perspective that most musicians lacked. Few writers would be bold enough to start a song with this lyric: '</strong><i><strong>sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die'</strong></i><strong>. Outside of </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong>, the band’s whole catalog is worth a listen as well. Tunes by Love guitarist Bryan MacLean may not have possessed the political power of Lee’s tracks, but he could write a great love song, as shown by his contributions to the mariachi influenced </strong><i><strong>Alone Again Or." </strong></i><strong>(The Observer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/baf285429318afec5a8d59e852b7e014c525cac4/original/cpt-beefheart.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/captain-beefheart-trout-mask.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Trout Mask Replica' Album 50th Anniversary: David Fricke Remembers" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, meanwhile, were already well on the way to reconfiguring the psychogeography of gutbucket R&B, convincingly elevating it to a boundary-breaching Dadaist realm. Among the effects in question was phasing, arguably psychedelia’s single most obvious identifier – and, for once, The Beatles were only indirectly responsible. While holed up in London’s Olympic Studios in June 1967 to record the backing track for ‘</strong><i><strong>All You Need Is Love</strong></i><strong>’, their producer George Martin asked for “ADT” (automatic or artificial double-tracking, a technique originated at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios) to be placed on Lennon’s vocal. Unable to comply because Olympic’s tape machines operated differently to EMI’s, tape operator George Chkiantz pledged to devise his own outlandish tape effect – and came up with the sense-warping, harmonic frequency sweep which became known as phasing or flanging...Oddly enough, The Beatles themselves only ever deployed phasing on </strong><i><strong>Magical Mystery Tour</strong></i><strong>’</strong><i><strong>s</strong></i><strong> entranced </strong><i><strong>Blue Jay Way</strong></i><strong>. Their brief psych chapter nevertheless took in such indomitable glories as </strong><i><strong>Strawberry Fields Forever</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>It’s All Too Much</strong></i><strong>, so their pre-eminence in the pantheon is inarguable.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/440478871761ad0559d5ff8289ce05e1e516fd23/original/silver-apples.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/48df28f0d55c50c0523280d4664642d656420594/original/silver-apples-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Silver Apples</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Silver Apples were far from your normal pop music act. The duo consisted of drummer Danny Taylor and Simeon, who played eight oscillators while contributing vocals. Formed in 1967 as an electronic rock duo featuring Dan Taylor on drums and Simeon on a homemade synthesizer consisting of 12 oscillators and an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second hand electronic junk, the band quickly gained a reputation as New York's leading underground musical expression.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7HTOmW-fJ_4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7HTOmW-fJ_4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group released only two albums, a self-titled record, a second album, </strong><i><strong>Contact. </strong></i><strong>The second album ended up dooming them in 1969, and led to a lawsuit by Pan Am. Though they had the airline’s permission to shoot the cover in an airplane cockpit, they didn’t have permission to depict an airline crash. A third album was recorded in 1970, but not released when their label, KAPP records, folded. That third album, </strong><i><strong>The Garden</strong></i><strong>, was released nearly 30 years after its initial recording.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffd289f8a6a4760a81fba588fb97353df885f1c3/original/psychedelic-pink-floys.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qmOs9ZJ1Vxc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qmOs9ZJ1Vxc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The toast of London’s psychedelic underground were Pink Floyd: wilful experimentalists whose audio-visual ambition, not to mention their spectacular incongruity where conventional touring doctrine was concerned, anticipated the festivals and dedicated concert events that proliferated in the following decade. With the precociously talented Syd Barrett at the helm, Pink Floyd produced psychedelia’s most matchless, concise Top 5 snapshot, </strong><i><strong>See Emily Play</strong></i><strong>, while their mysterious August 1967 debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, showcased Barrett’s uniquely charming, childlike muse (‘Matilda Mother’, ‘The Gnome’, ‘The Scarecrow’). </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tragically, Barrett’s psyche unraveled with distressing rapidity, his prodigious LSD intake the major (if not sole) factor, and by April 1968 his place in the band had been taken by David Gilmour. The Mk II Floyd ostensibly blazed a trail for progressive rock with their penchant for extended pieces and commensurately lengthy live performances, but it was a member of Canterbury Scene godheads Soft Machine – Pink Floyd’s regular accomplices in London’s underground clubs – who carried the flame for psychedelia into the 70s and well beyond." (Beyond the Pale blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58c36df86c8cfa3f1b4ff74ac244050fb61c490b/original/jimi-hendrix-purple-haze-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WGoDaYjdfSg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WGoDaYjdfSg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"One of the biggest game changers when it came to psychedelic rock was Jimi Hendrix. He brought a whole different vibe to that musical genre...suddenly more changes were underway among experimental musical groups such as The Yardbirds and Cream as they expanded both their consciousness and music through the use of hallucinogenic materials. Moving away from the pure blues roots, psychedelic rock attempted to replicate and even enhance the experiences of mind-altering drugs such as LSD through the use of alternative electronic musical instruments and recording techniques." (Robin Bell, The History of British Rock 'n' Roll: The Psychedelic Years 1967 - 1969)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/861fc869883829933bfc102e1e57716382fdc37a/original/the-holy-modal-rounders.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Holy Modal Rounders</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gBvoKPyKoHM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gBvoKPyKoHM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It has often been stated that The Holy Modal Rounders first used the term Psychedelic to describe their music on their version of </strong><i><strong>Hesitation Blues</strong></i><strong> in 1964. By the end of 1965, the 13th Floor Elevators from Texas first publicized themselves as psychedelic rock. Bob Dylan and The Beatles were the first to experiment with drugs as their music reference. </strong><i><strong>Subterranean Homesick Blues</strong></i><strong> by Dylan was the most influential and yet after The Beatles was introduced to cannabis, they started to experiment with LSD. Although psychedelic rock became phenomenal in between 1967 and 1969, the influence of this new musical genre had created variations such as the Psychedelic pop and psychedelic soul, it had also made possible for the transition of folk music to progressive rock, hard rock and subsequently emerged to heavy metal.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco was where this new </strong><i><strong>American Psychedelic </strong></i><strong>music</strong><i><strong> </strong></i><strong>spread through the American cities and in short time it was inevitable due to the rise of such psychedelic bands such as the Love and Spirit in Los Angeles and The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine and Vanilla Fudge in New York City.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"...an unknown San Francisco rock group called the Charlatans played at the opening of a saloon in Virginia City, Nev., called the Red Dog. That gig was a key moment in the history of the San Francisco rock scene and the hippie revolution it inspired. The history of the obscure band was expertly told the other day in The Chronicle by Joel Selvin. Equally intriguing is the story of how the Charlatans’ first gig came about — and the weird and wonderful saloon where it happened...The idea for the Red Dog Saloon was hatched by three friends during a six-hour Risk game in a two-room cabin on the outskirts of Virginia City, a dilapidated former Wild West boom town where a young writer working under the pen name Mark Twain had cut his journalistic teeth 100 years earlier...As Mary Works relates in her 1996 film, “Rockin’ at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock,” Laughlin joked that the endless game “featured LSD and treaties, both of which turned out to be a mistake.” Somewhere along the way, they began kicking around the idea of opening a Wild West saloon in Virginia City....When the blizzard ended and the acid wore off, Unobsky and his pals decided to make their fantasy a reality. They succeeded beyond their most chemically enhanced dreams. Unobsky’s father lent him $5,000 to purchase and restore an old Virginia City gambling hall called the Comstock House. Unobsky painted the old joint fire-engine red and fixed up the interior in Wild West fashion, with an antique mirror behind a long hardwood bar, red walls, and velvet drapes and gold braids from San Francisco’s old Fox Theater. Light show pioneer Bill Ham came up from the pre-Haight hippie enclave on Pine Street in San Francisco to provide the place with suitably mind-blowing illumination. Unobsky dispatched Laughlin to San Francisco to get more antique fixtures and find the Red Dog a house band. Someone told Laughlin about a new rock group called the Charlatans." (San Francisco Chronicle, Psychedelic Roc era opens with a gig at the Wild West Saloon)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/672d2242f769df5097af5680e2e84d7e77e7c0bc/original/the-charlatans.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Charlatans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Charlatans were the brainchild of a San Francisco State boy wonder architect named George Hunter, whom Family Dog commune co-founder Luria Castell called “the first hippie I ever saw in San Francisco.” Hunter had long hair and an immaculate, enigmatic sense of style. He dreamed up the concept of the Charlatans, right down to their clothes and the lettering on their posters. Hunter himself was not a musician, but the band could play. When Chandler tracked them down and asked if they wanted to audition for the Virginia City gig, they jumped at the chance and drove to Nevada. Unobsky was throwing a dinner for his staff, and he decided that their audition would double as the evening’s entertainment. To make things more interesting, before the band played, he dosed them and everyone else there with LSD. By the time the band hit the stage, they had no idea what they were doing. The gig was an intergalactic train wreck, which ended up with band members trying to play each other’s instruments. After Hunter stumbled offstage, a still-laughing Unobsky greeted him. 'That was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life', he told Hunter. 'You guys are hired!'...After various mishaps and delays, the Red Dog Saloon finally opened June 29, 1965.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ed231fed846378ed8ce02995fa92b20016e18b8/original/charlatan-posster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A poster designed by Hunter and keyboardist Michael Ferguson touted the Amazing Charlatans, direct from San Francisco as “the limit of the marvelous.” It was the first psychedelic rock poster. It is extremely rare: A mint copy of what is known simply as the Seed is on sale online for $18,250....A big crowd turned out for opening night. They saw a band of Edwardian-attired longhairs playing unclassifiable, roots-American rock, with hypnotic lights flickering on the walls, a bar girl who looked like Miss Kitty, a pistol-firing bartender and a huge Washoe Indian bouncer at the door. The atmosphere was irresistibly odd and exciting, a Mobius strip of acid-fueled self-invention. It felt as if the Old West itself was blaring out through the band’s 10-watt amplifier. Word about this jumping saloon on the other side of the Sierra got back to San Francisco. People began making the four-hour drive to Virginia City. The two-week gig was extended. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the good times in the sagebrush did not last... The Virginia City police raided the Red Dog, found venison in the freezer (the staff claimed it was planted) and arrested Unobsky for poaching. The Charlatans packed up and left town. No sooner had they driven away than a converted bus, painted in psychedelic swirls, drove up to the Red Dog. It was Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, come to check out the craziest saloon on planet Earth. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Charlatans never hit the big time. They released several singles, but their only album — made up of bits and pieces and assorted oddities — wasn’t released until 1996. They did not have the impact of groups like the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother or the Grateful Dead. But they were the first exemplar of what came to be known as the San Francisco Sound. Their style, their sound, the scene they created — these, like their poster, were seeds." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the mid-sixties, the youth culture which was exploding with new ideas in lifestyles, fashion and music. The rise of the psychedelic counterculture was responsible for such things as…</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/672233314d58d21efaa24b32b051065ddf6fa225/original/black-light-hendrix-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Black Light Poster</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Light Posters were capable of mimicking the effects of the new wonder drugs. These colorful posters had the ability to glow and vibrate under ultraviolet light, the posters could simulate the sensations and visual distortions one experienced during an acid trip. Along with the groovy black light posters, there was a movement to create new artistic statements for the psychedelic music scene that was rapidly developing.</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c610755646dbdac3d4195477c160334a3fdc1e2/original/london-posters-1.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1373492119e8ae0778779bfa33b2cef5975982ad/original/haphash-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Trippy Music Posters That Defined The Counterculture</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The psychedelic graphics of the late 1960s evoked the anarchic, iconoclastic energy of the era. Joobin Bekhrad explores a kaleidoscopic world. With their kaleidoscopes of colour, undulating typography, and all manner of mythical beings, the rock ’n’ roll posters of the late 1960s were often even more psychedelic than the music they represented. In Britain and the US, independent artists and creative collectives aimed not only to spread the word about the musical acts of the day, but also to encapsulate their musical vision and energy via fly-posters</strong></span>.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qHbXbCMv9qs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qHbXbCMv9qs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was thanks to the founders of London’s UFO club that Waymouth and English, both former art school students, met. Initially, the duo dubbed itself Cosmic Colours, but later changed its name as it was looking for something more novel. The word ‘UFO’ on a poster designed for the eponymous London nightclub, can easily be mistaken for a meaningless cluster of squiggles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55adf329768993bd5fce8191d39e185c06626b18/original/lava-lamp-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea8a7538d411e10a687b07b6705065901bd9d830/original/lava-lamp-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The History of The Lava Lamp</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At a certain moment in the late 1960's, the lava lamp came to symbolize all things counter-cultural and psychedelic—although, as you might expect, those who basked in its lurid glow sometimes had trouble recalling exactly why. It’s like asking, 'Why did we like Jackson Pollock?' says Wavy Gravy, the longtime peace activist and Grateful Dead sidekick. 'Because it was amazing! It causes synapses in your brain to loosen up'. The mesmerizing light fixture...has risen and sunk and shifted its shape in the cultural consciousness for decades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/85/64/70/856470417e9c5ad80aeba47941432225.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="best quality lava lamp - OFF-69% > Shipping free" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The lamp was invented by Edward Craven Walker, a British accountant whose other claim to fame was making underwater nudist films. He was passing the time in a pub when he noticed a homemade egg timer crafted from a cocktail shaker filled with alien-looking liquids bubbling on a stove top. Determined to perfect the design, and to install a light bulb as the heat source, he settled on a bottle used for Orange Squash soda...Craven Walker’s lamp paired two mutually insoluble liquids: one water-based, the other wax-based. The exact recipe is a proprietary secret, but a key ingredient is the solvent carbon tetrachloride, which adds weight to the otherwise buoyant wax. The heat source at the bottom of the lamp liquefies the waxy blob. As it expands, its density decreases and it rises to the top—where it cools, congeals and begins to sink back down. By the end of the decade, Craven Walker’s company was manufacturing millions of Astro Lamps, as he called them, per year. In 1965, he sold the U.S. manufacturing rights to a company called Lava Lite. Craven Walker didn’t envision the lamps as paragons of groovyness. '</strong><i><strong>They weren’t marketed like that—they were almost staid</strong></i><strong>', Granger says. Indeed, an ad in a 1968 edition of the American Bar Association Journal touted the executive model—mounted on a walnut base alongside a ballpoint pen."</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/03d2f93ed134c3fae4b3415daaa8af6b8e8ad68f/original/tied-dyed-clothing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tie-Dyed Clothing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Tie-dye is a modern term invented in the mid-1960's in the United States but known in an earlier form in 1941 as tied-and-dyed, for a set of ancient resist-dyeing techniques... The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment and binding with string or rubber bands, followed by application of dyes. The manipulations of the fabric prior to application of dye are called resists, as they partially or completely prevent the applied dye from coloring the fabric. Unlike regular resist-dyeing techniques, tie-dye is characterized by the use of bright, saturated primary colors and bold patterns. These patterns, including the spiral, mandala, and peace sign, and the use of multiple bold colors, have become cliched since the peak popularity of tie-dye in the 1960s and 1970s." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8cd8cc54c9abbc91b2127f2e8bcd459a4a4bc37e/original/tied-dyed-grateful-dead.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The History of the Tie Dyed T-Shirt: The term </strong><i><strong>tie-dye</strong></i><strong> first appeared in the United States during the 1960’s. Hippies, who were protesting the Vietnam War and promoting peace and love, began wearing clothing with vibrant colors and psychedelic designs. This clothing is called tie-dye. Tie-Dye T-Shirts and dresses were a symbol of non-violence and their popularity quickly spread among America’s youth. Not to mention how cool the shirts look. You can imagine how the design and colors of these shirts stood out in the 1960’s amongst all the bland conservative clothing looks of the time. If you wore tie dye you stood for something! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around this time, rock ‘n roll bands started to emerge and their message permeated through this counter-culture. The most prominent was a band called The Grateful Dead. They began playing shows in Palo-Alto, California in 1965 and developed a hardcore lesion of fans known as I. Deadheads would follow them around, city to city, seeing as many live concerts as possible. Along the way, they had to make money to pay for food and gas in order to get to the next show. Many of these fans began selling merchandise in the parking lot before and after the Grateful Dead would perform. The most popular items sold were homemade tie-dye t-shirts.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3fe00a951c70d7b2c5298a2521bb95084d4e88fe/original/tie-dye-janis-joblin.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37977251de9f01ab931ced69d0132a40f1ff8454/original/tie-dye-john-sebastian.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many music fans began wearing tie dyed clothes after seeing such popular musicians as Janis Joplin and John Sebastian wearing tied dyed garments.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6bd4e97ce160e9ee9bcc9519309a376d3c441730/original/psychedelic-rock-33.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3511455677a53f632db11c95dd37785ff8b924bf/original/tie-dyed-albums.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s a short list of some of the best psychedelic albums </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that populated my turntable back in the day!</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aff5566049c4a8d69bfe26cba32e65ac734bc1d7/original/sgt-pepper.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was a definite game changer that reflected the youth culture's experimentation with drugs and fascination with alternate states of being. From the Psychedelic Sight website: “If asked to cite a psychedelic music album, most casual music fans would reply, without hesitation: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="usNsCeOV4GM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/usNsCeOV4GM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fabs’ embrace of flower power and trippy-dopey imagery was in full bloom in the summer of 1967, when the multicolored Sgt. Pepper tumbled onto the world stage. This was not, however, the Fabs’ first visit to the land of psychedelia: Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver startled fans the summer before, with its frenzied pace and sea of tape loops. Lennon’s slithery acid-tinged Strawberry Fields Forever arrived as a single more than three months before, sharing the vinyl with the gentle psychedelia of Penny Lane.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52021d076636674f6332edf617420fc9f28fb475/original/hendrix-are-you-experience.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Are You Experienced</strong></i><strong>, one of the most definitive masterworks of the Psychedelic era, announced the arrival of acid rock via a creative firestorm of sound. The one track that really jumped out at me at that time was Third Stone From The Sun; an instrumental that was awash in bizarre howling guitar and whooshes of sound that jumped out of the little stereo speakers in my bedroom. At that moment, I suddenly realized that this album had announced that rock & roll had entered a new phase. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Zts332Y-nyg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zts332Y-nyg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix synthesized various elements of the cutting edge of 1967 rock into music that sounded both futuristic and rooted in the best traditions of rock, blues, pop, and soul. It was his mind-boggling guitar work, of course, that got most of the ink, building upon the experiments of British innovators like Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend to chart new sonic territories in feedback, distortion, and sheer volume. It wouldn't have meant much, however, without his excellent material, whether psychedelic frenzy (Foxy Lady, Manic Depression, Purple Haze), instrumental freak-out jams (Third Stone from the Sun), blues (Red House, Hey Joe), or tender, poetic compositions (The Wind Cries Mary) that demonstrated the breadth of his songwriting talents. Not to be underestimated were the contributions of drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding, who gave the music a rhythmic pulse that fused parts of rock and improvised jazz.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cb99f204542b30d7c45857ddf07f86b1b69faab8/original/side-trips.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band Kaleidoscope were, in a word, eclectic. Side Trips, their debut album that was released in 1967, featured a unique mix of a wide variety of genres such as ethereal Indian music, straight ahead roots music, light country pop and world music. The band was renowned for their collective abilities on a variety of instruments. David Linley (Guitar /Banjo /Fiddle /Manolin), Solomon Felthouse (Sax/Bouzouki /Dobro /Vina/ Oud/ Dombeck /Dulcimer /Fiddle / Guitar / Vocals), Crill aka Fenrus Epp and Max Buda (Violin / Viola / Bass / Keyboards / Harmonica), Chris Darrow (Bass guitar / Mandolin / Vocals) and John Vidican (Percussion).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the All Music site: “Although the Bay Area may have seemed to corner the market on the psychedelic "Summer of Love", the equally bountiful Los Angeles scene was the breeding ground for one of the more inventive units of the mid- to late-'60s. The incipient incarnation of Kaleidoscope synthesized rock & roll with roots and world music, first yielding Side Trips (1967), arguably the most diverse effort of 1967. Their ten-track outing features multi-instrumentalists Solomon Feldthouse (Although the Bay Area may have seemed to corner the market on the psychedelic "Summer of Love", the equally bountiful Los Angeles scene was the breeding ground for one of the more inventive units of the mid- to late-'60s. The incipient incarnation of Kaleidoscope synthesized rock & roll with roots and world music, first yielding Side Trips (1967), arguably the most diverse effort of 1967…The combo evolved from Lindley's string band interests, Darrow's love of the Beatles' early records and Feldthouse's exotic-sounding Eastern excursions. After being signed by Epic, they initially wanted to operate under the surreal moniker of the Neoprene Lizards with Barry Friedman (aka Frazier Mohawk) collaborating from the producer's chair. Further galvanizing Kaleidoscope and Side Trips is the strength of the original material. The mid-tempo ballad Please was picked as the single, while the album's overall mood and cerebral vibe are front and center on Darrow's trippy If the Night and Keep Your Mind Open. Feldthouse's suitably surrealistic Egyptian Gardens concisely demonstrates his distinct contributions, as does the Lindley composition Why Try. From the other side of the pop spectrum are the layered vocal harmonies of Pulsating Dream and the overt jug band influence heard on Cab Calloway's signature Minnie the Moocher, as well as the traditional tunes Come On In and Hesitation Blues."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tBqP33iEaWw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tBqP33iEaWw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cdce2a04075e2e1ebc090f1f073b593a3ca07f59/original/love-forever-changes.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As previously mentioned, Love was a psychedelic combo out of Los Angeles that created </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong>, one of most enduring psychedelic albums of all time. As a 15 year old boy in 1967, it took awhile before I realized how amazing this album was.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wgUoIBJtMLI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wgUoIBJtMLI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love's </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong> made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="H3xzHYz6L5w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H3xzHYz6L5w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love's first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like </strong><i><strong>A House Is Not a Motel</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Live and Let Live</strong></i><strong>, but most of </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong> is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iWN3b8-WhXE/WhRUUxgr0bI/AAAAAAAAnII/Z5XefChS1xwowR-kqeADC97r95PSieQOwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/2%2BLOVE%2Bgroup%2Bshot.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Critics At Large : Arthur Lee He Sees Everything Like This: Forever Changes At 50" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The punky edge of Love's early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong>, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can't disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hwnyoH5DpNE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hwnyoH5DpNE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but </strong><i><strong>Forever Changes</strong></i><strong> is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt </strong><i><strong>A House Is Not a Motel</strong></i><strong>, the street scenes of </strong><i><strong>Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale</strong></i><strong> reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin specters of race and international strife rise to the surface of </strong><i><strong>The Red Telephone</strong></i><strong>, romance becomes cynicism.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WC19_-riICA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WC19_-riICA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Bummer in the Summer</strong></i><strong> reveals the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in Live and Let Live, and even gentle numbers like Andmoreagain and Old Man sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth. Forever Changes is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/864a8eb06da8edad238b1a166905ef0a9a798246/original/van-dyke-parks-song-cycle.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Released in late 1967 by Warner Bros. Records, Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle album was an eclectic masterwork that featured a cavalcade of various music genres, including bluegrass, ragtime, and show tunes, and frames classical styles in the context of 1960s pop music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Van Dyke Parks moved on from the Beach Boys' abortive </strong><i><strong>Smile </strong></i><strong>sessions to record his own solo debut, </strong><i><strong>Song Cycle</strong></i><strong>, an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop. As indicated by its title, Song Cycle is a thematically coherent work, one which attempts to embrace the breadth of American popular music; bluegrass, ragtime, show tunes -- nothing escapes Parks' radar, and the sheer eclecticism and individualism of his work is remarkable. Opening with </strong><i><strong>Vine Street</strong></i><strong>, authored by Randy Newman (another pop composer with serious classical aspirations), the album is both forward-thinking and backward-minded, a collision of bygone musical styles with the progressive sensibilities of the late '60s; while occasionally overambitious and at times insufferably coy, it's nevertheless a one-of-a-kind record, the product of true inspiration." (California Rock blog)</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XxOVjZW6U-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XxOVjZW6U-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/925cfcbf8efb39f66d1ef121bdc9209b33204c6e/original/anthem-of-the-sun.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Anthem of the Sun</strong></i><strong>, Grateful Dead’s second album, was released in 1968 and I remember buying it at a Woolworth's store when it came out. I have to admit that the album really caught me off guard as it challenged the average listener in many ways. Mickey Hart, who had recently become the band’s second drummer, has stated that </strong><i><strong>Anthem of the Sun</strong></i><strong> “</strong><i><strong>...was our springboard into weirdness</strong></i><strong>.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Grateful Dead entered American Studios in Los Angeles in November 1967 with David Hassinger, the producer of their eponymous debut album. However, determined to make a more complicated recorded work than their debut release, as well as attempt to translate their live sound into the studio, the band and Hassinger changed locations to New York City. By December they had gone through two other studios, Century Sound and Olmstead Studios. Eventually, Hassinger grew frustrated with the group's slow recording pace and quit the project entirely while the band was at Century Sound, with only a third of the album completed. It has been reported that Hassiner left after guitarist Bob Weir requested he create the illusion of ‘thick air’ in the studio by mixing recordings of silence taken in the desert and the city. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cct-hear-0316-011.jpg?w=594" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="What do the Grateful Dead, St. Patrick's Day have in common? – East Bay Times" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Returning to San Francisco's Coast Recorders, the band recruited their soundman, Dan Healy, to help produce. In between studio sessions, the band also began recording their live dates. Healy, Garcia, and Lesh then took these concert tapes (encompassing two Los Angeles shows from November 1967, a tour of the Pacific Northwest in January and early February 1968, and a California tour from mid-February to mid-March 1968) and began interlacing them with existing studio tracks. Garcia called this mixing it for the hallucinations. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann explained, ‘Phil and Jerry were the ones who figured out that we could exploit studio technology to demonstrate how these songs were mirrors of infinity, even when they adhered to their established arrangements. It's the old paradox of improvisational compositions. Jazz artists knew all about the balance between freedom and structure, but a few rock bands were now catching on. Most rock bands, however, tended to head in an opposite direction, afraid of the uncertainty of improvisation. We decided that Anthem of the Sun was going to be our statement on the matter’. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://woodstockwhisperer.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Tom-Constanten-from-Dead-site-1038x576.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Briefly Dead Tom Constanten | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Constanten</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Constanten, a friend of Lesh and Garcia, joined the band in the studio while on leave from the United States Air Force to provide piano, prepared piano, and electronic tape effects influenced by John Cage. Constanten would formally join the band following his discharge in November 1968; however, his contributions to the band's sound were more evident in the studio than in live shows, and </strong><i><strong>Anthem of the Sun</strong></i><strong> was no exception. Constanten developed piano pieces that sounded like three gamelan orchestras playing at once and created effects by setting a spinning gyroscope on the piano soundboard. Likewise, the rest of the band used a large assortment of instruments in the studio to augment the live tracks that were the base of each song, including kazoos, crotales, harpsichord, timpani, trumpet, and a güiro. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://static.musictoday.com/store/bands/707/product_600/JYAS26.JPG" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Captain Trips Holographic Sticker | Shop the Jerry Garcia Official Store Official Store" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Garcia commented that parts of the album were ‘far out, even too far out... We weren't making a record in the normal sense; we were making a collage.’ He also acknowledged the influence of Lesh's study of Stockhausen and other avant-garde artists. Warner Bros. executive Joe Smith was noted as characterizing Anthem of the Sun as 'the most unreasonable project with which we have ever involved ourselves.' Drummer Bill Kreutzmann's description of the production process describes the listening experience of the album as well: ‘...Jerry and Phil went into the studio with Dan Healy and, like mad scientists, they started splicing all the versions together, creating hybrids that contained the studio tracks and various live parts, stitched together from different shows, all in the same song — one rendition would dissolve into another and sometimes they were even stacked on top of each other... It was easily our most experimental record, it was groundbreaking in its time, and it remains a psychedelic listening experience to this day.'"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Yo_saM32uUQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yo_saM32uUQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8bb76fc876a9265b54d84f8b0acd84987a1ce8f/original/zombies-odessey-oracle.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I certainly consider the Zombies </strong><i><strong>Odessey & Oracle</strong></i><strong> a true lost psychedelic classic. This 1968 album is often considered to be a psychedelic masterwork that reflects elements of not only psychedelic music but also that of the sixties British pop scene similar to what The Kinks achieved with their </strong><i><strong>Village Green Preservation Society</strong></i><strong> album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Decades ahead of its time, </strong><i><strong>Odessey and Oracle</strong></i><strong> is the final statement from an unfortunately short-lived band, and stands as one of the late 60s' greatest achievements...While </strong><i><strong>Odessey and Oracle</strong></i><strong> is definitely one of the great rediscovered works of the psychedelic era-- an under-appreciated record of beauty and foresight-- albums like </strong><i><strong>Love's Forever Changes</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle</strong></i><strong>, and even </strong><i><strong>the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds</strong></i><strong>, expanded minds with wider sonic palettes and more daring song structures. The Zombies' four-track recordings subsist on the band's unique style and succinct composition: carefully crafted vocal melodies, bold chord changes and winding resolutions, all colored by heavenly harmonies and strings. While it wasn't exactly "freakout" music aimed at squares, </strong><i><strong>Odyssey and Oracle</strong></i><strong> is still notable for its experimental bend. The Zombies convinced EMI to let them record it at Abbey Road free of all corporate influence (aka no producers), allowing the band to indulge whatever musical fantasies they came up with. Some members of the band-- most prominently keyboardist Rod Argent-- would go on to careers in prog-rock, and seeds of that genre poke through here. The first clue is an unhealthy preoccupation with historical and literary figures, from the Shakespeare quote in the liner notes, to the Faulkner-derived </strong><i><strong>A Rose for Emily</strong></i><strong>, to </strong><i><strong>Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)</strong></i><strong> -- inspired by bassist Chris White's WWI obsession-- The Zombies wore over-education on their sleeves. In many ways, </strong><i><strong>Odessey</strong></i><strong> foretells the flowery baroque prose of 10-minute prog epics to come. Classicism extends to The Zombies' playing as well; they were formally trained musicians with overt interests in </strong><i><strong>art music </strong></i><strong>and jazz. More overtly, there's the sectional composition of their songs, apparent in </strong><i><strong>Changes</strong></i><strong>, which is most emblematic of the jarring cut-and-paste thematic shifts that separated the fans from the great unwashed. Though it may not represent the sprawling, tripped-out experimentation of their times, The Zombies' unique brand of lyric wit and daring arrangement expanded the limits of pop. </strong><i><strong>Odessey and Oracle</strong></i><strong> stands as the band's fully realized statement of intent, the parting shot from one of the few originals in the devolving tail-end of the 1960s.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="aZ7Q92mJPxI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZ7Q92mJPxI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/70ae84f1f52f0fbc08b94fbe508c8f65a22bed1b/original/tie-dyed-singles.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some of my favorite Psychedelic Singles </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that populated my turntable back in the day...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NxyOhFBoxSY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NxyOhFBoxSY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eight Miles High - The Byrds</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YsX2FhBf9nY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YsX2FhBf9nY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sunshine Superman - Donovan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="L4DdAs0PddQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L4DdAs0PddQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Lo1kmT6c4DY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lo1kmT6c4DY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2,000 Man - Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9638ea6f0d7abe149937cf3a60b1c4471bbcd15c/original/grace-slick-psychedelica.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/35052baa399398db8c6a136890dae9e66ad7dd7e/original/psychedelia.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The End of the Psychedelic Era</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic rock was in retreat. Psychedelic trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead. In 1966, LSD had been made illegal in the US and UK.[ In 1969, the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by Charles Manson and his cult of followers, claiming to have been inspired by Beatles' songs such as Helter Skelter, has been seen as contributing to an anti-hippie backlash. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the end of the same year, the Altamont Free Concert in California, headlined by the Rolling Stones, became notorious for the fatal stabbing of black teenager Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel security guards. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early "acid casualties", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Some groups, such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, broke up. Hendrix died in London in September 1970, shortly after recording Band of Gypsys (1970), Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in October 1970 and they were closely followed by Jim Morrison of the Doors, who died in Paris in July 1971. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By this point, many surviving acts had moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics roots rock, traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea0a8ecbc813a7f6aff5cb7e308fbe4639f69a6a/original/but-wait-theres-more.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the New York Times (June 2, 1985) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Psychedelic Rock Stages A Comeback (Robert Palmer) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Do you think you might be able to find your old paisley shirts, Nehru jacket, granny glasses and love beads in the back of a closet somewhere? If so, get them out; you're going to be needing them. Psychedelic rock is back, complete with electric sitars, ragalike droning, fuzztone guitars, loopy lyrics inviting you to 'open your mind,' and song titles like Radar Eyes, Sundown on Venus, and Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes. It's beginning to look like the summer of 1985 will be a replay of the summer of '67 - the ''summer of love. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The season's most talked-about hit album, Prince's Around the World in a Day is pure psychedelia, from its garish, multicolored cover art to its musical styles and lyrics. Open your heart, open your mind, its first song invites, for 'a wonderful trip through our time,' with an accompaniment of cello, oud, and finger-cymbals. Prince is even calling his private recording studio Paisley Park. When he first played his new album for Warner Bros. records, earlier this spring, the company's conference room was ankle-deep in flowers, and Prince pointedly sniffed at a fragrant blossom throughout. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You don't have to look much further to encounter Tom Petty's hit single Don't Come Around Here No More, an affectionate revival of late-60's raga-rock that features David A. Stewart of Eurhythmics on electric sitar. The song's promotional video uses the 'Alice in Wonderland' imagery so beloved by 60's psychedelic bands, with Mr. Stewart, dressed as a caterpillar, playing his sitar atop a large toadstool.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These evocations of vintage psychedelia at the top of the pop charts -and there are quite a few others - are reflections of a trend that has been on the rise in the rock underground for the past several years. As recently as the early 1980's, most up-and-coming new bands would have laughed at the very idea of love beads, flower power, long hair and hallucinatory lyrics. These things were associated with hippies, and since the birth of punk and new wave rock in the mid-1970's, hippies have been decidedly out of fashion. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Now, hippie-come-lately rock groups are sprouting everywhere. In Los Angeles, bands like Green on Red and the Three O'Clock have been lumped together in a paisley underground, and like-minded bands have been springing up in Arizona (Meat Puppets), Milwaukee (Plasticland), New York (Vipers, Mosquitoes and so forth) and elsewhere. A few of these bands - Washington's Slickee Boys and New York's Fuzztones, for example - are built around older musicians who were playing psychedelic rock in the 60's. But most of them consist of young musicians who were children back when the Beatles sang that all you need is love. A group like the Jet Black Berries can get excited about liquid light-shows, early Pink Floyd records, psychotronic films (a term for trash-horror and youth-cult movies popularized by Michael Weldon's definitive book, Encyclopedia of Psychotronic Film), and the collected works of the 19th-century British occultist Aleister Crowley because for them, these things are new discoveries. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What makes a specific group or album psychedelic? The most widely accepted terminology can be confusing, particularly when it comes to distinguishing psychedelia or the paisley revival from the widespread garage-band revival, which is patterned on the mid-60's American bands that responded to the period's British invasion - the Seeds, the Standells, and the Music Machine, for example. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps the most useful distinction can be derived from the term psychedelic itself, which was intended to mean mind opening or mind expanding. In the broadest sense, the newer psychedelic bands all aim to expand or alter the listener's awareness, some with mesmerizing music, others with provocative lyrics, many with both. And psychedelic bands make music that is firmly rooted in the more progressive rock of the middle and late 60's, whether the preferred models are Syd Barrett's early Pink Floyd, the Beatles from Rubber Soul through Magical Mystery Tour, or the harder-edged, more rhythm-and-blues-inflected styles of the Rolling Stones and the American garage-rockers."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b10d2d622b8caef9e1a5ec57fea8576da9714e8e/original/closing-image.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5da37024f4220eb098b9ed198520f22e292ddce3/original/image-13.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://pleasekillme.com/peter-stampfel-the-last-holy-modal-rounder-tells-all/" data-link-type="url" contents="Peter&nbsp;Sampfel: The&nbsp;Last Holy Modal Rounder Tells All"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Peter Sampfel: The Last Holy Modal Rounder Tells All</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77b3a265aca30d50b662b0e2435b4b950413d578/original/join-our-mailing-list-guitar-image.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b3cbe923b4570297aa6724512155a0f99e80326b/original/msmoke-com-official-logo-for-facebook-sidebar-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a68683f5b95a6cd87faafa084db4e4c8e7f5040f/original/freelance-vandals-promo-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FREELANCE VANDALS ALBUMS AVAILABLE @</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS MUSIC</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW RELEASE! It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1d5ac4f43f29f699bdd102cea20d0ee74eb1cd22/original/freelance-vandals-out-of-order-album-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded live @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) on Easter Sunday 1981. Featuring Billy "the Mountain" Cairns (Drums / Vocals), Mike Adams (Bass / Vocals), Chuck Ciany (Vocals / Sax / Guitar), Jack Finch (Keyboards), "Diamond" Ray Finch (Vocals / Lead Guitar) and Johnny Pierre (Vocals / Rhythm & Slide Guitar). Rock & Roll is a State of Mind!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/654f7263697a99bb65f53e715d840ad976ca290d/original/fv-yer-money-or-yer-ears.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded Live 1983 @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) Billy Cairns - Drums / Vocals Mike Adams - Bass / Vocals Tommy Yamasaki - Tenor & Soprano Sax / Percussion "Diamond" Ray Finch - Lead Guitar / Vocals Johnny Pierre - Lead Vocals / Guitar Chuck Ciany - Guitar / Vocals / Percussion / Sax Al Speed - Keyboards / Vocals Jack Finch - Keyboards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ab551f04e8b7cd68e67bd13344d1c2d26a31dc/original/live-the-music-box-1978-fv.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's 1978 and The Freelance Vandals are getting wild and crazy @ The Music Box in Bellmore, NY on New Year's Eve!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/753a0f26229ba572aff31c375e944cd77d39ef75/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This live set captures the Freelance Vandals in action @ The Pastime Pub in Amityville circa 1980! Special Thanks To John C. Englehardt for his artwork and The Michael Tully Archive for providing a cassette of this show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/858c0597e9f1b52bdcc2ba29e8f9d3d6e39755a9/original/fv-cover-image-a.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/02fc8fa352eaf30bd06fc6975cab775df2b42170/original/freelance-vandals-gig-list-official.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-gig-list" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FREELANCE VANDALS GIG LIST</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/72134082024-01-18T08:40:32-05:002024-01-18T08:40:32-05:00Lost Albums Of The 70's Part 5<p> </p><p>a<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bbbeeb69444ff71c26c7a8924ff7576f38cb76c0/original/lost-albums-of-the-70s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ah yes! The clock on the wall says it's time for another look at some of the wonderful "Lost" albums of the 1970's! There were many excellent records that popped up on my radar whenever I would go through the album racks in various record stores during this particular rock & roll era. As a matter of fact, many times I would discover some very unique and special albums in the $1.00 bins. So, without further adieu, let's check out some of the great lost albums of the 70's!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7672f90f83149bc6f5c38360af02fe82607eb910/original/red-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/45f91c333b53598a6c0299317dd7770bbe7a0345/original/dwogjt-two-eu-best-cpver-somcere-u.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND > SINCERELY (1975)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>TRACKS</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_on_Fire_(Dwight_Twilley_Band_song)" title="I'm on Fire (Dwight Twilley Band song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'm on Fire</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" – 3:15</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Could Be Love" – 2:38</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Feeling in the Dark" – 2:54</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You Were So Warm" – 2:25</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I'm Losing You" – 2:11</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Sincerely" – 2:38</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"TV" – 2:23</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Release Me" – 2:28</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Three Persons" – 2:05</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Baby Let's Cruise" – 3:00</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"England" – 2:33</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Just Like the Sun" – 3:46</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Producers"><strong><u>Producers:</u> </strong></span></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour (aka "Oister")</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"TV" produced by Twilley, Seymour and Bob Schaper</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"England", "Look Like an Angel", "Miserable Lady", "Rock Yourself, Son" and "I Don't Know My Name" produced by Robin Cable</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Shark (In The Dark)" produced by Twilley, Seymour and "The Master of Time and Space" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell" title="Leon Russell"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Engineers </u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Barth, Roger Harris, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Linn" title="Roger Linn"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roger Linn</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, Robin Cable, Ted Sharp, Bob Schaper, John Harkin</strong></span></p><header><p id="firstHeading"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Musicians:</u></strong></span></p>
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley" title="Dwight Twilley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – lead and harmony vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica on "Baby Let's Cruise"</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phil Seymour – lead and harmony vocals, drums, percussion, bass</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Pitcock IV – lead guitar</strong></span></p>
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Linn" title="Roger Linn"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roger Linn</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – lead guitar and bass on "Sincerely"</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Naifeh – drums on "TV"</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Johnson – bass on "I'm Losing You", "TV", "Three Persons", "Baby Let's Cruise", "Please Say Please" and "Didn't You Say"</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell – piano and bass on "Feeling In The Dark" and “Shark (In The Dark)”</strong></span></p></header><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/43db4220ee430feb2a23c38fe5cd36e650ba83fa/original/phil-dwight.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phil Seymour and Dwight Twilley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour first met in Tulsa in 1967 at a movie theater where they had gone to see </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day's Night </strong></i><strong>(The Beatles). After seeing the film Twilley and Seymore began writing songs together which led to recording tracks in a make shift studio together. They continued their partnership over the next several years under the band name Oister. Twilley wrote all the songs and played guitar and piano, Seymour played drums and bass, and both sang leads and harmonies. Later, guitarist Bill Pitcock IV played lead guitar on most of their tracks.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/abec1a0b13ea6f623e5dcfa6395cdc635962a1b0/original/sun-studio-1970s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sun Studio in the 1970's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Twilley and Seymour eventually decided to leave Tulsa and tried to be discovered in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, Tennessee</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. By sheer chance, the first recording studio that they wandered into was </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Studio" title="Sun Studio"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sun Studio</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, where they met, according to Twilley, ‘some guy named Phillips.’ After listening to a cassette of their folk/pop/country blend, Jerry Phillips (son of Sun founder </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips" title="Sam Phillips"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sam Phillips</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) referred them to the Tupelo, Mississippi studio of former Sun artist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harris" title="Ray Harris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ray Harris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, whom both Twilley and Seymour credited for introducing them to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>rockabilly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and adding a harder edge to their sound.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Twilley and Seymour soon left Tulsa and went to Los Angeles in 1974 to find a label, where they signed with Shelter Records, a label with offices in Los Angeles and Tulsa that was co-owned by Denny Cordell and Tulsa's Leon Russell. Cordell immediately changed the group's name from Oister to the Dwight Twilley Band, which set the seeds for future problems arising from Seymour's anonymity in the partnership. Because of Shelter's Tulsa headquarters, they were able to self-produce many songs in their hometown, recording </strong><i><strong>I'm On Fire </strong></i><strong>in one night at the historic The Church Studio which was established in 1972 by musician, songwriter, and producer Leon Russell. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rfRi7Jrk36k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rfRi7Jrk36k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>I'm on Fire</strong></i><strong> quickly became their debut single and reached #16 on the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts" title="Billboard charts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billboard charts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in 1975 with relatively little promotion, largely because the band was in England recording its first album, tentatively called </strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong>, with producer Robin Cable at </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_Studios" title="Trident Studios"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Trident Studios</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The photos used on the single's picture sleeve were low quality from a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_booth" title="Photo booth"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>photo booth</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, even less professional than the band's first promo picture. The unexpected success of the self-produced </strong><i><strong>I'm On Fire</strong></i><strong> caused most of the English tracks recorded with Cable to be relegated to a second album, thereafter known as </strong><i><strong>The B Album</strong></i><strong>. Leon Russell then permitted the band to record new tracks at his 40-track home studio, where one of the engineers was </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Linn" title="Roger Linn"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roger Linn</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who also contributed lead guitars and bass to some of their recordings.</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5401bfa7e00f467219e17e4df8536709f760a7d9/original/you-were-so-warm.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley Band - You Were So Warm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wmCHYdVdoYA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wmCHYdVdoYA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During an appearance on </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bandstand" title="American Bandstand"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>American Bandstand</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, the band played what was to be its follow-up single, </strong><i><strong>Shark (in the Dark)</strong></i><strong>, produced by Twilley, Seymour and Russell. The success of the film </strong><i><strong>Jaws</strong></i><strong>, however, caused Cordell and Shelter to reject the single, apparently to keep the group from being perceived as a cash-in novelty act. The eventual follow-up single, </strong><i><strong>You Were So Warm</strong></i><strong> backed with </strong><i><strong>Sincerely</strong></i><strong>, failed due to distribution problems; just after the single was released, Shelter Records collapsed in the midst of a lawsuit between Russell and Cordell. The Dwight Twilley Band's completed album went unreleased for 10 months due to Shelter's switch from </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MCA Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ABC Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> for distribution, and </strong><i><strong>The B Album</strong></i><strong> was left unreleased.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the album </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sincerely_(Dwight_Twilley_Band_album)" title="Sincerely (Dwight Twilley Band album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sincerely</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> was finally released in 1976, it failed as well, peaking at #138. During this time, Seymour and Twilley befriended labelmate </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty" title="Tom Petty"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Petty</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and Phil sang backing vocals on "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakdown_(Tom_Petty_song)" title="Breakdown (Tom Petty song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Breakdown</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" and "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Girl_(Tom_Petty_song)" title="American Girl (Tom Petty song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>American Girl</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>", creating a long-lasting friendship.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4edaf946a0124a2399044a764bc1a4a172e187bb/original/twilley-dont-mind.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley Band > Twilley Don't Mind</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3fi0avAxrlE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3fi0avAxrlE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shelter then switched distribution again to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Records" title="Arista Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arista Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. ABC elected to keep Petty and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Cale" title="J. J. Cale"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J. J. Cale</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, leaving Twilley alone on the Shelter/Arista label. Pitcock became a credited member of the Dwight Twilley Band during touring and recording of the second album. However, that album, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilley_Don%27t_Mind" title="Twilley Don't Mind"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Twilley Don't Mind</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, proved to be another commercial disappointment in 1977.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a1577eff3e330f8b103ea76cfc146503e31a3e41/original/phil-seymour-precious-to-me.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GhSALyVvF7Y" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GhSALyVvF7Y?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seymour left the band the following year, pursuing a solo career with some success until he developed what proved to be terminal cancer. He died of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphoma" title="Lymphoma"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>lymphoma</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in 1993.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dwight Twilley is still active in the music business but his early work with Phil Seymour still stands the test of time.</strong></span></p><hr><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7672f90f83149bc6f5c38360af02fe82607eb910/original/red-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9424fdd7812c37ddc3d342598a95f8714387d416/original/iggy-pop-lust-for-life.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IGGY POP > LUST FOR LIFE (RCA 1977)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This album doesn't necessarily fall into the “Lost” file but the elements that Iggy dealt with made his journey as a solo artists difficult at times.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong> was recorded at </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Tonstudio" title="Hansa Tonstudio"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hansa Studio by the Wall</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin" title="West Berlin"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Berlin</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> from May to June 1977, with production being handled by Bowie, Pop, and engineer </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thurston" title="Colin Thurston"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Colin Thurston</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. The touring band of Pop, Bowie, guitarist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gardiner" title="Ricky Gardiner"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ricky Gardiner</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and brothers </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fox_Sales" title="Tony Fox Sales"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tony Fox</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_Sales" title="Hunt Sales"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hunt Sales</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on bass and drums, respectively, comprised the primary lineup for the album. After </strong><i><strong>The Idiot</strong></i><strong> was mostly composed by Bowie, Pop was adamant about having more control over </strong><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong>, often composing his own arrangements, including for "Sixteen". This resulted in a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>hard rock</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-punk" title="Proto-punk"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>proto-punk</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> sound more akin to his older style with the band </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges" title="The Stooges"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Stooges</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Pop would use Bowie's arrangements for some songs, including the well-known </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_song)" title="Lust for Life (Iggy Pop song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>title track</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pop was adamant about taking control of his next record. The tour for </strong><i><strong>The Idiot</strong></i><strong> saw Pop branded as Bowie’s sidekick, something that frustrated the singer. Pop needed to shed some of the art rock pretences Bowie had saddled him with to establish himself fully. His music needed to return to Pop’s sound’s gritty rock and roll roots. Bowie was still heavily involved, but Pop came into the sessions with his own songs and his own ideas about what he wanted to do.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The result was </strong><i><strong>Lust For Life</strong></i><strong>, Pop’s definitive musical statement. Featuring an exuberant blast of early new wave and classic hard rock, the album was Pop at his absolute apex. For 40 minutes of nonstop energy, Pop leaves no part of his voice uncovered, stretching out his range to include shouts, croons, guttural bellows, and an impressive amount of melody. He sounds comfortable and confident through it all, ready to take his spot as a rock and roll legend.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even though the powers-that-be @ RCA thought that the album would be a flop, Bowie persuaded RCA to release </strong><i><strong>The Idiot</strong></i><strong> in March. Suddenly, the album became the biggest commercial success involving Pop up to that point as </strong><i><strong>Lust For Life</strong></i><strong> hit the top 40 in both the US and the UK charts.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I can remember that only the “hip” radio stations immediately jumped on the </strong><i><strong>Lust For Life</strong></i><strong> album which eventually began to get heavy radio play in several cities.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/00694b4c474f8b467a3881afbd9e0667a329817f/original/lust-for-life-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>TRACKS</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIDE 1</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lust For Life</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sixteen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Some Weird Sin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Passenger</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tonight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIDE 2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Success</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Turn Blue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Neighborhood Threat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fall in Love with Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PERSONNEL</u></strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop" title="Iggy Pop"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iggy Pop</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – keyboards, piano, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_(music)" title="Organ (music)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>organ</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, backing vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alomar" title="Carlos Alomar"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carlos Alomar</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead guitar </strong><small><strong>("Lust for Life", "Turn Blue")</strong></small></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gardiner" title="Ricky Gardiner"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ricky Gardiner</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – lead guitar, backing vocals, drums </strong><small><strong>("Fall in Love with Me")</strong></small></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Peace" title="Warren Peace"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warren Peace</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – keyboards and backing vocals </strong><small><strong>("Turn Blue")</strong></small></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fox_Sales" title="Tony Fox Sales"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tony Fox Sales</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – bass, backing vocals, guitar </strong><small><strong>("Fall in Love with Me")</strong></small></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_Sales" title="Hunt Sales"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hunt Sales</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – drums, backing vocals, bass </strong><small><strong>("Fall in Love with Me")</strong></small></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jQvUBf5l7Vw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jQvUBf5l7Vw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Upon release, the album suddenly became the biggest commercial success involving Pop up to that point as </strong><i><strong>Lust For Life</strong></i><strong> hit the top 40 in both the US and the UK charts. </strong><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong> received little promotion from RCA but nevertheless peaked at number 28 on the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Albums Chart</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and remained</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The title track gained renewed popularity in the late 1990s after being featured in the 1996 British comedy film </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)" title="Trainspotting (film)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Trainspotting</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. The song was heavily featured in the film's marketing campaign and subsequent </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(soundtrack)" title="Trainspotting (soundtrack)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>soundtrack album</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, resulting in a new UK chart peak of number 26 after being reissued as a single.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_album)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPegg2016177%E2%80%93178-31"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPegg2016177–178_31-1">[31]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> The single's success inspired Pop's then-label </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Virgin Records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to issue a greatest hits </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilation_album" title="Compilation album"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>compilation</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> titled </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_%26_Rude:_The_Best_of_Iggy_Pop" title="Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Nude & Rude</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_album)#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrynka2007304-78"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETrynka2007304_78-0">[77]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Ambrose writes that it gained the same level of resurgence as </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors" title="The Doors"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Doors</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>' "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_(The_Doors_song)" title="The End (The Doors song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The End</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967) after the latter's inclusion in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Francis Ford Coppola</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s 1979 film </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now" title="Apocalypse Now"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Apocalypse Now</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_album)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbrose2004256-79"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmbrose2004256_79-0">[78]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> In 1999, Pop reflected on the song's renewed popularity:</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(Iggy_Pop_album)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbrose2004187-43"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmbrose2004187_43-2">[43]</sup></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong> has appeared on several best-of lists by multiple publications. </strong><i><strong>Sounds</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Mojo</strong></i><strong> ranked the album 21st and 44th in their lists of the 100 greatest albums of all time in 1986 and 1995, respectively. </strong><i><strong>Pitchfork</strong></i><strong> ranked </strong><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong> number 64 in its list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1970s in 2004. In 2013, </strong><i><strong>NME</strong></i><strong> ranked the album 217th in their list of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME%27s_The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time" title="NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><blockquote>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iggy Pop's statement regarding the </strong><i><strong>Lust For Life</strong></i><strong> album: “When I made </strong><i><strong>Lust for Life</strong></i><strong>, I really thought America was gonna rock to this motherfucker. And it took 20 fuckin' years which is a really long time to wait. I guess what happened is that there was this system that wasn't gonna fuckin' give me a break, and I outlived the system. The movies and advertisers have subverted the stranglehold of radio in America, and there are now other ways for people to hear music. All of a sudden, – a few years ago when </strong><i><strong>Trainspotting</strong></i><strong> came out – I was walkin' down the street and I'd heard </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Power" title="Raw Power"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Raw Power</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> comin' out of the bars.”</strong></span></p>
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</blockquote><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/867f625ba008a76a8ad1f54ba26a5b0e6ba55e51/original/dscn1889.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RY COODER > INTO THE PURPLE VALLEY (Warner Reprise 1972)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Guitarist Cooder was so busy leading up to this period – working with Captain Beefheart, Randy Newman and the Rolling Stones – that his solo career didn't take off until the '70s. His second album includes backing by Jim Dickinson, Chris Ethridge, Van Dyke Parks and "Tainted Love" singer Gloria Jones. This diverse crew gives</strong><i><strong> Into the Purple Valley</strong></i><strong> a questing feel that steers it through blues, folk and roots. More celebrated albums like </strong><i><strong>Paradise and Lunch</strong></i><strong> followed, but it started here." (classicrock.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder is known as a virtuoso on almost every stringed instrument, and on </strong><i><strong>Into the Purple Valley</strong></i><strong>, he demonstrates this ability on a wide variety of instruments. The main focus of the music here is on the era of the Dust Bowl, and what was happening in America at the time, socially and musically. Songs by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/woody-guthrie-mn0000577531"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Woody Guthrie</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leadbelly-mn0000124390"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leadbelly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and a variety of others show Cooder's encyclopedic knowledge of the music of this time, combined with an instinctive feel for the songs. 'Phenomenal' is the descriptive I would describe his playing, whether it is on guitar, Hawaiian "slack key" guitar, mandolin, or the more arcane instruments he has found. This is a must for those who love instrumental virtuosity, authentic reworkings of an era, or just plain good music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/54f55cc916f3038e3c76df45a9b728b204468819/original/into-the-purple-valley-side-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />"How Can You Keep On Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_%22Sis%22_Cunningham" title='Agnes "Sis" Cunningham'><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Agnes "Sis" Cunningham</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 2:25</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Billy the Kid" (Traditional; arranged by Ry Cooder) – 3:45</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Honey_(Clyde_McPhatter_and_the_Drifters_song)" title="Money Honey (Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Money Honey</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Stone" title="Jesse Stone"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesse Stone</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 3:28</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR_in_Trinidad" title="FDR in Trinidad"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FDR in Trinidad</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (Fitz McLean) – 3:01</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Teardrops Will Fall" (Gerry "Dickey Doo" Granahan, Marion Smith) – 3:03</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_Blues" title="Denomination Blues"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denomination Blues</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Phillips" title="Washington Phillips"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>George Washington Phillips</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 3:58</strong></span><br> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6eYK_r_6yY4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6eYK_r_6yY4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/338c30259766c65381043978fee08ebec3257bf6/original/into-the-purple-valley-side-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Monday" title="On a Monday"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On a Monday</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly" title="Lead Belly"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lead Belly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 2:52</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Porter" title="Hey Porter"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Porter</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Cash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 4:34</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Great Dream from Heaven" (instrumental) (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence_(musician)" title="Joseph Spence (musician)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joseph Spence</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 1:53</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (Arranged by Ry Cooder) – 3:52</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante_Man" title="Vigilante Man"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vigilante Man</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie" title="Woody Guthrie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Woody Guthrie</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>) – 4:15</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xDcn2iKnlko" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xDcn2iKnlko?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Personnel"><strong><u>Personnel</u></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder – guitars, mandolin, vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks" title="Van Dyke Parks"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Dyke Parks</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – keyboards</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Jones" title="Gloria Jones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gloria Jones</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Lennear" title="Claudia Lennear"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Claudia Lennear</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bohanon" title="George Bohanon"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>George Bohanon</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – horns</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Craviotto – drums</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Lane Davis – horns</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dickinson" title="Jim Dickinson"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Dickinson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – piano</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ethridge" title="Chris Ethridge"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chris Ethridge</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – bass</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Holland" title="Milt Holland"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Milt Holland</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – percussion</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jumonville" title="Jerry Jumonville"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Jumonville</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – saxophone</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Richmond" title="Fritz Richmond"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fritz Richmond</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – washtub bass</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donna Washburn – vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Terry_Weiss" title="Donna Terry Weiss"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donna Weiss</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – vocals</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ike Williams – horns</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/dc91f3def0aa8f6e70e3544e319c0a3aef93bd28/original/ry-cooder-rear-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Into the Purple Valley</strong></i><strong> is a real tour-de-force and one of Ry Cooder's strongest albums from the 1970s, showcasing an eclectic mix of obscure as well as traditional Depression-era numbers, including songs by Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The pertinent political album opener </strong><i><strong>How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)</strong></i><strong> is about the challenges faced by the poor and downtrodden who migrated west in the 1930s. The lyrics make it clear that these were difficult times for many folks living in America. You can hear the bitterness in Cooder's voice as he sings this powerful song. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The next track </strong><i><strong>Billy the Kid</strong></i><strong> is about the notorious outlaw from the Old West. Cooder's reworking of the standard shows off his exceptional mandolin playing. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The lighthearted </strong><i><strong>F.D.R. in Trinidad</strong></i><strong> is about U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 trip to Trinidad. It's also one of the few tracks that's hopeful and optimistic. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Teardrops will Fall</strong></i><strong> is a nice cover of a song originally by Dicky Doo and The Don'ts. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Money Honey</strong></i><strong> sounds like a song by The Band, but it's actually an old tune by The Drifters from the 1950s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="x4KmbUCwkyE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x4KmbUCwkyE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cooder's stripped-back version of the Woody Guthrie classic, "Vigilante Man", reveals a dark side on this album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/07bbace40b15d37549a7ba64e41e846d1fc1b60e/original/closing-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder's collection of engaging songs tell some fascinating stories from a unpleasant time in American history. Cooder successfully gives these standards his own unique spin, remaking them to suit his strengths, showcasing his talents as a first-rate guitarist, and at the same time, always remaining faithful to the original source material. Amen.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7672f90f83149bc6f5c38360af02fe82607eb910/original/red-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c54e56a65ec18d78dabd7d3dd7fb766344dc7954/original/thomas-jefferson-kaye-first-grade-album-1974.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thomas Jefferson Kaye > First Grade (Probe label) 1974</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACKS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1. Northern California </strong><i><strong>(Thomas Jefferson Kaye)</strong></i><strong> 1:25</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2. Easy Kind Of Feeling </strong><i><strong>(Thomas Jefferson Kaye)</strong></i><strong> 3:32</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3. Sho Bout To Drive Me Wild </strong><i><strong>(Alvin Robinson, Jessie Hill, Mac Rebbenack)</strong></i><strong> 4:08</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 Say That You Love Me </strong><i><strong>(Loudon Wainwright III)</strong></i><strong> 2:31</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>5 American Lovers </strong><i><strong>(Donald Fagen, Walter Becker)</strong></i><strong> 4:57</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>6 Jones </strong><i><strong>(Donald Fagen, Walter Becker)</strong></i><strong> 3:24</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>7 Shine The Light </strong><i><strong>(Link Wray)</strong></i><strong> 3:28</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>8 All Cried Out </strong><i><strong>(Thomas Jefferson Kaye)</strong></i><strong> 4:21</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>9 LA </strong><i><strong>(Thomas Jefferson Kaye)</strong></i><strong> 2:45</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 One Man Band </strong><i><strong>(Thomas Jefferson Kaye)</strong></i><strong> 3:10</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MUSICIANS:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bass: Joe Osborn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drums: Jim Gordon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Electric Guitar / Acoustic Guitar: Dean Parks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slide Guitar / Acoustic: Rick Derringer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keyboards: Michael Omartian</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Percussion: Victor Feldman</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Backing Vocals:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richie Furay, Tim Schmit, Dusty Springfield, Clydie King.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strings And Horns Arranged By Jimmie Haskell.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Producer – Gary Katz</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Engineer – Roger Nichols</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Engineer (Assistant Engineer) – Joe Tuzen</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strings (Strings Arranged And Conducted By) – Jimmie Haskell (Tracks 2, 5</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Horns (Horns Arranged And Conducted By) – Jimmie Haskell (Tracks 3, 9, 10)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art Direction, Design – David Larkham</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art Direction, Photography – Ed Caraeff</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded At – The Village Recorder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bcc3e7f464379bc11e8887812dd40ca5762cf1ae/original/thomas-jefferson-kaye-portrait.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who was Thomas Jefferson Kaye?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thomas Jefferson Kaye carried on a close musical collaboration with Gene Clark through the mid-'70s. After stints in a group called White Cloud and as a sideman for Loudon Wainwright, he produced the supersession Triumvirate (CBS, 1973) for Mike Bloomfield, Dr. John and John Hammond. Around the same time, Kaye released two solo LPs, Thomas Jefferson Kaye (ABC/Dunhill, 1973) and First Grade (ABC/Dunhill, 1973). Both featured Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan prominently.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kaye then produced Gene Clark's baroque </strong><i><strong>No Other </strong></i><strong>(Asylum, 1974). The two remained close during the next few years, and Kaye then produced the next Clark LP, the country-rocker Two Sides to Every Story (RSO, 1977). Kaye was then part of the K.C. Southern Band (Kaye-Clark, get it?) until Clark reunited with McGuinn in late '77. Kaye and Clark co-wrote "Release Me, Girl," which turned up on McGuinn Clark & Hillman (Capitol, 1979).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YcqWsCKZI9E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcqWsCKZI9E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As I went searching around the web, I ended up finding more essential info on this great lost album: Kaye moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s, to produce </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Wray" title="Link Wray"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Link Wray</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s album </strong><i><strong>Be What You Want To</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Kaye#cite_note-6"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]</sup></strong></span></a><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Kaye#cite_note-cocoa-7"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-cocoa_7-0">[7]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> There, he "fell in love with </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Heider" title="Wally Heider"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wally Heider</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s studio and with the air-conditioned San Francisco climate and with the hills and with the cable cars...".</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Kaye#cite_note-aronowitz-1"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-aronowitz_1-4">[1]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> He settled in California, and was signed by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Geffen" title="David Geffen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Geffen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to produce his friend </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Neuwirth" title="Bob Neuwirth"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Neuwirth</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s self-titled 1974 debut solo album, recorded in Los Angeles with a variety of top musicians including </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kris Kristofferson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Coolidge" title="Rita Coolidge"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rita Coolidge</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Everly" title="Don Everly"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don Everly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Danko" title="Rick Danko"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rick Danko</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Kaye said of that time: </strong><i><strong>‘The hours are crazy, the alcohol thing is crazy, the pills are crazy, the people are crazy... I was just as high as everybody else and I was up for it!’</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1973, Kaye produced the album </strong><i><strong>Triumvirate</strong></i><strong> by Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond Jr. and Dr. John which eventually led to Kaye producing his own debut solo album, </strong><i><strong>Thomas Jefferson Kaye</strong></i><strong> which was released by ABC-Dunhill Records. The album featured both Fagen and Becker (of Steely Dan fame) along with Steely Dan producer Gary Katz. Kaye's First Grade album used the same musicians and producer used on creating Steely Dan albums. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On this album there are two gems which were written by Becker and Fagen; ‘</strong><i><strong>Jones</strong></i><strong>’ and '</strong><i><strong>American Lovers</strong></i><strong>', the latter a farewell of sorts to the era's counterculture. Probably the track that stood out the most for me was ‘</strong><i><strong>American Lovers</strong></i><strong>’, which was written by Becker and Fagen and was recorded around the time that Steely Dan was working on </strong><i><strong>Pretzel Logic</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘American Lovers’ has a unique chord structure and lyrical intelligence we’ve come to expect from the Becker and Fagen and the song seems to remind me of some of the excellent Steely Dan songs that pop up on the radio every once and awhile. After listening to ‘American Lovers’ many times I've come to realize that the disillusionment of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/becker-and-fagen-mn0000148639"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Becker and Fagen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s ‘</strong><i><strong>American Lovers</strong></i><strong>’ are delivered with the same intelligence you would expect of Becker and Fagen. Also, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dr-john-mn0000205180"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s funky ‘</strong><i><strong>Sho-bout to Drive Me Mad</strong></i><strong>’ definitely grabbed my attention due to my taste for New Orleans music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/537ff6eb074f7df8d432b08faaf64bd3a67603c6/original/first-grade-promo-copy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>First Grade [ABC/Dunhill, 1974]</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Reviewed by Robert Christgau</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>After listening to the album, Christgau rewarded Thomas Jefferson Kaye an A!</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>"Like the Triumvirate album he produced for John Hammond, Mike Bloomfield, and Dr. John, Kaye's debut was sensually laid-back, with a sly intelligence he hoped to pass off as an active relationship with his environment. But this one stands beside Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard as a critique of the laid-back mode. The secret is the covers, which I bet producer Gary Katz (also of Steely Dan) had something to do with--especially since the whole album centers around Fagen & Becker's bitter, poignant farewell to the counterculture, "American Lovers." Together with Loudon Wainwright's painful "Say That You Love Me" and natural boogies from Link Wray and Dr. John, it puts such Kaye titles as "Northern California" and "Easy Kind of Feeling" into the ironic perspective the artist intends. Maybe this is Katz rather than Kaye--but when you hear Kaye describe a "new religion/Called everything's gonna be all right," you won't think so."</strong></i></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7672f90f83149bc6f5c38360af02fe82607eb910/original/red-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/895b4639893b403d42bfa5282a26ab017a614671/original/youngbloods-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE YOUNGBLOODS > ROCK FESTIVAL (1970)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For their first album of the seventies, The Youngbloods released their first live album </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival</strong></i><strong> in 1970. Instead, The Youngbloods embarked upon a lengthy American tour in the spring of 1970, which lasted well into the summer months. The plan was to record several dates on the tour, and release them as The Youngbloods’ first live album, </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival.</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/eaa4d34ac29233066ac1ecb35783215da941f9be/original/youngbloods-live-in-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Featuring the smooth as apple-butter voice of Jesse Colin Young and the guitar/keyboard wizardry of Banana, backed by the rock-solid drum work by Joe Bauer, the Youngbloods positively sparkle here.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1c0727a4bf9f2ff694396bccc071175e3880f758/original/youngbloods-in-the-studio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>TRACKS</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>It's A Lovely Day</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Faster All The Time</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Preluce</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>On Beautiful Lake Spenard</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Josiane</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sea Cow Boogie</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Fiddler A Dram</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Misty Roses</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Interlude</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Between March and July 1970, the tapes were running during five concerts. The first was on March ’29th’ 1970 at The Family Dog, in San Francisco. Three weeks later, the concert at The Barn in Marshall, California on ‘16th’ April 1970 was recorded. Two nights later, on ‘18th’ April 1970, the tapes were running at the Santa Clara University. Then when The Youngbloods played at Provo Park in Berkeley, California on ‘19th’ May 1970. There was one final recording session on July ’21st’ 1970, at Pacific High Recording in San Francisco. At last, The Youngbloods’ fourth album was ready for release.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Upon the release of the </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival </strong></i><strong>album the band received the same critical acclaim as previous albums. </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival</strong></i><strong> was another eclectic album, where The Youngbloods showcased their versatility. However, it’s a quite different album from their three studio albums. Rather than play to the audience, and win them over with some of their best known songs, The Youngbloods decided to move in a new direction. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-QdEZsjep6I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-QdEZsjep6I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngloods opted to open the set with Jesse Colin Young’s </strong><i><strong>It’s a Lovely Day</strong></i><strong>, which gives way to </strong><i><strong>Faster All The Time</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Prelude</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8Hn1yKRIqJw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Hn1yKRIqJw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the most outstanding tracks on the album is the instrumental </strong><i><strong>On Beautiful Lake Spenard</strong></i><strong> which finds The Youngbloods stretching their legs musically. In particular, Lowell Levinger aka Banana drives the band forward with his excellent piano work.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VcKOLb0rjtU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VcKOLb0rjtU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Josiane</strong></i><strong> is a beautiful ballad which was written by Jesse Colin Young. </strong><span><strong>Jesse has such an easy vocal on this one that it draws the listener more closely and as the song flows along it seems to capture the listener in a way that it makes them feels as if they are right in the middle of the concert.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f2c4d5246ac843eb3726e3846afc2747d327d861/original/the-last-youngbloods-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Fiddler A Dram</strong></i><strong> finds The Youngbloods rework a traditional song. It gives way to the noodling </strong><i><strong>Sea Cow Boogie</strong></i><strong>, before Jesse Colin Young delivers a thoughtful cover on Tim Hardin’s </strong><i><strong>Misty Roses</strong></i><strong>. After another interlude, The Youngbloods whipped up bluesy </strong><i><strong>Peepin’ and Hidin’</strong></i><strong>, before closing the set with </strong><i><strong>Ice Bag</strong></i><strong>, a free jazz workout. This eclectic set proved popular not just with critics, but record buyers too.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival </strong></i><strong>was released in 1970, it reached number eighty in the US Billboard 200. This made </strong><i><strong>Rock Festival</strong></i><strong> The Youngbloods’ most successful album.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7672f90f83149bc6f5c38360af02fe82607eb910/original/red-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1e197a3b1c47743a279d5aa1ed7a9fb606c8c1d4/original/judee-sill-first-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JUDEE SILL (self-titled album) 1972</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Judee Sill</strong></i><strong> is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judee_Sill" title="Judee Sill"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Judee Sill</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Released on September 15, 1971, it was the first album on David Geffen's Asylum label. Backing musicians include John Beck and Jim Pons from the Leaves. While the majority of the album was produced by Henry Lewy, Graham Nash handled the duties for the single </strong><i><strong>Jesus Was a Cross Maker</strong></i><strong>, with his production designed to aim for radio airplay.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80a0d814d521a04eb44c00b2936ec06f61b8fb7c/original/side-one.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kTAesI73E1U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kTAesI73E1U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIDE ONE:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Crayon Angels" – 2:35</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Phantom Cowboy" – 1:40</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Archetypal Man" – 3:35</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Lamb Ran Away with the Crown" – 3:10</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Lady-O" – 3:10</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Was_a_Cross_Maker" title="Jesus Was a Cross Maker"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesus Was a Cross Maker</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" – 3:20</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GHXteb6R-AY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GHXteb6R-AY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIDE TWO:</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Ridge Rider" – 4:28</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"My Man on Love" – 3:23</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos" – 3:00</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Enchanted Sky Machines" – 2:40</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Abracadabra" – 1:54</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e3030521499aae18c8517d4d3543d1e1d932604c/original/judee-sill-performing.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span id="Personnel"><strong><u>Personnel</u></strong></span></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Judee Sill – guitar, piano & vocals</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydie_King" title="Clydie King"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clydie King</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Coolidge" title="Rita Coolidge"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rita Coolidge</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetta_Fields" title="Venetta Fields"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venetta Fields</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_vocals" title="Background vocals"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>background vocals</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bagley" title="Don Bagley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don Bagley</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, Bob Harris – orchestration</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby" title="David Crosby"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Crosby</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – guitar</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Nash" title="Graham Nash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Graham Nash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – organ & production on "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Technical Personnel</u></strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewy" title="Henry Lewy"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Henry Lewy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, John Beck, Jim Pons – </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>production</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Nash" title="Graham Nash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Graham Nash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – production on "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Larry Cox – </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineering" title="Audio engineering"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>engineering</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burden" title="Gary Burden"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gary Burden</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – art direction, design</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Zax" title="Andy Zax"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Zax</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – reissue production</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9ab2acbbfe28bdeba47c9b12a5af5315e9505758/original/judee-sill-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The album</strong><i><strong> Judee Sill</strong></i><strong> was released in 1971. Sill took the credit for composition, arrangements and supervision, while the production was split between Jim Pons (of the Turtles), John Beck (of the Leaves), and Henry Lewy (Graham Nash separately produced "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" with an eye toward releasing it as a single). Bob Harris and Don Bagley handled the strings. Listening to the record some 34 years later, it's nearly impossible to believe that this was Sill's debut record – most songwriters today would be lucky to have such an album stand as the crowning achievement in their catalogue, let alone stand as their first public outing. The record dabbles in folk and country figures, buoyed along by Sill's gospel-tinged piano lines, and some staggering baroque string arrangements. She is often associated with the so-called "Laurel Canyon sound" that also included folks like Carole King, but her sound is distanced from those contemporaries by the breadth of her musical knowledge, her stunning attention to detail, and a gorgeous everywoman type of voice, pitch perfect and rendering lyrics that dealt as much with heartbreaking balladry as they did with deep spiritual concerns and cosmos wanderings.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vPnmRvBwr2g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vPnmRvBwr2g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The songs that appear on </strong><i><strong>Judee Sill</strong></i><strong> were mostly composed in 1969–71. In 1969, Sill was hired by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles" title="The Turtles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Turtles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to write songs for $35 a week for their publishing company, Blimp Music. The earliest of these are "Lady-O," which was recorded by the band, "Crayon Angels," "My Man on Love," "Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos," "Enchanted Sky Machines," and "Abracadabra." As songs would come to Judy, they would burst forth with religious fervor.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Judee Sill album featured all original compositions, many of which relied on Sill's unique cosmological imagery to make their point. By turns spare and lavishly orchestrated, there is a cohesive feel to the album; her lyrics are exceptionally poetic and her smooth voice gives every song a shimmery feel. The essence of the music is folk, the execution pop: the songs feel like a comfort blanket, a statement of hope from a troubled soul. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite the good reviews of her album, </strong><i><strong>Judee Sill</strong></i><strong> didn’t sell as well as the troubadour and her friends had hoped. Nevertheless, she soldiered on to record and release 1973’s </strong><i><strong>Heart Food, </strong></i><strong>an equally outstanding album, which made even greater use of both her gospel influenced keyboard playing and her talent for orchestral composition. Sadly, </strong><i><strong>Heart Food</strong></i><strong> sold even fewer copies than the first album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Continuing her downward slide, Sill disappeared from the scene. She died from an overdose – cause of death was listed as ‘acute cocaine and codeine intoxication’ – in 1979, the day after Thanksgiving when she passed away at the age of 35.. By then she was long forgotten, and her passing didn’t even make the obits. Many friends and fans didn’t learn of her death until years afterwards.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who knows what heights Judee and her music may have reached. Both </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012286V0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=risingstor-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0012286V0"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Judee Sill</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00123NXCQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=risingstor-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B00123NXCQ"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Heart Food</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> rank right up there with the best from giants like Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Sandy Denny, and Carole King.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 2003 Rhino Records Handmade imprint released limited editions of both of her albums, making them available for the first time in thirty years. Blessings to Judee for eternal peace.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d168c31a41a32d873671ee1d8962d61856fc15/original/mind-smoke-records-promo-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALBUMS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6a9903b237bbce29781696ac8ea950f50e6e556a/original/mc-osso-american-zoom-anthology.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/996110/american-zoom-anthology" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>M.C. OSSO > AMERICAN ZOOM ANTHOLOGY</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mind Smoke Records is proud to release </strong><i><strong>American Zoom Anthology</strong></i><strong>, an eclectic collection of M.C. Osso recordings that capture the many musical personas of this mercurial artist. All of the proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to The Music Cancer Fund, a charity that is associated with the Sweet Relief Musician's Fund</strong></span><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">.</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/143d5388836e92aa90ab28dcdb34c09e2140c157/original/the-lost-tapes-vol-1-the-hideaways.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1089805/the-lost-tapes-vol-1" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>THE HIDEAWAYS > THE LOST TAPES VOL. 1</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Once upon a time, on a late September evening in four guys calling themselves The Hideaways, walked in EKO Studio in Deer Park, NY and created this 2-Track live-in-studio recording that features elements of blues, R&B, Country, Rockabilly, and jazz.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68339162024-01-17T12:49:03-05:002024-01-19T05:05:50-05:00Alive As Yesterday: 1985 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/363201cc58b776106500489abd4d9a376065ce27/original/1985.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/caca650b25d6f649719a6ae358d314214de33add/original/live-aid-artist-lineup.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/205bdacd82d30443f884fe6923efff8613d5c84b/original/1985-live-aid-no-2-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2c203d62e441a43622e8ad82a14a33a3886f1463/original/1985-queen-live-aid-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="FP808MiJUcM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FP808MiJUcM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Live Aid was a benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia...Billed as the </strong><i><strong>global jukebox</strong></i><strong>, Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, attended by about 72,000 people and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US, attended by 89,484 people.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The idea to stage a charity concert to raise more funds for Ethiopia originally came from Boy George, the lead singer of Culture Club. George and Culture Club drummer Jon Moss had taken part in the recording of </strong><i><strong>Do They Know It's Christmas?</strong></i><strong> and in the same month, the band were undertaking a tour of the UK, which culminated in six nights at Wembley Arena. On the final night at Wembley, 22 December 1984, an impromptu gathering of some of the other artists from Band Aid joined Culture Club on stage at the end of the concert for an encore of </strong><i><strong>Do They Know It's Christmas?</strong></i><strong>. George was so overcome by the occasion he told Geldof that they should consider organizing a benefit concert. Speaking to the UK music magazine Melody Maker at the beginning of January 1985, Geldof revealed his enthusiasm for George's idea.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was clear from the interview that Geldof had already had the idea to hold a dual venue concert and how the concerts should be structured: 'The show should be as big as is humanly possible. There's no point just 5,000 fans turning up at Wembley; we need to have Wembley linked with Madison Square Garden, and the whole show to be televised worldwide. It would be great for Duran to play three or four numbers at Wembley, and then flick to Madison Square where Springsteen would be playing. While he's on, the Wembley stage could be made ready for the next British act like the Thompsons or whoever. In that way, lots of acts could be featured and the television rights, tickets and so on could raise a phenomenal amount of money. It's not an impossible idea, and certainly one worth exploiting." (The Guardian)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f76db19f60d4dd422b44b0890bd7aeb0b3d55c81/original/1985-r-e-m-orpheum-theatre-memphis-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10,000 Maniacs'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orpheum Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b56f811d7f8792aa4125e2de86900b66a2c88fe0/original/1985-siouxsie-the-banshees-uk-autumn-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Autumn Tour 1985</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Siouxsie & The Banshees</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c114f2ab989aa8bd8dce2448802da9090e62317a/original/1985-born-in-the-usa-tour-bruce-springsteen-orange-bowl-stadium-miami-fl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orange Bowl Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miami, FL</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EPhWR4d3FJQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EPhWR4d3FJQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. It was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the Born to Run tours without guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who decided to go solo after recording the album with the group. Van Zandt, who was replaced by Nils Lofgren, would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the E Street Band played to sold-out professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The tour grossed $80–90 million overall.[1] Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North America.[1] The Born in the U.S.A. album was inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album, Nebraska, which he did not tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/747496f79badc0b64c0785e9e19c5325459c5e89/original/1985-grateful-dead-nassau-coliseum-uniondale-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nassau Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Uniondale, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 27 SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mississippi Half-Step </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hell in a Bucket </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West L.A. Fadeaway </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mama Tried </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big River </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Thumb's Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brown Eyed Women </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tons of Steel </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Might As Well </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shakedown Street </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Uncle John's Band </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Playin' in the Band </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>drums </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stella Blue </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Turn on Your Love Light </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Touch of Grey</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/faa4f75032c41f55f0ed2d7034e66430bca7fec7/original/1985-acdc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AC/DC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FLY ON THE WALL TOUR '85</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a80220c0e2eecb6185350fcef809cfb3bfea190d/original/1985-james-brown-commodore-ballroom-vancouver-b-c-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="c5BL4RNFr58" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c5BL4RNFr58?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dynamic James Brown & His Revue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Commodore Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vancouver B.C. Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/95e2694d62a3e499b9e67d49559d6a79da55c87f/original/1985-chuck-berry-bo-diddley-irvine-meadows-ampitheatre-irvine-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock & Roll All Star Jam</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Irvine Meadows Ampitheatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Irvine, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b86434428721f421d05fcadbe98dbf547589e32c/original/1985-farm-aid-willie-nelson-neil-young-illinois-memorial-stadium-champaaign-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FARM AID</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Illinois Memorial Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Champaign, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Farm Aid started as an idea at the Live Aid Concert when Bob Dylan said on stage, “Wouldn’t it be great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?” Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp agreed that family farmers were in dire need of assistance and decided to plan a concert for America. The show was put together in six weeks and was held on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois before a crowd of 80,000 people. It raised over $7 million for America’s family farmers. Performers included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and many more.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d45623d0ee660e9edccd8a681f91e6391665564/original/1985-madonna-like-a-virgin-tour-los-angeles-univrsal-ampitheatre-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Like A Virgin Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madonna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beastie Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Run DMC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles Universal Ampitheatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beastie Boys & Madonna: One of the most bizarre Tour pairings!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back in the spring of 1984, the Beastie Boys’ first manager, Russell </strong><i><strong>Rush</strong></i><strong> Simmons got a call from Madonna’s manager who asked if the Beastie Boys would be interested in opening for Madonna on her Like A Virgin tour. This was not necessarily a wise move because at the time Madonna’s audience was filled with young girls and their moms and dads. The whole tour was crazy, because Madonna went from playing CBGB and the Mudd Club to playing sporting arenas. She wasn’t a superstar that everyone now knows, it was the first time she was playing in huge arenas. The relationship between the Beastie Boys and the audience was synergistic, one feeding off the other. It was like a love-hate relationship type of thing. The Beasties hated the crowd, the crowd hated them. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On April 10 1985, Madonna’s Virgin Tour started at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, the Beastie Boys were the opening act. Madonna had three shows in Seattle – April 10, 12 and 13 – and all three were sellouts by the time she took the stage that first night. The Beastie Boys opened for Madonna and they weren’t well received by the pro-Madonna crowd. '</strong><i><strong>The girls had flap skirts on and the tights cut off below their knees and lace gloves and rosaries and bows in their hair and big hoop earrings</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After Seattle, all of the shows were moved to arenas. '</strong><i><strong>Their 30-minute set got off to a bad start when one of the Beasties declared himself King of the Paramount, and generally made the pro-Madonna audience feel like a swarm of hillbillies</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the first few dates, Madonna’s management was ready to pull the plug on them, but Madonna stood up for them and kept them on the tour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> One particular show at Madison Square Garden was particularly memorable because more than 15 000 people were there and the crowd booed and jeered the Beastie Boys for their entire set.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f7333613c42c490ebec3484b0a450b9d14f8d43e/original/1985-grateful-dead-boreal-ridge-boreal-mountain-soda-springs-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JVne8FTzmRo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JVne8FTzmRo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boreal Ridge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donner Summit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soda Springs California</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/76c104641e9aaff4b6c779c090263d57bf0687f3/original/1985-highway-mem-willies-picnic-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie's Picnic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Highway Men Live!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Nelson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Waylon Jennings</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kris Kristoferson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Cash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfd0721f4ec47bb05ffd1380aeab2f57b01a51a7/original/1985-the-unforgettable-fire-tour-u2-croke-park-dublin-irelance.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OJPJ_R3gy_A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OJPJ_R3gy_A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Unforgettable Fire Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Croke Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dublin, Ireland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Unforgettable Fire Tour was a concert tour by Irish rock band U2 that took place in 1984 and 1985 in support of band's album The Unforgettable Fire. Beginning in August 1984 with the band's first tour to Australia and New Zealand, the tour spanned four further legs which included 43 concerts in Europe and 50 in North America. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Initially challenged by the sonic complexity of the new album's material, the band were able to translate the complex layered atmospheric textures of the new studio-recorded tracks to live performance through the use of programmed sequencers, which the band until then had been reluctant to use. Since then sequencers are now used on the majority of U2 songs in performance. Songs criticised as being "unfinished", "fuzzy" and "unfocused" on the album, including the live favourite, "Bad", made more sense on stage. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For the first time, U2 consistently played in arenas instead of smaller halls and theatres, and sometimes for multiple nights. The group had reached the level of popularity where this was possible, but had not yet broken out into widespread fame and familiarity among the general rock and pop audience; that would come in 1987 with the release of The Joshua Tree. The band's now renowned performance at Live Aid in July 1985, was watched by millions on television and brought them to a new level of fame and exposure.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1022ee814c151bb60bacd84083bd2c4f9a670f10/original/1985-motley-crue-st-paul-civic-center-st-paul-mn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Motley Crue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Loudness</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>St. Paul Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>St. Paul, MN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/90d222dadb3fa77ba800e22770b96d45cd2c8c8f/original/1985-the-replacements.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE REPLACEMENTS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U.C. Davis Coffee House</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee7763cae7518baf3a8e5524b15c730ace3476a4/original/1985-metallica-aragon-ballroom-chicago-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Metallica</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aragon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/efe15c78211f8f9a9132cd50b5cd43cad9694011/original/1985-the-cure-the-head-tour-cleveland-music-hall-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Head Tour 1985</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cure</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland Music Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/371cf6a1c433f34987e72c1ab263e37e7d79be22/original/set-list-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Baby Screams </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Play for Today </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kyoto Song </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Primary </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Hanging Garden </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Night Like This </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In Between Days </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Go to Bed </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Walk </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Push </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Screw </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One Hundred Years </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Forest </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sinking </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Six Different Ways </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Close to Me </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlotte Sometimes </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three Imaginary Boys </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boys Don't Cry </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10:15 Saturday Night </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Killing an Arab </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d0556a479e7f5da146d66fb251df1624755c0ddf/original/deep-purple-perfect-strangers-tour-85.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perfect Strangers Tour '85</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deep Purple</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee84c358493e375d287815c59a949fa0b0e32269/original/1985-u2-the-alarm-msg.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Alarm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madison Square Garden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f3b7e3e94ac2f78d7ba74d252054b930376994b9/original/1985-ramones-belfast.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a10df35232c219fa68913336f6adda611f79123e/original/1985-ramones-queens-student-union-ticket.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RAMONES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queens Students Union</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Belfast, Ireland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Teenage Lobotomy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=4bd65f2a" title="Statistics for Psycho Therapy performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Psycho Therapy</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=7bd692c4" title="Statistics for Blitzkrieg Bop performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blitzkrieg Bop</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=5bd49734" title="Statistics for Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=43d4972b" title="Statistics for Danger Zone performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Danger Zone</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=73d6cedd" title="Statistics for Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=13d6512d" title="Statistics for Rock 'n' Roll High School performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock 'n' Roll High School</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=4bd633fa" title="Statistics for I Wanna Be Sedated performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Wanna Be Sedated</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=1bd695b4" title="Statistics for Beat on the Brat performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beat on the Brat</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=5bd7a334" title="Statistics for The KKK Took My Baby Away performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The KKK Took My Baby Away</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=7bd6fe18" title="Statistics for Commando performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commando</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=4bd5c72a" title="Statistics for Loudmouth performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Loudmouth</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=4bd49752" title="Statistics for Suzy Is a Headbanger performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suzy Is a Headbanger</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=13d45569" title="Statistics for Let's Dance (Chris Montez song) performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Dance</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=4bd70bb6" title="Statistics for I Don't Care performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Don't Care</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=5bdbf35c" title="Statistics for Chinese Rocks (The Heartbreakers song) performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chinese Rocks</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=33d65061" title="Statistics for Rockaway Beach performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rockaway Beach</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=6bd71e0e" title="Statistics for Surfin' Bird (The Trashmen song) performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Surfin' Bird</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=43d6fb07" title="Statistics for Cretin Hop performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cretin Hop</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=13d4556d" title="Statistics for California Sun (Joe Jones song) performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>California Sun</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=3dd712f" title="Statistics for Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/ramones-13d6a5cd.html?songid=33d6605d" title="Statistics for Pinhead performed by Ramones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pinhead</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a615abe69ff8bcbb8c7dc21687258614e10fd81/original/billy-bragg-jobs-for-youth-tour-85.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Jobs For Youth Tour '85</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Bragg</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1145b4924bc2570aa169edf00301f9b446cb754/original/queen-mt-smart-stadium-auckland-new-zealand.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MT Smart Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Auckland, New Zealand</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b3058184e7372c6a8b6b0f8b88e7280bb7237bed/original/prince-the-revolution-louisiana-super-dome-new-orleans-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prince & The Revolution</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sheila E.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Louisiana Superdome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="r1Y6NBqXYMM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r1Y6NBqXYMM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/371cf6a1c433f34987e72c1ab263e37e7d79be22/original/set-list-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Go Crazy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delirious </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1999 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Red Corvette </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Take Me With U </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Free </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Pretend We're Married </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>International Lover </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>God </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Computer Blue </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Darling Nikki </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beautiful Ones </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When Doves Cry </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ENCORE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Would Die 4 U </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby I'm a Star</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/48623c499591d68d25329cb5d1d7fadeb72f0062/original/1985-george-throgood-the-delaware-destroyers-cains-bllroom-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="9jVs4XjXBUw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9jVs4XjXBUw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/300e4f9966fb1c108c9dd0a1e2399ce498575e7c/original/1985-uk-irish-tour-the-pogues.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xempnzVy3Vs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xempnzVy3Vs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>UK & Ireland TOUR</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pogues</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/012328dcdc953ce2e137dd9c2efc334013a76d12/original/1985-2nd-annual-new-years-eve-party-stevie-ray-vaughn-san-antonio-convention-center-arena-san-antonio-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Year's Eve Party 1985</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe King Carrasco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fabulous Thunderbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Antonio Convention Center Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Antonio, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/14d12c16c02f59758a961b07a5388eff5d295f8a/original/1985-albert-king-antones-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALBERT KING</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ANTONE'S</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AUSTIN, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd6fabea9ac36e8b2fe0da089730e459ecd87929/original/tom-waits-dominion-theatre-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EzALC-hHp0w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EzALC-hHp0w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dominion Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Tom Waits has a voice that could guide ships through dense fog. He sings songs that are poetic, hilarious, scary, touching, hallucinatory, and fine. Maybe he’s like John Lee Hooker, Mose Allison, Neville Brand, Francois Villon, Soren Kierkegaard, Lenny Bruce, and Wallace Beery rolled into one. Sometimes his band sounds like a Salvation Army combo covering a Stones tune. But nothing really sounds like Waits. Or writes like. Or looks like. Or talks like." (Spin Magazinem, 1985)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4c17deb28540b9bce69563a1568c9d939851cf0a/original/tom-waits-1985.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Underground </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Heart Attack and Vine </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shore Leave </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tango Till They're Sore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Beg Your Pardon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Broken Bicycles </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the Nickel </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the Neighborhood </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cemetery Polka </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Falling Down </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'Til the Money Runs Out </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>9th & Hennepin </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Step Right Up </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Down, Down, Down</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ENCORE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Burma-Shave </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Walking Spanish </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Red Shoes by the Drugstore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ENCORE 2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89413a4372c95cd00d8dcd0c1103191e22f917ee/original/cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9d2e646897b6cda821aaa328685d6b2f98056e11/original/get-vandalized-rti.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4a69a0b0cfa772154f0218be2607837608a5bbe6/original/albums.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS MUSIC</u></strong></i></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW RELEASE! It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving NEW RELEASE! It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7d8a6a0d69c418606308b95148f81045dcd939ff/original/freelance-vandals-out-of-order-album-cover.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded live @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) on Easter Sunday 1981. Featuring Billy "the Mountain" Cairns (Drums / Vocals), Mike Adams (Bass / Vocals), Chuck Ciany (Vocals / Sax / Guitar), Jack Finch (Keyboards), "Diamond" Ray Finch (Vocals / Lead Guitar) and Johnny Pierre (Vocals / Rhythm & Slide Guitar). Rock & Roll is a State of Mind!</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ec53ee84b45733c097ff98e250cfae20b036f555/original/yer-money-or-yer-ears-cd-cover-front.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded Live 1983 @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) >Billy Cairns - Drums Vocals</strong><i><strong> ></strong></i><strong>Mike Adams - Bass / Vocals</strong><i><strong> ></strong></i><strong>Tommy Yamasaki - Tenor & Soprano Sax / Percussion >Diamond" Ray Finch - Lead Guitar / Vocals >Johnny Pierre - Lead Vocals / Guitar >Chuck Ciany - Guitar / Vocals / Percussion / Sax >Al Speed - Keyboards / Vocals Jack Finch - Keyboards</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/29d0b02336be9d1e81121d72fb77586c9592204b/original/live-the-music-box-live-album-cover.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's 1978 and The Freelance Vandals are getting wild and crazy @ The Music Box in Bellmore, NY on New Year's Eve!</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28e7aca0dc066891cfae09f7a2e401d7a366b4ec/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This live set captures the Freelance Vandals in action @ The Pastime Pub in Amityville circa 1980! Special Thanks To John C. Englehardt for his artwork and The Michael Tully Archive for providing a cassette of this show.</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0818ac83836feab7da8770430f2765ef63e9f3ed/original/vandalogy-cover-image-5.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This was the first official album that was released by the Freelance Vandals in 1979. Many of the songs have become popular items to all of the Freelance Vandals fans around the world!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS MUSIC</u></strong></i></span></a><br> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/64201242024-01-09T22:00:00-05:002024-01-12T14:08:32-05:00Remembering Bill Graham & The Fillmore East<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/631e13c85cbdca4cdae9b45037214452e64977db/original/fillmore-east-programs-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Goldstein</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>who spent many happy hours @ The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7ec75252db380159bb39edf9f64780c08ca11086/original/bill-graham-welcomes-you-to-the-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8e5edc1a09034fdc78e3f644df922a3461668578/original/fillmore-east-first-image.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eddce8a324ac6f99a5ae7f790cc5141765e8535b/original/1968.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ef8b9b4273b7d4c0d757bdc1b21ec2581f45fa2/original/fillmore-bear-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/92a32373f247a8cb11c1f276e6bdeb12f5251e09/original/1967-village-theater.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Story of the Fillmore East begins here...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Located at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street was a venue that opened in 1925 as a vaudeville theater. Over the years, it took on various names and in the 1950's it was operating under the name of the Village Theater and operated as a venue that was known for its live music. At some point the theater was closed. From time to time, it opened to present various rock & roll shows. In 1968, Bill Graham, looking to expand his small empire of music venues located in San Francisco decided to buy the Village Theater.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When Bill Graham first set foot inside the venue, its condition could only be described as terrible. As he had now announced it would open on March 8, there were less than two weeks to have it up and running. Work needed to be done, and fast.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'</strong><i><strong>The derelict building</strong></i><strong>,' said future manager Kip Cohen, '</strong><i><strong>was actually converted into the Fillmore East in twelve unbelievable days</strong></i><strong>.' John Morris, Joshua White, and Kip Cohen got down to business, bringing in Chip Monck as lighting director. Everything started came together.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the outset, Bill Graham wanted a state-of-the-art sound and lighting system, so bands would not have to bring in their own. With three acts playing two shows a night, it was vital to streamline the operation and prevent bands from parking forty-foot trucks outside and lugging heavy equipment in and out of the building. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Graham then hired pioneering sound technician Bill Hanley to create a sound system for his new rock theater. The </strong><i><strong>Hanley Sound System</strong></i><strong>, as it became known, cost $35,000, and Graham only leased it from Hanley, who retained ownership. It consisted of twenty-six speakers, including some manufactured for civil defense alerts, strategically placed around the theater with a total power source of 35,000 watts. There were professional-grade mixing consoles, as well as a two-ton center cluster speaker system, suspended over the center of the stage using a series of fly weights. The sound level could often break the 100 decibel level, and the cluster had to be perfectly positioned, aiming the sound into the audience so there would be no echoing.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On February 29, 1968, during the height of the theater’s transformation, the first advertisement appeared in the Village Voice for the Big Brother and the Holding Company opening at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. And the box office was now open for the reserved-section tickets, selling for $3, $4, and $5 dollars. Bill Graham had initially wanted to turn the Village Theater into a ballroom, but that proved too expensive. So he kept the 2,645 seats and introduced reserve seating, in the manner of a Broadway theater. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Friday afternoon, March 8, a nervous Bill Graham and his team were still frantically putting the final touches to the Fillmore East right before they opened the doors for the very first show at the Fillmore East." (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/539df44f4990f79228a5eb958a74e1be033a9852/original/early-fillmore-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Up on the balcony level was the perfect stoned-hippie-food concession that offered up fresh fruit and juices, donuts, bagels with cream cheese, and best of all, Dannon Yogurt, in a wide selection of flavors. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> When he was in New York, Graham could often be found operating from a makeshift office at a rear table of Ratner’s Delicatessen, next door to the venue. It took a few months for the venue to get up to speed.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As was Graham’s practice at the original Fillmore, the venue booked two shows a night, usually three bands playing early and late sets, starting at 8 and 11:30, and often running extra-late, especially if the Grateful Dead were headlining. In the case of the three shows the Dead played with the Allman Brothers and Love , all three gigs ended after dawn. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Unlike Graham’s unseated general admission shows in San Francisco, the Fillmore East cleared the house between shows, did a clean-up, and started over again. With a translucent rear-stage curtain used by the Joshua Light Show, the stage crew rotated custom wheeled drum risers and amplifiers for extra-quick set-changes. Above them, the Joshua Light Show kept fans entertained with cartoons and other visual amusements, in large part to keep the audience from overcrowding the tiny lobby areas. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The classic shows happened frequently in front of the tough New York crowds. The first year of the Fillmore East saw Sly Stone’s east coast breakout, Rod Stewart’s American debut (opening for the Dead with the Jeff Beck Group), and a pair of shows that began with Led Zeppelin as the opening act for Iron Butterfly and ended the other way around. There wasn’t music every night, and Graham shut the venue down almost entirely during the summers of 1968 and 1969. It was during that latter summer that the venue’s core staff became the basic team that staged Woodstock. The Fillmore East soon became the focal point in New York’s media eye. “After Woodstock, all the famous things happened, and then it went downhill,” Joshua White would observe." (The Gothamist)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/28b72ad3ba570c5deafcd13d7f63f3d3f068c0bb/original/fillmore-east-opening-postcard.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e4b82a500be6cb14491feb390cdb1110f3ce822/original/1968-fillmore-east-opening-night-janis-joplin-big-brother.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9634795ec89cac967eb878fcb4d0f8fc7d30f56a/original/janis-joplin-first-fillmore-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/daf0756e32ccf5e78ea5b37089173844c10fb224/original/fillmore-east-opening-night-bill-graham.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Graham outside The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>on opening night March 8, 1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the Fillmore East doors opened for the first time, everybody rushed into the lobby thereby causing mass confusion. Crowd control had not been considered by Graham and some of the attending celebrities had a difficult time making their way to their VIP seats. The Fillmore East opening was a smash and received massive coverage from the local press.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After its initial opening concert, Fillmore East was off to a great start. Graham used his connections from his days at the Fillmore West to sign up all of the "heavy" bands to play his new venue in New York city.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6656ca3a7875bcce616905043819d18aa468df7d/original/fillmore-lobby.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I went into the crowded lobby and I saw people in there, begging for tickets. I saw this girl who looked really dejected, and she was begging, and I didn’t want to beg. But, I’m good at looking dejected and sad. So, I copied the look of that desperate girl I saw, and a guy came up to me and said something like, “you look like you could use a ticket,” and he gave me one. He must have been a record company guy, he was handing out a few tickets. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So, this guy gives me a ticket. But, I wanted to save the ticket as a souvenir. So, I figured I would try my usual tricks to sneak in. I tried the guest list trick. There was a special entrance for guest list people, so I inched over to the guest list door and tried to sneak a look at the clipboard. I finally saw a name I could pronounce, it was in bold text, and it was easy to read off of the clipboard. The name was “Herb Cohen.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So, I told the guy that I was Herb Cohen, and I got in.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Once I got in, I was awestruck, seeing everyone in the lobby. I was standing there, staring at all of the people, and after a while, I heard screaming nearby. The screaming was from the real Herb Cohen, who was mad that someone else used his name. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was a big commotion and Bill Graham had to come up front. They got the real Herb Cohen in, and I disappeared in the crowd and they never found me." (Thom Lukas, Photographer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/947d43150dae809bedb6b9874cf1cce130c3e9be/original/fillmore-opening-night-postcard.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/101d4efc953f9dd93b62f82ae5d00de5c49e1c75/original/village-voice-scenes.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the March 28th edition of the Village Voice, Howard Smith noted in his Scenes column, “Bill Graham has been putting on some beautiful, well-run concerts at his Fillmore East,” describing how the promoter gave audience die-hards more than their money’s worth.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/39860b912b8a42228e668dd10127674e04cff7ec/original/village-voice-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On occasion, the Fillmore East would spring for halftone photos when announcing such acts as Ravi Shankar (playing his sitar), or the first New York appearance of 'the reigning number one space group in the known world''" (Village Voice)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87260bc4e1adc9adcf4824000b2ce34d9266f011/original/1968-procol-harum-joshua-light-show-fillmore-east-nyc.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Besides setting up the Fillmore East with an excellent sound system, Bill Graham also employed visual excitement with the Joshua Light Show which played a major part in establishing a unique addition to his concerts. This was a tactic that he had learned a lot about during his early years as a promoter in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d99bb77d6e586407add82f73b53280e5c05c82b5/original/fillmore-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"'In fashion terms a Fillmore East opening night deserves as much coverage as the Philharmonic Galanosed Galas,' claimed the Village Voice shortly after the rock auditorium opened in March 1968. 'It's a scene-making pageant whether they're seeing Lenny at Lincoln Center or Jimi at the Fillmore.' In 1968, Bill Graham...tied together the pageantry in the audience with the fireworks on stage when he organized a mini fashion happening during an interval in the evening's mixed bill. Unheralded, Barbara Mott, wife of designer Michael Mott, zoomed up the center aisle of the rock palace on an enormous Harley Davidson. Dressed in Mott's black leather bra top and miniskirt pegged with hobnail studs, she tore up a ramp to the stage and parked her vehicle to the accompaniment of a cannonade of cheers from the Fillmore's audience." (Joel Lobenthal,Radical Rags: Fashions of the Sixties, Abbeville, 1990)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5432d2d1e07bb3064b03a991a24d96b5bbba262/original/bill-graham-with-his-two-time-zones-wrist-watch.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fillmore East was quickly dubbed "The Church of Rock and Roll," with two-show, triple-bill concerts several nights a week. With the immediate success of the venue, things got very hectic for Bill Graham as he travelled back and forth to the west coast to administer his shows there and then fly back to New York to handle the Fillmore East shows. His solution to this was to wear two wrist watches, each one set to a different time zone.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2f5ea05189741da745721ba40df767b4348b377/original/doors-village-voice.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 22nd & 23rd The Doors, Ars Nova, Crome Syrcus </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65557ed1379a89d26b24c87eca6f1cf66dda6175/original/doors-fillmore-east-color-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be2edbe8488e2090b3a9c31fa26102f0ef7cc896/original/the-doors-fillmore-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>One of the biggest attractions in the early days of the Fillmore East took place when The Doors performed at the venue on March 22nd 1968.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e912d9e5888885af99e694b624637de0714581a/original/the-doors-at-fillmore-east-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On Friday, March 22, The Doors headlined the first weekend of sold-out shows at the Fillmore East. At the Friday early show, Jim Morrison introduced a new song called </strong><i><strong>Unknown Soldier</strong></i><strong> before going into an extended </strong><i><strong>Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong>. The late show began with the band onstage but no sign of Morrison. Then, as keyboardist Ray Manzarek played the haunting first notes of </strong><i><strong>When the Music’s Over,</strong></i><strong> the leather-clad singer appeared, launching himself over the drum kit and grabbing the microphone just in time to scream the opening line. During an extended version of </strong><i><strong>Light My Fire</strong></i><strong>, he swung the microphone over the heads of the audience lariat-style, letting it out a little more with each circle. A worried Bill Graham then tore straight into the audience at the front of the stage, frantically waving at Morrison. </strong><i><strong>‘I could see that sooner or later he was going to lose it and I didn’t want it to hit anybody. I was standing maybe ten people back, waving my arms trying to catch his attention, and then he loses it. And out of two thousand people in the hall, it hits me right in the head!</strong></i><strong>’ Back in the dressing room after the show, Graham nursed his injured head and joked about it. The next time The Doors played for Graham, the singer brought him a pith helmet for protection.” (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cdfe219092ca62ffd227b30b28a9beaadaab384c/original/the-doors-at-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the early show on Friday, giving his all and extremely stoned, Jim falls into the lighting pit! Later during the same performance, Jim introduces the New York premiere of </strong><i><strong>The Unknown Soldier</strong></i><strong> by pretending to be a college professor and asking the “class” to pay close attention to the movie because afterward there will be an exam. After the movie they play </strong><i><strong>The Unknown Soldier</strong></i><strong> followed by what is possibly the first full length rendition of </strong><i><strong>The Celebration of The Lizard</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the late show on Friday, The Doors open with </strong><i><strong>When The Music’s Over</strong></i><strong> in which Jim, seemingly absent, comes flying over the drum kit and leaping down in front of the microphone just in time to scream the opening and signals the beginning of what is to be a totally outstanding show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the early show on Saturday, the audiences on their way to the Fillmore has picked a considerable amount of daffodils and throughout the show they are flung onto the stage. Jim picks some up and methodically places a few on each members instrument and between songs seemingly picks on John by placing many on his drums and under his nose in an attempt to get him going. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the opening number of the second show on Saturday, Jim holds onto the rising curtain to the point of maximum safe height and even a little more before letting go at the very last second soaring down right in front of the microphone in perfect timing to open the show with his characteristic introductory scream. The band plays </strong><i><strong>The Unknown Soldier</strong></i><strong> and follows it up with live performances of the song during each show this evening and do </strong><i><strong>Celebration</strong></i><strong> again during the late show. After Saturday’s late show The Doors are in such a good mood they tell Bill Graham they want to do another encore. Graham comes out on stage as the audience is filing out and asks them if they want some more, which they graciously accept, and the band ends up playing another entire set lasting over an hour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81294f032acb8f56e7353306a1f3e06760a0811d/original/ratners.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Afterward, Bill Graham took Jim and the band to Ratner’s, the old Lower East Side kosher dairy restaurant next door to the theater, for an early breakfast of blintzes and potato pancakes. Albert Goldman, who was profiling Jim for Vogue, noted that Jim automatically sat at the head of the table, and decided he must have an authoritarian personality." (boweryboogie.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4e6f8ca2c7368433599479df6f35798f86061557/original/fillmore-east-interior.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8cdef51558316437883f10521d8c20e7d1c90066/original/fillmore-east-seating-chart.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f458ccdfe35587e939a1e87ec7848092d8516e2f/original/1968-the-who-buddy-guy-free-spirits.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5P0rdOJRwh0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5P0rdOJRwh0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The fourth weekend of the Fillmore East’s existence was headlined by The Who, April 5th and 6th, 1968. "The Who arrived in New York in classically belligerent mood. They were at the end of a long US tour and had already been forced to move hotels after Keith Moon started blowing up bits of the Waldorf Astoria. On the morning of the rehearsal, the exhausted group were photographed by Life slumped by a statue in Morningside Park, sleeping under a Union flag. The Who had played this venue the previous year when it was called the Village Theater, but this was the first time they’d performed there since Billy Graham turned it into the Fillmore East in March 1968. Midway through the show, Townshend and Daltrey recall that in its previous incarnation it was a pisshole. The original plan was to play four short shows over two nights, but due to security concerns following MLK’s death, the band instead agreed to play two longer shows. That’s what allowed them to draw out the extended </strong><i><strong>My Generation,</strong></i><strong> and to deliver a couple of mid-set mini-epics in the form of </strong><i><strong>A Quick One</strong></i><strong> and a wild 11-minute take on </strong><i><strong>Relax</strong></i><strong>, one of The Who’s more psychedelic songs. That day The Who delivered a show with the muscular sincerity that made The Who such a compelling and memorable live act." (Rock Prosopography 1010 blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f986e6e6f83288f6126b8f352827bd9926260bbc/original/april-12-13-butterfield-blues-band-charles-lloyd.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 12th & 13th Butterfield Blues Band, Charles Lloyd, Tom Rush</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Butterfield Blues Band had come out of Chicago in late 1965 as America’s premier white blues band. They featured guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. Bloomfield had moved to San Francisco and started the Electric Flag by this time, but Bishop was still in Butterfield’s group. The group had just released </strong><i><strong>The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw</strong></i><strong> (Elektra Feb 68) heralding Bishop’s newly-prominent role. However, rather than the guitar-oriented Chicago style blues of the first two albums, Butterfield’s new sound was closer to soul, with a three-piece horn section. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvin Bishop would leave the Butterfield band within two months of this show, and he too would move to the Bay Area and start his own band. Mark Naftalin, the group's original keyboard player, was also still with the band, but he too would leave shortly after this and move to the Bay Area. The other members of the group were probably Bugsy Maugh on bass, Philip Wilson on drums and Gene Dinwiddie (tenor sax) and Keith Johnson (trumpet) on horns, possibly with Dave Sanborn (alto). Sanborn had toured with the group in late 1967 and early 1968, but I don't know how long he stayed. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Butterfield Blues Band already had a lengthy and fruitful relationship with Bill Graham at the Fillmore, but it is worth noting that this is the third act managed by Albert Grossman that headlined the theater in its first six weeks of operation. That being said, the original powerhouse Butterfield Blues Band, with Mike Bloomfield in his prime, had played some seminal shows at the original Fillmore, helping to make both the venue and the band, so they were a great choice to help establish the Fillmore East. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charles Lloyd, a tenor sax player, was a regular at the SF Fillmore. His group, playing undiluted modern jazz in the style of Miles Davis, may still have included Keith Jarrett, Ron McClure and Jack DeJohnette. Lloyd was the first jazz act to become a regular in the hippie ballrooms around the country, and while his jazz remain undiminished he found himself a whole new audience that served him well. He even recorded an album at The Fillmore, a fine record called Love-In, released in January 1967. His current album was In Europe (Atlantic 1968). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Rush was a popular Cambridge, MA folkie. He had signed to Elektra and started to make folk-rock albums His 6th album, The Circle Game (Elektra 1968) featured two songs by Joni Mitchell as well as songs by then-unknowns Jackson Browne and James Taylor. Although he is largely forgotten today, Rush was instrumental in bringing attention to these writers. Kostelanetz reports that the light show was halted for ‘serious’ folk performers like Tom Rush or Richie Havens." (rockprosopography101.blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/089f38a053dc10dbdda6aeb07111ce4d1881051a/original/fillmore-east-mothers-of-invention-concert.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 19th & 20th Mothers Of Invention, James Cotton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Mothers lineup for this show would have been FZ, Don Preston (organ), Ian Underwood (keyboards, reeds), Bunk Gardner (reeds), Motorhead Sherwood (baritone sax), Roy Estrada (bass, vocals), Jimmy Carl Black (Indian of the group, drums) and Artie Tripp (drums, percussion). Ray Collins (sometime lead vocalist) had an ambiguous status and may or may not have appeared.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harmonica master James Cotton had replaced Little Walter in Muddy Water’s band in the late 1950s, and now led his own group, probably featuring Luther Tucker on guitar, Albert Gianquinto on piano (who later wrote some songs for Santana), and Francis Clay on drums." (liveshowshistory.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ca15ba7c7f8aa7f0e8f0973049f8e489c85d050/original/traffic-trio-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 26-27, 1968: Traffic, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This was Traffic’s first American tour, which began on March 14 in San Francisco at The Fillmore. The group was originally a quartet, with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. However, the mercurial Mason quit and rejoined the group regularly, and he had apparently left the group prior to their American tour, which had begun in March. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic was one of the first groups to emphasize overdubbing as a means of creating different sounds on different songs. Winwood, Mason and Wood played numerous instruments, and clever use of the studio meant that Traffic songs could be anything from frothy pop ballads with flute and sitar to heavy rock with twin lead guitars and organ. Live, however, Traffic’s sound was very different, as it depended on Winwood’s versatile organ playing (including the bass pedals), and they were more like a typical (if excellent) British R&B combo. For whatever reasons, Dave Mason reappeared in New York and joined the group onstage for at least one of the four performances. He would rejoin the group for the recording of their next album. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blue Cheer were an SF power trio, backed by LSD king Owsley Stanley, and named after a brand of his acid. Owsley bought the band tons of equipment (supposedly Blue Cheer had 12 Marshall Stacks, 6 each for bass and guitar), and they were famously loud. Unlike other peace-and-love SF bands, Blue Cheer had a noisy, nasty sound and demeanor. Their quasi-hit, a remake of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” is a precursor to Heavy Metal.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly were originally from San Diego, and had relocated to Los Angeles in late 1966. They were touring behind their first album </strong><i><strong>Heavy</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a70ad8a69ac5899f982516945d64190c4d615640/original/1968-jefferson-airplane.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2fd8d3cba80fb744f11e759d605a7f07ac56300f/original/jefferson-airplane-presents-bill-graham.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The first appearance of the Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East featured the classic Airplane with Grace Slick and Marty Balin (along with Kaukonen / Kantner / Casady / Dryden), the flagship of San Francisco’s Summer of Love. The current album was </strong><i><strong>After Bathing At Baxter’s</strong></i><strong>. Unlike almost every other band at Fillmore East, the Airplane did not use the Joshua Light Show, but their own light show (Glenn McKay’s Head Lights). For the encore on Saturday night, some reports indicate that various drummers sat in for Spencer Dryden, the first being Mitch Mitchell (of the Jimi Hendrix Experience). All four sets of the Airplane were casually recorded by Fillmore East soundman John Chester." (liveshowshistory.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d6dc241a0bf73f5f2413cbc9dd0ba24ecde5bee/original/jimi-hendrix-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 10, 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience & Sly and The Family Stone</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8cc85ab2636328fa42c79712e13420524cc48595/original/bill-graham-1968-henrix-sly.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Friday night bill at Fillmore East was a rock bill for the ages, featuring one of the biggest rock acts in the world, supported by a group that would soon join Hendrix at the mountaintop. Jimi Hendrix Experience were big and getting bigger, but Bill Graham always excelled at persuading bands and their management that performing at his showcases in San Francisco and New York always paid more dividends than playing a larger place. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These shows featured the original Experience, with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums.One of Hendrix's shows featured a 17-minute performance of </strong><i><strong>Red House</strong></i><strong>, and the lucky patrons who caught either the early or late show never forgot it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/581d04da78d5dee95268040787dc095215c4a702/original/sly-stone-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sly and The Family Stone were truly electrifying performers, and in Joel Selvin’s biography of the reports that their set culminated with Sly, Freddie and Larry Graham dancing into the aisles and leading the crowd out into the street, while Gregg Errico and the horn section wailed away. They absolutely killed the house, and that was before Hendrix came in and shattered the place, and they did it all over at the late show. Truly a night to remember at Fillmore East. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jimi Hendrix Experience never played the Fillmore East again, although Band Of Gypsies did play there (in 1970). However, Hendrix hung out regularly at Fillmore East, when he could, and was a familiar figure backstage." (Rock Prosopography 101 blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d051354aae966fd1d5bb9386c81ec118e558912b/original/fillmore-tape-deck.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shortly after the Fillmore East opened, one of the sound technicians secretly fed a wire from the mixing consul out of the Fillmore to an upstairs apartment to record all the shows in two-track stereo on ten-inch reel-to-reel tapes. Many years later, these priceless recordings of hundreds of Fillmore East shows would become part of the Bill Graham Archives, later to be bought by Wolfgang’s Vault and made available to the public.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5ba6809b6d3f9a342901beea528973be905e4af/original/country-joe-fish.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Country Joe & The Fish</h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soon enough, the Fillmore East was taking off as audiences flocked to see the eclectic bills that Bill Graham now presented. In May, Country Joe and the Fish had played shows at the Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland in San Francisco before making their debut at the Fillmore East a week later.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ebe67ee61c6cc988f8ceb801a0e91887de2c160/original/blue-cheer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="as1NcX31szs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/as1NcX31szs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The two opening acts were Pigmeat Markham, who had just had a huge hit with the novelty song “Here Comes the Judge,” and Blue Cheer, probably the loudest band to ever play there. Pigmeat Markham and Blue Cheer?! My mind reels at the thought of it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08911c1b841b2c068f79e189baefb9f3797a3dc4/original/grateful-dead-fillmmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the weekend of June 14, 1968, the Grateful Dead played the Fillmore East for the first time. Former Yardbirds’ guitarist Jeff Beck opened for them, with future Rolling Stone Ron Wood and his then-unknown singer Rod Stewart, making his American debut. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6fe220846ccd06d696303b9824ef46a5e20a7efe/original/programs.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"By the end of 1968, ushers had started handing out programs to patrons at each concert. These pamphlets contained performers’ biographies, editorials, public service announcements, and even a guide to other music events around town. Bill Graham was also branching out with eclectic bills, pairing artists from all over the musical spectrum and introducing them to his young rock audience. On January 17, veteran jazz drummer Buddy Rich and his orchestra headlined the Fillmore East, with the Los Angeles rock band Spirit opening. Bill Graham knew he could even risk booking lesser-known jazz greats like Woody Herman or Charles Lloyd, who wouldn’t be able to headline, as long as he had a big draw like Led Zeppelin or the Jimi Hendrix Experience." (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/340f82c6d67436da5d26f68ffa8abc03e57bccb8/original/1968-hendrix-fillmore.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 10th 1968 Jimi Hendrix, Sly & Family Stone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On May 10, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience played two shows at New York City’s famed 2,600 seat Fillmore East. Hendrix was in town working diligently on his upcoming record yet to be named, Electric Ladyland. It worked out perfectly that while Jimi was recording in the city at the Record Plant, he could and would also play some local concerts.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This particular era for the Experience found them enormously popular, prolifically creative and playing seditious concerts throughout the year that left audiences stunned while growing Hendrix’s legend. Jimi’s fame was ascending at a furious rate and he was revolutionizing guitar with every concert and recording produced. Which takes us back to May 10, 1968’s evening performance. Following the afternoon concert and evening concert’s opening act, Sly and the Family Stone, Hendrix took the stage to a sold out room. The Joshua Light Show morphing the stage into a pulsating, liquescent musical mass. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The evening begins with </strong><i><strong>‘Lover Man’</strong></i><strong>, an extended introduction features an exotic bit of riffing illustrating Hendrix is feeling frisky this spring evening in NYC. Jimi’s guitar tone is paunchy and the sound of Bill Graham’s room is crystalline. The Experience stomps through their opening number with deft precision. The first Hendrix solo takes off with Redding’s giant bass grumble setting the foundation. Jimi immediately struts his stuff with a vertiginous series of soaring and diving bends. Devastating stuff, and the crowd responds in kind.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A searing reading of ‘Fire’ follows hot on the heels of </strong><i><strong>‘Lover Man’.</strong></i><strong> The band has the arrangement in their crosshairs. Mitch Mitchell is punishing his kit filling each empty pause in the song with a crashing series of alien triplets. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hendrix is obviously in a groovy mood as he and Noel Redding takes a chance to speak to the crowd following </strong><i><strong>‘Fire’</strong></i><strong>. </strong><i><strong>'Foxy Lady'</strong></i><strong> follows and begins with the buzzing of electricity and hissing of overdriven amplifiers. The band is frightening in their sound, Jimi barley stays tethered to the earth during the first solo spot. What begins as a smooth bluesy exploration quickly becomes a clinic of molten strings and elongated bends. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A pause between the songs, features someone from the crowd yelling to the stage, ‘</strong><i><strong>Take off your hat!</strong></i><strong>’ To which Jimi replies, </strong><i><strong>'I’ll Take off my hat if you take off your pants’</strong></i><strong>. The centerpiece of the show then follows and is a deep and conversational reading of a 15 minute </strong><i><strong>‘Red House’</strong></i><strong>. The following ‘Red House’ ranges from delicate to distorted and then decorated with silvery strands of feedback. Hendrix does a call and response throughout the verses with his six string vocals </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘</strong><i><strong>Red House</strong></i><strong>’ begins, with a delicate groove and smooth probing by Hendrix. His tone, a sweet velvet beam, or a musical insect exploring for the rich pollen payoff. While ‘</strong><i><strong>Red House</strong></i><strong>’ was nearly always a highlight of Hendrix shows, here it ascends to different and multiple levels. The journey over yonder is filled with detours and unique fragments maybe not always related buy nonetheless stunning. Hendrix’s guitar positively moans during the prelude. The sound improves on the recording unbelievably as the cymbals and bass are not as loud so Hendrix’s tone can be discerned reverberating off of the walls of the hall. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hendrix lets loose with a plethora of rutted and gravel filled licks and with a nonverbal signal takes a spin around the drive with dirty trill to which Mitchell matches with a tempo increase. Let off his leash Jimi begins to move at a different time and space than Noel and Mitch diverging into his rock and roll tool belt with some inexplicably abrasive takes on recognizable licks. At seven minutes, Redding and Mitchell come to the forefront as a delicate shuffle coagulates. Hendrix taps his strings, a breeze pushing the jam forward. Mitchell takes a brief solo spot as Redding and Hendrix fade. The crowd appreciates his abilities and responds in kind. At around ten minutes Hendrix returns with a succulent watery tone from his wah-wah, the band drops out as Jimi constructs a hallucinatory narrative. A return to the verses is a welcome relief from the jaw clenching Hendrix solo spot. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A substantial wall of soaring feedback follows and precedes a strutting and crowd pleasing ‘Hey Joe’. This is the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the peak of their fame in one of the most famous music venues in history, playing one of their most popular cuts. The song is ignited with high octane gas and burned to ash." (talkfromtherockroom</strong></span><span class="text-big">.com)</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d3f86472241845e24b8704119438812356f5c33/original/1968-fillmore-east-may-postcard.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87404e5b0899bfee4ffb5f7674bf6de6bdff8e88/original/roger-mcguinn-byrds.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 17-18, 1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds, Tim Buckley, The Foundations </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Byrds had been major rock stars since 1965. They had even played the venue in its previous incarnation, The Village Theater (on July 22, 1967, supported by The Seeds and Vanilla Fudge). By 1968, however, while still popular, The Byrds had been through numerous personal and musical changes, and were not as highly ranked in the firmament as before. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The review in Billboard magazine was a crucial element of Fillmore East's importance. Billboard was the leading music industry trade journal, and in many ways the only source of information about bands on tour. One of the weekend performances in Fillmore East was always reviewed in each week's Billboard, so that meant that all three bands on the bill got National exposure. Managers, particularly of English bands, liked to start tours at the Fillmore East because a good review in Billboard could go a long way towards creating interest in their group amongst booking agents and promoters. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Foundations are mainly known for their 1968 hit </strong><i><strong>Build Me Up Buttercup</strong></i><strong>. Much to the surprise of everyone who recalls the song, they were actually an English group (with some West Indians and a Sri Lankan thrown in for good measure). The Foundations were one of the few English groups to have success playing in a soul style. They had plenty of live experience in England, and they were probably a pretty good live band. In Hjort's book, Foundations bassist Peter Macbeth recalled that their equipment was stolen and that the Byrds wouldn't let them borrow theirs. Equipment hassles were particularly critical at the Fillmore East, since bands rightly felt the pressure of needing to have a great performance there in order to have a successful tour." (rockprosopography101.blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2c2e746c2c5852bdab94583f58b94b825e54cc70/original/richie-havens-troggs-usa-fillmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 27th - 30th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richie Havens, The Troggs, United States of America</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a2b16c6b58a8b836081b468aed838b1b917d8526/original/moby-grape.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/644d5b027aa090c1262bfc387fb262284a9d4f8d/original/moby-grape-fugs.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 31st - June 1st</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Moby Grape, The Fugs, Gary Burton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Moby Grape had been hyped as the best band to come out of San Francisco. That may have been true, as it happened, but the hype did them in. Moby Grape was made up of 5 experienced musicians, all good singers, performers and writers, and handsome to boot. Their second album </strong><i><strong>Wow!</strong></i><strong> had been released just before this show. It was a good album, but not as good as their epic first album, and the underground suspicion of anything popular undermined them. They were beset with management problems and other frustrations, and their best songwriter and resident genius Skip Spence started to have serious drug and emotional problems at this time, so the net effect was very difficult for the band. By all accounts, what should have been a triumphant appearance at the Fillmore East was rendered somewhat ragged because Peter Lewis, angry at the band for various reasons, skipped out on the tour and went home early. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, these Fillmore East shows were Spence's last stand with the Grape for some decades, as shortly after these shows, Skip Spence had an episode where he lost touch with reality, went AWOL for a few days and tended up in the Psych Ward at Bellevue Hospital. In any case, after the Fillmore East Moby Grape were effectively reduced to a four-piece band, albeit a very talented one (guitarists Jerry Miller and Peter Lewis, bassist Bob Mosley and drummer Don Stevenson). Although they still had plenty to offer, they now had to live down their previous success rather than just be themselves. Moby Grape were a great band, and their debut album is a 60s classic, but their entire history is a frustrating tale of what might have been. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fugs were often considered as a Greenwich Village version of The Mothers of Invention, although a more accurate comparison might have been Berkeley’s Country Joe and The Fish. The Fugs were not particularly memorable musically, but they were provocative and exciting. They had been around for some time, and in fact had played the first Bill Graham Mime Troupe Benefit on November 6, 1965. In complete contrast to Zappa, they were very political, but only barely musical, singing songs like </strong><i><strong>Kill For Peace</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Coca-Cola Douche</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gary Burton was a jazz vibraphonist, raised in Nashville and like many young jazz musicians in New York at the time, he liked everything, not just jazz. The original lineup of the groundbreaking Gary Burton Quartet, featuring guitarist Larry Coryell had opened for Cream at San Francisco's Fillmore, among many other rock gigs, and they had released some sensational albums that still sound great today (including Duster and Lofty Fake Anagram on RCA in 1967). By the time of the Fillmore East shows, Coryell had left the group, replaced by the less well-known but still tremendous guitarist Jerry Hahn, formerly with John Handy amongst various others." (rockprosopography101.blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be4eed889712f4763d1f8b587ca83c8bf40acc90/original/other-scenes-6-1-1968-part-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ef94aad2e0c74cc024f20c59e8efdadd5ffd5f42/original/other-scenes-6-1-1968-part-2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Other Scenes (Village Voice, June 1 1968)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd39aa06b494ee58db51ee0e035bc820b1bd73e5/original/the-fugs-fillmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8490dfc689cc406a467d5d7cc3915183dd80613f/original/fillmore-east-1968-the-fugs.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bb1404820646539cbb150ed9b9d38c9b427f828e/original/fillmore-electric-flag-june-7-8.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0204d491acce8e3518c5acb558f561c0e32a31e3/original/1968-grateful-dead.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kaXHlHkeSsg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kaXHlHkeSsg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 14th, 1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead perform "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>into "Feedback" at the Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b62644be57160060cde4f6403f2352455fe5bff3/original/vanilla-fudge.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 21st </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vanilla Fudge, James Cotton Blues Band, Loading Zone </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Vanilla Fudge practically invented ‘heavy’ rock, doing songs slow and loud, with plenty of Hammond organ and feedback mixed in with highly emoted R&B style vocals. Bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice were very well-recorded, and their thunderous attack was transformational for English musicians, particularly or members of the yet-to-be-formed Led Zeppelin. The Fudge had released a heavy rock version of the Supremes You Keep Me Hanging On (the album version of which was 7 minutes long), and the effect was enormous. In America and England, musicians everywhere realized you could turn one kind of music into another." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5513d2f210b5d805efb5992226e52bf00c7172dd/original/sept-1968.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c59d5c7d0bf260fc6e53ddea1f23017b9ea58812/original/chambers-bros-1968.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Chambers Brothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d8676046f3e38bb9c43cf46cc934a9df2c4a917b/original/blood-sweat-tears-1968.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood Sweat & Tears</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ae4386a0ab13c6a0ccaff79de5998b80f9e014c/original/sly-the-family-stone.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oct. 4th & 5th 1968 Sly & The Family Stone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/372cbc5a592f670ebadc71a910495bd7ecb8d245/original/sly-stone-oct.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For whatever reason, Bill Graham didn’t see what other people saw in Sly and The Family Stone. Initially he wasn’t won over by their unique brand of dance music. As a result, he was reluctant to book Sly Stone and his band. Eventually, though, Bill Graham was persuade to go and see Sly and The Family Stone live. This changed his mind. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sly and The Family Stone in full flight were a musical powerhouse. Their fusion of soul, funk and psychedelia was winning friends and influencing people. They certainly won over Bill Graham. So much so, that Bill Graham booked Sly and The Family Stone to open for Eric Burdon and The Animals at four concerts a the Fillmore East in October 1968.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="E7zYHKnwsKI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E7zYHKnwsKI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the moment Sly and The Stone strike up </strong><i><strong>Are You Ready</strong></i><strong>, they’re in the funkiest of grooves. They work their way through </strong><i><strong>Colour Me True</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Won’t Be Long</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>We Love All (Freedom)</strong></i><strong> and a medley of </strong><i><strong>Turn Me Loose</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>I Can’t Turn You Loose</strong></i><strong>. By then, Sly and The Family Stone have won over the Fillmore East. While they were just the support band, they were more than making an impression. Closing the show, were two tracks from Life, </strong><i><strong>Chicken</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Love City</strong></i><strong>. As Sly and The Family Stone walked of the stage of The Fillmore East, it was to a standing ovation.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When Sly and The Family Stone opened their late show, it was with two different tracks. </strong><i><strong>M’Lady </strong></i><strong>from Life opened the show, before they turned their attention to </strong><i><strong>Don’t Burn Baby</strong></i><strong> from Dance To The Music. Then Sly and The Family return to </strong><i><strong>Colour Me True</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Won’t, Be Long</strong></i><strong>. From there, they drop in </strong><i><strong>St. James Infirmary</strong></i><strong>, which was already a staple of Sly and The Family’s live show. Somehow, Sly and The Family were matching, and sometimes, surpassing the quality of the early show. They were on a mission. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was the perfect time to drop in their medley of </strong><i><strong>Turn Me Loose</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>I Can’t Turn You Loose</strong></i><strong>, and then </strong><i><strong>Dance To The Music</strong></i><strong>. By now, everyone in The Fillmore East seems to be on their feet. Now that Sly and The Family Stone have them where they want them, they close the show with </strong><i><strong>Music Love</strong></i><strong> and finally, a medley of </strong><i><strong>Life</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Music Lover</strong></i><strong>." (dereksmusicblog.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53ba981eed97c8271a7848f82f315b2cf666616f/original/1968-marquee-fillmore-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 18th & 19th 1968 - Jeff Beck, Tim Buckley, Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c19b314d74664ab578d1a8f7015d60f017cdaf75/original/jeff-beck-hitting-the-groove.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck hitting the groove</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/04d576000078e45c24896a7c4a7e025d7f0099f9/original/fillmore-newspaper-ad-2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e6bf21f39021795a76fb67ef386ba3b0404adbb5/original/1968-fillmore-ad-color.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oct / Nov 1968</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ab4df8cd73d8c35e2e2bc82d9a381c6c468f1b0/original/steppenwolf-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 9th 1968 - Steppenwolf, Buddy Rich, Children Of God</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5953fc3f63e8a785c3ab4599f43fc8fd5d12bef1/original/fillmore-poster-iron-butterfly.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 22nd & 23rd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat & The Youngbloods</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f535ad3975ab877c50a3ebad69bf9ea37c295df/original/1968-dec-13-14-sam-dave-super-session-earth-opera.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was a Friday, two weeks after my 20th birthday. I’d started playing bass about a year-and-a-half before, rock and blues. More recently, I’d fallen deeply in love with soul music, Otis Redding, above all. Otis had died almost exactly one year before and I regretted that I would never get to see him live. But my other Stax/Volt favorites, Sam & Dave, were playing that night at the Fillmore East, which had opened in February of that year. No way was I going to miss this show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As I recall, I went by myself, walked up to the box office and bought a ticket, which cost around $4. I sat somewhere in the middle of the orchestra and settled in for the show, a triple bill, like most Fillmore concerts. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The opening act was Earth Opera, a Boston band which starred then-unknowns Peter Rowan and David Grisman. I don’t remember a thing about their set. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the second act was a different story: Super Session with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield. At first I was a bummed out that Stephen Stills, who played on the first Super Session album, was not present, but I was still psyched to hear Kooper and Bloomfield. I was a big Al Kooper fan from his work with the Blues Project. And from the moment I fell in love – hard – with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bloomfield was one of my guitar favorites. And I had witnessed Kooper and Butterfield on stage together once before at what turned out to be an historic event: Bob Dylan’s 1965 concert in Forest Hills (the one where a riot broke out). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Not far into the Super Session set, Bloomfield stepped up to the microphone and, as I remember it, told a story about encountering this musician from Texas – 'the baddest motherfucker' – the night before at a Manhattan rock club, Steve Paul’s The Scene. And then Bloomfield introduced </strong><i><strong>Johnny Winter</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A wraith-like figure in black, the better to set off his milk white skin and flowing corn silk hair, walked across the stage. The band went into a blues number. Johnny pulled out a harmonica and started to wail. Absolutely killer. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The next song, B.B. King’s </strong><i><strong>It’s My Own Fault</strong></i><strong>, kicked off with a Bloomfield solo. When it was time for the vocal – surprise! – not Kooper, not Bloomfield, but Winter started to sing. Oh. My. God. How was all that sound coming out of this freak’s stick figure body? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And then he picked up a guitar and started to play. You have to imagine the context to appreciate the impact of this audacious unknown. He wasn’t just playing taking a solo, he was daring to follow the great Mike Bloomfield – and more than holding his own. Stunning. Was this skeletal apparition the next blues/rock guitar god?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On that night in 1968, the Fillmore audience was blown away by Kooper and Bloomfield and especially Johnny Winter, who came riding out of nowhere like an albino vision of a wild west gunslinger. But the show was far from over. Unbelievably, it got even better. Sam & Dave came onstage backed by a huge band featuring two drummers and about a dozen horn players, as if hellbent on blowing away the Fillmore hippies, a far different crowd than their usual audience. And it worked. Sam & Dave’s combination of fiery vocals and exuberant showmanship won over the Fillmore as surely as Otis conquered the Monterey International Pop Festival. Suffice to say, I got far more than my four dollars worth at the Fillmore." (thekatztapes.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87109fad420d1327292e8d08f5c046c77628117b/original/mc5-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 18 - MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4206309cfa8fa46ff1dccd5e025fee5779a8dd4/original/wayne-kramer.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wayne Kramer shares his memories of the show he and his band, the MC5, played at the Fillmore East: "Elektra Records wanted to present their new acquisition. The MC5, to New York City with a big bang. It was a bang too, but not the one they had in mind. A climate existed in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where a group of militant radicals called the 'East Village Motherfuckers' had forced promoter Bill Graham to let them use the Fillmore on Wednesday nights. Community Nights was what they called them. Anyhow, we went in and played a free and unadvertised Wednesday night show for our comrades in the Community. The gig went down fine and a good time was had by all. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The following Wednesday, Elektra rented the Fillmore and did a huge radio promotion with ticket giveaways on the air and all the accompanying hoopla. The Motherfuckers were pissed off about losing their night and demanded Graham give up free tickets for them and their peeps. Graham was not the kind of guy to back down to intimidation, so he stood out in front of the theater and held the Motherfuckers off with sheer heart and moxie. For his bother, some Motherfuckers beat him with a chain and broke his nose. Graham, in his delirium, thought MC5 singer Rob Tyner was the chain wielder, and promptly banned the MC5 from working at either Fillmore, or, for that matter, any other venue he controlled. He also used his considerable influence to make sure that we didn’t work for any of his friends in the promotion business either. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Meanwhile, as all this is going down out front, the band is on-stage trying to do our big NYC debut show. The stage wings were crowded with Motherfuckers waiting for us to give the word to burn the place down. Of course we weren’t about to give any such command and their anger started to turn on us. I tried my </strong><i><strong>brush back</strong></i><strong> technique and got little in the way of working room. Tough crowd. We finished our set and escaped to the dressing room while the motherfuckers and the street maniacs tried to run out the door with our gear. Our crew valiantly battles to hold on to our stuff and the greatest blunder in record business tactics imaginable happens: two limousines show up to carry the band back to the hotel. The revolutionaries saw red! “Limos!” The symbol of capitalist imperial-ism. Limos. The Motherfucker women were screaming and weeping about how we had sold the revolution out. They were smashing our records against the Cadillac limos tail fins. Crying at the top of their lungs: 'Bastards! Pigs! Phonies! Sell-outs!' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> I stopped in the street as the guys ran for the cars. I knew I had to straighten this out ASAP. This was bad, bad, bad. They got it all wrong. They didn’t understand. I need to fix this. So there I stood, in the middle of an angry mob trying to explain White Panther/MC5 political theory, while Motherfuckers are agitating the speed freaks and street nuts into taking swipes at me with their knives. Finally, two Motherfucker lieutenants pick me up and cover me with their bodies to get me out of the crowd and down Second Avenue to safety. Not a giant riot, but a sure thrill for my young ass."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6204c067498d247cd5dedba0d4d4952d7e9c8435/original/dec-1968-ccr.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b94405bd0bd22d7b255753fa8780f0e2b74f6296/original/chambers-bros-fillmore.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" />December 31 New Year's Eve</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Chambers Brothers, Mother Earth, Joshua Light Show</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2da5bf2d5662afc5c31a223495698626aec91e7/original/fillmore-east-exterior.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I came across this article about the Fillmore East that was written by a fella named Charlie Finch. He describes his experiences at Bill Graham's fabled music venue:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>"Oh to be 16 again, dangling your legs over the balcony rail at the Fillmore East, a big bag of weed on your lap, your longhaired, free-loving babe snuggling your shoulder, and a sheet of water-pure windowpane acid in the pocket of your flannel shirt. On stage, the most beautiful woman in the world, Grace Slick, leans against an amp, intoning her immortal </strong></span><i><span><strong>Bear Melt </strong></span></i><span><strong>while the oil-based mandalas of Joshua Light bounce around her. Bliss! </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just remembering the bills I saw at Bill Graham’s East Village pleasure palace sends flashbacks up my spine: The Dead, Love and the Allman Brothers; The Mothers of Invention and the Youngbloods; The Kinks and the Byrds. Of course, there were the phenomenal Jefferson Airplane concerts that were always followed the next day by an even longer, better, more cosmic, free set in Central Park. And who can forget those weird Fillmore opening acts: Sea Train, The Sons of Champlin, Stone the Crows and a guy named Chris who played gongs with various parts of his body and always opened for the Airplane? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore habitués were divided into two classes: Airplane freaks (like yours truly) and Deadheads. Each liked and respected the other’s group, attending each others’ gigs, but there were differences. For Airplane freaks, Ms. Slick was Alpha and Omega, her searing voice and long dark hair riding the chuggachuggachugga of Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. Marty Balin and Paul Kantner took stage turns as her consort. The Airplane had a driving sexuality and a commitment to the ethic of free love that drove a true acidhead couple to the heights of ecstasy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dead’s main icon at the time was not so much Jerry Garcia as that ultimate biker Ron McKernan (a.k.a. Pigpen). Pigpen had a gravelly voice, no commercial potential and was a primo stagehog. Deadheads, a bit alienated and often unable to get laid, strongly identified with Pig’s sense of danger and self-destruction. Yet it cannot be denied that the Dead made their best music in 1967-69, with the immortal discs </strong><i><strong>Anthem of the Sun</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Aoxamocoa</strong></i><strong> (pronounced "Wazamozoa"). These records, along with the Dead’s best tune, </strong><i><strong>Dark Star</strong></i><strong>, were the Kant and Kierkegaard of LSD philosophy. Who was </strong><i><strong>St. Stephen</strong></i><strong>, anyway? (He was Stephen Gaskins, the head of a Memphis cult which supported itself by marketing molasses.) The Dead philosophy embodied the acceptance of mortality and timelessness: 'he knows he has to die' is the main refrain of Anthem. The Angels, the leather, the menacing Pigpen turned each Dead gig into a crystal ship moving towards the heart of darkness. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dead concerts put the green-shirted staff of the Fillmore East on red alert, though these ushers were lambs compared to today’s steel-brained club bouncers. The biker fraternity hung around the Fillmore’s bathrooms looking to pick up badges of courage: a knife fight or an overdose. At the Airplane concerts, the johns were reserved for nymphettes and free love. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The dominant dude at the Fillmore East was the Brooklyn-born ex-crony of Frank Sinatra, Bill Graham, who seemed to cross the country as if by magic from his West Coast clubs, Fillmore West and Winterland, on any given weekend. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5bc1de06efeb70e9ea0a9ccf234f412f3d1011bd/original/fillmore-east-bill-graham-with-button.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Graham argued with audiences from the stage, checked crowds at the door and engaged in harangues with those protesting the high price of tickets ($4!). One-time performance pioneers Julian Beck, Judith Malina and the Living Theater attempted to turn the Fillmore East into a free theater, only to have Graham drive them out in defense of his right to make a profit. But, the Fillmore had no drug busts, there was always a doctor in the house and vibes were good. The intimate lower balcony and steep cheap seats put everyone on top of the stage. Graham even provided cute little programs, which are probably worth a fortune in flea markets. </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In many ways the crowd was the show. Frank Zappa habitually sent most of his band members, like Native American drummer Jimmy Carl Black, into the aisles for the duration, dancing and choogling. Banana of the Youngbloods brought young girls on stage to tinkle his piano, and Pigpen used to leap into the first row. As most of the audience used psychedelics, contact highs were common. No fear of sex, no burnout, just free love. Instead of old winos, beautiful 14-year-old girls in beads and shawls, just in from the coast, panhandled in the lobby." (www.artnet.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/953834cac424c801a12b7a7240e6c056f4fcfc37/original/fillmore-east-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1968 Concerts @ The Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MARCH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 - Big Brother and the Holding Company, Tim Buckley, Albert King Lights: Joshua Light Show, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 / 23 - Doors, Ars Nova, Crome Syrcus, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>29 / 30 - Richie Havens, Troggs, United States Of America, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>APRIL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 6 April 1968 - The Who, Buddy Guy, Free Spirits, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 / 13 April 1968 - Butterfield Blues Band, Charles Lloyd, Tom Rush, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 April 1968 - Mothers Of Invention, James Cotton, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 April 1968 - Traffic, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>03 / 04 May 1968 - Jefferson Airplane, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 May 1968 - Jimi Hendrix, Sly & Family Stone Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 May 1968 - Autosalvage, Group Therapy, Joyfull Noise Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 May 1968 - The Byrds, Tim Buckley, Foundations Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>24 May 1968 - Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 May 1968 - Country Joe & The Fish, Blue Cheer, Pigmeat Markham Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 May 1968 - Moby Grape, Fugs, Gary Burton Quartet Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JUNE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 June 1968 - Moby Grape, Fugs, Gary Burton Quartet Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 June 1968 - Bill Cosby, Janice Nian, Frankie Dunlop & Maletta Lights: Light By Pablo </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 June 1968 - Incredible String Band, , WBAI-fm Benefit, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>07 / 08 June 1968 - Electric Flag, Quicksilver, Steppenwolf Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 June 1968 - Grateful Dead, Jeff Beck, Seventh Sons Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 June 1968 - Vanilla Fudge, James Cotton, Loading Zone Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 June 1968 - Georgie Fame, James Cotton, Loading Zone Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JULY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 July 1968 - Jefferson Airplane, H.P. Lovecraft</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AUGUST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 / 03 August 1968 - Big Brother and the Holding Co., Staple Singers, Ten Years After, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SEPTEMBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 September 1968 - Joan Baez and ? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13 / 14 September 1968 - Chambers Brothers, Blood Sweat And Tears, Amboy Dukes, Joshua Light Show, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 September 1968 - Traffic, Staple Singers, Crome Syrcus, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 / 28 September 1968 - Country Joe & Fish, Ten Years After, Procol Harum </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>OCTOBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 / 05 October 1968 - Eric Burdon & The Animals, Sly & The Family Stone, Linn County, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 October 1968 - Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 October 1968 - Turtles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, NY Rock & Roll Ensemble, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 October 1968 - Jeff Beck, Tim Buckley, Albert King Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 / 26 October 1968 - Moody Blues, John Mayall, Rhinoceros Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 October 1968 - Skip James, David Peel, Happy & Artie Traum, Pete Seeger, The Pennywhistlers, John Beecher, Jerry Jeff Walker (Benefit for "Sing Out") </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NOVEMBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 / 02 November 1968 - Richie Havens, Quicksilver, The McCoys, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 / 09 November 1968 - Steppenwolf, Buddy Rich, Children Of God, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>15 / 16 November 1968 - Country Joe & The Fish, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 / 23 November 1968 - Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat, The Youngbloods, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 November 1968 - Incredible String Band Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 / 29 / 30 November 1968 - Jefferson Airplane, Buddy Guy, Chuck Davis Dance Co. Lights</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 December 1968 - Duke Ellington, NY Rock & Roll Ensemble </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 December 1968 - H. Rap Brown/ Bernadine Dohrn, Herbert Marcuse, Carl Oglesby/ Pete Seeger </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 December 1968 - Country Joe & The Fish, Fleetwood Mac, Kusama's Self-obliteration, Joshua Light </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13 / 14 December 1968 - Sam & Dave Review, Super-Session, Earth Opera, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 December 1968 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, James Cotton Band, Joshua Light </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 / 28 December 1968 - Butterfield Blues Band, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Super Session, Sweetwater </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>29 December 1968 - Walter Carlos / Ars Nova, Good Earth / Amer. Brass Quintet, Ny R N' R Ensemble,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 December 1968 - Chambers Brothers, Mother Earth Lights: Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/625e812283686a2e2c79c26d7630c046b0b80f03/original/year1969.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ef8b9b4273b7d4c0d757bdc1b21ec2581f45fa2/original/fillmore-bear-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7842a3f9b462aaf9489ef2ea4d20fcaf9fc0610a/original/fillmore-east-ticket-booth.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a6d9aaeed566d4e319d2f8f657aec86352a6eaf/original/january-8-fillmore.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">January 8th, 1969</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9eac3a989f13f8dbb0a5de7d7aae9b1a243a20b6/original/plant-page-jan-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 31, 1969 Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Led Zeppelin is by far one of the best groups on the scene today. In the short time they've' been together, they have had phenomenal success in both personal appearances and record sales in the U.S. Within a few weeks, their LP is in the top twenty on the national charts and is still climbing rapidly. Their first concert at the Fillmore East in NY several weeks ago brought the roof down. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Their opening number at the Fillmore was the </strong><i><strong>Train Kept a Rollin</strong></i><strong>, an old Yardbird's tune. (Incidentally, Jimmy played on the original version recorded by Lord Sutch about four years ago.) It really got things rolling as they proceeded to create a total sensual experience in sight and sound. </strong><i><strong>Dazed and Confused</strong></i><strong> resembles a musical battle as Plant's shrill cries and Page's piercing tones mimic and answer each other in perfect time. Jimmy switched to acoustical guitar for his solo, </strong><i><strong>Black Mountain Side</strong></i><strong>. Everyone left the stage, all the lights dimmed except for one spotlight on Jimmy seated on a chair. This was the only moment of the concert that it remained completely silent. The audience seemed mesmerized watching him. Again they broke into a hard rock number with </strong><i><strong>Communication Breakdown</strong></i><strong>. Their version of </strong><i><strong>You Shook Me</strong></i><strong> was exceptional. Plant's vocal on </strong><i><strong>How Many More Times </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You</strong></i><strong> was nothing short of SUPERHUMAN. UNBELIEVABLE!!!! I</strong><i><strong> Can't quit You Babe</strong></i><strong> was done in a slow, grinding blues tempo with Page breaking into another solo. Drummer Bonham was then given the stage for his extraordinary solo which lasted about 15 minutes and their seats. Their last song was </strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch </strong></i><strong>and it set the listeners into a frenzy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was definitely one of the most exciting shows I've ever seen. They left NY to do a tour of the states. This is a group that has to be seen!" (Denise Kelley, World Countdown, Feb. 1969)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On the strength of Led Zeppelin’s debut LP on Atlantic, we dragged ourselves off a sickbed to venture down to the East Village rock showcase to see what they were like in person. It would make an interesting story indeed to be able to say that after hearing them perform, we were dancing in the aisles and subsequently ran all the way home. Suffice to say that the thought entered our mind, and though the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In other words, through the Zeppelin album is very, very good, the group in person is even better and the excitement they generate hasn’t been felt in the Fillmore since the last appearance of Big Brother & the Holding Company. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vocalist Robert Plant falls into the Terry Reid class (a nice class indeed), but the group’s musical talents are in a class by themselves and the combination of the two can only indicate super-stardom. A subtle hint of the group’s quickly growing status can be found in the fact that while their album had only been out a week and a half, fully half the audience was familiar with it. Need we say more?" (Cashbox / Feb. 1969)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12d938bc5f9a0f23e10173ad37fc4246e47e52bd/original/1969-terrry-reid-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January: Terry Reid opening for B.B. King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/04a0e0c4ba63bba5fa52c16db05d420a047a0a5d/original/janis-2-12-69-fillmore-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 12, 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e78b8c209eddd7553c417de7604b9916d3b6934/original/dead-open-for-janish-fillmore-easst-2-12-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae13d5c450d751d87723170f8c5a6db35bad09db/original/1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WeGfAAdDT6o" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WeGfAAdDT6o?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 24th & 25th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood Sweat & Tears</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jethro Tull</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa7bbc3b7b6f2f84d0d22a88f8892eeebeb19af7/original/1969-buddy-rich-jan-feb.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/161bfa01977bf71026507e55556cc42dbf57fb33/original/led-zep-debut.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2767a7db9ae64bb98c9da1ce8ba6d4100a3e331b/original/fillmore-east-led-zep-debut-feb-1-1969.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On February 1st 1969,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin debuted at the Fillmore East,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>opening for Iron Butterfly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OVzKVxee6IY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OVzKVxee6IY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"An opening set for Iron Butterfly and a very intense and show stealing one at that! Zeppelin was infinitely better than the Butterfly as this set amply shows. Robert's voice in all of its high pitched, amazing 1969 glory and the band playing as well as ever thus far in their short time together. Jimmy is on fire! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As expected, Led Zeppelin destroyed the audience at the Fillmore East last weekend. Second show Friday night they remained onstage for 90 minutes of absolutely incredible musicianship up and down the entire blues scene. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group's success here - their first album swung into both charts this week with sales figures well over 100,000 - was marred only by the fact that John Bonham, 21-year-old drummer had to return to England suddenly after his small child (Jason) had an accident that required stitches in his head. But he flew back in time for the Zeppelin's concert's in Chicago at the weekend." (J. Harris, NME, Feb. 1969)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09162669736f88f7a03d1479b6aff5dbfc35984c/original/1969-1-30-fillmore-east-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/13d1e0928325d0fc0410dfbac5c4db7cd205d2bd/original/1969-fillmore-east-chuck-berry-feb-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Feb. 15th 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winter. Savoy Brown, Aorta</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cb9b43f542c77e2e3412ee95bd73003db1912f33/original/joshua-light-show-joshua-white.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joshua White</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8b39634ac8a6865b6e5c006602920dfecb2e160/original/joshua-light-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5b020b0b3e892be36131844bac9fafd71984686f/original/joshua-light-show-janis-joplin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ce91e9e68e9ad18b475e2390b71e910f732a88b/original/light-show-68.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0dd7bf0e2dfcde34ae620e0a48ae5067390e809d/original/jim-morrison-joshua-light-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Writing for the New York Times in a 1969 article titled '</strong><i><strong>You Don’t Have to Be High</strong></i><strong>,' Barbara Bell reported on her sojourn to Bill Graham’s Fillmore East rock club on freaky Second Avenue, where she saw the Joshua Light Show produce '</strong><i><strong>Mondrianesque checkerboards, strawberry fields, orchards of lime, antique jewels, galaxies of light over a pure black void and, often, abstract, erotic, totally absorbing shapes and colors for the joy of it—each a vision of an instant, wrapped in and around great waves of sound . . . first-nighters stagger out dazzled, muttering to themselves about amoebas in colored water</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Such associative attempts at articulating the character of psychedelic light shows were not uncommon. Visual music historian William Moritz wrote that, in its finest instantiations, light shows constituted 'a living art work of organic complexity considerably more interesting, challenging and satisfying than any of the flat, static art styles of the past, including painting and the traditional fictional cinema.' Curator Christoph Grunenberg has written that of the scores of light shows that arose in the mid-to-late 1960s, the Joshua Light Show was 'the most complex and sophisticated.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The original members of the Joshua Light Show were resident artists at the Fillmore. From March 8, 1968, until the venue closed in on June 27,1971, the group performed multiple shows every weekend for up to a total of ten thousand people, receiving nearly equal billing to such acts as the Who, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Albert King, Chuck Berry, and Iron Butterfly. Joshua White, who had studied electrical engineering, theatrical lighting, and magic-lantern techniques at Carnegie Tech and filmmaking at the University of Southern California, where he made a number of stop-motion and direct animation shorts, founded the group. The JLS consisted of six to eight members during its initial run, with the most stable lineup including White, Tom Shoesmith, and Bill Schwarzbach, who met at Columbia University while studying theatrical lighting and electrical engineering; Cecily Hoyt, a photographer and painter; and Jane Ableman, an art student. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group employed a panoply of image-making apparatus to achieve diverse visual effects: three film projectors, two banks of four-carousel slide projectors, three overhead projectors, hundreds of color wheels, motorized reflectors made of such materials as aluminum foil, Mylar, and broken mirrors, two hair dryers, watercolors, oil colors, alcohol and glycerin, two crystal ashtrays, and dozens of clear glass clock crystals. White and his cohort designed a rear-projection system, situated roughly twenty feet behind the Fillmore stage, where several tons of equipment was arrayed on two elevated platforms. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The conventional seated theater setup of the Fillmore, however, meant the group focused their efforts on a single screen rather than attempt to establish a West Coast or discotheque-style overall light environment. Using eight 1,200-watt airplane landing-strip lights to project imagery onto a twenty-by-thirty-foot vinyl screen, JLS built their shows from four elements. The first involved the projection of pure colored light through various handmade and modified devices. The second element was concrete imagery, which included film footage shot by the group, hand-etched film loops, segments from commercial cinema, and, eventually, closed-circuit video, which was used to project enlarged images of the musicians performing onstage in real time. The group’s collection of concrete imagery also included hand-painted slides, slides containing geometric patterns, historical art slides featuring paintings by Goya and Manet, and slides consisting of text such as the line attributed to both Warhol and McCluhan, '</strong><i><strong>Art is anything you can get away with</strong></i><strong>.'" (www.joshualightshow.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Joshua Light Show was now an integral part of the Fillmore East experience. As well as providing an exciting visual accompaniment to the bands, it also started screening cartoons between the sets of music. A particular favorite was a trippy 1935 cartoon called The Sunshine Makers, featuring elves who bottled beams of sunlight. In the cartoon, the bottles would be given out to people who then drank from them, which caused each imbiber to start singing and dancing." (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zQGN0UwuJxw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zQGN0UwuJxw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sunshine Makers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fd612cf58768194cb790d3a1ea02b70e6485bcfb/original/fillmore-newspaper-ad-julie-driscoll.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 28th & 29th 1969 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>-Steppenwolf, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity, John Hammond</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7b4d513ff16c88ba296e59aa2fbd4038652fdae5/original/jeff-beck-telegram.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 2nd & 3rd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, NRBQ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8b6209877627a2d3adb7c8297917b03bebc5c5d/original/1969-the-band-fillmore-east-may-11.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 11 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band finally made their East Coat debut at the Fillmore East in May. Performing an hour long set, The Band played most of the songs from their debut album Music From Big Pink and introduced those songs as </strong><i><strong>mountain music</strong></i><strong>. The crowd was so excited by The Band's performance that they demanded three encores.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"We played four sold-out shows at the Fillmore East on Second Avenue in Manhattan. Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys opened, and the audience was with us from the minute we stepped onto the stage in what we described in the press as 'suits and ties'. These were actually dark western-cut clothes, string ties, and black boots, plus assorted hats from Richard's collection. We tuned in the dark for a moment - the light show had been given the night off - the lights came on, and the New York audience began to scream. Standing ovation. Looming over the Lowry organ, Garth looked like a biblical prophet in his untrimmed black beard. We were very tightly rehearsed, because we wanted the performance to sound like the records. We stayed close to those arrangements and didn't stretch it out. We did music from Big Pink - </strong><i><strong>Tears of Rage</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>This Wheel's on Fire</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Caledonia Mission</strong></i><strong>, - and we couldn't believe the wild response. We mixed these up with </strong><i><strong>Get Up Jake</strong></i><strong>, (from the California sessions), the Four Tops' </strong><i><strong>Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever</strong></i><strong>, (Richard sang great on a nod to our Motown fandom), </strong><i><strong>Little Birds</strong></i><strong>. 'Levon's Dad taught us this one," Robbie announced. 'We hope you like country music here in New York.' Wild, stomping applause." (Levon Helm, This Wheel's On Fire)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e783c37695cda240b93dcbd32c1c71202095124c/original/1969-may-fillmore-east-led-zeppelin-contrat.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin May 1969 Fillmore East Performance Contract</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ebd175f8df3e75de478329dae49e2546182c7b8/original/1fillmore-969-may-schedule.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1969 Summer Schedule</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/897487fbdd657ecdbcd7171f962f193ef034dcbc/original/country-joe-hello-people-fillmore-east-may-8.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 8th </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Country Joe and the Fish, Children of God, Hello People </strong></span></p><p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be74481a3d410328c4baf3c56502ab5e609a2701/original/fillmore-the-who-may-16-17-program.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1e0e80c21fd9b84611c076e503f80852fee23b3e/original/pete-townshend-fillmore-east-may-16-1969.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 16 - 17 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who perform their rock opera, Tommy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On Friday, May 16, The Who premiered Pete Townshend’s new Rock Opera Tommy at the Fillmore East, the day before its US release. 'On the opening night I was more excited than usual,' recalled Townshend, 'and we were bullish that we’d have a good show.' To get in the mood, each band member had a bottle of brandy backstage, as well as another on Keith Moon’s drumhead for refreshments during the performance.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f00ee3e2ed37c58a24dfb62bfc146598f2f39383/original/1969-fillmore-east-pete-townshend-arrest.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toward the end of their first show, somebody hurled a Molotov cocktail into the Lion Supermarket that shared a wall with the Fillmore East. As firefighters arrived to put out the three-alarm blaze, fire chiefs reassured Bill Graham there was no imminent danger to his audience. So he decided to wait until the end of Tommy before evacuating the theater. Fillmore East usher Allan Arkush smelled smoke and then looked outside to see flashing lights and firemen all over Second Avenue. The focus in the theater was on The Who and the energy of their performance was lifting everyone.' Suddenly a plain-clothed tactical force detective appeared from the wings at the right of the stage and tried to grab the microphone out of Roger Daltrey’s hands, yelling, 'Give me the mike!' Without missing a beat, Townshend lined up a kick to the detective’s testicles with his Doc Martens. 'He came from nowhere,' said Arkush, 'and Townshend kicked him in the balls. Somebody from the stage crew grabbed him and dragged him off and the entire audience jumped to its feet. It was positively a Roman spectacle.' As more police raced toward the stage, The Who carried on playing as if nothing was happening. The audience thought the thickening smoke inside the theater was all part of the show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9aac1cb0de978532f4484f2f04ebe73ebc02232e/original/townshend-getting-booked-for-assaulting-nyc-detective-during-a-fillmore-east-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pete Townshend getting booked for assaulting NYC detective </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>during a Fillmore East show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After they finished Tommy with that fantastic note the audience went crazy. Then The Who just counted off and lit into ‘</strong><i><strong>Summertime Blues</strong></i><strong>.’ Finally, Bill Graham managed to get Townshend’s attention and went onstage to tell him about the fire next door. 'And I could see them whispering,' said Arkush, 'and The Who kind of brought it way down. It was like a rocket ship turning off its boosters and the audience is standing there panting.' Then Graham went to the microphone and was so cool. He said, </strong><i><strong>We have a little problem</strong></i><strong>. He announced that the ushers were going to clear the theater until it was safe to return, and then The Who would finish the set. 'That building was empty within three minutes,' said Arkush. 'And of course there was no late show, as the smoke was really too thick in the theater.' Later that night, Townshend was charged with assaulting a police officer, and a warrant was sworn out for his arrest. The next morning he turned himself in, spending a few hours in the tank until Bill Graham bailed him out. On Saturday and Sunday nights, The Who were back at the Fillmore East, playing four more sensational shows. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A couple of weeks later, a New York City court fined Townshend $75 for a misdemeanor. On June 17, The Who played the first of three nights at the Fillmore West. This time Pete Townshend told Bill Graham they would play only one show a night instead of two. 'But he was intractable,' said Townshend. 'We made our first set very short as a challenge to his so-called authority, so he had a disgruntled audience on his side, too.' Finally, Graham backed down, and The Who never played more than one show a night for him again." (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West , Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4d6e0c8c99c9b5a9a944e18c6c97d4b08f09616b/original/fillmore-east-may-30-31-1969.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 30th & 31st 1969 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, Delaney & Bonnie</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b09bfa36a759c0e626cd42f2ebf384f82516c490/original/review-woody-herman.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be2172d49e488c8890ed09e68bcf98fc44b337b1/original/led-zep-woody-herman-program.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/824652e4ef17d54a4991ad3c49c6303f09f6512b/original/woody-herman-review-led-zep.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/83d1338c31408a543874d30b980c5d86493be0bf/original/1969-fillmore-east-summer-lineup.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7c2a605beae19f412e2e110060e9770b0f3b190/original/1969-the-who-june-5-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a3fc6d29a80ceb8de9178a831d6461ca53f9f673/original/sept-horror-rock-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 29 - Horror Rock Fest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Horror Rock" fest with Elephant's Memory, Prodigal Son, Brother Theodore, and a screening of Frankenstein, all MC'd by Zacherle!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aec5b5f0ec2ecc807d32ee4902821d5820812d85/original/1969-santana-november-7-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 7 & 8</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Humble Pie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d5e572decb89a0d552a08c5ad394da7574a15c4d/original/fillmore-nov-21-22-joe-cocker-grease-band.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2bf11997b4e2fb60f0ce2ed364270c0c695072db/original/joe-cocker-grease-band-1969.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 21st & 22nd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Cocker & His Grease Band,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Voices Of East Harlem</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5af292a1baa7643f3f0c0b9a4a6daa55ceaba03c/original/nov-19-1969-newspaper-ad.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f99ffe4659359f1579001d15038702805a0311d/original/1968-fillmore-east-poster-color.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5dff73b3d3fc9143be7211217fc49eee0ef3a3db/original/fillmore-marquee-allman-brothers.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 1969 Allman Bros first show @ The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Zel9zLEDG_M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zel9zLEDG_M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 29 - The Nice</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2c2247a367090d8905a3c44a7a121c07f6e4bc71/original/jimi-hendrix-w-gypsys.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/129092777253637b0e194e0aae3ddd26c2089508/original/fillmore-east-band-of-gypsys-program.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Fillmore East, New York Two Shows Prior to their two concerts later that evening, Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys held an afternoon sound check and rehearsal at the Fillmore East. Later that evening, before a sold out crowd of 2,639, Hendrix rang in the New Year and new decade with two unforgettable performances. The evening’s festivities opened with a spirited set by the Voices Of East Harlem, an enthusiastic young gospel ensemble. With the anticipation of the sold out Fillmore audience heightened to fever pitch, Hendrix led his trio through a scintillating, seventy-five minute opening performance. None of the eleven songs presented had yet to grace an Experience album. In the place of signature songs like </strong><i><strong>Purple Haze</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>All Along The Watchtower</strong></i><strong> were confident renditions of </strong><i><strong>Izabella</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Hear My Train A Comin’</strong></i><strong>. At midnight, Kip Cohen, the venue’s master of ceremonies, rang in the new year and decade buffeted by Guy Lombardo’s </strong><i><strong>Auld Lang Syne</strong></i><strong>. Never one to be upstaged, Jimi and company greeted the joyous house with their own inspired reading of the holiday staple. For Amalie Rothschild, the Fillmore East’s house photographer, the experience was an unforgettable one. '</strong><i><strong>Then there was the countdown at midnight. It was the countdown that was a real scream. We’re talking about the end of the Sixties. December 31, 1969 turning into January 1, 1970–.A new decade. This was significant. After all, we were living through it and we knew that the Sixties were the Sixties. We had this big countdown on the Joshua White light show screen with this big clock 10, 9, 8, 7, 6…and everybody is yelling together. Then the light show screen pulls up and everybody is on stage–all the crew and the musicians. Hendrix, who is now on stage, launches into this amazing rendition of Auld Lang Syne and I filmed it. This was history in the making. You could not miss this. His performance was just so inspired. It was just terrific and I can’t find the words to describe it</strong></i><strong>.' Later that night, Hendrix retreated to The Café Caliph (previously known as The Café Au Go Go) in Greenwich Village where he joined The James Cotton Blues Band on stage for a jam." (jimihendrix.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December 31 - Jimi Hendrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the last Fillmore East playbill of 1969, there were messages</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>from various artists who had performed at the venue:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The hangups of 1969 can kiss my behind!" (Jimi Hendrix)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It's a groovy thing to look forward to the future!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Roger McGuinn of The Byrds)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"My hope for the new decade is this: may the dove rest." (Bill Graham</strong></span><span class="text-big"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EvyaLDaGgNM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EvyaLDaGgNM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/953834cac424c801a12b7a7240e6c056f4fcfc37/original/fillmore-east-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1969 Concerts @ The Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 / 11 January 1969 - B.B. King, Winter w/ Johnny Winter, Terry Reid, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 January 1969 - Buddy Rich, Grass Roots, Spirit Lights: Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>24 / 25 January 1969 - Blood Sweat & Tears, Jethro Tull, Gay Deperados Steel Band, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 January 1969 - Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Porter's Popular Preachers, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 February 1969 - Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Porter's Popular Preachers, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>07 / 08 February 1969 - Canned Heat, Pentangle, Rhinoceros, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 February 1969 - Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. Joshua Light Show, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 February 1969 - Sam & Dave, Winter, Aorta, Joshua Light Show,</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 / 22 February 1969 - Mothers Of Invention, Buddy Miles Express, Chicago Transit Authority</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 February 1969 - Ten Years After, John Mayall, Slim Harpo, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 March 1969 - Ten Years After, John Mayall, Slim Harpo, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>07 March 1969 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ian & Sylvia, Great Speckeled Bird </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 March 1969 - Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes, Sirocco, Light By Pablo</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 March 1969 - Procol Harum, Pacific Gas & Electricity, Collectors, Light By Pablo</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 / 22 March 1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Spirit, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Light By Pablo </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 / 29 March 1969 - Steppenwolf, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity, John Hammond, Light By Pablo</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 / 05 April 1969 - Chambers Brothers, Hello People, Elephant's Memory, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 April 1969 - Ten Years After, The Nice, Family, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 April 1969 - Blood Sweat And Tears, Jethro Tull; Albert King, AUM, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 April 1969 - Butterfield Blues Band, Foundations, Savoy Brown, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 / 26 April 1969 - Joni Mitchell, James Cotton, Taj Mahal, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 April 1969 - Incredible String Band, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 / 03 May 1969 - Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, NRBQ, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 May 1969 - Country Joe and the Fish, Children of God, Hello People </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 May 1969 - The Band, Cat Mother & Allnight Newsboys, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 / 17 / 18 May 1969 - The Who, Sweetwater, It's A Beautiful Day, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 24 May 1969 - Sly & The Family Stone, Clarence Carter, Rotary Connection, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>30 / 31 May 1969 - Led Zeppelin, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, Delaney & Bonnie, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 June 1969 - Chuck Berry, Albert King, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13 / 14 June 1969 - Mother of Invention, The Youngbloods, Chicago, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 June 1969 - Grateful Dead, Buddy Miles Express, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>03 July 1969 - Jeff Beck Group, Jethro Tull, Soft White Underbelly</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 / 09 August 1969 - Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker & Grease Band, Spontaneous Sound</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 September 1969 - Country Joe & The Fish, Grateful Dead, Sha Na Na, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;">28 September 1969 - Horror Rock, Elephant's Memory and a screening of <i>Frankenstein</i></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;">October</span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>03 / 04 October 1969 - Chuck Berry, John Mayall, Elvin Bishop Group, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 / 11 October 1969 - Vanilla Fudge, Dr. John The Night Tripper, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 October 1969 - Spirit, Kinks, Bonzo Dog Band, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 October 1969 - Who, King Crimson, AUM, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 October 1969 - Mountain, Steve Miller Blues Band, Move, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>07 / 08 November 1969 - Santana, Butterfield Blues Band, Humble Pie, It's A Beautiful Day, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 November 1969 - Johnny Winter, Chicago, Blodwyn Pig, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 / 22 November 1969 - Joe Cocker & His Grease Band, Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Voices Of East Harlem, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 28 / 29 November 1969 - Jefferson Airplane, The Youngbloods, Joseph Eger's Crossover</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 06 December 1969 - Jethro Tull, Grand Funk Railroad, Fat Mattress, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 / 13 December 1969 - Richie Havens, Nina Simone, Joshua Light Show,</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 December 1969 - Incredible String Band, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 December 1969 - Byrds, Nice, Sons Of Champlin, Dion, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 / 28 December 1969 - Blood Sweat And Tears, Appaloosa, Allman Brothers, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 December - Jim Hendrix Band of Gypsys, Voices Of East Harlem, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ebe41081bef47de83587b72835d753252ff839d3/original/1970.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ef8b9b4273b7d4c0d757bdc1b21ec2581f45fa2/original/fillmore-bear-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85922557b9977c0db3c07286df23cff2ff640179/original/1970-fillmore-east-new-years.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9167dc8e64b4a79d8f62d429461ebce08dbc420e/original/1970-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6xNtMoxxJXM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6xNtMoxxJXM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Grateful Dead in support of the new album, </strong><i><strong>Live Dead</strong></i><strong>, played two nights on January 2nd & 3rd to kick things off in 1970.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5dd16af71d3e8049d2b5069b9f6cedb9eb3f8307/original/ike-tina-turner-1970-fillmore-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7f06ab0ef8223400582ae8e33f82202faaacf0e9/original/tina-ike-turner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>9th & 10th January</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ike & Tina Turner, Mongo Santamaria, Fats Domino</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5310f3e45cf7551d75c7b55ce2519864f206e3a/original/grateful-dead-logo-1970.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gj8F7D6iGy4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gj8F7D6iGy4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4387cf45c2d23086e42d3a07fd2552ad31a3c849/original/feb-11-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/41dd3d68d32e3505a73d29ccd7437164508a7850/original/1970-fillmore-east-garcia-bob-weir-backstage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Garcia & Weir in the their dressing room</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="SVvUDWonjXk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SVvUDWonjXk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February Grateful Dead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/adcf39fc31613ec7570b29e041c30c832b2d6bb6/original/fillmore-east-owsley-working-sound-for-the-dead.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Bear" aka Owsley, doing sound for the Grateful Dead @ The Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf1cc02c7843a21e1d8fa2df754017e7d5af2b02/original/ten-years-after.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 February - Ten Years After, Zephyr, John Hammond</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0dd7621444b189cc1e2361eba45fa31d0c811132/original/jan-march-1970-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January thru March Schedule 1970</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:right;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ab976f0fa5a3f8cea364605e87f8b7ac63be437/original/fillmore-east-1970-february.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/75f9df320559b8f48aab8e1b8a8f0cc11e0f804f/original/1970-backstage-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back Stage @ the Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fbcffe17d228692f2ca1dfab8d6042f849c90b6/original/march-6-7-1970-open-program.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ea8a4f0123dc24aadf34fc6d9a5787826ea26b1/original/neil-young-steve-miller-blues-band.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2462cd9027b0c8c6bcb4bf5c47ca4d613717f9ee/original/1970-march-6-7-miles-davis.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d52f5c28f8f57b8b00bf691647a73e3e7fe42b8/original/fillmore-east-marquee-201.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZwQyX_osSLY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZwQyX_osSLY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 7th Neil Young & Crazy Horse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 1970, Young and Crazy Horse went on tour to support Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969). Young played four shows at the Fillmore East on March 6 and 7, each show consisting of a solo acoustic set and an electric set with Crazy Horse.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e46aebe84d1620d6b85e5b64943d460ebdff76e4/original/fillmore-19790-program-mad-dogs.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30101b64acb2f0086e849cd5ea544b699ef167d5/original/joe-cocker-leon-russel-mad-dogs-tour-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 27th & 28th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Ronnie Hawkins, Stone The Crows</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9033a4cf33eaac1a3c44721884a0fc5cf4c2fcaf/original/1970-april-16-fillmore-east-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/640f08b553c7fb3c15edbd7d2f79b87af96ebc58/original/pink-floyd-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 16 Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d151f1530607b399354e23104d13ce695ac80315/original/april-1970-joshua-lights-message.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/713027587d92f28bf230ad3b524bcadb787cdcfd/original/bbill-graham-with-a-customer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May Schedule 1970</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ed1eaa9c2843b390254dcfc2d9c13f077939153/original/may-1970.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e743c0943294544be3ff9193b1bd8dfdd95767f9/original/1970-fillmore-east-mothers-of-invention-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a61b001587a3f47f3b53a94a79d5c9e566a9ef4e/original/1970-may-fillmore-east-fans-camp-out-for-dead-tickets.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fans online to score tickets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c6ec7b386ba60ceaab4dc0bf231ca3928f4062d5/original/1970-grateful-dead-new-righters-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a2709bbd89a6ea812d76fc22d263bdf3c768217/original/fillmore-grateful-dead-may-19-1970.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b968073cede5329eed1c9d5b16d17f7d88284ecb/original/new-riders-of-the-purple-sage-fillmore-east-11-16-1970-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2i-EO47WvEo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2i-EO47WvEo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead & New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ce40a5dfec797e8963a5f14aa72788b204c6a007/original/csny-4-way-street-shows.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e54a6fb59ee9d9b6a0f6d3f21516c5be1b94a750/original/1970-fillmore-east-csny.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa084f143f56e2ac564d82fb6249f0abe3700f7f/original/young-crosby-nash-stills-four-way-street-run-of-shows-1970.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 6th, 1970 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"By 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were being feted by many as America’s answer to the Beatles thanks to their combination of tender folk balladry and socially conscious rock. When they finally booked a run of shows at the Fillmore East that summer, demand for tickets was off the charts. Fans lined the block four deep the night beforehand just to get their hands on one. Though they may have rubbed the Fillmore East crew the wrong way with their demands to block the Joshua Light Show and bring in their own sound equipment, the results onstage spoke for themselves. The sets were broken down into two portions, electric and acoustic, and each man was allowed their own time in the limelight to show what they could do. After the final performance on the final night, the audience simply refused to leave, so Graham himself went to the band and begged them to do an encore. Crosby demanded cash before they would agree to go on again, so the promoter started slipping $100 bills under the door. When he reached eight, they finally acquiesced and went out for one more song." (Rolling Stone magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85a780007e855d5318f4ab91a3cef7f6cf6bafcd/original/june-18-1970-miles-davis.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 / 19 / 20 June 1970 - Laura Nyro, Miles Davis Quintet</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f52d61770f0684e8a1b69efa42a70e651c75c094/original/june-24-25-ten-years-after-fillmore-east.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8c66c8c7f6c7138c3f5a229f3f6b2be5310ba976/original/june-24-1970-ten-years-after-fillmore.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 24th & 25th </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Years After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Illinois Speed Press & Catfish</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/04c7b2bdc2b0d805bc7f0d382be6ff35f75cdb5e/original/1971-fillmore-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4238a23f026848685a906cb51465742fae36bf6f/original/july-10-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 / 11 July 1970</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suddenly things began to change in the rock music business. After Woodstock, bands began to play larger venues that paid them more money. In an editorial, Variety stated that more and more acts , along with the vast increase in pay for a performance, began to demand a wide variety of perks.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91f6680cd1a80cba7039e8767c8dd0ee7ebf3347/original/youngbloods-group-image.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f7415f8d75fdf77b4445a3f7a9793f7eeda4317e/original/1970-youngbloods-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 21st & 22nd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngbloods, Blues Image, Tim Hardin</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bb739b676bd3ce50ff4e4f47ae01c8f0bea4ea26/original/1970-august-fillmore-east-savoy-brown-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 28th & 29th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac, Fairport Convention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/45f94576b7de4d2ccf66cdb0b360c1b975753911/original/bill-graham-outside-the-venue.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On June 27, Bill Graham took out a full-page advertisement in Billboard magazine announcing that both his Fillmore venues were fighting for survival. The ad warned that managers, agents, and rock bands were pricing themselves out of the theater concert business. 'Economics have taken the music from the clubs,” stated Graham, “from the clubs, ballrooms and concert halls to the larger coliseums and festivals.' And he warned that his twin temples of rock were in imminent danger, as there were not enough major acts to replace the ones now playing the bigger venues like Madison Square Garden. 'Once one got to the Seventies,' said Kip Cohen (manager of Fillmore East), 'there was a big shift and things got harder and uglier. There was a change. A change in the music. A change in the audience. A change in the attitude.' Cohen said that the Fillmore venues could no longer compete with the bigger venues that paid the artists far more money and satisfied their increasingly inflated egos. 'We had something to sell for three years,' he said, 'and then it was not something that we could sell anymore. Could we sell it to the audience? Yes. But not to the artist.'" (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SEPTEMBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee8567711c44aecd0dc58ec5b71b8ccce52839e1/original/1970-fillmore-east-pink-floyd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 27th Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OrLJkFH369M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OrLJkFH369M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TId3aAyhvFc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TId3aAyhvFc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HH8QWHIOjuE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HH8QWHIOjuE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/258e3669c45f2d17983f2de9aa36ad9c5dcaa2d3/original/lee-michaels-oct-31-fillmore-ticket.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NOVEMBER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LXwE8K9JAtA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LXwE8K9JAtA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 18th / 19th Traffic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb6be85be1efaaa7f404d18c9b8df79a53623f33/original/nov-1970-elton-john-leon-russell.jpeg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/df59af8eee9412738bc16fc6f4945f334eb103ae/original/leon-russell-elton-john.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 20th & 21st </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell, Elton John, Mckendree Spring</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Elton John performed four shows on Nov. 20-21, 1970 at New York's Fillmore East, and something magical happened. Folk-rockers McKendree Spring opened the show, followed by John and then Russell, who topped the bill. Promoter Bill Graham booked John at Russell's suggestion. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'I’ve never worked for anybody who’s as professional as Bill Graham or his staff,' John told Rolling Stone. 'It’s the musician’s dream gig. If you don’t make it at the Fillmore West or the Fillmore East, no matter what the audience is like, you’ll never make it anywhere. Bands take it for granted they’re playing the Fillmore. They don’t think about the fact that they’re getting the best PA system, the best sound and the best lighting. The lighting is just incredible.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John was joined by Russell for a nine-minute-long jam following "Burn Down the Mission," with Russell on guitar."</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0QQ9KtDGJg4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0QQ9KtDGJg4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5356438612973ef6ef1753f77aaa1e753b2fb052/original/1970-fillmore-dec-4-5-kinks-love-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ddf555fd8f6ccd683c174c3712a4aabeb4d58505/original/kinks-1970.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/24c885ebaa325c5fb75b6461e6bd13062dbb1701/original/1970-kinks-fillmore-december-4-5.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b0f00be3b1093e26364c80847c3843941c22706d/original/arthur-lee-love.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c32f259b1abd007707267e7b05865a66f2490d8d/original/1970-filmore-december-4-5-love-quartermass.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:right;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff1add3a84c3cde98fc566af8c948ae814bdf026/original/dec-fillmore-1970-savoy-brown.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 December 1970 - Savoy Brown, Poco, Gypsy / Jo Mama, Joe's Lights </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 / 23 / 24 December 1970 - Laura Nyro, Jackson Browne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7a8c7f5830b41b84ba103cc8705659b9cd31f2ae/original/december-1970-fillmore-mountain.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 / 30 / 31 December 1970 - Mountain, Mylon, David Rea</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/953834cac424c801a12b7a7240e6c056f4fcfc37/original/fillmore-east-icon.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1970 Concerts @ The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 January 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, Voices Of East Harlem, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 / 03 January 1970 - Grateful Dead, Lighthouse, Cold Blood,Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 January 1970 - Ike & Tina Turner, Mongo Santamaria, Fats Domino, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 / 17 January 1970 - Santana, Catfish, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 24 January 1970 - Quicksilver, Country Joe & The Fish, Eric Mercury, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>30 / 31 January 1970 - Mountain, Jack Bruce & Friends, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 February 1970 - Delaney, Bonnie & Friends, Wilbert Harrison, Seals And Crofts, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 13 / 14 February 1970 - Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Love, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 February 1970 - Savoy Brown, Kinks, Renaissance / Noonan, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 February 1970 - Ravi Shankar, Notes: w/ Zakir Quereshi - Tabla, Dr. Ashoka Ray - Tambora</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 February 1970 - Ten Years After, Zephyr, John Hammond Lights: Joshua Light Show, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 / 28 February 1970 - Ten Years After, Doug Kershaw, Zephyr, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 March 1970 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Steve Miller Blues Band, Miles Davis, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13 / 14 / 15 March 1970 - John Mayall, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 / 21 March 1970 - Moody Blues, Lee Michaels, Argent, Joshua Light Show </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 / 28 March 1970 Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Ronnie Hawkins, Stone The Crows, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>03 / 04 April 1970 - Quicksilver Messenger Service, Van Morrison, Brinsley Schwarz, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 April 1970 - Tom Paxton, Fraser & Debolt, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 / 11 / 12 April 1970 - Santana, It's A Beautiful Day, American Dream, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 April 1970 - Pink Floyd, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 April 1970 - Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria, Joshua Light Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 24 / 25 / 26 April 1970 - Incredible String Band, Stone Monkey Mime Troupe</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 / 02 May 1970 - Mountain, Blodwyn Pig, Joshua Light</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 May 1970 - Jefferson Airplane, Manfred Mann Chapter 3, Wilbert Harrison, Headlights </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 / 09 May 1970 - Mothers Of Invention, Insect Trust, Sea Train, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 May 1970 - Music Festival '70, Notes: Satellite Colorcast From London 3pm Live, 8pm Delayed, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>15 May 1970 - Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Joe's Lights, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 May 1970 - Guess Who, Cold Blood, Buddy Miles, Lights: Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 / 22 / 23 May 1970 - Jethro Tull, Clouds, John Sebastian, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>29 / 30 May 1970 - Nina Simone, Mongo Santamaria, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06 / 07 June 1970 - Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Taylor & Reeves</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 / 11 June 1970 - Traffic, Fairport Convention, Mott The Hoople, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 / 13 June 1970 - Procol Harum, Rhinoceros, Seals & Crofts, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 / 19 / 20 June 1970 - Laura Nyro, Miles Davis Quintet</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>24 / 25 June 1970 - Ten Years After, Illinoise Speed Press, Pig Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 June 1970 - Chicago, Blodwyn Pig, Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, Pig Light Show</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 / 11 / 12 July 1970 - Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sag, Pig, Midnight Show</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 July 1970 - Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Notes: 8pm Show,</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>24 / 25 July 1970 - Hot Tuna, Leon Russell, Rig, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>31 July 1970 - Grand Funk Railroad, Pacific Gas & Electric, Blood Rock, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 August 1970 - Grand Funk Railroad, Pacific Gas & Electric, Blood Rock, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 August 1970 - Jethro Tull, Cactus, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 August 1970 - Small Faces w/ Rod Stewart, Blodwyn Pig, Chicken Shack, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 / 11 / 12 August 1970 - Santana, Voices Of East Harlem, Ball 'N Jack, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 August 1970 - Procol Harum, Country Joe McDonald, Toe Fat, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 / 22 August 1970 - The Youngbloods, Blues Image, Tim Hardin, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 / 29 August 1970 - Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac, Fairport Convention, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 September 1970 - Byrds, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Great Jones, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 / 18 / 19 / 20 September 1970 - Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 25 / 26 September 1970 - Allman Brothers, Van Morrison, The Byrds, Captain Candlepower Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 September 1970 - Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>02 / 03 October 1970 - Johnny Winter, Buddy Miles, Tin House</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 / 10 October 1970 - John Mayall, It's A Beautiful Day, Flock, Captain Candlepower Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 October 1970 - Rock Relics Auction</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 / 17 October 1970 - B.B. King, Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin Bishop, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 24 October 1970 - Derek & The Dominos, Ball 'N Jack, Humble Pie, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>30 / 31 October 1970 - Lee Michaels, Cactus, Juicy Lucy, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>06 / 07 November 1970 - Albert King, N Y Rock N' Roll Ensemble, Flying Burrito Brothers, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 November 1970 - Rod Stewart & Small Faces, Black Sabbath, Pig Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13 / 14 November 1970 - Frank Zappa & Mothers Of Invention, Sha Na Na, JF Murphy & Free Flowing Salt</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 November 1970 - Traffic, Cat Stevens, Hammer, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 November 1970 - Leon Russell, Elton John, Mckendree Spring, Captain Candlepower Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 / 28 November 1970 - Jefferson Airplane, Buddy Guy-Jr. Wells Band, Headlights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>29 November 1970 - Incredible String Band</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 / 05 December 1970 - The Kinks, Love w/ Arthur Lee, Quatermass, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 December 1970 - Canned Heat, Allman Brothers, Dreams / Toe Fat, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 December 1970 - Virgil Fox, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 December 1970 - Savoy Brown, Poco, Gypsy / Jo Mama, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 / 23 / 24 December 1970 - Laura Nyro, Jackson Browne</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 / 30 / 31 December 1970 - Mountain, Mylon, David Rea, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0284cc12c2cd99d9a3ecf298ce70f824e3a94981/original/1871.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d837679174923544c149392f965cf2f021e095e/original/fillmore-east-1971.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time 1971 came around, Bill Graham was thinking of calling it quits. Much to his surprise, all of the bands that he had promoted suddenly decided to only perform at bigger venues.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The new heavy sounds of acts like Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath were not doing it for Graham. The crowds, too, had changed, Graham complained. He had no interest in booking shows at Madison Square Garden. He shut the Fillmore East down in June 1971 with a three-night run headlined by the Allman Brothers Band, joined on the closing evening by an all-star cast that included Country Joe, Mountain, and the Beach Boys." (The Gothamist)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55a5778c3c2e5219f2ec17bcb0e711b9dc5ae821/original/1971-fillmore-east-concert-review-record-world-1971.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4f6a093e3425c767d792a1d485f34c74399b0249/original/jan-1971.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/90cd8b401ac6cf7dde5efd989fcf52804a84cb82/original/dave-mason-mama-cass-1971.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 22nd & 23rd 1971</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, Odetta, Livingston Taylor</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/32da83baaa91de1b6ed2dbdcea15ddb18554ba76/original/1971-january.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dbea69bced1e64bf9df81e261a64a0e2a6734bc6/original/fillmore-east-taj-mahal-real-thing-shows.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 11th 1971 Taj Mahal, Roberta Flack, Leon Thomas</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/df423aeb2639b5ee6f9f7d1b56e475a03c770dc8/original/1-feb-fillmore-east-1971-small-faces-black-sabbath.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bag6F351gVw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bag6F351gVw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Small Faces 1971 aka Faces with Rod Stewart</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5cbecd53500ef61dd69b3f06fe9650f3bbe662fb/original/black-sabbath.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Sabbath</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cead4d2ee6106a3520203c9af398096b11769ec2/original/march-1971.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/beae5fd57e5c58d9fe54f67daf58335dfa698e24/original/may-1971-part-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/79ee432b62ea1271ed2b55cc625ed08d2286693e/original/astrolgy-now.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">March 18th Astrology Now</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f90417018c980eea3399493d5f57ee1cc2b08045/original/spring-for-lowenstein-1971.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">March 21st Spring For Lowenstein</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4682dc7e1d678559770259528f8d90e05cf91fa3/original/2-1971-fillmore-east-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2a7325af8b7bc7f26a56e42cc61556fe2ccfbc1/original/buffalo-bob.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/156abd028f1645403d840175961afc6d86855dd2/original/3-1971fillmore-east-elton-john-seatrain.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2a04d978b55ab1e3bc8189c2c70c14f6a1216900/original/elton-john-color-shot.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1e7fc6cdbc57a89d1f3ada7630121d7d1f740587/original/grateful-dead-71-dead.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cbc4bbfe9771abbdd40b388a8a189dec00919769/original/dead-1971.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead April 25, 1971</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"By 1971, The Grateful Dead had firmly established the Fillmore East as their New York City base of operations. But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. The Fillmore East would be shuttered by the end of the summer, but not before one last run of Dead shows. The five-night run would serve as the band’s last hurrah at Bill Graham’s legendary East Village venue... </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band wastes no time and dives right into a roaring </strong><i><strong>Truckin'</strong></i><strong> to open the show. It’s a crisp, early version of this Dead classic to-be that was barely a year old at the time. It would also serve as the opener for three other shows during this Fillmore run. After requesting some </strong><i><strong>cranking up </strong></i><strong>of the monitors, Jerry Garcia then leads the group through </strong><i><strong>Loser</strong></i><strong>, carrying over the alt-country psychedelic vibes established earlier by the New Riders. A short, but hauntingly beautiful guitar solo from Garcia highlights this one. The collective mood then gets lifted in a major way with </strong><i><strong>Hard To Handle</strong></i><strong>. The charismatic Pigpen, who has several shining moments during this show, takes the lead on vocals in his signature, blues-riddled style. Garcia and drummer Bill Kreutzmann seem to take turn raising the fervor and intensity which yields a hearty early jam...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>...the show resumes with </strong><i><strong>Me And Bobby McGee</strong></i><strong>, this time with Bob Weir leading the way on vocals. Afterwards Weir shouts out some more friendly advice to the monitor guy before </strong><i><strong>Cold Rain And Snow</strong></i><strong> lifts off. Garcia's agressive guitar tone and the thunderous bass notes from Phil Lesh give this always emotional number a little something extra. This sets the stage for Pigpen to take charge once more, this time with harmonica in tow for </strong><i><strong>The Rub</strong></i><strong>. This Lightnin' Hopkins song, also known as </strong><i><strong>Ain't It Crazy</strong></i><strong>, would only be played 13 times by the Dead, properly shelved for good after Pigpen's passing.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Weir then gets back on the mic for </strong><i><strong>Playin’ In The Band</strong></i><strong>, another soon-to-be Dead classic. It’s essentially just a run through of the composed portion, with no jam to speak of with the song still in its nascent stage. Garcia then notes that 'we used to do this song acoustically' before an uptempo rendition of </strong><i><strong>Friend Of The Devil</strong></i><strong> takes place. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first set then wraps up with a few already established staples of the Grateful Dead’s live catalog. The instrumental segue between </strong><i><strong>China Cat Sunflower </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>I Know You Rider</strong></i><strong> is near-seamless, with Garcia delivering a flurry of emotional guitar fills on the latter. </strong><i><strong>Casey Jones</strong></i><strong> then drives the Fillmore crowd off to intermission, capping off a whirlwind first set. Garcia and Weir both take it upon themselves to advise everyone they’ll return shortly. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dead kick off the second set at the Fillmore in grand fashion with a supercharged </strong><i><strong>Morning Dew</strong></i><strong>. Steadily progressive rhythms supplied by Lesh and Kreutzmann secure the framework for another Garcia guitar solo that drips with emotion, much to the crowd’s delight. After a quick run through </strong><i><strong>Beat It On Down The Line</strong></i><strong>, it’s Pigpen’s turn again as he and his harp rip through a cover of the bluesy </strong><i><strong>Next Time You See Me</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pig then gets back behind the organ for </strong><i><strong>Bertha</strong></i><strong>, another fresh tune at the time, debuted only months ago. This clears the deck for </strong><i><strong>Sugar Magnolia</strong></i><strong>. Garcia has the wah effect on full blast for this one, almost overpowering everything else. After some more griping about the in-house monitors, the Dead’s cover of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles’ Second That Emotion smooths everything over. It would the fourth performance of this song that the band only ever played five times – all in April of 1971. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Qp1Sw5EUhZw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qp1Sw5EUhZw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But this would not be the cover selection that blows the doors off the second set. That honor belongs to the </strong><i><strong>Good Lovin'</strong></i><strong> that follows, sung in Pigpen’s signature style and immediately supplemented with a majestic drum solo from Kreutzmann. As the wave of </strong><i><strong>Drums </strong></i><strong>begins to recede, a loose form of </strong><i><strong>Good Lovin'</strong></i><strong> reemerges, spurred on by Pigpen and his improvisational crooning. With the rest of the band fully locked in behind him, this sequence sees the Dead at their full powers and steals the show." (nysmusic.com)</strong></span><br> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09613f6a17696930dd2abdf3d961fe3ff6e6983b/original/april-27-1971-fillmore-est-dead-beach-boys.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad8f85cb9b7394f32c37c49efb89ced773a36a53/original/beach-boys-the-dead.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 27 The Grateful Dead & The Beach Boys Jam</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In 1971 at the Fillmore East in New York, the Grateful Dead welcomed pop-rock behemoths The Beach Boys to the stage for a special jam session. It was an everyday occurrence for fans of The Grateful Dead, picking up special guests with the ease of wind picking up grains of sand, the band were experts in welcoming stars to their stage. Even by 1971, with the band still in their comparative infancy, the Dead were more than happy to welcome some huge names to share the stage with them, including The Beach Boys. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Though the crowd would let out a half-moan following Jerry Garcia’s announcement that 'We got another famous California group, it’s the Beach Boys,' they would soon be shown why exactly Garcia was so pleased to introduce the hugely influential band. Deadheads are loyal to their group, and the rumbles of discontent were certainly short lived as the other giants of the West Coast made their way across the country to bolster the arsenal of their Californian pals.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beach Boys were not as revered for their innovative style back in 1971 as they are today. Back then they were kind of square and represented, at the very least, an estuary of the mainstream, which to Deadheads at the time, was unthinkable. They had topped charts and broken records, they had written a heavy catalogue of pop tunes, and despite the seminal album Pet Sounds, the group were not considered in the realms of cool. But The Grateful Dead knew better. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beach Boys may not have been the subversive cultural phenomenon that the Dead had become through their live shows, but the Cali band still had heaps of value to their work, and they were determined to show it. Without Brian Wilson, the group took to the stage alongside the Dead and by the end of the show had the whole audience on their side. It’s a testament to the kind of players Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston are that they could keep up at all. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The stage was set at New York’s iconic Fillmore East and had seen the Dead already perform two shows of their scheduled five-night run. The previous evening on April 26th the band had been joined by Duane Allman, whose own band, The Allman Brothers, had opened for the Dead the year earlier at the venue. But for the 17th they had something really special planned. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band were well into their set before they invited the California band out. They had already treated the audience to fan-favorites such as ‘</strong><i><strong>Bertha</strong></i><strong>’, ‘</strong><i><strong>Hard To Handle</strong></i><strong>’, and ‘</strong><i><strong>Sugar Magnolia</strong></i><strong>’, which meant the audience was duly sated. The group had just wound down the countrified ‘</strong><i><strong>Dire Wolf</strong></i><strong>’ when Garcia made the announcement.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With the band now swelled to a chunky 10 piece arrangement, (the Dead line-up at the time was Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann) there was a lot of people to organize on stage. Rather than try to play one another’s songs they decided the best thing to do would be to rely on the oldies. The two bands ripped through the Coasters’ ‘</strong><i><strong>Searchin</strong></i><strong>' as well as the Robins’ ‘</strong><i><strong>Riot in Cell Block #9</strong></i><strong>’, following which the Dead left the stage and let The Beach Boys takeover awhile, keeping the fans happy as they did. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If you ignore Mike Love’s desperate attempts to be “hip” by retelling a story about getting stoned with Buffalo Springfield the performance is pretty tight. Of course, without Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys were never quite at full tilt, yet their renditions of ‘</strong><i><strong>Help Me, Rhonda</strong></i><strong>,’ ‘</strong><i><strong>I Get Around</strong></i><strong>’ and ‘</strong><i><strong>Good Vibrations</strong></i><strong>’ were all welcomed with open arms. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of ‘</strong><i><strong>Help Me, Rhonda</strong></i><strong>’ the Dead had begun to re-enter the stage for two more songs with the Cali band. As well as taking on a cover of Merle Haggard’s ‘</strong><i><strong>Okie from Muskogee</strong></i><strong>’ they finished the night with a rendition of Chuck Berry’s ‘</strong><i><strong>Johnny B. Goode</strong></i><strong>’. And this crazy night with The Grateful Dead was later brought to a close." (Far Out magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2fea40c01090ae58b9d1dab468427b3e562064f/original/may-1971.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5769d263ee3026679bc9052963d22c00f12671a2/original/may-7th-8th-1971.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4107ea808ad2f514d31193824457208ddb98c3a/original/fillmore-east-final-concerst.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/acf8bac1b52244743eee1c7c8d5c301f5a45cbf5/original/fillmore-june-1971-marquee.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dde6b269f7e20d3d8ac0cec2e2e76c9a1f790e8/original/fillmore-may-30-laura-nyro.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 30th Laura Nyro, Spencer Davis & Peter Jameson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fd73e4f29345e58de1193a557d6744b9e9657ee/original/june-9-1971-fillmore-east.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c336ed8489b81b174c94a27ca4aaeb69f4faacff/original/frank-zappa-june-1971.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8cdb993bdba109e5d0bba159de920e466a9c3bc/original/alice-cooper-fillmore-program.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 11th & 12th Blood Rock, Alice Cooper, Glass Harp</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0109993965d02150d73035487f9e47b70f9b1d09/original/fillmore-alice-cooper-show.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a6ad2c31dc157180982fa8c65698a5f992e4e41/original/bloodrock-alice-cooper-fillmore-june-71.jpeg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/11dd72423556a2b60c2066160b552192831d886c/original/alman-bros-band.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the summer of 1971, Bill Graham was officially fed up with the asking prices for the acts he did book were borderline cost-prohibitive. Eventually, Graham decided to close the Fillmore East. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Since Graham wanted the Fillmore East to go out in style, he booked The Allman Brothers to play for the Fillmore East's audience one final time. On June 27th, this memorable show lasted into the early morning hours.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dickie Betts: “'That was a special show, We played until daylight that morning. I remember it was dark in there, and when they opened the door, the sun about knocked us down. We didn’t realize we had played until seven, eight o’clock in the morning. Bill Graham just let us rattle and nobody said, ‘We gotta cut the time.’ It was just a really free kind of thing."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e73153082abe2521fe9a7a86e2e581436cf1cc34/original/alman-bros-fillmore-tickets.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“'We played for roughly seven straight hours with everything we had,' drummer Butch Trucks remembered. 'The feeling was just so overwhelming that I just started crying. Then we got into a jam, I think it was ‘</strong><i><strong>Mountain Jam</strong></i><strong>,’ that lasted for four straight hours. Nonstop. And when we finished, there was no applause whatsoever. The place was deathly quiet. Someone got up and opened the doors and the bright morning sun came pouring in.” (John Glatt, Live at the Fillmore East and West, Lyons Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7ab1d64e0cbc95903672640a444158868e8c54af/original/fillmore-east-last-concert-exterior-shot.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The last night at the Fillmore East. It’s been called The Holy Grail of Allman Brothers Band shows. The night the fan who shouted, 'Play all night!' on the live Fillmore East album got his wish. Dickey has been quoted as calling it the best show they ever played. The fact that there are no known recordings of this show only adds to the mystique. If you were there, you heard it. If you weren’t, you can only listen to shows from that era and imagine one that went on for hours, ending with a stupendous jam. Kirk West says, 'they had the recording equipment there but no one turned it on.' Can you imagine? The closing concert at the Fillmore East and no one recorded it?! Perhaps, locked away in some secret vault in the Bill Graham organization, lies a tape, waiting for the right moment to surface. Or perhaps it’s in some fan’s attic, long forgotten, oxide slowly turning to dust with the memories.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Going to a concert was so much more than just going to hear a band. It was a group social event. Five or six friends jammed into a car, passing food and refreshments around, playing tapes, singing along, journeying to Deepest Darkest New York City! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After seeing a couple of shows, the Allmans became my favorite band. I loved their albums but nothing matched seeing them live. To me there was music, and then there was the Allman Brothers Band. No other band’s music reached out and grabbed my heart and soul the way the Allmans’ did. I felt like they touched my emotions, the very center of my being, directly and personally. When Duane played a solo, I knew exactly what he was feeling. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I enjoyed other concerts, but they were just artists belting out their hits, impressing us with their musical talent, getting us on our feet, dancing and yelling. But none of them made me close my eyes tight and feel the emotions jamming in my brain, down my spine, clenching the muscles in my legs, right into the soles of my feet. No other musicians made me feel so connected to their souls as they played. It was like the difference between acting and living. Other bands seemed to be aware of the fact that they were on a stage and making music. The Allmans seemed to be living and feeling the things they were playing right there in front of us. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We went to a lot of shows, indoors and out, but our favorite spot by far was Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. The Fillmore was a concert hall in the old tradition, seating only a few thousand people. There was a balcony and three sections of theater-style seats. The Fillmore staff allowed us to bring in our own munchies, and we always had a mix of healthy food and junk food: brownies, apples, carrots, cookies, you name it. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The ushers at the Fillmore kept busy running around the theater shining flashlights on people flaunting the 'no smoking' laws, but there was always plenty of olfactory evidence that the cigarette lighters were winning the battle with the ushers. The Fillmore had wonderful acoustics, something sadly missing from most concert experiences these days. Who decided that rock music sounds fine in amphitheater sheds, football stadiums, and gymnasiums, anyway? It’s great that the Brothers still play real theaters like the Beacon and the Warfield even though they could make more money filling a 20,000 seat amphitheater. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fillmore East was nestled in New York’s East Village, where the real hippies moved when Greenwich Village went commercial. You couldn’t walk a block in the East Village without getting hustled for dope or spare change. It was downright seedy, even by New York’s standards. But traveling in a group of five or six, we were probably relatively safe. And on concert nights, the streets were full of other kids streaming in from the suburbs, all trying to look like they lived in the East Village. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The NY music scene was hot; we were proud of it, and we took it for granted. And so we couldn’t have been more surprised that day in early spring ’71 when we heard the news: 'You won’t believe this: Bill Graham’s closing the Fillmore!' Impossible! Bill Graham and the Fillmore were synonymous with rock concerts at their finest. Why on earth would he quit? The news reports over the next couple of weeks told the story of a burned out, jaded Bill Graham who was weary of the hassles of rock concert promotion. The bands were demanding more money, which he felt would price them out of the market (imagine what he would say about some of last summer’s ticket prices!). He said the crowds were getting unruly and were less knowledgeable and selective about the music. He thought they were just “yelling for more” no matter how the music sounded. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slowly it sunk in that this was for real, and that there would soon be a 'last night at the Fillmore.' We got the news of the final stand: there would be four public concerts, a late and early show each night, on Friday and Saturday, June 25 and 26th; and then an </strong><i><strong>invited guests only</strong></i><strong> private concert on June 27th that would be broadcast over the radio. The bands for the public shows would be: Albert King, the J. Geils Band, and headlining, the Allman Brothers Band. Talk about mixed emotions . . . the joy of seeing the Brothers honored as the last band to play the Fillmore East, mixed with the sadness of seeing the place closing down. Well, if the Fillmore had to close, at least we would be closing it down hittin’ the note. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was no Ticketmaster in those days. We just mailed in a ticket request to the Fillmore and got us four seats for the last public show, the late show on the 26th . . . in the fifth row on the left! How we got such good seats by mail order, we’ll never know, but I’m sure we dipped well into our good karma bank that day. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We went to the Fillmore twice that week; the first time we saw Rick Derringer, Albert </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>King and BB King. I believe Johnny Winter was scheduled but canceled out and Albert was recruited at the last minute. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Since we had reserved seats, there was no giant rush to be first in line for the late show. We wandered up and hung out with a few thousand soul-mates under the old-fashioned, lit up marquee advertising the last shows. The side doors opened and out poured the early show crowd, a satisfied look on their faces. We knew that soon the front doors would open and it would be our turn to pass into the magical world of music at the Fillmore East for the very last time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fillmore always gave out a program guide at the door, another nice touch dropped by most venues long ago. It was usually printed in brown on white glossy stock. Tonight the cover was gold. We filed inside and waving our prime tickets, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>swaggered past several sets of helpful ushers, all the way up to the fifth row. Duane </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>would be standing right in front of us in a couple of hours! What great seats! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Now the excitement began to seriously mount. Rock music piped over the loudspeakers whet our appetite for the show to start as the theater filled with other lucky hippies, freaks, and young punks from the suburbs like us. The late show was scheduled to start around 11 PM. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The lights went down in the house and on came the spots to highlight Albert King taking off on a powerful set of electric blues. Although I don’t recall specifics, I do remember thinking that he played pretty much the same set he had played earlier that week. I was not very familiar with his work back then, but between Albert and B.B. King I was developing a taste for the masters of the blues. The roots of the Allmans’ music were unmistakable. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After Albert’s show, the stage hands came out and got things ready for the J. Geils Band. The J. Geils band delivered over an hour of sizzling, flashy rock and roll. These guys clearly knew that this was a special night. We wanted their show to go on forever, but the real reason we were there that night couldn’t start until they finished. They went out in a blaze of rock and roll guitar and harp glory, and the house lights came up again. It was the roadies turn on stage, and now the excitement really began to build. We had seen the Allmans enough times that we recognized most of the roadies. Once they took over the stage it felt like the Allmans show had started at long last. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We drifted into conversation and time sped by. Then the audience noticed that the roadies had left the stage; all the equipment was set up, but the house lights were still on. Rhythmic applause, shouts of 'come on!' and 'let’s go!' filled the air with energy and anticipation. When a song on the PA ended, the noise from the crowd would swell to a peak, and then another song started . . . now I was saying it: 'Come on! It’s time to start the show!' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then, in mid-song, the house lights went down. Folks, I’m sure you know the feeling; we had just witnessed two excellent musical performances, but now the real excitement and magic were in the air. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The noise of the crowd was building to a feverish pitch . . . shadows moving across </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>stage . . . a couple of riffs on the drums . . . then a spine tingling shot from a slide guitar . . . yesss! That sweet magical sound was here again, a wide grin spread across our faces . . . the Hammond B 3 sang out in the dark . . . a scale from the bass . . . then it got quiet. A lone spotlight followed Bill Graham onto the stage. Even Bill was caught between the emotion of closing down his concert hall and the excitement of introducing a band he had come to love. He spoke for a minute . . . '</strong><i><strong>and now, the Allman Brothers Band</strong></i><strong>!' and the energy of 'Statesboro Blues' lifted us out of our seats. The stage was lit up in the blaze of floods, the light show was swirling and pulsing behind Butch and Jaimoe, and we were up and clapping and hollering! No gathering of converted sinners had it over this crowd, we were going to make our last show at the Fillmore a night to remember.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Duane’s solos were dominant. Dickey’s were shorter but always riveting and poignant. As the night progressed, and the songs got longer, Dickey made it clear that he was worthy of sharing the title 'lead guitarist' with Duane. The pace eased with 'Stormy Monday,' a showcase for Gregg’s gripping vocals and soul searing work on the Hammond. Gregg switched to his electric piano for '</strong><i><strong>One Way Out</strong></i><strong>,' and Duane and Dickey traded searing solos that sent the crowd into a frenzy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dickey’s solo skills shone again on the long version of '</strong><i><strong>You Don’t Love Me</strong></i><strong>' as he led the band through changes, taking the song far afield from the original theme and then bringing it back home again. The band joined in for a strong finish at the very end of Duane’s 'Joy to The World' licks, and all the lights went out except for a white beam striking the rotating mirror ball and sending splinters of light dancing around the hall. Through practically the entire concert, Bill Graham stood in the wings, on the right side of the stage, peering at the band intently, absorbed in the music. We were used to seeing Bill pop out at that side of the stage for a few minutes during many Fillmore shows, but we had never seen him stand there for most of a show, looking so focused the whole time. At some point the band cruised into a long and flowing version of '</strong><i><strong>Dreams</strong></i><strong>.' I’ll never forget that other-worldly, twelve note descending sequence repeated over and over again. It seemed to go on for hours. I’ll never forget the image of Duane bent over his guitar playing those magical scales and transporting me wherever concert goers go when they’ve heard the best there is to hear. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I got to watch as the band launched into a lengthy version of '</strong><i><strong>Whipping Post</strong></i><strong>,' which segued into an even longer 'Mountain Jam.' Everyone except Butch and Jaimoe left the stage at the midpoint of '</strong><i><strong>Mountain Jam</strong></i><strong>' for the extended drum solo. Ever wonder why the drummers, who seem to be using the most energy by far, have to work without a break while everyone else heads out for a smoke?! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sometime around five in the morning, Duane stepped up to the microphone and announced, 'Well, we’ve played all our material . . . so we’re just gonna jam!' And jam they did . . . I had never been to any concert before or since where the headline band jammed for hours. The light show finally stopped and that crazy mirror ball just ran on forever. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even this incredible show finally had to come to an end. We had all gotten our second wind sometime around 4 AM and were wide awake and grooving when it wound down and ended between 6:30 and 7:00 AM.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I asked Butch to recall anything he could from that night, and one of his memories is how it came to a close: 'I remember that when we finished playing there was no applause and the audience, all smiling broadly, just got up and quietly filed out. Also Duane walking off stage, dragging his guitar, shaking his head saying ‘Goddamn, it’s like leaving church.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And file out we did . . . no pushing and shoving, no rush to leave. I looked back over my shoulder as we neared the door; the open door that led us into broad daylight! I knew it was late (early?), and wouldn’t have been surprised to see the sky growing light, but this was way past dawn. We had entered the theater before midnight, in total darkness. The echoes of what we had just witnessed rang through our heads as we scanned the buildings lit by the morning sun. I remember very clearly the feeling of walking two feet off the pavement. I never knew where that expression came from until that morning outside the Fillmore East. We found our car, smiles still plastered broadly across our faces, and drove quietly home. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But I’ve never found a tape of the show that went all night long on the real last night at the Fillmore East."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Rowland Archer, The Night They Closed The Fillmore Down)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7cf1729bb9115d28090913b5084f62e40541f46b/original/fillmore-east-last-concerts.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sfHYrzUWPCg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sfHYrzUWPCg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38ce6dd16e9159bc3f1e4fa8059a1b7127ff81a3/original/edgar-winters-white-trash-closing-night-at-fillmore-east-june-27-1971.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edgar Winter's White Trash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Closing Night of The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/207ffc5089882dff22ee7dedcb49e6bcd24b984d/original/final-concert-fillmore-easst.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RcO0ShhxLMg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RcO0ShhxLMg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eVeuDS0n3XI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eVeuDS0n3XI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f12c634e3ae7e51e52c4fd1205a1df2a445a9511/original/1971-this-tile-was-a-gift-to-all-of-the-fillmore-east-employees.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As a parting gift from Bill Graham</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Each person who worked at the Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>received a commemorative tile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/953834cac424c801a12b7a7240e6c056f4fcfc37/original/fillmore-east-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h4 style="text-align:center;"> </h4><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1971 Concerts @ The Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 / 09 January 1971 - Buddy Miles, Big Brother & the Holding Company & Holding Co., Sweetwater</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>15 / 16 January 1971 - Hot Tuna (electric), Taj Mahal, Brethren</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>22 / 23 January 1971 - Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, Odetta, Livingston Taylor</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 January 1971 - James Taylor, Victoria, Notes: 2 Shows. "Special Charity Performances"</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>29 / 30 January 1971 - Spirit, Blood Rock, Cowboy, Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 06 February 1971 - Steppenwolf, Ten Wheel Drive w/ Genya Ravan, Luther Allison</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 February 1971 - Taj Mahal, Roberta Flack, Leon Thomas, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 / 13 February 1971 - Chambers Brothers, Taj Mahal, Spencer Davis & Peter Jameson, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 / 17 February 1971 - Small Faces, Savoy Brown w/ Kim Simmonds, Grease Band Lights: Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 February 1971 - Black Sabbath, J. Geils Band, Sir Lord Baltimore Lights: Pig</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 February 1971 - Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Freeway Lights: Joe's Lights</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 February 1971 - Gordon Lightfoot, Happy & Artie Traum</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 06 March 1971 - Quicksilver Mess Service, Eric Burdon & War</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 / 13 March 1971 - Johnny Winter And, Allman Brothers, Elvin Bishop</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 March 1971 - Astrology Now</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>19 / 20 March 1971 - Cactus, Humble Pie, Dada Lights: Pig, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 March 1971 - Spring For Lowenstein, George Segal, MC, Notes: Benefit: Theo Bikel, Dick Benjamin, Jim Bouton, Betty, Comdon, Ben Gazzara, Barry Grey, Adolph Green, Buck, Henry, Tom Lehrer, Mitch Miller, Phyliss Newman, Jerry, Orbach, Tricia O'[neill, Paula Prentiss, Scott Jarvis(1776),, Stiller & Meara, Robert Vaughn, Peter Yarrow</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>26 / 27 March 1971 - Richie Havens, Mark/Almond, Paul Siebel / Michael Grando, Notes: Michael Grando On Late Show Only</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>01 / 02 / 03 April 1971 - Santana, Tower Of Power, Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Vibration Society Lights: Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 April 1971 - Howdy Doody Revival, w/ Buffalo Bob Smith</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 06 April 1971 - Humble Pie, Edgar Winter's White Trash, Cactus, Tin House Lights: Joe's Lights </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>08 / 09 / 10 April 1971 - Elton John, Sea Train, Wishbone Ash</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12 / 13 / 14 / 15 April 1971 - Mountain, Mylon, T. Rex, Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>16 / 17 April 1971 - John Mayall, Boz Scaggs, Randall's Island, Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 April 1971 - Ten Years After, J. Geils Band, Joe's Lights, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 April 1971 - Elton John, James Taylor, Richie Havens, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>23 / 24 April 1971 - Procol Harum, Winter Consort, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 April 1971 - Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sage Lights: Joe's Lights, , </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>30 April / 01 May 1971 - Emerson Lake & Palmer, Edgar Winter's White Trash, Curved Air</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>04 / 05 May 1971 - Jethro Tull, Cowboy Lights: Pig</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>07 / 08 May 1971 - Poco, Linda Ronstadt, Manhattan Transfer, Lights: Pig, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>14 / 15 May 1971 - Free, Mott The Hoople, Mandrill, Lights: Pig</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>20 / 21 / 22 / 23 May 1971 - Leon Russell, Taj Mahal, J.f. Murphy & Salt Lights: Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>28 / 29 May 1971 - Lee Michaels, Humble Pie, Fanny, Lights: Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>30 May 1971 - Laura Nyro, Spencer Davis & Peter Jameson</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>05 / 06 June 1971 - Frank Zappa & Mothers Of Invention, Hampton Grease Band, Head Over Heels</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>09 June 1971 - Byrds, Mckendree Spring, Eric Anderson, Elton John turned up and played a few songs after the late show. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11 / 12 June 1971 - Blood Rock, Alice Cooper, Glass Harp, Lights: Pig Lights </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 / 19 June 1971 - B.B. King, Moby Grape, Grootna, Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>24 June 1971 - Johnny Winter And, Edgar Winter's White Trash</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>25 / 26 June 1971 - Allman Brothers, J. Geils Band, Albert King, Joe's Lights, </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>27 June 1971 - Allman Brothers, J. Geils Band, Albert King, Joe's Lights, Notes: Also: Country Joe McDonald, Edgar Winter's White Trash, Mountain, Beach Boys. Last Show At Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_p5ouhzgiIA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_p5ouhzgiIA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9a61a40415f1146d472fd7073aa4c25a8a60adbe/original/hot-platters-header.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a list of some of the historic live albums</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that were recorded @ the Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;">1968</span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ac4ed2505167be851ad475470af6dede946b6d4/original/the-who-fillmore-east-1968.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 6th The Who – Live at the Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5P0rdOJRwh0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5P0rdOJRwh0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Two CD set, recorded April 6, 1968 (released 2018 on Polydor Ltd.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Listeners long familiar with the Leeds song sequence will find the blunt opener here, Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” along with two more of the latter singer’s numbers, “C’mon Everybody” and a punishing, punch-drunk “My Way.” Roger Daltrey’s proto-punk sneers spit venom. Moon’s drumming pounds away in his inimitable style: part surf, part soul, all pounding propulsion. In between these fine covers, the album features some of the band’s best songs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>I Can’t Explain</strong></i><strong> erupts in a raw, less winsome manner, but the grit does not wear off its delicate core. </strong><i><strong>Happy Jack</strong></i><strong> proves suitably unhinged; </strong><i><strong>I’m a Boy</strong></i><strong> and John Entwistle’s ditty </strong><i><strong>Boris the Spider</strong></i><strong> get affectionate roughhousing from the amplified band. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Separating </strong><i><strong>My Generation</strong></i><strong> here from not only its stuttering single origins four years before but the rock opera which would sprawl across their subsequent tours and live LPs, Townshend’s arena rock ambitions tear up the confines which Fillmore East embodied. These symbols of an intimate counterculture audience seemed by 1968 a less amenable setting for harder, louder, more flamboyant music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This engaged attitude extends into the showpieces. “A Quick One, While He’s Away” sets up the template for a more complicated integration of tunes and styles into a longer piece. Hearing the Who start to tinker with song structure shows their confidence, honed by touring and heightened by their determination to break down limits in length, volume and intelligence conventionally limiting what rock music could achieve. They stretch dynamics in intensity and emotion, preparing for the next decade’s claim as top live band in the world.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Within the capacious half-hour of </strong><i><strong>My Generation</strong></i><strong> which finishes the Fillmore East appearance, one hears the impending transition to stadiums. Townshend’s testing out how his guitar can bridge instrumental gaps, and knit together themes and melodies. The band and singer prove their stamina. Their next appearances in America will abandon crowded concert halls and occupy echoing circles of concrete. Arenas await!" (spectrumculture.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08f8062f3d1a2055cd2af7d504f4400fdb392a71/original/fugs-live-album-fillmore.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 1st The Fugs – Golden Filth Alive at the Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QnyPH7F6nnI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QnyPH7F6nnI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded June 1, 1968 (released on LP 1970, on CD as part of the Rhino Handmade 3-CD set, Electromagnetic Steamboat 2003) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf3824c8b5c1601d5476fa403af05abdb9c6808e/original/sly-family-stone-fillmore-live-album.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 4th & 5th Sly and the Family Stone </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Live at the Fillmore East (released 2015) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nUa-yLjI294" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUa-yLjI294?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When Sly & the Family Stone seized Manhattan's Fillmore East for a two-night, four-set stand in October 1968, the sonically and socially advanced band was just starting to cook. Earlier in the year, </strong><i><strong>Dance to the Music </strong></i><strong>became their first charting single, a Top 10 pop hit. They were pushing their third album, Life, so the repertoire was still rather limited. As detailed in this liner notes, the Epic label intended to assemble an album from these performances, but the plan was ditched once </strong><i><strong>Everyday People</strong></i><strong> -- the first single from </strong><i><strong>Stand!</strong></i><strong>, still months away from hitting shelves -- took flight and went to number one. That smash was issued only a month after the gigs, but the band didn't preview it on-stage, at least not the way the sets are documented here. Live at the Fillmore East October 4th & 5th, 1968 contains a representation of all four sets. Each one must be at least close to complete, as they're between 40 and 65 minutes in length, and contain some flubs and the working out of some technical issues. Despite playing roughly the same songs each set while knowing that they were being recorded, the band continually switched up the sequencing of the set lists -- </strong><i><strong>M'Lady</strong></i><strong> was placed up front and saved toward the end, for instance -- and the musicians played loose enough to allow for some spontaneity and variable interaction. The band's vitality, as they continually stomped through material from all three albums, is no surprise. Material from the first album and </strong><i><strong>Dance to Music</strong></i><strong> are played with equal levels of conviction. Sly's demeanor is consistently fervent and poised. The whole gang is at the top of their game. What's truly revelatory is that each set featured a Sister Rosie Stone-fronted version of </strong><i><strong>Won't Be Long</strong></i><strong>, a song popularized seven years earlier by Aretha Franklin and the Ray Bryant Combo. It wallops each time, particularly so on the first night's early set." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8558b29933a89f3d8d9d2359bdd516817b0204e1/original/dead-2-11-69-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 11, 1969 Grateful Dead Live at the Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="aWvL7ZFQC4g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aWvL7ZFQC4g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A double cd of the early and late shows on February 11, 1969 as the opening act to Janis Joplin's New York debut as a solo star. Released on Grateful Dead/Arista in October 1997.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c61f406dd3e0064ed873f3c00504aa4f633c2455/original/john-mayall-turning-point.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12, 1969 - John Mayall - The Turning Point</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zLp0AsKXMEs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLp0AsKXMEs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When John Mayall was starting another band after the break-up of the Bluesbreakers in May 1969,[4] he decided to have a band that would play "low volume music" – or music without "heavy lead guitar and drums". The performers on the album were Mayall on vocals, harmonica, a slide and a Fender Telecaster guitar, a tambourine, and mouth percussion, Jon Mark on acoustic guitar, Steve Thompson on bass, and Johnny Almond on tenor and alto saxophones, flutes, and mouth percussion.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8cde63ff964b0464e5fd4c6d41f7538d15c515ee/original/airplane-live-album.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> <span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 28 / 29 / 30 Jefferson Airplane Bless Its Pointed Little Head</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ep1AbG52L2M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ep1AbG52L2M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bless Its Pointed Little Head is a live album by Jefferson Airplane recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969. Four of the songs on the album were recorded at the Fillmore East. The performances emphasized their vocal harmonies and revealed a harder rocking group. Guitar and bass lines were more in-depth in their construction, revealing complex instrumentals.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e3fd6fe0dffbdd9b4f011b0d986e0e7302b3a24f/original/the-nice-live-filllmore-lp.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Nice – Live at the Fillmore East December 19 - 20 1969 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tony Stratton-Smith, the manager of The Nice, wisely recorded a good deal of their live work during this period, and an amazingly high percentage of it has proved worthwhile listening, including these tapes from two shows at the Fillmore East from December 19 and 20, 1969 (shows on which they were billed alongside the Byrds, the Sons of Champlin, and Dion). And what makes the tapes even more astonishing is that these performances date from a period after Keith Emerson had made the decision to abandon the group -- but there's no sign of less than 100 percent effort or total cohesion in what is heard on this set. These tapes also demonstrate just how far the group had come since its spring 1969 U.S. tour -- whereas the best of the work from their earlier Fillmore shows (released on the group's third Immediate album) shows a band starting to seriously redefine conventional song structures, on this set of performances the Nice are opening out much of their material even further, and scratching it out wide enough to drive a tank through musically -- and at times, that's what they come close to doing. Not all of what they attempt works -- the more expansive rendition of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me" included here was probably great to see as a performance, but it doesn't hold up as well as the more concise interpretation that it received in the spring 1969 show, and ultimately it's a slight disappointment when compared to that earlier version. Even that track is worth hearing.</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1970</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9866bd4a177519d860441f835251c3d0cd77200f/original/10-years-after-fillmore-1970.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 27th & 28th Ten Years After – Live at the Fillmore East </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="T_8yEmEg-Rg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T_8yEmEg-Rg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This superbly recorded double disc (the original engineer was Eddie Kramer, best-known for his work with Hendrix) captured over a weekend worth of dates in February 1970 at the venerable New York City venue catches the Brit boogie quartet at the peak of their powers. These shows were sandwiched between their triumphant Woodstock set and the release of Cricklewood Green, generally considered the band's best work. They find the group primed through years of roadwork, as well as obviously excited to be playing in front of an appreciative N.Y.C. crowd. Kicking off with one of Bill Graham's patented individual-member intros, the group winds their way through the ominous riff of "Love Like a Man." Mixing extended and rocking versions of blues standards -- like Sonny Boy Williamson classics </strong><i><strong>Help Me</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Good Morning Little Schoolgirl</strong></i><strong>, as well as Willie Dixon's </strong><i><strong>Spoonful</strong></i><strong> -- with two Chuck Berry covers and some nuggets from their own catalog, Ten Years After burns through this show with enormous energy and infectious enthusiasm. Alvin Lee and his flying fingers stay firmly in the spotlight, but the remastered sound is so immaculate you can finally appreciate the contributions of the other, generally overlooked TYA members: Chick Churchill on keyboards and especially Leo Lyons' fluid bass work, along with Ric Lee's jazzy drums. The songs shift into overdrive on the jams -- the longest of which pushes</strong><i><strong> I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes</strong></i><strong> to 20 minutes -- and amazingly stay interesting for the majority of that time thanks to Lee's sense of flashy dynamics, as he quotes liberally from Hendrix and Cream licks. Detailed liner notes from drummer Lee describe the scene, not only in terms of Ten Years After, but also of the musical camaraderie of the time. Some of this is almost embarrassingly dated -- the drum solo-laden "The Hobbit" is particularly guilty, as are the often-interminable guitar gymnastics -- and the Chuck Berry numbers might have been live crowd-pleasers but don't add much to the originals. Still, this is the best Ten Years After concert album (of the three in the catalog), and proves just how vibrant these boogie boys could be when inspired by the crowd and each other on a perfect night." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3cc7284c6900c3eb90a906dc0d3637ca81d6feb6/original/mad-dogs-live-album.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 27th & 28th - Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EmcltqiCIGI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EmcltqiCIGI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The Complete Fillmore East Concerts, documenting the entire four shows (on six discs) performed on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 1970 at New York City's Fillmore East.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vincent Canby’s review in the New York Times in March 1971 described it as “a record of the tour featuring Cocker, the young extraordinarily talented, British blues singer, and the largely American entourage (band, choir, friends, wives, children, groupies and a single dog named Canina) that accompanied him. The entire group numbered almost 40 people, most of whom were on stage during most of the performances, making for what seems to have been extremely cheerful and friendly chaos.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f671aebeb2c38ee53f583f11f61cc36159bc2e96/original/dead-fillmore-lp-dicks-picks-vol-4.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h4 style="text-align:center;">2/13–14 Grateful Dead – Dick's Picks Volume 4</h4><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eQskcr4v0LI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eQskcr4v0LI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"A three-disc set of additional tracks from both nights, February 13–14, 1970, 't</strong><i><strong>he Dead's most memorable appearance at the Fillmore East, and shows consistently ranked by Deadheads as among the 5 best live tapes eve</strong></i><strong>r'. The 30-minute 'Dark Star' is considered one of the best ever performances of this legendary Dead improvisational theme. Released in March 1996 on Grateful Dead Records." (wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c751b014bb8648f734728b1cb4bc46be5ba9c34e/original/4-way-street.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th June </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Taylor & Reeves</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VOFNLQtEWZ8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VOFNLQtEWZ8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4 Way Street. A double album, partly recorded at this venue during a six-night run in early June 1970, and released in April 1971 on Atlantic. 4 Way Street was recorded in June and July 1970, during the group's tour in support of its massive second album, Déjà Vu, and was taped at New York's Fillmore East, The Forum in L.A., and the Chicago Auditorium. The album topped the Billboard 200 albums chart for one week starting on May 15th, 1971, displacing Janis Joplin's Pearl, before it was knocked out of the top spot by the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. All told, 4 Way Street spent 13 weeks in the Top 10. The 1992 CD reissue added an additional 35 minutes to the set. To date, 4 Way Street has sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/76c5c884ff4a0316a74c49fba39a9391ab341536/original/derek-dominoes-fillmore.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>October 23rd - 24th Derek & the Dominos – Live at the Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ywdU0C2GH2o" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ywdU0C2GH2o?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The set-list contains eight Derek and the Dominos songs (six from the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, plus "Roll It Over" and "Got to Get Better in a Little While"), three tunes from Clapton's first solo album (on which the other three band members had played), and one song from two bands to which Clapton had previously belonged ("Presence of The Lord" from Blind Faith; and a different arrangement of Robert Johnson's song, "Crossroads" that Clapton had previously covered with Cream).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Derek And The Dominos live recordings are from the Fillmore East in New York City on 23 and 24 October 1970 and capture the band in all their, at times, rampant glory and at others that laid back Southern soulfulness that Messrs Radle, Whitlock and Gordon brought to the band." (udiscovere.com)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/408f5f9ec74588ac6845ff404db22262c39cb256/original/flying-burrito-bros-fillmre-live-album.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>November 7th Flying Burrito Brothers</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Brothers – Authorized Bootleg: Fillmore East, N.Y., N.Y. Late Show, Nov 7, 1970 (CD, Feb-2011, Hip-O Select) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Fillmore East show captured on this Authorized Bootleg occurred on November 7, 1970, not long after Gram Parsons and Chris Ethridge left the Flying Burrito Brothers and were replaced by Rick Roberts and Bernie Leadon. Head Burrito Brother Chris Hillman rounded out this lineup with Byrds drummer Michael Clarke and legendary steel guitarist Sneaky Pete Kleinow, all of which means that while this lineup lacked the star power of Parsons, it nevertheless packs considerable musical punch, the band sounding assured, in no way suggesting it's a group whose lineup is in flux. Apart from a few covers -- the storming closer </strong><i><strong>Six Days on the Road</strong></i><strong>, the instrumental </strong><i><strong>Dixie Breakdown</strong></i><strong>, and a nicely grooving </strong><i><strong>Willie and the Hand Jive</strong></i><strong> -- and the Roberts original </strong><i><strong>Feel Good Music</strong></i><strong>, the set list is culled entirely from the first two Burrito albums, slightly emphasizing faster material that suits a band whose playing is as propulsive as a motorcycle. And that’s the truly distinctive thing about this performance: its sheer velocity. The Burrito Brothers play like they have something to prove, hitting the chords harder on the rockers and never mellowing on the ballads. For those who love the 1972 live LP Last of the Red Hot Burritos, this is arguably a bit better; for anybody who tends to write off the post-Parsons Burritos, it’s a revelation." (All Music site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7bf786a1dfdd53bcb0e58d20a83218a0f7e98346/original/hendrix-band-of-gypsys-album.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys (1970)</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Lw2L_vGUMtE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lw2L_vGUMtE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Band of Gypsys </strong></i><strong>was the only live recording authorized by Jimi Hendrix before his death. It was recorded and released in order to get Hendrix out from under a contractual obligation that had been hanging over his head for a couple years. Helping him out were longtime friends Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on the drums because the Experience had broken up in June of 1969, following a show in Denver. This rhythm section was vastly different from the Experience. Buddy Miles was an earthy, funky drummer in direct contrast to the busy, jazzy leanings of Mitch Mitchell. Noel Redding was not really a bass player at all but a converted guitar player who was hired in large part because Hendrix liked his hair! These new surroundings pushed Hendrix to new creative heights. Along with this new rhythm section, Hendrix took these shows as an opportunity to showcase much of the new material he had been working on. The music was a seamless melding of rock, funk, and R&B, and tunes like </strong><i><strong>Message to Love</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Power to Love</strong></i><strong> showed a new lyrical direction as well. Although he could be an erratic live performer, for these shows, Hendrix was on -- perhaps his finest performances. His playing was focused and precise. In fact, for most of the set, Hendrix stood motionless, a far cry from the stage antics that helped establish his reputation as a performer. Equipment problems had plagued him in past live shows as well, but everything was perfect for the Fillmore shows. His absolute mastery of his guitar and effects is even more amazing considering that this was the first time he used the Fuzz Face, wah-wah pedal, Univibe, and Octavia pedals on-stage together. The guitar tones he gets on </strong><i><strong>Who Knows</strong></i><strong> and Power to Love are powerful and intense, but nowhere is his absolute control more evident than on </strong><i><strong>Machine Gun</strong></i><strong>, where Hendrix conjures bombs, guns, and other sounds of war from his guitar, all within the context of a coherent musical statement. The solo on </strong><i><strong>Machine Gun</strong></i><strong> totally rewrote the book on what a man could do with an electric guitar and is arguably the most groundbreaking and devastating guitar solo ever. These live versions of </strong><i><strong>Message to Love</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Power to Lov</strong></i><strong>e are far better than the jigsaw puzzle studio versions that were released posthumously. Two Buddy Miles compositions are also included, but the show belongs to Jimi all the way. Band of Gypsys is not only an important part of the Hendrix legacy, but one of the greatest live albums ever." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1971</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d018689def8d11d8608d3ba34eb45d868fcb68a8/original/real-thing-taj-mahal-fillmore.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 13th Taj Mahal – The Real Thing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WM8DbVFJtbU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WM8DbVFJtbU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Taj Mahal followed up </strong><i><strong>Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home</strong></i><strong> (1969) with another double-LP concert platter whose title pretty much sums up the contents. </strong><i><strong>The Real Thing</strong></i><strong> (1971) is drawn from a mid-February run of shows at the Fillmore East in New York City where he, Spencer Davis, the Chambers Brothers, and Roberta Flack, among others, shared the bill. Taj is supported by an interesting extended aggregate with a brass section consisting of Joseph Daley (tuba/horn/trombone), Bob Stewart (horn), and a pair of former Charles Mingus band members, Earl McIntyre (horn) and Howard Johnson (horn). While at times they tend to overpower the usually intimate nature of the performances, that is certainly not the case for the majority of the arrangements. The opener, </strong><i><strong>Fishin' Blues</strong></i><strong>, is a solo with Mahal accompanying himself on banjo. </strong><i><strong>Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')</strong></i><strong> is significantly lengthened from the form found on </strong><i><strong>Giant Step</strong></i><strong> (1968) as it stretches nearly nine minutes and allows plenty of room for interaction, offering up a spirited fife interlude from Mahal. In addition to providing an overview from his back catalog, </strong><i><strong>The Real Thing</strong></i><strong> contains a few new compositions. The full ensemble gets a workout on the funky </strong><i><strong>Sweet Mama Janisse</strong></i><strong> and the toe-tappin' rural flavor of the instrumental </strong><i><strong>Tom and Sally Drake</strong></i><strong> is lightly augmented by a sole tuba -- presumably that of Johnson. Sleepy John Estes' </strong><i><strong>Diving Duck Blues</strong></i><strong> arguably submits the most successful incorporation of brass, sporting a driving, full-throttle rhythm and soulful interpretation." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c103cb9719d6a33a10a5b9103708dfbd105e3de8/original/skull-roses-dead-lp.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 26th to 29th Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(self-titled album Aka Skull & Roses)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead a.k.a. Skull And Roses. A live double album of which 7 of the 11 tracks, were recorded at the Fillmore East, during their March 26 to 29, 1971 run, when they were supported by the New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Released on Warner Bros. in October 1971. Grateful Dead is an album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Released in October 1971 on Warner Bros. Records, it is their second live double album. Although published without a title, it is generally known by the names Skull and Roses (due to its iconic cover art) and Skull Fuck (the name the band originally wanted to give to the album, which was rejected by the record company). It was the group's first album to be certified gold by the RIAA. When the band submitted "Skull Fuck" (a contemporary euphemism for "blow your mind") as the album title, it was rejected by the record label. Ultimately the agreement was made that the album would be published without the title appearing anywhere on the record labels or cover artwork. Though the band refers to the album by this title, and it has long been known to fans (through interviews with band members, the Deadhead network and other outlets), the alternate, descriptive title "Skull & Roses" developed among distributors, music buyers and reviewers as a graphic incipit from the cover artwork.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a122d59bc9785c5981438fcbc5f8fc9337270a7b/original/laura-nyro-fillmore-east-album.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 30th Laura Nyro </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spread Your Wings and Fly:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Live at the Fillmore East (released 2004) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v1O1-5ByF34" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v1O1-5ByF34?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Bill Graham hired Laura Nyro to headline one of the last shows he’d present at his fabled New York City venue the Fillmore East in the spring of 1971. This recording of that performance (just the singer and her piano) remains a stellar example of Nyro’s talents and charms. Nyro exuded charisma regardless of what she sang.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a9ee93842d242b57f63cbb7ee56a03a11f0c6d1/original/mothers-fillmore-east-album.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa's Mothers – Fillmore East June 1971 (released 1971)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Fillmore East – June 1971 captures the Mothers of Invention at the peak of their second incarnation. The band had gone through changes since its formation in 1965, and as the original version fell apart, Frank Zappa put together a new, and often more chaotic, lineup in 1970. This group included Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (aka Flo and Eddie) from the Turtles, who had recently disbanded. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Recorded live over two nights at the Fillmore East, just two months before its release in August 1971, Fillmore East – June 1971 is really more of a theatrical rock 'n' roll comedy routine than it is a straight-up concert LP. Things start off straightforward enough with </strong><i><strong>The Little House I Used to Live In</strong></i><strong> but soon dives head first into the comedic end of the pool. It's mental slapstick set to music as </strong><i><strong>The Mud Shark</strong></i><strong> tells the infamous tale involving members of Vanilla Fudge, Led Zeppelin, an enthusiastic groupie and an aquatic creature. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Later, the exaggerated doo-wop-meets-gospel-brunch rock 'n' roll of </strong><i><strong>What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are</strong></i><strong> is both heartfelt and sarcastic. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zappa leads the band through a mini opera of sorts throughout the album, armed with musical chops and stacks of jokes. That juxtaposition of the musically intricate and the lyrically juvenile is fully on display in </strong><i><strong>Bwana Dik</strong></i><strong>: '</strong><i><strong>I've got the thing you need / I am endowed beyond your wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies</strong></i><strong>', Kaylan sings over typical Zappa complexity. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'It's almost too innocent and stupid to be filthy', Kaylan told Goldmine in 2002. 'I think Frank was wise, using us to do that, because we were lovable buffoons – we weren't those street creeps to be feared that he had worked with before. We're just pussycats up there, so to hear us do some of those things, it's obviously a joke. It took some of the harshness away from it, and it made even Zappa's caustic humor appear palatable -- not only to those people who knew us in the audience, but to those who didn't...We were still nonthreatening.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flo and Eddie perform a piece called that pokes at contemporary pop stars as it slowly turns toward filthy groupie exploitation ('</strong><i><strong>We are not groupies! Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!</strong></i><strong>'). By song's end, general mayhem breaks out as a twisted version of the Turtles' </strong><i><strong>Happy Together. </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even though it's not part of Fillmore East – June 1971, one of the concert's encores featured a special appearance by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That performance would later turn up as part of Lennon's </strong><i><strong>Sometime in New York City</strong></i><strong> album under the title '</strong><i><strong>Live Jam</strong></i><strong>'. 'We spent about four days with John, putting all the stuff together for that one night at the Fillmore', recalled Volman. 'When the thing came out on John's album, Frank was very upset. John and his compadres had gone in and redone the tracks...They hadn't re-recorded them, but they took out the essence of those songs, vocal parts that were imperative to the music and the movements. It caused a real riff between John and Frank.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore East – June 1971 came packaged in a simple white sleeve with a handwritten title, giving it the look of a bootleg. All these years later, it remains an exciting, freewheeling and musically intriguing romp that shows off this edition of the Mothers in all their gory glory." (ultimateclassicrock.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ef8b9b4273b7d4c0d757bdc1b21ec2581f45fa2/original/fillmore-bear-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Many concert promoters keep a low profile. Theirs is mostly a backstage job, dealing with the mundane: contracts and equipment, schedules and security, advertising and accounting. Yet those tasks are essential to building any live music scene. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Graham — the promoter who got started in hippie-era San Francisco, opened the Fillmore East in New York City in 1968 and went on to present concerts worldwide — was by no means self-effacing. He made himself America’s best-known rock promoter from the 1960s to the 1990s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the late 1980s, when Graham presented annual New Year’s Eve arena concerts by the Grateful Dead, he would take to center stage at midnight in costume. As a young man he had wanted to be an actor; he got bit parts in </strong><i><strong>Apocalypse Now</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Bugsy</strong></i><strong>, typecast as an agent and a gangster. Graham carved himself such an outsize public role that after his death, in a helicopter accident after a concert in 1991." (Jon Pareles, NY Times)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_XUHqI65Gr0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_XUHqI65Gr0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30bffb8359a9092aa61656ecafbee988928ca59b/original/bill-graham-at-work.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cc3815487180d174b7e9e177d28f9fc8e7639fae/original/fillmore-programs.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d6a259d2ec73e3e015453dc122196413da4b14b/original/bill-grahams-farewell-in-the-last-fillmore-east-program.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a70f115ef1c23c05905589e2d7f4eddee3f615a7/original/fillmore-east-is-closed.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52118085d5781370fff87e0cc38b04df98742770/original/farewell-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today the Fillmore site is an Apple Bank, only a small plaque and mosaic street pole on the corner commemorate the site's history. It wasn't until several years ago that a plaque was finally installed commemorating the legendary site.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1047417fc52599ff2291c7541ea90efb60c8b750/original/exterior-of-the-former-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Former Location of Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a450bfcc08eeaaa78f2e1ca1a6671cdfa1f2a20/original/fillmore-east-plaque.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3b2cd8e6658b8688df7daaf345ee35c17a96b884/original/fillmore-farewell.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1bc01349962e49ff5229b877389411ab83c0c43d/original/fillmore-east-jersey.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was Bill Graham who steadily introduced more complex production into performances, and who encouraged intricate artwork for show posters. His attention to detail was unparalleled as he continued to work on bigger events throughout his career. The shows took things outside the box, with unique pairings like Miles Davis and the Grateful Dead. Only someone like Bill Graham would have had the vision to put a show like that together in the 1960s, and he continued that mindset for countless shows in his storied career." (Live For Live Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c50bd6701b71b1237f48d73cd7f477ca639456ea/original/fillmore-east-final-image.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1ddd994e1aac40aaadb85982edc6bffc5bf1b811/original/bill-graham-psych.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big">From the New York Historical Society:</span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/47719ddf4217605e1e9031f5402f773294e67d50/original/fillmore-east-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/history-at-home-the-legacy-of-the-fillmore-east/" data-link-type="url" contents="The Legacy of the Fillmore East"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>The Legacy of the Fillmore East</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/242d049759f61e7bb1035b68981bf8a6dda190c7/original/fillmore-east-cartoon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2eca3dc6a66ce37f2ef72c4b70e4880994e5b041/original/further-investigation-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bedfordandbowery.com/2020/02/exhibit-lifts-the-curtain-on-legendary-rock-promoter-bill-graham/?fbclid=IwAR0ufIMihB-0DGtI_kCQnAL8vZxFSd3sBNKZ-MjT2uhtZQqkjf2HFNdQqgI" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="NY Historical Society: Fillmore East Exhibit"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NY Historical Society: Fillmore East Exhibit</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-joshua-light-show-and-the-rock-roll-revolution-a-qa-with-lightmaster-joshua-white/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Q&amp;A with Lightmaster Joshua White"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q&A with Lightmaster Joshua White</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/32493959041/?multi_permalinks=10159361760609042" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Facebook Fillmore East Archives Group"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Facebook Fillmore East Archives Group</strong></span></a></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bee32d5b83c3a020bc4dfb6963fe4a46b78d82c0/original/john-glatt-book.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3ud2rSI" data-link-type="url" contents="Live At The Fillmore East &amp; West"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Live At The Fillmore East & West</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/56feb097d788329d06ba470764dc8bcd18628c1f/original/mind-smoke-records-2021-website-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4492ffcb999e98b44d82486f4541fb0ddde722c8/original/legendary-musicians-mardi-gras-week.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc3433b8ef0bacf05835b7f5613b93b1990fb00b/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras-album-cover-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/08ec92452ded810013c78fea27075ca5ac9cd160/original/across-the-river-to-algiers-single-haiku-monday.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/89784/across-the-river-to-algiers" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ACROSS THE RIVER TO ALGIERS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/albums" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="ALBUMS" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ff4bbdc084401ec58f5a7570576a3aa844be0eb/original/albums-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/singles" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="SINGLES" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a96ef1e7cc0d08128a283f9ab0252fd5aba05e09/original/singles-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73309162024-01-09T12:44:45-05:002024-01-10T04:09:21-05:00Mardi Gras Week is coming Soon!<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/380afa9a4783154f7e167beacb4faed5fb9cb55f/original/image-1-mg-history.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hear ye! Hear ye! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>MARDI GRAS WEEK</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Begins On Tuesday February 6th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3187b1505bea0c51dfbfaaea8b4ccca75cffc949/original/a-brief-history-mg.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/857efb2be7b36991a4faa15c627a3ea59479efa9/original/mg-quote-you-can-live-in-no.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although Mardi Gras Day aka Fat Tuesday isn’t until February 13, 2024, the season actually began on January 6. This means that there’s plenty of time for some Mardi Gras magic with parades and king cake tastings, Carnival exhibits and so much more. People flock to New Orleans in the week leading up to Fat Tuesday, but there’s so much more to experience by coming early. In fact, it may be the best kept secret: visit New Orleans this January or early February, and you’re in for a cool treat!</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:justify;"> </h3><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eee4088a200b7c0906adc26c0faeac08442bb140/original/colors-of-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>THE COLORS OF MARDI GRAS</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Every year during Carnival season the question is raised about the significance of the Carnival colors. The true answer has most often been blocked with misinformation. Liberating the truth first raises the question, are we talking about the meaning of the colors purple, green and gold or the origin of the colors? The truth is the meaning can be anything. Through a fluke, Rex, which first proclaimed the colors in 1872 but did not attach a meaning, settled in 1892 for justice, faith and power – 50 year after the colors were announced. Rex borrowed from an earlier parade assigning a meaning to the rainbow of colors, but those were just words from various color association books. They really didn’t mean anything that is significant. Why not borrow from the Louisiana motto of Union, Justice and Confidence? Or from the Boy Scouts’ Trustworthy, Loyal and Helpful? Or in honor of Donald Duck’s nephews; Huey, Dewey and Louie.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the other hand, if the question is about the origin of the colors you get into some meaningful history. This history provides insight into the minds of the well-educated that were the 19th century men who founded Rex. Disregard what you might have read on king cake boxes or from unknowing websites and publications. Here is the truth, and you need to understand it to appreciate the New Orleans Carnival’s evolution.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The key word here, and a word that has been missing from attempts to solve the colors’ origin, is </strong><i><strong>heraldry</strong></i><strong>. The explanation of it has a few twists, so hang on tight. Dating as far back as the 15th century, the rules of heraldry governed the colors of coats of arms and, hence, flags and banners. In1872, the founding men of Rex, educated and steeped in the romanticism of monarchy, would have been familiar and respectful of heraldry. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to heraldry, the ‘fields’ in a heraldic device, such as a flag or banner, should consist of “metals” and “colors.” The metals are either silver, represented by white, or gold. Indeed, every national tricolor has either white or gold. So then for one of Rex’s choices the selection was narrowed to two. Should the metal be gold or should it be white? The choice of gold for royalty seemed obvious.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the days preceding the first Rex parade when the Royal edicts were published, the field, as first mentioned in Edict XII, were stated as being, in this order, </strong><i><strong>green, gold, and purple</strong></i><strong>. Over time the order of the colors would be changed in popular verbal usage, yet when Rex first pronounced them they were in perfect heraldic order. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(The combination of colors does have the extra benefit of looking good together but that is not the reason they were selected. Practically all tricolor symbols with their metal of gold or silver in the center look good together; i.e. red, white and blue.)" (New Orleans Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5b41ecac13442690c36b2bac031e0212b8d25b27/original/a1-mg-masks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>MARDI GRAS MASKS</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Masks and costumes have been associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations for centuries. And even today of the masks commonly seen in New Orleans on Mardi Gras are the same types popularized by the two-to-three-week-long Carnivale in Venice that culminates with Fat Tuesday. But masking and costume-wearing in New Orleans also has a specifically American history, as it was another way for revelers who were officially excluded from the festivities to join in, by concealing their identities. This phenomenon was particularly pronounced during the Jim Crow era of the early 20th century. For example, the African-American men now known as Mardi Gras Indians first paraded down the city’s back streets in Native American costumes, in a nod to Native Americans who took in and protected runaway slaves. Another poignant example, the breaking of the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition, can be found in the African-American prostitutes who dressed up as Baby Dolls — a persona chosen because that’s what male clients called them — in hopes that the costumes would help them land work at a time when sex work was racially restricted. Legend has it that the custom of throwing Mardi Gras beads from parade floats started sometime in the 1880s when a man dressed like Santa Claus was cheered when he tossed some beads into the crowds along the parade route. In short order, other Carnival Krewes adopted this popular Mardi Gras tradition. The throwing of beads and fake jewels, from parade floats to those watching down below, is thought to have started in the late 19th century, when a carnival king threw fake strands of gems and rings to his “loyal subjects” sometime in the 1890s. By the early 1920s, one of the Krewes, probably Rex, started regularly throwing strands of glass Czech beads, a precursor to the plastic beads seen today. Other throws — such as doubloons marked with the names of the krewes that make them — followed after." (The Culture of Mardi Gras)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9698ef4d053c182f71d21e93787a65098cc8de4c/original/a1-mardi-gras-beads.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MARDI GRAS BEADS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans is arguably the planet’s most bead-drenched city! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mardi Gras has been called the season of madness in New Orleans. The ritual of Mardi Gras has survived Hurricane Katrina, Prohibition, and the Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that. The earliest Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, an import from France, date back to the 17th century. The first krewe, the local term to describe the clubs that organize Mardi Gras festivities, was founded in 1858. By around 1870, krewes were throwing trinkets, baubles, and candies to crowds during parades. A decade later, they were throwing medallions. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beads occupy a paradoxical space at today’s Mardi Gras celebrations. They can be both the centerpiece of festivities and the trimming. They’re prized objects, and yet many strands of beads—or pairs, to use the proper New Orleans lingo—are discarded, metallic snakes left curled in gutters. They’re simultaneously coveted and cast aside. Strands have become longer, in general. Machine-made beads largely replaced hand-strung beads. Glass was replaced with plastic. Opaque plastic medallions gave way to transparent plastic ones. Medallions gradually got bigger and bigger. Most recently, beaded strands for medallions have been swapped out for satin cords. These details all factor into a deeper understanding of a celebration that’s, for all its lunacy, much more complex than it may appear. Mardi Gras beads, to the uninitiated, are just chintzy party favors doomed for the landfill. But they’re also a link to the past, a symbol of a celebration that’s been going on for as long as recorded history.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e18cad6017228882e87b2b4999ad901fae8d308/original/jp-at-his-first-mg.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For me, Mardi Gras is always a special time. When I was a kid I lived in New Orleans in the early 1960's. I got to go my first Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1963 and after that I was never the same!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Within a short amount of time I simply became entranced by the city of New Orleans, it's music, it's food and it's culture. For me, there was no going back...New Orleans became a magical place that has always played a big part in my life over the years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dbd56dc39d1dbb08030df9e8ce7b457525beb066/original/professor-longhair.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d0c684ff16a69a5407a9639e72ab0f004bbb7588/original/dr-john.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DR. JOHN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As I grew up and became a musician, I fell under the spell of New Orleans music. In particular, the sounds of Professor Longhair & Dr. John.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f593fd76735ba355a4d5dcf0b660a1f6d22eba8e/original/1987.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>...and so here I am once again</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>as I find myself totally captivated by Mardi Gras!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4f79644a456780254e3f9a27c714b4be290d47b0/original/mardi-gras-zulu-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73270592024-01-02T08:10:50-05:002024-01-02T08:10:51-05:00Tom Waits: A Poem To Keith Richards<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fe410f74461bd3b03bfb931841e26d494de49cef/original/tom-waits-keith-richards.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>TOM WAITS: A POEM TO KEITH RICHARDS</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He can run faster than a fax machine<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>His urine is blue<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He smells like a campfire<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He was once slapped by the Queen<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He has walked the equivalent of three times<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Around the Earth<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Like Keith, the Phengaris rebels caterpillar strums<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>His bottom like a guitar and the chord attracts the females<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>At one concert in Java in the 70’s<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Men screamed, women fainted, and a small boy<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Broke his arm in the chaos<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>And it rained thousands of black worms the size of Honeybees<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He wrote his share of songs from Sticky Fingers<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>In a henhouse in Malta</strong></span></span><span class="text-big"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He once won the Hope Diamond in a poker game<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>And in the same night lost it in a game of craps<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He owns a lug wrench and a tire jack made of solid gold<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He was born in a cloak room and has always been prone<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>To fits of weeping followed by hysterical laughter<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>One of his first jobs was cleaning out the lion cage<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>At the London Zoo<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Like the praying mantis he has only one ear and<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>It is located between his legs<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He can hold a note up to 6 minutes and has 7 or 8 notes<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>More than the ordinary voice<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>And there are equally sonorous and clear<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Hands like a woodworker</strong></span></span><span class="text-big"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Arms like swabby<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>A back like a soldier<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>A mind like a detective<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Shoulders like a boxer<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>A voice like a choir boy<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>And a country western face<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>His tunings are furiously guarded secrets…<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He claims an open tuning he utilizes was inspired<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>While waiting for a train in Detroit<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>In a vacant lot, the remains of a barbed wire fence<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Were half circling the remains of an old foundry<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>And there, amidst tin cans, old mattresses and dolls’ heads<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>It occurred to Keith that a guitar is<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>At its most rudimentary level<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Wire that has been stretched across wood that when<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Strummed produces a pleasant relationship between<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Disparate components<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Noticing the wire fence in effect </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>contained these same ingredients</strong></span></span><span class="text-big"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Keith took the lid off a discarded paint can<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>& Strummed the tightly stretched fence wires<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Violently, rhythmically and repeatedly</strong></span></span><span class="text-big"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Thus satisfying his curiosity and releasing the peculiar<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Voicing of the chord we now all know to be the chord<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>At the beginning of Jumpin Jack Flash<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Transcribing the notes and adapting them for guitar<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Keith lost none of the angular chord’s mystifying and<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Natural jaggedness and thus, the “fence chord” was born<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Keith once took my 10,000 dollar overcoat<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>To put down a across a mud puddle<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>To allow an octogenarian laundress</strong></span></span><span class="text-big"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Named Clementine Moorehouse to cross the street<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Comfortably<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>That’s Keith always the gentleman<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>(Tom Waits 2015)</strong></span></span><span style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Fovqeid-XQM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fovqeid-XQM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KEITH RICHARDS' FRIENDSHIP WITH TOM WAITS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Keith Richards and Tom Waits have been buddies for decades now, a friendship that dates back to the 1980s. Richards first got a taste of the legendary growler's unique recording style on Waits' 1985 album Rain Dogs. Quoted on the Tom Waits Library, guitarist Mark Ribot said that Waits would begin recording without any rehearsing and use enigmatic instructions like, '</strong><i><strong>Play it like a midget's bar mitzvah</strong></i><strong>'. The gritty singer/songwriter would rather get his percussions by swinging a two-by-four around a dingy basement bathroom than use a sample. '"</strong><i><strong>It wasn't a mechanical kind of recording at all</strong></i><strong>,' said Ribot.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Waits found that Richards responded well to his perplexing recording style. ‘There was something in there that I thought he would understand,’ Waits said in the comments to the song </strong><i><strong>Big Black Mariah </strong></i><strong>posted to the Tom Waits Library. 'I picked out a couple of songs that I thought he would understand and he did. He's got a great voice and he's just a great spirit in the studio. He's very spontaneous, he moves like some kind of animal. I was trying to explain '</strong><i><strong>Big Black Maria</strong></i><strong>' and finally I started to move in a certain way and he said, '</strong><i><strong>Oh, why didn't you do that to begin with? Now I know what you're talking about</strong></i><strong>.' It's like animal instinct." Keith is featured on three of the album's tracks, and that connection they created through movement and music in the studio lasts to this day.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fans of Tom Waits will know that his biggest collaborator and creative inspiration is his wife Kathleen. For the longest time, he only wrote songs with her, but he saw something in Keith that made him want to break that trend. '</strong><i><strong>There's nobody in the world like him</strong></i><strong>', Waits told NPR in 2011. ‘</strong><i><strong>We wrote songs together for a while and that was fun. I had never really written with anybody besides my wife, so it was unique and a little scary at firs</strong></i><strong>t.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For his part, Keith felt honored to have been allowed in to that creative part of Tom Waits' reclusive psyche. ‘</strong><i><strong>It was great to work with him</strong></i><strong>’, he said in an interview posted to his official YouTube channel. ‘</strong><i><strong>It was only found out later that he never writes with anybody else, he only ... writes with his wife, Kathleen. So I realized that was an extra honor, to work with a guy that ... is not a collaborator</strong></i><strong>’.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom called their collaboration ‘</strong><i><strong>an interesting dynamic</strong></i><strong>.’ Unsurprisingly, Keith doesn't bother with writing anything down, or even remembering what he plays. Tom said they'd play for a while and then the Rolling Stone would shout, ‘</strong><i><strong>Scribe!</strong></i><strong>’ and expect him to write what they'd been playing. ‘</strong><i><strong>I realized we needed an adult in the room</strong></i><strong>,’ said Tom. '</strong><i><strong>I've never been the one that one would consider the adult</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="uInzcytRJGk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uInzcytRJGk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><span><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/89413a4372c95cd00d8dcd0c1103191e22f917ee/original/cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73006092023-12-26T05:23:24-05:002023-12-26T05:23:24-05:00LI Sounds Weekly: December 26 Thru January 1<p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bbff8884b6251cef6e34057e98f9cc60451e4ecf/original/li-sounds-weekly-edition-small-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/25441d8ab0b5605643e6b2bb1991a41ce21dc2e0/original/greetings-from-long-island.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/77270f855262e32ec5751c1ccef89f7cbf269ce5/original/support-local-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f000040f50a72c47cacc5108a37af47c761e5d22/original/johnny-pierre-christmas-fever.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Greetings One & All</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Unfortunately my time working on LI SoundsWeekly has come to an end.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thanks for all you're support and enthusiasm.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All the best,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 26</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/27c9f925232f89465054fb63185e0b54e9f4dcea/original/mku-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MKU RETURNS TO BEAU'S FOR THE LAST TUESDAY OF THE YEAR!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Beau's Bar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 7:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MKU says, “ Our last Tuesday of month residency at Beau's continues. Early start for you working folks!”</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 27</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/313db4d211d8d94342e94e5e3b5d4503107374eb/original/ernie-movies.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f3fa80f6c98a1fe011374ca536ca25a78450e2b5/original/ernie-the-band-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ERNIE & THE BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Sayville Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>103 Railroad Avenue Sayville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 6 pm - 11 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ernies-at-the-movies-tickets-734950515777?aff=oddtdtcreator" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PURCHASE TICKETS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Meet Ernie & The Band at Sayville Theatre for an intimate night at the Movies!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f0956d4f7624dc7be91da673e9822eb303acaa9e/original/acoustic-hand-jc-99.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ACOUSTIC HAND & JC'S HOLIDAY CELEBRATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Flanagan's Pub</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>451 Hawkins Ave Lake Ronkonkoma, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 6 pm - 9 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>6 pm - 9 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Join in the Hoiday fun as J. Peter & Jeanette Hansen, performing as the infamous Acoustic Hand & JC, present their festive seasonal show from 6-9:00 ish on Wednesday December 27th @ the historic Flanagan’s Pub located in Lake Ronkonkoma NY.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/219a231593cdce79dd454bedca2131594deb85cb/original/jan-let-it-bleed.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LET IT BLEED</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Mr. Beery's </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4019 Hempstead Tpke Bethpage, NY </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - 11:55 pm </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let It Bleed will be playing a Rolling Stones album cover to cover in Mr Beerys! You don’t wanna miss this special run!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 28</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7beb36df07c5b77245e9c4f1cd33bc45b277808c/original/danny-kean-4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DANNY KEAN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Bistro 72</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1830 W Main St Riverhead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 6 pm - 9 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Danny Kean, who has been a presence on the Long Island scene for many years now, is a multi-instrumentalist as well as a remarkable blue-eyed soul vocalist who channels an earthy mix of smooth R&B, early Motown, classic soul, funk rock and Neo soul.</strong></span></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://thairock.us/sites/default/files/2021-06/TobyTobiasBand.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="The Toby Tobias Ensemble | Thai Rock" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>THE TOBY TOBIAS ENSEMBLE</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Venue: Carney's</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>136 Broadway Amityville, NY</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Showtime: 7 pm</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>The members of The Toby Tobias Ensemble are very excited to be performing their brand of original American Global Music at this very cool South Shore bar & eatery. Come on down to experience The Toby Tobias Ensemble's sound in a lovely musical environment! Great food & delicious drinks! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!</strong></span></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 29</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f543e0c1ee84185713fddf15a48dc1e5689f8aa3/original/shecky-the-twangtones-new-drummer-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SHECKY & THE TWANGTONES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Bobbique</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>70 W Main St Patchogue, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - Midnight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shecky & The Twangtones play Live @ Bobbique Friday, December 29th starting at 8pm!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/409172312_846768620784741_259425308490376987_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=ca4fO5n6bdcAX8kVVsh&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfAG7T1_xAc1ShW0y2v5JOUpsF6SP0HYr8De5pSKxk3R5g&oe=658EB84C" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="May be an image of 3 people and text that says 'BISCUTT KINGS NÊ MLL DECEMBER 29 RS BEANERY'" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BISCUIT KINGS > CELEBRATING A RETURN TO RS BEANERY!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9def866bfb21edd9d73c267d2c02d9010c69b2bf/original/li-sounds-show-of-the-week-new.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: RS Beanery</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>153 Merrick Ave Merrick, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 6:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Biscuit Kings will be performing as a trio (Jeff Goldstein, Dave Filloramo & Jonny Pierre) @ RS Beanery 153 Merrick Ave, Merrick, NY Showtime: 6:30 pm. We're looking forward to an evening of fun & musical sounds including some Tom Waits tunes! </strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4856b5f7bb811b001ca26bb7371f93b1a40df8eb/original/free-grass-union-88.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FREE GRASS UNION > FINALE @ BIRDIES!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Birdie's Patchogue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 N Ocean Ave Patchogue, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2 sets of live music w Free Grass Union for their last performance of 2023!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9ab542ce49fe3f3cb542e9d83343e3cd9720f3bc/original/dinny-keg.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DINNY KEG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Willistons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 Hillside Ave. Williston Park, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Emotionally paced, lyric-driven, contemporary singer-songwriter pop/rock with roots in Americana, 60’s folk, and Irish tradition.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 30</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0fae427185d8af99b2ce5f0eda58f4cbe50ee45d/original/deep-pockets-new-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>DEEP POCKETS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Venue: Charlotte's Speakeasy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>294 Main St Farmingdale, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7:30 pm</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="afIa-NsLHqQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afIa-NsLHqQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Come on down for some Jazz Blues Funk & Soul with The Deep Pockets Band at Charlottes!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a2a5cbdeb6cbc157e06291b2fe4d8186f4a6dd18/original/jack-licitra-piano-man.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JACK'S WATERFALL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: </strong><span><strong>Westhampton Beach Brewery</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span title="220 Rogers Way"><strong>220 Rogers Way </strong></span><strong> Westhampton Beach, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 2 pm</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6ab9ab9073b40e1da641c02e72be698e8ce4692b/original/hombres-us-brews.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HOMBRES @ US BREWS!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: US Brews</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>109 Mill Dam Rd Centerport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - 10:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hombres return to their favorite brew pub with special guests…Get ready for singing songs and carrying on!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d650ecde914689bc907d4ae4ab7927a4d0496231/original/45-rpm-logo-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>45 RPM > ALMOST YEAR-END EXTRAVAGANZA @ THE WAREHOUSE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: The Warehouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1 Union Ave Amityville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 7:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>45 RPM Celebrate the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5230c85082c5e6929047c7b4d948ce8235fefe48/original/danny-kean.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DANNY KEAN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Willistons' Restaurant</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>17 Hillside Ave Williston Park, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Catch a night of blue-eyed soul at this comfortable eatery with one of LI's true artists, Danny Kean. Danny is renowned for his work as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and powerful vocalist.</strong></span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DECEMBER 31</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cb64308853cd900433a849b313ae62d563eec1b2/original/dec-31-johnny-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d47739ed7654620b72674cdb74387c2c4c3b31e7/original/johnny-mac-band-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: American Legion Massapequa NY Post 1066</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>66 Veterans Blvd Massapequa, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 9 pm - 1 am</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/51eb290eaed0d7d9e126cc7d41eac5adee7dee7d/original/the-cocktails-greek-diner-26.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE COCKTAILS NEW YEARS EVE PARTY!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: </strong><span><strong>Montana Brothers Pizzeria</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>385 S Main St Freeport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Close out 2023 with The Cocktails!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0cf804597762d105f049994e0a693e0acaf90fa6/original/jacks-waterfall-on-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JACK LICITRA'S NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: US BREWS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>109 Mill Dam Rd Centerport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Expect a taste of Dr. John musical mojo!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d57b5e7fcf09b8504633255e81e487f4ccd4fad8/original/half-step-logo-for-shows.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH HALF STEP!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venue: Studio Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>141 S. Wellwood Ave Lindenhurst, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - 1 am</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Celebrate New Year's Eve With Half Step at the Studio Theater in Lindenhurst!</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3 Full Sets of Good Ol' Grateful Dead Music!</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>21 and over.</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Stealth" BYOB. NO COOLERS.</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Food available at the theatre cafe.</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm.</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>$30 Advance tickets only</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://halfstepgd.ticketleap.com/new-years-eve-with-half-step/?fbclid=IwAR2OVVxHJCdn5PypqGrQJHSL64DbOkB7bFHmBsu9v-ofzKwlS8KRvrQHZgE" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PURCHASE TICKETS</u></strong></span></a></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/849442ba548623873098114379db7e4f6da78897/original/sunday-jim-moran-jam.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>JIM MORAN'S SUNDAY FUNDAY OPEN MIC JAM!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7baf20cf694b519d19a3c0351f42b9811978d530/original/sundays-joe-roberts-jazz-ensemble-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>THE JOE ROBERTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Venue: Vintage Beano & Vino Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>3316 NY-112 Medford, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm - 9 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Calling all jazz hounds! Come on down & catch the Joe Roberts Jazz Ensemble!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JANUARY 1</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cbc63766b321cec3bf3c5f03000a16c533808b64/original/mondays-richie-cannatas-monday-night-jam-bitterend.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10 PM EVERY MONDAY NIGHT!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c0748b9c78c538655c14660d2971bf3099aa5e1b/original/mind-smoke-website-header.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/42904825f30a001240c56cab9512010cc6f05416/original/cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-white-on-black-banner-cropped.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW RELEASES!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS: THE ISLAND IS ALIVE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/649c963d39a5aa706a09dc77dee97c87caa61af2/original/fv-out-of-order.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1224252/out-of-order" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS: OUT OF ORDER</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68477232023-12-21T07:27:49-05:002023-12-21T07:27:49-05:00It's A Rock & Roll Christmas!<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/848586c46729ce9898ce3381c737a021ab45e740/original/rock-xmas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/030bd3efa48657129d1c22add9636058e9e3e3f8/original/musicians-at-christmas-muddy-waters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MUDDY WATERS sez</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Have Yerself A Merry Christmas Baby!"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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MO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Bq82UFxLtrM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bq82UFxLtrM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25fb8c339da942a79be6a7c4a2e77af9a8dc740a/original/clarence-carter-ho-ho-ho.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CLARENCE CARTER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="s0NoalRsk5w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" 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style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64122aab1c6a17f426f7195fb15ba1dc622faa39/original/lost-music-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Remembering Forgotten Songs!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86baa0fc6c47ed14e63fadf03b389f6b02af745c/original/i-farted-on-santas-lab.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>I Farted On Santa's Lap</strong></i><strong>: The Little Stinkers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1999, The Little Stinkers, fronted by the amazing 7 year-old Mary Beltrami, cleared the room with the immortal Christmas song, </strong><i><strong>I Farted On Santa’s Lap</strong></i><strong>...the rest is Yuletide History!</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jxomWFi3qZc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jxomWFi3qZc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mummy Beans for Dinner, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>know I ate them all </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>said come get your coat on, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>we're going to the mall, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>gonna visit Santa, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>sit upon his knee, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>but all that I could think about </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>was how not to cut the cheese, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Waiting there for Santa, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>thought that I'd explode, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>gas bubble it blew bigger, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>with every "Ho, Ho, Ho", </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tried my best to hide it, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>thought I was doing swell, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>but when I sat down on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>he hollred, "Whats that smell?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I farted on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>now Christmas is gonna stink for me, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I farted on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>now I'll get a (fart sound), </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>under my Christmas Tree </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I asked him for a baseball, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I asked him for a bat, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I asked him for some ice skates, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>but I'll get none of that, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I asked him for a lot of things, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'll have to do without, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cause when I sat down on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I let one slip out,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I farted on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>now Christmas is gonna stink for me, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I farted on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>now I'll get a (fart sound), </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>under my Christmas Tree </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Christmas Eve I snuk out of my bed </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>without a sound, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And went down to the living room, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>just to take a look around, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was then that I saw Santa next to the Christmas tree, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>His arms were full of presents, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>and they were all for me, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>He put them on a pile, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>and got up to turn around, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And blew a fart with such great force, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>our tree almost came down, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Till I'll always cherish, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>that special moment when, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I realised even old Saint Nic, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>rips one now and then </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I farted on Santa's lap, </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>and 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</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With the onslaught of Holiday Cheer, I thought for today's blog post, I'd respond to some of the mail I've been getting from all of the Mind Smoke Records fans out there!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e6bce3bc469085b3864e66bd9b2f48a0ed8d540c/original/msr-mailbox.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/df48e386038396a9e7d65e96fc5fa934c87369ba/original/heavy-metal.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tyrone Gypsum (Winnepeg, Canada): "Is it true that listening to heavy metal music will increase a person's brain functions?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre: Well Tyrone, I think if you listen to any one thing long enough, it certainly will get you thinking about things in general. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/94a41bbe3fefecc55353160770596d4910ff6b43/original/meringue.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Morty Whiskers (Wheezy, AL) : "Dear JP: My cousin Bilbo and I have had a long-standing argument over whether a meringue is a topping for a lemon pie or a dance in Latin countries. Bilbo swears it's a dance and whenever I serve Lemon Meringue pie at our family Christmas dinner, she always smashes it before the rest of the family can partake of this delightful dessert. Please help us bring peace to the Yuletide table."</strong></span> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: I think your cousin Bilbo is thinking of the Spanish merengue dance which, as fate will have it, was originally performed while wearing a hat made of (you guessed it) baked meringue. Now shake hands, you big galoots! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d29a6dd867fdfea5d1464fd391fe9b0f97e25e8/original/smiley-christmas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janet Mulvaney (Woodcock, Maine) : "Dear JP: At our Holiday dinner every year, my sister Isabella continues to claim that in 1966, after attending a Yuletide Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco, she turned into a Christmas tree. Apparently, she remained in that form for 8 days and then after a heavy snowstorm she evolved back into a human being. What do you suggest we do to make Isabella come to her senses?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: Hmmm! Sounds like you have a real problem on your hands there. I suggest you get hold of a really good exorcist who's familiar with the tie-dyed Steal Your Face rite of invisible identity crisis. The last person I heard who was trained in that particular procedure was a defrocked priest named Mellow Magnolia. I think he lives somewhere in Marin county, California. Happy Holidays and tell Isabella to stop leaving trails of pine needles all over the house!</strong></span><span class="text-big"> </span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6bf097a1d8fc8d2270fa87232e0fa77bcf525ec2/original/spoon-man.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Fondeaux (Cottonmouth, LA): "Say, do you happen to know who invented the art of playing spoons? My Uncle T-Bone says it was Genghis Khan but I think it was Benjamin Franklin. Which of us is right?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: While the actual origins of Spoon Playing are sketchy at best; my best sources indicate that the first person to introduce the tawdry art of spoon playing was a Swede by the name of Knute MacGewign. Mr. MacGewign was a minstrel show tap dancer in one of the Californian settlements during the Goldrush. His use of the spoons in a wide variety of songs that would be played by various combos around town gained him the nickname "Spoony". However, a little known side story is that he had a sister named Meg who actually was a better spoon player than he was! She opened one of the first Goldrush saloons and, having been influenced by her brother, began to front America’s first Spoon Orchestra thereby acquiring the nickname "Miss Spoony". Meg MacGewign later married a local philanthropist named Horace Gruntweildt who is best remembered for coming up with the phase, "A Pig in a Poke". I believe there is presently a museum dedicated to Meg and her tap dancing brother Knute somewhere just outside of Sacramento. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/21f38d808db881107b5d077705c3a2462b2cc37b/original/chain-saw.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buckram Sashi (Littleburg, NY) : "My brother-in-law and I have a running argument that perhaps you can settle. What person first used the expression, 'Rock & Roll is here to stay!"' Was it the British drummer Hiram Newcocker, or Sneed McFarley, a blind saxophone player from Denver, Colorado?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP : Buckram, you're both wrong! It was Spivey Davis, a lady chicken rancher from Spotted Dog, Alabama. She was dancing at a local bar named The Toad Cafe when she uttered the famous phrase back in 1952. Her husband Clovis, brandishing a chainsaw, jumped onstage to join in the merriment with The Sure Things, the band that was playing at the time, but there is no historical record of how 23 people ended up being treated for smoke inhalation at this show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1874e49bf092e94effef2b7756cd10172b6f50b8/original/songs-food.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Julie Shiverow (Provo, UT) : "Dear Mr. Pierre, I recently discovered that musical group, the Beatles, and really enjoy their song, </strong><i><strong>Mean Mr. Mustard</strong></i><strong>. I was wondering if this wonderful group has any other songs about food?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP : Yes, they do! You should definitely check out the bootleg Beatles album, </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day's Tripe</strong></i><strong>! It's chock full of songs about food. The rare Beatles tracks featured on this quirky album include </strong><i><strong>Magical Mystery Soup Bone</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Rubber Fillet of Sole</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Ballad of John and Osso Bucco</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Strawberry Souffles Forever</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e0137bdcb9ae05655a100cf0e50bc4b9f83e1d1/original/mr-clean-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f39888b462de9e787a2a6e5f57438466886a9d6c/original/moby.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Rimbaud (Lark's Run, MT): "Dear JP: is it true that the pop star Moby is related to Mr. Clean?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP : No! Actually, Moby wears a bald wig in order to connect with a younger music fan demographic (i.e. young folk who love movies about a dark apocalyptic society in the future which is populated by men who sport hair styles favored by James Bond movie villains and psychiatric patients). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/11ac83e3ee0da058e69ab60b067aa20d7422aec2/original/beef-tongue-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally Bolinger (Gumball, TX): "My husband's family is going to be staying with us this Christmas and we just don't get along very well. Do you have any recipes for dishes that are guaranteed to clear a room?"</strong></span><span class="text-big"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP : I would recommend you prepare one of these festive Holiday dishes; Frozen Beef Tongue a la Gene Simmons, Pinky Lee's Hot Dog A La Mode or Alice Cooper’s Snake Knuckles In A Blanket. A menu like that will most definitely have your In-Laws in their car on the turnpike heading home in no time at all. Let me know how all of this works out for you. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d03450c66e44a1dc39100a057cf1e953f317719a/original/granpa-burlap.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hester Moodill (Dead Man's Creek, Wyoming)</strong>: <strong>My Granpa Burlap built himself a gingerbread garage where he stores all of those Hess trucks that he buys every Christmas. However, in recent years, he has developed an eating disorder and is slowly gorging himself on pieces of that darn garage! Do you know of any remedies for this sort of thing?</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: Dear Hester, I would paint all the walls of the gingerbread garage with Tabasco Sauce. That just might slow down Granpa Burlap's ravenous appetite. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0a258386ef20273e71f73cd8f2904d38b574c91d/original/33-and-a-third-rpm.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alabama Foster (Yipsilanti, Michigan): "Dear JP, my 2nd cousin, Lollygag, has been suffering from 3rd dimension dementia for many years now. The primary symptom of this strange disease causes a person to have a compulsive desire to listen to 45 rpm records at the 33 1/3 speed on a record player. These days Lollygag constantly listens to a slowed down version of Jimmy Webb's </strong><i><strong>McArthur's Park</strong></i><strong> which became popular by Richard Harris' version. Could you perhaps suggest another song she might want to listen to?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: Just off the top of my head, I would suggest repeated plays of </strong><i><strong>Big Eyed Beans From Venus</strong></i><strong> by Capt. Beefheart. That and a shot of bourbon usually clears one's head immediately. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c654d505f8084b2a8fe9bc2129e398f86045a16d/original/antelope.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Julie Margarita (Cape Canaveral, Florida) : "My next door neighbor Ned was once a champion tap dancer who is still remembered for performing a remarkable tap dance routine to the classic </strong><i><strong>12 Days of Christmas</strong></i><strong> song on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. Do you know of any other Yuletide tap dancers?" </strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/28c2aae0e367bf6bb5d36a5be838c168956bea4a/original/facebook-profile-9.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JP: It's funny you should ask about that Julie! I have heard tell of a farmer in Nimrod, Montana named Jody McLoosh who was renowned for his Christmas Eve tap dance rendition of </strong><i><strong>Angels We Have Heard On High</strong></i><strong> which he would perform with several antelopes that he raised on his alfalfa farm. Sadly, Mr. McLoosh passed away last year after trying to ride one of his antelopes across the Wavy Gravy river.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/298895b841c028929765edf46461ea58f64419db/original/happy-holidays-rock-rollers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Happy Holidays to one & all!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheers,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/03398739cd31f4206ded69c6c12e0bbe3d367dc6/original/mind-smoke-record-store-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4a0b2261a77c1ad6fcf87606c10b617baaa93fa9/original/mind-smoke-holiday-sampler.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbMjAwLDIwMF1dLFsiY3JvcCJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Mind Smoke Holiday Sampler by Various Artists" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fe76d8d8d9c46c34aed72fd3b784fa7a77538f21/original/johnny-pierres-holiday-jamboree-album-cover.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbMjAwLDIwMF1dLFsiY3JvcCJdXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree by Johnny Pierre" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AVAILABLE NOW @</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MIND SMOKE RECORDS </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/holiday-albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>HOLIDAY ALBUMS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a6cc41de9a07b280041ea011165bfd696f52e4b/original/the-season-is-upon-us.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/55335852023-12-09T07:31:26-05:002023-12-09T12:27:33-05:00Christmas Cards: It's that time of the year!<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c9686f7f8573dfda50f3dd0cda9b4c509ae2e93c/original/merry-christmas-card.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Today is... December 9th..which means… </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>IT'S NATIONAL CHRISTMAS CARD DAY! </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ae7f805ee8dcc7ee382aff72d0aa518f05d06e4f/original/christmas-tree.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS CARDS:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" A prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Cole, travelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian England, and had the misfortune of having too many friends. During the holiday season of 1843, those friends were causing Cole much anxiety. The problem were their letters: An old custom in England, the Christmas and New Year’s letter had received a new impetus with the recent expansion of the British postal system and the introduction of the </strong><i><strong>Penny Post</strong></i><strong>, allowing the sender to send a letter or card anywhere in the country by affixing a penny stamp to the correspondence. Now, everybody was sending letters. Sir Cole—best remembered today as the founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London—was an enthusiastic supporter of the new postal system, and he enjoyed being the 1840s equivalent of an A-Lister, but he was a busy man. As he watched the stacks of unanswered correspondence he fretted over what to do. '</strong><i><strong>In Victorian England, it was considered impolite not to answer mail</strong></i><strong>,' says Ace Collins, author of Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas. '</strong><i><strong>He had to figure out a way to respond to all of these people</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c5da6d991b7006d0612c951e77bd6adcb120108/original/first-christmas-card.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cole hit on an ingenious idea. He approached an artist friend, J.C. Horsley, and asked him to design an idea that Cole had sketched out in his mind. Cole then took Horsley’s illustration—a triptych showing a family at table celebrating the holiday flanked by images of people helping the poor—and had a thousand copies made by a London printer. The image was printed on a piece of stiff cardboard 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches in size. At the top of each was the salutation, </strong><i><strong>TO:_____</strong></i><strong> allowing Cole to personalize his responses, which included the generic greeting </strong><i><strong>A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You</strong></i><strong>. It was the very first Christmas card. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Unlike many holiday traditions—can anyone really say who sent the first Christmas fruitcake?—we have a generally agreed upon name and date for the beginning of this one...In their image of the family celebrating, Cole and Horsley had included several young children enjoying what appear to be glasses of wine along with their older siblings and parents. '</strong><i><strong>At the time there was a big temperance movement in England</strong></i><strong>,' Collins says. '</strong><i><strong>So there were some that thought he was encouraging underage drinking</strong></i><strong>.' The criticism was not enough to blunt what some in Cole’s circle immediately recognized as a good way to save time. Within a few years, several other prominent Victorians had simply copied his and Horsley’s creation and were sending them out at Christmas. While Cole and Horsley get the credit for the first, it took several decades for the Christmas card to really catch on, both in Great Britain and the United States. Once it did, it became an integral part of our holiday celebrations—even as the definition of </strong><i><strong>the holidays</strong></i><strong> became more expansive, and now includes not just Christmas and New Year’s, but Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the Winter Solstice." (Smithsonian magazine)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f000040f50a72c47cacc5108a37af47c761e5d22/original/johnny-pierre-christmas-fever.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a video of a song about all that Christmas card stuff from my 2015 Christmas album, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/holiday-albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>Johnny Pierre’s Holiday Jamboree</u></strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Christmas Card</strong></i><strong> video was a real family affair; Sweet Loretta (my wifey) was our director / cameraman / actress) and my daughter Molly who was our film editor!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="I8jFaJVt91U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I8jFaJVt91U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>T'is the season to be silly!</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wishing One & All</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Happy Christmas Season!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b3cbe923b4570297aa6724512155a0f99e80326b/original/msmoke-com-official-logo-for-facebook-sidebar-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ae7f805ee8dcc7ee382aff72d0aa518f05d06e4f/original/christmas-tree.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/31376b0e654d5e670f3da9caeb3b1d15b5f9c2a1/original/christmas-email-signature.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jazz up yer Holidays with the Johnny Pierre Christmas album!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joan Jett & The Blackhearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Untouchables</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Urban Noize</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/94cbe6f82f392222d195609a3b795b013499bf34/original/1981-cheap-trick-pavilion-fairgrounds-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TbI7xTjrf0M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b91dc83acd2efcb5baa26a67f51c294c91387c96/original/1981-jj-cale-the-old-lady-of-brady-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pIubKevobmk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pIubKevobmk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J.J. Cale & Friends</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Old Lady of Brady</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3334e45af614ca265b23fe63c0fcdb9fc8a1b956/original/1981-newport-jazz-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Newport Festival 1981</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5fb3c2204232c805731d6e91e717b4625dbf9480/original/1981-neville-bros-tipitinas-new-orleans-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>King Zulu Mardi Gras Week</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Neville Bros Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Wild Tchipitoulas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Zimple & Leigh Harris</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cirusi</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lil' Queenie & The Percolators</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The New York Connection</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deacon John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muchos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tipitina's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a00bf5603921446e2bbf052ee87230b3ffa95139/original/1981-frank-zappa-i-u-assembly-hall-bloomington-in.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I.U. Assembly Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bloomington, IN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bac6f9735e7467797915b970d5a3a2e374c04009/original/1981-mountain-cains-ballroom-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38648728d0bb11acd36b430770cee48b258c281b/original/1981-billy-squier-cains-ballroom-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Squier</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don't Say No</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4000e1d4fc10069400e85361de273a84042276bb/original/1981-gaatemoouth-brown-cains-balroom.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/66bdf2dcc4002de91dd8d6bf7c847d4623b27404/original/1981-mountain-aire-81-journey-calaveras-county-fairgrounds-angels-camp-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain Aire '81</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Journey</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hall & Oates</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Squier</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calaveras County Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Angel Camp, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad8093eed807bebfec57d51965fc293d63994ed2/original/1981-prince-parradiso.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prince</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Streetlight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/99e12e749d08702228f049ad87f070b6f2cecfa9/original/1981-johnny-thunders-urban-noize.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Urban Noize</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/11a19c99d9524a9fc5e116cbe06b7200a508fe9f/original/1981-miles-davis-carnegie-hall-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miles Davis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carnegie Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8747c52d12674597dafe8f683b9f943710724e09/original/1981-dire-straits-milano-italy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dire Straits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velodromo Vigorelli</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Milan, Italy</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bf710e8ce517339a6d98c0c254857e23ea724584/original/1981-bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band-benefit-for-vietnam-veterans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Night For The Vietnam Veteran</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e2fcd343959b2ce310e17b98798f78165c3db48/original/1981-grateful-dead-europe-tour-81.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Europe Tour '81</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/140d3cddd585cf97afecd0652e575b03e95f514d/original/1981-the-clash-bond-international-casino-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e119449a3d70a96754f45ab76626c5f1968d7a42/original/1981-the-clash-bonds-internatiional-casino-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> played a series of 17 concerts at </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonds_International_Casino" title="Bonds International Casino"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bonds International Casino</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York City</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in May and June 1981 in support of their album </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista!" title="Sandinista!"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sandinista!</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Due to their wide publicity, the concerts became an important moment in the history of the band. Some of the nights were professionally recorded either for CBS records or for FM broadcast. The 9 June performance appears on countless </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_records" title="Bootleg records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>bootleg records</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and several songs have appeared on </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity:_Live" title="From Here to Eternity: Live"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>From Here to Eternity: Live</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> or other official Clash releases.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The site of the concerts was formerly Bonds department store which had been converted into a large second-floor hall. Promoters kept the name because there was a large Bonds sign on the outside of the building. As </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> had not yet broken out into mass popularity, eight shows were originally scheduled: 28, 29, 30, 31 May and 1, 2, 3 and 5 June 1981. However, given the venue's legal capacity limit of 1750, the series was blatantly oversold (3500) right from the first night, leading the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Fire_Department" title="New York City Fire Department"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York City Fire Department</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to cancel the Saturday, 30 May performance. In response, the band condemned the brazen greed of the promoters while demonstrating unprecedented integrity to each and every ticketholder by doubling the original booking with a total of 17 dates extending through June.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strict interpretation of the fire laws meant that audiences were relatively small, resulting in a sense of intimacy between the band and the audience. Audience members clambered onto the stage to join in singalongs. New York musicians, including </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_and_the_Explosions" title="Pearl Harbor and the Explosions"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pearl Harbor</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, assisted and overseen by Andy Dunkley, provided </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>disc jockey</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> services as the audience entered and gathered.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The concert captures </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on the verge of their major American market breakthrough with the release of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Rock" title="Combat Rock"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Combat Rock</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> a year later. The concert also displayed the band on the cusp between being a cult band and their major market penetration. As always with The Clash, ticket and merchandise prices were set relatively low. Prices were $10 per ticket and $5 per ticket for matinee shows.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band had a new opening act every night, including </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(band)" title="The Fall (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fall</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five" title="Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys" title="Dead Kennedys"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dead Kennedys</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains" title="Bad Brains"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bad Brains</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, KRAUT, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry" title='Lee "Scratch" Perry'><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee "Scratch" Perry</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and many more. Many of the hip-hop groups that opened were either picketed or booed off the stage, which prompted Joe to chide the audience as soon as The Clash came on stage afterwards. </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melle_Mel" title="Melle Mel"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Melle Mel</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> later said that when they tried to perform the section of "Beat Street" with the, "Say Ho!", the audience members would yell, "Fuck you!".</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bond's International Casino</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d87ee67922504bb416c376e91f1c01f416b9593/original/1981-rolling-stones-houston-1981.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0ZvSjVnnsKA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ZvSjVnnsKA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Houston Astrodome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Houston, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a4502076bfdbfb8a8ed928218d7c849dc1fd73d9/original/1981-simon-garfunkel-central-park-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Simon & Garfunkel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Central Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f9f678b092ab049a5739231dd70d1c836a5ade6/original/1981-rock-on-the-tyne-gateshead-international-satadium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Rock On The Tyne</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello & The Attractions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ian Dury & The Blockheads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pauline Murray, Doll By Doll</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Huang Chung, The Polecats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rory Gallagher & His Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doctor Feelgood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ginger's Nutters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diamond Head</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fist, Trimmer & Jenkins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lindisfarne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gateshead International Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gateshead, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf072d85d8bc15a84e14681f3cd77b77d694013c/original/1981-stray-cats-french-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stray Cats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DKP</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Parallax Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paris, France</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be1781c67612b85b8c83ffecd86c24c0fbc743f0/original/1981-ramones-non-stop-world-tour-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Non Stop World Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Schwabinger Brau</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germancy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/084e921e33e709a480cc756c545d6f1a9bec4fad/original/1981-the-jam-paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jam</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/509c64d4254883cd87061e9f910117c6dc8f5f1a/original/1981-the-uk-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1981 Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bd03d1bc2c4b172c2898dae1dee85ebf61d8f924/original/1981-the-clash-appolo-theatre-manchester-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Apollo Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Manchester, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f73311eccc145d485131e876197334217794ce77/original/1981-the-pretenders-cains-ballroom.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pretenders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80ed40bebc36143ab9cf7c51b19d12a4d36f4a24/original/1981-ramones-santa-cruz-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mutants</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Cruz, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8c0be261d0142f51a92906e71bbc4daf1d3c12be/original/1981-the-english-beat-hippodrome.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The English Beat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hippodrome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ee8ff415fcf5e36349a25b4a77816f8ebccea07/original/1981-rolling-stones-tour-81.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tour '81</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae053289490550a6888219b8874f418c29cf5656/original/1981-rolling-stones-tour-81-pontiac-silver-dome.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="14zsX3CHnIU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14zsX3CHnIU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pontiac Silver Dome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pontiac, M</strong></span>I</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36758bad3a0311bdd4f8ebb835c819791e44bccd/original/1981-rolling-stones-new-orleans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tLnpE6jxxSw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tLnpE6jxxSw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58bcf0f527c4b4cb73ea21f76725a9ae96df33d4/original/1981-the-police-msg-nyc.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="I-zWtPkejbg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I-zWtPkejbg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Robinson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sector 27</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madison Square Garden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b62a4d6c789e088699eb43d0fc1b6240d9531cd1/original/1981-ramones.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2NgD7n58S68" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2NgD7n58S68?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Copenhagen, Denmark</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b7eefef2e26141303fe66e3b01ad02d3c20e84c/original/1981-stevie-ray-maughan-fitzgeralds-houston-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fitzgerald's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Houston, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c707c0809ba9a812420dc851c22ddf45dab3df8e/original/1981-tom-waits-australian-new-zealand-tour-81.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ImtQfrzppR0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ImtQfrzppR0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Australian & New Zealand Tour '81</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6b50e296d1fe36b09d8d61b549b353675d239671/original/1981-tom-waits-apollo-voctoria-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MarFyC7618A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MarFyC7618A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Apollo Victoria</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a8c30716cdc456f20dd9d16d65d01ae32447425/original/1981-bob-dylan-meadowlands-arena.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Meadowlands Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>East Rutherford, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf1d4d2b6ce58f7354a5b41bbe56b841c3ad8e39/original/1981-the-undertones-torquay-town-hall-castle-circus-torquay-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Undertones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Torquay Town Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Castle Circus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Torquay, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9261adc23674369859c72ae70b3682f4a8d0e832/original/1981-utopia-cains-balrom.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lKv3w-0BcDM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lKv3w-0BcDM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Utopia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/16bc6c0894bf0603f282f70269e3f2ff6a333c03/original/1981-u2-paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phantom Limb</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/67365354b54e087893707af7877cb6f5c113f1c2/original/replacements-1981-show-7th-st-minneapolis-mn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Replacements</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>7th Street Entry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Minneapolis, MN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7e171412fd37db2d50d5154a5c108a56cd09190/original/1981-gang-of-four-locarno-bristol-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gang of Four</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pere Ubu</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delta 5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Academy Bristol Locano</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bristol, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/98a42161645a065fd8ad1b508b92598f63d23425/original/1981-garland-jeffreys-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Matador Tour 1981</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Garland Jeffreys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f242422a9092b977e44605892d7696064d69eae5/original/1981-go-gos-the-emerald-city-cherry-hill-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Go Go's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Emerald City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cherry Hill, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/29a8c78be46edbef34c537dd188997078cdc69a9/original/1981-ramones-second-chance-club-ann-arbor-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cult Heroes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Second Chance Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ann Arbor, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87914f425bdba339476c1b3d5baa35c6df6440a2/original/1981-tom-pette-heartbreakers-merriweather-post-pavilion-columbia-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Merriweather Post Pavilion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Columbia, MD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0544a254baba71c691656f522cc445f24a338240/original/1981-bruce-springsteen-festhalle-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Festhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e0ceca1371069c0b1dda296831426c43aa6aea8f/original/1981-jazz-fest-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1981 New Orleans Jazz Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f1b30f037f48b3e25cc1fc503b771322dbe86938/original/1981-rolling-stones-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones American Tour 1981</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b478e236ee275c70505f2d896ffa787abe0bcb0/original/1981-rolling-stones-tour-pontac-silver-dome-michigan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pontiac Silver Dome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pontiac, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d145c416995c13cdf481761141f046b09b34fce9/original/1981-rollling-stones-american-tour-81.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>THE ISLAND IS ALIVE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show. Rock & Roll sounds...down to the bone baby!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ce49e53817184b82afd36e8f92b7016238f2448/original/freelance-vandals-mailing-list.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68431812023-11-29T09:30:01-05:002023-11-29T09:30:01-05:00Alive As Yesterday: 1987 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa74d91c6c92285843af0e3c74226b44efb479c7/original/1987-banner.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a36462edcc5f840ee73df582fdd896a0d953ddf9/original/1987-beastie-boys-fishbone-murphys-law-licensed-to-ill-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="uqlL5pUtomc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqlL5pUtomc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>License To Ill Tour '87</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beastie Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fishbone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Murphy's La</strong></span>w</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many people's first taste of the Beasties was in 1985, when they opened for none other than Madonna during the pop star's first headlining tour. They then toured in 1986 supporting Run-D.M.C. before launching their infamous License To Ill Tour first in 1987.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/48bf1716b21b0571496f92a0f8f1ef60d340478a/original/1987-bob-dylan-grateful-dead-oakland-stadium-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="b5MznpSW-wg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5MznpSW-wg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Alone And Together</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/346e574dacb38e522904fcee695784ee80aa8606/original/1987-elvis-costello-nick-lowe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LeFlPxMTP24" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LeFlPxMTP24?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Tour In The USA Spring 1987</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Lowe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Set Lists From The San Diego University Show</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>ELVIS COSTELLO</u></strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally Sue Brown </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Green Shirt </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Heathen Town </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Uncomplicated </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Inch by Inch </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>American Without Tears </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>American Without Tears No. 2 </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Want You </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Everyday I Write the Book </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alison </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Watching the Detectives </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taxi </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just a Memory </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Girls Talk </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pump It Up</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>NICK LOWE</u></strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Without Love</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From Now On</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cruel to Be Kind</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When I Write the Book</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Raining Raining</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Heart </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rose of England</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Too Many Teardrops</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Big Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So It Goes </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0a5709bba9286755fa0bc8ecba5b0ab4006eb0c7/original/david-bowie-the-glass-spider-tour-1987.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qbRyauhxLDM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbRyauhxLDM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Glass Spider Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Glass Spider Tour</strong></i><strong> was a 1987 worldwide concert tour by English musician David Bowie, launched in support of his album Never Let Me Down. It began in May 1987 and was preceded by a two-week press tour that saw Bowie visit nine countries throughout Europe and North America to drum up public interest in the tour. The Glass Spider Tour was the first Bowie tour to visit Austria, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Wales. Through a sponsorship from Pepsi, the tour was intended to visit Russia and South America as well, but these plans were later cancelled. The tour was, at that point, the longest and most expensive tour Bowie had embarked upon in his career. At the time, the tour's elaborate set was called </strong><i><strong>the largest touring set ever</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bowie conceived the tour as a theatrical show, and included spoken-word introductions to some songs, vignettes, and employed visuals including projected videos, theatrical lighting and stage props. On stage, Bowie was joined by guitarist Peter Frampton and a troupe of five dancers (choreographed by long-time Bowie collaborator Toni Basil). With the theme </strong><i><strong>Rock stars vs Reality,</strong></i><strong> the show was divided into two acts and an encore. The set list was modified over the course of the tour as Bowie dropped some of his newer material in favor of older songs from his repertoire. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The tour was generally poorly received at the time for being perceived as overblown and pretentious. Despite the criticism, Bowie in 1991 remarked that this tour laid the groundwork for later successful theatrical tours by other artists, and the set's design and the show's integration of music and theatrics has inspired later acts by a variety of artists. Starting in the late 2000s, the tour began to collect accolades for its successes, and in 2010 the tour was named one of the top concert tour designs of all time.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/736f79ec80555af2beca11342db6400dfc92d3fd/original/tom-petty-cayuga-county-fairgrounds-new-york.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nd-Rl_tyMUQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nd-Rl_tyMUQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Rock & Roll Caravan '87</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Georgia Satellites</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Del Fuegos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orange Country Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Middletown, NY</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Setlist</u></strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Breakdown </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Think About Me </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>American Girl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Life/Your World </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here Comes My Girl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Listen to Her Heart </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For What It's Worth </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Waiting </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don't Come Around Here No More </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It'll All Work Out </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Runaway Trains </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Should I Stay or Should I Go </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even the Losers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jammin' Me </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Refugee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Encore:</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Need To Know</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bye Bye Johnny</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny B. Goode</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4588f2c9c84babf9570721386a447dee89a8609d/original/1987-steve-miller-band-oakland-stadium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Band</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6A5MBuO47Wo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6A5MBuO47Wo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Outlaws</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronnie Montrose</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toby Beau</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/515446a6487f0ef0e0514f6114f28861710d0759/original/1987-johnny-cash-show-paramount-theatre-asbury-park-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Johnny Cash Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Featuring June Carter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paramount Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Asbury Park, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f1cc1e4375cc1b2fb342b736febd081a49c349b4/original/1987-u2-tampa-stadium-tampa-fl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1987 Joshua Tree Tour</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QZlrq5zk3Oc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QZlrq5zk3Oc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tampa Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tampa, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U2's Joshua Tree Tour's opening night was 2 April at Arizona State University's Activity Center in Tempe, Arizona. The day before the opening night, Bono fell onto a spotlight he was carrying during a rendition of </strong><i><strong>Bullet the Blue Sky</strong></i><strong>, cutting open his chin. Bono had partially lost his voice as a result. He asked the audience to help him sing the majority of the set, which they were happy to do. At the time, it was explained by their publicists in a press release that it was due to the week of rehearsals the band held at A.S.U.'s Activity Center and he had over rehearsed his voice. He had fully regained his voice for the second of the two shows at the arena on 4 April. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first leg took place in American indoor arenas during April and May. The 29 concerts generated US$7,501,329 with a total of 465,452 tickets sold. 1,063 tickets from Las Vegas remained unsold equating to a 99.77% sellout for the 1st American leg.[1] The first leg finished with 5 concerts at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford between 11 and 16 May. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The second leg in European arenas and outdoor stadiums ran from late May through to early August, starting at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome on 27 May.The final show of the European leg is at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork on 8 August.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec88141ce4c2b1f18d282795944f1365d80e5bfb/original/1987-motley-crue-civic-arena-pttsburgh-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d2XdmyBtCRQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d2XdmyBtCRQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Girls, Girls, Girls Tour '87</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Motley Crue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Civic Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pittsburgh, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 1987, Motley Crue kicked off the Girls Girls Girls Tour in Tucson Arizona. The stage show features massive lightning rigs, spinning drum kits and tons of pyrotechnics. </strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d9a8d3f5bcf2014870def899da28e3ece13241f6/original/1987-guns-n-roses-cbgb-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guns N' Roses</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Back in 1987, across America, there were posters continuously being pinned to walls. Bedrooms across the land were being adorned with the rock and roll imagery of one band; Guns ‘N’ Roses. It was at this time that the band were invited to the iconic stage of CBGB’s, the home of punk. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rather than lay down a rip-roaring set of leather-clad rock and roll the band instead put together a stripped back acoustic set. Yet, despite their lack of electricity, they held the audience in the palm of their hands." (Far Out Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c989f77bd7ae3003c297c793f2ab2d373330d4be/original/1987-jerry-garcia-lunt-fontanne-theatre-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yUG5dCR8Y14" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yUG5dCR8Y14?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>13 Magical Nights On Broadway</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Garcia: Acoustic & Electric</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lunt-Fontanne Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jerry Garcia Band was Jerry Garcia's main side project from 1975 to 1995 when he was not on tour with the Grateful Dead. The group had an evolving lineup that included Melvin Seals on keyboards starting in late 1980, and John Kahn on bass for the band's entire existence. By contrast, the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band only existed from the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1988. In the second half of October 1987, the two bands played a series of concerts at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in Midtown Manhattan. At each show, the acoustic band would play a set of music, and the electric band would play a second set</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff7cc7a81c321235d57b83003250c3113f03e0fc/original/1987-grateful-dead-new-years-eve-oakland-coliseum-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Year's Eve 1987</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v-WvY-9x0oE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-WvY-9x0oE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/01943005051cd8f094796d35372c652e1e5c579e/original/grateful-dead-bruce-honsby-laguna-seca-recreation-area-monterey-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Hornsby & The Range</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eevAuAhIIyM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eevAuAhIIyM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laguna Seca Recreation Area</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Monterey, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>Grateful Dead Set List</u></strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sugar Magnolia </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sugaree </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Me and My Uncle </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mexicali Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When Push Comes to Shove </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tons of Steel </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Brother Esau </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tennessee Jed </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let it Grow </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Touch of Grey </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Looks Like Rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>He's Gone </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>drums </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Wheel </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Other One </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wharf Rat </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Around and Around </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sunshine Daydream </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iko Iko</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8090fa5efff860a8c3ad5097cb942a3b11f36018/original/1987-ramones-gaye-bykers-on-acid-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Nc07a8lNbCo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nc07a8lNbCo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gaye Bykers On Acid</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/529637df1d79cb5b54365728be38e6e7ec16d259/original/replacements-alex-chilton-cameo-theatre-miami-beach-fl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="FzyC2C9VnHg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FzyC2C9VnHg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Replacements</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>w/ special guest Alex Chilton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cameo Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miami Beach, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1ecee602174f3bc6f65aba4df6cc4fd9d1f377e1/original/1987-peter-gabriel-the-so-tour-the-spectrum-philadelphia-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong><u>The So Tour</u></strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Gabriel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Spectrum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The success of the So Tour made a big impression on the world press. For the first time, Peter Gabriel had reached superstar status.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tlACSvh2VkQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tlACSvh2VkQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Once again, Gabriel has scored a first, and just possibly revolutionized concert lighting. Throughout the show, four lanterns – hoisted on long metallic tentacles and wheeled along a railed track – followed him around like a leashed dog … Biko, the final song of the evening, is about the death of the South African activist, Steven Biko, and Gabriel used this occasion for a strong anti-apartheid message. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As he got the crowd to sing along to the one-word chorus, bright lights suddenly filled the Gardens and you could see a sea of arms raised in protest against the South African regime. After asking them to sing, Gabriel turned to the audience and said, ‘Now the rest is up to you …” (Spectator magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8dd54a6b148372bc82d72296c0df101320149302/original/1987-aerosmith-permanent-vacation-tour-rosemont-horizon-rosemont-illinois.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Permanent Vacation Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aerosmith</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rosemont Horizon Allstate Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rosemont, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Permanent Vacation Tour</strong></i><strong> was Aerosmith's first tour since completing drug rehabilitation. Guns N' Roses, notorious for drug abuse at the time, was the supporting act for part of the tour. Aerosmith asked Guns to not do drugs in their presence, so they wouldn't relapse.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5c034e188d2a4747e687e1339b0551d24906ac59/original/1987-the-pretenders-memorial-coliseum-cincinnati-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6__p5RvNH2I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6__p5RvNH2I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pretenders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iggy Pop</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memorial Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cincinnati, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/03bdb09eddb199ec0d9c6daa5699e653b75caa61/original/mountain-aire-ii-grateful-dead.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mountain Aire II</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3gv_r9zjmnI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3gv_r9zjmnI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Lindley & El Rayo X</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calaveras County Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Angel's Camp, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b755b6973e72862abf756d35f2dec551cad3c5b0/original/antones-12th-anniversary-antones-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Antone's 12th Anniversary Honoring Eddie Taylor</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Guy, Luther Tucker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Rogers, Pinetop Perkins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hubert Sumlin, Lazy Lester, Snooky Pryor</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Matt "Guitar" Murphy, James Cotton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David "Fathead" Newman, Calvin Jones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ted Harvey, Angel Strehli</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sLvmG1x8M50" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sLvmG1x8M50?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Antone's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Established in 1975 by the late Clifford Antone, Antone’s is an iconic blues venue located in downtown Austin. Over the past 40 years, Antone’s has brought Austin a variety of blues and musicians from across the country including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, and James Brown, and helped develop local talent like Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Bob Schneider, Gary Clark Jr., and others. In 2015, the historic brand was restored and a new team brought the iconic venue back to the downtown Austin landscape with a renewed focus on once again making Antone’s the “Home of the Blues.”’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d09cc7b2b423f7bb6e065d7dc67bfeca84a8c58e/original/prince-sigh-o-the-times-wembley-stadium-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sign 'O' The Times Tour</strong></i></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8EdxM72EZ94" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8EdxM72EZ94?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prince</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madhouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wembley Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sign 'O' The Times tour was Prince's first tour since splitting up with the Revolution. "The Summer of 1987 Sign "O" The Times Tour should have seen 40,000 basking in his Peach and Blackness in Wembley Stadium. Mere days before Prince was due to play, it was discovered the set with all its ramps and alleys and hoardings, which had already played around Europe, didn't actually fit the stage." (Paul Simper, Pop Stars in My Pantry: A Memoir of Pop Mags and Clubbing in the 1980s)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a4932484e022cccb0c9cf6ccf574fd62570a2f0/original/madonna-whos-that-girl-tour-1987.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who's That Girl World Tour 1987</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MWocCYNpI9o" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MWocCYNpI9o?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madonna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Who's That Girl World Tour</strong></i><strong> was the second concert tour by American singer and songwriter Madonna. The tour supported her 1986 third studio album True Blue, as well as the 1987 soundtrack Who's That Girl. It was Madonna's first world tour and marked her first visits to Japan and Europe. The Who's That Girl Tour was Madonna's first world tour, visiting Asia, North America and Europe. In the summer of 1987, she performed 38 shows in 8 different countries. Most shows were in large stadiums. Her show in Parc de Sceaux, Paris was attended by 131,000 fans, which still stands as a record.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Who's That Girl Tour Set List</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Open Your Heart </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lucky Star </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>True Blue </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Papa Don't Preach </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>White Heat </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Causing A Commotion </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Look of Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dress You Up / Material Girl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>/ Like A Virgin (with 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)' interlude) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Where's The Party </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Live To Tell </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Into The Groove </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>La Isla Bonita </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who's That Girl </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Holiday</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba36bbd915b419fbb31c5355b4dc7ff55b99f7b7/original/1987-ron-wood-bo-diddley-the-ritz-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eruUxkOlbPQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eruUxkOlbPQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Gunslingers Tour </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ron Wood </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bo Diddley </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Satten Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ritz </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Nothing could prevent Mr. Diddley from delivering raw, bluesy rock-and-roll. His voice has deepened since the 1950's, when he first recorded Who Do You Love, I'm a Man, Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, Diddley Daddy, Bo Diddley and Mona (all reprised at the Ritz). Now his delivery is even heartier, and his lead-guitar work never wastes a rough-cut phrase. Mr. Diddley kicked off each song with its signature riff. Then, where his 1950's records built kinetic, quasi-African rhythms from guitar, drums and - always - maracas, the backup band would clutter the beat with hard-rock drumming and synthesizer squiggles. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the show's best moments, Mr. Diddley turned the jam session into a tutorial in rhythm. The band moved </strong><i><strong>Crackin' Up</strong></i><strong>, originally a rock cha-cha, into a reggae groove; during the guitar solos, Mr. Diddley tapped out cross-rhythms on his guitar strings, prodding responses from Mr. Wood and eventually shifting the beat to a pan-Caribbean lilt. In </strong><i><strong>Who Do You Love</strong></i><strong>, while a handful of singers joined the band, Mr. Diddley played drums to anchor the beat. And during the closing </strong><i><strong>Hey! Bo Diddley</strong></i><strong>, he stepped forward for a sliding, plunking guitar solo that could have been played on the one-stringed Mississippi Delta instrument called the bo diddley. " (NY Times)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/298895b841c028929765edf46461ea58f64419db/original/happy-holidays-rock-rollers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>YUMPIN' YIMINY!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HOLIDAY SEASON HAS BEGUN!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/499640d6bbe53698aab44dbe4a41051be44addde/original/freelance-vandals-banner-for-albums.jpg/!!/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-music" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS MUSIC</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Posts</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/73083002023-11-23T05:58:28-05:002023-11-23T05:58:28-05:00HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ONE & ALL!<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f000040f50a72c47cacc5108a37af47c761e5d22/original/johnny-pierre-christmas-fever.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-vo5me1Apsw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-vo5me1Apsw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG STAR - THANK YOU FRIENDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Thank You Friends</strong></i><strong> is one of Big Star‘s very best.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="n2MtEsrcTTs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n2MtEsrcTTs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEIL YOUNG - HARVEST MOON</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The song uses a moon motif, which Young has mentioned as being very important to him and having quasi-religious undertones. </strong><i><strong>Harvest Moon</strong></i><strong> was a genuinely beautiful hymn to marriage and enduring love.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4_cpiKxOXi0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4_cpiKxOXi0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STUFFY TURKEY - THELONIOUS MONK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"A lesser-known entry in the Thelonious Monk canon, “Stuffy Turkey” is one of the few turkey-themed songs in jazz, making it hands down the best song for celebrating Thanksgiving. The fact that it swings hard and features a brilliantly off-kilter piano solo from Monk is only the icing on the cake (or should we say the marshmallow on the sweet potatoes? Whipped cream on the pumpkin pie?)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To everyone observing Thanksgiving today, have a wonderful holiday. Let’s give thanks for family, friends and great music like this." (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.jazziz.com/thelonious-monk-stuffy-turkey/" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>jazziz.com</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9b29735f71f42c57f60711460dff9f53e4245766/original/music-blogger.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>A Few Words About Thanksgiving</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>- Oscar Wilde</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Giving thanks to all of you. Happy Thanksgiving! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>- Paul McCartney</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Think always of thanks.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>- Unknown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/59692932023-11-16T11:48:14-05:002023-11-19T03:43:09-05:00My 2023 Thanksgiving Playlist<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc50d289d56e016aa1be97178804a76d36258771/original/mr-autumn.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From all of us here @</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MIND SMOKE RECORDS!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ab725a33e49d05a157fdf30f1f3041c9dc1420a/original/turkey.gif/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>they are the charming gardeners</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>who make our souls blossom." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>— Marcel Proust</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/974cc305888f02afed39db110ceffbb4563df8d9/original/thanksgiving-profile.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The History of Thanksgiving</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the history.com site: "Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans. In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. Historians have suggested that many of the dishes were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of 1621, the meal did not feature pies, cakes or other desserts, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f1e0ead19c999c5ffd0d894fc42d7b66965a824d/original/its-pie-oclock.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/adf1a56e77508b7126541551cb75e323e0e1f9c8/original/pecan-pies.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWEET LORETTA'S PIES (mmmmmmm!)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://i.etsystatic.com/5676431/r/il/328934/307204480/il_794xN.307204480.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="COUNTRY ROADSIRE PIE stand cookbook crusts fillings pies book image 1" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From slate.com: A Brief History of Pie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"At the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621, Pilgrims brought English style, meat-based recipes with them to the colonies. While pumpkin pie, which was first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash. It was not popularized in America until the early 1800's. Historians don't know all the dishes the Pilgrims served at the first Thanksgiving feats, but primary documents indicate that the pilgrims cooked fowl and venison and it's not unlikely that some of that meat found its way between sheets of dough at some point...because of their crusty tops, pies acted as a means to preserve food and were often used to keep the filling fresh during the winter months...Further, as the colonies spread out, the pie's role as a means to showcase local ingredients took hold and with it came a proliferation of new, sweet pies. A cookbook from 1796 listed only three types of sweet pies; a cookbook written in the late 1800's featured 8 sweet pie varieties; and by 1947 the Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking listed 65 different varieties of sweet pies</strong><span><strong>...</strong></span><strong>There are few things as American as apple pie, as the saying goes, but like much of America’s pie tradition, the original apple pie recipes came from England. These pre-Revolutionary prototypes were made with unsweetened apples and encased in an inedible shell. Yet the apple pie did develop a following, and was first referenced in the year 1589, in Menaphon by poet R. Greene: “Thy breath is like the steam of apple pies.”...Pies today are world-spanning treats, made with everything from apples to avocados. The winners of this year’s annual APC Crisco National Pie Championship included classic apple, pumpkin and cherry pies, but citrus pies, banana foster crème and Wolf Pack trail mix pies have all made the awards list. Pies have come a long way since the days of magpie and pepper, but many bakeries — including The Little Pie Shop in New York City, in the audio below — say a classic apple pie is still their top holiday seller."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7ba87ac3b48cf59cba651d6e6b90fb88e142f0c4/original/thanksgiving-playlist-2019.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/72905cef3485eff59c20088670ad91768a621ea4/original/its-friday-rooster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What's Thanksgiving without some cool music?!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>THANKSGIVING PLAYLIST 2023</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 1</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eatin' With The Boogie - Slim Gaillard</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xGabl4FJTbs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGabl4FJTbs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 2 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Everyone Eats When They Come To My House - Cab Calloway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="E03NZOIxGmQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E03NZOIxGmQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always been a big fan of what I like to call "Hep Cat Music"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For me this Cab Calloway tune really captures</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the spirit of a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Momma's in the Kitchen - Slim Gaillard</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rMSkFjwv0E4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMSkFjwv0E4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's another "Hep Cat" track that always reminds me of</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>my Mom & Gran'ma; both of them were excellent cooks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They later inspired me to work for a time</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>as a Cajun chef in several restaurants here in Long Island.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 3</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All That Meat & No Potatoes - Fats Waller</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VaJRg-RZ8Vo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VaJRg-RZ8Vo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 4</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Have A Party - Amos Milburn</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zHXAVAEJUVg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zHXAVAEJUVg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 5 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Home Cookin' - Jr. Walker & The All Stars</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d6RbC589JYg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d6RbC589JYg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 6 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dig This Menu Please! - Red Rodney</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="l7YW05Ewso8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l7YW05Ewso8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Red Rodney was at one time a member of the renowned Charlie Parker Quintet. After going out on his own and forming the Red Rodney Sextet, he cut this wild tune. I used to blast this in my restaurant kitchen during my Chef From Hell years when I was working on the line on a Saturday night. There's nothing like getting yourself out of the weeds with a tune like this!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 7 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Hungry Man - Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iQCyIs3U_ik" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQCyIs3U_ik?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Louis Jordan definitely falls into the "Hep Cat" genre. Jordan had a long career and created man cool food songs along with other musical treasures. The next tune is one of my favorite Louis Jordan songs....</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 8 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beans & Cornbread - Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fM9jT2eM6KQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fM9jT2eM6KQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Dan's Papers site: "his 1949 jump blues classic...from the first upbeat notes on tenor saxophone, </strong><i><strong>Beans and Cornbread</strong></i><strong> is a rollicking good time. The lyrics relate a story about Cornbread starting a fight with Beans, but just when things might get ugly, the complementary foods realize they are meant for each other and, in fact, '</strong><i><strong>go hand in hand</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>"Beans told Cornbread you ain’t straight </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>You better wake up or I’ll gash your gate </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Been in this pot since half past two </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Swelling and puffing and almost due </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>I’ll be ready tomorrow night, that’s what Beans said to Cornbread!"</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 10 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pork Chops & Mustard Greens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>-Ernie Andrews w/ the Maxwell Davis Orchestra</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XruvqMRidXw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XruvqMRidXw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 11 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Where's My Gravy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="cmJBHDVakTQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cmJBHDVakTQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's one of my favorite food tracks by a friend of mine named </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.luckylounge.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Steve Lucky"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Lucky</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If you're ever in the San Francisco area</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve plays frequently with his hot combo, the Rhumba Bums</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>featuring Miss Carmen Getit...be sure to check them out!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 12 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oysters & Wine at 2 am ></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2UNGUxhFIrI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2UNGUxhFIrI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This tune by Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette is on my Thanksgiving Playlist each and every year. Awhile ago, I was trying to find some info on Polk Miller and came across an article on him on the Wikipedia site:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Polk Miller was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in August 1844. While growing up, he learned to play the banjo from slaves on his father's plantation. He became a druggist in Richmond in 1860. During the American Civil War, he served as a Confederate artilleryman. At his drugstore in Richmond, Miller began making remedies for Sergeant, his favorite hunting dog. His friends soon found these remedies worked for their dogs as well. In 1868, began selling the products in the drugstore. This was the beginning of Sergeant's Pet Care Products, Inc. The tradename was established in 1886. By 2007, over 400 pet care products were sold under the Sergeant's trade name. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1892, he began performing music professionally. Through the 1890s he had a solo act in which he played banjo, sang songs and told stories. Already comfortably well-off from his drugstore business, Polk Miller had little need to earn money from such appearances, using them to raise funds for church repairs, Confederate monuments and Confederate veterans, while broadcasting his apologist views. In his own words: '</strong><i><strong>As an entertainer, it has been my aim to vindicate the slave-holding class against the charge of cruelty and inhumanity to the negro of the old time</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette had a variety show of </strong><i><strong>Stories, Sketches and Songs </strong></i><strong>depicting African American life before the Civil War. Miller was white, and the four members of the quartet were black. Until recently, only 2 of the 20 or so black singers that sang in the quartet were widely known: James L. Stamper and Randall Graves. However further research has identified the names of five others: Anderson Epps, first or lead tenor; Archie Johnson, baritone; Clarence Smith, second tenor; Alphonso DeWitt, basso; and Walter Lightfoot, baritone. They gained national prominence and toured between 1900 and 1911, stopping out of concern for the dangers of touring a racially integrated group.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At one performance, Mark Twain introduced Polk Miller at Madison Square Garden...Miller and his quartet played colleges and military schools, as well as the "most exclusive social clubs" in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. Polk Miller's and the Old South Quartette were featured on some of Thomas Edison's earlier phonograph recordings. In 2008, Tompkins Square issued seven 1909 Edison cylinder records and seven 1928 disc recordings in the compilation Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 14 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pass The Peas - The JBs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mUkfiLjooxs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mUkfiLjooxs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If you're still hungry this cool tune will get you where you wanna go!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK 15</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thanksgiving Day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ray Davies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yD2PXEue-Jw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yD2PXEue-Jw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ray Davies (who we all remember from The Kinks)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>wrote a heartfelt tune called (what else?) Thanksgiving Day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Come on over, come on over </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Come on over, it's Thanksgiving Day </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Come on over, come on over </strong></i></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Come on over, it's Thanksgiving Day</strong></i><strong>"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3156834efef1794fb1c8f7b0e1fac103e52d02af/original/knife-fork.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Track 16 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Have A Happy Thanksgiving </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ibE24uh0VME" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ibE24uh0VME?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This is one of my tunes from 2015</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I wrote it when I was working on my Christmas album</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/726388/johnny-pierre-s-holiday-jamboree" data-link-type="url"><span 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style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/66726882023-11-15T10:58:39-05:002023-11-15T11:01:54-05:00 Alive As Yesterday: 1969 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/742ac633c1fad38b2b240f08ff9fdea2b0743559/original/1969-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f1dd285ab2c604458b6c069ad74706a694892d8f/original/1969-the-kinks-taj-mahal-sha-na-na-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kinks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sha Na Na</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c738526dcb2fb8b004eb90cfa106b8af5ea3d713/original/1969-the-move-cold-blood-albert-king-fillmore-west-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="uVkATSKRoN4" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a8931e2f755770a2d702af10ac9cb4070b19b2a/original/1969-grateful-dead-flying-burrito-bros-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="L7dmhsihcw4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L7dmhsihcw4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AUM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Bros.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09091c67ba7a65203b7ded9290ffcd8fc300a030/original/1969-spirit-nazz-concert.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0eOHu0rMqMI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0eOHu0rMqMI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nazz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Cotton Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>State Fair Music Grounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/391a1f0b6259374f08eb1cc049fc4ee45f781369/original/grateful-dead-mcfarlin-auditorium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>McFarlin Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>@ Southern Methodist University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f471cfb3ba754db0bd1e4a63d2fee0cb68f539a/original/1969-june-royal-albert-hall-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Royal Albert Hall: Pop Proms</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Liverpool Scene</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mick Abraham's Blodwyn Pig</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pentangle, Duster Bennett</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dubliners, The Ian Campbell Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Young Tradition</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Royal Albert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a16653802697bbd4a595a9c5fca59328fa56e26/original/1969-grande-ballroom-mc5-taj-mahal-train-march-brothers-piers-asian-flu.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3hLPxa7rZO0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3hLPxa7rZO0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Asian Flu</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Train, March Bros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dce52097dc2a49ae09a98443bfd439730ef856e5/original/1969-led-zeppelin-grande-ballroom-with-linn-county-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wEPog_WdPE4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wEPog_WdPE4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linn County</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7fa1a6dabe8a7abc4be7d2fe874217e76b78d26c/original/1969-rolling-stones-tour-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CfV7eSoRpCk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CfV7eSoRpCk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5e5358d938bde00d5d56ffe1839a792031a2039/original/jimi-hendrix-stuttgart-germany.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stuttgart, Germany</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/924e470d6b1a8c2ea58a064be52bbee1ef679612/original/led-zeppelin-albert-king-the-rockpile-club-toronto-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rock Pile Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toronto, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/373501581af7fe589e5a662509f2c67d7b0bf71a/original/led-zeppelin-civic-auditorium-hawaii.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honolulu, HI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09f51aabd0806d82fd7e1fb021eab68adc384080/original/1969-the-doors-peanut-butter-conspiracy-whisky-a-go-go.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xje-T3pQ_8A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xje-T3pQ_8A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peanut Butter Conspiracy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whisky A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/622af83255ff51e29594e1945afb527d02971ac0/original/the-band-fillmore-east-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WcGkIIJMdzY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WcGkIIJMdzY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/219c844da2ef43e2b54f25f12d8d2e7c3a2fb6fb/original/creedence-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sons of Champlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ace of Cups</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/895436a80fbececf48c0ab5a1ffe6b817bb38563/original/1969-jimi-henrix-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Year's Eve</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0lPQb7aVdvw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0lPQb7aVdvw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix & The Band of Gypsies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Voices of East Harlem</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/73e1e23224598f87f98c4a819cf34cac0cbb7070/original/1969-janis-joplin-james-cotton-blues-band-henry-levitt-arena-wichita-ks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The James Cotton Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Henry Levitt Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Witchita, KS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/035b1865f0bf00f6f1af2dce753bf2d5dd6a1544/original/1969-fleetwood-mac-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tim Hardin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a0df94c13e36d16beb13a6a36b402c3a1ebdeb5c/original/the-monkees-wichita-ks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wP51Ogx_TRs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wP51Ogx_TRs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Monkees</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Century II Convention Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wichita, KS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cc7af1b74beebc4420c363a31dce232a1f3ebd37/original/the-who-palace-manchester-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Palace Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Manchester, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/63127dcdb595af999932089e0df9734b043e78f6/original/1969-the-who-boston-tea-party.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TQxtF8KWDWU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TQxtF8KWDWU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tony Williams</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53b7e7f53d4c6ea542e95a68d2651466aec145fd/original/1969-al-kooper-kinetic-playground-chicago-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Al Kooper Revue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kinetic Playground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5f92225e9b5f26e1dc84189fa3c3690e09c4218/original/james-brown-1969-mason-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wKLfwsN_c20" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wKLfwsN_c20?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>18 Piece Band & his Revue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Macon Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Macon, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8a7ad7e8e6352e2b7474f525ea424b57a07ac54/original/1969-bb-king-joe-turner-long-beach-arena-long-beach-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BB King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Turner</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Young Hearts, Delicates</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>& the one & only Wolfman Jack</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1bec340df9102b769ac777e9b44ded392204bcee/original/1969-grateful-dead-boston-tea-party-boston-ma.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Tea Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6e36fb1cfc93002c3570539ee7bfaa4b12758004/original/csny-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CSNY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold Blood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joy of Cooking, Lamb</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7b03c49ba3c697325c009073ac4ba60798163cf1/original/1969-mothers-of-invention-cal-state-fullerton-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Cooper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cal State</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fullerton, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ab5aa481fe7e17c77721836a02e043e91a6c2c5/original/1969-kinetic-playground-chicago-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin, Pacific Gas & Electric, Illinois Speed Press</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who, Buddy Rich & His Orchestra, Joe Cocker & the Grease Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soup, Vanilla Fudge, Muddy Waters, Rotary Connection,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Burdon, The Zombies, It's A Beautiful Day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Youngbloods</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kinetic Playground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8329c60d9b88c7d1fa6ff26f41a5f3e5683d2ad5/original/dead-quck-honolulu-hi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honolulu, HI</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd335951121c91dcd61149653076e494bf0b88d8/original/1969-grateful-dead-spirit-of-creation-sds-ball-student-union-ballroom-university-of-utah-salt-lake-cit-ut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit of Creation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SDS Ball Student Union 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allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/912386/yer-money-or-yer-ears" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong><u>Live Album Recording</u></strong></i></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Freelance Vandals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Right Track Inn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Freeport, NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/24cf6a82a35fee8d3fa397b2e266172ac28012fd/original/1983-english-beat-r-e-m-alumni-hall-the-univ-of-wester-ontario-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The English Beat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Campus of University of Western Ontario</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4f634124335ef5ea2d3f0b9c11839f60186dcec2/original/1983-may-joe-king-carrasco-peppermint-lounge.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Time</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Cramps</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Standing Waves, Screaming Honkers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Peppermint Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6827275d309d39f602fa9261e8c861191e47a881/original/the-police-syncronicity-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Synchronicity Tour </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Rupp Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Lexington, KY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c4b762f10940ff7f99593151e22315de30d6392a/original/1983-cheap-trick-zebra-civic-center-arena-pittsburgh-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nnn9kAhvBGc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nnn9kAhvBGc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Zebra</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Civic Center Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Pittsburgh, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e1bc5e44ea5cd17e463bda929f55230ac9d9673/original/1983-david-bowie-serious-moonlight-tour-83.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Serious Moonlight Tour '83</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6pklPO4WpAI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pklPO4WpAI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Richfield Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Richfield Township, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ac3252e9005de83d2b9edba4b02607ecc8cd4e66/original/picnic-83-the-police-cne-exhibition-stadium.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>The Police Picnic '83</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Simple Minds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Peter Tosh</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Fixx</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>King Sunny Ade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Blue Peter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>CNE Exhibition Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Ontario, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fcc05e4fb57dd02ef75e2f3a8e86421c12346354/original/1983-u2-war-tour-palladium-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>War Tour '83</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EM4vblG6BVQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EM4vblG6BVQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Palladium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a53784e6911ab877fce5deb4c5efddb54dc8a9c0/original/zz-top-eliminator-tour-s-f-x-concert-hall-dublin-ireland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Eliminator Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pugbEbSLgeg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pugbEbSLgeg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>S.F.X. Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Dublin, Ireland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa87c3c99951018d460f01f92899bde4ee1362a6/original/r-e-m-beverly-theatre-brooklyn-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Let's Active</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Beverly Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Beverly, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/da4d15033fe5bb4a03e1efea44d98fd8fa79bde4/original/warren-zevon-connolly-hall-cork-ireland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Irish Tour '83</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Warren Zevon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Stadium Dublin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Connolly Hall Cork</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Ireland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3465503764e25e5a1d12f406bfa9ff280476c784/original/1983-monsters-of-rock-donington-park-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Monsters Of Rock</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Ozzy Osbourne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Scorpions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Def Leppard</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Motorhead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Bad News </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Warlock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Donington Park, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09e87611bcbbe30308a5f46f6cf34d7fcefd44c8/original/david-bowie-serious-moonlight-tour-offenbach-stadion.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Serious Moonlight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Offenbach Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/552bef3f89418535d9aa45d27cf549c5209d9c9d/original/1983-stray-cats-musikhalle-hamburg-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="o9mdX8EKSQQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o9mdX8EKSQQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Stray Cats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Musichalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Hamburg, Germany</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89fe55aeeef6fcdfb1911b021ff94de1a40e9d9f/original/1983-talking-heads-greek-theatre-griffith-park-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Greek Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Griffith Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/33d35abae2cf178fb44208142122213c342d9e21/original/1983-the-lords-of-the-new-church-batsdakapp-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Lords of the New Church</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Batshkapp</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2321e546354d533a5a60065398126b5cc1dba7b3/original/1983-ub40-zenith-theater-paris-france.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">UB40</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Zenith Theatre</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Paris, France</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e366cebbe602dae5963ed157aa9dfd1fc7d2cdd9/original/1983-r-e-m-i-i-club-athens-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Shelf Life</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Art in the Dark</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>i & i club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Athens Georgia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/afc63f25eeefdcdbbfdb6940dacd852fc92496cd/original/1983-rory-gallagher-s-f-x-concert-hall-dublin-ireland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="75xvPo_XaqE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/75xvPo_XaqE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Irish Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Rory Gallagher & His Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span 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Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Dublin, Ireland</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e815e28d2eddd741ec5fdcf36adfe85a629d37f/original/the-stranglers-palais-des-sports-toulouse-france.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Stranglers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Palais Des Sports</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Toulouse, France</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3c010f8677c54efd608e48eccee6aa434d2ab2a/original/1983-john-lee-hooker-montreux-switzerland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4dZ_p2--j3w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4dZ_p2--j3w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>John Lee Hooker & The Coast To Coast Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Montreux Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Montreux, Switzerland</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c3d3475eebc2da9f9720958505f5992c7c44da09/original/1983-joan-jett.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nO6YL09T8Fw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nO6YL09T8Fw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Joan Jett & The Blackhearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Huey Lewis & The News</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Unc Butler Hancock Gym</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>University of Northern Colorado</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Greeley, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/697e62ed953f609bc0866dba0f0ae86276beee0e/original/the-band-veterans-memorial-aud-columbus-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HZtofzJEBXk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HZtofzJEBXk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Cate Brothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Veterans Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Columbus, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3df6af6fae43a998195de65987a06ff00a3b27f2/original/1983-neil-young-solo-wvu-coliseum.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xPQJcUeG7jM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xPQJcUeG7jM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Neil Young (solo)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>WVU Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Morgantown, WV</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a3f8c4b6c0b98a7921c52297bfd93842e781db41/original/1983-reunion-of-return-to-forever-fox-theatre-atlanta-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Return To Forever</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Fox Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/967471e2c7bf21ae93634c8308fa5a749e90225e/original/thin-lizzy-johanneshovs-isstadion.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Farewell Concerts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Thin Lizzy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Johanneshovs Isstadion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Sweden</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6f8cf5be543fe73aca9f581e1d8e187479494eca/original/cirlce-jerks-reggae-lounge.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Golden Showers Of Hits Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Circle Jerks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>False Prophets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Adrenalin O.D.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Reggae Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6061402450b6a7efd69ac7098093131a5fe3ba0f/original/1983-grandmaster-flash-the-furious-five-peppermint-lounge-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Peppermint Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3bfe3ffc3e84addc800db0f8d05a76c4a05f8660/original/1983-the-police-hollywood-park-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Berlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Fixx</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Thompson Twins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Hollywood Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Inglewood, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08ad5909b3c86f038eea12849e0154cfb5571ea3/original/1983-van-halen-poliedro-de-caracas-caracas-venezuela.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Poliedro De Caracas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Caracas, Venezuela</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ec9b5fd663daf22987a1f92fdf462daf27076a7/original/1983-u2-la-sports-arena-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>U2</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>L.A. Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a1c0a4cc164130255d14768a28ea41c138146c4/original/1983-jazz-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6u_opoIk8xI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6u_opoIk8xI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>1983 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36c9069b6b2d14352b8b85b391d9d83150815919/original/1983-the-clash-long-beach-arena-long-beach-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>Out of Control Tour '83</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Malcolm McLaren</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Los Lobos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Long Beach Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/238ff5d9227c4716b5a1b00776c49d167b58feb7/original/1983-ramones-the-vogue-indianapolis-in.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Vogue club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Indianapolis, IN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://mem-expert.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/04165856/116138-112_01.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="Prince 1983 Concert Tour 22 x 28 Original Poster for his 1999 Tour – Memorabilia Expert" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mn7NpvHp0NY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mn7NpvHp0NY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>THE 1999 TOUR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>PRINCE </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>THE TIME</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>VANITY 6</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Baltimore Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/313f5edba723d39254ef6bdf8f7290a6d9bac2e5/original/glastonbury-cnd-festival-1983.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><i><strong>1983 Glastonbury CND Festival</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-lDtCZgflk0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-lDtCZgflk0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Curtis Mayfield, The Beat, UB40</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Marillion, The Chieftans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Denis Brown, The Enid, Tom Paxton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Jean-Phillipe Rykiel, Incantation, Moving Hearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Alexei Sayle, Dr. John, Aswad, A Certain Ratio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Farm Band, Alexis Korner, Black Roots</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Melanie, Kevin Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Worthy Farm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Pilton, Shepton Mallet</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Somerset, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c80f10970e4da49de36c2db5570169f6c92b0943/original/us-festival-83-san-bernadino-ca.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/842083677bc44ed857eb851787b4e10f46084168/original/us-festival-1983.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="T665giSyrbE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T665giSyrbE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>US FESTIVAL '83</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Glen Helen Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>San Bernardino, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>"The Clash headlined the New Wave day but were fed up that they were receiving a decidedly un-punky $500,000 when the other day's headliners - David Bowie and Van Halen, were being paid a cool and frankly ludicrous $1.5million. These were unprecedented fees and off the scale for 1983, in fact, they'd be off the scale now. After pointing out that they'd sold a lot less records than the other two headliners and fed up with The Clash bitching and moaning, the promoters put images of their contract on the jumbo screens to show the fans how much they were getting for an hour's work, presumably in an attempt to humiliate them.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>375,000 turned up for Heavy Metal day. Over 600,000 people turned up across the four shows but it was day two, heavy metal Sunday that pulled in 375,000 alone. Featuring Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Triumph, Scorpions and Van Halen, it was a stellar line-up and Van Halen were in peak form.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>The Rock day was more unfocused with acts like the Pretenders and Quarterflash and Berlin rubbing shoulders with U2, Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Weirdly the Country day was a week afterwards, headlined by Willie Nelson. Almost a separate one-off festival, really. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Estimates reckon the gig lost up to $15million dollars due to the fees being so high. The Us Festivals were the first to have video game tents and the first to have huge TV screens too." (DJ Tees blog)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>FREELANCE VANDALS 1979 WBAB SHOW @ THE SILVER DOLLAR SALOON</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>AVAILABLE NOW ON THE MIND SMOKE </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>ALBUM PAGE</u></strong></span></a></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/883fbca179f8cfb34174fff043c0ab304408a53e/original/early-publicity-shot-by-john-engelhard-1977-no-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show!</strong></span></p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65660492023-11-01T03:55:47-04:002023-11-01T03:55:47-04:001966: A Moment In Time<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/da33271348287c5f668a0ddc4b28d68d76979d74/original/1966-icon.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/451e039d30c96a37ca9cd55935a85fca8936f556/original/image-2-new-sound.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Over the years there have been many arguments concerning which year produced the best rock album. While this is most probably arrived at via a subjective view point, there is a serious case to be made for the year 1966; a year which produced such classics as Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, The Beach Boys aka Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds, the Beatles' Revolver, Aftermath by the Rolling Stones and East-West by The Butterfield Blues Band. In a way, 1966 reflected the changing structure of rock & roll while also defining the future direction of rock music. The albums I just mentioned set the bar for taking a visceral approach when it came to creating albums that would mean something and endure the test of time. There was a palpable sense of change encased in the music of 1966. It was the year that rock & roll transformed itself into rock music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"What’s the most innovative year ever for rock ’n’ roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular music broadly defined as rock. There’s 1954, the year Bill Haley & His Comets’ </strong><i><strong>Rock Around the Clock</strong></i><strong> signaled the flashpoint of rock ’n’ roll, and Elvis Presley first stepped up to a microphone at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn. Or 1964, the year Beatlemania exploded around the world and the launch of the British Invasion. Don’t discredit 1967, with the Summer of Love, the blossoming of flower power and psychedelic music. Some stand by 1977, which saw the arrival of that </strong><i><strong>young, loud and snotty</strong></i><strong> music called punk rock...But 50 years down the line, a case can be made that 1966 may have been the single most creatively expansive year of all." (Los Angeles Times)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3b6ddddf0b01e0f671e1b0794151c944760c960e/original/image-3-eye-people.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was a time of enormous ambition and serious engagement. Music was no longer commenting on life but had become indivisible from life. It had become the focus not just of youth consumerism but a way of seeing the prism through which the world was interpreted. 1966 began in pop and ended with rock. Along with the increased ambition to be heard in the music, it was a year of rapid change and development in the various liberation movements - not just civil rights - the engine of dissent in the mid-sixties - but women's rights and the emerging homophile movement...Everyone thinks they know a out the sixties. It was a golden pop age; it was the moment when everything started going downhill. It was the start of an alternative society; it was only a couple of hundred people in London while real life - whatever that is - went on elsewhere...The premise throughout this time is that music did reflect the world during 1966; that it was connected to events outside the pop culture bubble and was understood to do so by many of its listeners; that there was something more than image and sales at stake. It was a year when audacious ideas and experiments were at a premium in the mass market and in youth culture, with a corresponding backlash from those for whom the rate of change was too quick. The resulting tension was terrific...1966 was a year of noise and tumult, of brightly colored patterns clashing with black and white politics, of furious forward motion and an outraged, awakening reaction. There was a sense that anything was possible to those who dared, a willingness to strive towards the seemingly unattainable. There remains an overwhelming urgency that marks the music and movies of that year, counter-balanced by traces of loss, disconnection and deep melancholy. But underneath all the sound an fury - and the moments of regret - lies a profound silence. This is not the silence of peace, of solitude, of sought withdrawl - or even of meditation...It's not a silence that exists within itself; it is a rupture, a prelude to something that if barely conceivable. This silence is an artificially created vacuum - a few instants of bone-shaking terror - that turns the world inside out....1966 was the sixties peak, the year when the decade exploded." (Jon Savage, 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f80fa9d066c6d61435ce0fb2e8153f742c13b7bb/original/mothers-of-invention-1966.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2b2a0fc157efd5324ce5166f6c46bcd9684b9f6/original/yardbirds.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Most appreciations of '66 zero in on a handful of Acknowledged Masterpieces by </strong><i><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Beatles</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Beach Boys</strong></i><strong> and the </strong><i><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></i><strong>. Which makes sense. They'd all belong on any list of albums that shook the world. However, it wasn't only that those few LP's were so towering. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, the 8th or 9th best British or American band (Them, let's say, or the Standells), could find room near the top of any reasonable person's best-of list without fear of ridicule. It was a freakish, unprecedented barrage: if your year-end Top 10 scribbled on 12/31/66 included those Acknowledged Masterpieces plus albums by </strong><i><strong>Otis Redding</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Kinks</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Lovin' Spoonful</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>John Mayall's Bluesbreakers</strong></i><strong> with </strong><i><strong>Eric Clapton</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Mothers of Invention</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Yardbirds</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Tim Hardin</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Animals</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Donovan</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Blues Project</strong></i><strong>, and the </strong><i><strong>Young Rascals</strong></i><strong>. That's just for starters... </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Consider this: in 1966, 27 different singles made #1 on the Billboard chart, more than in any other year from the beginning of the rock and roll era (1955) to the end of the 1960's. You couldn't keep up with the comings and goings of songs scampering up and sliding down the charts, but that side of the pop sphere was always about the hit single. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What was changing in '66 was the rise of the rock album; it was as though the previous year's </strong><i><strong>Rubber Soul</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Highway 61 Revisited</strong></i><strong> gave everyone permission to creatively stretch out across two (or in the cases of Dylan and Zappa, four) album sides, sometimes at insane length (e.g., The Seeds' </strong><i><strong>Up in Her Room</strong></i><strong>), sometimes brilliantly (the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's </strong><i><strong>East-West</strong></i><strong>). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1966 was The Spot. The crossroads of AM and FM, mono and stereo, 45 and 33⅓, mod and hippie, the Beach Boys on the West Coast, the Four Seasons on the East Coast. It wasn't a great year because 'Pet Sounds' and 'Blonde on Blonde' came out, but because 'Pet Sounds' and 'Blonde on Blonde' were a part of something bigger. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1966 was David Bailey shooting Jean Shrimpton for Vogue and the Stones for 'Aftermath'; Jerry Schatzberg's fuzzed-up fold-out on 'Blonde on Blonde'; Klaus Voormann's black-and-white collage on 'Revolver'; Jean-Marie Perier's shots of Francoise Hardy and his photo of Marianne Faithfull in the high grass on the cover of 'Faithfull Forever'; Guy Webster's sunlight-streaked shots of the Mamas and the Papas; the pop art on The Who's A Quick One." (Music Aficionado, Mitchell Cohen, Why 1966 Was The Best Year for Music Ever)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f8cd2789d260d00e883a33573fa2e0bfbfbd46b/original/image-6-blonde-on-blone.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fm-po_FUmvM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fm-po_FUmvM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, Bob Dylan released the very first double album in rock & roll and it was called </strong><i><strong>Blonde On Blonde</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1a27b783dd9b9392b8774016f88dea0b15821c26/original/bob-dylan-1966.jpg/!!/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"it represented a tipping point in popular music, redefining the possibilities of rock and roll and more. It changed the way artists approached the genre, as well as the way fans listened to it. With his fusion of poetry and rock in its broadest sense, Dylan liberated other artists, giving them license to express their inner poet through their music. The record also accelerated the shift of focus in popular music from singles to albums, and in the process, elevated the long-playing record as an art form...Blonde on Blonde unquestionably had an impact on singer-songwriters and that album was one of the pinnacles of those times." (That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound, Daryl Sanders, Chicago Review Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c22908e009017e8d4d4ca020e52d525f8bedeead/original/dylan-nashville.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Blonde On Blonde remains Dylan’s most eclectic, mercurial and indecipherable album; even the famous cover portrait is out of focus. The record cannot be seen out of context: it completed the mid-1960s trilogy, following Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Five months before recording began, Dylan had made arguably the most significant step in his career, and perhaps in all rock music, when on Sunday 25 July 1965, he played the Newport folk festival with a band that included Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield and proceeded to rip the night apart with searing electric accounts of </strong><i><strong>Maggie’s Farm</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Like a Rolling Stone</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry</strong></i><strong>. He was booed, (as he would be when he took the sound to Britain in 1966) although Joe Boyd, who mixed that sound at Newport, recalls how '</strong><i><strong>more people liked it than didn’t</strong></i><strong>.'. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After an initial recording in which </strong><i><strong>One of Us Must Know</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>(Sooner or Later)</strong></i><strong> was laid down in New York in January 1966, the rest of the album was laid down in Nashville over two sessions from 14-17 February and 7-10 March – 13 songs in six days, all on four tracks, not eight as has been suggested – ergo, more than one instrument on each track. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From his touring band The Hawks (later The Band), Dylan brought Robbie Robertson on lead guitar and Al Kooper on shimmering Hammond, and the most accomplished country session men in town, including Kenny Buttrey on drums, Wayne Moss and Joe South on guitars, and bassists Charlie McCoy and Henry Strzelecki. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Of the first Nashville session, Dylan has said: '</strong><i><strong>The musicians played cards, I wrote out a song, we’d do it, they’d go back to their game and I’d write out another song</strong></i><strong>.' Actually, the band was often woken up and summoned to the studio in the middle of the night. The musicians were arranged in a circle, so as to feed off one another. And most of the songs from those first sessions were indeed completed by a first or second take: </strong><i><strong>Fourth Time Around</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat</strong></i><strong> and the record’s two haunting and haunted masterpieces: </strong><i><strong>Visions of Johanna</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drummer Kenny Buttrey’s recollections of recording Sad-Eyed Lady, in Clinton Heylin’s book </strong><i><strong>Behind the Shades</strong></i><strong>, are a revelation: Dylan said, he recounts, '‘</strong><i><strong>We’ll do a verse and chorus and I’ll play my harmonica thing … and we’ll see how it goes from there’ … We prepared ourselves ... for a basic two- to three-minute record</strong></i><strong>.' However, '</strong><i><strong>a second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody’s just peaking it up, ’cause we thought, man, this is it… After about five, six minutes of this stuff, everyone starts looking at each other, we’d built to the peak of our limit</strong></i><strong>.' Yet they continued, at that peak, for 11 minutes, 22 seconds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Blonde on Blonde</strong></i><strong> denies resolution, resorting instead to the absurd. The absurd in the album I later found in Samuel Beckett, and his hollow laugh, which one learns, and to which one surrenders, later in life. Or in Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, with their despairing irony and wit." (The Guardian, 2016</strong></span>)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5679c14ee951f46efdaa108499dc32a14fa5ede8/original/image-7-dylan-with-shades.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.interferenza.net/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="1966 Playboy Magazine Bob Dylan&nbsp;Interview"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>1966 Playboy Magazine Bob Dylan Interview</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b84c3466a891c702d6e566970b95e6f0bc4d6cc7/original/image-8-dylan-hawks-concert-poster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2bc630d90c846568b392e6c01b06add55cbc119/original/dylan-on-the-1966-tour.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Legendary photographer Barry Feinstein (who previously shot the cover of Dylan’s album The Times They Are a-Changin’ in 1964) accompanied Dylan on the UK leg of the tour at the musician’s behest to document the goings-on, both onstage and off. The 1966 tour was also filmed by director D. A. Pennebaker whose footage was edited by Dylan and Howard Alk to produce a little-seen film, Eat the Document, an anarchic account of the tour. Drummer Mickey Jones also filmed the tour with an 8mm home movie camera. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During many of the concerts, members of the audience, refusing to accept Dylan's new electrified music, booed Dylan and his band.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many of the 1966 tour concerts were audio recorded by Columbia Records. These recordings eventually produced two official albums, the so-called Royal Albert Hall concert and in 2016, The Real Royal Albert Hall Concert, as well as The 1966 Live Recordings, a 36 CD box set of every recorded concert from the 1966 tour. There are also many unofficial bootleg recordings of the tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dylan's 1966 Tour ended with his motorcycle accident late on Friday afternoon, July 29, 1966.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8a23d8db41fa295fe64c14d86d0f667e6cacf42f/original/image-9-dylan-concert-tour-set-list.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xLG0T2IeGBY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xLG0T2IeGBY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a954b6f25ee0dc78c564800cf96b4978ef4618f4/original/image-10-pet-sounds.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d4d257aa784c1ff725f1fadca94438e49b61f266/original/image-11-brian-wilson.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Widely considered a Brian Wilson solo project, this seems harsh on Tony Asher’s lyrics (elegantly distilling Wilson’s fractured state of mind), and the band members’ iridescent harmonies. An admirer of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, Wilson also had a friendly rivalry with The Beatles. Just as Wilson loved Rubber Soul, John Lennon hailed Pet Sounds as the greatest album ever; McCartney said that, without it, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band couldn’t have happened. While Pet Sounds was feted in Britain, it barely scraped into the top 10 of the US Billboard 100...making Pet Sounds half a century ago, Wilson reinvented the album as the in-depth illumination of an artist’s soul, kicking open a creative fire-door, liberating the album to exist as a self-contained art form on a par with literature, theater, art, cinema, dance; anything the artist desired." (The Guardian, Was 1966 Pop's Greatest Year?) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the summer of 1966 there were some fans who were confused by The Beach Boys’ 11th studio album – where were the striped shirts and the surfboards? In the intervening five decades, however, Pet Sounds has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, a record that has topped countless polls of the greatest albums ever made, and is revered by musicians and fans alike as the pinnacle of Brian Wilson’s songwriting, production and all-round creative genius. Brian began seriously working on his masterpiece on Tuesday, 18 January 1966, at Western Recorders, and continued for 27 sessions spread over three months at four separate Los Angeles studios. This was an unprecedented amount of studio hours to be devoted to one album, but Brian was in pursuit of perfection. Just take a listen to any of the tracking sessions released on the various reissues of Pet Sounds: Brian was totally focused and demanded nothing less from everyone who worked on the project." (Udiscovermusic.com 2018)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="s-2-KLAcIAU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s-2-KLAcIAU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/43b69a02516fb4e79800b1548dafe7c115b558f6/original/brian-wilson-good-humor.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Pet Sounds, though, was a sustained act of complex creation, one part work of orchestral ambition, one part proto-concept album. A nervous breakdown on a flight between LA and Houston in December 1964 had prompted Brian Wilson to refocus his energies from touring and promotion to the more enjoyable pursuits of songwriting and the boundless potential of the recording studio. He had been further liberated by his introduction to marijuana and hallucinogenics the following year. Now, with The Beatles’ Rubber Soul ringing in his ears and his competitive streak risen, he set out to make what he promised his wife Marilyn would be 'the greatest rock album ever made'. To turn the pocket symphonies in his head into gorgeous reality, he made two crucial moves. Firstly, he entrusted the task of translating his ideas about the loss of innocence and the imponderability of existence to advertising copywriter-turned-lyricist Tony Asher. Secondly, he enlisted the help of ace session musicians The Wrecking Crew, including guitarist Glen Campbell and bassist Carol Kaye, veterans of Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound, with the 23-year-old Wilson orchestrating the sessions himself. The resultant songs – Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder), I’m Waiting For The Day, God Only Knows, I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times, Caroline, No – were perfect miniatures of hymnal wonder, which expressed with devotional clarity the anxieties and longings of an adolescent poised on the cusp of agonizing maturity...But Wilson wasn’t done. Pet Sounds may have stalled at No.10 in the US after its release in May 1966, but any disappointment at its commercial performance was allayed by the arrival of a new single, Good Vibrations, in October. With its modal shifts and multi-sectional mosaic of sound fragments pieced together by Wilson over eight months in multiple studios, it set new standards with regard to what rock music could sound like and do, and blazed a trail for others to follow. It was the epic, euphoric anthesis of Pet Sounds’ glorious melancholia. But how to describe it? The first psychedelic single? Acid bubblegum? Something else? In his own roundabout way, Brian Wilson answered the question himself when asked whether Good Vibrations was a pioneering example of progressive rock? 'Yes,' he replied simply, 'it was.'” (loudersound.com 2018)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2485b1d8fa0e050b3d45fecc5d10eebf626d1477/original/brian-wilson-smile-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the fall of 1966, Brian Wilson was conducting sessions for a new album called SMILE; a project that was empowered by Wilson's ambitions as a producer for The Beach Boys. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The material for the new album abounded in short </strong><i><strong>feels</strong></i><strong>, beautiful fragments that were in varying stages of completion but were not yet assembled, as was intended into part of a larger whole. It was only Wilson who knew the design, and there were signs that the complicated patchwork was beginning to unravel....Wilson was completely in control of the studio, teaching each musician their part, which he already had in his head." (Jon Savage, 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/efeace2dc0c7b4b5ac014f1c33eb7eaf5c3cc871/original/brian-wilson-smile-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When work began on a track called '</strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong>' that things began to go awry. "They began the take: A gigantic fire howled out of the massive studio speakers in a pounding crush of pictorial music that summoned up visions of roaring, windstorm flames, falling timbers, mournful sirens and sweating firemen, building into a peak and crackling off into fading embers as a single drum turned into a collapsing wall and the fire-engine cellos dissolved and disappeared. '</strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong>' is indeed one of the most frightening pieces of music ever to come out of Los Angeles...Nothing could have been more different to the tenderness of </strong><i><strong>Pet Sounds</strong></i><strong>." (Jon Savage, 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa7a15c82d3b0fbe24c9b69a4dd4e7f598bdc299/original/image-12-revolver-album.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yXdbvBzxeb8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXdbvBzxeb8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"After a hiatus following their last tour, the Beatles had decided that </strong><i><strong>live dates were definitely not on the agenda</strong></i><strong>. As they recounted various horror stories from their summer tour, Geoff Emerick, the EMI studio engineer, noted that 'beneath the usual banter, the four Beatles were considerably more subdued, more on their guard that they had ever been before. Clearly, the events of the past few months had taken a toll on them; they seemed almost robbed of their youth. No longer were they the four cuddly mop tops; now they looked and acted like seasoned musicians, weary veterans of the road." (Jon Savage, The Year The Decade Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"As they devoted more time to the studio, the Beatles' individual voices and confidence continued to grow, resulting in the sonic landmark Revolver. Like any band, the Beatles' recording career was often altered, even pushed forward, as much by external factors as their own creative impulses. The group's competitive drive had them, at times, working to match or best Bob Dylan or Brian Wilson; their drug use greatly colored the musical outlook of John Lennon and George Harrison in particular...The most important of these external shifts in the Beatles narrative, however, was a series of changes that allowed them to morph into a studio band. The chain of events that ushered in the band's changing approach to studio music began before Rubber Soul, but the results didn't come into full fruition until Revolver, a 35-minute LP that took 300 hours of studio time to create-- roughly three times the amount allotted to Rubber Soul, and an astronomical amount for a record in 1966...This new approach not only greatly altered their work environment, but drove the Beatles to value the flexibility of emerging technology. They also cashed in some of their commercial capital to abandon the mentally and physically sapping practice of touring-- and the glad-handing and public relations requirements that went with it. Exceptionalism became the watchword for the band, and it responded by using its freedom to push forward its art and, by extension, the whole of pop music. Musically, then, the Beatles began to craft dense, experimental works; lyrically, they matched that ambition, maturing pop from the stuff of teen dreams to a more serious pursuit that actively reflected and shaped the times in which its creators lived." (pitchfork.com, Scott Plagenhoef, The Beatles Revolver)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ce97458d7f623fa42bc33a3731bad6e15c2f59d/original/image-13-bang.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Producer George Martin, who by all accounts, was the closest thing there was to a fifth Beatle, helped guide the group’s innovative sound— from the double-string quartet on Eleanor Rigby to the French horn obligato on For No One...t was also thanks to 20-year-old engineer Geoff Emerick, who was promoted to replace veteran Norman Smith. Emerick is most notable for his work on the first track recording for Revolver, Lennon’s “Tomorrow Never Knows.” By recording his voice through a Leslie speaker, it gave it the faraway sound the song is known for, which was something that had never been done before. It was ideas like this, along with the microphone placement for McCartney’s bass and Starr’s drums, that paved the way for the way studio recordings were done after Revolver...But it wasn’t just the studio effects and instruments that made Revolver stand out from the rest of the Beatles catalog. It was the songwriting...All four Beatles were arguably at their artistic peak in 1966. But during the Revolver sessions, the group also showed signs of crumbling as each member started pursuing their own creative paths...as 1966 neared its end, the group began work on Strawberry Fields Forever, a song written by Lennon that would guide the band’s musical direction in the coming year." (Cuepoint website, Charles J. Moss, How the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Gave Brian Wilson a Nervous Breakdown)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64832638216a49044eff6924b545397e3ec57087/original/image-14-multi-beatles.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbc19370884d15995cd483a35e54a7bca786e906/original/image-15-aftermath.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="O4irXQhgMqg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O4irXQhgMqg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7f2e7ba86d22ab5bb7e8277785a7549551843868/original/image-16-1966-rolling-stones.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"There's a moment in almost every legendary artist's career that marks the period in which they transcend the merely good and become truly great. </strong><i><strong>Aftermath</strong></i><strong> is the Rolling Stones' moment. By the time they put out Aftermath on April 15, 1966, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were writing all of the band's songs. The songs are bigger and bolder. They take more risks, wandering outside of the blues and R&B parameters that steadied the band during its first three years. And for the first time, a Rolling Stones album plays like one – an LP crafted to come together as a total listening experience. The album was made during a handful of sessions in Hollywood in early December 1965 and early March 1966. It was the group's first LP to be recorded entirely in the U.S., and the first in which Brian Jones played around with a variety of instruments not exactly known for their use in rock music: dulcimer, marimba, sitar and koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, among them. Like other notable albums from 1966 Aftermath was a pivotal moment in both the artist's career as well as an advancement for rock 'n' roll in general. The Stones' record arrived before all of them, signaling a turning point in the future direction of popular music." (Ultimate Classic Rock site, Michael Gallucci, How the Rolling Stones Took a Big Leap On Aftermath)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a5bfc6efe0e91a934ab2297fab75a8c9639256d1/original/brian-jones-aftermath-session.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Although it was their fourth album released in Britain and their sixth album released in America, Aftermath was really the second “true” album by The Rolling Stones, following 1965’s Out Of Our Heads. This one, like that previous one, was released in two distinct versions in the UK and in the USA, a common practice for the day (this review will look at the “greater” album, considering all the tracks included on either version of Aftermath). The UK hit single “Paint It Black” was added to the American version, replacing four songs that were included on the UK version. With Out Of Our Heads, the band reached the peak of their mid-sixties (then cutting-edge) mixture of Chicago-style blues and pop-rock. Aftermath builds on this while it progresses the band more towards their distinct sound and image as “rock and roll’s bad boys”. It is also the first Stones album to include all original material, written by the tandem of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Although not himself a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones was the driving force behind some of the unique and distinct sonic quality of the album. Jones incorporated wider musical influences, such as psychedelia and folk, and widely expanded the use of instrumentation, with songs on Aftermath including touches of dulcimer, sitar, marimba, and various keyboards." (Classic Rock Review)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/43a83d6f51a5f1e04de6f250fca4052d00476127/original/1image-18-east-west.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TnN6_I1z-2E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TnN6_I1z-2E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another album that belongs in the pantheon of all the albums listed above is </strong><i><strong>East-West</strong></i><strong> by the Butterfield Blues Band. "That the first psychedelic album might have come from a blues band was one thing. That one of the most influential blues albums of all time might have come from the same group, well, that was another. That both things were wrapped up inside the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s East-West, however, is undeniable. Butterfield was joined on his sophomore record by guitarist Elvin Bishop, bassist Jerome Arnold, keyboardist Mark Naftalin, drummer Billy Davenport and lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who, like Butterfield, was at his peak. Each member brought his own interests into an increasingly collaborative structure. 'Pre-East-West, I was listening to a lot of Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar and guys that played modal music,' Bloomfield said in a WBEZ interview, 'And the idea wasn’t to see how far you could go harmonically, but to see how far you could go melodically or modally. And that’s what I was doing in East-West, and I think that’s why a lot of guitar players liked it.' </strong><i><strong>East-West </strong></i><strong>arrived in August 1966 as a swift kick to the doors of convention, in particular with its Eastern influences and long-form jams. Both rock and blues were absorbed in the aftershocks for years. Its impact on Santana and the Grateful Dead, for starters, can't be overstated." (Ultimate Classic Rock website: Nick Deriso, 50 Years ago: Paul Butterfield Blues Band Re-Writes Rock's Rule Book with East-West)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Like the band's eponymous record debut, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, this album features traditional blues covers and the guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. Unlike the debut album, Bishop also contributed guitar solos; drummer Sam Lay had left the band due to illness and was replaced by the more jazz-oriented Billy Davenport. The social complexion of the band changed as well; ruled by Butterfield in the beginning, it evolved into more of a democracy both in terms of financial reward and input into repertoire.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One result was the inclusion of two all-instrumental extended jams at the instigation of Bloomfield following the group's successful appearance at The Fillmore in San Francisco during March alongside Jefferson Airplane.[4] Both reflected his love of jazz, as the blue note-laden "Work Song" featuring harmonica by Butterfield had become a hard bop standard, and the title track "East-West" used elements of modal jazz as introduced by Miles Davis on his ground-breaking Kind of Blue album. Bloomfield had become enamored of work by John Coltrane in that area, especially his incorporation of ideas from Indian raga music. The album also included Michael Nesmith's song "Mary, Mary," which Nesmith would soon record with his band The Monkees - although original pressings of </strong><i><strong>East-West</strong></i><strong> did not include a songwriter's credit for this track.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In an interview, keyboardist Mark Naftalin notes that the song </strong><i><strong>East-West</strong></i><strong> was inspired by an all-night LSD trip that primary songwriter Mike Bloomfield experienced in the fall of 1965, during which the late guitarist said '</strong><i><strong>he'd had a revelation into the workings of Indian music</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Naftalin went on to explain that ;The song was based, like Indian music, on a drone. In Western musical terms, it 'stayed on the one'. The song was tethered to a four-beat bass pattern and structured as a series of sections, each with a different mood, mode and color, always underscored by the drummer, who contributed not only the rhythmic feel but much in the way of tonal shading, using mallets as well as sticks on the various drums and the different regions of the cymbals. In addition to playing beautiful solos, Paul [Butterfield] played important, unifying things [on harmonica] in the background - chords, melodies, counterpoints, counter-rhythms. This was a group improvisation. In its fullest form it lasted over an hour.' The album is also credited with spawning the harder acid rock sound. The track </strong><i><strong>East-West,</strong></i><strong> with its early use of the extended rock solo, has been described as laying 'the roots of psychedelic acid rock' and featuring 'much of acid-ro</strong></span>ck's eventual DNA.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b6570c84abf20712c74fadf46282ce99c16c69b/original/image-19-crawdaddy-magazine.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86fbc75e348f595f9e5c8179189955bb39ef649e/original/1966-crawdaddy-magazine-first-issue.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crawdaddy! First Issue 1966</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a332a2003fc1fcef60dc7a6a1dd074dd1af9b9c5/original/image-19-paul-williams.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.paulwilliams.com/index.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Paul Williams (founder of Crawdaddy Magazine)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>Paul Williams (founder of Crawdaddy Magazine)</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crawdaddy Magazine, started by the late great Paul Williams, was the first credible magazine dedicated to rock music. "A year and a half before Jann Wenner founded Rolling Stone, a teenager named Paul Williams started Crawdaddy! magazine. Launched in January 1966 by the precocious 17-year-old Swarthmore college student, Crawdaddy! was the first American music magazine to take "rock" music seriously. This was the era of Teen Beat and Tiger Beat,when pop stars were more likely to be asked about their favorite color rather than what inspired their creativity. Writer/editor Paul Williams, who died on Wednesday at the age of 64, changed all that by asking burgeoning legends like Brian Wilson and David Crosby what they were really thinking about. Amazingly, Williams (still totally unknown at that point) was able to invite himself into recording studios for impromptu and candid conversations with The Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills & Nash during an era that predated the personal manager, the publicist and the bodyguard. Originally, Crawdaddy! was solely written, edited and published by Williams in his dorm room, but within 18 months it grew into a real venture with an office and staff in New York City which provided music journalists Peter Guralnick, Jon Landau and Richard Meltzer with their first writing outlet." (NPR, Remembering Paul Wiliams)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Of course, there’d be no 1966 rock – or 2016 rock, for that matter – without the blues. We mentioned the Stones, but this was the year when many bands stopped merely imitating Howlin’ Wolf and Skip James (those two legends both found new audiences in Britain), and discovered ways to transcend the blues. On The Spiders’ Don’t Blow Your Mind, teenage Alice Cooper threw the 12-bar form down a deep well, then yowled up from the bottom in the midst of a fuzz-bass thunderstorm. On Wild Thing, The Troggs lived up to their name by banging a savage caveman sensibility into the catchiest I-IV-V workout ever.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then there was </strong><i><strong>Shapes Of Things</strong></i><strong>. Next to </strong><i><strong>Tomorrow Never Knows</strong></i><strong>, it may be the most forward-looking song of the year. Pro-environment and Anti-war lyrics, a bass riff borrowed from a Dave Brubeck jazz record, a martial beat, abrupt tempo shifts, all capped off with Jeff Beck’s free-form feedback solo. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If there’s one word that sums up 1966, it’s ‘free’. Jimi Hendrix said: '</strong><i><strong>We don’t want to be classed in any category. If it must have a tag, I’d like it to be called Free Feeling. It’s a mixture of rock, freak-out, blues and rave music</strong></i><strong>.' Frank Zappa said: '</strong><i><strong>We play the new free music – music as absolutely free, unencumbered by American cultural suppression. We are systematically trying to do away with the creative roadblocks that our helpful educational system has installed to make sure nothing creative leaks through to mass audiences</strong></i><strong>.' And John Sebastian said: '</strong><i><strong>As the various categories of popular music break down and mulch, there are what the clerical onlooker calls new sounds. They are more accurately old new sounds, new old sounds, a free exchange</strong></i><strong>.'” (Classic Rock www.loudersound.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some albums that also played a big part</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>in what I was listening to back in 1966</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2275f9e9bf00782dc0813a11f26bba13326cc5bc/original/a-quick-one-the-who.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Quick One - The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mAEoVvswOcI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mAEoVvswOcI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In '66 and in '67 I was hypnotized by The Who. I always considered a classic singles band but </strong><i><strong>A Quick One</strong></i><strong> really found them moving into different territory all together...most notably with the presence of the title track, Pete Townshend's first effort at writing a mini-opera. For me, I found Pete Townshend's power pop numbers such as </strong><i><strong>So Sad About Us</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Run Run Run </strong></i><strong>to be simply magnificent.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"As an albums band, the Who didn't peak until the early Seventies. Their mid-Sixties offerings, </strong><i><strong>A Quick One</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>The Who Sell Out</strong></i><strong>, are both charming examples of a band shaking off their Mod image. Before the band began recording </strong><i><strong>A Quick One</strong></i><strong>, their co-manager, Chris Stamp, negotiated a deal providing each member with an advance of £500, on condition they all contributed songs to the album (in 1966 this was a small fortune for any 21-year-old)...this variety showcase includes Keith Moon's humorous </strong><i><strong>Cobwebs and Strange</strong></i><strong>, a wonky marching tune complete with orchestral cymbals, trumpets and sousaphone...Roger Daltrey pays tribute to Buddy Holly on the forgettable </strong><i><strong>See My Way</strong></i><strong> and John Entwistle throws in a couple of songs about whisky and spiders. His creepy ditty </strong><i><strong>Boris the Spider</strong></i><strong> remained an audience favorite for years. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The highlight on this album, however, is Pete Townshend's sprawling title track, originally the albums closing number. Its almost ten minutes long: extraordinary, in the days of three-minute throwaways. Not even the Beatles had recorded anything as long. The reason for this is less artistic bravado than plain pragmatism. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the band had cut the available tracks for the album, Townshend, always the primary composer within the group, was requested to fill the remaining minutes to push the running time over half an hour. </strong><i><strong>A Quick One While He's Away</strong></i><strong> is Townshend's first attempt at a rock opera, perhaps the first in pop music. It's a suite of six episodes, comprising a simple tale of an unfaithful wife who has a quick leg-over with a lover called Ivor and is happily absolved by her husband. Each is a self-contained song, the whole spliced together in much the same way as Abbey Road's long medley would be, three years later. This was an audacious concept in 1966 and, although the track now sounds clunky and awkward, its fascinating to hear Townshend setting out on the path that would eventually lead to </strong><i><strong>Tommy</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Quadrophenia</strong></i><strong>." (BBC)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/79c3f6c1c3968606bda0fc9ca9765f4e83aeb823/original/the-kinks-face-to-face.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Face To Face - The Kinks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always considered Ray Davies to be an all-time great songwriter. This particular album was a great leap in quality for The Kinks. Over the years it has garnered rave reviews from many rock journalists. I find </strong><i><strong>Face To Face</strong></i><strong> to be on par with The Beatles </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> and while that may anger many Beatle fanatics, it's true.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OGMgWdtpdTQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OGMgWdtpdTQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>The Kink Kontroversy</strong></i><strong> was a considerable leap forward in terms of quality, but it pales next to </strong><i><strong>Face to Face</strong></i><strong>, one of the finest collections of pop songs released during the '60s. Conceived as a loose concept album, </strong><i><strong>Face to Face</strong></i><strong> sees Ray Davies' fascination with English class and social structures flourish, as he creates a number of vivid character portraits. Davies' growth as a lyricist coincided with the Kinks' musical growth. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Face to Face</strong></i><strong> is filled with wonderful moments, whether it's the mocking Hawaiian guitars of the rocker </strong><i><strong>Holiday in Waikiki</strong></i><strong>, the droning Eastern touches of </strong><i><strong>Fancy</strong></i><strong>, the music hall shuffle of </strong><i><strong>Dandy</strong></i><strong>, or the lazily rolling </strong><i><strong>Sunny Afternoon</strong></i><strong>. And that only scratches the surface of the riches of </strong><i><strong>Face to Face</strong></i><strong>, which offers other classics like </strong><i><strong>Rosy Won't You Please Come Home</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Party Line</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Too Much on My Mind</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Rainy Day in June</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Most Exclusive Residence for Sale</strong></i><strong>, making the record one of the most distinctive and accomplished albums of its time." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kinks</strong><i><strong> Face to Face</strong></i><strong> wasn’t exactly a concept album, but it did have a loosely fitting theme of observational songs about people, mostly in turmoil. Ray enjoyed observing and commenting on the upper class, especially when he could tear down the façade of happiness to expose the bleak side, as on </strong><i><strong>Most Exclusive Residence For Sale</strong></i><strong>. </strong><i><strong>Dandy</strong></i><strong>, a hit for Herman’s Hermits, gently mocks clothes horse superficiality and </strong><i><strong>Session Man</strong></i><strong> goes after hired musical guns, though the album uses Nicky Hopkins on keyboards, who added plenty to the proceedings. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There’s not a weak tune on the album and all of them hold up well...including the humorous ones like </strong><i><strong>Party Line</strong></i><strong> and the almost throw away </strong><i><strong>Holiday in Waikiki</strong></i><strong>, but the real stand-outs are the dark songs </strong><i><strong>Too Much On My Mind</strong></i><strong> and especially the drone-like </strong><i><strong>Fancy,</strong></i><strong> which might be the album’s deepest cut.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/032602021a823c765207ad2416e4880fb3fe2730/original/image-20.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1966 was also a year in which music consumers were overwhelmed by the volume of new music gizmos that flooded the marketplace. The history of music is inseparable from the history of technology. From the first primitive percussion instruments, catgut strings, and animal horns, to Thomas Edison’s phonograph and the jukebox, how we listen and create has evolved with the tools of the times. By the 1960's, the technological conditions were ripe for the birth of popular music as it’s often idealized today, with AM and FM radio going mainstream, vinyl records supplanting the earlier shellac format, and multi-track recording developments clearing the way for late-’60;s studio experimentation.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55514ebd57af5e034a8e5e48b40849242e6f7e1c/original/image-23.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4b8650e7447737bdf47cc050435a1fd7f8fd4b1a/original/image-24.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the most significant musical events of 1966 was the fact that The Beatles played their last live show on Monday August 29th at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The Park's capacity was 42,500, but only 25,000 tickets were sold, leaving large sections of unsold seats (this was most probably due to John Lennon's remark that "</strong><i><strong>The Beatles are bigger than Jesus</strong></i><strong>" which led to some folks burning all of their Beatles albums). Fans paid between $4.50 and $6.50 for tickets, and The Beatles' fee was around $90,000. This arrangement, coupled with low ticket sales and other unexpected expenses resulted in a financial loss for Tempo Productions.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f9fca8c5fdf2280eb7fbb99984cd5f6fb0d0b15b/original/image-25.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="C33FRLQGKyY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C33FRLQGKyY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fdb8a71f1b4337a5f4399eea61e9567667a61e9c/original/rolling-stones-have-you-seen-your-mother-baby.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="IU-PbEYhI8I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IU-PbEYhI8I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The 1960's remain in memory as a golden age of pop culture, with 1966 enshrined...as the year of swinging London. It was the year of the singles that are regularly collected on those TV advertised compilations: </strong><i><strong>Sunny Afternoon</strong></i><strong>; </strong><i><strong>Reach Out I’ll Be There</strong></i><strong>; </strong><i><strong>Good Vibrations</strong></i><strong>; </strong><i><strong>Summer in the City</strong></i><strong> – mass pop art so imperishable that it cannot be dimmed by cheap nostalgia and endless repetition. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1f7edf1209747092b4d1eebfb14b62ea6c32cdf7/original/the-monkees.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1966 was a year of turmoil. It began in pop and ended in rock...It was also the year that the torch passed from England to America, from London to Los Angeles, which became the central pop location, thanks to the Mamas and the Papas, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees – ersatz Beatles who bloomed just as the originals left the stage. California had its own youthtopias, reasonably autonomous zones where the young could congregate and try out new ways of living: the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="https://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Beatles-photo-meat-2-Yesterday-and-Today-cover-shot-photo-Bob-Whitaker.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="The Story Of The Beatles Butcher Cover - 1966" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pop’s Herculean acceleration resulted in many casualties: during 1966, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones all crashed out from the pace, but not before they had provocatively expressed their dissatisfaction – Dylan with his polarizing electric show segments, the Beatles with their notorious Butcher LP sleeve (pulped by their American record company, Capitol, at a cost of $200,000), the Rolling Stones with the drag video for </strong><i><strong>Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Standing in the Shadow?</strong></i><strong>...By 1966, many strands of art, music, and entertainment were all coming to the same point by different means: the total focus on the instant that is the hallmark of many eastern religions; the happening; the drug experience; the ecstasy of dancing...Pop music was the new Olympus. Lou Reed recognized it as the arena for his generation: '</strong><i><strong>The music is the only live, living thing</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3f71d29189263d138aaaa3e6e5d0efca0979335/original/beach-boys-good-vibrations.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="apBWI6xrbLY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/apBWI6xrbLY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The most obvious example of how rock music had changed is when the Beach Boys’ recorded the album </strong><i><strong>Good Vibrations</strong></i><strong> which was recorded in sessions that spanned 60 hours over seven months; it was technological yet emotional, sensual and spiritual – designed as a moment of fusion that would reset pop culture’s polarity to positive. What was thrilling about 1966 was the way in which things were not business as usual, a feeling that can still be heard in the records of the year: music was connected to events outside the pop culture bubble and was understood to do so by many of its listeners. It was a year when audacious ideas and experiments were at a premium in the mass market and in youth culture, with a corresponding reaction from those for whom the rate of change was too quick. The 60's peaked in 1966...The songs from that time still enchant successive generations, but they were also a response to their place and time." (The Guardian, 1966: The Year The Youth Culture Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c7658bc0e9ed65b1da21b890ffd1642bd688781c/original/image-26.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors Live @ The London Fog cub circa 1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A few months after the Doors formed, they earned their first steady gig in 1966 at the London Fog, a nightclub on the Sunset Strip. The band earned $5 per night, playing for relatively few patrons; new to performing, Jim Morrison frequently sang with his back toward the small crowd. Ray Manzarek remarked that the London Fog was where the group '</strong><i><strong>became a collective entity, this unit of oneness</strong></i><strong>'. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although they covered some blues standards, most of the time the Doors honed their signature sound and material that later appeared on their first two albums – </strong><i><strong>The Doors</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Strange Days</strong></i><strong> – also adding improvised solos to extend the set times.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78398fbd7eb6aac1b73bdea6af42c6d91e652ad3/original/image-27.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/036fffc7b1884ace5aa964b5c06b84b7e933fdd7/original/image-28.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, popular music saw a split in music preferences; the best example of this was that older teens preferred The Beatles while the younger brothers and sisters of those older teenagers idolized The Monkees. In a way, this split was able to let the younger kids maintain the precocious fandom as reflected in Beatlemania and the older kids would invest themselves in a more young adult-oriented sounds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1807e72ff49873c3a1657a77e088c78325e1d48f/original/beatles-1966.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>By late 1966, simple consumerism would not be enough for the radical or even thoughtful young. Pop culture was thus caught in a cleft stick, propagating ideas and attitudes critical of materialist society at the same time as it was an integral part of that society in its rawest economic form. Together with the beginnings of youth's self-identification not just as a marketing class but as a growing social cohort, politics of all types would increasingly dominate the agenda...The age of innocence -- if not willed ignorance -- was over</strong></i><strong>." (Jon Savage, 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81a4244517a8cb4c2c363091988e9cd44c98410c/original/keith-richards-1966.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...” </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>- Keith Richards Interview November 1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/29d3345ff9840bfc1be0aca06935eccfb7e8c54c/original/image-30.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7bVvB0xS280" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7bVvB0xS280?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1966, Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic, a ritualistic multi-media show which was supported by Andy Warhol and featured The Velvet Underground and Nico, had a major impact on the the youth culture and its music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Between the events staged by Warhol and his crew along with the burgeoning scene that was developing in San Francisco, the year ushered in a sense of communal identity wherein the distance between the performers and the audience began to change.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>FREELANCE VANDALS 1979 WBAB SHOW @ THE SILVER DOLLAR SALOON</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>AVAILABLE NOW ON THE MIND SMOKE </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong><u>ALBUM PAGE</u></strong></span></a></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/883fbca179f8cfb34174fff043c0ab304408a53e/original/early-publicity-shot-by-john-engelhard-1977-no-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show!</strong></span></p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/64523222023-10-30T03:55:33-04:002023-10-30T03:55:33-04:00Season of the Witch: A Halloween Playlist Volume 2<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c80f953d8a91eb2dfad59f6127cd0d6d8a8046b6/original/season-of-the-witch-playlist-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whoooooo! it’s that time of the year again folks! The fall season is upon us and that means it’s almost time to celebrate Halloween! Today’s post is about some of my favorite spooky songs that always make an appearance on my annual Halloween playlist. Over the years, I’ve often been surprised at exactly how many cool spooky tunes are in existence. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58d8d1611c382befc65b624bf4b0129d905576f0/original/scary-music-33.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="s22lNU5jXM4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s22lNU5jXM4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many 20th century horror films feature large string arrangements, including the iconic 1960’s horror flick, </strong><i><strong>Psycho</strong></i><strong>. The strings from </strong><i><strong>Psycho</strong></i><strong> are an example of the importance in creating a spooky atmosphere. In the 1960’s, </strong><i><strong>Psycho</strong></i><strong> frightened its listeners with the shrill stabs of violins.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cb749c0d7a88526cc57fb82919266cd7d1c65042/original/halloween-music-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween songs began to rise in popularity during the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's with the release of such songs as </strong><i><strong>Haunted House Blues</strong></i><strong> (Bessie Smith, 1924), </strong><i><strong>Dead Man Blues</strong></i><strong> (Jelly Roll Morton, 1926), </strong><i><strong>The Ghost of the St Louis</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>Blues</strong></i><strong> (Emmett Miller, 1929), </strong><i><strong>Haunted Nights</strong></i><strong> (Duke Ellington, 1929), </strong><i><strong>Haunted House</strong></i><strong> (Ray Noble and His All Stars, 1931), </strong><i><strong>Ghost in the Graveyard</strong></i><strong> (The Prairie Ramblers, 1935), </strong><i><strong>Mr. Ghost is Going to Town</strong></i><strong> (Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, 1936), </strong><i><strong>Ding Dong the Witch is Dead</strong></i><strong> (The Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1939), </strong><i><strong>Dry Bones</strong></i><strong> (Fats Waller, 1940), </strong><i><strong>That Old Black Magic</strong></i><strong> (Glenn Miller, 1942), and </strong><i><strong>Ghost Riders in the Sky</strong></i><strong> (Gene Autry, 1949). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cfbff074d46d051db85164318974de2384ec109f/original/50s-halloween.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time the 1950’s rolled around, novelty Halloween songs were the order of the day. The love of B-movie monsters and graveyard rock carried through into the early '60s, as Americans tuned in to The Munsters and The Addams Family in their living rooms. In short, there was no better time to be a trick-or-treater! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One particular aspect of the fifties novelty Halloween songs I grew up with was the prevalence of many of these songs arose from the surf music scene. I have yet to find any concrete info on why this came to pass and to this day, the surf music genre is still heavily connected to Halloween music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f523b1d53d56cdc8ea7f31858005d7ef218d74c7/original/medusa-jp-halloween-2017.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These days, my favorite Halloween songs are a mix of a wide variety of genres; some basic rock, some surf-arama tunes, some cocktail lounge ditties and some ridiculous sounding tunes that just seem to capture that good old Halloween vibe</strong></span><span style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s some songs on my </strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch: A Halloween Playlist Vol. 2</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Bsa9ymSDoJ0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bsa9ymSDoJ0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vincent Price Trivia: “According to Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela Lugosi's body at Lugosi's funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped, '</strong><i><strong>Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case</strong></i><strong>?'”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6AECGiGPefI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6AECGiGPefI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>This bizarre Halloween nugget always seems to pop up on almost every Halloween compilation I've come across over the years. I contacted various record collectors and no one seems to know anything about the group and who produced the song. Hmmm....another Halloween mystery I guess!</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e847c2e523c531f03e0bdfc28f64a0957b550d9/original/the-cramps.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7zXXsiH4JM8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7zXXsiH4JM8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>One of the greatest combos that celebrated the Halloween vibe were The Cramps. The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass guitarist Poison Ivy comprising the only ever-present members. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Balam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976. They were part of the early CBGB punk rock movement that had emerged in New York. The Cramps were one of the first punk bands, and also widely recognized as one of the prime innovators of psychobilly.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27fdaf9115938103b9879772a52cb188691a1488/original/swingin-neckbreakers.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="S_HzrJR0aZY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_HzrJR0aZY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another scary gem is </strong><i><strong>No Costume No Candy</strong></i><strong> by the Swinging Neckbreakers. From the All Music site: "Brought on together by brothers Tom and John Jorgensen in 1992, the vintage rock of The Swingin' Neckbreakers debuted in their hometown of Trenton, New Jersey with Don Snook on guitar. Along with Tom taking on the bass and vocal duties while John handling the drums, the three piece comfortably set themselves amongst the trash rock company of Southern Culture On The Skids, The Lyres, Flat Duo Jets and The Wooglers. Immediately signing to Telstar Records, the Neckbreakers debuted with the single Diggin' A Grave, followed by their first album Live For Buzz in 1993. Following a European tour and a number of singles that were released on various labels throughout 1994, The Neckbreakers' second album Shake Break came out the next year on Telstar. After Don Snook's departure from the band in 1996, Jeffery Lee Jefferson eventually filled in on guitar and debuted on the 1997 album Kick Your Ass. Return of Rock and Live Live Live were released in 2000."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WumIqP2nqcc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WumIqP2nqcc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Next up in this parade of spooky tunes is </strong><i><strong>Ghost Train</strong></i><strong> by The Swanks! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Chuck DePrima blog: "Ghost Train was composed by The Swanks (Jack Revelle, lead guitar (age 17), Otha Libby (age 19) rhythm guitar and Bobby Jones (age 18) drums) in 1964 at Riposo Studios in Syracuse, New York. They had been rehearsing at the Jones’ family home in Brewerton, NY on a Saturday morning in preparation for a recording session at Riposo that afternoon. They were going to be recording a vocal song called My College Cry (which is nothing to write home about). About an hour and a half before they were scheduled to leave for Syracuse, they realized they had no material for the flip side of the 45 rpm record they would be recording. They began to jam and trade ideas back and forth, and the result of their effort over the span of that hour and a half, and three takes at Riposo Studios, was Ghost Train. Ghost Train was originally released on Charm Records but has since been reissued as a bootlegged on at least two dozen 1960’s instrumental compilations. It has also been used on the soundtrack of a French film, “Violent Days” & the original Frankenstein movie. Original copies of the song on the Charm label are crazy rare and can command almost $2,000 on e-bay. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These days Otha Libby is a retired police officer and college professor living in Seattle, Washington. Jack Revelle played professionally for over 20 years and retired from an automobile sales career and lives north of Syracuse, NY. During a recent interview Otha Libby said: 'It is the recording The Swanks did at Riposo Studios in Syracuse in 1964. It has been knocking around for 45 years and some kid in (I think) South America put it up as the sound track behind this piece of footage from the original Frankenstein’s Monster movie. There is an interesting story behind how this song came to exist, which I won’t bore you with unless you are interested. It has appeared on numerous compilations of American instrumental rock and was even used in the sound track of a French film.'"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bvFuUaCe8eY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvFuUaCe8eY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5118a4aba7617be5b9550e72c32af4856f1d609a/original/john-entwistle-boris-the-spider.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The next Halloween song is one that has become popular over the last 5 years or so. John Entwistle’s </strong><i><strong>Boris The Spider</strong></i><strong> recorded by The Who. </strong><i><strong>Boris The Spider</strong></i><strong> is a great John Entwistle song which was, in fact, the first tune he ever wrote for The Who. From the Classic Rock website: “Entwistle was his own influential force within The Who. He was the only member to have had any formal musical training, and was also proficient on multiple brass instruments, as well as being an adept arranger. When he wrestled the platform from Pete Townshend, he was also a capable songwriter. Starting with A Quick One in 1966, almost every album that Entwistle made with The Who included one or more of his songs. They were distinctive for being gruesome, steeped in pitch-black humour and populated by such characters as degenerates, depressives, prostitutes and, in one memorable instance, an arachnid named Boris. That latter song, </strong><i><strong>Boris The Spider</strong></i><strong>, was the most requested that The Who played on stage, which piqued Townshend no end.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Lyu1FkPgLo8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lyu1FkPgLo8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Besides scary tunes, I’ve always loved humorous Halloween tunes. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of my favorites is Mr. Ghost Goes To Town by the 5 Jones Boys! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"THE FIVE JONES BOYS, an Illinois group that relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s, were part of a long tradition of African-American tight harmony vocal groups that emerged from gospel. Using simple percussion and a careful blending of voices, African American a cappella vocalists were able to duplicate the sounds of a larger band — even impersonating musical instruments (</strong><i><strong>Mr. Ghost Goes to Town</strong></i><strong> contains several convincing horn solos). Bands such as the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers were able to find national audiences using such techniques, but none ever duplicated the strangeness of this number. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Mr. Ghost Goes To Town</strong></i><strong> has an infectious melody based around a deceptively simple bass line, over which the Jones Boys occasionally let out unearthly howls. The lyrics cheerfully tell of a dapper specter’s careful preparation for a </strong><i><strong>night of stepping</strong></i><strong>. ‘</strong><i><strong>He’ll shake his bones to hot saxophone</strong></i><strong>s,’ the Five Jones Boys inform us, calling to mind Ub Iwerks famous 1929 cartoon “The Skeleton Dance,” in which row after row of corpses pull themselves out of their graves to shimmy to a jazz band. The Jones Boys end the song with a little capper to let listeners know how entertaining this all must be to their titular spook: The lead singer launches into peals of sinister, hysterical laughter." (The Dr. Mysterian blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/47c3969afd8370eec53471f57eba34ed7893c89b/original/jones-boys.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong>The Five Jones Boys on Hollywood Spotlight Show 1935 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>"Who's there, who's there? Up there on the stairs Beware, beware </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>I hear somebody coming, Up on his toes… Oh look, there he goes </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>Mr. Ghost is going to town, He takes his cane, His gloves and his hat </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>I'm Mr. Ghost and Tonight I'm gonna shake my bones </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>To the tune of them hot saxophones </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><i><strong>Ha ha! Mr. Ghost goes to town!"</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/457253ab9d4635d7986f113f773c6c2e50131eaf/original/halloween-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Last but not least is my own Halloween song!</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xHZr041zky0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xHZr041zky0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9f4720b37e8c53a4465f1725c00fdc02499e1121/original/rock-roll-blog-mailing-list.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong><u>JOIN OUR MAILING LIST</u></strong></span></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8cd9f611b7d1f402993e9761dfcc2bdbbe442e52/original/scary-clock.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong>The Ghost Clock says that it's almost time for….</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/03d69af18e9f161a3d49f7f16e2a3b411c4aaf91/original/spicy-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f0a182;"><strong>HALLOWEEN!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/72945372023-10-27T13:30:14-04:002023-10-27T16:01:27-04:00The Beatles 1964 Tour<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/16d740201ce962c50d9194ae33fe0db3cac14f51/original/the-beatles-on-tour.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e6984460bfe4aec48cae5b8131fec00edd7b6eb/original/1964.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0264f8ee7befc55f517d54ff8f7e65efd711fa5e/original/1964-beatles-first-image.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1964</strong></span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls — offered the band their unbridled devotion throughout the 1960' by gathering at concert venues in a way that the world had never witnessed before. Without their help, the Fab Four would have never become the legends they are today. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Being a Beatles fan was a wild ride that meant attending sold-out shows, and waiting at whichever airport the boys were flying into to welcome them with shouts of glee. It also meant weathering criticism from misogynistic journalists and far-right pastors who thought that mass hysteria and demonic influence were the only possible explanations for the band's popularity. Here's what it was really like to experience Beatlemania, in all its glory and chaos. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beatles concerts were places of exhilarating chaos. As the Week reports, they were typically rife with screaming, crying, and fainting. They also involved a stranger occurrence: the ritualistic pelting of the Beatles with a British candy called Jelly Babies. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Due to their frenzied behavior at concerts, Beatles fans were often derided as crazy and irrational by critics, especially those who were male. An article called </strong><i><strong>The Menace of Beatlism</strong></i><strong>, written by journalist Paul Johnson for The New Statesman in 1964, was particularly harsh. In the article, Johnson calls the Beatles 'teenage fans 'moronic' and dismisses their concerts as '</strong><i><strong>a collective groveling to gods who are blind and empty</strong></i><strong>.' He ends his rant with a controversial assertion: '</strong><i><strong>Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In a 2013 article in The Guardian, journalist Dorian Lynsky interviewed several women about their early experiences with the Beatles fandom. Many of them cite their </strong><i><strong>Beatlemania</strong></i><strong> years as critical to their adolescent journey. One woman, Bridget Kelly, describes that time in her life as '</strong><i><strong>a place between childhood and adulthood</strong></i><strong>' where she could get in touch with her emotions and release her inhibitions — '</strong><i><strong>let go and go mad</strong></i><strong>.' Others emphasize the way that Beatles fandom let them discover and articulate their romantic preferences: by choosing John, Paul, George, or Ringo as their favorite, they were making a statement about the kind of men they might like to date later in life." (www.grunge.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f850ef9b038f54421d3784ae093ebe7ef16bbf52/original/beatles-on-stage-1964-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BEATLES EQUIPMENT ON THE ROAD </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lennon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1964 Rickenbacker 325 semi-hollow electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1964 Gibson J-160E acoustic/electric guitar (used as a back-up) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vox Continental electric organ[nb 3] </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul McCartney </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1962 Hofner Violin hollow body bass </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1961 Hofner Violin hollow body bass (used as a backup) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>George Harrison </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Gretsch Tennessean hollowbody electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Rickenbacker 360/12 thinline electric guitar </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman hollowbody electric guitar (used as a backup) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ringo Starr </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ludwig 22-inch-bass 4-piece drum kit </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Number 5 drop-T logo bass drum head</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a30ddeb7da64c8dfe5963bddb371e83556882279/original/1964-beatles-jan-12-london-palladium.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>January 12th London Palladium London UK</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>"</strong></span><strong>On January 12th, 1964, the Beatles made their second appearance on the top TV show ‘Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They had first appeared on the show on October 13th 1963. The scenes inside and outside the theatre that day has been seen as the start of ‘Beatlemania’ – though it had actually just taken the media a long time to catch on to the scenes that had been surrounding the Beatles for many months. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If anything, the crowds outside the Palladium for their second appearance were greater than the first. As usual the show was compered by Bruce Forsyth. The Beatles sang ‘I Want to Hold You Hand’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’ ‘Money (That’s What I want) and Twist and Shout’" (beatlesinlondon.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/63be247a7de20969302aa2a1ab2d5135af611d47/original/1964-beatles-versailles-on-stage.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>January 15 Cinema Cyrano Versailles, France</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9c3b9dd571c6e3c119d98654072bbe78076708fa/original/beatles-on-stage-1964-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>January 15th - February 4th Paris France Olympia Theatre</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a58eeb975cd0b604bb1743ec54c5b7b34ded114/original/1964-beatles-american-tour.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles Tour America</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles sweep through the great US cities, drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The term ‘Beatlemania’ was invented by Canadian hack Sandy Gardiner, first appearing in the Ottawa Journal, November 1963, to describe “a new disease” sweeping the globe. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to legend, Beatlemania taking off in the U.S. can be largely attributed to a 15-year-old Marylander named Marsha Albert. After seeing a news segment about the band, Albert called a local radio station in Washington, D.C., and asked, “Why can’t we have music like that here in America?” The DJ then tracked down a copy of “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” and the station playing the record caused demand to skyrocket and other stations to play The Beatles as well. Worth noting: A DJ named Dick Biondi attempted to make The Beatles “happen” by playing them on stations in both Chicago and Los Angeles but the songs didn’t take off in either city. Perhaps that’s in part because Biondi misspelled the band as “B-E-A-T-T-L-E-S.”</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7b807a57ae5795429f258e5bb052a5750dee313e/original/1964-beatles-first-fan-shot.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"All told, the first official tour of North America would have the group play a staggering 32 shows in 26 venues in 24 cities in just 33 days. In the end they would walk away richer by $1 million -- in today's dollars, about $7.5 million. The Beatles booking agent said, 'In the more than 15 years that I have been in this business, I do not know of any attraction that has come close to this sort of money in so short a tour.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> For talents like Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland, promoters were accustomed to paying appearance fees of $10,000 to $15,000 ($75,000 - $112,000 today). They were shocked to learn it would take $25,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 in guarantees ($150,000 - $300,000 now) plus a percentage of the gate. But each was eager to cash in on Beatlemania. During the tour, the group encountered total chaos in every city they played. They endured bomb threats, blackmail plots, teenagers who infiltrated their hotels dressed as maids, and even a prediction from a famous astrologer that they would all die in a plane crash. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elaborate plans were drawn up to transport the Fab Four to hotels and venues. These included the use of ambulances, police paddy wagons, armored trucks, and, in one case an empty fish truck. Hucksters as well as managers of fine hotels gathered up bed linens, pillowcases and even the carpet the Beatles walked on to be cut and sold off to fans that were eager to get their hands on anything the Beatles touched. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps no musical act before or since will ever rival the Beatles on their groundbreaking tour of 1964. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr would not only leave an indelible impression on their fans in the United States and Canada, but also leave the continent with devotees hungering for more." (Chuck Gunderson, Some Fun Tonight)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/73b94a0215060001c161bd659e23abf728a1b67d/original/1964-beatles-new-zealand.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was record-shattering, precedent-setting, groundbreaking, earth-shaking and moneymaking. The Beatles' 1964 tour of North America would forever change the concert industry. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one hit in America, the Fab Four came to the United States with high hopes, performing on the widely popular Ed Sullivan Show both in New York City and Miami Beach and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. In just 15 short days, the Beatles conquered America. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the heels of the successful Sullivan shows, Beatles manager Brian Epstein and Norman Weiss of NewYork's General Artists Corporation drew up an ambitious plan to present the Beatles to America's teenagers in a series of concerts that would crisscross the nation. The group would play in L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, venues from Chicago to New Orleans, Boston to Jacksonville. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All told, the first official tour of North America would have the group play a staggering 32 shows in 26 venues in 24 cities in just 33 days. In the end they would walk away richer by $1 million -- in today's dollars, about $7.5 million. GAC's Weiss marveled, "In the more than 15 years that I have been in this business, I do not know of any attraction that has come close to this sort of money in so short a tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For talents like Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland, promoters were accustomed to paying appearance fees of $10,000 to $15,000 ($75,000 - $112,000 today). They were shocked to learn it would take $25,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 in guarantees ($150,000 - $300,000 now) plus a percentage of the gate. But each was eager to cash in on Beatlemania. During the tour, the group encountered total chaos in every city they played. They endured bomb threats, blackmail plots, teenagers who infiltrated their hotels dressed as maids, and even a prediction from a famous astrologer that they would all die in a plane crash. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elaborate plans were drawn up to transport the Fab Four to hotels and venues. These included the use of ambulances, police paddy wagons, armored trucks, and, in one case an empty fish truck. Hucksters as well as managers of fine hotels gathered up bed linens, pillowcases and even the carpet the Beatles walked on to be cut and sold off to fans that were eager to get their hands on anything the Beatles touched. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps no musical act before or since will ever rival the Beatles on their groundbreaking tour of 1964. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr would not only leave an indelible impression on their fans in the United States and Canada, but also leave the continent with devotees hungering for more." (CBSnews.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8abe9540d90f2707647306ba0c1455e35f28541/original/32-1964-crop.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"At the start of 1964, the Beatles were at the top of the charts in the UK, but had just started to attract audiences overseas with songs from their first two albums Please Please Me and With the Beatles. Radio airplay and a broad marketing campaign in the U.S. quickly drove huge record sales and enormous enthusiasm among new fans -- the band and their sound were something new and exciting, and they were coming to America. John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison set off on a series of tours in 1964, starting in Europe, later visiting the United States, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Beatles fans were so excited and determined to see the band that police sometimes resorted to using fire hoses to hold them back. Their first televised concert in the U.S. was on the Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964. 73 million viewers watched that performance -- 34 percent of the American population. Below are images of the Beatles' big year, in roughly chronological order, as the world discovered Beatlemania. This is the third of five entries focusing on events of the year 1964 this week (and next Monday). Later entries will feature images from Alaska's Good Friday earthquake and the New York World's Fair." (Billboard Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_I86zzmGoZk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_I86zzmGoZk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Beatlemania in 1964: </strong><i><strong>'This has gotten entirely out of control' </strong></i><strong>: Brian Sommerville is a balding 32-year-old Londoner whose jaw juts out like the southeast corner of England when he thinks he is about to say something important. At Kennedy International Airport in New York on February 7, 1964, Sommerville's jaw was projecting so far he was almost unable to open his mouth to speak. A thousand screaming teenagers were trying to wriggle toward a thin white line of nylon rope that had been stretched across the terminal building lobby. Three thousand more were screaming from behind bulging metal railings atop the roof, where they were the guests of New York disc jockeys, who had invited them to take the day off from school. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles brought with them to America a phenomenon known as Beatlemania. So far, Beatlemania has traveled over two continents. In Stockholm, the arrival of the Beatles was greeted with teenage riots. In Paris another congregation held screeching services at the airport and the Beatles' performances at the Olympia Theater were sold out for three weeks. In the Beatles' native Liverpool, sixty youngsters collapsed from exposure after standing all night in a mile-long line of 12,000 waiting to buy tickets to the Beatles' performance. When a foreman shut off the radio in the middle of a Beatles record at a textile mill in Lancashire, 200 girls went out on strike. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While the Beatles toured the United States, three of their singles were in the top six and their albums ranked one and two in the record-popularity charts. In 1964, Beatle-licensed products grossed $50,000,000 in America alone. As for the Beatles, their total income that year reached $14,000,000." (The Guardian)</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c53853cc6392fed0ca5c029f98ac15e0f3fd6282/original/jack-parr-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It should be noted that before we get to the famous night of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, history tells us that their very first appearance on American television was on the Jack Parr show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eceb8ef283d05750a32a3078682061a2b56c09d8/original/beatles-ed-sullivan-shwo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 9th Ed Sullivan Show New York City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JC0MEF6d1eU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JC0MEF6d1eU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f5ecebb01ea5555817327cde96e2e7e9c15fe58/original/1964-beatles-ed-sullivan-with-pauls-hofner-bass.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"By 1964, Beatlemania was in full effect on both sides of the pond and it was already bubbling away before The Beatles made their now-iconic debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite what many people believe it was not the first time The Beatles had been on American television. The group were the focus of news pieces the previous year as the US established media tried to wrap their heads around these four mop-top lads from Liverpool. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles were being touted as the next worldwide craze and the first band to come out of England worth losing your cool over. It meant that a spot on Ed Sullivan’s variety show was an almost guarantee. The show’s reputation for launching acts was beginning to gather momentum and the chance to be broadcast to 100 million televisions-set owners was surely too big to turn down for the Fab Four. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yet, the band knew their worth even then. Instead of happily signing on the dotted line for the payment of ‘exposure’ the group demanded their travel fees be covered as well as a $10,000 appearance fee. It was unprecedented and saw the show’s producers, for the first time, trying to negotiate a deal with their scheduled act. If The Beatles would perform three shows, they would have a deal—The Beatles were coming to America. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The show will go down in history as one of the most organically engaged with shows of all time. The Ed Sullivan Show could draw in an audience when needed but this was unheard of.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite over a third of America tuning in to see the moment The Beatles broke America, Ray Bloch, the show’s musical director wasn’t so keen on the band, he said to The New York Times: '</strong><i><strong>The only thing that’s different is the hair, as far as I can see. I give them a year</strong></i><strong>.'” (Far Out Magazine)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="c3Sww5ENDlY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3Sww5ENDlY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0095dd9679c09dd41388d7e6867ba1e3e2cdb95c/original/beatles-1st-concert-in-us.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/777ba74b7e39613710a350e4698362c7c848cc2c/original/1964-beatles-washington-d-c.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d762a85f53eb2610899155960629803c72c73a4a/original/beatles-dc-ticket-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="b8jzt_xUEdM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b8jzt_xUEdM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 12th Carnegie Hall New York City</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d5ee156981ba80084815e7bf9aa971cfeafa5f57/original/beatles-carnige-hall.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Organized by famed promoter Sid Bernstein, the Beatles performed a pair of concerts at New York City’s celebrated Carnegie Hall on February 12, 1964. Having just returned from their appearance at Washington, DC’s Coliseum, the Beatles sold out both shows, for which the Briarwoods served as the supporting act. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles’ appearance at Carnegie Hall marked the first occasion in which a rock act played at the esteemed concert hall. Beatles producer George Martin had planned to record the concerts for a future live album, although he was denied permission, despite Capitol Records’ efforts, by the American Federation of Musicians. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The idea for recording a live album had materialized back on February 3rd, while Martin and the Beatles were still in England. Capitol fashioned a deal in which the Beatles’ producer would oversee the recordings with Voyle Gilmore, Capitol’s East Coast A&R (Artists & Repertoire) head. After securing permission from Carnegie to record on the premises with a pro-forma $600 fee, Capitol began making preparations to have a mobile unit on hand. But it was all for naught. Before Martin could so much as adjust a microphone, the American Federation of Musicians registered its objection to Martin’s participation, given that he would be acting as nonunion personnel on a recording session. While Capitol dutifully offered to cover the Englishman’s union dues, the union simply wasn’t willing to establish a precedent. As far as manager Brian Epstein and the band members were concerned, no Martin meant no Beatles. And with that the live album was kaput. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the concerts, Bernstein attempted to book the Beatles for an appearance at Madison Square Garden during the following week for a $25,000 fee along with a $5,000 donation to the British Cancer Fund, although Epstein demurred with promises of a future engagement. As it turned out, the Beatles never played at the Garden, the famed venue where John Lennon would make his last performance before a paying audience with Elton John in November 1974 (Lennon’s final stage appearance occurred at a star-studded tribute to Sir Lew Grade in New York City in April 1975). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles’ performance at Carnegie Hall on February 12, 1964, also marked the last time that Bernstein booked a concert at the fabled venue. As Bernstein later recalled, “Carnegie Hall didn’t have to worry about its sacred property or paintings on the wall. They shook a little bit and they asked me never to come back again!” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As Lennon later recalled, the Beatles left the august hall with few, if any happy memories, in spite of the venue’s reputation. “Carnegie Hall was terrible!” he remembered. 'The acoustics were terrible and they had all these people sitting on the stage with us and it was just like Rockefeller’s children backstage and it all got out of hand. It wasn’t a rock show; it was just a sort of circus where we were in cages. We were being pawed and talked at and met and touched, backstage and onstage. We were just like animals.'” (kennethwomck.com)</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d9d827593e32221ea51cea32db8f7396314e64e/original/beatles-carnegie-ticket.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The unrelenting spotlight and grueling schedule were starting to wear on the Beatles. The constant encroachment and the extraneous obligations were exhausting. There were none of the boundaries they were used to in England. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the morning of Feb. 12 they were put on a slow-moving train rattling up the East Coast, while manager Brian Epstein and his staff flew the shuttle back to New York. The boys, for their part, were chaperoned by an entourage of journalists who refused to give them a moment’s peace. “We enjoyed it in the early days,” George recalled, but “the only place we ever got any peace was when we got in the suite and locked ourselves in the bathroom.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But that wasn’t about to happen anytime soon. The platforms were mobbed with several thousand fans when the train pulled into Pennsylvania Station. At the last minute, the cops detached the Beatles’ car from the rest of the train and diverted it to an isolated platform. A plan to take them up a special elevator was foiled by fans, so the boys charged up the closest set of stairs and jumped into a taxi idling on Seventh Avenue. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They were overdue for rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, where they were scheduled to appear twice that evening. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even for the Beatles, Carnegie Hall was no ordinary gig. The place was a shrine; the name alone humbled any musician. But if the Beatles were in awe of entering the place, they didn’t show it. They relaxed in the prestigious green room just behind the stage, chain-smoking American cigarettes and drinking lukewarm tea, completely unfazed by the remarkable surroundings. On the walls just outside hung autographs of the hall’s most famous denizens: Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Caruso, Pons, Handy, Cliburn, Casals, Rostropovich, Callas. Until that night, Bill Haley & the Comets and Bo Diddley had been the only rock ’n’ roll acts to set foot in Carnegie Hall. Apparently, its board of directors didn’t dig the groove. Neither Elvis nor Buddy Holly was granted a date, not even the Everly Brothers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As the lights went down, the 2,900 concertgoers, most of them teenage girls, delivered a protracted scream that never let up for the duration. “It was mayhem,” recalled Dan Daniel, a longtime local DJ. “It was the most piercing, uncomfortable sound I’d ever heard." (entertainment.time.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3f40558ce7f3f80b2d7a8bab69b23204309064d8/original/facebook-songwriter-image-for-single-300.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Roll Over Beethoven” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“From Me to You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Saw Her Standing There” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“This Boy” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“All My Loving” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Wanna Be Your Man” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Please Please Me” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Till There Was You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“She Loves You” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I Want to Hold Your Hand” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Twist and Shout” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Long Tall Sally”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5842d42bb80c8aaf763eaae331dc745b9851681/original/1964-beatles-nme-poll-winners-all-star-concer.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SPRING UK TOUR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 26th Empire Pool London</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a119b52b9dd45fb533d9c793062ea604ad00e962/original/1964-beatles-nme-concert-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f844f9504d855988e6790a25a0270161dec6f535/original/1964-beatles-scotland-edinburgh-april-29.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 29th ABC Cinema Edinburgh, Scotland</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b5a4b0363dfb0dd377379b0f2feab339e653c502/original/1964-beatles-edinburgh-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e793a34b98bc75a0b76cb6b5d50c069e2dd5721/original/1964-beatles-edinburgh-fans.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>April 30th Odeon Cinema Glasgow, Scotland</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbcfee824ef9816dde7d14c92c03521715350753/original/1964-glascow-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May 31st Prince of Wales Theatre London, UK</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cabd1fee2cfe18834f671d4a50a78816b5c65dda/original/1964-beatles-prince-of-wales-london-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5f69d4985d16f799559d9a9e041250bbfec9399/original/1964-beatles-prince-of-wales-london-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ab89c62e392c79949b8fca8fe24a03d78a6e33b3/original/beatles-globe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WORLD TOUR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles 1964 world tour was the Beatles first world tour, launched after their 1964 UK tour. The reception was enthusiastic, with The Spectator describing it as "hysterical". It was followed by their subsequent North American tour in August that year.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In early June of 1964, the Beatles were set for a summer tour of Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and New</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zealand. But on June 3rd, the morning before the tour, Ringo collapsed during a photo shoot. The Beatles were at Prospect Studios in Barnes, London with `Saturday Evening Post' photographer John Launois when it became apparant that Ringo's health was in jeopardy. Ringo was immediately taken to University Hospital in London where it was discovered that he had a high fever and severe tonsillitis. With Ringo resting in the hospital, it was decided by Brian Epstein that the tour should not be cancelled. Brian convinced the other three Beatles to reluctantly agree, and Jimmy Nicol was hired as a substitute drummer.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Typical Set List for this tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Twist and Shout" (John Lennon) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Saw Her Standing There" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You Can't Do That" (John Lennon) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"All My Loving" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I Wanna Be Your Man" (Ringo Starr) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"She Loves You" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Till There Was You" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Roll Over Beethoven" (George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Can't Buy Me Love" (Paul McCartney) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This Boy" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Long Tall Sally" (Paul McCartney)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 4, 1964 Copenhagen, Denmark</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cfcd735c158cf2c5f1f0b56b7bd4e4ca6685041e/original/jimmy-nicholls-copenhagen.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On June 5th, the three Beatles and Jimmy Nicol exited Denmark for Holland, arriving in Amsterdam. The group held a press conference at Schiphol Airport in the VIP Room.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yemuX-PbZYU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yemuX-PbZYU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 10, 1964 Hong Kong China</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffd337e6461bb8517cc39983372c269d672a320b/original/beatles-hong-kong.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles arrive for a one night stand in Hong Kong.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 12th thru June 30th Australia & New Zealand</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HrzUoUhHhSQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HrzUoUhHhSQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8368aeceee2f1d4bec7b76212bac6770791f73ce/original/beatles-austrailia-12th-june.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It may sound like a joke in search of a punch line, but the trio all have their own stories about The Beatles’ 1964 tour of Australia. It’s hard to overstate how a big a deal the tour was; in one way or another it touched just about everybody who was there to experience it. It was all too much for the bouncers, hearing a bloke yelling 'John I love you', 'Paul I love you', so they threw some kids out of the concert. </strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/511a0d9f60dedb4e2a80cbed75911cc35446fd3c/original/australian-fans-64.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the high water marks in Australian cultural history, the Beatles tour was the catalyst for Australia's teenagers to escape the shackles of their parents and the social torpor of Menzies-era Australia. The visit came at the height of the group’s early fame, when they were still working through their boy band phase, singing songs about love, holding hands and not a whole lot else.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ab89c62e392c79949b8fca8fe24a03d78a6e33b3/original/beatles-globe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12th - August 19th Europe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/44cdf8ab29a14a5c8d8e2bcb06833e17782a4a5a/original/beatles-july-12-brighton.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12th The Hippodrome Brighton</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f59193cbe0d2629d4c3d273da57a6cb26f0d70b/original/hippodrome-brighton.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 23rd, Sunday Night at the Palladium London</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a11e0133edbb49d4ea29aaba1ed0ccc73dd721d/original/sunday-paladium.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e00874059eed6b397b8377d70aa2dcb748fd5a22/original/beatles-palladium-64.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 28th & 29th Stockholm Sweden</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8291ddaff666e80977e4faee4ab8cc755e00ce1f/original/beatles-stockholm-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 2nd 1964 Bournemouth</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/169170bdf4ed2becceee9fbb34231afb5996eda2/original/beatles-bournemouth-ticket.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 9th Scarborough Futurist Theatre</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf450d3527f891132a2332ac679b0440a688e09b/original/futurist-theatre.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 16th, Blackpool Blackpool Opera House</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jPJE6yipB0U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jPJE6yipB0U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While this video is very herky jerky, it captures some of the madness of the Beatles Tour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 18th Atlanta Stadium Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a90ddd0d0d09fef8257449d43005c081df7de97f/original/1965-beatles-atlanta-stadium.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 20 Las Vegas Convention Center</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/442d16622cc4576f1e1ce91f65afc68867a21de4/original/1964-beatles-las-vegas-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4618385f7b8119953ac0102acbee40298615d919/original/1964-beatles-las-vegas-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 21st Seattle Center Coliseum Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff2374d508265089f94f426f2de5d14ce6430422/original/1964-beatles-seattle-coliseum.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In August 21, 1964, the Beatles give their first concert in Washington state. They played at the Seattle Center Coliseum to 14,300 screaming fans. The stage is raised 12 feet for the Beatles' protection. Scalpers sell the $5 tickets for $30. Just after 8 p.m. the show starts with the following opening acts: Bill Black Combo, Exciters, Righteous Brothers and Jackie de Shannon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Beatlemania</strong></i><strong> swept Seattle days before the Fab Four's arrival. Woolworth's Department Store sold Beatle wigs, Beatle Bobbin' Head dolls, trading cards, and record albums, proclaiming 'It's a mad fad, dad' in their advertisements. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Security was stepped up at the Edgewater Inn Hotel, where the Beatles would be staying. A 350-foot-long plywood fence covered in barbed wire was erected, and arrangements were made for the harbor patrol to prevent waterbound Beatle fans from approaching the building by boat. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the day of their performance, the lads from Liverpool held a press conference at the hotel, and answered questions with their usual aplomb: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "Well, it was said in Las Vegas and in Frisco that your performance couldn't be heard because of the noise. Now, how do you feel about this? Do you consider it might hurt your future concerts?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "It's been going on for a couple of years, you know." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "How many more years do you think it will go on?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Don't know. We're not..." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN: "We're not taking bets." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: "Have you got any idea? Will it be three? Four? What do you think?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GEORGE: "Till death do us part." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(laughter)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Later, Paul McCartney was asked what he might do after he was through with singing:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Don't know. Probably John and I will carry on songwriting." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN: (jokingly) "I'm not doing it with you." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL: "Oh, no!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(laughter) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>That evening, the opening acts took to the stage beginning at 8:00 p.m. At 9:25 disc jockey Pat O'Day from radio station KJR, Seattle's leading Rock and Roll station, introduced the Beatles. The crowd went wild. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Screaming fans made the noise in the Coliseum deafening and few if any could hear the songs. The Beatles played: "All My Lovin,' "Twist and Shout," "You Can't Do That," "She Loves You," "Can't Buy Me Love," "If I Fell In Love With You," "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "Boys" (sung solo by Ringo Starr), and "Roll Over Beethoven." They ended the concert with "Long Tall Sally." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the concert, hundreds of teenage girls rushed the stage in the hopes of catching the eyes of their idols. Police and firefighters did their best to prevent injuries, but 35 people required first aid treatment, ranging from bumps and bruises to all-out hysteria. One girl was restrained on a stretcher, all the while screaming "Paul! I love you!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles waited an hour before leaving the Coliseum in the rear of an ambulance that returned them to the heavily guarded Edgewater Inn on the waterfront. They earned $34,569 for their performance. The next day they left for Vancouver, British Columbia. MacDougall's Department Store purchased the carpet from the room they stayed in, cut it up, and sold the pieces for souvenirs." (historylink.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 22nd Empire Stadium Vancouver, Canada</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HwD2hDnwtFg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HwD2hDnwtFg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b87fc9ae43622006049b8acb8740b46face2aadf/original/1964-vancouver-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bc792e306174aa13441df65db88bd89677c5e29f/original/1964-beatles-vaancouver-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8976a262a5dbde8250c8b266553c397f292cebf6/original/1964-beatles-vancouver-wild-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On August 22, 1964 the fab four made their way to Vancouver to perform in front of thousands at Empire Stadium. Screams from the fans were so loud that the emcee (Red Robinson) and the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein had to interrupt the performance to appeal for calm, it was no use. Thousands of teenagers rushed the stage and hundreds were crushed against the restraining fence. After 29 minutes the Beatles bolted from the stage and were whisked away in limousines with a police motorcycle escort. The classical music critics sent by the newspapers to review the show griped, 'Seldom in Vancouver’s entertainment history have so many (20,261) paid so much ($5.25 top price) for so little.' Jack Wasserman, who with Jack Webster was on the field, covering the show for Jack Cullen’s Owl Prowl on CKNW, said it was a '</strong><i><strong>damned disgrace</strong></i><strong>'.” (vancouverisawesome.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 23rd Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c91a272f08c95de55338df4555246858c40fcb3/original/1964-hollywood-bowl-la.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 26th Red Rocks Amphitheater Boulder, CO</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/da68c4d8e34a81ac0bf18bd1097e759b522f1f1a/original/1964-beatles-red-rocks-ampitheater.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3bfb3287db5a662b3f839f9e75efcd4cd8531cf1/original/1964-boulder-concert-crowd.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The following day, the concert was front page news in the Daily Camera, which carried an Associated Press story that described how fans showered the band with jelly beans, reportedly the musicians’ favorite candy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the Fab Four left town, The Brown Palace Hotel sold pieces of bed sheets hotel officials claimed The Beatles had slept in. The Hotel's instructions were to mail a letter and 25 cents to the hotel. The hotel sent back a small square of sheeting affixed to a card. Many of the fans who attended the concert still has her fabric swatch, a keepsake from a memorable summer day." (rockhappenedatredrocks.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 27th Cincinnati Gardens Cincinnati, OH</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1be8a7c907c5300cd5547aa84cee2cb3e4b735e3/original/1964-beatles-cincy-gardens-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a3d816f08a41f3fa1b6bb6983dbc00c9ed7a588/original/1964-beatles-cincy-gardens.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 28th & 29th Forest Hills Stadium Queens, NY</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/950ecc416de713131af57a67135470bb30ab08a5/original/1964-beatles-forest-hills-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec49e6dd662a2d2aa1ea26b37ada4924e320bc51/original/1964-beatles-forest-hills-live-action-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 30th Atlantic City New Jersey</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1f902f1da63ac9bafa20e53693cbc73eb71fba4a/original/1964f-atlantic-city-poster.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d439f8c5e810909b85cf2520f6a4007eab155249/original/atlantic-city-1964.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Atlantic City was the place to be in the summer of '64. Summer's end brought the 1964 Democratic National Convention to the city and, a few days later, a whirlwind visit and concert by the Fab Four.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"While staying at the hotel John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song Every Little Thing, which appeared on the Beatles For Sale album at the end of 1964. During the filming of “The Beatles Off the Record” McCartney was quoted in saying “John and I got this one written in Atlantic City during our last tour of the States. John does the guitar riff for this one, and George is on acoustic. Ringo bashes some timpani drums for the big noises you hear.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fans spent most of the day waiting for the band to come out of their room on the 7th floor. It was not until 6 pm that fans were alerted that the doors to the show were opening at 8:30. In the blink of an eye the line was wrapping around the outside the Atlantic City Convention Hall. People of all ages (mostly teenagers) buzzed and looked in awe at the signs that read 'The fabulous Beatles.' For fans in the South Jersey area this was a dream come true!" (shorelocalnews.com)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sept 2nd Convention Hall Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eadd3f4b48dc7303bbcf7c92b4eb20b045fdc49b/original/1964-beatles-philly-poster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/505ff666189e63f6d821784f5c6bd057836f81d5/original/1964-beatles-philly-ticket.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 3rd Indiana State Fair Indianapolis, IN</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/df916a7898214ff225c9ab51a6aa20a4a83e4d5b/original/1964-beatles-indiana-state-fair.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KFW806Eh6HA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFW806Eh6HA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ee7d778e4859372b57b4c4de23d60c35b2a9836/original/1964-beatles-indiana-state-fair-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Deep-fried Pepsi is impressive, but surely the Indiana State Fair's finest moment was the booking of the Beatles. For two shows, one at 6 p.m. in the Coliseum, the second at 9:30 in the Grandstand. It was Sept. 3, 1964. Among the people who saw the Beatles perform that day in 1964, were a boys who'd grow up to figure prominently in Indiana politics; Mike McDaniel, a lobbyist and former Republican state chairman. Years later, when he was interviewed, McDaniel noted that he 'rubbed against the car the Beatles arrived in and got a good look at all of them.' He said his favorite Beatles were Paul and Ringo." (indianaregistser.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 4th Milwaukee Arena Milwaukee, WI</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8db77abfcc186f1da1278828d85e1d5fb55b18fc/original/1964-milwaukee-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Hht5mRFpxo0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hht5mRFpxo0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f85a2a92fd8af014df8bd4fd43550d4de25082f/original/1964-beatles-milwaukee-sentinel.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Milwaukee Meets The Beatles: On September 4, 1964, the Beatles played their only show in Wisconsin. Writer Dean Robbins tells us about the madness that greeted them on their first American tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The madness started the minute the Beatles’ plane landed in Mitchell Field. This was the lads’ first American tour, at the height of Beatlemania. That meant hundreds of fans showed up to swoon at the sight of them. But the 80 police officers on hand wanted nothing of the sort, so they arranged for the plane to land far away from the crowd. Then they shuttled the Beatles through a back exit, where no one could see them. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band complained, to no avail. Later, at a press conference, Paul McCartney accused the police of pulling a 'dirty trick' to keep them from greeting their fans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles didn’t treat the local press any more respectfully than they did the local police. A reporter asked them what they planned to do when their bubble burst. Guitarist George Harrison answered, simply, 'Ice hockey.' Tickets for the show at Milwaukee Arena topped out at $5.50. Red Cross workers, armed with ammonia inhalants, stationed themselves around the arena to treat fainting girls. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As for the performance, it was drowned out by the screaming of 12,000 fans. The screams were so relentless that no one could tell “All My Loving” from “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Nevertheless, the Beatles rocked, and they playfully engaged the crowd between songs. Everybody there remembers having a good time." (wisconsinlife.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 5th Chicago Amphitheater Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78eae061e02a00ae65306f16d923e1cf660a44af/original/1964-beatles-chicago-ticket.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2fbfc77313796d6e57d120d199eb74175b96ea05/original/1964-beatles-chicago-performing.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c09f44f4063a5045f862e2dd84d812eb9547519c/original/1964-beatles-chicago-ticket-contest.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="47YhmXa8WSc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/47YhmXa8WSc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 6th Olympia Stadium Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="64x7xJqlde8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/64x7xJqlde8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Following their performance at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, the Beatles and their entourage were flown to Detroit Michigan on September 6th 1964, as the 14th stop of their 1964 North American Tour. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Motor City was the place of origin for the music the Beatles had professed to love in almost every interview and press conference -- The Detroit Sound, and the recording artists of the Tamla-Motown label. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles would perform two shows at Olympia Stadium. The press conference was held backstage at the Olympia between the two performances. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From here, the Beatles would fly from Detroit to Toronto as their 1964 North American Tour pressed onward.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 6th Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ed602fa019e45b428daa2af7a9311c0337e8a79/original/1964-jacksonville-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On September 6th, The Beatles were scheduled for two shows in Jacksonville, Florida. After the first show, they demanded that they would not perform before a segregated audience for the second show. When the management would not agree with their request. they booked a date in Montreal, Canada.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UHIDnFd3Ltw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UHIDnFd3Ltw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8eWECN9-sY4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8eWECN9-sY4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles performed a concert in Florida only once. And they were willing to cancel the Sept. 11, 1964, date at Jacksonville's Gator Bowl when they learned the audience was to be racially segregated. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The policy was in defiance of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson that July and banned segregation in public accommodations. For the group, which was heavily influenced by African American music, the idea was anathema, and the four Beatles demanded that black concertgoers sit with their white counterparts. They issued a statement five days before the show that noted, </strong><i><strong>‘We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere</strong></i><strong>.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From then on, the Beatles demanded integrated audiences upfront. In 2011, a contract from their 1965 show at San Francisco's Cow Palace surfaced as part of an auction. One clause reads succinctly, ‘Artists will not be required to perform before a segregated audience.’ It sold for $23,000, well above the expected price of somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 7th Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto Canada</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/007eb1bc7141718302352a2d6173f24e880ad4d9/original/toronto-tickets.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles performed two concerts on this night at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada. A total of 35,522 tickets were sold for the shows, making $93,000 for the group. They flew to Toronto in their charter Electra airplane and, after signing autographs for immigration officials, were driven to the King Edward Hotel. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Between the car and the hotel Paul McCartney's shirt was torn by an overzealous fan. He and Ringo Starr were separated from John Lennon and George Harrison, but the police managed to restore order and they arrived in their suite safely. Once there, however, they found a 14-year-old girl hiding in a linen closet.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 8th Montreal Forum Montreal, Canada</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fee59051dc2b8ff9b507662d5e6a6180efa5025/original/1964-beatles-montreal.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/71a49eb5567bcf7a4014f6d47722d6d731496a71/original/1964-montreal-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fea1cb4eb5f86e9a29316f5ba0d383a53eee404f/original/1964-beatles-montreal-walking-out-to-play.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 12 Boston Garden Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d3225550781ad97080b5c7df53285f4051ef47f/original/1964-boston-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c847ab5eca0c8054f375b7d8b330535671cd6ef/original/1964-beatles-performing-boston.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On September 12, 1964, it was Boston’s turn. All summer, the Beatles weighed heavily on the minds of New Englanders as the images of girls shrieking and fainting at their concerts disturbed parents and inflamed teenagers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital tried to explain the frenzy as a sort of natural reaction that was being fueled by parental disapproval.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the band finally arrived in Boston, they tried to stay low-key. Their plane arrived at 3:40 a.m. at Hanscom Field Air Force Base under tight security. Crowds were minimal. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They stayed at the Madison Hotel, on an upper floor of the building located next to Boston Garden whose sign was a familiar landmark to people of a certain age. Any effort to keep a low profile failed, however, and hundreds of fans stampeded the hotel to get at the quartet. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A quick press conference – crashed by three fans – let the band giggle with the media over their success and teed up the main event that evening.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the start of the show, the Boston Garden was packed with an official head count of 13,909 fans, each with tickets priced at $3.50 to $5.50. Girls screamed and fainted, Causeway Street was flooded with thousands who couldn’t get in but wanted to witness the event anyway. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band took the stage at 9:15, and a dozen songs later – which went virtually unheard because of the screaming fans – history was made with a 35-minute show. The British had conquered Boston again. The boys were on a flight to Baltimore before midnight as thousands of fans lingered outside the Boston Garden hoping for one last glimpse." (New England Historical Society)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 13th Baltimore Civic Center Baltimore, MD</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77b3dc04f6581a0fe75540ae6cf716192d039886/original/1964-beatles-baltiore-newspaper-ad.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab33082370b37ce9e03f67b7a1a1b76216fd636c/original/1964-beatles-baltimore-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 14th Pittsburgh Civic Arena Pittsburgh, PA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd2398cc24ac567126616437d5d87fce5becf816/original/1964-beatles-pittsburg-kdka-radio.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a73f88c9b19d922d214325fa79d1a6d1ca162d67/original/1964-beatles-pittsburgh-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On the the 21st show of the tour was held at the Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. For the city of Pittsburgh and thousands of local Beatlemaniacs, it was a day that would live in infamy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tickets went on sale in the spring at a cost of $5.90, and were available by mail-order only. This was almost double the going rate at the time, but the concert still sold out in a day and a half. The total take was $75,000, of which the Beatles were guaranteed $25,000 and a share of the gate. This was the first time that an act demanded and received a percentage of the gate as well as a guarantee. In the end, the Beatles were paid $37,000 for the show. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One problem encountered by the promoters was finding a place for the band to stay. Because of the fear of Beatlemania, no Pittsburgh hotels would take the band for the night, so they were forced to commute to Pittsburgh out of Cleveland.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the morning of September 14, local radio stations KQV and KDKA had Beatle fans primed and ready for the happening. They spent the entire day of the show playing Beatle songs, along with updates on the band's anticipated arrival. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The plane carrying John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr touched down at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport at 4:36pm. They were met by a crowd of some 4000 fans, many of whom had been waiting since morning. There were 120 police officers providing security at the airport, including fifteen on horseback. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles were escorted from the plane into a waiting limousine. Accompanied by six police cars and two motorcycles, they drove off towards Pittsburgh. Over 5000 teenage fans lined the Parkway West to see the motorcade. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another 5000 screaming fans were waiting outside the Civic Arena when the motorcade arrived at Gate 5. After settling in, the four Beatles attended a press conference, then enjoyed a meal before the concert. The Beatles used the Penguins locker room, which was finely decorated with items donated by Kaufmanns. The band members later commented that it was the nicest dressing room they encountered on their U.S. tour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A paid crowd of 12,603 fans packed the arena for the show. The opening acts included The Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, and Jackie DeShannon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the preliminary acts were over, the crowd was in a feverish frenzy, chanting "We want the Beatles." After a short break, KQV's Chuck Brinkman stepped up to the mike and proudly said, "KQV presents the Beatles." It was history in the making.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The crowd noise pretty much drowned out the music, but it didn't matter. They Beatles played their set to the delight of everyone in attendance. The show lasted a little over an hour. When it was over, the Fab Four were quickly packed into their limousine and rushed back to the airport for the flight to Cleveland." (brooklineconnection.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 15th Public Auditorium Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3f7e13b234da78e1f5121843e4f3de3a266e465c/original/1964-beatles-cleveland-poster.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0adb59c8a87efe9b0418c293e01491dd99cf8c53/original/1864-beatles-cleveland-ticket.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5762d3bfdfaf064ed5b024bda134b89fe33473f5/original/1964-beatles-cleveland-on-stage-with-police.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e399fb7aba9556c6bb4c4303b29522ed8b69c152/original/1964-cleveland-fans-stuf.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 16 City Park New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3545c0e7063ed921775ad07acac12d0b57bd10d6/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was, by all accounts, a full-tilt episode of Beatlemania. The British foursome played a stadium full of hysterical fans in City Park on Sept. 16, 1964, their songs all but drowned out by the screams of teenage girls. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was their only New Orleans concert, the highlight of a visit less than 24 hours long.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans was the 22nd stop on the Beatles’ 25-city, 31-concert North American tour. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played in City Park for an enraptured crowd of 12,000. The audience included hysterical teen girls, young children — and terrified parents." (www.nola.com)</strong></span><br> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/798241801dbfd773dc95d90168fa3e9e8f04c7d3/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-fans-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12cd6c813fd86ad3df7278a3e36ce6abef9337d6/original/1964-beatles-new-orleans-beatles-day.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 17th Municipal Stadium Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d8c06aa78803682cce7737aaeec4f7eba712c12/original/1964-beatles-kansas-city-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RvQYbaxA6nI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RvQYbaxA6nI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 18th Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AO7nA_7CqdA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AO7nA_7CqdA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfae56587ed8a773a6577710edce64b5de7f24a3/original/1964-beatles-dallas-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The night before the Fab Four were scheduled to perform what would be their only North Texas concert ever, they arrived at Dallas Love Field following a gig in Kansas City. As they arrived at the Cabana Motor Hotel, fans in the lobby broke a plate of glass and had to be treated for minor injuries. Paul McCartney made a quick phone call to console a 13-year-old fan in Grand Prairie who was forced to surrender her tickets to the show, and he and the remaining band members were promptly escorted to what is now the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As they arrived to the venue an hour later than scheduled because of an overwhelming number of fans stifling their commute, they engaged in a brief press conference and got onstage to perform a nearly 40-minute set. Fans in the nosebleeds dashed across the auditorium and let out screams that reporters described as grating and unbridled." (Dallas Observer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 20th Paramount Theater New York City</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3789ec6ad9aab6182c04d7be6375b845bf768d5a/original/1964-beatles-ny-paramount-ticket.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="j8jUO-ruEpA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j8jUO-ruEpA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"An Evening With The Beatles: On September 20, 1964, the Beatles waived their fees and played this concert benefiting United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Inc. and Retarded Infants Services, Inc. Ed Sullivan, Steve Lawrence, and Eydie Gorme were the hosts. Tickets sold for as much as $100 but there were only 3682 seats in the theatre. It was a sellout, of course, and there are reports of 100,000 fans outside with 200 of New York's finest keeping them under control. This was the last concert date of their first full American tour." (entertainment.ha.com)</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a30f4c9195e921d200033b00260a63d664d5f28d/original/1964-beatles-paramount-theatre-nyc-onstage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7bcc9ca76b80e36e0936f38a35a590171317e876/original/1964-lennon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When the 1964 tour was over it was considered the first major rock-and-roll concert tour in the history of popular music. In response to a reporter asking if there was anything he cherished about the tour, Lennon replied: '</strong><i><strong>Well, just the whole thing. It's been fantastic. We will probably never do another tour like it. It could never be the same as this one and it's probably something we will remember the rest of our days. It's just been marvelous</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ee5L79KgEKg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ee5L79KgEKg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1979 Freelance Vandals WBAB LIVE Show </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Available @ Our </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Album Page</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. The aura of tryptophan mixed with beer, cheap booze and hormones filled the Silver Dollar Saloon as the Freelance Vandals took the stage. WBAB, a popular radio station, was on hand to capture the band's first radio show.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/58232332023-10-26T07:22:26-04:002023-10-26T13:10:09-04:00Rock & Roll Movies: Privilege (1967)<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a5655d53fe237469cf56b834b44ef707d12eac6d/original/rock-roll-movies.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog, we travel back in time to 1967 and take a look at </strong><i><strong>Privilege</strong></i><strong>, an obscure film that was part of the the rock & roll landscape. Of course, when I think of rock films from 1967, the first one that comes to mind is the Bob Dylan documentary, </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Bac</strong></i><strong>k but there were some rock films that were popular at the time of their release but over the years have become obscure relics of the 1967 pop scene. One such film is </strong><i><strong>Privilege</strong></i><strong>; a film which has elements that make it particularly relevant to today's musical and societal culture.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1549a460f7490f1dd0f2326c8e81d6237ea438c9/original/privilege.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although this film has seem to have disappeared into the well of time itself, </strong><i><strong>Privilege</strong></i><strong> is an early classic within the rock film genre that is still relevant with regards to the modern world we live in. The film is constructed as a narrated documentary which is set in 1970's England and is centered around pop singer, Steven Shorter, portrayed by Paul Jones, who was the lead singer of the British Invasion pop combo, Manfred Man during the mid-sixties.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steven Shorter is (much like Elvis Presley who was controlled by Col. Tom Parker) a prisoner of his success. He is manipulated by a team consisting of his manager, public relations rep, an executive from his record label and his money manager. Shorter’s name and face are used to promote product brands, shopping outlets, groovy nightclubs and various media outlets; all of which establish Shorter as a viable consumer brand. An artist named Vanessa Ritchie (as played by one of Jean Shrimpton; one of the most celebrated figures of the Swinging London fashion scene) enters the picture when she is hired to paint Shorter’s portrait and Shorter, who is beginning to have a mental breakdown due the constant demands on him to live the life of a pop star who is nothing more than a money machine to those around him. As Richie paints his portrait, Shorter exhibits his ongoing confusion regarding his life of isolation as an iconic pop star.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f214d751e1d6074da9d804cd6899332ccd85316/original/privilege-4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From Wikipedia: “Demands upon Shorter's time and energy increases. He is asked to film a commercial for the country's apple growers, hoping to convince citizens to eat a disproportionately large number of apples to make up for a surplus supply. More ominously, the collective churches of England strike an arrangement with the government and Shorter's empire to turn him into a messianic leader that will boost church attendance and a sense of national unity. An image change is announced in advance of a huge stadium concert, where he will publicly </strong><i><strong>repent,</strong></i><strong> no longer perform in handcuffs, and will espouse religious themes in his songs. Shorter's equilibrium becomes even more shaky; at a picnic where lobster is served, he absurdly orders hot chocolate to drink, and everyone present in turn orders hot chocolate as well, demonstrating he will be enabled at all times. The stadium rally has a record attendance, and features militarized performance from various nationalist organizations. A firebrand preacher, Reverend Jeremy Tate, tells the assembled crowd they will be handed cards reading </strong><i><strong>We Will Conform</strong></i><strong>, rails against the perceived post-war apathy in the country, and demands they repeat the words at his prompting, which they follow. Shorter and his band take the stage, with the band members wearing costumes and assuming poses reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Disabled citizens are given preferential seating to the stage, in the hopes Shorter's music will heal them. When Shorter later watches footage of the rally on television, he is disgusted at the display, and goes on a furniture-breaking tear. He also reveals to Vanessa that contrary to the publicity that his old show was just an act, he bears real scars and bruises from being legitimately assaulted by the mock policemen in the act. Shorter's record company holds a formal event to give him an achievement award and profess theirs and the nation's love for him. Shorter finally breaks down, inarticulately declaring disgust for the public that cannot see past his charade, and asking to be seen as an individual and not the inflated deity he has been presented as. After stunned silence, the public reacts angrily, and his popularity immediately plummets. Andrew Butler announces his immediate resignation from the Shorter organization, as it is no longer lucrative for his investors. The narrator states that to placate the now-hateful masses, and to preserve the viability of the still extant businesses that carry his name, Shorter's music will be banned from airplay, and he shall not be allowed to speak or perform publicly again. In postscript, the narrator reveals that there is little left of Shorter's career, and over archival footage of him (with the soundtrack removed, of course...), declares, It is going to be a happy time in England, this year in the future.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0IT7EyK2nlQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0IT7EyK2nlQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08143cc00d84ce07950df3663ecaa158a5f3d146/original/privilege-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/privilege-peter-watkins-anniversary" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The 50-year-old British film with a chilling warning for today: Peter Watkins’ Privilege"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The 50-year-old British film with a chilling warning for today: Peter Watkins’ Privilege</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, a 2017 article the bfi.org.uk site: “Pop, power, populism and propaganda… How Peter Watkins’ futuristic satire Privilege predicted a time when mass media would be subverted to the needs of those in power…Privilege comes as a startling warning of how the influence of popular media can be exploited for the needs of a powerful, malevolent few. Its prescience is stark half a century after its release because of its uncanny prediction of how mass media could be used as such effective propaganda…film clearly still has things to say about the political mechanisms of today. While re-watching the film recently, the news broke that Kanye West had controversially met Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Such a meeting was deemed to be shocking given Trump’s various political positions. Yet Privilege tells of such alignments 50 years before the sort of fame that stars like Kanye experience became truly possible. Watkins’ film shows that this type of manipulation of popularity, accelerated in the era of the internet, germinated in the postwar years….</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/22658cefa3190ad2adaccf7695a1c00fe4ddae4e/original/privilege-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>…The fact that Shrimpton herself rose to fame through being a different type of cipher – a projection of the beauty industry through advertisement modelling – plays further into the overall irony of Watkins’ documentary style. His outraged, Oliver Postgate-like voice comments on the proceedings, rather like Adam Curtis’s voiceovers. Such a technique frames the drama in a way that has had a clear influence on many documentary films in spite of Watkins working in fiction. This blurring is again apt for our times, in the era of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’ and the very destabilising of factual perception. Watkins, however, is aiming such a displacement back upon the establishment in the same way as several other filmmakers did from this era, finding a more powerful and uncomfortable truth behind a fictional retelling. Through this abuse of fame, Shorter himself is no longer a person but a cipher of power, an influential piece of propaganda reaching wide numbers of young people. Fame destroys his individual identity in spite of being falsely built upon it. Culture is hijacked by market, capital and political personas, almost dissolving the human at the heart of the celebrity. All that is left is a husk, puppeteered out for whatever use is deemed necessary by his funders. Watkins plays this idea to the extreme, portraying Shorter as both a prisoner of his managers (his early performances have him genuinely and physically abused on stage to get the best performance from him) and his own success. He’s desperately trying to escape back to some semblance of self. This reasserts itself through a friendship and relationship with a photographer, Vanessa, played by Jean Shrimpton...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c1e2f9beee761cfb88fb7eca5dd36cebb296d806/original/privilege-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>...Privilege’s most unsettling moment, especially in the context of today, comes in Shorter’s performance at a televised evangelical rally. When his managers coerce him into ultimately representing the opinion and desires of the state church, he performs at a spectacular event with music, fireworks and lights. In an age where the recently elected president of the USA arguably came to power with the help of this same type of propaganda rally, Privilege gives such occasions (and the subsequent inauguration) a disturbing sense of déjà vu… As the reverend at the heart of Privilege’s political rally proudly declares to the adoring crowd: National cohesion has become unimportant to us. </strong><i><strong>We must fight this. We must… We will conform!</strong></i><strong> Here all political dissent and questioning is banned and now punished through a violent survival challenge. It is for this reason, this highlighting of the method in Privilege…that Watkins is the most disturbingly prescient filmmaker of the 1960's.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v_dZEky0KAw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_dZEky0KAw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a65d91a1356d22fe10a08238907a6e4a99efb932/original/privilege-5.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Excerpts from a 2008 review on the Pop Matters website: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Privilege, an early masterpiece by celebrated auteur Peter Watkins, invites us to consider the possible implications of a fully co-opted popular culture. What if what we like, what we enjoy, is no longer our own prerogative, but rather is imposed upon us from above? What if we no longer have any choice about what we enjoy? And what if, when we are asked to conform to this standard, we respond in wholehearted agreement? In considering these questions, back in the early days of the cultural revolutions of the mid-1960s, this odd film examines the potential repercussions of a mechanical, top-down approach to culture. As the popular becomes ever more closely associated with profit, and as this profit becomes more attractive to the powers that be (whether in government, in industry, or, as Privilegea goes so far as to consider, the church), pop artistry is fused to the designs of the controlling minority in power. And so, pop star Steven Shorter (played by Herman’s Hermits lead singer Paul Jones) finds himself the most popular performer in history, loved by all, and controlled (his every move and gesture prescribed) by a cabal of stuffed shirts representing the hegemonic classes...Peter Watkins’ Privilege is a pushy vehicle for the examination of these kinds of ideas about the dangers of social control, of a pervasive false consciousness that blinds the people to the reality of their situation."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2847459b842143f911a20fa934c460e8a44b3c99/original/peter-watkins-privlege.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Watkins (Director)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/privilege.htm" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Peter Watkins website"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Watkins website</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Reaction to Privilege when it was released in 1967</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Privilege was heavily attacked for being hysterical when it first appeared in Britain, with particularly unpleasant reviews for the acting of Jean Shrimpton and Paul Jones. The fact that everything which was shown or implied in the film came about in Britain in subsequent years - especially during the nationalistic period of Margaret Thatcher - has done nothing to change the status of ‘Privilege’ as another marginalized film. Although it was attacked at the time for “copying the style of TV”, it is noticeable that many of the elements of this film - use of colour, mobility, structure - have since been absorbed by mainstream feature filmmaking. At least one scene from </strong><i><strong>Privilege</strong></i><strong> appears to have been directly copied and used in Stanley Kubrick’s </strong><i><strong>Clockwork Orange</strong></i><strong>. The national cinema circuit in the UK, J. Arthur Rank, refused to show the film for something to do with what they deemed its </strong><i><strong>immoral nature</strong></i><strong>. Universal Pictures withdrew the film after brief screenings in a few countries, and the film has been rarely shown since - very occasionally on TV."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="IyH3r22_YtM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IyH3r22_YtM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>NEWSPAPER REVIEWS CIRCA 1967</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Britain 1967</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Watkins has produced not so much a film as a hotchpotch of film and television - and it simply doesn’t come off.’: (The Guardian) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘The emotional ambivalence in this film is even more marked than it was in ‘The War Game’. Both movies seem to me to luxuriate in images of the violence they believe they are indicting ... ‘Privilege’ is not only about hysteria; it is itself hysterical ... In its ranting simplifications, it may well be procuring a conformity as repugnant as the one it is claiming to reject.’ (The Sunday Telegraph) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Pop goes the Watkins ... Misanthropy is one thing, monotony another; and watching ‘Privilege’ is rather like watching a man repeatedly laboring to raise a heavy hammer, whirling it round his head, and bringing it crashing down on his own hand.’ (Spectator) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Nowhere does the film admit any inherent social or cultural resilience in the human race, not even to the point of acknowledging that in show business, which is the setting of the story, teenage taste still has an odd way of favoring professionalism, artistry and certain qualities of warmth and vitality and humor. ‘Privilege’ is, indeed, a dispirited view of us and our future, and a strange first film - alternatively arresting and ridiculous - for Peter Watkins.’ (The Financial Times) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘The Government is Coalition and the slogan is “We Will Conform.” No we won’t, and you should know that by now, Mr. Watkins.’ (The Sun) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘What hangs around Watkins’ neck is sheer lack of professionalism: his film is a mass of poor scripting, inept acting, and directionless, irrelevant camerawork and editing ... the television-vérité style that Watkins has clung to so obsessively throughout his short career has now reached its ultimate condemnation ... Everything in ‘Privilege’ goes wrong, and one can do little but catalog the failures ... For ‘The War Game’ the technique was just about as hollow, but the film’s subject gave it the compulsive fascination of a nightmare; with ‘Privilege, the result is mere farce.’ (British Film Institute Monthly Film Bulletin) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>USA 1967 </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Privilege’ ... is more absorbing in its failure than a good many films are that fulfill their purpose.’: (Washington Post) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Privilege’, a cruelly compelling, often brilliant film ... the real star ... is director Peter Watkins, only 31, who must get credit for this acidly anti-establishment film ... the quasi-documentary touches he mastered on BBC money are sharply and effectively in evidence. And in his first full-length film, he shows he can use color with startling success. No doubt about it: Watkins is on his way.’ (Playboy) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>‘Absurd? It is set in mythical British 1970, which removes it from now. But a thoughtful look at today’s super-adoration of pop-music singers makes director Watkins’ chilling premise more believable ... ‘Privilege’ is at times brutal and offensive. It is not a happy film. But it is always brilliant.’ (The Christian Science Monitor) </strong></span></p><p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e26ac08dc953a5bebda5e571e1862adb58f5ae94/original/further-investigation.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JHBKU58/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00JHBKU58&linkCode=as2&tag=thchfrhe-20&linkId=416663e80c54de3923d89be2d21142b6" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Privilege (Original Soundtrack Album - Remastered)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Privilege (Original Soundtrack Album - Remastered)</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL&nbsp;IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ebe1f19fdc487f308af14a675080fc8da8891d1d/original/orange-mailing-list-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL&nbsp;IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ROCK & ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL&nbsp;IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MAILING LIST</u></strong></span></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a drizzly foggy night on Thanksgiving Eve 1979. 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style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Anson & The Rockets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Legendary Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>(featuring Louis "Juke" Meyers & Pinetop Perkins)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>John Lee Hooker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tipitina's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c24ef393a4b8f5485cc1b05af019275c6492b52/original/1982-live-rust-neil-young-killesberg-halle-4-stuttgart-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Live Rust Tour '82</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Neil Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Killesberg Halle 4</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stuttgart, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0872f3e61b696aa0eca18263d10620cd42cabd9f/original/1982-the-police-picnic-82-the-police-cne-exhibition-stadium-toronto.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Picnic '82</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Joan Jett & The Blackhearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The English Beat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A Flock of Seagulls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Spoons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>CNE Exhibition Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Toronto, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25e69eb56c83b6ff1b8760c33a832c42b7183889/original/1982-the-who-the-clash.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="adPGHyoo3yo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/adPGHyoo3yo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38d65e6d8a142bf4acffef165ace9dd071f50b61/original/1982-jerry-garcia-band-ritchie-colosseum-university-of-maryland-college-park-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>On The Run For The Roses Tour 1982</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Jerry Garcia Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ritchie Colosseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>University of Maryland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>College Park, MD</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5a4a642ce2f8219998c8cb6abe57160e3282d96/original/1982-jamaica-world-music-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Jamaica World Music Festival</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead, B-52s, Joe Jackson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Gladys Knight & The Pips, Ronnie Milsap</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Squeeze, Stacy Lattisaw, Skeeter Davis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Toots & The Maytals, Black Uhuru</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rick James, The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimmy Buffet, English Beat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bobby & The Midnites, Yellow Man</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rita Marley & The Melody Makers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Montego Bay, Freeport Zone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jamaica, West Indies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/92ee73ee86c26c131592e762c7b396b348dc6df7/original/1982-talking-heads-city-coliseum.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JswceATzBHU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JswceATzBHU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>City Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20718ba285a2aa45489edbac9cf9a5bfcb78b7f8/original/1982-the-tubes-the-old-lady-brady-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Tubes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Fabulous Thunderbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Old Lady on Brady</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e3cf4da53cce7d6a7d0950a212a9ead276721107/original/1982-joan-jett-metropol-pittsburgh-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5wlYl0lGQ-s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5wlYl0lGQ-s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Joan Jett & The Blackhearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Urgent</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Metropol</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Berlin, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4ed9b1e3a769eb86890f58dffc3f39294baee94/original/1982-tour-blondie.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>European Tour '82</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3b1f3fc11e26a5e03d05265c071891553e5d467b/original/1982-the-police-shea-stadium-flushing-meadows-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Joan Jett & The Blackhearts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shea Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Queens, NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d257c37574647660cdeb57540bda91b15a27948/original/queen-hot-space-tour-82.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Hot Space Tour '82</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3222323482253bebdf25306fe2a257f9cbbb3dc1/original/1982-cheap-trick-erie-county-fieldhouse-erie-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OPemyipJzAM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OPemyipJzAM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Krokus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Saxon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Erie County Fieldhouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Erie, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f08c0de24f15c030cbb9cdd58ee263ed67ac436/original/1982-dire-straits-paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dire Straits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/19f11a7b1bf3b8a48c8fc2b9fec9b2e71cd9ea72/original/1982-grateful-dead-jefferson-starship-vietnam-veterans-benefit-moscone-center-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Vietnam Veterans Benefit</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Boz Scaggs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Country Joe McDonald</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moscone Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3752c210c721510a7d5d57f87be69f880a3526d1/original/1982-van-halen-reunion-arena-dallas-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Reunion Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa6b2d89a76d514d97600614053dab54170f2564/original/1982-the-clash-hollywood-paladium-los-angeles-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hollywood Palladium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a7dd0ab58611dc2f9e1fce56ec6d618fc2215c98/original/1982-talking-heads-red-rocks-amphitheatre-morrison-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Red Rocks Amphitheatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Morrison, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/999416a7578bb61e450fd3e179dae438514ce8ad/original/1982-the-jam-perkins-palace-pasadena-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Jam</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Perkins Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Pasadena, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/92b43a4ed1c5208fa6c7dedd7f675ab37196a1cf/original/1982-talking-heads-electric-ballrock-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Orchestral Manoeuvres</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Electric Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2d7f349817090ca6726cb2e8cc976a168a6dc05/original/1982-grateful-dead-zoo-ampitheatre-oklahoma-city-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>OKC Zoo Amphitheatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oklahoma City, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1b0f4c65f463a5038fdda1f1ffd4297d7a167fda/original/1982-queen-madison-square-garden-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/350ca6f7f9e3e91ba85356139217e3313a1485ed/original/lost-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>REMEMBERING FORGOTTEN HALLOWEEN SONGS!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff5cfd8a1a72ce4b3ff4ed49242e42e3509c50ad/original/lost-music-dead-mans-stroll.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today's Lost Music is one of my all-time favorite Halloween songs, </strong><i><strong>Dead Man's Stroll</strong></i><strong> by The Revels! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While looking for some info on The Revels, I came across the Way Back Attack website: "The Walking Dead. That's one way, at least, to describe someone who's doing the </strong><i><strong>Dead Man's Stroll</strong></i><strong>! In 1959, The Revels recorded a song describing one of the most macabre musical scenes ever, starting with the toll of a tower bell, followed by an accidental discovery: '</strong><i><strong>Just got off from work, it was awful late, I had to pass the cemetery gate...I never thought I could see such a sight, a poor soul doing the dead man's stroll</strong></i><strong>.' Wow! 1950s rhythm and blues meets Boris Karloff's 1936 film </strong><i><strong>The Walking Dead</strong></i><strong>, resulting in the deliriously great </strong><i><strong>Dead Man's Stroll</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Dead Man's Stroll</strong></i><strong> was released in September 1959 with the idea of timing it to hit big around Halloween, and the song began popping up on radio stations, leading to a scheduled appearance on American Bandstand with Dick Clark at the end of the month. Clark objected to the </strong><i><strong>Dead Man</strong></i><strong> part of the title, so to appease him and avoid losing the much-needed TV exposure, the record's title was changed to </strong><i><strong>Midnight Strol</strong></i><strong>l (though the lyrics were left unchanged, with the word </strong><i><strong>midnight</strong></i><strong> nowhere in the song). The record broke into the national charts in mid-October, languishing near the bottom at first, as Halloween flew right by. Fortunately the song wasn't affected by the passing of the holiday, as it ascended soon after, reaching the top 40 near the end of November and remaining on the charts until just before Christmas!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A maniacal, uncontrollable, screaming, gasping 27-second bout of laughter erupts over the sax break in the middle of </strong><i><strong>Midnight Stroll</strong></i><strong>, leading to the final, dreaded set of lyrics: '</strong><i><strong>We went on strolling for miles and miles, just before I realized, the time had passed and I was cold...I was now doing the dead man's stroll</strong></i><strong>.' The song ends with the gong from that tower...all very spine-chilling and lots of fun! It's one of the great Halloween classics or just plain classics, period."</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0666654565c3484882b246e6d1f2ced473c3d830/original/dead-mans-stroll-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just got off from work </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was awful late </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I had to pass the cemetery gate </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The sky was dark </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And the moon was bright </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a very, very cold, cold night </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I never thought I could see such a sight </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A poor soul doing the Dead Man's Stroll </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dressed in a top hat, cane and all </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Must have been going to a dead man's ball </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>May not believe it but it has to be told </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A poor soul doing the Dead Man's Stroll</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nodded his head </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With a finger he led </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I wasn't sure there was nothing to dread </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We went on for miles and miles </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just before I realized </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The time had passed when I was cold </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I was now doing </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dead Man's Stroll</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_l justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="edccEJPpi1w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/edccEJPpi1w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d1908018ced23b7d983ca41fa299ba74f416899b/original/spicy-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stay Tuned For SEASON OF THE WITCH: A Halloween Playlist</strong></span></p><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65154722023-10-12T05:18:01-04:002023-10-15T03:28:36-04:00Vince Taylor: The Original Ziggy Stardust<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1357b9e165c9d98dbe28d478cfb9d8f529e1a34d/original/vince-taylor-in-action.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vince Taylor, while not widely known to US rock fans, was an influential part of the European rock scene in the late 50's and early 60's. While not widely known to US rock fans, Taylor was an influential part of the European rock scene in the late 50's and early 60's. Along with his band, The Playboys, Taylor released such rock gems as Endless Sleep and Brand New Cadillac; a song which was later covered in fine fashion by The Clash.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Jd3FDvyRIIo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jd3FDvyRIIo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An American in Paris 1961 - 1965</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Bobbie Woodman Noise were contacted to play the British rock and roll festival headlining Wee Willie Harris, at Paris Olympia, France, on July 7th and 8th 1961. The other artists were Dave Sampson, Duffy Power, Vince Eager and Nero & The Gladiators with Tony on lead. Vince Taylor went back to England about that time and replaced Duffy Power who turn up late during a gig in Guilford. He then asked, considering that he had never been to France, if he could come to Paris too and if necessary he would sing for free. It was whilst registering Vince's passport for France that Woodman found that Taylor was not actually American as he pretended to be but English, like the rest of the band. During the sound check, at The Olympia, Vince Taylor dressed up for the occasion in his black leather gear and added a chain around his neck with a Joan of Arc medallion which he had bought on arrival in Calais, France. As a result, the organizers, who were so impressed, decided to put him up as top of the bill for both shows. During his performance at those two shows, he was spotted by Bruno Coquatrix, manager of the Olympia, who contacted French A&R, Eddie Barclay. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NQjM1GODb4M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NQjM1GODb4M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barclay signed Vince and his band to a six-year record deal on his label that issued 5 EP's and one LP from September 1961 to January 1962. He suggested Bobbie Woodman to change his name, and this latter renamed himself </strong><i><strong>Bobbie Clarke</strong></i><strong>. In the interval, Tony Harvey was finally convinced by Vince and Bobbie to start up the group again, knowing how to keep the same style. The two guitarists alternated their duties: Bob Steele went on to rhythm guitar whilst Tony took solo. Barclay imposed Vince Taylor & the Playboys in one of the first International rock and roll festivals on August 15th 1961 at 'Le Vieux Colombier' in Juan les Pins, a tiny club where the upper crust got in. Vince and his lads then went to all the top parties in Paris. They toured The French Riviera, Belgium, Spain, and The Netherlands. They released their debut album 'Le Rock c'est ça' in late 1961 in which they covered ten Rock & Roll classics such as Eddie Cochran’s </strong><i><strong>20 Flight Rock </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>C'mon Everybody</strong></i><strong> or Johnny Kidd’s </strong><i><strong>Shaking All Over</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although Vince Taylor's concerts started to take a bad turn on November 18th, riots of kids wearing black leather jackets broke out during a rock and roll festival at the Palais des Sports, in Paris. Hooligans in the audience started breaking chairs before Vince and his band even got on stage. As a result, the promoters got worried and Vince soon became banned in certain French towns. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CAFbqlldb4E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CAFbqlldb4E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In spite of this Vince Taylor & the Playboys were the top of the bill at the Olympia, Paris, for the end of the year between December 27th 1961 and January 15th 1962. From April the 24th to May 26th 1962, they played in a posh club in Pigalle 'Les Folies Pigalle', where an opening for a revue 'Twist Appeal' or 'Eroticism of the 20th Century' was to make a resounding success. A 2 hour show in which Vince sang surrounded by gorgeous girls.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fc5b62ace58a5199c293c14b27263dcc6060c78d/original/vince-taylor-color-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vince Taylor & the Playboys then went on a summer tour but Vince left for La Côte d'Azur with his new love, top model Helene April. A few weeks later, Vince left once more during a gig at the Star Club, in Hamburg, and took the first plane to Paris in order to be near Helene April. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of 1962, the Playboys had fallen out with Vince Taylor who played engagements backed by the English band "The Dragons" (wherever he played, Vince still presented them as the Playboys). By October 1962, Bobbie Woodman became the drummer for Johnny Hallyday & the Golden Stars. Bob Steel joined Jacky Lynton. Meanwhile Tony Harvey and Johnny Vance decided to follow the career of The Playboys with other musicans: pianist Joe Fegan and drummers Ed Sparrow then Don Hawkins. About that time, Vince started to play dressed from head to toe in leather, but white. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9403bd34d5bf32eb2fb7a0a6a00db9d6de192d75/original/vince-taylor-single-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In early 1964, the new set of Playboys featured Bobbie Woodman on drums, Joey Greco and Claude Djaoui on guitars, and Ralph Di Pietro on bass who were actually the members of the Johnny Hallyday orchestra, Joey & the Showmen. They recorded secretly with Vince his versions of Arthur Alexander's </strong><i><strong>Shot of Rhythm & Blues</strong></i><strong> and of Chuck Berry’s </strong><i><strong>Memphis Tennessee</strong></i><strong> that appeared on the single (Barclay #60446) released in February 1964. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shortly thereafter, Johnny Hallyday was called up and the Showmen had split up. Joey Greco went back to America. Bobbie Woodman started up his own band again The Bobbie Clarke Noise with percussionist Stash Klossowski, painter Balthus’s son, Johnny Taylor on rythm guitar, Ralph Danks on lead guitar and Alain Bugby on bass both from the final line-up of Nero & The Gladiators and formerly with the Strangers alongside Taylor. In May 1964, The Bobbie Clarke Noise teamed up again with Vince Taylor as his backing group. Managed by Jean Claude Camus, they were upgraded with two French musicians, Ivan Jullien (trumpet) and Bob Garcia (saxophone) and toured in province then supported The Rolling Stones at the Paris Olympia in early 1965. After he had met folk singers Bob Dylan and Nico in London, Vince started taking drugs such as acid that he used to mix with alcohol. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5e9b28af3b3063a1c00a98035712544d5e0ed720/original/vince-taylor-happy-go-lucky-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On May 23th 1965, at </strong><i><strong>La Locomotive Club</strong></i><strong>, Paris, Vince Taylor had a break down - coming on stage and trying to evangelize the audience, he claimed to be the prophet Matthew. But the audience thought that it was part of the shows as the band covered everything he was saying. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soon after, Barclay released the LP </strong><i><strong>VINCE…!</strong></i><strong> that included instrumental number </strong><i><strong>Clank</strong></i><strong> and 8 other covered versions of American tunes. Vince Taylor’s last single released in the 60’s, </strong><i><strong>My Babe</strong></i><strong> c/w </strong><i><strong>Trouble</strong></i><strong> was an excerpt from this LP. In mid 1965, Barclay stopped financing Vince Taylor who finally joined a religious movement and the band disbanded." (vincetaylortheplayboys.blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/33959109020fec207eba7d7d1fcfecaac2bd6113/original/image-3.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taylor's unpredictable personality, while an asset on stage, caused considerable friction within The Playboys and the band fired Taylor from their ranks. Shortly thereafter, they were booked to play the Olympia Theatre in Paris. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I gleaned more details about this part of Taylor's career from Wikipedia: "Despite his sacking, Taylor remained friendly with the band and he asked if he could come to Paris too. Here he dressed up for the occasion in his black leather gear and added a chain around his neck with a Joan of Arc medallion which he had bought on arrival at Calais. He gave such an extraordinary performance at the sound check that even the band was amazed, and the organizers decided to put Vince at the top of the bill for both shows. As a result of his performance at those two shows, Eddie Barclay signed him to a six-year record deal on the Barclay label. Vince & the Playboys closing the show was determined by Vince's actions upon his arrival at Paris Gare du Nord railway station and had nothing to do with the sound check. At 6.00 am, as the artistes Wee Willie Harris, Vince Eager, Dave Sampson, Nero & The Gladiators and Vince and the Playboys approached Paris on the train, the promoter, Jack Murray, offered top billing to anyone who would dress up for a photo shoot at the station. Vince was the only one prepared to move his butt, get dressed in full leather stage gear and make-up and pose for the press. Later that day he was on the front pages of all the Parisian newspapers as the leader of the Anglo Rock invasion aimed at bringing down French rock 'n' roll legend Johnny Halliday. He closed the bill on both nights, stole the show and became a major player in French rock 'n' roll." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the highlights from this period of Taylor's career took place when Taylor & The Playboys opened for the Rolling Stones at the Olympia Theater in Paris in 1964. Despite his on-stage rapport with the Playboys, the off-stage relationship faltered. As a result, the band broke up once more.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae9de0a983ecf01f872633fd7c2c0e364e9f4886/original/vince-taylor-jet-black-machine.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eYoaRV-BFLw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eYoaRV-BFLw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taylor worked several shows backed by the English band, The Echoes; a combo who also functioned as Gene Vincent's backup band whenever he played the UK. Taylor somehow managed to convince the promoters that The Echoes were actually his former outfit, The Playboys, and the small tour went off as planned. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2685426c24577d06234a4dda8602829180599bbd/original/vince-taylor-lg-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vince Taylor was the essence of rock ‘n’ roll. He was punk. He was Iggy before Iggy Pop. At one concert, a support act dared to copy his image—this led to mass riot. </strong><i><strong>Vince Taylor was notorious.</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For almost four years, Taylor was a King in France. Then one day….Taylor returned to England to pick-up his and the band’s wages. While there, he sampled his first LSD.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zTSHBwTxdSI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zTSHBwTxdSI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As Taylor's career wove along a path of band break-ups and drug use, it reached a bizarre flash point in the sixties when, just prior to going onstage, Taylor experienced a religious epiphany during which he perceived himself to be a sanctified prophet. "A mixture of acid, amphetamines and alcohol proved fatal to his mind and in front of a full house, on the brink of becoming a huge international star, he had a break down - coming on stage and trying to evangelize the audience, he claimed to be the prophet Matthew, and he preached until the band agreed with everything he was saying. The audience pretended not to understand, thinking that it was part of the show. After 15 minutes of running around with a towel on his head, and a few poorly executed songs, he began to wreck the whole stage like The Who. All of this took place before the band's set was officially underway. The band disbanded and Taylor joined a religious movement." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b9e0395530fb6d9311272c6471d244e852dfaa70/original/vince-taylor-costume-and-all.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You could say Vince met his Waterloo at a party at London’s Savoy Hotel in May 1965. Also attending the party (featured in the documentary </strong><i><strong>Don’t Look Back</strong></i><strong>) was Bob Dylan and an acid dealer who found a willing customer in Taylor. That night, Vince took LSD for the first time. Even though Vince had a showcase gig the next day in Paris. It was for none other than Joe Barbera of “Hanna-Barbera” cartoon fame. Joe, who had married Vince’s sister, Sheila, was starting a record label and was considering signing Vince. Barbera wanted to see Vince in action but his brother-in-law’s lucidity was M.I.A. He showed up to the gig, unshaven and unkempt. Holding a bottle of Mateus wine, Vince announced that he was “Mateus, the new Jesus. The son of God.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6074bde56383560e1543cf1b7b2a50177765135e/original/vince-taylor-in-action.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When asked by his band if he had their money, he pulled out 150 francs and set fire to it, ranting about how Jesus had driven money-lenders out of the temple. An ambulance was called and the band did the show without their lead singer. Vince blew his record deal with Barbera, no doubt blowing his chance to sing the “Bedrock Twitch” on the Ed Sullystone Show." (Culture Sonar, Vince Taylor: Inspiration to A Few, Forgotten by Many)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AZRS7q_ceus" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZRS7q_ceus?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taylor recorded and performed sporadically throughout the 1970's and 1980's. In his later years, Taylor lived in Switzerland where he worked as an airplane mechanic. He often claimed that the time he spent in Switzerland was the happiest period of his life.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The world of rock music paid little notice when Taylor passed away from cancer in 1991. While Vince Taylor's approach to his musical career was that of a loose cannonball, he did leave a permanent mark on the British pop scene as being one of the first British rockers who possessed a unique personality and an authentic "American" sound. Taylor's influence has been validated by none other than David Bowie who, on more than one occasion, claimed that Taylor provided the main inspiration for his Ziggy Stardust character. </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6e84c2e445ad1f8bb85c85b6377f862dc3f2d96c/original/vince-taylor-thumbnail.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Bowie says that he based the character of Ziggy Stardust on the eccentric rocker </strong><i><strong>Vince Taylor</strong></i><strong> (real name Brian Holden and also known as the </strong><i><strong>French Elvis Presley</strong></i><strong>) who moved to France and worked as an Elvis impersonator.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Born in 1939 in Middlesex, Taylor's family migrated to the US when he was seven years old. By the mid-1950s, his family had moved to California, where Taylor's sister married Joe Barbera, of the famous Hanna-Barbera cartoon partnership. It was in Los Angeles that Taylor - clearly influenced by Elvis Presley - began to hone his act in various LA nightclubs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1957 Taylor returned to London as a leather rocker and made such an impact that within a few months he was signed by EMI. At gigs, he would show all the signs of typical rock'n'roll magnetism, the screams from the women in the audience drowning out his weak voice, his only superficial flaw. Trips to Europe proved somewhat more chaotic, as his performances - with Taylor dressed in black leathers, wearing make-up, throwing himself about on stage as if in an epileptic fit - induced riots. Months of this exacting routine, however, began to take its toll as Taylor started to fall prey to the lure of drugs. Come 1964, Taylor was on the edge, his diet of drugs, wine and an increasing God complex leading to his eventual downfall. From the mid-1960s, he drifted from club to club in London, claiming to anyone who would listen that he was the Son of God, his food intake consisting solely of eggs. His best known work is his 1959 single "Brand New Cadillac" which was covered by the Clash on London Calling (1977). The Clash's Joe Strummer recalled: 'Vince Taylor was the beginning of British rock'n'roll. Before him there was nothing. He was a miracle.' Bowie first encountered Taylor at the Giaconda cafe on Tottenham Court Road in 1966. "He was the inspiration for Ziggy. Vince Taylor was a rock n roll star from the Sixties who was slowly going crazy. Finally, he fired his band and went on-stage one night in a white sheet. He told the audience to rejoice, that he was Jesus. They put him away." - Bowie (1976)" (The Ziggy Stardust Companion website)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d2a7af3674ae09f1b0029f3bace464000734c14/original/david-bowie-1969.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie circa 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bowie, who didn’t like Taylor’s watered-down rock music, met the possibly-schizophrenic Vince in 1966. By then, Vince had taken enough acid trips to (almost) match Jerry Garcia’s intake and believed he was either Jesus or an alien — or that Jesus was an alien. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As Bowie recalled: ‘Vince Taylor took out this world map and was showing me where the aliens had their bases, under the Arctic and in the mountains of Russia. I told myself there’s something in this. I’m going to remember this. This is too good. The guy was unbelievable. Just the weirdest kind of creature. I’m not sure if I held him up as an idol or something not to become.’</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aeeb2aa86ca54840967e5ec1deeb83a41207acea/original/van-morrison.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison, in his song "Going Down Geneva", remembered Taylor with the following lyric: </strong><i><strong>"Vince Taylor used to live here, nobody's ever heard of him, just who he was, just where he fits in."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="X5xTGEJGDiU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X5xTGEJGDiU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d9734c49ce4a31386364fac3328c421635493f01/original/a1-promo-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8d7677914e7b19ceb22f1de1123bbad4d0d88314/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE DEC 7th</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ON OUR MIND SMOKE ALBUM PAGE</strong></span></p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/64112252023-10-04T05:24:41-04:002023-10-04T05:24:41-04:00Celebrating the Artists Who Created Iconic Album Covers<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/00a472e374558d8ce2a66606acb0e9652088ce2c/original/iconic-post-header.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.awwwards.com/the-forgotten-beauty-of-vinyl-album-cover-art.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="awwwards.com"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>awwwards.com</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u> </u>site :"Long before the digital era and the design disciplines that emerged with it, there was a unique canvas, reaching a visual audience of millions; every designer dreamed of working on a vinyl record album cover. Invented in 1938 by graphic designer Alex Steinweiss while working at Columbia Records as an art director, album cover art quickly became one of the most important design disciplines in the world. Thanks to Steinweiss’s inventive concept and unique visual language, a new way of representing music was born. In the following years, cover design became a vital part of music albums, not to mention a strong cultural influence. It was one of the few mediums at the time which reached millions of people and had a truly global impact thus providing designers with a canvas through which they could express their creativity and originality to the whole world. It was also considered to be among the most effective marketing tools. Oftentimes the album cover was the main thing that persuaded people to purchase an album, rather than the music itself. ...The importance of cover design was so immense that it became a way for artists to popularize themselves and their work."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9630c5acc57ae8e958430e61b6a97e65a7ca6634/original/alex-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Steinweiss" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Alex Steinweiss"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ALEX STEINWEISS</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> From A History Of Album Artwork (Udiscovermusic site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Original record album art did not really exist before Alex Steinweiss stumbled into the field. Art for sheet music was common but the recording industry barely had a graphics tradition at the time that the twenty-two year old commercial artist was hired to design promotional pieces for a small recording firm, The American Gramaphone Company, later renamed Columbia Records. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back then, shellac 78 rpm records were packaged in albums of three or four disks sheathed in separate, kraft paper sleeves that were bound between pasteboard covers. These drab albums were referred to as tombstones because they sat spine out in rows on display shelves and were differentiated by various color bindings with gold or silverleaf embossed titles. Dedicated record shops were also rare and albums were often relegated to nooks in appliance stores, usually adjacent to the record players. Point-of-purchase displays were often the only sales inducement. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prior to Columbia, RCA Victor, then the largest American record company, had made a half-hearted attempt to tip-on master paintings on its covers, but on albums they lacked verve and spontaneity. Otherwise the record album was a tabula rasa just waiting for some intrepid pioneer, like Steinweiss, to make commercial art history. There had been cover art before, during the age of the 78 rpm record, but only for the rare special release. Most music came stamped with its contents and little else. Initially contracted by Columbia Records to produce better jackets for the unwieldy 78, Steinweiss soon became the label’s art director and convinced them to try out several full color designs inspired by French and German modernist poster art. When Columbia released the first vinyl LP in 1948, Steinweiss not only designed the cover, but he invented the paperboard jacket that still surrounds records today.</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb3e662f9ec4c552b39ec524553c3e51992bc4ec/original/alex-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbdcc27ce600426e833af72519f2813eb2d4edc3/original/alex-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soon the idea of cover design for records was adopted by every record company. In 1948, almost 10 years after Steinweiss proposed the illustrated album cover, Columbia presented the LP format to the public. Now the new sleeve for the LP provided a nicer platform for presenting a graphic design.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4904fce3632af50b066fd111127f15859cdcaac1/original/david-stone-martin.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stone_Martin" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="DAVID STONE MARTIN"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>DAVID STONE MARTIN</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Stone Martin (1913–1992), a prolific illustrator who drew more than 400 album covers and created covers for Time magazine and many other works, was born in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute there. During the 1930's and 1940's he worked for Government agencies, as supervisor of mural projects of the Federal Artists Project, art director for the Tennessee Valley Authority, graphic arts director for the Office of Strategic Services and art director for the Office of War Information, where he was a colleague and friend of Ben Shahn, the artist. Martin's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution. He won numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Clubs of New York City, Boston and Detroit. His album portraits, mostly done in distinctive heavy black-ink lines, included likenesses of Stan Getz, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. Mr. Martin did nearly all the covers for the Asch, Clef and Jazz at the Philharmonic labels of the 1940's and 1950's. (A History of Graphic Design)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/409ab7f88373516aed71b5150e096db59f40600b/original/david-stone-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cd46a32ea7c723f5c65d6ee441d001483ada071b/original/david-stone-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91124dc27e12a83367ba62ed624ec4bcf9cc5b44/original/stern-6.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Stern" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="PHIL STERN"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PHIL STERN</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phil Stern, born in 1919, began his photography career in 1937 in New York City, working days as a studio apprentice and nights as a photographer for the Police Gazette. He later joined Friday magazine and was sent to L.A., where he began photographing Hollywood stars and freelancing for Life, Look, and Colliers magazines. After his World War II stint as a combat photographer, Stern returned to L.A., where he worked as both a freelance photographer and a “special” on the set of over 100 feature films, including Some Like it Hot, West Side Story, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In 2001, Stern donated his library of Hollywood images to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The author of Phil Stern’s Hollywood (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), Stern lives in Los Angeles. (A History of Graphic Design)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e99588f67bbf76c1e86ac29cd6a89cd2e6b34cee/original/stern-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/21847464ce63a8cbadaadf04b0caa593389fb22c/original/stern-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e9b9d5447bd063b3ba3b2dd888bd7929058805c/original/s-neil-fujita.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Neil_Fujita" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="S. NEIL FUJITA"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>S. NEIL FUJITA</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Art was closely intertwined with jazz in this era, something that pleased not only designers and customers but the musicians themselves, as Tony Bennett noted. Records were little cultural artifacts. Hawaii-born graphic designer S Neil Fujita worked at Columbia Records from 1954 to 1960 and designed covers for Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Miles Davis, among others. Fujita brought the influence of modern art, including his own paintings, into his work, but rather than using them as decoration, he emphasized the concept of the cover reflecting the music or words inside. The designer Milton Glaser said Fujita "distinguished himself by having a rigorous design objective. It was a kind of synthesis of Bauhaus principles and Japanese sensibility." He brought modern art, including his own paintings, into the equation, for example in his cool design for Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album, which showed the influence of Picasso and Paul Klee. </strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d2724db294a32c8660f2964f3ce6fd14d0c8e21/original/fujita-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/125f18abee8723ca4b8acdaefb46fa9b6e23667b/original/fujita-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bf40d1516e949d9ff1477e76c2e45b022a56a584/original/fujita-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/56dd14f67cb5b802c2a452c9f41d94bb322e271a/original/fujita-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/16263d3bbce115b5b26fef71c456c5e76b083ffa/original/cato-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cato" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="BOB CATO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BOB CATO</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the mid 1950s, Prestige was the leading independent jazz label besides Blue Note Records. At this time Prestige was reviving the "New Jazz" as a subsidiary label to record emerging musicians. Bob Cato took over from Neil Fujita in 1960 as art director at Columbia. A creative designer, he helped turn the album cover into an important form of contemporary art in the 1960s. Born in New Orleans in 1923 to a Cuban emigrant mother and business executive father, Bob Cato moved with his family when he was 15 to Mexico City, where he began to study art with Jose Clemente Orozco and Pablo O'Higgins. Cato stayed at Columbia from 1960 to 1970, as an art director and the vice president of creative services and created or supervised some of the most memorable record-album covers of the 1960's. Some covers featured his own photography, for instance on Miles Davis's ''Miles'' album. In addition to his own creatings Bob Cato also employed some of the era's most influential painters, designers and photographers, including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauchenberg, Robert Crumb and Mati Klarwein.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7c925da61dff2fa1d94bc84ed20f0429e8f43c4b/original/cato-4.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cca29956a027344dc86f84fb9533616534adac32/original/cato-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52288ef77100e70131ba8967b4c390c5ecf9688d/original/cato-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sometimes it was just bold use of typography – as in Reid Miles’s design for Jackie McLean’s It’s Time – that produced a simple yet eye-catching triumph. Miles said that in the 50s typography was “in a renaissance period”. Sometimes companies chose an iconic symbol or look that would define their output – as Impulse! did with their trademark black, orange and white livery and striking logo.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It wasn’t only designers who played a part in this era; photographers became a key component of the process. Many of the best-known Impulse! covers were by designed by art director Robert Flynn and photographed by a small group that included Pete Turner (who shot many great covers for Verve and was a pioneer of color photography), Ted Russell and Joe Alper (a man who went on to take some iconic Bob Dylan images). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/45f7f09478c2bcd491993422e3a95b78738e2e6a/original/turner-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Turner_(photographer)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="PETE TURNER"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PETE TURNER</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad62f8e9d59f76e0d827d20eb638f95c2e71af08/original/turner-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5202e2091b1b19ea1d68e345024d7f5e3f8a9a8d/original/turner-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/612c98d94258df59525674fdac14c466a048509b/original/turner-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89cb69cbab76a3f812ffddcd79d2e488f296c793/original/stewart.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Stewart" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="CHARLES STEWART"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>CHARLES STEWART</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the most renowned photographers was Charles Stewart, responsible for cover shots on more than 2,000 albums, including his wonderful portraits of Armstrong, Count Basie, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. He was introduced to the record industry by his college friend Herman Leonard and never looked back. Leonard himself is one of the most respected jazz photographers of all time, to the extent that Quincy Jones remarked that “when people think of jazz, their mental picture is likely one of Herman’s”.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/26da042084e46caf30f9996c15366ccf35df3760/original/stewart-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d84e2edf6d68dbf6a65024658af36010afe3733/original/stewart-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8aa777be24317e2b37daf0edd73d8a022dc08cb/original/peter-blake.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Blake_(artist)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="PETER BLAKE"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>PETER BLAKE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Blake is the artist who created The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover which many consider to be the most renowned album cover of all time. Over the years, Blake's work influenced such pop art artists as Andy Warhol. From the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.theartstory.org/artist/blake-peter/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Art Story"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Art Story</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> site: "In 1963, Blake found representation by Robert Fraser, the notorious art dealer who was later arrested with Mick Jagger for drug possession. This put Blake at the center of the swinging scene of 1960's London alongside leading figures of popular culture. It was Fraser who introduced Blake to Paul McCartney, and recommended him for designing the iconic album cover for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although this gig positioned Blake's work in the international limelight, he frequently recalls that he was only paid £200 and given no copyright or royalties on the final cover."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9447dc2840084e334b0703e92d644877262f2506/original/sgt-pepper-lp.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c264ca5670047c0a83c11e2833328eb4e104f20b/original/diagram-of-sgt-pepper-people.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Here's a List of the people who appear on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper album"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Here's a List of the people who appear on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper album</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://time.com/4713080/sgt-peppers-album-photo/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="THE&nbsp;STORY&nbsp;BEHIND&nbsp;THE&nbsp;SGT&nbsp;PEPPERS&nbsp;ALBUM&nbsp;COVER"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>THE STORY BEHIND THE SGT PEPPERS ALBUM COVER</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f7bd84abe7637d15693e048756278196447f5335/original/the-who-face-dances-peter-blake.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c15e3a89c3be21dcbc254c3ed127569b19c0dae6/original/paul-weller-lp-peter-blake.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f20132bce1efb50096cded23ba7daf1df4f2dd3d/original/the-who-peter-blake-2.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d57d21cf4eca54d9ae028671cd388d944dacf3a4/original/u2-mix.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b48607fa08185235610da9687a6203321302f84b/original/reid-miles.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Miles" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="REID MILES"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>REID MILES</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The moody photography of Francis Wolff and the artistic genius of Reid Miles became hugely influential in the world of music and graphic design, and turned Blue Note album covers into enduring cultural gems. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Reid Miles was twenty-eight years old when he began working on the designs for Blue Note’s long playing records. He was working for Esquire magazine when he did his debut for Blue Note...It is ironic, given that Blue Note album sleeves have become the benchmark against which all modern jazz covers – and those of just about any other album – are measured, that Miles was not a jazz fan. Yet perhaps it was his distance from the music that was also his strength, allowing him to approach the design unencumbered by all but the basic details – the album title, the feel of the music, and something about the session. And of course, he had Francis Wolff’s brilliant photographs to work with. Reid was also interested in photography and began taking his own shots when he didn’t have the right kind of image from Wolff, who was sometimes frustrated by the way Miles drastically cropped his photographs. Miles wasn’t paid a lot, at around $50 per cover, and often designed several albums on a Saturday, when not at his full-time job." (A History of Graphic Design site)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/461eff629920b6aa3d267cf0b3b248818f070be0/original/reid-miles-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d8cd7262a519293b5d0c521012f341ebf97b6c6/original/reid-miles-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffa9f5aeadc5884b53e3cd9dfaed74f650a3f55f/original/miles-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/41cadc1271bc0774c61cc53b502d013e339af50a/original/miles-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4114acd110cdef3e0ace7dceed787655cf78482c/original/reid-miles-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfdf8ac23f47a60113999bb16e5a43c60fdf7659/original/jimmy-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flora" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="JIM FLORA"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>JIM FLORA</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Flora was best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. He was a fine artist as well, who created hundreds of paintings, drawings, etchings and sketches over his 84-year lifespan.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Flora’s distinctive drawing style was a light-hearted blend of caricature and surrealism, with humorous juxtapositions of physically exaggerated characters, some with Picasso-skewed eyes. His celebrated portrayals included Louis Armstrong and Shorty Rogers. Flora came up with monthly masterpieces, including the album covers for Bix + Tram and Kid Ory And His Creole Jazz Band. He used pigmentation to make Benny Goodman, Charlie Ventura and Gene Krupa look like bedspread patterns." A History of Album Covers)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ddf1bd7877ebb05c5a4a1365b250a054a394605/original/jimmy-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b495e846772c3a71d0049d6fbc35552913225cce/original/jimmy-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1e7c4cfab604208bb70cf08cf0df87875a020db/original/jimmy-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80371e17a33fb6a1aec495c7e0622d827040ec41/original/join-our-mailing-list-dont-be-a-stranger.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>CLICK HERE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8565b9ed41342e8553e03a3ce1eb0ddd8ebae31/original/jimmy-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab5f4fe5c934b8f78ce4f2b88fd233147a12fc5e/original/jimmy-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/455ce36083812eca291fab76f60b2d127a89727b/original/jimmy-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e8ae0eb3df214dc24517c6d373243e2cbab2a92/original/r-crumb.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/r-crumb-the-complete-record-cover-collection-19147/cheap-thrills-big-brother-the-holding-company-176970/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="R. CRUMB"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>R. CRUMB</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Music and comic book art are the two passions of Robert Crumb’s creative life. In a video from W.W. Norton, Crumb talks about his obsessive interest in the old-time blues, folk and country music of the 1920s and 1930s. 'I think it's neurological,' he says. 'Some quirky types of nervous systems are just attracted to that old music.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f09f8826b4dbb86ca552c76fe45f714852594348/original/crumb-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crumb's most famous cover, for this 1968 album by Janis Joplin's band, was completed in one all-night drawing session for $600. The album was originally titled </strong><i><strong>Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills</strong></i><strong>, but the record company didn't like it. No one was thrilled with the original cover image, either – a photo of the band lying naked in bed together – so they contacted Crumb. "I just did it as a work for hire," says Crumb, who was making a name for himself at the time as one of the original underground cartoonists of Zap Comix. Crumb drew this montage as the back cover, but Joplin and the record company agreed to use it on the front.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Open Culture site: "As one of the pioneers of the underground comix movement in the late 1960s, Crumb's work often related in some way to his love of music. His famous </strong><i><strong>Keep on Truckin</strong></i><strong> comic of 1968 was inspired by the lyrics of Blind Boy Fuller's song, </strong><i><strong>Truckin' My Blues Away</strong></i><strong>.That same year Janis Joplin, who was singing with Big Brother & the Holding Company, asked Crumb to design the cover of the band's album Cheap Thrills. Since then, Crumb has designed hundreds of album covers and music posters. His new book, R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection, brings together all the covers and many related works. The book contains portraits of famous artists like Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie, along with works featuring obscure artists with names like "Ukelele Ike" and "Big John Wrencher and his Maxwell Street Blues Boys." There are also covers and posters made for Crumb's own band, the Cheap Suit Seranaders."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a972c0050336ebee0548b331435edf08a3b57ab1/original/crumb-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e0b726d49998ac70c49107aeccb9f1c7328e3855/original/crumb-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e28eebf54ab21693eea996d8db75039277f16f31/original/crumb-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69a22284fedcb7e3765ca4cc3ce46e5166a1daa9/original/crumb-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1302b9f0c4628b1c0521db6242cca4747da2cf2a/original/barney-bubbles.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_art_of_the_sleeve_barney_bubbles_beautiful_record_designs" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="BARNEY BUBBLES"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BARNEY BUBBLES</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barney Bubbles (aka Colin Fulcher) is remembered for all of the iconic album covers he created in the 70's and 80's when he produced art design projects (album covers, logos & artist related visuals) for Stiff Records and the weekly music magazine, New Musical Express. Later on, he would gravitate towards making music videos such as the ones he created for The Specials song, "Ghost Town" and Elvis Costello's "Clubland". </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barney Bubbles joined Stiff Records as designer and art director early in 1977. With the label's co-founder Jake Riviera he generated a body of creative work that helped to secure Stiff's reputation as an exciting new independent label. Bubbles created sleeves for bands including the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I love rock and roll…I can’t get enough of it! But I’m really sad the way it’s gone. I find all the young designers…and I’ve talked to a lot of them…they think they’re doing Art, and they talk about record covers as Art. They do one sleeve and they are already talking about what they are going to do for the next album cover. All that to me is highly suspect because you’ve got to wait, hear the music and meet the guys, and they tell you what they want and then it’s up to you to deliver that.” (Barney Bubbles interview in The Face magazine 1981)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ddb33ae78b80ec941432c00886bb78cb8ea8425f/original/bubbles-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aed9ca13995016b4ed0d2686f81017e4d2076a84/original/bubbles-6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0c09334842285850a0fc6bf23c863f1faf13838/original/bubbles-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c894916ad1745823c4dcb4297a7d82c9a93da02/original/bubbles-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/828fc2bf3eb1c7529733c309c139a9e48fb332f6/original/andy-warhol.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="ANDY WARHOL"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ANDY WARHOL</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Warhol is probably the most famous artists listed in this blog post. In the late 50's, Warhol was still a struggling young artist when the RCA hired him to design album covers for the label. Although, Warhol would move on to create his art in a wide variety of mediums, he would still design album covers (particularly for the Rolling Stones) over the years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a9d13b685f53d8d3b8f3b730ef78ba564e1f292/original/andy-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2b3f1e7f0c2976e1f028d3e0a96cbf65f7468d3/original/andy-11.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b3f6b4ccc01a242924219c4acd95c15e1184b38b/original/andy-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7790003fca46b8a73d756d73cab01abfa6cc7418/original/andy-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/015be5fbc63089e59e9bf73c78471fcb88600453/original/andy-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/966b5c144056d5ec45256f59424552b7410ae9e6/original/andy-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rolling Stones paid Andy Warhol £15,000 for the cover of their album, a considerable amount of money 45 years ago (£150,000 or $200,000). </strong><i><strong>Sticky Fingers</strong></i><strong> is routinely lauded as one of the greatest record covers ever, and while Warhol was its instigator, it was actually designed by Craig Braun, who also worked on Joe Cocker’s </strong><i><strong>Mad Dogs And Englishmen</strong></i><strong> and The Carpenters’ 1971 album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1ff470015b2a53742031e0f115160b7daad68cae/original/mick-jagger-letter-for-warhol-sticky-fingers-cover.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25655b7ccc47d0b6c14bd6f0f7a63babbee94fd8/original/andy-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Further Investigation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2012/11/andy-warhol-album-covers.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="ANDY WARHOL ALBUM COVERS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ANDY WARHOL ALBUM COVERS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dc5550ea171342f7d97261cd0427a225fa10003e/original/stanley-mouse.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Mouse" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents='STANLEY "MOUSE" MILLER'><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>STANLEY "MOUSE" MILLER</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Best remembered for creating the popular "Skull & Roses" logo for the Grateful Dead, Miller started out in the sixties adding unique artistic touches to hot rods that were a big part of the California youth culture during the early 60's. As California turned on, tuned in and dropped out, Miller gravitated towards designing many renowned psychedelic posters for various concerts. "In 1967, Mouse collaborated with artists Kelley, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson to create the Berkeley Bonaparte Distribution Agency.[3] Mouse and Kelley also worked together as lead artists at Mouse Studios and The Monster Company - producing album cover art for the bands Journey and Grateful Dead. The Monster Company also developed a profitable line of T-shirts, utilizing the four color process for silk screening. The psychedelic posters Mouse and Kelley produced were heavily influenced by Art Nouveau graphics, particularly the works of Alphonse Mucha and Edmund Joseph Sullivan. Material associated with psychedelics, such as Zig-Zagrolling papers, were also referenced. Producing posters advertising for such musical groups as Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Grateful Dead led to meeting the musicians and making contacts that were later to prove fruitful." (Wikipedia) By The 70's, Miller began to design album covers for folks like The Grateful Dead and the Steve Miller Band. In the 80's, he was involved in designing rock memorabilia.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1db5e10d83c1285736ae44951e961958454f813f/original/mouse-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a82300edbc80c854289a6ced1700b6f0f0ac8c4/original/mouse-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6297b9d6cf7a158e605fa432ba15dc7d3c2605eb/original/mouse-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9a0a0e0e54cc6c2bc9d7f44d57dbe7753608a570/original/mouse-dead-tour.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Further Investigation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/stanley-mouse/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="artnet.com - STANLEY MOUSE"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>artnet.com - STANLEY MOUSE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77506751ee86a2147e1a03e7ed742c2aa5af73a2/original/guy-2.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Peellaert" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="GUY PEELLAERT"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>GUY PEELLAERT</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book </strong><i><strong>Rock Dreams</strong></i><strong>, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. "Peellaert came to greater attention with </strong><i><strong>Rock Dreams</strong></i><strong>. It sold more than 1m copies in its various editions. The meticulously detailed paintings created imaginary situations, uniting people in fantasy situations, frequently adapted from iconic photographic images. Laughing moptop-era Beatles race towards the camera as if in an outtake from Help! - only this time not with screaming fans but a copper in hot pursuit. Bob Dylan sits in a limousine cradling a cat. A man we presume is Sam Cooke lies murdered in a motel room. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Rock Dreams</strong></i><strong> led immediately to important commissions. Bowie had him deliver the artwork for </strong><i><strong>Diamond Dogs</strong></i><strong>, with the singer as some louche, human-headed dog, part-whippet, part-sphinx, totally under the skin of the public perception of Bowie at this point in his career. Peellaert did the cover for </strong><i><strong>It's Only Rock & Roll</strong></i><strong> in the same year. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Among the acts he subsequently painted for were Guy Béart (Béart chante l'espace), Bowie (Bowie at the Beeb), Willie Deville (A Horse of a Different Color), Lio (Ballades and its counterpart Pop Songs) and, just released, Second Sex's Petite mort. He was also active, especially during the 1980s, as a film poster artist for films from, among others, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders." (The Guardian 2009)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1a261421bba4a8242e9d551c546982d1f625e1e/original/guy-5.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/806e33e20c78f5f44ebd5131f719453d8915fd51/original/guy-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d8b41c7a6da2beb2ea05669de631cde90e15177c/original/guy-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5bb98d4659be0733b963e184f2ed1e74385a5425/original/guy-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1ea77b1e74e622e7c9a3d858c56a05ded12d9bd/original/hip-5.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Powell_(designer)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="AUBERY POWELL&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;STORM THORGERSON&nbsp;of&nbsp;HIPGNOSIS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>AUBERY POWELL & STORM THORGERSON of HIPGNOSIS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Co. Design website: "In the 1970's, designers were treated as rock stars–album cover designers, that is. “'There was no MTV, there was no VHI, there was no Spotify, Instead, there was album art.You were regarded almost like the fifth member of the band,” says Aubrey Powell, whose studio Hipgnosis was responsible for the album cover designs for artists like Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Genesis, and Led Zeppelin. A new book, Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, revives Hipgnosis’s complete catalog, displaying 480 illustrations from the studio’s archive. It’s a glimpse into a pre-digital era when a single illustration could take months to complete. Hipgnosis got its start in 1968, when Aubrey Powell and his creative partner Storm Thorgerson were asked to do an album cover for their friends’ second album. Lucky for Powell and Thorgerson, their friends happened to be the members of Pink Floyd; lead singer and guitarist Syd Barrett was their roommate. While initially, the duo’s connections and cheap rates led them to more and more gigs, it was in 1973 that Powell and Thorgerson struck album cover gold. That year they designed the striking cover for Led Zeppelin’s House of the Holy, where images of children playing on the rocks of Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway pepper an otherworldly orange landscape. The same year, they designed perhaps their most famous album cover, for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The cover’s triangular prism and rainbow of light was inspired by a photograph of the sun shining through a glass paperweight that Powell found in a French physics book. Today, it’s the image most associated with the band. 'We literally sketched it up on a napkin,' Powell says. 'In those days we weren’t very sophisticated. We were like an art school studio.'”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/15bacefcac74ad4562d212f2626ffff9a87bc60d/original/hip-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8b2b5286933396ecdd6134d86d5551ca387bb06/original/hip2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a2e45cc7d302d716374263ebbcd0637700576c7/original/hip-3.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0623ad175b511b96874b269b0739022d15d7ef19/original/hip-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Further Investigation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/pink-floyds-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-how-an-album-cover-became-an-icon-e95bae0bdc32" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="How The Dark Side of the Moon Album Cover Became An Icon"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>How The Dark Side of the Moon Album Cover Became An Icon</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e2e666cee204da114c0815f0ed50acd16d74b84/original/ed-1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/452823-Ed-Thrasher" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="ED THRASHER"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ED THRASHER</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Sleeve Art Of Ed Thrasher Thrasher was a multi-talented creative, who's immense body of work helped to shape the image of rock and popular music through the 'free-loving' 1960's and into the organized musical presentation & commercialism of the 1970's. Although an accomplished artist & photographer, Thrasher's greatest skill was that of a true Art Director, having the vision and insight to commission photographers, typographers and illustrators for album sleeves that would become as memorable as the works within. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After serving in the US Navy during the war in Korea the young Thrasher returned to LA and enrolled in the Trade Tech College to study art & illustration. He then joined the art department at Capitol Records as an assistant, aged 25. There he eventually became an art director and developed his skills as a photographer. In 1964 he moved to Warner Brothers and became head art director in the music division. It was here that his vision and imagination really kicked in, working among a diverse roster of top performers. One of his tasks included working with architect Quincy Jones on the design for the Company's building at 3300 Warner Boulevard, LA. At the Warner Bros. label the Thrasher photographs of Frank Sinatra occupied many album sleeves and it was Thrasher who coined the album title "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back". </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When Thrasher finally left Warners his portfolio of celebrity photography was vast. He formed an advertising company, Ed Thrasher & Associates, creating memorable film posters, music promotions and album sleeves. During his career Thrasher gained over a dozen nominations for the Grammy Award in Album Design. In 1974 he, and co-art director Christopher Whorf, won the Grammy for best package design with the Mason Proffit album 'Come & Gone'." (Disc Dogs Sleeve Artists)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1f2caa39e89b7c21b5be874ed2a0cf29341bda63/original/ed-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4b638bf500ec32602aff11dad09d4ab9fb02bffe/original/ed-6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b3d3c711332fcd59fb69afc982bb3bfd51c21313/original/ed-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d1472e3dddb1cbd73b67ca7a76e828736bc049/original/ed-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80f2278eb4ac4933c223a3d937aec72aa3efb5a9/original/ed-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad7d86c9b389202f29cd257338c04047cbbccd12/original/ed-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2cdf4dbdfca3a4655d6efc01207bd4a3561e53cd/original/neon-1.jpeg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Park" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="NEON PARK"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>NEON PARK</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always enjoyed Neon Park's album cover work. He brought a unique combination of humor and surrealism that reflected the true spirit of rock music. Park's work appeared on Frank Zappa albums and most notably, covers for many Little Feat albums. Lowell George, Little Feat's de facto leader, had been exposed to Park's art while in the Mothers of Invention. Park created the infamous Weasels Ripped My Flesh cover on which a man is depicted using a live weasel to shave his face. Park's sense of absurd imagery appealed to George's own innate sense of dada art. The Sailin' Shoes cover, depicting a slice of cake on a swing, a phallic snail and a Mick Jagger inspired image of Gainsborough's Blue Boy, caused quite a stir upon the album's release. Starting with this second album, Park's art would adorn every subsequent Little Feat album cover and, even though Park passed away in 1993, his surrealistic imagery continues to be featured on every Little Feat record that is released to this day. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In a 1976 interview with Zig Zag magazine, Lowell George described his first meeting with Neon Park: "</strong><i><strong>He was hitch hiking one afternoon, and a friend of mine picked him up on one of the sidestreets of Hollywood. He cruised over to my house, and I met the man, because I admired his cover of Weasels Ripped My Flesh - I mean...an electric weasel...whatever next! - so we began a friendship and also a business relationship, in that I would say "Give me a cover". Many times he wasn't told anything about the album, because I believe art is art, and I would rather do that than have somebody construct a concept and get heavy, because seriousness really doesn't play too great a part in what we're doing. It happens, and you never really know...there's really no concept...except perhaps "Feats Don't Fail Me", which was a party record - have a beer or two and dance or whatever happens - that's the frame of mind we were in for that record.</strong></i><strong>”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8142ede227bf5e88a738bc9e41f496e1e74d2b01/original/neon-2.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/081499ee25f64c119a2bada5a32138f9b3a46554/original/neon-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5b63e562aee8bf668d712e735c9060c2cd668610/original/neon-3.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d50a9554b5644b144b1c3084f9f5dbbcb9690362/original/neon-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Further Investigation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.pinterest.com/sarasotameilust/neon-park-art/?lp=true" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="NEON PARK'S ART"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>NEON PARK'S ART</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4209d60a01bf92e356529cba1f257668dabe43f/original/heres-this-years-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/489bde9d7b7d9f59be0b6dd23906b78006622263/original/mick-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Rock" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="MICK ROCK"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MICK ROCK</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mick Rock, known as "The Man Who Shot The Seventies", is widely known for creating memorable album covers featuring such cutting edge artists as David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ramones, Queen and Lou Reed. Most recently, he has photographed Father John Misty, Janelle Monáe. I recently had to opportunity to watch the Vice documentary SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock: "When you're dealing with musicians, a lot of them would rather be playing than standing in front of a camera—except for David Bowie. He was always happy to get in front of a camera. Lou Reed was like that with me, too. He and I always had a great time. But building a circle of concentration is like being a cook. You stir, add, and taste, and after a while, the pictures almost take themselves." (from the Noisey website)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c3566bbb67bdeab40103970b26247da310b4f92c/original/mick-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f21b9d83fce6f2f7ed0ca0842ccac3e89bacd299/original/mick-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8e2112b6512b6fcb3ff0308f924c7d47e375ee9d/original/mick-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fbec2f9ead429c8bd61d77bb0db14085f3113677/original/mick-4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AqhzWovgTko" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AqhzWovgTko?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/949a4f355f15c21a023e5df871f247845bb0b764/original/mick-6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strange as it seems, I actually was part of a Mick Rock photo shoot. The two photos below are of the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-store" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Freelance Vandals"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Freelance Vandals</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>; a band I was in back in the 70's and 80's. These photos were shot by Mick Rock at a diner in the Queens section of NYC on June 8, 1978 (my 26th birthday). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Originally, these photos were for an album we had recorded for the RCA label which got shelved due to some issues with our producer, Dennis Ganim. We later used the original Mick Rock photos for our 1979 double 45 rpm package which was called </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/product/259165" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Double Dog Pak"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>The Double Dog Pak</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8da9ddc89387387ac804ac69e58572a090b02d09/original/mick-7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e31330c350bbec0baf288c8e5d1030cc81ab7b7f/original/mick-8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/783d89432669e8024d1767f616720d94ba7d9633/original/imge-15.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Further Investigation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.udiscovermusic.com/in-depth-features/history-album-artwork/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="A History of Album Artwork"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>A History of Album Artwork</u></strong></span></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d168c31a41a32d873671ee1d8962d61856fc15/original/mind-smoke-records-promo-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65ae087ea735879dc53ad5b27f69e1c30069555d/original/fv-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c54cbfa3c8a82b20ef7eaea9d6440f34764928fa/original/fv-vandalogy.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/654f7263697a99bb65f53e715d840ad976ca290d/original/fv-yer-money-or-yer-ears.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2dd2ce9eb5b205856f902307eeb22909a11d99b9/original/fv-out-of-order-album-cover.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/90aa6a65328227f2ead98771c9ef677dd3f74e10/original/fv-live-the-music-box-1978.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/07367b6f509336895a2d962434e2a801286cc441/original/fv-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/albums" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MIND SMOKE ALBUMS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BACK TO ALL POSTS</span></a></h3><p> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68306692023-09-29T12:10:47-04:002023-09-29T12:24:58-04:00Alive As Yesterday: 1984 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55c48acbaca05d77862dafbe6e28fd9b6ba6b646/original/1984-banner.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dba473bca5d2a4b9b6e414b5eb20778ff5705c20/original/1984-the-clash-out-of-control-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Out Of Control Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At this point in time there were major changes in the band's lineup. Nick Shepard and Vince White were recruited as the Clash’s new guitarists. The reconstituted band played its first shows in January 1984 with a batch of new material and launched into a self-financed Out of Control tour.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/92ed9995d1d87f9075b541a434be20b1102c6fc4/original/1984-carence-carter-brims-warehouse-hammond-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_heIUXrSZOc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_heIUXrSZOc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clarence Carter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Show & Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brim's Warehouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hammond, L</strong></span>A</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/35f582ef84fedbc883c079382074baec84c7a152/original/1984-bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-u-s-a-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d24c2c9dcfdb3e7a79e6a0fbff86fecf3c62feb/original/1984-bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band-born-in-the-u-s-a-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. It was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the Born to Run tours without guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who decided to go solo after recording the album with the group. Van Zandt, who was replaced by Nils Lofgren, would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa. </strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sXRaUdJoHNA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sXRaUdJoHNA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the E Street Band played to sold-out professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Born In The USA Tour grossed $80–90 million overall. Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North America.<sup>[1]</sup> The </strong><i><strong>Born in the U.S.A.</strong></i><strong> album was inside the top 10 of the </strong><i><strong>Billboard</strong></i><strong> 200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://brucespringsteen.fandom.com/wiki/Nebraska_(album)" title="Nebraska (album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Nebraska</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, which he did not tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/188bb935b76a1f220d3def22b3efddca7db9c4f6/original/1984-out-of-control-tour-the-clash-long-beach-arena-long-beach-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Out Of Control Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sex Mad Roar </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin cover) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Should I Stay or Should I Go </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This Is Radio Clash </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janie Jones </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Police on My Back (The Equals cover) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clampdown </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Fought the Law (The Crickets cover) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>White Riot </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tommy Gun </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Safe European Home </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We Are the Clash </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Guns of Brixton </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brand New Cadillac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Malcolm McLaren</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Lobos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d7e6de1182a771718cbd13455b34337005b874dd/original/1984-out-of-control-tour-the-clash-warnors-theatre-fresno-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Out Of Control Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warnor's Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fresno, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/15735bee4a8d5ef8f744aa6310a5ec005f186dbe/original/1984-frank-zappa-arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An Evening With Frank Zappa</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"... a considerable augmentation of percussion and brass, filled the pit and overflowed onto the sides of the stage. The crowd was in a state of excited anticipation, and I glanced through the printed program with the same kind of feelings. I was there to see and hear the U.S. or world premieres of Zappa's </strong><i><strong>Bob in Dacron/Sad Jane</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Mo 'n Herb's Vacation</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Sinister Footwear</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Pedro's Dowry</strong></i><strong>... </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Conductor Kent Nagano has collaborated with Zappa in several previous eruptions, and he proved himself a fine leader in this program of frolics for dancers and life-size puppets...Just before the first number, out came Zappa, himself, to deliver an admonition: 'This stuff is entertainment, nothing more'. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was definitely a lot of entertaining work by the orchestra and by the people on the stage. The several pieces on the bill featured some hilarious satires on various human foibles, and there were plenty of laughs." (Scott Beach)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/00685cdfddae671c4eeeb71a5beead357aacf7bf/original/1984-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-electric-ballroom-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Electric Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UyDqULz9ECc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UyDqULz9ECc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/51f97e5d0c7109cc89ff0f25e34954390ceee9a0/original/1984-little-steven-the-disciples-of-soul-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Cko1kqlLdlA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cko1kqlLdlA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d4098dcce4594217673bc8b317babf30ea20540/original/1984-purple-rain-tour-joe-louis-arena-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Purple Rain Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prince and The Revolution</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="svqYueRzAh0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/svqYueRzAh0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Purple Rain Tour marked the live debut of the band now named The Revolution as Wendy Melvoin made her appearance as the new guitarist in Prince's band, taking over for the departed Dez Dickerson, completing the iconic line-up of the band. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In addition to Prince and The Revolution, they were joined on tour by Apollonia 6, and Sheila E. and her band. Despite gaining fame from their appearance in the film and releasing a third album, The Time were not invited to tour, as by 1985 the group had been depleted, with many of its remaining key members quitting to embark on personal careers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Also, The Purple Rain Tour was the first Prince tour to open with brand new material. In this case, it was with the album opener, </strong><i><strong>Let's Go Crazy</strong></i><strong>. A triple dose from the 1999 album followed: </strong><i><strong>Delirious</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>1999</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Little Red Corvette</strong></i><strong>. An instrumental interlude of </strong><i><strong>Yankee Doodle</strong></i><strong> usually introduced another 1999 song, </strong><i><strong>Free</strong></i><strong>. The B-side </strong><i><strong>God</strong></i><strong> was often played, followed by a usual sequence of </strong><i><strong>Computer Blue</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Darling Nikki</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>The Beautiful Ones</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>When Doves Cry</strong></i><strong> (featuring a mirror setup onstage to mimic the video of the song). As encores, the remaining Purple Rain songs closed the concert, </strong><i><strong>I Would Die 4 U</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Baby I'm a Star</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Purple Rain</strong></i><strong>. The three songs were extended, often taking 30 minutes to perform. </strong><i><strong>Take Me with U</strong></i><strong> was often worked in, completing all the album tracks.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4eefa687f107db894da1d5263cfc54d58a4890fa/original/1984-ramones-e-m-u-ballroom-univ-of-oregon-eugene-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>D.O.A.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Oregon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>E.M.U. Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eugene, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="R9iS-53ZNKM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R9iS-53ZNKM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2533af9cc849dc990e5d5d75e14b0f7885951aeb/original/1984-city-gardens-trenton-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crucifucs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Human Switchboard</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>dB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Replacements</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dump Truck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Instant Kunk</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NRBQ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ben Vaughn Combo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kayawah & The Momement Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bricks Motar</strong></span></p><p 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Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pasadena, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d6uujf0csGA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d6uujf0csGA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80b610a40abb6f3bcd80b93a21b7bc2c68b5d772/original/1984-rem-the-mad-hatter-athens-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R.E.M.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhode Island College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donovan Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Providence, RI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_wsWICH5XZA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_wsWICH5XZA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4db87dc4cad029bc64afa3be975020305aef05e9/original/1984-the-go-gos-indiana-univ.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div 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Following the largely War Tour setlist and presentation of the first leg, the band adapted the shows to the dreamy nature of the new album, and transformed the visual nature of the show. Pursuing a more subtle stage presentation, the band relied more on the moods transcending from the music and lighting as opposed to Bono's active stage antics of previous tours. When </strong><i><strong>The Unforgettable Fire</strong></i><strong> song was played, for example, slides with Japanese writings and lithographs from the exhibit from which the song takes its name were projected onto a white backdrop. During </strong><i><strong>New Years Day</strong></i><strong>, long white banners were lowered from the ceiling, and during </strong><i><strong>Pride</strong></i><strong>, a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was projected. While illustrating the songs, the images were intended to bridge the gap between the audience rather than having Bono run around the stage.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The second leg of the tour was initially meant to start in Rotterdam on 1 October, the day of the album's release, but concerts between 1 and 17 October were postponed until 1985 or cancelled to allow U2 more time to rehearse the new songs. Translating the complex layered atmospheric textures of the new studio-recorded tracks to live performance proved a serious challenge. One solution was programmed sequencers, which the band until then had been reluctant to use, on sonically elaborate new songs such as </strong><i><strong>The Unforgettable Fire</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Bad</strong></i><strong>. Since then sequencers are now used on the majority of U2 songs in performance. Songs criticized as being unfinished', fuzzy and unfocused on the album, made more sense on stage. Rolling Stone magazine, for example, critical of the album version of "Bad", described its live performance as a 'show stopper.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cb828b5ff0dcd2d9a1d73fd8c14c22054e8cab37/original/1984-van-halen-cow-palace-sf-ca.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Velcros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cow Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Daly City, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3472b9cd84cb0005053dd80eee46de6564fff4b0/original/hot-platters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4efa0d55bd2620994317b4b2554d50fb78b66c7e/original/exile-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Exiles On Main Street Story</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the early ’70s, after extricating themselves from some horrific business deals, the Stones discovered that they owed their homeland piles and piles of money in taxes – much more than they could afford to fork over. To avoid any penalties, they ditched England for France, which agreed to take in the rock stars, as long as they stayed for a year and spent a bunch of money. However, they didn’t realize that Keith Richards would spend the majority of his money on heroin. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Each of the five Stones (Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts) bought or rented a place in France and the plan was to find a studio along the French Riviera in which to make a new LP. When nothing suitable appeared, the band decided to employ its mobile recording truck and use the basement of Richards' mansion – </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, close to Nice. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="56-JEHWfrfI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/56-JEHWfrfI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong> became a den of iniquity, Richards was on smack (as were many of Stones associates), and Jagger’s attentions were sometimes diverted by his new marriage and baby, the band somehow managed to deliver a body of sounds steeped in blues, soul, country and early rock ’n’ roll. When the proceedings moved to Los Angeles to gain shape, the band also drew on earlier work recorded in England and added new tracks. With a sprawling assembly of songs on their hands, Jagger and Richards decided to release the Stones’ first double LP. Exile on Main St. arrived on May 12, 1972. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc16a5cf54bd8fa1cabf56c75d2cacbcc23e4316/original/exile-on-main-st-44.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NehZl_X3hjQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NehZl_X3hjQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The record was initially perceived as a flop, but eventually earned praise as one of rock’s all-time greatest albums. Exile became known not just for its incredible, hazy aesthetic and strung-out songwriting, but also for the sinister circus that was rumored to surround the music’s creation. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1971, the Stones set up camp at </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>, a seaside mansion Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg were renting. The estate had been the headquarters of the local Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of France in the '40s. Reportedly, it still retained floor vents decorated with swastikas when Keef arrived. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1136061c9f11a9d7a37f4de21b1adc1895685966/original/image-25.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Stones recorded much of ‘Exile’ in </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>’s basement, described as a labyrinth of partitions and cubicles that created a murky sound. During the summer sessions. It would also get hot and humid down there, causing guitars to go out of tune constantly. It was then that the album got its working title: ‘Tropical Disease.’ </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d387b1fbf875dcaf321fd1a8f0a528c6e27f6f14/original/jimmy-miller.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Miller - Producer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An article on the Guardian website describes the difficulty of recording in the basement at </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>: "In the intense heat of the dank basement, the group struggled to get started. Musicians set up their instruments in adjoining rooms, with Bill Wyman having to play his bass in one space while his amplifiers stood in a hallway. Initially, they were hampered by guitars going out of tune due to the humidity. Basic communication, too, was a problem, with Jimmy Miller continually having to run from the mobile studio to the basement to deliver his instructions."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae6dee59fef0c02048d21f4c8730c83a02447c87/original/rolling-stones-mobile-studio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From a 2017 GQ article on the Exiles album: “…the conditions in which the Stones' long-serving producer, Jimmy Miller, was expected to work were less favorable. The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, a Bedford truck containing the recording equipment the band had used at Stargroves, was driven down to the Cote d'Azur, only to prove a poor match for both the area's electricity supply and the long, hot Provençal summer then under way. To compound the problem, musicians were spread throughout </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>'s warren-like basement, unable to communicate with the truck outside, forcing the young Andy Johns (younger brother of Beatles engineer Glyn Johns and credited as engineer on the album) to race to and fro to communicate the producer's wishes. ‘That </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong> thing was very, very difficult,’ remembers Jagger. ‘The house looks great, but I can assure you the basement did not look very good. Things were getting done, but they were very disorganized... We should've recorded in the drawing room, which is what we did in my house in England before, but we didn't. We were very impatient and we ended up in Keith's basement, and the basement was crummy in every possible way. But it wasn't the ideal recording environment. It was very hard to record there. Probably the sound in there was adequate, but there were power problems, which made it very difficult. And we took ages and ages and ages to get it to work. And then of course, you had all these hangers-on. We did get stuff done, but it was pretty chaotic. But we made it more difficult for ourselves by making it a double album, I think. That just doubled our workload.’" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4946f4bd4ec51bc4c3ab0ca96c55bcad170978f8/original/andy-johns.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Johns</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In a Goldmine Magazine interview with Andy Johns (engineer who worked closely with Jimmy Miller), Johns describes his working relationship with Jimmy Miller and the obstacles of recording via the Stones Mobile Recording Truck and the basement in </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong>: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goldmine: What are your memories of Exiles On Main Street and the Stones’ mobile recording truck? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Johns: Well, the gear in there was made by this fellow Dick Swetenam who really made the first mixes that you would recognize as a modern mixer. Dick put the truck together. It was his very cool stuff with four speakers in Lockwood cabinets. It could sound very nice in there but it could also be very difficult. The confined space. The camera never worked. The talk back never worked. So you couldn’t see or talk to people. You had to keep running out of the truck. Jimmy and I went to France with that truck. Ian Stewart was supposed to find a house that we could all go to everyday to work. And he couldn’t find one. So we ended up recording the album in Keith’s basement. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goldmine: Did you have to make some overt adjustments about actually recording in the </strong><i><strong>Nellcôte</strong></i><strong> Villa? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Johns: The first room I put them in was this basement which was a disaster. It just was too dead. So I moved them to another room that had stone walls. And I had Charlie and Keith in there and Mick Taylor and Bill had his bass underneath the stairs. Nicky Hopkins was in a separate room. And it was tough but some of the things came out rather well. It was just these rooms were a bit weird. The villa was a local Gestapo headquarters when the Nazis occupied France. I didn’t notice that until we’d been there for a while and the floor heating vents in the hallway were shaped like Swastikas. Gold Swastikas. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goldmine: Let’s talk about “Tumbling Dice... </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Johns: Obviously it was going to be great but it was a big struggle. Eventually we get a take. Hooray! I thought, ‘Let’s kick this up a notch and double track Charlie.’ ‘Oh, we’ve never done that before.’ ‘Well, it doesn’t mean we can’t do it now.’ We double-tracked Charlie but he couldn’t play the ending. For some reason he got a mental block about the ending. So, Jimmy Miller plays from the breakdown on out that was very easy to punch in. It was a little bit different than some of the others. That song we did more takes than anything else. It was a very busy mix. It was very difficult to mix. At Sunset Sound I tried mixing it a couple of times and it wouldn’t work. On the last batch Mick called up and said ‘Come back. We can’t beat your mixes.’ I mixed about another 12 songs in a marathon session. I would just leave the booth to have a piss and just go back in the room and that was it. For some reason I brought ‘Tumbling Dice’ up and it just started to work. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goldmine: Tell me about Jimmy Miller as a producer </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Johns: Well that’s easy. Jimmy was an extremely talented man. His main gift I think was his ability to get grooves. Which for a band like the Stones was very important. Look at the difference between Beggar’s Banquet and Satanic Majesties. He put them right back on the rail. So, he was quite influential then and came up with all sorts of lovely ideas for them. In fact that’s him playing the cowbell at the beginning of Honky Tonk Woman. He sets it up. He was somewhat of a frail individual and they got to him like they got to everybody. Sooner or later you lose your mind. By the time we got to Exile on Main Street they weren’t really listening to him anymore. So, he felt a bit like a fifth wheel. He was being squeezed out a bit and I was watching that go down.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the book, Inside Tracks, Miller sheds some light on the primitive conditions there: "For Exile, we suddenly found ourselves in this concrete basement with very little ventilation during a hot summer in the south of France. The sound was really harsh, and no matter how hard we tried, no matter how many different microphones we tried and no matter how many different positions we tried, we could never get it right." Besides the acoustical problems that Miller was dealing with, Keith Richards' growing addiction to heroin and Mick Jagger's frequent absences while spending time in Paris with his new wife, Bianca, added additional obstacles that had to be worked around as the chaotic sessions dragged on for the remainder of the summer. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In retrospect, it's a testament to Miller's production abilities that he was able to salvage the album under such trying circumstances. In part, Miller pulled this off by using some tracks that had been recorded previously: "Sweet Virginia," "Sweet Black Angel," "Loving Cup," "Stop Breaking Down," and "Shine a Light" were originally created during sessions for the Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers albums. In November 1971, Miller and the band flew to Los Angeles to conduct extensive overdub sessions and to mix the final version of the album. Despite his professional and personal difficulties at the time, Miller's deft production touch is apparent throughout the album. Once again, many tracks are enhanced by his work as a percussionist. On "Happy" and "Shine a Light," he handles the drum kit. At the end of "Tumbling Dice," he reinforces the rhythmic breakdown to great effect. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Some sources claim that Miller's ongoing frustration with the recording situation during Exile led to the beginning of his own narcotics addiction at this time. Other forces may have been at work as well. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a387bd7cd881ee38888257bfc92cdbc84480931c/original/exiles-on-main-street-label-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In Robert Greenfield's </strong><i><strong>Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones</strong></i><strong> (2006, Da Capo Press), a comprehensive description of the album's making, Andy Johns, the engineer on the sessions, describes some of the difficulties Miller was having with the band: "When they first started working with him, he was a lot of help. Then after a year or two, they kind of used Jimmy for what they wanted, and learned Jimmy's tricks, and started shutting him out a bit. So by the time of Exile on Main Street, they weren't listening to Jimmy very much, and it did him in. They weren't really rude, but they would ignore him a lot more than he would have liked."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of the project, Jimmy Miller was, in Andy Johns' words, "burnt out on the thing, and I didn't blame him." After his association with the Rolling Stones ended, Miller frequently disowned Exile, saying, "I was never happy with the sound of that album, especially after Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers." In a 2003 interview, Mick Jagger said, "Exile...is not one of my favorite albums, although I think the record does have a particular feeling. When I listen to Exile it has some of the worst mixes I've ever heard. I'd love to remix the record, not just because of the vocals, but because generally I think it sounds lousy. At the time, Jimmy Miller was not functioning properly." There is a certain irony in all this. Decades after its release, Exile on Main Street has achieved a legendary status. It is a complex album, filled with dense, raw sounds that seem to literally capture the restless cultural limbo of the early seventies.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3703ca1ea08481ac0b77a0995ec99447bb2ffd0a/original/jimmy-miller-albums.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In recent years, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been prone to revising history regarding Miller's importance as a producer, often belittling his contributions to what now stands as their band's finest work. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To understand Miller's contribution, one need only compare the albums Jimmy Miller produced for the Stones with the albums the band has made without him. While a handful of songs might aspire to the level of quality that Miller brought to the proceedings, the Rolling Stones have made an overwhelming amount of mediocre music since Jimmy Miller's departure.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69e2f32c051ea34b8d7935defae26929b497c306/original/heroin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It’s no wonder that a beautiful mansion on the Cote d’Azur stocked with heroin was attractive to some of the Stones’ famous friends. During Richards’s time visitors who showed up at Nellcôte, included Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, actors James Caan and Faye Dunaway, poet William S. Burroughs and playwright Terry Southern. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7f21f3f1736c50308424e90e63ab0b9d8aa3b0d3/original/john-lennon-nellecote.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lennon apparently couldn’t handle the excess – he vomited on the property, then made a hasty departure. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6226da53ed361163e7f9c8de90fe00d952ffffe3/original/gram-parsons-keef.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gram Parsons & Keith Richards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another visitor was American musician Gram Parsons, who had an influence on the country music elements of ‘Exile’ (and sings backup on the twangy “Sweet Virginia”). He was also heavily into heroin and got booted from the mansion by Richards, when the junkie was making a show of anti-drug support for the French authorities. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1Z-U2HUl7lg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Z-U2HUl7lg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a3a4acbecad6584fd8336bd50cd30ac0921dddd7/original/brian-jones.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brian Jones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The track “Shine a Light” began life a few years before work on ‘Exile’ started. Jagger wrote “Get a Line on You” about his perception of a drugged-out Brian Jones, who was still alive and in the Stones at the time. By the time of the song’s appearance in 1972, neither of those things was true, and it became a sort of gospel-tinged elegy. </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4efa0d55bd2620994317b4b2554d50fb78b66c7e/original/exile-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The album’s cover is a photo of a photo – many photos, actually – shot by Robert Frank. An outtake from the photographer’s book ‘The Americans,’ the photo titled “Tattoo Parlor” is a collage of circus performers, chosen by Jagger and designer John Van Hammersveld to match the double LP’s “outlaw” spirit." (classicrock.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6dc1be50ea87c1191524252e2d2a261acccccfae/original/john-van-hamersveld.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Van Hamersveld</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a bestclassicbands.com interview with John Van Hamersveld, the artist who assembled the images that were taken by Robert Frank (many which appeared in his book, The Americans):</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"John Van Hamersveld: Most people don’t understand the politics behind the development of album covers of the past. First of all, the album was like buying a piece of pop culture fashion, constructed by a graphic designer reflecting the music culture—like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, or Andy Warhol’s banana for the Velvet Underground, or Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Then came the Exile on Main Street cover from the Stones in 1972 that turned heads. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One day [photographer] Norman Seef and I met the Rolling Stones in Hollywood. A beautiful girlfriend I had met earlier on the scene in London, Chris O’Dell, was now Mick Jagger’s personal assistant. In early 1972, the Rolling Stones approached Norman and me to work on the design of a songbook with photographs for Warner Bros. At this stage, I didn’t know that I would be packaging Exile on Main Street. The Stones were in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound studios, finishing the record. Our first meeting was set to be in Bel Air, where they were staying</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d6561b9c6967b8854385a0d24123af986adb0c8/original/three-balls-guy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Perhaps the most memorable photograph on the cover is one of a guy holding three balls in his mouth. Marshall Chess, who was then the Stones’ manager, needed an image for billboards and other advertising; I had a great idea. ...Chess said, </strong><i><strong>'Why don’t we take the guy with the balls in his mouth? That is the most amazing photograph I’ve ever seen</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith was sitting on the couch across from me. He was looking at me in his mirrored sunglasses while smoking a joint. He looked so healthy, handsome and rested. Then, to my surprise, Robert Frank [photographer and filmmaker well known for his late 1950s book The Americans] walked into the room with a small Super 8mm Canon camera.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I knew Robert from a meeting in New York in 1968. I knew of Frank, and said to Jagger, '</strong><i><strong>Hey, why not use Frank for the album cover</strong></i><strong>?' This was when the concept was launched in Jagger’s mind. Frank and Jagger had a conversation and later went off to seedy Main Street in Los Angeles to take photographs of the band. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the request of Marshall Chess, Norman and I came to a second day of meetings. We walked through the living room of the villa, down to the far wall in the dining room where Mick and Keith were waiting with Marshall. Marshall started the meeting, and Norman handed another album cover by another designer to him. The cover was passed to Jagger for approval. He rejected it. Marshall then handed me a Robert Frank front photo collage. The tattoo-parlor-wall cover image was from Robert’s photo documentary The Americans. Mick, on my right, looked on for both of us to agree, so I nodded. This became the famous photo composition for the Exile on Main Street album cover. As the meeting progressed, the other pieces of the package were handed to me.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the meeting, Marshall asked me what we would do with Norman’s photos, given that Frank’s photos were the agreed-upon ones for the cover. Marshall had Norman’s images from the late-night photo shoot. They were the sequences in which Keith arrived at the very last minute for the shoot. Everyone had been waiting for him to show, and then he arrived with his pants hanging off his butt. With Keith’s arrival, the group was ready to go on with Norman’s session (“This is a one-time shot!” someone said). Lights, smoke, and confetti were readied, and a sequence was attempted, but then, by accident, Keith began to fall all over the set, creating a disaster. All else failed, and our budget then had been used up. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0dd9398ab4e300bd8a2f6691422742388078ac9d/original/exile-on-main-street-postcards.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suddenly Keith said from across the edge of the table, '</strong><i><strong>Make some postcards</strong></i><strong>,' showing us with his hands an accordion-folded-style collection of postcards. He then proceeded to almost lose his balance and fall over onto the rug. I said to Mick, '</strong><i><strong>Let’s take that as an idea and do it</strong></i><strong>.' Marshall and Jagger handed me a stack of photos made by Frank over the weekend. I left with the visual ingredients to go to my place at the Chapman Park Studio Building. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The last step of the approval process stopped at Ahmet Ertegun’s office at Atlantic Records. He was the label’s ultimate authority, so when this kind of art and aesthetic made it past his eyes, I knew that all would be OK. In the eyes of many in the industry, they were all shocked by the ugly, rough, tough, beat look of the package and that it was not funny or real humorous.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/447671dcade3fbe77fdcea70afda88719b7f7801/original/exiles-on-main-st-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One day, Norman Seef and I drove through Hollywood in his dark green ’69 Mustang convertible, with the top down. I had a stat of the cover in my hand, and we looked it over as an art piece. I told him I thought if I were to take four of the front cover photos out and paste them in color into the billboard composition, I would have a great design. So I later blew up the photos and pasted them on a board. The next day I had to get the right measurements for the size of the hand-painted outdoor billboards. I went over to Pacific Outdoor and there in the office we agreed, and went over the government codes and restrictions for the scale requirements. I helped them maximize the size to be larger than normal. The finished product finally was placed at Sunset and La Cienega, at the top of the hill. I focused the message around the fantasy, sideshow characters in the cover with the guy with eggs in his mouth. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This became the </strong><i><strong>freaks</strong></i><strong> displayed on the Sunset Strip, a prestigious site for the Art & Rock Scene. Reviewers said that the cover shot, assorted pictures of circus freaks, is not a collage but a photo Frank took in 1950 of the wall of a tattoo parlor somewhere on Route 66. The comparison to the notorious Stones—jet-setting tax exiles, cocaine-fueled satyrs and perpetual outsiders—is clear. To drive the point home, an identical layout on the back cover featured Frank’s photos of the Stones themselves, shot on L.A.’s seedy Main Street. (Frank did a 1972 tour film documentary of the Rolling Stones, the unreleased Cocksucker Blues.) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The inner sleeves were even more casually slapped together, with titles and credits hand-lettered by Jagger himself. The layout perfectly complements the sprawling, ramshackle sound of Exile itself." (bestclassicbands.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5GUV9dUpa-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5GUV9dUpa-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The musicians involved in the recording of the Exile tracks were made up of a veritable all-star team of Rolling Stones collaborators. Besides the faithfully solid-as-a-rock drumming of Charlie Watts, this also meant saxophonist Bobby Keyes. Nicky Hopkins’ piano was crucial, most notably as centerpiece of the classic “Loving Cup.” Clydie King & Venetta Fields, both formerly of Ray Charles’ legendary Raelettes, blessed this godforsaken mess with some church-fueled vocal beauty. Most importantly, Mick Taylor, the best pure musician the Rolling Stones ever counted as a member, was in the sweet spot of his five-year tenure in the band. Taylor’s imprints are all over this record. He plays every lick of slide guitar. He plays lead and rhythm in other places. He even subs in for bassist Bill Wyman on bass for five tracks, presumably since Wyman was either shagging or sleeping at the time. Or maybe Richards just knew Taylor was by then the group’s secret weapon. Either way, he wields his axe with devastating effect all over the album." (rockalbums.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="the7gV99YRI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/the7gV99YRI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"If Exiles On Main Street can claim a hero, it’s Keith Richards, who spent much of the time billowing through the record, his guitar painting the mosaic in question. Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts supported the musical director, creating a backchannel that was pounding in its backpedal and performance. It didn’t hurt that the music was diverse and solid in its exhibition, much of it stemming from the band’s lifelong experiences as individuals. Mick Jagger was 29, no great age, but worldly enough to write a tune as lilting as </strong><i><strong>Shine A Light</strong></i><strong>." (Culture Sonar)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Final Words From </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://justbackdated.blogspot.com/?m=1" data-link-type="url" contents="Chris Charlesworth's just backdated blog"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Chris Charlesworth's just backdated blog</u></strong></span></a></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/780f864eefe866aa75a7a4c025d839a86e5febe4/original/stones-tongue-meets-eienstein.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Fifty years old...the double album </strong><i><strong>Exile On Main Street</strong></i><strong> is being rightly celebrated as the Rolling Stones’ greatest ever LP. The hits compilation Forty Licks aside, it is the Stones’ LP I have listened to the most; released as a single CD in 1994, I doubt any six-month period has passed since when I haven’t played it at least once at home or in my car, a great big smile erupting as ‘Rocks Off’ blasts from my speakers, Keith’s guitar swinging into action as Mick sings ambiguously about sex and, possibly, the perils it can bring.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It’s a downhill, helter-skelter ride from there, not a duff track among the 17 that follow, a smorgasbord of hi-energy rock, spirited gospel, honky country and soupy blues. Never again would the Stones sound so confident, so convincing, so energized, so prolific, so eclectic, so wrapped up in their musical ideals in the space of one LP, albeit one that occupied four sides of vinyl. When I play it now I sense a sort of musical claustrophobia, as if the group was cramming as much into it while they could, perhaps even making a final grand statement before the money ran out and they imploded into a mess of Mick’s upwardly mobile ambitions, Keith’s drug addiction, Charlie’s ambivalence, Bill’s gloom and Mick Taylor’s inexperience. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We could be forgiven for thinking that ‘All Down The Line’ and ‘I Just Want To See His Face’ were produced by different bands. The former – which was actually recorded 18 months earlier in Los Angeles – ranks alongside any of the Stones’ great Chuck Berry rewrites, a Grade-A rocker that demands repeated plays, while the latter is a swampy voodoo chant in the style of Dr John, the sort of thing that might be heard at a gospel church in Mississippi where the congregation speaks in tongues. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0C8i6tOjt-M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0C8i6tOjt-M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No two songs on the entire record are less alike than this pair, and they are matched by the incomparable ‘Tumbling Dice’, with its layer after layer of sinewy guitar lines, or the country campfire vibe of ‘Sweet Virginia’, in which Gram Parsons surely had a hand, and its companion piece ‘Torn And Frayed’, or the relentless, almost punk, pace of ‘Rip This Joint’, or Keith’s own ‘Happy’, virtually a one-man band creation. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Everywhere you look there’s something to gorge on: the James Moore cover ‘Shake Your Hips’, aka ‘Hip Shake’, given a sensuous Southern twist; the OTT tribute to Angela Davis that was ‘Sweet Black Angel’; the down-home blues of ‘Stop Breaking Down’, rearranged from Robert Johnson’s original with Mick Taylor on slide; the sumptuous gospel of ‘Loving Cup’ with Nicky Hopkins’ cascading piano; even the throwaway ‘Turd On The Run’, another pacy sprint with Mick’s harp howling in the wind. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What have I missed? Bobby Key’s sax in ‘Casino Boogie’; the sleazy ‘Ventilator Blues’; the emotion-packed, choral majesty of ‘Let It Loose’; and the swaggering finale ‘Soul Survivor’, the cue to start again at the beginning, as I so often have. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In Keith’s book, </strong><i><strong>Life</strong></i><strong>, the Stones’ guitarist says the title of the album came from the group’s tax-imposed exile in the South of France where the LP was recorded, the main street being the Riviera coast road that stretched from Cannes to Monte Carlo. Being cooped up in Nellcôte, the 18-room mansion built in the 1890s in the hills above Villefranche Sur Mer, the Stones and their entourage of wives, crew and additional musicians like Keys, Jim Price, Parsons and Hopkins, had nothing else to do but eat, drink and make music, urgently, and result still sounds spectacular."</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/03398739cd31f4206ded69c6c12e0bbe3d367dc6/original/mind-smoke-record-store-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/08e2b6f0adc641f8456de50a3a012f18db2c9215/original/cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-sign-95.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p><img 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src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/595422363ee6c08882910818890724558a7063bb/original/woodstock-official-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WOODSTOCK MUSIC & ART FAIR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sly & The Family Stone, Tim Hardin, Sweetwater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater, Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who, The Band, Jeff Beck Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood Sweat & Tears, Joe Cocker, CSNY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Years After, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d0emzoAJ1JY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d0emzoAJ1JY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fe95417e5f5e3dbdfa9a3a11ea17100784afb636/original/1969-detroit-rock-roll-revival-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit Rock & Roll Revival Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Dr. John the Night Tripper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Winter, Psychedelic Stooges, Terry Reid, Amboy Dukes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SRC, Frost, Rationals, Tee Garden & Van Winkle, Lyman Woodard </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wilson Mower Pursuit, 3rd Power, NY Rock & Roll Ensemble </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Peel & The Lower East Side, Red White & Blues, Sky </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Train, Savage Grace, James Gang, Caste, Gold Bros & Dutch Elm </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Michigan State Fairgrounds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Novi, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This was one of Michigan’s biggest festival shows at the time with over 35 bands treading the boards over two days. The rock scene in Detroit orbited around the famous Grande Ballroom, home to the MC and The Stooges as well as the James Gang, Ted’s Amboy Dukes and many more. To ensure the gig got a good crowd, they shut the Ballroom that weekend. Produced by Russ Gibb who ran the Ballroom and would be the man behind several other festivals in the area, it was largely regarded as a huge success by which I mean, no-one took a bath financially. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry was the notional headliner on the Friday but everyone had come to see local boys the MC5 along with Johnny Winter, who was playing up a storm all summer long. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This show marked Johnny Winter's first appearance in Michigan but he was tearing it up at what seemed like every festival that summer of 1969. It was also significant for it being one of Grand Funk Railroad’s first shows after forming out of a band called Pack. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gary Grimshaw’s beautiful poster advertising the event was really striking, evolving out of and influenced by the west coast tradition of Kelly & Mouse and Rick Griffin which he'd seen in San Francisco while skipping town to avoid jail time for a bust (which he eventually beat in court) He did a lot of Ballroom posters and worked on underground press publications for many years. He's grown up with a couple of the MC5 guys and was very much an important cog in the Michgian counterculture wheel. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The complete band line up was a who’s who of late 60s Michigan rock n roll. Brownsville Station, Caste, Chuck Berry, David Peel and The Lower East Side, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Dutch Elm, Grand Funk Railroad, Johnny Winter, Lyman Woodard, MC5, Plain Brown Wrapper, Savage Grace, Sky, SRC, Sun Ra, Teegarden and Van Winkle, The Amboy Dukes, The Frost, The Gold Brothers, The James Gang, The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, The Rationals, The Red, White and Blues Band, The Stooges, The Third Power, The Up, Train, Wilson Mower, Pursuit, The Bonzo Dog Band. (www.djtees.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c95d1c895b08c4890e4d284a4a6b8855b42d4ca/original/texas-international-pop-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TEXAS INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was the fourth of 1969’s big summer rock festivals, following events in Atlanta and Atlantic City and of course Woodstock. On this day, the three-day Texas International Pop Festival near Dallas, was proceeding smoothly. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The festival was co-produced by the promoters of the Atlanta International Pop Festival and Dallas concert promoters Angus Wynne and Jack Calmes of SHOWCO, Inc. It drew around 125,000 to 150,000 people to the recently opened Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville in a peaceful and well-organized gathering. (One person died of heatstroke; hey, it was late summer in sweltering Texas.) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The music began each day with a new and relatively unknown band, Grand Funk Railroad. B.B. King played all three days; James Cotton Blues Band, Sam & Dave, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, jazz flautist Herbie Mann and Chicago Transit Authority (later simply Chicago) all played two days. Top classic rock acts on the bill included Janis Joplin, Ten Years After, Santana, Spirit and Led Zeppelin, whose incendiary performance at the fest is a highly prized bootleg." (bestclassicbands.com)</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hp6wUDpBdaQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hp6wUDpBdaQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 30 - September 1</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BB King, Canned Heat, Chicago Transit Authority</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nazz, Janis Joplin, Rotary Connection</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CSNY, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sam & Dave, Sly & The Family Stone, Spirit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie King, Ten Years After, Tony Joe White</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band & Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lewisville, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3c6318feecd4e90950cb2b558ff1309d29b7b4b3/original/toronto-pop-festival-69.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toronto Pop Festival 69</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Modern Rock Quartet, Kensington Market, Man</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Andersen, Carla Thomas & The Barkays,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All Kooper w/ a 15 piece orchestra</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band "Music From Big Pink"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>S.R.C., Bonzo Dog Band, Elephant's Memory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rotary Connection, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Velvet Underground, Sly & The Family Stone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mother Lode, Stone Soul Children, Procol Harum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edwin Starr, Slim Harpo, Ronnie Hawkins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry, Tiny Tim</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nucleus, Man, Dr. John the Night Tripper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blood Sweat & Tears, Charlebois & Steppenwolf</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toronto Varsity Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toronto, Canada</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4GPfsOffyyc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4GPfsOffyyc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This festival was held at Toronto's Varsity Stadium from noon to midnight on June 21 and 22, 1969 and is not to be confused with the show later in the year where ‘Live Peace In Toronto” was recorded, though that was put on by the same people. This was, in effect, a dry run for that show. Tickets were $6 a day or $10 for both days. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The line-up across the two days was Al Kooper, Blood, Sweet and Tears, Carla Thomas and The Bar Kays, Chuck Berry, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Elephant's Memory, Eric Andersen, Johnny Winter, José Feliciano, Motherlode, Nucleus, Procol Harum, Robert Charlebois, Ronnie Hawkins, Rotary Connection, Slim Harpo, Sly and the Family Stone, SRC, Steppenwolf, The Band, The Bonzo Dog Band (didn’t show)The Edwin Starr Band, The Stone Soul Children, The Velvet Underground and Tiny Tim. Alice Cooper wasn’t scheduled to play but did.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This festival is reported by some as being life-changing and the moment they turned on to the scene, baby. I guess in those days, a festival or gig was the only way to meet up with likeminds that were otherwise very scattered, so it must’ve been mind-blowing to see thousands of other people who were into what you were into especially if you lived in a very straight, non-groovy place and previously felt very isolated. We forget now how less connected we all were back in the day and thus how important gigs and festivals were, both musically and culturally." (www.djtees.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3979db5d06cee02f17af8bf6cf63a1179e47d45b/original/folk-rock-festival-color.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/605e50f34d58ffe39a0c6a331f887e28e768d490/original/1969-folk-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Northern California Folk-Rock Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chambers Bros, Led Zeppelin, Spirit, Canned Heat, Steve Miller Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co., Eric Burdon & the Animals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Country Joe & The Fish, Electric Flag, The Youngbloods</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Michaels, Blues Image, Muddy Waters, Poco (Pogo)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Loading Zone, People, Kaleidoscope, Taj Mahal</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Trans Atlantic Flash, Smokestack Lightning, Crome Syrcus, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Indian Head Band & Dirty Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Special Concert By Ravi Shankar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family Park, Santa Clara County Fair Grounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Clara, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California on May 23–25, 1969 and promoted by Bob Blodgett.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The festival featured The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, The Chambers Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon, Spirit, Canned Heat, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Youngbloods, Steve Miller, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Noel Redding, Lee Michaels, Blues Image, Santana, Aum, Elvin Bishop, Poco, People!, Linn County, The Loading Zone, Sweet Linda Divine, Cat Mother, Doc Watson & New Lost City Ramblers, Sable.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Radio station KSJO was warning listeners that the acts advertised on the poster for 1969 festival — particularly Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix — were not going to appear, as they were booked elsewhere at the time. (This situation resulted in a lawsuit — paid for by Zeppelin — against the promoter, who retaliated by paying Hendrix $30,000, an unheard of amount at the time, to fly in by Lear Jet and play for half an hour.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c32473eab1ea9c38314d188677b7bd9a9374e292/original/1969-miami-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miami Rock Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana, Canned Heat, Smith, Crow</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vanilla Fudge, Grateful Dead, Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BB. King, Hugh Masakela, Tony Joe White</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Biff Rose, Amboy Dukes, The Turtles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Motherlode, The Band, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold Blood and Sweetwater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miami Hollywood Speedway Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood, F</strong></span>L</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Miami Pop Festival stands out in the history of rock and roll and of the counterculture for one reason: it was the last festival of the 60s. There had been 43 festivals in 1969 and as the year drew to an end this was held over 3 days from Sat Dec 27, 1969 - Mon Dec 29, 1969 Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida. The bill boasted some of the performers from Woodstock. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Years later, looking back, The Miami Herald reported 'It drew thousands of young people determined to have fun and avoid paying admission, if they could. It wasn’t in Miami. It took place at the Miami-Hollywood Speedway, then 15 long miles west of Hollywood, but now a housing development in the middle of Pembroke Pines. Fans were searched by police, lashed by cold winds and encouraged to turn on to God by Billy Graham. Graham said he appreciated the respectful welcome he got, but police made at least 47 arrests and one young man died in a fall from a spotlight tower.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The weather is reported as being cold and wet and also hot. So go figure that one. It seems that it rained heavily at some point and that sent some people away. Because so many people were so stoned at festivals, memories of what happened are often a bit vague. 'I don’t remember much, man, but I was definitely there...I think I talked to Johnny Winter...and I was naked at some point, someone stole my tent and I ended up hitchhiking home wrapped in a sleeping bag.' That sort of thing. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although this was the last stop on the wild ride that had been the 1960s and 1969 especially, it has slipped through the cracks of history somewhat as a half-remembered three day dope haze. Actually, maybe that is only appropriate!" (www.djtees.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a9ceaf9db691808e5b94774ff17cc0afc514a858/original/devonshire-downs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Newport 69 @ Devonshire Downs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On the weekend of June 20, 1969--two months before Woodstock--Los Angeles hosted its own three-day circus of music, masses and mayhem. About 200,000 people passed through Devonshire Downs during those three days, according to news accounts. Newport ’69, as the festival was called, was the largest rock ‘n’ roll concert to date. Twice as big as anything before.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By sundown, the Devonshire Downs fairground took on an eerie feel. Jimi Hendrix wailed electric madness on stage as bonfires burned through the night.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This was the Woodstock that everyone forgot about." (Los Angeles Times)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Featured Artists</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Chambers Bros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Creedence Clearwater, Steppenwolf, The Rascals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jethro Tull, Eric Burdon, Marvin Gaye, </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grass Roots, Three Dog Night, Booker T. & the MG's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit, Joe Cocker, South Wind</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal, Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edwin Hawkins Singers, Ike & Tina Turner</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffy St. Marie, Friends of Distinction, Charity</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweetwater, Lee Michaels, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds, Poco Love, Albert Collins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mother Earth, Flock, Brenton Wood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Fernando, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f249dc756f6d774d7fad229ac3ee8a8d00f53503/original/atlantic-city-pop-festival-atlantic-city-racetrack-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ATLANTIC CITY POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Creedence Clearwater Revival, Canned Heat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills & Nash, Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three Dog Night, The Byrds, Procol Harum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mary Hopkins, Johnny Winter, Joni Mitchell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hugh Masakela, American Dream, Moody Blues</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago Transit Authority, Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BB King, Buddy Rich Big Band, Joe Cocker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Mother Earth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Richard, Sir Douglas Quintet, Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker T. & The MG's, Tim Buckley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John the Night Tripper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before Woodstock Festival. It actually took place in Hamilton Township at the Atlantic City Race Course. There was heavy security at the festival, and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. A ticket for the entire 3-day weekend was $15.00 to see all of the performers listed. Attended by some 100,000+ people.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ja5JvThzeWE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ja5JvThzeWE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, not a single note of the Jersey festival was professionally captured on film or tape, said Larry Magid, the Electric Factory Concerts principal who booked the show. Only shaky, amateur-shot 8mm silent-film clips are found on YouTube.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The overall bill at the Atlantic City Pop Festival was more interesting, eclectic, sophisticated than the more famous festival aka Woodstock. The fesstival's lineup boasted global stars like Afro-jazz legend Hugh Masekela and B.B. King. It delivered the roaring Buddy Rich Big Band, and likewise horn-flecked but poppy Chicago and Lighthouse groups, plus envelope-pushing Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (serving a slab of “Uncle Meat”), soul-jamming Booker T. & the MGs and Buddy Miles, plus psychedelic sets by The Chambers Brothers, Lothar and the Hand People, Dr. John, Iron Butterfly, the Tex-Mex spiced Sir Douglas Quintet, quasi-classical Procol Harum and The Byrds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The brooding folk/jazz poet Tim Buckley connected more fervently to the New Jersey crowd than did John Sebastian at Woodstock. And authentic blast from the past Little Richard, who closed the fest in flamboyant fashion, was much truer to the rebel rockin’ code than the parodistic Sha Na Na was at Woodstock.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There were no giant video screens at shows in those days, but the Atlantic City track did have a closed-circuit monitor system so patrons could view the acts (if not hear well). The other interesting production feature of the festival was an airy, geodesic structure looming over the stage, designed by Penn architecture professor Buckminster Fuller, which held stage lights and semi-shielded Janis Joplin and the festival-capping Little Richard from the rain that fell earlier on Sunday night.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Not all went according to plan. The Moody Blues had visa problems and didn’t get there. Brand new supergroup-in-training Crosby, Stills and Nash weren’t ready for their closeup. They needed more rehearsals, and canceled. Johnny Winter was booked for an afternoon gig by an agent who didn’t know the Texas bluesman couldn’t play in the sunlight (he was born with albinism). Winter showed up late Sunday and never got on." (Philadelphia Inquirer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e00044aa4958d0de4e78974249ed02b769854cd/original/1969-laurel-pop-festival-laurel-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LAUREL POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin, Johnny Winters, Jethro Tull</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Al Kooper, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Buddy Guy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sly & the Family Stone, 10 Years After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mothers of Invention, Jeff Beck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guess Who and Savoy Brown Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laurel Race Course</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laurel, MD</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OoWFGCZ944I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OoWFGCZ944I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the summer of 1969, thousands of young people gathered together to attend a festival showcasing many of the greatest musicians of their generation. Huddled around each other in the mud, these counterculture youth engaged in a capstone event to the rebellious and liberating 1960s. This event, of course, was Maryland’s Laurel Pop Festival. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Indeed, a little over a month before Woodstock, the Laurel Race Course featured its own lineup of impressive and influential rock and pop acts over two nights, July 11 and 12. Though certainly overshadowed by the ever-famous Woodstock and ever-infamous Altamont, the Laurel Pop Festival was special in its own right. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Featuring a lineup that the Laurel Leader called a “who’s who” in pop music,[1] the two-day event was the invention of local promoters Elzie Street and James Scott, who teamed up with George Wein, founder of the famed Newport Folk Festival. The Laurel concert was originally intended as a companion to Wein’s Laurel Jazz Festival, which had run annually since 1967.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While the scene at the race track included many of the expected sights and “vibes” of the prototypical 60’s rock festival, certain factors set it apart. Its relatively small size and obscurity contributed to its uniqueness. Far from being “half a million strong” as Joni Mitchell famously described Woodstock, Laurel reached a peak of 15,000 attendees. In addition, several of the groups performing were largely still in the “trying to make it” phase of their careers – Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin had only released a single studio album. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The recording sessions of Led Zeppelin’s critically acclaimed Led Zeppelin II were ongoing during the time of the festival, meaning that attendees had the opportunity to hear some of the group’s most famous songs (such as “What is and What Should Never Be” or “The Lemon Song”) before most of the world knew they existed.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A notable but forgotten moment in rock history, the Jeff Beck Group played one of its final concerts (if not final) with its original lineup featuring Rod Stewart on the Laurel Pop Festival’s second night. Though scheduled to play Woodstock in August, they never did.[7] </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another highlight was Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, who played a characteristically absurd set that made “ribald mockery of all things serious.”[8] Still, Zappa’s technical proficiency shone through, with one journalist remarking “he had a look on his face as if trying to say ‘Look at me, I’m in good full control of the music; not one note got out of hand.'”[9] </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time Zappa’s ten-man “freakshow” left the stage, it was already 1:10 a.m. with two more acts to go. Pushed back by the rain, the festival’s later set-times brought on unforeseen problems. Now beginning to resemble Altamont more than Woodstock, in the cold wee-hours of the morning, concert goers began burning their wooden folding chairs into large bonfires to keep warm. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Following a lengthy set-up time and an announcement saying “the management has asked you please not to burn the chairs,” Sly & the Family Stone took the stage around 2 a.m.[10] With fires still burning in the race-course infield, the soul-funk group performed its hit “I Want to Take You Higher” among other songs, but their set was cut short. Prince George’s County police and venue management had had enough of the raucous music echoing through Laurel (which was by all journalists’ accounts, far too loud), as well as the continued bonfires. The group was abruptly directed off-stage, as one attendee purportedly heaved a chair at the stage-hands.[11] The festival’s final act, The Savoy Brown Blues Band, never went on." (boundarystones.weta.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d9146b44a52b2dc03f578ccb8577deb42a07c7a/original/midwest-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MID WEST ROCK FESTIVAL </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffy Saint Marie, Shag </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pacific Gas & Electric, Sweetwater </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taste, MC5, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Winter, Bob Seeger System, Sigel Schwall Blues Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, Zephyer </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>State Fair Park Milwaukee, WI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_Jr7IMUpFoQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Jr7IMUpFoQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Held July 25 to 27, 1969, the Midwest Rock Festival had a lineup almost as star-studded as that jammed-to-capacity event in upstate New York. Among those playing State Fair Park that weekend were rock gods Led Zeppelin; Blind Faith, the short-lived English supergroup including Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood; guitar hero Johnny Winter; the First Edition with Kenny Rogers; folk star Buffy Sainte-Marie; SRC; Pacific Gas & Electric; and the Bob Seger System.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/98d32d97ef0cf0802f27f0a8a7681d689adb83de/original/1969-big-rock-pow-wow.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG ROCK POW-WOW</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweetwater, Joe South</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aum, NRBQ, Rhinoceros</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muddy Waters, Timothy Leary</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Echo, Nervous System</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jane & The Electric Jive Wire</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seminole Indian Village</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Hollywood, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="y_uKLzBfMxQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y_uKLzBfMxQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Big Rock Pow-Wow '69 took place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 23, 24, and 25, 1969, at the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation in West Hollywood, Florida. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Other artists who performed at the festival included Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter, Sweetwater, Joe South, Aum, NRBQ, Rhinoceros, Muddy Waters, and the Youngbloods. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A band called Sun Country played as NRBQ. They were started by brothers Lee & Stephen Tiger, sons of Buffalo Tiger, a chief of the Floridian Miccosukee Tribe. As teens they gigged in Miami garage bands including the Renegades and a brief incarnation of NRBQ which was how they were listed at this festival.The brothers formed Sun Country in 1968. They toured the West Coast in 1969, playing venues including the famed Whisky-a-Go-Go and opening for acts including Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. They were signed to Bernard Stollman's ESP label, Sun Country and issued its self-titled record in 1969. It flopped and they barely made it into the 70s. NRBQ went on to manydifferent incarnations. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At the end of the Saturday night concert, Timothy Leary spoke from the stage, campaigning for Governor of California. The Dead's set from this festival was released as Road Trips Vol. 4 No.1 and is well-documented all over the internet. Their set was largely that which was released that year on Live/Dead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While being often listed as a major Florida rock festival, The Dead aside, there is little documentation of the event which rather suggests it all went off without many of the problems that dogged so many late 60s festivals." (www.djtees.com)</strong></span></p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6be1da5918629bcdff7cfe1de84c6c0b36c26fb6/original/bath-festival-of-blues.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BATH FESTIVAL OF BLUES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, Ten Years After </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin, The Nice, Chicken Shack </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Blodwin Pig </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taste, Keef Hartley Band, Clouds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liverpool Scene, Group Therapy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Champion Jack Dupree & DJ John Peel </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Bath, Somerset, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bath Festival of Blues was a music festival held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on Saturday 28 June 1969. It featured a lineup of British blues bands, including Fleetwood Mac (the headliners), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, The Nice, Chicken Shack, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Mick Abrahams' Blodwyn Pig and Principal Edwards Magic Theatre amongst others.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. The only major problem occurred when The Nice's use of bagpipers caused the stage to collapse and had to be repaired.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b23318efb769bc13a0eb1906b37f31288a8c1bd/original/hilltop-music-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hilltop Pop Festival </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, Len Chandler </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jaime Brockett, The Wild Thing, Far Cry </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Country Funk, Paint, Mudge Memorial Dump </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blew Jug Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mason, NH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Two weeks before Woodstock, a one-day festival occurred in Mason, New Hampshire. Mason sits on the border of New Hampshire and Massachusetts and is about 60 miles from Boston. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KPhiizGZ5EI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KPhiizGZ5EI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f666644b0f015af7f28fb841ab96dd62ce91192b/original/palm-spring-pop-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PALM SPRINGS POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall, Paul Butterfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape, Lee Michaels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat, Buddy Miles, Savoy Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Palm Springs, CA</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="aoWT_ikls68" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aoWT_ikls68?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Palm Springs Pop Festival was held in April 1969. On the bill were the likes of Procol Harum, The Doors, Canned Heat, John Mayall, Savoy Brown, Steve Miller, Ike and Tina Turner, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Flying Burritos Brothers, Lee Michael, Moby Grape, Buddy Miles Express, the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. All pretty cool music to listen to in the hot desert. Jeff Beck didn't play because he got into a fight with Rod Stewart at the hotel, as the band fell apart. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The smell of incense and Mexican pot was thick in the air. Students had come from San Diego and Los Angeles en masse, hoping to buy tickets for the two concerts that were sponsored by Los Angeles FM stations as part of the two-day festival. The first concert was held three miles east of Palm Springs in Cathedral City at the Sunair Drive-In. The marquee at the theatre read: Tuesday only Palm Springs Pot Festival from 6 to Midnight 'Come high and stay high.' t. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The day of the event, ticket holders were let in and throngs of others stood outside hoping to get past the gates and into the venue. More than 5,000 concert-goers filled the drive-in. Those who could not get in broke holes in the fences and pushed in to see the bands and revel in the music. This despite the fact that ticket prices were just $4.50 The second night, April 3, at the Palm Springs Angel Baseball Stadium, law enforcement teams kept the peace by securing the stadium after the 3,500 long hairs were let in. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All around the sleepy desert town students and freaks hung out and got it on. There was public nudity and the having of carnal relations in the open air. Well, it was all very shocking and the locals didn't like it one bit. The local paper called it "a hobo jungle" though I'm willing to bet few actual hobos were there." (www.djtees.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c33987f8ce71fa6279cd9ab9b6691ab91c822cb7/original/denver-pop-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DENVER POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Mama Thornton, The Flock, Three Dog Night</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly, Aorta, Zephyr'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poco, Johnny Winter, Tim Buckley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Creedence Clearwater Revival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aum, Rev. Cleophus Robinson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Cocker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Unlike the free-form happening in upstate New York, the Denver festival had the full support and local resources of a major city, taking place in Denver Mile High Stadium. There were high expectations for the Festival; it was commonly called the "First Annual" Denver Pop Festival. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000, though on Sunday when it was declared a free festival, that number may have been higher. Ticket prices were $6 per day, or $15 for all three days (Fri, Sat, Sun). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa is credited by some with inventing the audience wave during his set. He assigned sections of the stadium (audience) to each make different odd sounds and gestures, including standing with arms raised.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The festival featured the final performance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, then the highest paid act in rock." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/96ef201ecdb4a7b5ea69c6d786a912c394384af5/original/new-orleans-pop-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW ORLEANS POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>White Fox, Snow Rabbit</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deacon John & The Electric Soul Train</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whizbang, Axis, Tyrannosaurus Rex</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's A Beautiful Day, Flower Power</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spiral Staircase, Oliver, Smyth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngbloods, Country Joe & The Fish</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds, Canned Heat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly, Janis Joplin, Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys, Chicago</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lee Michaels, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John VooDoo Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Giant Jam Session featuring:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Cat Mother</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dantana, Chicago, It's A Beautiful day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="IO8T4vwqJKQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IO8T4vwqJKQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The schedule of the New Orleans Pop Festival is known with relative certainty. The concert poster contained the complete lineup and time of appearance. Newspaper articles a day or two prior to the concert repeated the highlights of the poster's schedule with a few changes. Newspaper reports after the performances confirm that all bands on Sunday which were scheduled played Without any media reports to the contrary, it is assumed that Saturday's schedule took place as planned. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lesser known bands were scheduled to play an hour apart, better known bands were given an hour and 15 minutes, and Jefferson Airplane was booked for a two-hour concert. The demands of the crowd for encores quickly put the festival off schedule, pushing performance times later and later as the day wore on, although the double stage did allow a band to get on stage before the preceding band was finished, drastically reducing the intermission between bands." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/077006bc161ef75603a8d4f8358df6bb927cf0a2/original/atlanta-international-pop-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Procol Harum, Alllman Bros., B.B. King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's A Beautiful Day, Capt. Beefheart & His Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chambers Bros., Mountain, Ginger Baker's Air Force</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richie havens, Jimi Hendrix, Hampton Grease Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Rush, Taos, Ballin Jack, Bloodrock, Johnny Winter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John B. Sebastian, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit, Ravi Shankar, Terry Reid, Cactus, Gypsy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Super Jam Session, Giant Fireworks Show</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Symposium of Awareness</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Atlanta International Pop Festival was organized by a seventeen-member promotional team that included Chris Cowing, Robin Conant and Alex Cooley. Cooley was also one of the organizers of the Texas International Pop Festival a few weeks later on Labor Day weekend, as well as the second, and last, Atlanta International Pop Festival the following summer, and the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1–3, 1972. The sound system for the 1969 Atlanta festival was supplied by Hanley Sound of Medford, Massachusetts, and the light show was provided by The Electric Collage of Atlanta, both of which would return for the second Atlanta Pop Festival. Although his name appeared on the promotional poster, Chuck Berry did not perform at the festival. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the Monday following the festival, July 7, the festival promoters gave Atlanta's music fans a gift: a free concert in Atlanta's Piedmont Park featuring Chicago Transit Authority, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Spirit, all of whom had played at the festival, and Grateful Dead, who had not. According to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the free event was the promoters' way of showing 'their appreciation for the overwhelming success of the festival'. although Alex Cooley has also described their motivation as simple hippie guilt at making a few-thousand-dollar profit." 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e6478e9d0379b62a0026bbaec2e67d2e2acb50c/original/one-hit-wonders-1960s-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The term </strong><i><strong>One Hit Wonder</strong></i><strong> refers to solo artists or bands who were lucky enough to eke out a hit song before disappearing into obscurity. Over the years in the music business, the phrase </strong><i><strong>One Hit Wonder</strong></i><strong> became a way of expressing something that was a </strong><i><strong>flash in the pan</strong></i><strong>. On today's blog post, we'll take a look at some of the best One Hit Wonders from the 1960's.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many One Hit Wonders went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and most of them never had a sequel. While these artists seemed to fade out of sight, their hit songs lived on. Many One Hit Wonders ended up being associated with movies or by being re-recorded by other artists.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today's blog post is dedicated to my older brother Alex, who turned me onto to most of these great One Hit Wonders back in the 1960's!</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1960</strong></span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="o1Z_hskvz1M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o1Z_hskvz1M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B vocal group in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Originally known by the name, The (Royal) Charms. The band went on to change its name (two more times) to The Gladiolas in 1957 and The Excellos in 1958. They finally settled on The Zodiacs.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band's only hit was </strong><i><strong>Stay, </strong></i><strong>a doo-wop song written by Maurice Williams and first recorded in 1960 by Williams with his group, The Zodiacs. Commercially successful recordings of the same song were later also released by both The Hollies and The Four Seasons.</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1961</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Baby - Bruce Channel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zNiALFHyLH0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zNiALFHyLH0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Hey Baby, </strong></i><strong>a song written by Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel, was recorded by Channel in 1961 and first released on LeCam Records, a local Fort Worth, Texas label. After the song got some serious airplay, it was released on Smash Records for national distribution. Channel co-produced the song with Major Bill Smith (owner of LeCam) and released it on Mercury Records' Smash label. It reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks.. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The song features a prominent riff from well-known harmonica player Delbert McClinton, and drums played by Ray Torres. Other musicians on the record included Bob Jones and Billy Sanders on guitar and Jim Rogers on bass. According to a CNN article from 2002, while touring the UK in 1962 with The Beatles, McClinton met John Lennon and gave him some harmonica tips. Lennon put the lessons to use right away on </strong><i><strong>Love Me Do</strong></i><strong> and later </strong><i><strong>Please Please Me</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1962</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do You Love Me - The Contours</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="l3zJZ2d4cis" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l3zJZ2d4cis?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Do You Love Me </strong></i><strong>is a rhythm and blues song recorded by the Contours in 1962. Written and produced by Motown Records owner Berry Gordy Jr., it appeared twice on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching numbers three in 1962 and eleven in 1988. This song is a groove and it references the 1960s dance moves the Mashed Potato and the Twist. The song includes a stirring spoken recitation in the intro: </strong><i><strong>You broke my heart, 'cause I couldn't dance, You didn't even want me around And now I'm back, to let you know...I can really shake 'em down</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I was a 10 year old kid at the time, when my brother Alex slapped the 45 on the record player; we listened to it several times in a row and it was the fake ending of the song that captured my imagination. The song faded out as many song did during those times....but suddenly the song burst forth once again. Zowieeee! </strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1963</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tell Him - The Exciters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lSla9fyd4SI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lSla9fyd4SI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In 1962, Herb Rooney met the Masterettes; three singing, swinging high school juniors from Queens. Rooney thought the girls had a really hot sound and brought them in to see the renowned production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The duo concurred with Herb's assessment and told Herb to stick around and sing bottom for the group which was now re-dubbed The Exciters. Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's </strong><i><strong>Tell Him</strong></i><strong> was chugging up the charts. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Exciters performed in Europe and the Caribbean, toured with Wilson Pickett and opened for The Beatles. But after 1966, the media excitement died down to a dribble." (Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One Hit Wonders 1990 published by Billboard Books.)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally Go Round The Roses - The Jaynettes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="icLLcMCoX08" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/icLLcMCoX08?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally go 'round the roses (Sally go 'round the roses) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally go 'round the roses (Sally go 'round the pretty roses) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roses they can't hurt you (roses they can't hurt you) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roses they can't hurt you (no, the roses they can't hurt you) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Saddest thing in the whole wide world </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Is to see your baby with another girl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don't you go downtown (Sally go 'round) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No, don't you go downtown ('round and 'round) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yes, because the saddest thing in the whole wide world </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Is to see your baby with another girl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sally Go Round The Roses</strong></i><strong> is a great single that has always had a hypnotic element to it. On occasion it has definitely but me in a trance! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The producer of </strong><i><strong>Sally Go 'Round the Roses</strong></i><strong>, Abner Spector, was an A&R man for the Chicago-based Chess Records. In the summer of 1963, Spector asked J&S owner, Zelma Sanders, to assemble a vocal ensemble to record a girl group style record, to which end Sanders wrote the song </strong><i><strong>Sally Go Round The Roses</strong></i><strong> with Spector's wife Lona Stevens, drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie'. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The arrangement for </strong><i><strong>Sally Go 'Round the Roses</strong></i><strong> was provided by Artie Butler. Butler prepped the backing track for the song at Broadway Recording Studios in the Ed Sullivan Theater; in spite of it being widely reported that Buddy Miles is the drummer, Butler claims that, except for the guitar parts (by Al Gorgoni and Carl Lynch), he played all the instruments on the track. The recording of the song was achieved on an old Ampex tape mono machine. The song's overall sound was the result of Butler adding more and more elements of reverb which seemed to add an eerie element to the distinct sound of the record.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To this day I still think there is something mysterious about </strong><i><strong>Sally Go Round The Roses.</strong></i></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1964</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just Like Romeo & Juliet - The Reflections</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ycCZX-olchU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ycCZX-olchU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Reflections were a blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group from Detroit, Michigan who had one hit single in 1964 called </strong><i><strong>(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet</strong></i><strong>. Produced by Bob Hamilton, the song was produced by Rob Reeco on Golden World Records. The Reflections one-hit wonder reached #6 on the Billboard Hot.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e06f4615b5ab0b228f4deb5a826bf58179c75dec/original/garage-rock.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always considered 1965 to 1966 to be </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the ultimate years for garage rock singles!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1965</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirty Water - The Standells</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="62XRy-jFCm8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/62XRy-jFCm8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Written by Ed Cobb, who also produced the song, </strong><i><strong>Dirty Water</strong></i><strong> is a tongue-in-cheek anthem to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its then-famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River. According to Standells keyboardist Larry Tamblyn, at least some of the song (notably the references to </strong><i><strong>lovers and thieves</strong></i><strong>) was inspired by a mugging of producer Cobb in Boston.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>First issued in late 1965 on the Tower label, a subsidiary of Capitol Records, the song debuted April 30, 1966 on the Cash Box charts and peaked at #8. It reached #11 on the Billboard singles charts on June 11. It was the band's first major hit single. </strong></span> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You Ain't Got Nothing Yet - Blues Magoos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6jNXRr2aINw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6jNXRr2aINw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Blues Magoos were one of the first "psychedelic" bands to break big in the Greenwich Village section of New York city. Lead singer / guitarist Peppy Castro stated in a Goldmine Magazine interview that "our concept really started after we had played the Night Owl in the Village. People began freaking out and turning on." Suddenly the band's single, </strong><i><strong>You Ain't Got Nothing Yet</strong></i><strong>, was racing up the charts.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In a blog post I did called </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.msmokemusic.com/blog/blog/my-very-first-rock-concert" data-link-type="url" contents="My First Rock Concert"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My First Rock Concert</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, I mentioned the Blues Magoos and their infamous electric suits which they wore onstage!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liar Liar - The Castaways</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NTTscUIIxkk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NTTscUIIxkk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Best remembered for their garage-rock perennial </strong><i><strong>Liar Liar</strong></i><strong>, the Castaways formed in 1962 around the nucleus of guitarist Roy Hensley, bassist Dick Roby and drummer Denny Craswell; originally founded simply to perform at a fraternity party, the group proved such a smashing success that it remained an ongoing concern, expanding to a quintet with the subsequent additions of lead guitarist Bob Folschow and keyboardist Jim Donna. The Castaways' lone hit, "Liar Liar" was written by Donna and released on the Soma label in 1965, reaching the number 12 slot on the U.S. charts on the strength of its inimitable echo-drenched vocals and wheezing keyboards. A series of follow-up efforts flopped, however, and despite an appearance in the 1967 film </strong><i><strong>It's a Bikini World</strong></i><strong>, the Castaways' career ground to a halt, although the band often performed live in the decades to follow." (Jason Ankeny)</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1966</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lies - The Knickerbockers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="e3Jhb_avmsQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3Jhb_avmsQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ah yes...The Knickerbockers!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The first time I heard their hit single, </strong><i><strong>Lies</strong></i><strong>, I thought it was a recording by the Beatles. Within short order, I discovered that they were a garage rock band from Bergenfield, New Jersey. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The group had a top-20 hit in 1965 with </strong><i><strong>Lies</strong></i><strong>, on which the group emulated the Beatles' harmonies and playing so perfectly that the record was often passed off to the unsuspecting as an actual Beatles cut. The follow-up to </strong><i><strong>Lies </strong></i><strong>was </strong><i><strong>One Track Mind</strong></i><strong>, which was nearly a hit as well. However, the band's label, Challenge Records, could not handle the distribution, and the single only reached number 45. The Knickerbockers soldiered on, appearing in the movie </strong><i><strong>Out of Sight</strong></i><strong> (1966) and as regulars on Dick Clark's ABC-TV program, </strong><i><strong>Where the Action Is</strong></i><strong> (1965–1967)."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Talk Talk - The Music Machine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iZExWt-bj-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iZExWt-bj-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Talk Talk</strong></i><strong> by the Music Machine was one minute and 56 seconds of garage psychedelia at its most experimental and outrageous. Lead singer Sean Bonniwell called it '</strong><i><strong>Chinese Jazz</strong></i><strong>'.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bonniwell wrote a bunch of other great songs for the Music Machine but most of the world never got to hear them. Gross mismanagement and a series of bad breaks broke the spirit of the band after a year or so.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It wasn't enough for the band to sound like nobody else; Bonniwell made sure they </strong><i><strong>looked</strong></i><strong> like nobody else. To a man, they dyed their hair black, wore only black clothes, played black instruments and wore one black glove at all times...even in public. Onstage the Music Machine segued nonstop from songs to song for an hour or more, at a time when hardly any unknown bands were playing original material and no bands were performing sets without as much as a few seconds of interruption between tunes.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the last 15 years, Bonniwell has finally received his due as an important innovator by '60's rock aficionados, and most of the Music Machine catalog has been reissued." (Richie Unterberger, Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll, 1998 Miller Freeman Books)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d8e4b5f4137b9a1a29c6fb1fd2086c6a7fba3893/original/spinner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ZvdLsAMbAJE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZvdLsAMbAJE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Time Won't Let Me</strong></i><strong> was recorded by the Outsiders, from Cleveland, Ohio, in September 1965, and which became a major hit in the United States in 1966, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of April 16 of that year It is ranked as the 42nd biggest American hit of 1966. In Canada, the song also reached #5 in the weekly charts.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The song was composed by the band's guitarist Tom King along with Chet Kelley. Its basic arrangement was augmented by a horn section, applied in an unobtrusive manner so as not to detract from the band's fundamental sound, which on this occasion features a signature riff from a twelve string electric guitar. The song also features an electric organ with a vibrato, heard in the verses. The song also features a complex counterpoint melody in the other vocals in the coda section, where the screaming trumpet is heard before the song's fade.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Outsiders promoted their hit single with almost a year of nationwide touring, as </strong><i><strong>Time Won't Let Me </strong></i><strong>stayed on the national charts for 15 weeks. The band first tour was with Paul Revere and the Raiders and then with Chad and Jeremy, and later they were part of a six-week tour of one-night stands headed by Gene Pitney, and which included seven or eight other acts, among them Len Barry, B.J. Thomas, and Bobby Goldsboro. Afterwards, the Outsiders joined a four-week tour with several garage rock and psychedelic rock bands, such as the Seeds and the Shadows of Knight. The Outsiders also made a national television appearance on Hullaballoo." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d0nNPV8-tiA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d0nNPV8-tiA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After visiting a record label in San Mateo, California, the </strong><i><strong>Syndicate of Sound</strong></i><strong>, when asked if they had any original material, they created a song called </strong><i><strong>Little Girl</strong></i><strong> on the spot. After scoring a sizable hit with </strong><i><strong>Little Girl </strong></i><strong>(mainly due to the song's raw garage sounds), the </strong><i><strong>Syndicate of Sound</strong></i><strong> tried making more records for several other labels but in the end nothing seemed to click.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>96 Tears - Question Mark & The Mysterians</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XJv-QZlHOgQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XJv-QZlHOgQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a great garage rock single...</strong><i><strong>96 Tears</strong></i><strong>! The band's performance has a dark vibe to it. The first time I heard this song on the radio it seemed to me that the entire song had a threatening atmosphere .</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"We hear the organ before we hear anything else: A Vox Continental, cheap and dinky, bleating out a few notes before the rest of the band kicks in. The entire rest of the band is on pure rhythm-section duty, knocking out a replacement-level garage-rock shuffle that’s just there to work as a bed for the organ, which hammers out one goofily catchy riff after another, always threatening to break into </strong><i><strong>Baby Elephant Walk</strong></i><strong>. Then there's the singer Question Mark...He’s not singing, exactly. He’s talking and howling at the same time. None of what he says makes a lot of sense, and none of it fits into strict verse-chorus-verse structure. Instead, he’s riding the beat, growling out his near-nonsense words like some genetic hybrid of Mick Jagger and James Brown. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All of the Mysterians were Mexican-American teenagers. They were the sons of migrant farm workers who’d found jobs in Michigan’s Saginaw Valley, working at a GM plant there. They were a few hours away from Detroit, with its thriving garage-rock scene, but they were a scene unto themselves. The Mysterians had started out as an instrumental band, playing surf-guitar covers at local parties. When they decided that they needed a singer, they found ? — probably born Rudy Martinez, though he still never answers to any name other than ? — who could not have been a more perfect rock frontman. They recruited him because he was the best dancer in town. He claimed to be an alien. ? named the band after a Japanese sci-fi movie from the ’50s, one that involves both a giant robot and an alien invasion. Once </strong><i><strong>96 Tears</strong></i><strong> blew up, rumor had it that ? never, ever removed his sunglasses, for any reason. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even with ? on board, </strong><i><strong>96 Tears</strong></i><strong>, the band’s first single, had a long and unlikely route to hit status. The members of the band, still in high school when they made </strong><i><strong>96 Tears</strong></i><strong>, took their 500 copies of the record around to local labels. They told a local radio station that they’d play whatever promotional shows they wanted if the station would play the record sometimes. It spread from city to city — first Saginaw, then Flint, then finally Detroit. Then ? And The Mysterians signed with Cameo-Parkway, a national label that was shut down two years later." (stereogum.com)</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1967</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dnqxbdnzlhw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnqxbdnzlhw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Friday On My Mind</strong></i><strong> is one of my favorite singles from 1967. I still can remember the song's enormous energy as </strong><i><strong>Friday On My Mind</strong></i><strong> came blasting out of my transistor radio. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"After the opening cymbal crash, its just a staccato guitar for the next 20 seconds underscoring Stevie Wright's vocal where he runs through the days of the week, explaining why Monday-Thursday don't excite him. The bass finally comes in as he gets closer to the weekend. Finally, 30 seconds into the song, we hit Friday and the drums come in to play. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This energy carries into the chorus, where we hear about the plans for the weekend. But then it's back to Monday, and we do the "five-day drag once more." This time, however, the tempo is faster and he's even more optimistic, knowing that his time will come. The second chorus is even more energetic and repeats to close out the song. All of this is packed into 2:47, making it one of the more distinctive and energetic hits of the era." (songfacts.com)</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;">1968</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nobody But Me - Human Beinz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OjwTJsAHkDg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OjwTJsAHkDg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I was surprised when I learned that </strong><i><strong>Nobody But Me</strong></i><strong> was written by O'Kelly, Rudolph, and Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers and first recorded by The Isley Brothers in 1962. The most commercially successful and widely known version was by The Human Beinz, which was their only chart success.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock journalist, Dave Marsh, in his Book of Rock Lists named the version by the Human Beinz to be 'The most negative song to hit the Top 40,' noting that the word </strong><i><strong>No</strong></i><strong> is sung over 100 times in a mere 2:16. Marsh also counts the word </strong><i><strong>nobody</strong></i><strong> 46 times more; he adds 'for balance, they throw in the word </strong><i><strong>Yeah</strong></i><strong> once.'" (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="en1uwIzI3SE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/en1uwIzI3SE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This single was one of my all-time 1969 favorites. It's interesting to note that the song was produce by none other than Pete Townshend of The Who!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"A proclamation made in a black-and-white video full of fire and smoke, by a singer wearing a flaming crown and decked out in corpse paint – possibly its first use in rock. In 2018, after the music world has seen the likes of Alice Cooper, W.A.S.P., Marilyn Manson and even more bizarre acts, it may not seem that wild or shocking. But imagine being a kid in 1968 and stumbling across the Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s </strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong> for the first time. It had to be just about the coolest thing you’d ever seen – and for parents, probably one of the scariest. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although </strong><i><strong>Fire </strong></i><strong>was a No. 1 hit in the U.K. and reached No. 2 on Billboard in the U.S., the Crazy World of Arthur Brown is far from a household name. His work, however, spawned whole genres of rock and metal. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There’s a darker thread running just beneath the surface that really only comes out when </strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong> is paired with the visual of Arthur Brown’s performance, filled with the maniacal laughs and threats that </strong><i><strong>you’re gonna burn</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Watching that performance, you’ll see a presence that rock fans will quickly associate with Alice Cooper, a few years before Cooper would break through. You’ll also see shades of Iggy Pop in his frantic gyrations and perhaps the first hints of what would become black metal in the overall feel of the piece and its malicious undercurrents.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s </strong><i><strong>Fire</strong></i><strong>, I would argue, is probably the origin of the shock rock genre that Alice Cooper would later master and hand down to acts like the aforementioned W.A.S.P. and Marilyn Manson. There’s little doubt, too, that Brown’s later work with Kingdom Come laid the foundation for what would become black metal." (Something Else Reviews)</strong></span></p><hr><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1969</strong></span></h2><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit - I Got A Line On You</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wnrt6ykm6Do" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wnrt6ykm6Do?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>I Got a Line on You by </strong></i><strong>Spirit was recorded during the sessions for their second album, </strong><i><strong>The Family That Plays Together</strong></i><strong>, between March 11 and September 18, 1968. The song, composed by guitarist/singer Randy California, was recorded in sessions produced by Lou Adler. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Released as a single ahead of the album by Ode n the US, it began a slow rise up the charts. The song was picked up college radio and finally peaked at number 25 on the US Top 100 in March 1969.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d617d5bb05084a62505f499a65f766a94bab46b8/original/rpm-spindle-for-songs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qJae3Q2l-BY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qJae3Q2l-BY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Something in the Air</strong></i><strong> is a song by English rock band </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderclap_Newman" title="Thunderclap Newman"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thunderclap Newman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, written by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Keen" title="Speedy Keen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Speedy Keen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> who also sang the song. It was a No. 1 single for three weeks in the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" title="UK Singles Chart"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Singles Chart</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in July 1969. The song has been used for films, television and adverts, and has been covered by several artists. The track was also included on Thunderclap Newman's only album release </strong><i><strong>Hollywood Dream</strong></i><strong> over a year later.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1969, Pete Townshend, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s guitarist, was the catalyst behind the formation of the band. The concept was to create a band to perform songs written by drummer and singer </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Keen" title="Speedy Keen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Speedy Keen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who had written "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia_City_in_the_Sky" title="Armenia City in the Sky"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armenia City in the Sky</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>", the first track on </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_Sell_Out" title="The Who Sell Out"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Who Sell Out</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_in_the_Air#cite_note-3"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-3">[3]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Townshend recruited jazz pianist Andy "Thunderclap" Newman (a friend from art college), and 15-year-old guitarist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCulloch" title="Jimmy McCulloch"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy McCulloch</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who later played lead guitar in Paul McCartney and Wings.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Townshend produced the single, arranged the strings, and played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains. Originally titled "Revolution" but later renamed to avoid confusion with </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Beatles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>' 1968 </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(Beatles_song)" title="Revolution (Beatles song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>song of the same name</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, "Something in the Air" captured post-</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_power" title="Flower power"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>flower power</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> rebellion, combining McCulloch's acoustic and electric guitars, Keen's drumming and falsetto vocals, and Newman's piano solo.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Something In The Air reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart just three weeks after release, holding off </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Presley</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in the process. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The scale of the song's success surprised everyone, and there were no plans to promote Thunderclap Newman with live performances. Eventually a line-up—augmented by Jim Pitman-Avory on bass and McCulloch's elder brother Jack on drums—played a handful of gigs. Personal records say the band played live only five times, but Keen referred to a two-month tour, playing "everywhere". </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the UK, the follow-up single "Accidents" came out only in May 1970 and charted at No. 46 for a week. The album </strong><i><strong>Hollywood Dream</strong></i><strong> peaked in Billboard at No. 163. The song and the band are bona fide one hit wonders…Amen!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ffb894188f968296b2597d6dedff585968e67f1a/original/2-but-wait-theres-more.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE'S A COMPREHENSIVE LIST Of 1960s ONE HIT WONDERS!</strong></span></p><div class="div-col" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(32, 33, 34);column-width:40em;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-top:0.3em;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">
<p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Larry Hall – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_(Larry_Hall_song)" title="Sandy (Larry Hall song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sandy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dinning" title="Mark Dinning"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mark Dinning</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Angel_(song)" title="Teen Angel (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Teen Angel</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960) </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Strong" title="Barrett Strong"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barrett Strong</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_(That%27s_What_I_Want)" title="Money (That's What I Want)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Money (That's What I Want)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Argyles" title="The Hollywood Argyles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Hollywood Argyles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop_(song)" title="Alley Oop (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alley-Oop</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Safaris" title="The Safaris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Safaris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_a_Girl" title="Image of a Girl"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Image of a Girl</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Verne" title="Larry Verne"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Larry Verne</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Custer" title="Mr. Custer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mr. Custer</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Williams_and_the_Zodiacs" title="Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_(Maurice_Williams_song)" title="Stay (Maurice Williams song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stay</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1960)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_K-Doe" title="Ernie K-Doe"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ernie K-Doe</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother-in-Law_(song)" title="Mother-in-Law (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mother-In-Law</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_and_the_Limelites" title="Shep and the Limelites"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shep & The Limelites</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%27s_Home_(song)" title="Daddy's Home (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Daddy's Home</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edsels" title="The Edsels"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Edsels</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Rama Lama Ding Dong" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kenner" title="Chris Kenner"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chris Kenner</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_It_Like_That_(Chris_Kenner_song)" title="I Like It Like That (Chris Kenner song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Like It Like That, Part 1</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lee" title="Curtis Lee"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Curtis Lee</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Little_Angel_Eyes" title="Pretty Little Angel Eyes"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pretty Little Angel Eyes</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar-Keys" title="The Mar-Keys"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mar-Keys</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_(Mar-Keys_composition)" title="Last Night (Mar-Keys composition)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Last Night</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamlovers" title="The Dreamlovers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dreamlovers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "When We Get Married" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jarmels" title="The Jarmels"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jarmels</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Bit_of_Soap" title="A Little Bit of Soap"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Little Bit of Soap</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mann" title="Barry Mann"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barry Mann</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Put_the_Bomp_(in_the_Bomp,_Bomp,_Bomp)" title="Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Channel" title="Bruce Channel"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Channel</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey!_Baby" title="Hey! Baby"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey! Baby</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1961)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corsairs" title="The Corsairs"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Corsairs</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_Places" title="Smoky Places"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Smoky Places</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_and_Juan" title="Don and Juan"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don & Juan</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Your_Name_(Don_and_Juan_song)" title="What's Your Name (Don and Juan song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What's Your Name</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketty_Lester" title="Ketty Lester"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ketty Lester</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Letters_(song)" title="Love Letters (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love Letters</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ifield" title="Frank Ifield"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Ifield</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_You_(1941_song)" title="I Remember You (1941 song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Remember You</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Contours" title="The Contours"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Contours</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Love_Me" title="Do You Love Me"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do You Love Me</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician)" title="Jimmy Smith (musician)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Smith</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> - "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_on_the_Wild_Side_(David_and_Bernstein_song)#Jimmy_Smith_version" title="Walk on the Wild Side (David and Bernstein song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Walk on the Wild Side</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Pickett" title="Bobby Pickett"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bobby Pickett</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Mash" title="Monster Mash"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Monster Mash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanie_Sommers" title="Joanie Sommers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joanie Sommers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Get_Angry" title="Johnny Get Angry"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Get Angry</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Fabric" title="Bent Fabric"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bent Fabric</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(song)" title="Alley Cat (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alley Cat</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cascades_(band)" title="The Cascades (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cascades</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_of_the_Rain" title="Rhythm of the Rain"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhythm of the Rain</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Routers" title="The Routers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Routers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_(Pony)" title="Let's Go (Pony)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Go (Pony)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tornados" title="The Tornados"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Tornadoes</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar_(instrumental)" title="Telstar (instrumental)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Telstar</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exciters" title="The Exciters"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Exciters</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Him_(Bert_Berns_song)" title="Tell Him (Bert Berns song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tell Him</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1962)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_March" title="Peggy March"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Peggy March</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Follow_Him" title="I Will Follow Him"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Will Follow Him</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Troy" title="Doris Troy"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doris Troy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_One_Look_(song)" title="Just One Look (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just One Look</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chantays" title="The Chantays"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Chantays</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(instrumental)" title="Pipeline (instrumental)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pipeline</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyu_Sakamoto" title="Kyu Sakamoto"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kyu Sakamoto</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_(song)" title="Sukiyaki (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sukiyaki</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris" title="Rolf Harris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolf Harris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_Me_Kangaroo_Down,_Sport" title="Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun" title="The Singing Nun"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Singing Nun</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique" title="Dominique"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dominique</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris" title="The Surfaris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Surfaris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(instrumental)" title="Wipe Out (instrumental)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wipe Out</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inez_and_Charlie_Foxx" title="Inez and Charlie Foxx"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Inez & Charlie Foxx</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_(Inez_%26_Charlie_Foxx_song)" title="Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mockingbird</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaynetts" title="The Jaynetts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jaynetts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Go_%27Round_the_Roses" title="Sally Go 'Round the Roses"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sally Go 'Round the Roses</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murmaids" title="The Murmaids"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Murmaids</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicles_and_Icicles" title="Popsicles and Icicles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Popsicles and Icicles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caravelles" title="The Caravelles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Caravelles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Have_to_Be_a_Baby_to_Cry" title="You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1963)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rivieras" title="The Rivieras"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rivieras</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Sun" title="California Sun"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>California Sun</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pyramids_(band)" title="The Pyramids (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pyramids</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_(instrumental)" title="Penetration (instrumental)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Penetration</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reflections_(Detroit_band)" title="The Reflections (Detroit band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Reflections</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Just_Like)_Romeo_and_Juliet" title="(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Small" title="Millie Small"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Millie Small</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boy_Lollipop" title="My Boy Lollipop"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Boy Lollipop</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Garnett" title="Gale Garnett"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gale Garnett</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Sing_in_the_Sunshine" title="We'll Sing in the Sunshine"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We'll Sing in the Sunshine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hondells" title="The Hondells"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Hondells</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Honda" title="Little Honda"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Honda</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilla_Black" title="Cilla Black"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cilla Black</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_My_World" title="You're My World"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You're My World</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Akens" title="Jewel Akens"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jewel Akens</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_and_the_Bees_(Jewel_Akens_song)" title="The Birds and the Bees (Jewel Akens song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Birds and the Bees</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Stafford" title="Terry Stafford"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Terry Stafford</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)" title="Suspicion (Terry Stafford song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suspicion</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Greene" title="Lorne Greene"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lorne Greene</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_(song)" title="Ringo (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ringo</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nashville_Teens" title="The Nashville Teens"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Nashville Teens</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Road_(song)" title="Tobacco Road (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tobacco Road</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Frank_Wilson_and_the_Cavaliers" title="J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Kiss" title="Last Kiss"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Last Kiss</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeycombs" title="The Honeycombs"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Honeycombs</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_the_Right%3F" title="Have I the Right?"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Have I The Right?</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1964)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Larks – "The Jerk" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ad_Libs" title="The Ad Libs"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ad Libs</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_from_New_York_City" title="The Boy from New York City"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Boy From New York City</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_%26_the_Headhunters" title="Cannibal & the Headhunters"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cannibal & the Headhunters</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_a_Thousand_Dances" title="Land of a Thousand Dances"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Land of a Thousand Dances</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough" title="Glenn Yarbrough"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Glenn Yarbrough</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_the_Rain_Must_Fall_(song)" title="Baby the Rain Must Fall (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby the Rain Must Fall</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standells" title="The Standells"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Standells</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Water" title="Dirty Water"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirty Water</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_McGuire" title="Barry McGuire"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barry McGuire</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_of_Destruction_(song)" title="Eve of Destruction (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eve of Destruction</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentrys" title="The Gentrys"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Gentrys</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_On_Dancing_(The_Gentrys_song)" title="Keep On Dancing (The Gentrys song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keep On Dancing</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castaways" title="The Castaways"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Castaways</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar,_Liar_(The_Castaways_song)" title="Liar, Liar (The Castaways song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liar, Liar</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1965)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sadler" title="Barry Sadler"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets" title="The Ballad of the Green Berets"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ballad of the Green Berets</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kuban" title="Bob Kuban"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Kuban and the In-Men</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheater_(song)" title="The Cheater (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cheater</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Magoos" title="Blues Magoos"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blues Magoos</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(We_Ain%27t_Got)_Nothin%27_Yet" title="(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knickerbockers" title="The Knickerbockers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Knickerbockers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_(The_Knickerbockers_song)" title="Lies (The Knickerbockers song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lies</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Machine" title="The Music Machine"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Music Machine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Talk_(The_Music_Machine_song)" title="Talk Talk (The Music Machine song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Talk Talk</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capitols" title="The Capitols"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Capitols</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Jerk" title="Cool Jerk"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cool Jerk</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swingin%27_Medallions" title="The Swingin' Medallions"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Swingin' Medallions</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Shot_(Of_My_Baby%27s_Love)" title="Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Bravos" title="Los Bravos"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Bravos</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Is_Black" title="Black Is Black"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Is Black</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Hebb" title="Bobby Hebb"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bobby Hebb</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_(Bobby_Hebb_song)" title="Sunny (Bobby Hebb song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sunny</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV" title="Napoleon XIV"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Napoleon XIV</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re_Coming_to_Take_Me_Away,_Ha-Haaa!" title="They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parker_(singer)" title="Robert Parker (singer)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Robert Parker</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefootin%27_(song)" title="Barefootin' (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barefootin</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_of_Sound" title="Syndicate of Sound"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Syndicate of Sound</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girl_(Syndicate_of_Sound_song)" title="Little Girl (Syndicate of Sound song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Girl</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Jackson_(singer)" title="Deon Jackson (singer)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deon Jackson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Makes_the_World_Go_%27Round_(Deon_Jackson_song)" title="Love Makes the World Go 'Round (Deon Jackson song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love Makes the World Go 'Round</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Five" title="Count Five"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Count Five</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotic_Reaction" title="Psychotic Reaction"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Psychotic Reaction</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F_and_the_Mysterians" title="? and the Mysterians"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>? and the Mysterians</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96_Tears" title="96 Tears"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>96 Tears</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Vaudeville_Band" title="The New Vaudeville Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Vaudeville Band</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral_(song)" title="Winchester Cathedral (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winchester Cathedral</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lind" title="Bob Lind"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Lind</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elusive_Butterfly" title="Elusive Butterfly"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elusive Butterfly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Jackson_(singer)" title="J. J. Jackson (singer)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J.J. Jackson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_It%27s_Alright" title="But It's Alright"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But It's Alright</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds" title="The Seeds"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Seeds</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushin%27_Too_Hard" title="Pushin' Too Hard"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pushin' Too Hard</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1966)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_(singer)" title="Keith (singer)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98.6_(song)" title="98.6 (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>98.6</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Casinos" title="The Casinos"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Casinos</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_You_Can_Tell_Me_Goodbye" title="Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Breed" title="The American Breed"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The American Breed</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_Me,_Shape_Me" title="Bend Me, Shape Me"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bend Me, Shape Me</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Knight_(musician)" title="Robert Knight (musician)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Robert Knight</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlasting_Love" title="Everlasting Love"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Everlasting Love</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Springfield" title="Buffalo Springfield"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It%27s_Worth" title="For What It's Worth"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For What It's Worth</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Easybeats" title="The Easybeats"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Easybeats</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_on_My_Mind" title="Friday on My Mind"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Friday On My Mind</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Balloon_(band)" title="The Yellow Balloon (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Yellow Balloon</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Balloon" title="Yellow Balloon"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yellow Balloon</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parade_(band)" title="The Parade (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Parade</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Sunshine Girl" (1967)</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States#cite_note-363"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-363">[363]</sup></strong></span></a><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States#cite_note-364"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-364">[364]</sup></strong></span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_%26_Robin" title="Jon & Robin"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon and Robin & the In-Crowd</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Do It Again A Little Bit Slower" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Explosion" title="The Music Explosion"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Music Explosion</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bit_O%27_Soul" title="Little Bit O' Soul"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Bit O' Soul</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Mother%27s_Son" title="Every Mother's Son"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Every Mother's Son</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On_Down_to_My_Boat" title="Come On Down to My Boat"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Come On Down to My Boat</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Cosby</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ole_Man_(Uptight,_Everything%27s_Alright)" title="Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hombres" title="The Hombres"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Hombres</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Out_(Let_It_All_Hang_Out)" title="Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1967)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba" title="Miriam Makeba"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miriam Makeba</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pata_Pata" title="Pata Pata"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pata Pata</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brooklyn_Bridge_(band)" title="The Brooklyn Bridge (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Brooklyn Bridge</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worst_That_Could_Happen" title="Worst That Could Happen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Worst That Could Happen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fred" title="John Fred"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Fred</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_in_Disguise_(With_Glasses)" title="Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandpebbles" title="The Sandpebbles"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sandpebbles</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Love Power" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lemon_Pipers" title="The Lemon Pipers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Lemon Pipers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tambourine" title="Green Tambourine"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Green Tambourine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mauriat" title="Paul Mauriat"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Mauriat</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27amour_est_bleu" title="L'amour est bleu"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love Is Blue</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly" title="Iron Butterfly"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iron Butterfly</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" title="In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Beinz" title="The Human Beinz"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Human Beinz</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_but_Me_(The_Isley_Brothers_song)" title="Nobody but Me (The Isley Brothers song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nobody But Me</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Williams" title="Mason Williams"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mason Williams</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Gas" title="Classical Gas"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Classical Gas</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_%26_Lover" title="Friend & Lover"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Friend & Lover</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_Out_of_the_Darkness" title="Reach Out of the Darkness"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Reach Out Of The Darkness</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harris" title="Richard Harris"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richard Harris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)" title="MacArthur Park (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MacArthur Park</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrilee_Rush" title="Merrilee Rush"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_Morning" title="Angel of the Morning"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Angel of The Morning</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(musician)" title="Tiny Tim (musician)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tiny Tim</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiptoe_Through_the_Tulips" title="Tiptoe Through the Tulips"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorty_Long" title="Shorty Long"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shorty Long</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Judge_(Shorty_Long_song)" title="Here Comes the Judge (Shorty Long song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here Comes The Judge</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela" title="Hugh Masekela"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hugh Masekela</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazing_in_the_Grass" title="Grazing in the Grass"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grazing In The Grass</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(band)" title="Status Quo (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Status Quo</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men" title="Pictures of Matchstick Men"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pictures of Matchstick Men</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amboy_Dukes_(band)" title="The Amboy Dukes (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Amboy Dukes</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Mind_(song)" title="Journey to the Center of the Mind (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Journey To The Center of The Mind</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannie_C._Riley" title="Jeannie C. Riley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeannie C. Riley</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Valley_PTA" title="Harper Valley PTA"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harper Valley P.T.A.</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Kaysions" title="The O'Kaysions"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The O'Kaysions</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Watcher" title="Girl Watcher"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Girl Watcher</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown" title="The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Crazy World of Arthur Brown</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_(Arthur_Brown_song)" title="Fire (Arthur Brown song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fire</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Frost_and_the_Troopers" title="Max Frost and the Troopers"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Max Frost and the Troopers</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_Things_to_Come_(song)" title="Shape of Things to Come (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shape of Things to Come</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equals" title="The Equals"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Equals</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_Come_Back_(The_Equals_song)" title="Baby, Come Back (The Equals song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby, Come Back</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Lanterns" title="The Magic Lanterns"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Magic Lanterns</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Shame, Shame" (1968)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clique_(Texas_band)" title="The Clique (Texas band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clique</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Sugar on Sunday" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderclap_Newman" title="Thunderclap Newman"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thunderclap Newman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_in_the_Air" title="Something in the Air"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Something in the Air</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(band)" title="Steam (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steam</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_Na_Hey_Hey_Kiss_Him_Goodbye" title="Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Holman" title="Eddie Holman"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eddie Holman</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_There_Lonely_Girl" title="Hey There Lonely Girl"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey There Lonely Girl</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zager_and_Evans" title="Zager and Evans"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zager and Evans</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525" title="In the Year 2525"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the Year 2525</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Clark" title="Roy Clark"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roy Clark</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hier_encore#Roy_Clark_version" title="Hier encore"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yesterday When I Was Young</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(band)" title="Spirit (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_a_Line_on_You" title="I Got a Line on You"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Got a Line on You</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Puppy" title="Bubble Puppy"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bubble Puppy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "Hot Smoke & Sasafrass" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Elephant" title="Crazy Elephant"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crazy Elephant</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Gimme_Good_Lovin%27" title="Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Dekker" title="Desmond Dekker"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Desmond Dekker & The Aces</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites_(song)" title="Israelites (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Israelites</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jeffrey_Group" title="Joe Jeffrey Group"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Jeffrey Group</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Pledge_of_Love" title="My Pledge of Love"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Pledge of Love</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Youngbloods" title="The Youngbloods"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngbloods</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Together_(The_Youngbloods_song)" title="Get Together (The Youngbloods song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Get Together</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherlode_(band)" title="Motherlode (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Motherlode</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I_Die_(Motherlode_song)" title="When I Die (Motherlode song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When I Die</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuff_Links" title="The Cuff Links"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cuff Links</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_(The_Cuff_Links_song)" title="Tracy (The Cuff Links song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tracy</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_(band)" title="Smith (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Smith</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_It%27s_You" title="Baby It's You"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby It's You</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(band)" title="The Flying Machine (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Flying Machine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_a_Little_Smile_for_Me" title="Smile a Little Smile for Me"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Smile A Little Smile For Me</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Starecase" title="Spiral Starecase"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spiral Starecase</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Today_Than_Yesterday" title="More Today Than Yesterday"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>More Today Than Yesterday</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" (1969)</strong></span></p>
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Assembly Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>Baton Rouge, LA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d4279b919c20fd20f4e338d60d0921df5fd7529/original/1975-led-zeppelin-earls-courrt-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Earl's Court</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7bc3702c67fa7e42e44a6b00fe08ce6dd1d7e24a/original/1975-keystone-hall-kutztown-state-colege-kutztown-pa.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keystone Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kutztown State College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kutztown, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1c72372d031d14330fdb3b97baf9261a9209831b/original/1975-ramones-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/05490113bbaecc1679d07a74cf612f020aeebd2f/original/1975-john-cale-paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Cale & The Only Ones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8fe1f0c9a93d84e3faa10f5d27770aeed8a5f326/original/1975-rollling-stones-concert-bus-trip.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oCuACnB5JmQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oCuACnB5JmQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arrowhead Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/34485c0890806b4b54a13f8ce9ae8d707a8bb63e/original/1975-the-lotus-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1975 The Lotus Stage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>During the1975 tour, several guest musicians joined The Stones on stage: </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/eric-clapton"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Clapton</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> played on the encore one night in Madison Square Gardens; Carlos Santana played “Sympathy For The Devil” on another night, while </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/elton-john"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> stayed on stage for ten songs at Fort Collins, Colorado.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0ee7d13943b5b310817a8d903cb88b6e00081de/original/1975-pink-floyd-atlanta-stadium-atlanta-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Atlanta 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Linda Ronstadt</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calderone Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hempstead, NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d4767823b9d4df974aee0c23d3b9c3fb99bea3ca/original/1975-calderone-concert-hall-hempstead-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tower of Power</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Winter / James Cotton Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hot Tuna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nektar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Renaissance</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Climax Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calderone Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hempstead, NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5d5e5ef4a5917f124a17b27166123a816f86748/original/1975-james-cotton-band-armadillo-world-hdq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Cotton Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmie Vaughn & The Fabulous Thunderbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/156a102f17d95424c08b933eafa30d18400540e0/original/1975-john-lee-hooker-liberty-hall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lee Hooker </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Coast To Coast Boogie Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Juke Boy Bonner Studio Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liberty Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Houston, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd71c820be83cc666dedc0b81587675fd540a0a6/original/1975-lou-reed-rheinhalle-dusseldorf-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Cp336aLOuxM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cp336aLOuxM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Reed</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>String Driven Thing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rheinhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dusseldorf, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/19aa4ea3aeeaa2245d2f51617dfec80e2c4b512e/original/1975-ramones-cbgbs-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87b00952f5704928642375d63689e799d4f58911/original/todd-s-utopia-radio-city-music-hall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_null 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allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roxy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8344d53c42548fd91d9a84c5b9ab3cd30fb96b79/original/1973-frank-zappa-armadillo-world-hdq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span 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class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Lip Service</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Nearing the end of their first U.S. tour, Elvis Costello & the Attractions made their New York City debut at its premier music club, The Bottom Line. After two nights there and a private show in the city on the following night, the tour ended with a Friday night show in Jersey at Asbury Park’s Stone Pony. Before heading back home to England, Costello made his infamous appearance on Saturday Night Live. A pretty impressive week in the Big Apple!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/40af12e5f8d2e9ef378fb9871371c44e5d56ac16/original/tom-waits-the-paradise-club-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ahV_lFl01GI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ahV_lFl01GI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Standing on the Corner</strong></span></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=53d47375" title="Statistics for Muriel performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Muriel</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=43d6270f" title="Statistics for Invitation to the Blues performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Invitation to the Blues</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=7bdf0e58" title="Statistics for Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=23cba897" title="Statistics for Pasties & A G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Pasties & A G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=5bd47360" title="Statistics for I Never Talk to Strangers performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>I Never Talk to Strangers</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=6bdf0e5a" title="Statistics for Fumblin' With the Blues performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Fumblin' With the Blues</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=6bdf0e4a" title="Statistics for The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=73df0e49" title="Statistics for Small Change (Got Rained on With His Own .38) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Small Change (Got Rained on With His Own .38)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=6bdf0e5e" title="Statistics for I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=73df0e4d" title="Statistics for Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell)</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=5bd47364" title="Statistics for Step Right Up performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Step Right Up</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=1bd425d0" title="Statistics for San Diego Serenade performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>San Diego Serenade</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=23d4708f" title="Statistics for A Sight for Sore Eyes performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>A Sight for Sore Eyes</strong></span></a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/tom-waits-3bd6c0ac.html?songid=43ffdb43" title="Statistics for Big Joe...and Phantom 309 (Red Sovine song) performed by Tom Waits"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Big Joe...and Phantom 309</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Paradise Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b5166eed541e3bbd29ce9e8ed7502d26dbe8ba5/original/the-clash-somewhere-in-the-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Saints</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Cherry Vanilla</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Birmingham Rag Market</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Subway Sect</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Stinky Toys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Slits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Shag Nasty</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Biirmingham, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/42336f93da897f3325dd57c7c8f12357e4c1c0fb/original/1977-iggy-pop-theatre-le-palace-paris-france.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-fWw7FE9tTo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-fWw7FE9tTo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Iggy Pop</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Theatre Le Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Paris, France</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8fa5afb89ba684e676d4d4705cd850f8f0891487/original/1977-iggy-pop-dallas-convention-center-dallas-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Iggy Pop</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Dallas Convention Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/844f27d0b82b8e054db0c8a0f4e732464aaab112/original/1977-blondie-paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RkK5lGqxU70" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RkK5lGqxU70?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Herman Brood & His Wild Romance</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong><u>Blondie Set List</u></strong></span></p><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Detroit 442</strong></span></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=2bd0309e" title="Statistics for A Shark in Jets Clothing performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>A Shark in Jets Clothing</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=43d70357" title="Statistics for In the Sun performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>In the Sun</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=6bddb282" title="Statistics for Little Girl Lies performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Little Girl Lies</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=be2f126" title="Statistics for Denise (Randy & the Rainbows song) performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Denise</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=73d5eed5" title="Statistics for (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=3bd0309c" title="Statistics for Fan Mail performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Fan Mail</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=53d70355" title="Statistics for Look Good in Blue performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Look Good in Blue</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=5bd70354" title="Statistics for Man Overboard performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Man Overboard</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=73d212d1" title="Statistics for Rifle Range performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Rifle Range</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=63d212df" title="Statistics for In the Flesh performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>In the Flesh</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=23d03093" title="Statistics for Cautious Lip performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Cautious Lip</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=bd51dfa" title="Statistics for I'm on E performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>I'm on E</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=73ddb281" title="Statistics for Love at the Pier performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Love at the Pier</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=7bddb280" title="Statistics for Contact in Red Square performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Contact in Red Square</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=2bd03092" title="Statistics for I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=63ddb287" title="Statistics for Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45) performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=33d03091" title="Statistics for Kidnapper performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Kidnapper</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=63d5eecf" title="Statistics for Rip Her to Shreds performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Rip Her to Shreds</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=3bd03090" title="Statistics for Youth Nabbed as Sniper performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Youth Nabbed as Sniper</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=23d03097" title="Statistics for Kung Fu Girls performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Kung Fu Girls</strong></span></a></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a567780c859550e17fa8edd9b74f0a955c11b05c/original/1977-talking-heads-greek-theatre.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Greek Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>UC Berkeley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a9c00eda99f5f5fa748b58c56167f0c64da8899b/original/deadboys-the-mumps-starwood-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Dead Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Mumps</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Starwood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>West Hollywood, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" 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alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Leeds Polytechnic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1667e6fb7d09a261e02ee6e37ce40aeda1864d0f/original/blondie-talking-heads-patti-smith-group-village-gate-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span 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NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9d1c94837fd996e6d921cebe0a3e27d03f1b6037/original/1977-van-halen-whisky-a-go-go-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Runaways</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Quick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Whisky A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/384df7d2dae95f1eb6b2f49708e85e873504d6df/original/1977-queen-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Festhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65c3c8123dc45825338e404fd7728eed890a8525/original/1977-pink-floyd-oakland-coliseum-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Oakland Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d2709c206795d36222eb1374b047aa88c74bb56/original/1977-b-52s-maxs-kansas-city-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>B-52's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Max's Kansas City</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2b6b19fb8ca3856b03c12a41b282022e9f037921/original/1977-todd-rundgrens-utopia-tulsa-municipal-thetre-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Todd Rundgren's Utopia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Tulsa Municipal Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7fdecb765f74aff302d0ff1fa01901132d4b3133/original/1977-led-zeppelin-memorial-convention-center-dallas-texas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Dallas Convention Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Little Feat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Tower of Power Horns</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Lisner Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Washington D.C.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca1709ee49bd12e93dfa95321d130db610ab9260/original/1977-little-feat-uptown-theatre-kansas-city-mo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Little Feat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Uptown Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4371fd9fd302697365362e9db72ac8488ade85b4/original/t-rex-the-damned-birmingham-odeon-birmingham-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>T. Rex</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Damned</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Birmingham Odeon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Birmingham, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ad0d3dce76e66ac2b74b31e494ca37bd9315c68/original/1977-tower-theater-philly-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Lee Dorsey, The B Girls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>UFO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Blackfoot, Off Broadway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>The Boomtown Rats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Tower Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/66f3e684bb856d612fa69c1e2ebb8ac0ef291a60/original/1977-ramones-rainbow-theatre-london.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" 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Shreds</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=6bd5eed6" title="Statistics for X Offender performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>X Offender</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Detroit 442</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=5bd70354" title="Statistics for Man Overboard performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Man Overboard</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=73d212d1" title="Statistics for Rifle Range performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Rifle Range</strong></span></a></p><p 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style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Kelly's Pub</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>St. Paul, MN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/422c1e253fe02e5c8fdb48d289f734112634f370/original/1977-blondie-whisky-a-go-go-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Whisky A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><div 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class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>In the Sun</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=7bddb280" title="Statistics for Contact in Red Square performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Contact in Red Square</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=53d70355" title="Statistics for Look Good in Blue performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Look Good in Blue</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=5bd70354" title="Statistics for Man Overboard performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Man Overboard</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" 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Detroit 442 performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Detroit 442</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=3bd03090" title="Statistics for Youth Nabbed as Sniper performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Youth Nabbed as Sniper</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=6bd5eed6" title="Statistics for X Offender performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>X Offender</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/blondie-4bd68b26.html?songid=63d5eecf" title="Statistics for Rip Her to Shreds performed by Blondie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Rip Her to Shreds</strong></span></a></p><p 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class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="g00odMf7Exg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g00odMf7Exg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Little Feat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Rainbow Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Walkin' All Night</strong></span></p><p 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style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong><u>Willin'</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/little-feat-1bd6a14c.html?songid=33db2841" title="Statistics for Don't Bogart Me (The Fraternity of Man song) performed by Little Feat"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Don't Bogart Me</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/little-feat-1bd6a14c.html?songid=6bd7fa6a" title="Statistics for Willin' performed by Little Feat"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Willin'</strong></span></a></p><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;"> </div><div class="infoPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:normal;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;"> </div><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sD2QZXxwVTA" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7cd3237cfcfb41100ba9dfb5ee0c49320670a774/original/elvis-presley-last-concert.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>(from hankfm.com</strong></span>)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>"On the evening of June 26, 1977, the legendary Elvis Presley took to the stage at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana, for what would be his final live performance. Little did the audience know that this concert would mark the end of an era in music history. As fans gathered with excitement and anticipation, they had no idea that they were about to witness a historic moment that would forever be etched in their memories. Let’s delve into the significance of Elvis’s last show in Indianapolis and the lasting impact it had on both the fans and the music industry.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Elvis’s last show in Indianapolis was characterized by an unparalleled energy and enthusiasm. Despite the fatigue and health concerns that had plagued him in the later years of his career, the King of Rock and Roll took to the stage with an undying passion for his music. His charisma and stage presence captivated the audience from the very first note, and he effortlessly transported them into a world of rhythm and soul.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/403f0c424ead1c4ea65f2167e5081308b9eb9753/original/elvis-at-the-end.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Captivating an audience of almost 18,000 individuals, Elvis’s last performance garnered significant media coverage, drawing the attention of numerous press outlets. In a playful manner, </strong><i><strong>The Indianapolis Star</strong></i><strong> cleverly mentioned, “For those who have an appreciation for Elvis Presley’s backside, there’s still an opportunity to purchase $15 seats located behind the stage for his highly anticipated concert at the Market Square Arena tomorrow evening.” Although $15 may not seem significant, it’s worth noting that in today’s terms, it would amount to nearly $60.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>Although the concert commenced at 8:30 p.m., it wasn’t until 10 p.m. that Elvis took the stage, preceded by warm-up acts featuring brass bands, soul singers, and a comedian. The audience patiently awaited the arrival of the King, and for approximately 80 minutes, he delivered a mesmerizing performance. The setlist for Elvis’s final show in Indianapolis was carefully crafted to showcase the full range of his talents. From the iconic rock ‘n’ roll hits like “Jailhouse Rock” and “Hound Dog” to heartfelt ballads like “Love Me Tender” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” the performance was a journey through Elvis’s unparalleled discography. Each song was met with thunderous applause and enthusiastic sing-alongs, as the crowd reveled in the opportunity to witness their idol in action.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eb7a4e;"><strong>While the fans were blissfully unaware that this would be Elvis’s last live performance, the atmosphere in the arena was charged with emotion. For many, this concert was a chance to bid farewell to an era and to the artist who had shaped the landscape of popular music. 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lost in the sauce and were never released by their respective record labels. Some projects, such as Brian Wilson's </strong><i><strong>Smile</strong></i><strong>, Bob Dylan's </strong><i><strong>Basement Tapes</strong></i><strong> and The Beatles </strong><i><strong>Get Back</strong></i><strong>, eventually received an official release but there still remain a number of legendary albums that are gathering dust in a vault somewhere out there in the world.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/26e36c05b2bb41cb3f539171cee358cd2f30b5e1/original/jimi-hendrix-black-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix - Black Gold</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"On a blustery winter day in February 1970, Rolling Stone managing editor John Burks entered a New York apartment on East 37th street...Burks was brought in to provide the centerpiece for a carefully orchestrated public relations campaign: a feature story about the reforming of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. Recently, the rock ‘n’ roll guitar virtuoso had busied himself by befriending other African Americans: Trumpeter Miles Davis, jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and (according to Burks) “living and jamming with an all-purpose crew of musicians — everything from older black gentlemen from the South who played blues guitar, to a band of avant-garde jazz/space musicians.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Hendrix had moved into his own Greenwich Village apartment to do some writing, and had come up with something new. 'Pieces,' Hendrix said. 'I guess that’s what you call it. Yeah, like pieces behind each other. Like movements, whatever you call it. I been writing some of those.' Because he could neither read nor write music, Hendrix recorded these new song sketches on cassette tapes, along with other songs he’d already been working on. On one label he wrote, </strong><i><strong>Idea for L.P. Side 1 suite…Black Gold</strong></i><strong>. The tapes were made around the time of Burks’ interview. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'I remember Jimi telling me about his idea for </strong><i><strong>Black Gold</strong></i><strong>,' Animals lead singer Eric Burdon remembered, 'an autobiographical, multi-song fantasy piece he had been working on. Jimi intended it to accompany an animated feature about a black rock star — himself on the road…forty minutes of fresh new material that clearly demonstrated the direction Jimi was headed in. He talked excitedly about the cartoon character he’d envisioned. I know he did at least some work on the suite before he died.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Black Gold Suite</strong></i><strong> was shelved. Hendrix would polish and record some of the songs that appeared on the tapes (</strong><i><strong>Drifting</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Astro Man</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Stepping Stone)</strong></i><strong>, most would not find release. He gave Mitch Mitchell the Black Gold cassettes in a box, tied shut with a headband and labeled </strong><i><strong>BG</strong></i><strong>, to work out studio arrangements. After Hendrix died in September 1970, Mitchell forgot about them, apparently not even realizing the tapes contained unique material.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Black Gold Suite</strong></i><strong> distinguishes itself from most of this body of work. Central to Black Gold’s creation are issues of identity and empowerment. Featuring a version of Hendrix as a cartoon superhero, it could well have become an animated feature. The songs are complex, not a compilation of throwaway jams that make up most of Hendrix’s posthumous legacy. The </strong><i><strong>Black Gold Suite</strong></i><strong> stands as perhaps the most poignant evidence we have of Hendrix’s ambition to create an intricate conceptual project.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Hendrix had </strong><i><strong>Black Gold</strong></i><strong> in his mind for months. Its characters were fragments of himself. 'Here was this cat come around called Black Gold,' he told an interviewer the previous December, 'and there was this other cat came around called Captain Coconut. Other people came around. I was all these people.' Other Black Gold characters included Astro Man, Captain Midnite, and Trash Man. 'I am your trashman,' Hendrix sings on the cassette tape.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The only song from </strong><i><strong>Black Gold Suit</strong></i><strong>e to see release is the tantalizing “Suddenly November Morning,” the first track of Side 1. It was included in 2010s West Coast Seattle Boy anthology. The song is melodic, lyrical, and introspective.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>When Hendrix died a month later...The </strong><i><strong>Black Gold </strong></i><strong>tape box would stay undiscovered in Mitch Mitchell’s possession for another two decades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Hendrix’ half-sister Janie now runs his estate, after enduring many legal challenges. Only nine when Hendrix died, she remembers her brother playing guitar and watching cartoons on the television. In 2010, she promised a proper release of the </strong><i><strong>Black Gold Suite</strong></i><strong> will happen before decade’s end.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Black Gold</strong></i><strong> could have been incredible, had Hendrix brought it to fruition. It would have been unprecedented: an animated feature with a matchless soundtrack, portraying a black superhero as conceived by a black man. Hendrix would have combined his lifetime love of music and cartoons in a landmark way. It could not have come to pass because it didn’t: exhaustion, constant touring, intra-band personnel changes, the lack of a trusted producer’s steady hand, and ultimately the young man’s death prevented it." (longreads.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Tv86l0sc_QU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tv86l0sc_QU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9672153d31f757d42cc86b1cd82602803cede23f/original/velvet-underground-vu.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Velvet Underground - VU</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Velvet Underground album </strong><i><strong>VU</strong></i><strong> is the binding agent in a career of releases that differ so dramatically one from another as to be almost artistic reversals. VU has the dark majesty of The Velvet Underground & Nico, the neurotic strut (if not the head-wrecking dissonance) of White Light/White Heat, the tenderness and emotional insight of The Velvet Underground, and the pure pop sensibility of </strong><i><strong>Loaded</strong></i><strong>. In its 10 tracks, it contains refined versions of what the band did well during the four years they lasted. The irony is that </strong><i><strong>VU</strong></i><strong> wasn’t released until more than a dozen years after the Velvet Underground disbanded. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/510ce97dd6f9a162e490eeefa8811b51fdc6e624/original/1969-velvet-underground.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Recorded primarily in 1969, after the ouster of multi-instrumentalist John Cale, and later cannibalized by principal songwriter Lou Reed for his solo career, the recordings that make up </strong><i><strong>VU</strong></i><strong> were shelved for 16 years. They stayed in the MGM vaults, mostly unmixed, until discovered during the process of reissuing the band’s catalog in the early 80s. As a result, </strong><i><strong>VU</strong></i><strong> benefitted from much improved audio technology and was released to a world not only better prepared for the Velvet Underground, but one that had largely absorbed its lessons. The album made a beautiful tombstone for the band’s career, at a time when all the members were alive to see it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Between May and October 1969, the band recorded an album’s worth of material in the Record Plant in New York. “That was basically pre-production stuff,” Yule once said. '</strong><i><strong>It was done to studio quality but not with that intent. It was all done in the daytime. Which to me is, like, when you’re working on an album in the studio — you know it gets dark at like five p.m.. This was all done at ten in the morning</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>It’s not clear that the band had the resources to record releasable “pre-production” material, so I would disagree with Yule on this point. Also, however one believes these recordings fit into the canon, they were definitely intended for release. The proof is that MGM reserved a catalog number: SE-4641, which labels only use for official releases. This is most of the material that makes up </strong><i><strong>VU</strong></i><strong>, considered, rightly, to be the great lost Velvet Underground record. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"The process stretched over several months of desultory sessions, short enough to only allow the tracking of one song per day. What’s clear from the recordings — and something that could only have happened in Cale’s absence — is the intricate interplay of Reed and Morrison’s guitars. On </strong><i><strong>I Can’t Stand It</strong></i><strong>, they mesh and intertwine and begin to lose individuality in a combination of itchy rhythms and menacing drones, anchored by Yule’s steady bass lines.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Meanwhile, the band’s relationship with MGM was deteriorating. They didn’t believe the label was giving them much support. Conversely, MGM was cleaning house, moving in a direction to get rid of provocative bands as well as acts that weren’t selling. The Velvet Underground satisfied both those requirements, so MGM terminated their deal." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The band signed with Atlantic Records almost immediately. Danny Fields, a publicist at Atlantic, has said that the label wanted to do a record right away, and hoped to rescue the MGM material. That was never going to happen, so the Velvet Underground made what became their fourth album, </strong><i><strong>Loaded</strong></i><strong>, in Atlantic’s New York studios, mostly without Tucker, who was at home with her newborn daughter.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>“When we went to do </strong><i><strong>Loaded</strong></i><strong> the push was for FM hits and FM jingles which was hot in those days,” Yule remembered. “There was a lot of time spent ‘pep-talking’ Lou about hits and singles and like, three-minute songs, stuff like that. So when we went into to do Loaded there was this pressure on Lou and he started cranking up the heat on the tunes.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>But the isolation that Reed struggled against had caught up with him. “I gave them an album loaded with hits and it was loaded with hits to the point where the rest of the people showed their colors,” he said in a 1972 interview. “So I left them to their album full of hits that I made.” And so it was that Reed left his own band, one he wrested from Cale. He worked as a typist in his father’s accounting office for the next two years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Popular music continued to evolve in the coming decades, in interesting and often unpopular ways. Punk appeared a few years after Lou Reed quit his own band, then post-punk, then new wave. The Velvet Underground’s music inspired all of it: in the confrontational material, the amphetamine tempos, the nervous anti-hero vocals, the unadorned queerness, the population of beautiful losers, the fully formed subculture, and the complete absence of blues licks (a band rule), heroic guitar solos, and swing rhythms. They were the architects, the Cassandras. They prophesied the coming world, and no one believed them." (longreads.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Sensing the band’s continued and growing relevance, Polydor Records began reissuing the Velvet Underground’s back catalog in the early 1980s. It was then that they discovered boxes of tapes of unissued recordings.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Once the shelved recordings were discovered in 1984, Reed had reservations about their being issued at all. “They got in touch with me to come out and listen to the tapes,” he said in Rob Jovanovic’s Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground. “It sounded pretty good at first and they said I could be involved in the production of it. Then after listening to the whole thing, I said, ‘I don’t think it should come out.’” He could have felt this way for any number of reasons, but it should be remembered that, by 1985, Reed had recycled most of the songs on VU for his solo career, rerecording “I Can’t Stand It,” “Lisa Says,” “Ocean,” “Andy’s Chest,” a retitled “Stephanie Says,” and “She’s My Best Friend.” The shadow of the Velvet Underground might have loomed a little large. In later interviews, both Morrison and Tucker stated that they made songwriting contributions, but let Reed claim sole authorship to keep the peace. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Because Reed chose not to be involved, Morrison was called in to help assemble two album’s worth of material, VU and Another View, an album mostly comprised of demos and outtakes. Producer Bill Levenson oversaw the mixing. In an interview with Billboard magazine, Levinson stated that </strong><i><strong>'The tapes were in terrible shape; You could only play them backwards, and since they were recorded on 12-track, we had to modify a 24-track machine in order to transfer them up to 24 and get more tracks to work with.'</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pFIEqCecMgM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pFIEqCecMgM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Once the tracks were cleaned and mixed, Levenson was able to change Lou Reed’s mind about their release. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e21260371dc257cde1e5e733f8b20d66af4c6efc/original/vu-last-lineup.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>VU came out to a popular culture ready to receive it. College radio held sway, and what media culture would call indie rock was only a few years off. The idea of being underground was respectable; selling records was not. “I didn’t start singing or playing till I was fifteen and heard the Velvet Underground,” Modern Lovers’ singer Jonathan Richman once said. “They made an atmosphere, and I knew that I could make one too!” Indeed, by the time VU was released in 1985 there were dozens of taste-making bands around who owed their careers to the Velvet Underground, with a dozen more who had yet to even form. The improved sonic quality of VU caused it to hold its own, at a time when most of its peer recordings sounded hopelessly dated, in both artistry and production. The album was marketed to college rock and alternative radio, two avenues of promotion that simply didn’t exist in 1969. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="P4tS67TDo6Y" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P4tS67TDo6Y?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Benefitting from the advantage of hindsight, Cale makes a return on VU, appearing on two songs cut at New York’s A&R Studios in February 1968. “Stephanie Says” features his legato viola and bell-toned Celeste. “Temptation Inside Your Heart,” recorded the next day, features an unedited vocal take, with Reed, Cale, and Morrison joking and laughing in the background in between their vocals. There is no apparent tension in the track at all, even though this would be Cale’s next-to-last recording session with the group. For a moment, the two bulls appear in the pasture once more. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>VU peaked at number 85 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band’s highest charting release.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/677b5c28810582093939c66e18465c0a4268d796/original/brian-wilson-adult-child-1977.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Beach Boys - Adult/Child (1977)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Adult Child</strong></i><strong> s an unreleased studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, intended to follow the group's 1977 album which was called </strong><i><strong>Love You</strong></i><strong>. Like </strong><i><strong>Love You</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Adult Child</strong></i><strong> was virtually a Brian Wilson solo project with other group members serving mainly as additional vocalists. After it was rejected by Reprise Records, the band released the 1978 </strong><i><strong>M.I.U</strong></i><strong>. album in its place with an almost entirely revamped song list. A few projected tracks for </strong><i><strong>Adult Child</strong></i><strong> were eventually released on later albums and compilations. Currently, the album is available only as a bootleg recording. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Stylus Magazine tersely summarizes the work: ‘Brian’s Sinatra album. Vegas big band arrangements, brassy cover tunes, a few songs written with the hopes that the Chairman himself might sing them. The label heard it and probably rejected it before track 2 began.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RKEsehvPOvM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RKEsehvPOvM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Brian Wilson - Still I Dream Of It</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"One day in 1976, Brian Wilson sat down at the piano in his Los Angeles home, turned on a tape recorder, and began to play. There’s a density to the introductory chords, like the air of an approaching storm. 'Time for supper now', he sings on the demo recording, the first verse so banal as to be almost exotic.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'Still I dream of it,' Wilson continues, his gutted voice not quite hitting the high note, 'of that happy day when I can say I’ve fallen in love. And it haunts me so, like a dream that’s somehow linked to all the stars above.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The extraordinary chord progression, intricate melody, and anguished bridge all demonstrate </strong><i><strong>Still I Dream of It </strong></i><strong>to be a song written by a master songsmith, although one in decline. The confident tenor and soaring falsetto of Wilson’s youth are gone, and yet the song is somehow better for the ragged vulnerability.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Still I Dream of It</strong></i><strong> was intended for inclusion on the </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> Beach Boys album that was immediately shelved upon recording. A bewildering mix of sublime and terrible songs, and a hodgepodge of arrangement approaches from big band to mini Moog, </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> is a bookend to the Beach Boys’ famously postponed 1967 opus, </strong><i><strong>Smile</strong></i><strong>. The </strong><i><strong>Smile</strong></i><strong> album documented a visionary at the height of his musical powers, unmoored by drugs and set adrift by overambition and a general lack of support; the </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> is one of the final blows of that artist’s losing battle with his former self. What is most conspicuous about the period in between is Wilson’s absence.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Shortly after finishing the mixes for </strong><i><strong>The Beach Boys Love You</strong></i><strong>, Wilson began work on what would become </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong>. Wilson called in arranger Dick Reynolds to help with the album. Reynolds originally worked with the Four Freshmen and collaborated with Sinatra in 1964. Though Wilson claimed to want </strong><i><strong>a similar feel</strong></i><strong> as those classic Sinatra albums, the big band arrangements on </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> are peculiarly lifeless.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/79f2a3af5e601b2baed68c259c42a9b089d199eb/original/adult-child-brian-wilson.webp/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Beach Boys - Adult/Child</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> was shelved, by nearly unanimous consent. The band was nearing the end of their record contract with Warner/Reprise — who didn’t think the album had commercial potential anyway — and might have wanted to save some of the material for a major upcoming deal with CBS. Oddly, the only track from </strong><i><strong>Adult/Child</strong></i><strong> to be formally issued was </strong><i><strong>Hey Little Tomboy</strong></i><strong>, on the largely despised </strong><i><strong>M.I.U </strong></i><strong>album." (longreads.com)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a905e7963a0f4a5b79968d1c6fbcd37808cfb8b3/original/paul-mccartney-cold-cuts.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Paul McCartney - Cold Cuts (1973)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82425aa08589813095f51de3c90bca5583fb0de9/original/paul-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Following the massive success of McCartney’s Band On The Run album in 1973, McCartney's label kept demanding a new album for the Christmas season. McCartney realized that he could not deliver an album of new material on such short notice so he devised a plan to release Cold Cuts, a double album which would feature a disc of popular singles that had been released along with a second disc of unreleased McCartney tracks. Due to the continuing chart action of Band On The Run, the record label decided to shelve the project.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/02612f03be2e67be52cf56ba73c291553838bda7/original/hot-hitz-kold-kutz.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"The original concept of </strong><i><strong>Cold Cuts</strong></i><strong> dates back to 1974: During the Wings recording sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, McCartney started working on the album for the first time. His intention for </strong><i><strong>Hot Hitz And Kold Kutz</strong></i><strong>, which was the original title, was to be released as a low budget album in March 1975, before the release of the Wings album </strong><i><strong>Venus & Mars</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The album was to be partly non-album singles, such as </strong><i><strong>Hi, Hi, Hi,</strong></i><strong> </strong><i><strong>C Moon</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Junior's Farm</strong></i><strong>, along with songs that have been left over from recording sessions from earlier albums and have not been released yet. However, a track list was never officially announced.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In an interview, McCartney stated that '</strong><i><strong>The original idea was based around a title I came up with and quite liked which was Hot Hitz and Cold Cuts. I thought it would be great, you just put all your top hits on it and then some cold cuts but actually when I mentioned it to my record label at the time, they didn't like the idea of the cold cuts, they wanted everything to be hits, hits, hits! So they didn't particularly go for that idea.'</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The project disappears into the background, but when Wings takes a break due to the pregnancy of Linda McCartney in 1977/78, Paul decides to breathe new life into the idea. The 1978 version is based on the idea of a double album, with the first album containing the biggest hits and the second being filled with outtakes. But again the record company is obstructive. A compilation album comes out, but without the "cold cuts": </strong><i><strong>Wings Greatest Hits</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In the latter days of Wings, the </strong><i><strong>Cold Cuts </strong></i><strong>album is being worked on again...and in January 1981 the band records a number of overdubs with in mind a release planned for mid-1981. But again it is the record company that is blocking the project. Five years later, in 1986, McCartney puts producer / arranger Richard Niles on the project again.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Here's a Track list from the 1987 bootleg: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>A Love For You</strong> <strong> - This song was first recorded during the RAM sessions at the end of 1970. In 1981, Paul added some overdubs with Wings members Laurence Juber and Steve Holly.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>My Carnival</strong> <strong>- Recorded during the Venus and Mars sessions in New Orleans in 1975.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Waterspout</strong> <strong>- An outtake from the London Town sessions, recorded in 1977 in Scotland. The song was planned to be released on the All The Best compilation in 1987, for which it received some horn overdubs, but was ultimately scrapped</strong>.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Momma’s Little Girl</strong> <strong>- Better known as Mama’s Little Girl. Recorded during the Red Rose Speedway sessions in 1972. Released as the B-side of "Put It There" in 1990, as a bonus track on the 1993 remastered CD edition of Wings' Wild Life album and in 2018 as part of the Red Rose Speedway Archive Collection. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Night Out</strong> <strong>- Recorded in 1972, in the Abbey Road Studios, and at one point regarded as a possible opening track for the album Red Rose Speedway.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Robbers Ball</strong> <strong>- Recorded in Lympne Castle, Kent, in Autumn 1978, during the Back to the Egg sessions. The song was probably meant to be put on Cold Cuts from the start.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Cage - Recorded in Pauls home studio in Campbeltown, Scotland in July 1979. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Did We Meet Somewhere Before?</strong> <strong>- Rejected as the main theme for Warren Beatty's film </strong><i><strong>Heaven Can Wait</strong></i><strong> and recorded with Wings in Abbey Road Studios, in Fall 1977.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Tragedy</strong> <strong>- This cover of a 1961 ballad by the Fleetwoods dates from Red Rose Speedway sessions.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Best Friend</strong> <strong>- Recorded live in Antwerp, Belgium during the 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour in order to be included on Red Rose Speedway double album. Released in 2018 as part of the Red Rose Speedway Archive Collection.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Same Time Next Year - Recorded in 1978 for the film </strong><i><strong>Same Time, Next Year</strong></i><strong> but not used.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Hey Diddle</strong> <strong>- Recorded in 1970 during the Ram sessions as a Paul and Linda duet. Later, the track received further overdubs in Nashville, Tennessee in the summer of 1974." (Macca News blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JlX6YggY_gw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JlX6YggY_gw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Paul McCartney - Hey Diddle</strong></span></p><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55925042394922fc514d59bd13bddf67bfbf0d95/original/a-hole-in-the-sock-of-dave-davies-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>A Hole in the Sock of Dave Davies - Dave Davies (1972)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>A Hole in the Sock of Dave Davies</strong></i><strong> refers to an unreleased album of solo material by Dave Davies, lead guitarist and co-founder of British rock band The Kinks. Apparently the album was, at least for a time, intended to be released under the name </strong><i><strong>Lincoln County</strong></i><strong>, however, numerous names have been applied to it, including </strong><i><strong>The Album That Never Was</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Technically work began on the project after the unexpected success of Dave Davies single, </strong><i><strong>Death of a Clown</strong></i><strong>. Initially, proposed material included blues numbers by Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy in addition to original material. Eventually, lack of both original material and interest delayed further work on an LP until the very end of 1968, when four new songs were recorded at Polydor Studios in London. Work was to have completed early in 1969 but was delayed at least partly when Dave Davies fractured a finger. Much of the unissued material seems to have been recorded in June 1969, just after completion of recordings for </strong><i><strong>Arthur</strong></i><strong>. Two titles (</strong><i><strong>This Man He Weeps Tonight</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Mindless Child of Motherhood</strong></i><strong>), both released as B-sides of Kinks singles were recorded as part of the </strong><i><strong>Arthur</strong></i><strong> sessions, but eventually not included on that LP's final track selection. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Reprise label files imply that the record label had received tapes of this album, under the title </strong><i><strong>Lincoln County</strong></i><strong>, in July 1969 while it was still considered for release by the band. By September of that year, the decision was made not to release the album. Throughout 1970, reports of a reworked version with new material were discussed; the possibility of issuing Dave's LP as the second half of a 2-LP set was raised, but by the close of that year all talk of the LP's release had ceased. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Oddly, tapes of this LP were not officially logged into Reprise's official master tape log until 1972, as part of their contractual settlement after The Kinks moved to RCA. Short of the existence of this acetate in their vaults, there is no other indication that Reprise ever seriously considered this LP for release in its entirety. All songs were mixed (in the case of </strong><i><strong>Susannah's Still Alive</strong></i><strong>, remixed) in stereo for this release." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d2815b2a5f0ec8959ade4048101ed8f17a0f236f/original/big-star-3rd.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Big Star - 3rd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 1974, the remaining members of the Memphis pop group Big Star (with many musical guests) participated in a series of recording sessions that would result in an album called </strong><i><strong>Third</strong></i><strong>. Regardless of what the people who made it thought at the time, it is as much an album as </strong><i><strong>Pet Sounds</strong></i><strong> or </strong><i><strong>The Dark Side of the Moon</strong></i><strong>. It served as a terrible mirror, reflecting things falling apart — a label, a band, and the principal songwriter’s emotional stability. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>“'Big Star Third — I don’t even remember it as if it were an album project, ’cause we did it in fits and starts,' producer Jim Dickinson remembered. 'We did it in, really I guess three or four short, brief periods of time — ’cause it was painful. … The whole record’s about decomposition and decay. Relationships were falling apart, the band had fallen apart, the record company was going out of business — everything was falling apart around us. That and midtown Memphis are the two themes of the record. There’s a geographic center to that record — well, it’s not really a record, it’s a group of recordings.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>If nothing else, </strong><i><strong>Third</strong></i><strong> is a blueprint of pop mastery and dismantlement. In its lyrical desolation, sonic dissonance, and emotional vulnerability, it is as prescient a document of the coming trends in musical culture as was possible to achieve at the time of its creation. It is a remarkable album, a collection of snapshots of a fractured family, each taken in a different time and place, but bound together as a collection. In every picture, however pastoral, lurks something dark. What distinguishes this album is that it admits the darkness. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Recorded for Memphis’s famed Stax label, </strong><i><strong>Third</strong></i><strong> got shelved. A promising distribution deal with Columbia Records imploded. Subsequent test pressings were rejected by major labels. Since 1978, it has been released several times, by different labels, with different names, songs, and track orders. Yet </strong><i><strong>Third</strong></i><strong> has had such an effect on popular music that, in 2016, Omnivore Recordings issued a three-CD box set of every known recording associated with the project. This, then, can be considered the definitive version of Big Star’s </strong><i><strong>Third</strong></i><strong>, if not the official version." (longreads.com) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="PkjxvgjkKgU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PkjxvgjkKgU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc67e082108c50643f775846bec41dfebe737971/original/john-fogerty-hoodoo-1976.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>John Fogerty - Hoodoo (1976)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>After the </strong><i><strong>John Fogerty</strong></i><strong> solo album, Fogerty wasted no time in recording more material for a new album to be followed with a tour, which would be very low-key, with a small group of musicians. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In April 1976, he released a new single, </strong><i><strong>You Got the Magic</strong></i><strong>, backed with </strong><i><strong>Evil Thing</strong></i><strong>, which peaked at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and wasn't that great a hit with the Creedence fans. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Fogerty submitted </strong><i><strong>Hoodoo</strong></i><strong> to Asylum Records, which assigned it a catalogue number, 7E-1081. Shortly before shipment, however, Fogerty and Asylum's Joe Smith made a joint decision that the album did not merit release. After several unsuccessful attempts to improve the album's quality, Fogerty began a nine-year estrangement from the music industry. He has confirmed in interviews that he instructed Asylum to destroy the master tapes, but bootleg copies have appeared over the years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BLWm8D-ypeU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BLWm8D-ypeU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/295ef61d25de55cc98239acd78cfc77ce21ebb62/original/pink-floyd-household-objects.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Pink Floyd: Household Objects</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Pink Floyd's follow up to </strong><i><strong>Dark Side of the Moon</strong></i><strong> was supposed to be an album called Household Objects but it never saw the light of day.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"Listening to a renowned album as cohesive as The Dark Side of the Moon, you would never guess that the follow-up to that historic release was going to be made using everyday items. Household Objects, recorded during several desultory sessions over a two-year time frame, was constructed with rubber bands, wine glasses, spray cans, newspapers, brooms, and other such utilitarian gear. It was shelved. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qjZLV0ltFOw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjZLV0ltFOw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Pink Floyd The Hard Way Household Object Project</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>When people talk about Household Objects — including the members of Pink Floyd themselves — it’s usually described as a wasteful and pointless distraction, a primary example of mid-70s rock star indulgence. This is not the case. Household Objects may not have turned into an album, but it was entirely consistent with the band’s previous use of found sound on The Dark Side of the Moon. What initially appears as a stylistic deviation from its powerhouse predecessor — or worse, full-blown self-sabotage — is, in fact, a return to form. Moreover, the mournful tone of one of its experimental tracks became the emotional center of Wish You Were Here, the highly successful follow-up to Dark Side. Most interesting of all, the work on Household Objects can be seen as the musicians’ affirmative attempt at reconnection to the “non-musical” world, to their past, and ultimately to each other." (longreads.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ns72xuAEEYw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ns72xuAEEYw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The ideas of </strong><i><strong>Household Objects</strong></i><strong> began when Pink Floyd began working on a new song called </strong><i><strong>Work</strong></i><strong>, which involved sawing wood and boiling kettles while on stage. A year later they released </strong><i><strong>Atom Heart Mother</strong></i><strong>, an album that included the track </strong><i><strong>Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast</strong></i><strong>, featuring the sound of roadie Alan Styles frying eggs and bacon before ending with the hypnotic sound of a dripping tap. The band and most probably the band's fans, were surprised when </strong><i><strong>Atom Heart Mother</strong></i><strong> was a UK No.1 hit. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>It would be more than two years before Pink Floyd returned to the </strong><i><strong>Household Objects </strong></i><strong>idea. By then </strong><i><strong>The Dark Side Of The Moon</strong></i><strong> had topped the UK and US charts. But when the members of Pink Floyd began work on a follow-up album in late 1973 they suddenly realized that they were in trouble and seemed to have no concrete ideas once they gathered together in the recording studio.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/68bc90e2b2b18b74fcdb21eff8a63fd32122104d/original/pink-floyd-in-the-studio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"After making </strong><i><strong>Dark Side of the Moon</strong></i><strong>, the most accessible album of their career, the band’s contrary solution to their writer’s block was to reprise </strong><i><strong>Household Objects</strong></i><strong>. Weeks were spent with engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road, creating a percussive rhythm by scraping a witch’s broomstick on the floor or hitting a piece of wood with an axe, and twanging elastic bands stretched between matchsticks. 'I’ve always felt that the differentiation between a sound effect and music is all a load of shit,' bassist/songwriter Roger Waters told Zigzag magazine at the time. 'Whether you make a sound on a guitar or a water tap is irrelevant.' Waters insisted that Floyd’s new music, using 'bottles, knives and felling axes is turning into a really nice piece.'” (loudersound.com)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a9a9f661bca47922777e8b40bbc819f22405765/original/buffalo-springfield-1967.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield - Stampede (1967)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield's </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong> was a legendary "unreleased" album that actually never existed. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>From </strong><i><strong>For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield</strong></i><strong> (John Einarson & Richie Furay): 'Earlier that spring, in an effort to accumulate tracks for a second album Ahmet Ertegun came out to Los Angeles to supervise a number of recording sessions sandwiched between engagements. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Shuttling between Gold Star, Columbia, and Sunset Sound Recorders studios, the band managed to record a variety of tracks, but most ended up as either discards, fragments, or demos. Many of these songs are often cited by Springfield aficionados as proposed tracks for an album supposedly to be called </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong>, which was rumored for release that spring. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong> story, much like the Beach Boys’ legendary </strong><i><strong>Smile</strong></i><strong> album, has grown to near mythical proportions over the decades with amateur musicologists poring over song lists and speculating on possible tracks. Although Atco had a follow-up album in mind and assigned a catalog number to the anticipated album, going as far as to print up a sleeve, there was, in fact, no </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong> album ever planned by the group themselves. True, they were recording that spring, albeit sporadically with or without several members, but not with the specific goal in mind of a definite album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In the 1970s, a well-circulated </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong> bootleg purporting to be the real thing was, in reality, merely composed of several outtakes from the debut album and New York sessions… Nonetheless, Atco went ahead and printed up a sleeve using an existing photo shoot of the group up in the Hollywood Hills posed around a western corral. Given the western motif and the group’s name, Atco chose Stampede as the title, lettering it in stars and stripes. Close to one hundred thousand of these sleeves were printed in anticipation of the album, only to be given away as promotional items later that fall after the official release of their second album, </strong><i><strong>Buffalo Springfield Again</strong></i><strong>, which was assigned the catalog number originally intended for </strong><i><strong>Stampede</strong></i><strong>, 33-226. Of those various tracks, </strong><i><strong>Down To The Wire</strong></i><strong> has drawn the most attention.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gkvavMDrWAM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gkvavMDrWAM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Ultimately released on Neil’s triple album compilation </strong><i><strong>Decade</strong></i><strong> in 1977, the song was cut with Stephen, Bobby West, Jesse Hill, and Mac Rebennack.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f39ab42553ba8a5b2a2b3ac709d4979f010d9499/original/electric-nebraska.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Electric Nebraska (1982)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 1982, Bruce Springsteen recorded a collection of song demos for an album which would be named </strong><i><strong>Nebraska</strong></i><strong>. After completing the demo process, he went in the studio to rehearse and record the demo songs with the entire E Street Band for a lengthy period of time after which he decided to release his home demo tapes as the actual album instead of the tracks he and the E Street Band had been working on. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>After the release of Springsteen's solo version of </strong><i><strong>Nebraska</strong></i><strong>, rumors began to surface that there was also another version of the record featuring the entire E Street Band in the studio vaults. At the time, several members of the E Street Band praised the full-band's work on the </strong><i><strong>Electric Nebraska</strong></i><strong> version of the album. Over the years, </strong><i><strong>Electric Nebraska</strong></i><strong> has become a rare collector's item among Springsteen fans. In recent years, Springsteen has authorized various archival releases and it seems a good bet that this lost album will eventually be officially released.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aebd87882913b7e69dd30e7823a8950cc1180256/original/brain-opera-bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Brain Opera - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (aka The Bonzo Dog Band) was brought to life by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. Their stylistic mission was to combine elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelic pop with surreal humor and avant-garde art.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>By 1967 they were contemplating embracing a more contemporary style of rock music, in order to counter claims that they sounded too much like the fictional, studio-concocted New Vaudeville Band. According to Neil Innes, The Bonzos had learned a salutary lesson about the pitfalls of show business.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The situation proved fortuitous, however, as they were able to capitalize on the spirited culture of Swinging London, they began to combine their jazz material with their psychedelic touches. As the Bonzo band's popularity increased, they were asked by Paul McCartney to appear in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film at the end of 1967, performing their song, </strong><i><strong>Death Cab For Cutie</strong></i><strong>. As the band's career trajectory continued to rise in 1968, the band also became a popular live attraction and pursued a busy tour schedule. The band's hard work began to show dividends when they released a Top Five hit single in October with a Neil Innes song called </strong><i><strong>I'm the Urban Spaceman</strong></i><strong>, which was produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the collective pseudonym Apollo C. Vermouth.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6f415b550606ae58064e9c34f954a23dd3a0584d/original/viv-stanshall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Viv Stanshall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>From the Long Reads website: "In 1993, interviewers from the psychedelic music magazine Ptolemaic Terrascope stood on Viv Stanshall’s stoop, wondering if he would answer the doorbell. Stanshall’s friend, who set up the meeting, was just beginning to apologize when she turned and gasped: A frail and obviously drunk Stanshall, according to the article, “staggering down the road clutching a carved stick and a white plastic carrier bag containing a freshly purchased bottle of Mr. Smirnoff’s elixir, lurched toward the house...Stanshall ― artistic polymath and quintessential English eccentric― had just lost another round in his decades long battle with anxiety...Thirty years before, Stanshall established his career by co-founding a seminal musical comedy group, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The Bonzos, as they would become affectionately known, started out covering novelty numbers from the 1920s and touring the pub circuit. They went on to have a top-10 hit in Britain and appear in a Beatles film. Hilarious, absurd, vaguely threatening, and anarchic, the Bonzos had an enormous influence on the sketch comedy group Monty Python. They released four albums before initially breaking up in 1970. Another project, an ambitious if nonsensical review called Brain Opera, was shelved...Stanshall was the face of it all. Playing by turns a bumbling compère and crooning frontman, he wrote songs with simple melodies and intricate wordplay. His humor was somehow both dry and camp. He would soliloquize in a posh accent while wearing ping pong ball eyes, or sing a ballad like an addled Elvis before reciting the spoken word lyric in an oversized mask. By the time he collaborated on Brain Opera with fellow English oddball Arthur Brown, Stanshall was at a critical juncture of anxiety and ambition: unable to tour because of stage fright and addicted to drugs and alcohol, he was nevertheless fully invested in the British pop star lifestyle. For their part, the Bonzos were less than a year from dissolving after three years of overwork and underpay. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Brain Opera is a case in point that some projects can never be realized. What fragments we have of it are demented and chaotic. The men who conceived it weren’t able to see it through, and even if they had, the group who would have performed it were disintegrating, and even if they weren’t, the managers and label people who would have allowed it out into the world would have never. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Hilarious, absurd, vaguely threatening, and anarchic, the Bonzos had an enormous influence on the sketch comedy group Monty Python. With rock and psychedelia now part of their repertoire, the Bonzos could satirize the entire British Invasion. In 1966, with the cultural dominance of all musical things English, it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. The group bought electric guitars and concentrated on writing original compositions... </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Having shortened their name to the Bonzo Dog Band, the group toured America twice in 1969. The shows were well-received, if poorly planned. Stanshall’s behavior began to change. 'I think something happened to him between the two tours,' Innes said. 'I don’t know what, but he began to drink more to steady his nerves. I think he lost his nerve a bit, and I don’t know what caused that. …When we went to pick Viv up, to actually go to the airport for the second trip, he answered the door with his hair completely shaved off. And he didn’t look at ease at all...He got locked into Valium, which I didn’t really understand about Valium in those days, Legs” Larry Smith remembered, 'but he was apparently prescribed lethal doses early on, which made him all the more dependent on the stuff.”' Touring had become a grind, with little return. In Ireland, the band performed on a football pitch near a slaughterhouse. The only power supply cable was originally for an electric kettle. When it immediately failed, Stanshall chased after his manager across the field, yelling 'Debag the rotter!'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5933988c7bfd05c3956aa82eae5e15cc1aa173f/original/arthur-brown.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Arthur Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>These are the unstable conditions in which the Brain Opera was conceived. Most of the work was done by Stanshall and Arthur Brown, of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Brown had a huge hit with 1968s Fire, and was known for wearing flaming helmets on stage. The fruit of this collaboration was going to be nothing short of fascinating. 'The Crazy World did quite a few gigs here and there with the Bonzos, and were great admirers of their humor and theatricality,” Arthur Brown told me recently. 'That led to Viv and I having meetings up.' To the extent that it can be understood, Brain Opera is set in an alternate universe, where The Craig Torso Show is an enormous success, and features, according to The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Jollity Farm, 'German surgeons vying for cash and prizes and the chance to work in America.' Stanshall wrote a libretto, and Brown composed the music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'We gradually started talking about doing things together, and he wanted to do something about a cosmic slug,' Brown told me. 'It kind of developed from there, and the idea was maybe the slug could get a human brain implant or something. My band had been playing a section which went...We want your brains to pay for further education, We want your brains, they belong to the nation...This led Vivian to make the connection that we could bring certain of our ideas together. We started talking about it and working on it.' Stanshall described Brown as 'an incredible singer and…a freak.' 'I think Viv was capable of being the rudest person I ever met,' Brown told me. 'Somehow he had some second sense of people and he would just say things that would make them either want to hit him ― and sometimes did ― or they’d collapse.' 'Christ, we went down to…I don’t know where,' Stanshall told the Terrascope. 'Arthur was on drugs and I was on booze.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'We came up with all these strange ideas,' Brown continued. 'There was going to be a silver slug that came across the stage. It was going to be a very surreal and adventurous piece. We discussed, about, the first act.' I said to Vivian, ‘Look, most of my stuff at this time has a sort of mystical content. So it’s going to have a mystical content which would be carried by the surreal element of it.’ And then of course, with it being Vivian, it was also going to be quite funny. But that was about as far as it got, really. He was at the time drifting in and out, and I was doing one of my bands, and we got temporally pulled apart.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The project would have involved the Bonzos and Brown, 'and we would have had other people as well,' Brown said. 'Some female parts. Really, we didn’t get around to discussing the sort of technicalities or too many of the actual personnel. It was a very interesting prospect. And the…you know, some of those things just disappear. Not because you decide they’re not good or you’re not going to do them, it’s just things carry you other ways.' 'I don’t know. Whatever happened, happened,' Brown told me about the end of the project. 'I decided I wanted to form a new band, Kingdom Come. Probably because of that I didn’t get in contact with Viv. Sometimes working with him was impossible. In his down phase he was just lie in bed — that was it, full stop.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7f69f25e7ef080620a596a21c58484ba5a2b431e/original/bonzo-doo-dah-band-brain-opera.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>An excerpt of </strong><i><strong>Brain Opera</strong></i><strong>, performed by the Bonzos and recorded for John Peel’s radio broadcast, has surfaced. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'I’d lost interest in the direction the band was taking by then, so I don’t know,' multi-instrumentalist Roger Ruskin Spear said recently. 'I know Pete Townshend said in the press at the time he was planning a ‘Brain Opera’ which rather inhibited our thoughts on the subject.' (Townshend later called his project Tommy.) In the same interview, Rodney Slater claimed to remember nothing about Brain Opera. Stanshall was given co-writing credit and recorded backing vocals on the recording of “Brains” for Kingdom Come’s 1971 Galactic Zoo Dossier album. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Bonzos management rejected </strong><i><strong>Brain Opera</strong></i><strong> out of hand and pressured the band for another single. They broke up instead. The Bonzo Dog Band performed for the last time in March, 1970. 'We weren’t destined to go on year after year like the Stones, no way,' Innes said. 'One of the problems is, I think, we stopped arguing with each other. We became better friends. We were more sympathetic to each other. But before, we used to fight tooth and nail for ideas. The only way to get an idea in was just to do it and not tell anybody. If it got a laugh with the audience, it stayed in.' 'Life was becoming a nightmare with the Bonzos,' Stanshall remembered. 'I had no time to do anything. The phone used to ring so much I’d just leave it off the hook.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>'They were on the cusp between humor and music,' Paul McCartney told MOJO in 1995. 'In a way I don’t think they ever got it sorted out. They didn’t ever fall fully into music or into comedy, but that was their charm really.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Neil Innes went on to have a brilliant career, contributing music for Monty Python and becoming known as their seventh member. The Rutles, his and Eric Idle’s satire of the Beatles, was largely well-received by the Fab Four. Their publishing company, however, sued. 'Did you know there are 14 songs hidden away in the vaults of International Copyright that are credited to ‘Innes, Lennon and McCartney’?' Innes told Dangerous Minds. 'It’s all there in black and white! However, under no circumstances am I to be credited for writing any ‘part’ of these compositions. What’s more, I am forbidden to tell anyone this! Yes! It’s all there in the so-called Settlement Agreement. So, if anyone wants to cover one of the first Rutles songs, remember: it has to be just ‘Lennon/McCartney’ on the cover or the label.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Stanshall, also believed to have a stellar solo career ahead of him, kept his strangeness close. In addition to forming sundry musical projects and guest-starring on rock stars’ records, he took an idea germinated during the Bonzo’s career, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and made it into a serialized radio project in the mid-1970s. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hvtzlbQ-gHY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hvtzlbQ-gHY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Excerpt From </strong><i><strong>Brain Opera</strong></i></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/081f15451ff9236125c4cc0ae684c33e80c11664/original/jeff-beck-the-motown-album-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Jeff Beck - The Motown Album (1970)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Back in 1970, Jeff Beck had just recovered from injuries sustained in a serious car accident and had set his sights on making a record in the legendary Studio A located in Hitsville USA, a building owned by Motown records. Beck showed up in Detroit with drummer Cozy Powell and producer Mickey Most and began working with the renowned Funk Brothers. Beck and company apparently recorded a full album's worth of material that has yet to see the light of day. According to various sources, only 10 tracks were recorded for this album. Beck states that some of the songs were written by the famous Holland-Dozier-Holland Motown songwriting team and that the only evidence of this lost record’s existence is a single cassette copy that he keeps in his private audio archive.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fea648a124a01b395b0c6d51553d578fa46be7a1/original/jeff-buckley-my-sweetheart-the-drunk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Jeff Buckley - My Sweetheart The Drunk</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Excerpts from an article </strong><i><strong>Shelved: Jeff Buckley's Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk</strong></i><strong> which was posted on longreads.com by Tom Maxwell. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"On the evening of May 29, 1997, singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley and his roadie Keith Foti picked their way down the steep, weedy bank to Wolf River Harbor in Memphis, Tennessee. Buckley, wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and heavy Doc Martens boots, waded into the water singing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” After about 15 minutes, a boat passed. Concerned about their boom box getting wet, Foti moved it out of harm’s way. When he turned back around, Buckley was gone with the undertow. His body wouldn’t be found for days. He was 30 years old.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Sadly, if not surprisingly, Buckley left little in the way of recorded output. He released two albums during his life: 1993’s Live at Sin-é and 1994’s Grace. The record he was working on in Memphis, tentatively called </strong><i><strong>My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong>, never saw completion and was shelved because of his death. It would have only been his second studio release.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>By 1996, pressure for a second studio album was mounting. Although now committed to performing original material, Buckley was not a prolific writer. 'I wish I had a real reservoir [of songs], but I don’t,' he told an interviewer. 'It just sort of comes. Thoughts lead into each other and gain momentum and then BOOM! Some weird gibberish will come into my mind...'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The new project was threatened by other issues. Buckley’s longtime drummer Matt Johnson left the band in 1996.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>There was some new material they worked on while on tour and one or two other demos that Jeff had made, but he seemed about to go into recording his second album with even less material than he had when starting Grace. Jeff had declared that his days of doing cover versions were over; he wanted it to be all original material, so that option wasn’t available. There was one other problem: no Matt Johnson. No songs, no drummer, and a producer without any hits didn’t feel like a great way to start. His label had seen Jeff pull greatness out of an empty bag before so they were being patient while waiting for the second album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Buckley bought a used Tascam four-track cassette tape recorder and began demoing new material. He sent tapes of his demos to his bandmates, management, and label team.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>To further complicate things, Buckley decided New York underground guitarist Tom Verlaine should produce the new album, tentatively titled </strong><i><strong>My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong>. Verlaine’s band Television helped define a smart, tight post-punk sound in the late 1970s, but Columbia A&R man Steve Berkowitz struggled with his artist’s decision. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Berkowitz stated that “When Jeff mentioned Verlaine, I said, ‘Oh, what a great idea — Tom and all his sounds and ability to play guitar and create sonic structures — he’ll be great on the record,’ and Jeff said, ‘No, I want him to produce it...and I said, ‘Based on what? What Television did is not what you do.’ I had only respect for Tom, but I didn’t understand how he’d be the producer for Jeff.” Sony had, in fact, floated much bigger names for the project: Butch Vig (responsible for Nirvana’s </strong><i><strong>Nevermind</strong></i><strong>) and U2 producer Steve Lillywhite.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Verlaine understood the label’s hesitation. 'I’m not a goldmine for anybody...They probably would have loved it if he wanted to work with Mariah Carey’s producer or something.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Verlaine was given a tight budget and a flat fee. During the first session, Buckley seemed directionless. The material wasn’t quite finished or rehearsed, and the new drummer wasn’t working out. Four songs were recorded. There was talk, quickly abandoned, of releasing these as an interim EP. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Buckley decided to relocate to Memphis and take another shot at recording with Verlaine at Easley-McCain Studios. On October 1, 1996, Buckley wrote in his journal that he was '</strong><i><strong>going to lay off the band</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hGzHCvkndnI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hGzHCvkndnI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The February 1997 Memphis session was also uninspiring, with one exception. Dave Lory wrote in his book </strong><i><strong>From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye</strong></i><strong>: 'Out of nowhere' Jeff plucked one gem, ‘</strong><i><strong>Everybody Here Wants You</strong></i><strong>,’ which had the potential to groove like a Smokey Robinson song, and which everyone agreed was one of the best things to emerge from these sessions. Verlaine’s instruction to Parker [Kindred, the second replacement drummer] to hit the snare as hard as he could meant it turned out exactly as asked — heavy handed — but Jeff’s vocal was exquisite, emotional without being as refined as the </strong><i><strong>Grace</strong></i><strong> performances, and his harmony embellishments were gorgeous. When I first heard this song, I thought it was a massive hit in the making, but only in the making.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The album was abandoned, and Verlaine was let go. After the last session, Verlaine told Buckley '</strong><i><strong>This stuff sounds really good to me. If you feel dissatisfied maybe you want to take it a little easier on yourself, because there’s nothing wrong with this. I know you probably want to change everything</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Buckley decided to hire Andy Wallace to produce </strong><i><strong>My Sweetheart</strong></i><strong>. Wallace, famous for working with Nirvana, had also produced </strong><i><strong>Grace</strong></i><strong>. 'I didn’t need to be sold on doing another record with him,' Wallace said, 'He could have played me </strong><i><strong>Happy Birthday</strong></i><strong> and I would have made a record with him. I went down and saw Easley studios. It was a funky place — not a dump but down-home and clearly not a corporate environment, and I like that...Jeff was enthusiastic about working there. I don’t believe he got back in touch with me in the hope that we could make </strong><i><strong>Grace 2</strong></i><strong>. He wanted it to be different, to move on.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/591f91946deb3278066838ccd63c13c7b30d2d08/original/jeff-buckley-candle-at-both-ends.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In May, Buckley summoned his band to join him in Memphis. Although they were coming to record a new version of the album, Buckley seemed to have another idea in mind as well. Glen Hansard, a friend of Buckley's said, ‘The stories I’d heard was that he was bringing the band to Memphis to burn the tapes of the record he did with Tom Verlaine. was gathering the band up to have a ceremonial burning of the masters. He was really unhappy with the earlier sessions.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18aec29588a8657f256fe7c94c4f57d538b4f899/original/jeff-buckley-sketches-for-my-sweetheart-the-drunk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>On the day his band arrived in Memphis, Buckley accidentally drowned in the Mississippi river. On May 26, 1998, the Columbia label released </strong><i><strong>Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong>, a two-CD grab bag of the Verlaine sessions and some Memphis demos. What was released is a pastiche of studio recordings and demos which is as illustrative of his potential as it is of the Jeff Buckley industry that sprung up after his demise. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong> is a difficult listen, and not just because Buckley was unafraid to be challenging or the fact that much of it is more promise than fruition. The album encapsulates unpleasant cultural and legal issues of privacy, ownership, and the wishes of the artist when they run counter to those of his fanbase, record label, or even his estate. Jeff Buckley would not have wanted </strong><i><strong>Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong> to come out at all.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Since 1997, Jeff Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, has overseen a steady stream of posthumous Buckley releases. The </strong><i><strong>Houston Press </strong></i><strong>wrote in an unsentimental 2004 article that '...now you can buy </strong><i><strong>Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk</strong></i><strong>, the two-disc set cobbled together from the </strong><i><strong>Grace </strong></i><strong>follow-up sessions Buckley had barely begun...There’s the live record </strong><i><strong>Mystery White Boy</strong></i><strong>, the five-CD </strong><i><strong>Grace</strong></i><strong> EPs boxed set collecting rare/foreign releases, the two-disc-plus-DVD </strong><i><strong>Live at Sin-é</strong></i><strong> collection chronicling his old NYC nightclub crooner days, another pre-Grace odds ’n’ sods compendium titled </strong><i><strong>Songs to No One </strong></i><strong>1991–1992 and now, the </strong><i><strong>Grace Legacy Edition</strong></i><strong>, which couples the original tunes with a B-sides disc and another DVD...Throw it all in an Amazon cart and you’re out 130 clams.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Fifteen years later, there are even more CDs and DVDs, comprised of live performances and early studio recordings. In light of this onslaught, it’s jarring to visit Jeff Buckley’s website and see his name and image and know it’s not reflective of his intent, nor most of its content representative of a career he would have designed. If he were to speak in his own voice, it’s doubtful he would say that he always intended to publish his diary. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/47959a266fb9cfc9c451be4195453a223ad4de0c/original/jeff-buckley.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In life, Buckley was contradictory, mercurial, guided by dreams, and informed by spirituality. He constantly reworked arrangements, improvised new melodies, and abandoned recordings that didn’t meet his standards. In death, he has generated content with clocklike efficiency." (Tom Maxwell, longreads.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pIMKYryXHzg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pIMKYryXHzg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong><u>The Sky is a Landfill</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Circle around the park, joining hands in silence</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>We watched the evil black the sky</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The storm has ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>This power is no mystery to us now.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Leave your spirit genocide, the cancer you won't remove.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>We cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove.</strong></span></p><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2031f397dd3aba388cc8c2fa76c0a280e971ae13/original/the-who-lifehouse.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Who - Life House</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>After the album Tommy secured the Who's future and made them millionaires overnight, the members of The Who found themselves changing in many ways; Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle lived comfortably, Pete Townshend, embarrassed by his sudden wealth, felt he was at odds with Meher Baba's ideals, and Keith Moon spent frivolously.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>During the latter part of 1970, Townshend plotted a follow up to Tommy called </strong><i><strong>Lifehouse</strong></i><strong>. </strong><i><strong>Lifehouse</strong></i><strong>, which was to be a multi-media project symbolizing the relationship between an artist and his audience. </strong><i><strong>Lifehouse</strong></i><strong>'s story was inspired by Pete Townshend's experiences on the </strong><i><strong>Tommy</strong></i><strong> tour: ‘</strong><i><strong>I’ve seen moments in Who gigs where the vibrations were becoming so pure that I thought the whole world was just going to stop, the whole thing was just becoming so unified</strong></i><strong>.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Townshend believed that the vibrations could become so pure that the audience would ‘dance themselves into oblivion’. Their souls would leave their bodies and they would be in a type of heaven; a permanent state of ecstasy. The only reason this did not happen at Who gigs was because there was a knowledge in the listener's mind that the show would end and everyone would wake up and go to work the next morning. These ideas were directly linked to the writing of philosopher Inayat Khan, a Sufi musician who had written about the connection of vibration and sound with the human spirit.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Another source of inspiration for Townshend was Meher Baba, who claimed to be an Avatar of Brahman. What Townshend was aiming to achieve in </strong><i><strong>Lifehouse</strong></i><strong> was to write music that could be adapted to reflect the personalities of the audience. To do this he wanted to adapt his newly acquired hardware, VCS3 and ARP synthesizers and a quadraphonic PA, to create a machine capable of generating and combining personal music themes written from computerized biographical data. Ultimately, these thematic components would merge to form a universal chord. To help this process, the Who would encourage individuals to emerge from the audience and find a role in the music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v-layDeazY8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-layDeazY8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8c007386361b5ebcea0bc8bbcf5005acad61cf9/original/prince-camille-albm.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Camille</strong></i><strong> is an unreleased album recorded by Prince in 1986 and intended to be released under the pseudonym Camille, a feminine alter ego whose identity Prince assumed by disguising his vocals in a pitched-up and androgynous style. He planned to release the album without any acknowledgement of his identity. The project was ultimately scrapped several weeks before its planned release, with rare early LP pressings eventually surfacing for auction in 2016. Several tracks originally intended for </strong><i><strong>Camille </strong></i><strong>were instead included on Prince's 1987 double LP Sign o' the Times. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>After abandoning his </strong><i><strong>Dream Factory</strong></i><strong> LP and breaking up his backing band ,</strong><i><strong>The Revolution</strong></i><strong>, in mid 1986, Prince entered the studio with engineer Susan Rogers in late October to begin a new project. He began experimenting with his vocals in an artificially pitched-up style, achieved either by using a pitch shifter or by recording his vocals at a slower tempo and then speeding up the tape to create a higher, androgynous tone. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Prince began referring to this new pitched-up voice as a feminine alter ego named </strong><i><strong>Camille</strong></i><strong>. The sessions commenced with the recording of the dance track </strong><i><strong>Housequake</strong></i><strong> and within ten days he had completed enough material for an album, which he planned to release pseudonymously under Camille's name as a self-titled debut. He informed Warner Bros. that his image would not appear on the cover and that he would not acknowledge the album as his own work. At some point, his plans for Camille also extended to ideas for a movie.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>By November 5, the album had reached the mastering stage and a number of copies were printed, but Prince abandoned it weeks before its intended release. His reasons for doing so are not entirely clear, though it may have been in part due to Warner Bros.' unwillingness to release an album that would not be attributed to Prince's name. It is unknown how many original printed copies of the album exist, or whether prepared cover artwork was ever finalized. After shelving Camille, Prince combined the tracks intended for that album (excepting </strong><i><strong>Feel U Up</strong></i><strong>) with other unreleased recordings from the period into the proposed triple album </strong><i><strong>Crystal Ball</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09243ca720f160fc663e94c91112d303de9d8ec4/original/warner-music-group.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Against his wishes, Warner Bros. forced him to trim the track list down to a double album, which became Sign o' the Times (1987). This release included the </strong><i><strong>Camille</strong></i><strong> tracks </strong><i><strong>Housequake</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>If I Was Your Girlfriend</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Strange Relationship</strong></i><strong>. The remaining tracks from </strong><i><strong>Camille</strong></i><strong> would be released through other avenues in subsequent years, with the exception of opening track </strong><i><strong>Rebirth of the Flesh</strong></i><strong>, the original studio version of which has only circulated as a bootleg." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AI10G0fUoKA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AI10G0fUoKA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Camille (aka: Prince) - Rebirth Of The Flesh</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a8f022a096710bfec1579d0d0cada45bdc86f413/original/green-day-cigarettes-valentines-2003.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Green Day - Cigarettes & Valentines </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Cigarettes & Valentines</strong></i><strong> was Green Day's follow up to their 2000 album release, </strong><i><strong>Warning</strong></i><strong>. "In November 2002, the </strong><i><strong>Cigarettes & Valentines</strong></i><strong> album was nearly finished when the master tapes were mysteriously stolen from the band's studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to start from scratch, leading to the creation of American Idiot (2004). Fortunately, they were able to relocate and recover the material. When the lost recordings returned to the band, they decided to rework some of the original tracks and release them as B-sides to the singles from American Idiot." (Wikipedia) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"The record was said to be ‘quick-tempoed’ punk in the same vein as their classic albums ‘Kerplunk’ and ‘Insomniac’, and many fans speculated that it was released as ‘Money Money 2020’ by side-project The Network – which frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has repeatedly denied. 'It’s pretty much in the vault right now,' Billy Armstrong told NME. 'There was the one song, ‘</strong><i><strong>Cigarettes and Valentine</strong></i><strong>’ that we brought out live, I don’t know, we’ll see if any of that stuff ends up seeing the light of day.'” (New Musical Express)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="IlRfYW2B-og" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IlRfYW2B-og?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5cbe39a24644a031859cfb7dc91c95ab73ce78c7/original/doors-celebration-of-the-lizard.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The Doors: The Celebration Of The Lizard</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 1968, The Doors began recording their third album.at TTG Studios in Hollywood, CA and the sessions quickly came to an impasse due to a lack of new songs. Their first two albums were comprised of material the band had been playing live prior to being discovered and for their third album, the well had simply run dry. Besides trying to create brand new songs in the studio, they pinned their hopes on recording a surrealistic poem of Jim Morrison’s, called </strong><i><strong>Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong> was originally slated to take up a whole side of their album but the composition was difficult to capture on tape so eventually it was shortened. After many attempts at recording the piece, Producer Paul Rothchild convinced the band to abandon </strong><i><strong>The Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong> material along with the conceptual title of their third album. As the band retrenched and started to record other material for their third album which would be released as </strong><i><strong>Waiting For The Sun</strong></i><strong>, Morrison began showing up to sessions drunk as a skunk.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>When Morrison suddenly realized his lyrical masterpiece would not see the light of day, he immediately lost interest in recording a third album with the other members of the Doors. Of the material the band recorded, only </strong><i><strong>Not To Touch The Earth</strong></i><strong> was salvaged from the ill-fated </strong><i><strong>Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong> sessions. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fbca286791f28e7dfef34b9600a7f4f1122b785f/original/the-doors-legacy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 2003, a fully recorded take of the song, </strong><i><strong>Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong>, was officially released on the Doors compilation album, </strong><i><strong>Legacy: The Absolute Best</strong></i><strong>. Many Doors fans argue that there were other recorded parts that have yet to be released. </strong><i><strong>The Celebration of the Lizard</strong></i><strong> piece was performed several times at Doors concerts and a live version of the piece was released on the</strong><i><strong> Absolutely Live</strong></i><strong> double album in 1970.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jqKdh9Db2i8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jqKdh9Db2i8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/60cf64a16934c42877503a34b38a54f6b9418fb3/original/live-traffic-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80d3be953f27a76d204f548a51072a0e1f03c43a/original/live-traffic-rear-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Traffic - Live Traffic (1971)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>From the recordamerica.com site: “The above image is the ultra-rare album cover for the unreleased 1971 album Live Traffic. United Artists Records, Traffic's US label, was planning to release a Traffic live album recorded at the Fillmore East on November 18 and 19, 1970 (featuring the band's new bassist, Blind Faith's Ric Grech.) Evidently United Artists greatly upset Steve Winwood and band manager Chris Blackwell by releasing a 2 LP Winwood career retrospective without their permission, and so this release was pulled at the last minute, amid rumors that the master tape had been LOST. This is a fully fabricated album cover for the album; something we've never seen before. We acquired it from an industry insider, who got it at the time from UA's head of publicity. It is in near mint condition, with barely detectable staple holes in the four corners. As far as we know, there were never albums or test pressings of this release–only a very small number of this album cover.” Note: tracks from this aborted album have trickeled out on some of the Traffic remastered versions of their old albums.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>From the Traffic fan site www.winwoodfans.com: "For an album that apparently was only days from official release (with advertisements, promo posters and album covers printed) the circumstances surrounding this recording were, and to some extent still are, confused and mysterious. Two shows at New York City's Fillmore East (November 18 and 19, 1970) were recorded with the intent of producing Traffic's first fully live album. Very soon after the concert performance both the British and American press announced the intended release. Melody Maker described the Fillmore East show as being due in stores by December 11, while Rolling Stone noted that the original venue and location - the Capitol Theater in Port Chester had been changed to the Fillmore, but didn't say why. Each also gave a tentative track listing of: </strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8414227f87487dd058d74b00d60abf0711e00712/original/traffic-fillmore-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong><u>SIDE 1 </u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Glad </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong><u>SIDE 2 </u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Pearly Queen </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Forty Thousand Headmen </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Can't Find My Way Home </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Also, to be included between tracks were backstage recordings of conversation, greetings to friends, etc. So, with a unique approach to the standard 'live' album, an interesting selection of tracks (note the 'Blind Faith' number and what must have been an extremely long "Glad") and newly added band member Ric Grech supplying sorely needed bass and violin, the album was quickly mixed in New York. Melody Maker announced that the release date had been pushed back a month. Soon after came the news that a "lost tape" had again set back the release date. The story of the lost tape varies, but it was said to have somehow disappeared on the flight back to England. Did this really happen ? One source went so far as to say that the band actually destroyed the tapes. Regardless, it seemed that the problems were only beginning."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Steve Winwood announced in the press his dissatisfaction with the finished product, and indicated that one half of the album might be new material, recorded in his newly built home studio. Now it's going to be only a 'partly live' album, a la </strong><i><strong>Last Exit </strong></i><strong>? Any of this could be an adequate reason for delay, and prolonged indecision often lead to an abandoned project in the rapidly evolving rock 'n' roll world of the early seventies. But the most compelling reason for the non-release of </strong><i><strong>Live - November 70</strong></i><strong> may have been something else entirely.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f98022a44b8285f19fff4e2fb40b5bb039857725/original/csny-human-highway.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Human Highway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 1973, the members of Crosby Stills Nash & Young embarked on a journey to the Mala Wharf in Maui. All the members of the band brought new songs for a possibility of a new CSNY album. They named their new album project </strong><i><strong>Human Highway.</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>From longreads.com: “'We all went there and hung out for a week or so, learning the songs and trying to figure out the album,' Nash said. They even posed for a photo that was meant to grace the album cover. It showed four brothers, tanned and bearded, arranged together in front of a blue sky, looking less glum than they did on </strong><i><strong>Déjà Vu</strong></i><strong>. 'And then something happened. I’m not even sure what happened now, it was so long ago...those plans were shelved, and we went on with the rest of our lives.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The idyllic Maui brainstorming sessions were, unfortunately, a template for how the band would operate for years to come, with so many embers of magic stamped out, in a huff, by one member or another. Nash, in his memoir </strong><i><strong>Wild Tales</strong></i><strong>, recalled that 'some business, some cocaine thing, went down, and suddenly we weren’t talking to each other.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f552783a61677243626e226be9d60c0ebbe0de45/original/csny-human-hwy-session.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Within a few months, the band was back on good terms, and gathered at Young’s sprawling Broken Arrow Ranch in Redwood City, California, to tackle their new material. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong> was the work of Young, in full rustic-troubadour mode, and sounded like another potential CSNY classic when they debuted it during an impromptu live performance later in 1973. Stills had </strong><i><strong>See the Changes</strong></i><strong>, an airy song about maturity that was well suited for the band’s lush harmonies. Nash, meanwhile, offered a handful of songs that were several shades darker than what he’d contributed to </strong><i><strong>Déjà Vu</strong></i><strong>: </strong><i><strong>And So It Goes</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Wind on the Water</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Prison Song</strong></i><strong>, which railed against criminal justice policies that unfairly punished the poor. Crosby had written </strong><i><strong>Carry Me</strong></i><strong>, a tribute to his recently deceased mother, and the meditative </strong><i><strong>Time After Time</strong></i><strong>. 'We had great songs. It was going to be a great album,” Nash said, 'We had a great title. </strong><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong>? Are you kidding me? That’s fabulous.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>There is a certain amount of romance and mystery associated with the idea of a lost album, a sense that an artist’s career might have turned out differently if they had completed a passion project that eluded their grasp. But in his book </strong><i><strong>Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup</strong></i><strong>, author David Browne described the rehearsals at Young’s ranch as dysfunctional and uninspired, with Stills sleeping all day while his bandmates were preoccupied by televised footage of the Watergate hearings that would presage the resignation of President Richard Nixon.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In the months and years that followed, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young would take several ill-fated stabs at recording </strong><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong>. Fans would speculate about the lost project for years, piecing together theoretical track lists from songs that were released sporadically. The story of the album was, in a way, the story of the band — prolific but wholly different talents, drawn to each other’s music, repelled by egos and infighting and drugs, locked in a cycle that would leave them splintered and bitter even now, five decades later, as they approach the sunset of their lives. But in a surprising twist, the member most opposed to reuniting — Neil Young — recently gave the public an intriguing glimpse of what Human Highway could have been, and rekindled his ex-bandmates’ interest in seeing the project find some sort of late-stage redemption.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In 1974, after a quick winter break, CSNY again assembled into the studio in December to finally complete the long-awaited </strong><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong> album. But after only recording a handful of tracks, including Crosby’s contribution </strong><i><strong>Homeward Through The Haze</strong></i><strong>, the quartet again fractured into chaos. Graham Nash refused to sing a note creating a minor over a major chord in Stephen Stills’ </strong><i><strong>Guardian Angel</strong></i><strong>; although it seemed a minuscule disagreement, it escalated into a heated argument, resulting in Stills literally destroying the master tapes to Nash’s </strong><i><strong>Wind On The Water</strong></i><strong>! Neil had had enough of the bad vibes and inflated egos and simply stopped showing up. Once again, the </strong><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong> was closed." (David Gambacorta, longreads.com) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Eventually, after several more tries at bringing the </strong><i><strong>Human Highway</strong></i><strong> album to fruition, all of the band members went on to pursue their own projects.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e432866dbbc18b8d00567811929e8ed606fb2d1d/original/prince-black-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Prince - The Black Album</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><i><strong>The Black Album</strong></i><strong>, sometimes called </strong><i><strong>The Funk Bible</strong></i><strong>, was released on November 22, 1994, by Warner Bros. Records and was originally planned as the follow-up to </strong><i><strong>Sign o' the Times</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>Prince insisted on releasing the album in an entirely black sleeve with no title or even a credit to Prince. Also called The Funk Bible by preceding press releases, along with a hidden message that lay within the album itself.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>In various periodicals, there were some statements that Prince had become too pop-oriented. It was later learned that </strong><i><strong>The Black Album</strong></i><strong> was his attempt to regain his African-American audience. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fef4727e16ab64672416c65311a454cd63189070/original/prince-black-album-studio-session.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The album features one of the most shockingly unusual Prince songs: </strong><i><strong>Bob George</strong></i><strong>, in which he assumes the identity of a profane man who suspects his girlfriend to have had an affair with a man named Bob. He asks her what the man does for a living and learns that Bob manages Prince, who he dismisses as 'that skinny motherfucker with the high voice.' The name for the track was a combination of Bob Cavallo (former manager), and Nelson George, who was felt to have become very critical of Prince. The song </strong><i><strong>Bob George</strong></i><strong> features a growling monologue that is slowed down to the point of being almost unrecognizable as Prince. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>The 1987 promo-only release had no printed title, artist name, production credits or photography printed; a simple black sleeve accompanied the disc. On promotional copies, only a song listing and catalog number—25677—were printed on the disc itself. The commercial version was to only have the catalog number—printed in pink—on the spine. The original compact disc pressing was made by Sony DADC rather than WEA Manufacturing. After Prince became convinced that the album was evil, he ordered it to be withdrawn a week before its release date. It was replaced with the album </strong><i><strong>Lovesexy</strong></i><strong>, a brighter pop-oriented album with elements of religious affirmation.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong>"The Black Album became the most bootlegged album ever. This writer got his copy on cassette. The last of five sealed copies of The Black Album was recently discovered in the collection of a former Warner Bros. Records executive. Before that only three copies of the U.S. pressing were around. The auctioned copy includes a letter of authenticity from Jeff Gold, the owner of Recordmecca and a former executive vice president/general manager of Warner Bros. Records, who worked closely with Prince during the 1990s." (denofgeek.com)</strong></span></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c4421fcdcca1faf47ee92d1e4f8365a01e9678bf/original/mind-smoke-records-jukebox-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e82bf79755c974d732abba9c95627f366dc2b103/original/facebook-profile-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/singles" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f39c12;"><strong><u>CHECK OUT OUR SINGLES PAGE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67103612023-08-16T08:47:04-04:002023-08-16T11:17:46-04:00Alive As Yesterday: 1978 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d6181e205a3234ad76c931c0a9ad85e562445b7c/original/1978-blog-post-header.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Year Rock Went to Pieces (Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“In 1978, rock music resembled a combat zone more than a community. The divisions had been visible for most of the decade, with the fraying of any notion that the factions of rock fans could peacefully coexist, but in '78, that notion seemed like an illusion. On the Rolling Stones album released that year, there was a track called Shattered, and that's how rock felt: broken up into shards, strewn all over the landscape. Everyone chose sides: corporate rock vs. punk rock, sophisticated rock vs. crude rock, rock vs. disco, old guard vs. new wave, prog vs. metal, MOR vs. AOR, divisions within divisions. The stakes for the music industry were never higher, because sales for mainstream rock albums in the mid-'70s were booming. Frampton Comes Alive, Rumors, Hotel California, Boston, Bat Out Of Hell — it was the era of the rock blockbuster. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Not everyone was thrilled by the institutionalization of rock: by what was perceived as slick, formulaic, and timid. By '78, the year after Elvis Presley died, the year after Elvis Costello, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols made their debuts, the separation was complete. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The sound of 1978 was the door slamming shut on pop consensus…What the best albums of 1978 have in common, I think, is a type of defiance, a stubborn and unshakable belief in a set of musical values entwined with philosophical and ethical values. Every album is, in a way, a response to or a critique of other albums: this is how music should be, this is what it should aspire to—and in 1978, artists like Springsteen, Petty, Patti Smith, Blondie, the Ramones, and even the Cars and Cheap Trick in their ways, were providing a cultural corrective..”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/21184b8b0beda019970d56c16e19a0f50958b69b/original/1978-darkness-tour-springsteen-cobo-arena.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Darkness On The Edge of Town Tour 1978</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cobo Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b36138b4aad1097b8b57d679796335dc5f91c5e4/original/bruce-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />SET LIST 1</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Badlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=13ddc9a5" title="Statistics for Streets of Fire performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Streets of Fire</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=3d6559f" title="Statistics for Rendezvous performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rendezvous</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=4bd7bb8e" title="Statistics for Spirit in the Night performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spirit in the Night</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=43d65b37" title="Statistics for Rave On! (Sonny West song) performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rave On!</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=53d6f7f5" title="Statistics for Darkness on the Edge of Town performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Darkness on the Edge of Town</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=63d62a5f" title="Statistics for Independence Day performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Independence Day</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=3bd79c8c" title="Statistics for The Promised Land performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Promised Land</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=53d65f59" title="Statistics for Prove It All Night performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prove It All Night</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=13d659d1" title="Statistics for Racing in the Street performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Racing in the Street</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=5bd7975c" title="Statistics for Thunder Road performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thunder Road</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=23d61c5f" title="Statistics for Jungleland performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jungleland</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a0331f062fe9746f1b2523e66f1d49146854fd3e/original/bruce-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Statistics for Jungleland performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST 2</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=3d799cb" title="Statistics for The Ties That Bind performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ties That Bind</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=3bd9a444" title="Statistics for Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Harry Reser and His Orchestra song) performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Claus Is Coming to Town</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=7bd7a60c" title="Statistics for The Fever performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fever</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=bd6d596" title="Statistics for Fire performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fire</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=5bd687e8" title="Statistics for Candy's Room performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Candy's Room</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=73dad6c5" title="Statistics for Because the Night (Patti Smith Group song) performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Because the Night</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=43d663c3" title="Statistics for Point Blank performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Point Blank</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=33da1801" title="Statistics for Mona / Preacher's Daughter / She's The One / I Get Mad performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mona / Preacher's Daughter / She's The One / I Get Mad</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=23d69893" title="Statistics for Backstreets performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Backstreets</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=43d6532f" title="Statistics for Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/63f47a594fe40c0a0b6774b22575bc19395484d7/original/bruce-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ENCORE 1</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=43d68fbb" title="Statistics for Born to Run performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Born to Run</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=63d6f2c7" title="Statistics for Detroit Medley performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit Medley</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=23d7a8eb" title="Statistics for Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bruce-springsteen-2bd6dcce.html?songid=6bd4be3a" title="Statistics for Quarter to Three (Gary “U.S.” Bonds song) performed by Bruce Springsteen"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quarter to Thre</strong></span>e</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cdc22c725a255023e82b5d9cc4da309fef19b244/original/bruce-4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ENCORE 2</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Twist & Shout</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/67fe25299d3a0d1fe75ff98a6c7a2c6b81e857bc/original/a1-elvis-costello-capitol-theater-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello & The Attractions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mink De Ville</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Lowe with Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pMCw9TOR8V4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pMCw9TOR8V4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1644e8c28d1e02f066012a95e2f4cc5f1208010c/original/1978-tom-petty-whisky-a-go-go-la-ca.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7d35a1fa82d5810fcfe63b17e48c64a35067f721/original/tom-petty.jpg-large/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whisky A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/32245ceb22a29bad8a1ffe7ccdb57f152899d8cb/original/1978-devo-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/186785d583082971c19a99466c341a3fa300ff78/original/devo-1978.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Devo</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_gULKKxp5hk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_gULKKxp5hk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mabuhay Gardens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/672e18a16fba3a33349668b04ac06d3a57d830ee/original/1978-cheap-trick-capitol-theatre-passaic-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>U.F.O.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Capital Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Passaic, NJ</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c26903205743d8bc833cd55813551e33d2390bb5/original/cheap-trick-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hello There</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Come On Come ON</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stiff Competition</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On Top Of The World</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Guitar Solo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Eyes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ain't That A Shame</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Southern Girls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Need Your Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Want You To Want Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>California Man</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Surrender</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Heaven Tonight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Auf Wiedersehen</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5v5s9oADUFY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5v5s9oADUFY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/03b2dbb0d2d23396d32daa324a32b4f75eabc6b9/original/1978-tom-waits-australia-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1978 Australian Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d1zc6gyXdZg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d1zc6gyXdZg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9236de6e415003dd06c4ddfbe7e974cb3bf37dc3/original/1978-bayou-club-washington-d-c.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mitch Ryder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Catfish Hodge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grande Hotel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rory Gallagher</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arlen Gale</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bayou</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12b38df0048cfcec0d5e80d197b496b1bbf7d350/original/1978-squeeze-rough-edge-albany-empire-deptford-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Squeeze</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rough Edge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albany Empire</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deptford, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QwVQjXph32w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QwVQjXph32w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" 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</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/90012b7e268724a3b7af52f8fc18043a0d4261a1/original/1978-elvis-costello.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello & The Attractions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mink DeVille</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Lowe & Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1b9df6a68f4a32ac2e03a07978846088a0994da3/original/elvis-costello-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was a perfect triple bill. Elvis Costello, the "angry young man" of the New Wave; his producer and neo-pop star Nick Lowe; and sandwiched between, the original Spanish Johnny, Willy "Mink" DeVille.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Unfortunately the show was only about two-thirds sold out. When it began at 7:30 there were perhaps 100 people in the audience. A few hundred more sauntered in during Nick Lowe's opening set but most of the crowd missed some excellent rock 'n' pop from Lowe and his backup band Rockpile.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4d95a2d02a13426d436b38eb61987957cb232a56/original/nick-lowe-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7O4GagrfqO8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7O4GagrfqO8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lowe opened his 30-minute set with his soon-to-be-released single "And So It Goes," an energetic power-pop tune that quickly won the sparse crowd over. Rockpile, the group Nick used as back-up musicians, is really legendary guitarist's Dave Edmunds' band. Edmunds played rhythm guitar for most of the songs while guitarist Billy Bremner embroidered Lowe's already tasty tunes. Lowe played bass and drummer Terry Williams kept things tight.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lowe then launched into the jumping "I Knew the Bride Before She Used to Rock 'n' Roll" with its Chuck Berry "Never Can Tell" melody. "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" with its infectious Bo Diddley backbeat got the audience bouncing in its seats.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edmunds then took over the spotlight with a couple of his own numbers, the sizzling country-rocker "Down, Down, Down" and "Fallin' In Love Again" on which he also played some pithy lead guitar.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lowe took over again and performed "Young and So Fine" with its chorus line, </strong><i><strong>"She's got a pair of tits that just won't quit."</strong></i><strong> "They Call It Rock," Lowe's poke at the music industry and his final number "Heart of the City" kept the audience in the palm of his hand and proved that painted faces, giant toothbrushes and so much glitter are not needed to get the point of rock 'n' roll across to an audience. Lowe's all-too-short set ended and he received a standing ovation from the swelling crowd. Mink DeVille had better be good.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/32f595e4c8fd85db7b4d447f5f42adf25ca5ff4e/original/mink-de-ville-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0MG71CeNTew" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0MG71CeNTew?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willy DeVille was dressed to the nines. He wore a three-piece suit, skinny Italian tie and a lavender shirt. In each ear hung tiny gold cross earrings. Every hair in his high pompadour was in place. Roach-killer shoes covered his shuffling feet and he brandished a burgundy-colored guitar. The rest of his five-piece band was similarly decked out. Willy flashed a smile to the crowd just before the suave group leader took the crowd for a ride on the "Back of the Bus." It was driven by Willy's Lou Reed-styled delivery and powered by gurgling sax and rippling piano. Mink DeVille showed that they are the class of the New Wave.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Like a shot the band ripped into "Gunslinger" from their first album and then Willy strutted his stuff on the cool "Spanish Stroll." "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl," a gently rocking ballad showed off Willy's extraordinary voice as did the next number, Phil Spector's "Little Girl," on which Willy played acoustic guitar and harmonica. The band sounded like the one Dylan's been looking for all his life. Near the end of the tune they picked up the tempo and took it on home.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willy took off his guitar and came back to center-stage with his jacket slung over his shoulder. He lit a cigarette. Nonchalantly blew smoke as he stood at the mic. A baby blue spotlight like moonglow cast his shadow on the floor. He leaned against an imaginary lamppost and did some street corner talkin' to the crowd in a Righteous Brother-sounding tune called "Guardian Angel," complete with watery piano and castanets. The number was a showcase for his band and once again his great balladeer's voice. It ended with Willy's finger snaps and a tremendous applause from the cheering crowd. Springsteen eat your heart out.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Cadillac Walk," an aggressive rocker which featured razor-sharp slide guitar and slogging drums and "Soul Twist" from the new album </strong><i><strong>Return to Magenta</strong></i><strong> brought Mink DeVille to the end of their set. They returned for an encore. The tune they came back with was a James Brown-style funky rave-up. Willy screamed like the godfather of soul himself as he was slippin' and slidin' around the stage. While his boys kept up the intense backbeat he executed perfect knee-drops which brought the crowd to its feet. Needless to say, Willy and da boys will be back in town.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0a5400a739efb0705f41140dc0266f72b9a51b25/original/elvis-lowe-mink-marquee-edit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even though the show wasn't a sellout, the crowd was ferocious in its love for Elvis. As the houselights dimmed, Elvis and The Attractions, with instruments in-hand, hit the stage like bank robbers running for a getaway car.</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cd5de90a199a026d6d7414d2634e061cb11c02be/original/elvis-costello-t-shirt.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The bespectacled Elvis was a stark figure wearing a white untucked shirt. Gone was his rummage sale jacket and tie. Gone too was the nervousness and ill-at-ease manner from the first time he'd played Austin back in February. Gone too was the thatched-hair which was now fashionably longer.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the tension was still there. Even though he seemed looser it was easy to see that he was still a tightly-coiled steel spring that could lash out at any moment. With a "Wipeout" drum intro Elvis & Co. ran through a frenetically-paced "Mystery Dance." He looked truly amazed at the reaction as girls screamed and clamored for his body. Elvis is a well-known misogynist, at least in song, and that type of response seemed more in-place for Gino Vannelli. Elvis is also an intellectual songwriter and there were many who were actually singing along with his complex lyrics.</strong></span></p><div class="floatright" style='-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(248, 248, 248);clear:right;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);float:right;font-family:"Times New";font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em;orphans:2;text-align:justify;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;'> </div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis didn't wait for applause but raced right into "Pump It Up" and "Waiting for the End of the World" in tandem. "End of the World" was taken at breakneck speed and lost all the finesse and the loping rhythm the original has. The group blew through the Who-like "No Action" like they were on speed, and like the other songs before it the lyrics were nearly indecipherable.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Less Than Zero" was performed in a listless manner, but was saved by Steve Young's organ solo which sounded like a combination of "La Bamba" and "Telstar." Serious roller rink music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The crowd was surging around the stage as security guards began telling individuals to take their seats and even shoving others who wouldn't move back. Elvis was plainly peeved at this reaction from the guards. He shouted into the mic, "It's beginning to look like a fucking prison camp up here! I don't know about you but I wouldn't like someone in a uniform with a big stick to push me around!" With those words a near riot broke out as most fans in their seats reacted with words in kind. But most of the crowd returned to their seats for the time being.</strong></span></p><div class="floatright" style='-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(248, 248, 248);clear:right;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);float:right;font-family:"Times New";font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em;orphans:2;text-align:justify;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;'> </div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis then performed a country-western tune, "Stranger In the House," from his import LP of </strong><i><strong>This Year's Model</strong></i><strong>. When Elvis jumped into "Red Shoes" the emotion seemed to finally come through in his singing like it hadn't in his previous songs. The band ran through "This Year's Girl," "Miracle Man" and "Lip Service." Elvis was manic in his gesturing and minimal guitar playing but the band worked as if it was all of a piece. They were so tight a unit that if Elvis sneezed the rest said Gesundheit!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis and The Attractions performed a new ballad, "Party Girl." "Watching the Detectives," Elvis' bizarre movie-in-song, was next and with Pete Thomas' spectacular reggae drum work and the spooky lead guitar line, it pulled the audience all the way into Costello's private world. "Detectives" is clearly Elvis' most intriguing song and the performance was the show's tour de force.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>E.C. & Co. then ran through the frenzied "On The Beat" with its line, </strong><i><strong>"I don't wanna be your lover, I just wanna be your victim,"</strong></i><strong> aimed directly at the audience.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"This next tune is off my album </strong><i><strong>My Aim Is True</strong></i><strong>," Elvis told the fans before slipping into the bittersweet ballad "Alison." Elvis was in particularly fine voice and the heart-wrenching lyrics came across truer than ever.</strong></span></p><div class="floatright" style='-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(248, 248, 248);clear:right;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);float:right;font-family:"Times New";font-size:18.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em;orphans:2;text-align:justify;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;'> </div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You Belong to Me" had the crowd dancing in the aisles again and then marching towards the stage as Elvis shot the finger at them, saying, "I hope this'll get a bit of life into you! If you don't know what's wrong with radio, you don't know what's wrong with you!" Then he attacked the crowd with "Radio, Radio," his Molotov cocktail hurled at the medium. After that song Elvis and his gang sprinted off stage as the crowd gave them a standing ovation.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Minutes later they came back and launched into "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea." Elvis played more guitar in this tune over the machine gun-like drumming and the sneaking bass line.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After they received a second encore they drove like a locomotive through "Lipstick Vogue." On "I'm Not Angry" Elvis aimed his guitar at the crowd like a machine gun. They answered him on the chorus line screaming </strong><i><strong>"I'm Not Angry"</strong></i><strong>!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Finally Elvis stalked off stage followed by his group. He'd again delivered a riveting and electrifying performance.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff26f5c153ae68694d3dc154bc7e57983dd76dd3/original/1978-club-57-irving-plaza.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jvxEPCrdvso" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvxEPCrdvso?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Plasmatics</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dead Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Club 57 @ Irving Plaza</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4c976292f1574d23395c9232a65b525200298c5/original/1978-ac-dc-kinks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AC/DC</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gSItDuo8Wss" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gSItDuo8Wss?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kinks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arena Deurne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Antwerp, Belgium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa8c9737b50380a6e66f43a9e86da0d3f98bb929/original/1978-rolling-stones-jfk-stadium-philly-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qH3oVVtw4b4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qH3oVVtw4b4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Foreigner</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>.38 Special</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>J.F.K. Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77569ab46f3ea4c3dd50e77940efc5e811cd86ea/original/cheap-trick-calderone-concert-hall-hempstead-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TbI7xTjrf0M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TbI7xTjrf0M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby Grand</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calderone Concert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hempstead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a4a2e726afd73fc301197631b98f609acb025288/original/ramones-talking-heads-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Huize Maas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Groningen, Netherlands</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9ad15aa490d80689e5009116975b87f411e5348a/original/the-clash-sort-it-out-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BwKn1b1X6dc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BwKn1b1X6dc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e9f8163b9f18a1a2e8b30cd07da5da23a53d2d79/original/1978-the-clash-lyceum-theatre-lonkon-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Clash Sort It Out Tour</strong></i></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bFHEuKkTa5k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bFHEuKkTa5k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Slits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Innocents</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tifanys, Purley UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lyceum, London UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4f505b5c1cf2dce0f51d13f33720dfca3c5aba30/original/1978-bob-marley-the-warehouse-new-orleans-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Marley & The Wailers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Warehouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xganXnQprxE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xganXnQprxE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4640e48c059daef83ab9e655824cda79a859554c/original/1978-rolling-stones-anaheim-stadium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Outlaws</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Tosh</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="S__H_JT6X40" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S__H_JT6X40?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>STONES SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let It Rock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All Down The Line</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honky Tonk Women</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Star Star</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When The Whip Comes Down</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beast Of Burden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miss You</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shattered</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Respectable</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Far Away Eyes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love In Vain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tumbling Dice</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Happy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Little Sixteen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brown Sugar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jumpin' Jack Flash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/853acc117bd867d83ab65ef6b316d2ef1c446a2e/original/1978-david-bowie-msg-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/09f82e8cca4269e7c58c3ec54fd7e796fe385d0a/original/david-bowie-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madison Square Garden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa73dcc1d9ac48ac1af6209889ede30f2bcc4475/original/1978-todd-utopia-armadillo-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>An Evening With </strong></i><strong>Todd Rundgren & Utopia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1724aba3972971cde5adeba63397adafcec3687b/original/todd-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/21b07f3e93423cd4ad7082b970ce59014d820100/original/todd-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bd45e8306a88e2311bb60927b381b993f8323e7e/original/1978-ramones-cw-post.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3d7364b62de64a392a1653b80b55bd0554c9e628/original/ramones-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>C.W. Post</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brookville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c76c6cc4a71aa2cb894b4e3407823df221107f43/original/1978-sex-pistols.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1978 American Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sex Pistols</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WkpPFh_LAWU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WkpPFh_LAWU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2775cddc0e137a05d0fc53bd7f1095ff91d904ac/original/1978-cheap-trick-japan-tour.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Japan Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CAdUSkkHkfU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CAdUSkkHkfU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4742fff7497a108ab8dbd0f79009d958d4d6564c/original/1978-devo-bottom-line-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Devo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hRguZr0xCOc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hRguZr0xCOc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab1330ae6a66db587fdddf10784b4fdd8c59cb95/original/1978-bottom-line-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warren Zevon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6tJ5szSz7L4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6tJ5szSz7L4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fcba9b21b6a07e56e5e84c763130b1b315660124/original/1978-police-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/da5dee5fc7d1d5ea46ca0ec612780a0043e3dd8c/original/police-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1978 Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/182230883b7285aa76649500b7d8ff1fc1a24fa6/original/1978-elvis-costello-walsh-gym.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bbf434d6a1ea09072f8d7af7ae39d813e864a219/original/elvis-armed-funk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Armed Funk Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello & The Attractions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Walsh Gym</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rhode Island College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Providence, RI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dfb2af3f28d1fa615001765bf98e0f31772a4931/original/1978-rock-blues-fetival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Werchter Rock & Blues Festival '78</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gruppo Sportivo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Runaways</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. Feelgood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leuven, Belgium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/29a825b8085dbec0951b535cdfd28c972eca8130/original/1978-rolling-stones-louisiana-superdome-new-orleans-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doobie Brothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Louisiana Superdome</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Orleans, LA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8f7626e119625124fa2e9a7a2eec037caafa7ff/original/1978-rolling-stones-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1978 Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rolling Stones</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>' US Tour 1978 was a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_tour" title="Concert tour"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>concert tour</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> of the United States that took place during June and July 1978, immediately following the release of the group's 1978 album </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Girls" title="Some Girls"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Some Girls</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Like the 1972 and 1975 U.S. tours, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graham_(promoter)" title="Bill Graham (promoter)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Graham</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> was the tour promoter. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/87c0349308cd990295494fa04b5939ee323942a3/original/rolling-stones-1978-on-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The tour used a stripped back, minimal stage show compared to the previous </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones_Tour_of_the_Americas_%2775" title="Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas '75"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tour of the Americas '75</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones_Tour_of_Europe_%2776" title="Rolling Stones Tour of Europe '76"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tour of Europe '76</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, possibly due to the emergence of the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>punk rock</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> scene and its emphasis solely on music and attitude rather than presenting a grandiose stage extravaganza.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Continuing a schedule started in 1966 of touring the United States exactly every three years, the Stones played in a mixture of theatres, sometimes under a pseudonym (i.e., at the start of the 1978 US Tour in Lakeland, Florida, The Stones were billed on the ticket as "The Great Southeast Stoned Out Wrestling Champions"), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena" title="Arena"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>arenas</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium" title="Stadium"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>stadiums</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, a practice that they would follow for many of their future tours as well. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b12e40595c7017fc8594248eac90b522aefef664/original/charlie-watts-drum-set.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The 1978 tour was the first in which </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Watts" title="Charlie Watts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlie Watts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> used the famous </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretsch" title="Gretsch"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gretsch</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> drum set that he continued to play with the Stones until his death, as well as his first employment of a china cymbal as a crash. The concerts featured backing vocals by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Wood" title="Ronnie Wood"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ronnie Wood</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards" title="Keith Richards"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Richards</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, something that the Stones would get away from beginning with their next tour when Richards handled the majority of the backing vocals himself.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/df413cc51bf26bf4edd941157836b243ce2054ca/original/1978-springsteen-the-agora-ballroom.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center 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List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="Return To All Blog Post"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Return To All Blog Post</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/66852552023-08-03T08:31:04-04:002023-08-03T08:48:13-04:00Alive As Yesterday: 1971 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/759f1a20709a3e968f927890769b90e483a98dd2/original/1971-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7b166b2c592bf82c22a58bd4b4d9c1beef32846b/original/1971-allman-bros-chalotte-coliseum-charlotte-nc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allman Brothers Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wet Willie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlotte Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlotte, NC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d2981e974cd83696ef2e16940d5f5f36b7c37a8/original/1971-little-feat.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Feat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12th Gate</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/809a153d37b1e8fb4eb021505916bd8dbb069ba0/original/1971-stephen-stills-crazy-horse.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stephen Stills</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crazy Horse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Garden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock & Roll Woman</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Questions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Helplessly Holding</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fishes and Scorpions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Go Back Home</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love The One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Know You Got TO RUn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Word Game</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Change Partners</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do For The Others</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesus Gave Love Away For Free</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'd Have To Be Crazy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Attitude</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You Don't Have To Cry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>49 Bye-Byes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For What It's Worth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ecology Song</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Open Secret</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lean On Me Baby</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bluebird Revisited</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cherokee</strong></span></p><ol style="list-style-type:none;"><li style="text-align:center;"> </li></ol><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18cf62e0824b9309ed4daf22c83979b7f73a9144/original/1971-bb-king-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>B.B. King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ballin' Jack, Christian Rapid</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7ffa95fb48848df19bd964f8495bc4594700f5f4/original/1971-the-steve-miller-band-grits-cowtown-ballroom-kansas-city-mo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cowtown Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cowtown Ballroom was a legendary concert venue in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened in the summer of 1971, and over the next 38 months it established itself as one of the finest venues along the concert trail. A little over 10 years ago there happened to bee a documentary about the venue titled </strong><i><strong>Cowtown Ballroom … Sweet Jesus! </strong></i><strong>that was filmed as an oral history from many of the musicians that played there, along with the people who helped run it and the fans it attracted. If you were lucky enough to see it, you’ll probably agree it’s a tale of both geography and that small, special period of time in 20th-century music history.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f406c52e3f6644a3b436d14123a00be78f1e516/original/1971-flaming-groovies-cactus-redeye-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cactus, Flamin' Groovies</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Redeye</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/edb28ccfd0e797d7616b35f0ddedad08cb906796/original/1971-miles-davis-elvin-bishop-mandrill-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miles Davis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvin Bishop Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mandrill</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6f707ece94244640a2c156d58245119d5c6623b8/original/1971-jubilee-auditorium-calgary-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's A Beautiful Day</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Cotton Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jubilee Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Calgary, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This beautiful handbill, designed by Bob Masse, advertises a show for It’s a Beautiful Day and James Cotton Blues Band at Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday November 14, 1971.</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12948cfb275698923313c703b611cc29bc4c4b45/original/1971-sly-the-family-stone-madison-squar-garden-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-cKkrD1jHcg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-cKkrD1jHcg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sly & The Family Stone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rare Earth, Ruth Copeland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madison Square Garden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/47715ddf2b8fa22b081f8d12f55dbed2ec1eef2f/original/sly-the-family-stone.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;" id="address"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"There was a time when the music might have justified it. In his first appearances with the Family Stone, Sly Stewart—former disk jockey, superb guitarist, organist and drummer, brilliant songwriter and arranger—established what was virtually a new pop music style, Mixing up the long, tension‐building vamps of rhythm and blues with the electric energy and ear‐slitting acoustical wattage of rock, he became the first major black performer since Jimi Hendrix to conquer the white market.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the edges of Sly's Olympian dream have begun to blur a bit. Instead of ranging through the wide variety of material he has written and recorded, Sly now focuses on the crowdrousing, everybody‐on‐your‐feet, boom‐sha‐ka‐la‐ka‐la‐ka numbers that are his commercial hits. And after a while, “Dance to the Music” and “You Can, Make It If You Try” and “Stand” and “I Want to Take You Higher” all begin to sound like parts of one incessantly repeated chord, one unending rhythm pattern." (NY TIMES)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d090b18b8b28664f69579058f182445dd65d29b7/original/1971-frank-zappa-mothers-cowtown-ballroom-kansas-city-mo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TAWEKflm2RQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TAWEKflm2RQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Head Over Heels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cowtown Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kansas City, MO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d9b5b6fd2097f0d0bbfbd8f2af7372e28330025/original/1971-steve-miller-band-salem-armory-salem-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7874d7f90cea16eb10f157f3aab91b0ba30e5103/original/steve-miller-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sand</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Salem Armory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Salem, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f5a460b22889b8325c2b55d492e3efae3b7eadf1/original/1971-poco-siegal-schwall-wishbone-ash-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="i1iklwGg9mA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i1iklwGg9mA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Siegel-Schwall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wishbone Ash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dbf04de3de53801d524e9077874c5237da6dd9b2/original/1971-berkeley-community-theater-shows-bill-graham-production.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rod Stewart & The Faces</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Southern Comfort</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stephen Stills, Frank Zappa & The Mothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Procol Harum, Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley Community Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d159431aaccf2adf9874f65ed3b157def7c24eb8/original/1971-van-morison-paramount-theatre-northwest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ede023c7124b639ac93a1cb6cc9ed1f3f12b35/original/van-morrison-on-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paramount Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" 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src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B_s4hjohrkI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>End The War Rally</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yale University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Haven, CT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This interesting show has hidden in plain sight for years since being used as a part of Road Trips Vol. 1, No. 3 in 2008. It has a little bit of everything – two premiere performances, an amazing journey of a first set and a second set larded with rockers, all played by the mean, lean version of the Dead with no Mickey and no Keith either. What’s not to love?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7727085b6baf84ba73356cb460ef4cddcacd1aab/original/albert-king-mott-the-hoople-and-freddie-king-fillmore-west-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="z_DgN6nlUbM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z_DgN6nlUbM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mott The Hoople</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1d696707390ea3e0465b58e4b05e6b1e8174b4b/original/1971-rolling-stones-uk-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Pq62Uix-aqE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pq62Uix-aqE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Tour</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82daf469107ecf7e22e4c15ea84068301a1e0fa3/original/1971-elton-john-city-hall-newcastle-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John with Dee Murray & Nigel Olsson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>England Dan & John Ford Coley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>City Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Newcastle, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ce8ae76826e3bf357a5fabec82a2e5fb0690b5b6/original/1971-blk-sabbath-edgar-winters-white-trash-portland-coliseum-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Black Sabbath</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edgar Winter's White Trash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/877c03c6bea333efdfebca3396e462d2c932fa2f/original/alice-cooper-on-tour-1971.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ghAquk8T34M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ghAquk8T34M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>December Tour '71</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Cooper</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e4e3dfc351660b0059127db0b45ff93ad4c1993/original/1971-steppenwolf-zembo-mosque-harrisburg-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="df5OE4hlBB0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/df5OE4hlBB0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steppenwolf</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zembo Mosque</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harrisburg, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/741e2a2660573fc00f6c5ff2f5de7c96cefe4789/original/1971-taj-mahal-stoneground-trapeze-ten-years-after-cactus-pot-liquor-fillmore-west-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jSQvkxzEYk0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jSQvkxzEYk0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stoneground, Trapeze</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Years After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cactus, Pot Liquor</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore West / Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5eef8433711f78f95cdde1680b14e49d7d36258/original/1971-poco-public-hall-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Emerson Lake & Palmer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Public Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e329ecf4c19f9c035f7493de7dfbd02451f7051/original/1971-traffic-mountain-mott-the-hoople-hofheinz-pavillion-university-of-houston-houston-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mott The Hoople</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hofheinz Pavillion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Houston</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Houston, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa70a947ff19c1a89042ac2cbcb82e913e03187d/original/1971-grateful-dead-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Year's Eve</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1686d42cd18f7ec637c778e593095ec4c1e8b7f7/original/procol-harum-paramount-northwest-seattle-wa.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Procol Harum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paramount Northwest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eab15d6aa0af6666f0d6202708ef765d77f60bda/original/byrds-fleetwood-mac-paramount-northwest-seattle-wa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Withers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Colosseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pacific Northwest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fda72cd917e0d387b90f4959d882362cb5e125c3/original/1971-ray-charles.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ray Charles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Raelets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Big Ray Charles Orchestra</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muhammad Ali</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R.K.O. Albee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brooklyn, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8df05331ad6083a2e0abf4aafb99a43eec2d52e7/original/1971-led-zeppelin-mayfair-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Setlists during this tour include:</strong></i><strong> Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You, Black Dog, Dazed and Confused, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, What Is and What Should Never Be, Whole Lotta Love (medley), Communication Breakdown.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mayfair, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18a487ee83c00f582bcac50c6dff6765b9de1440/original/1971-james-brown-cobo-arena-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ajzpd-ONOdo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ajzpd-ONOdo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dramatics</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bobby Byrd, The Stylistics</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clay Tyson, Lynn Collins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cobo Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5758fee2c374f6845b8abd60be3a20c0af6426c/original/1971-hot-tuna-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hot Tuna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Emerson Symnasium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Case Western Reserve University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/21f240c97daf1e70e0e5d0999a802b55776223f4/original/1971-faces-savoy-brown-boston-music-hall-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Small Faces with Rod Stewart</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Grease Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston Music Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9909079138a39af312e9f786095fe85e0ecb4790/original/1971-alice-cooper-arthur-browns-kingdom-come-rainbow-theatre-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Cooper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rainbow Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1b37284ed01b51db341ad2654f720dafb2545330/original/1971-stony-brook-university.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ps3zPqlxqIU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ps3zPqlxqIU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blue Oyster Cult</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mahavishnu Orchestra featuring John McLaughlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stony Brook University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stony Brook, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52f9b4a90ecfb1263748b64086bf9c54dcbf223b/original/1971-led-zeppelin-hollywood-speedway-park-sportatorium-los-angeles-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood Speedway Park Sportatorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood, FL</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae72d2bcc6dbb4d8eba8cc8f7bfedff3899ae75a/original/1971-zappa-mothers-paramount-northwest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="o8n2oyw6Vsc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8n2oyw6Vsc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rueben & The Jets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paramount Northwest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6b09c1f281b4b9cc977dc8d0f62869ca4c446f9a/original/1971-john-lee-hooker-jerry-garcia-berkeley-little-theater-berkely-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lee Hooker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Garcia & Merle Saunders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeffery Cain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley Little Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ccc72461cd79f2481b47d7252f33516ffafe1cb/original/1972-faces.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Faces</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deep Purple</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Matthews Southern Comfort</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland Public Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1009239b01c35b2785c2b75626b43c8da1ae43ea/original/1971-traffic-anaheim-convention-center-in-anaheim-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fairport Convention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim Convention Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anaheim, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7194cd55a57c44622bf99deebfc7fb21b893c0e/original/traffic-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Pew9CweLjAU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pew9CweLjAU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traffic</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1971 Tour Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ece2f1c292256aa6a53e92962d0dfa46ab3f9882/original/1971-isaac-hayes-the-temptations-apollo-theatre-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Isaac Hayes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Temptations</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Apollo Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/318baeb1bbaa9e45b01bb8459cd3460caccf5746/original/1971-the-byrds-factory-canned-heat-upsala-college-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Factory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Viking Hall Upsala College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>East Orange, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2db3be0c702ca985bce39650d0164baf57208623/original/1971-byrds-tim-hardin-meehan-aud-providence-ri.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tim Hardin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Meehan Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brown University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Providence, RI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e2fad589048f51b87a39f56b380b70079920a2b/original/1971-ccr-frankfurt-germany.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Creedence Clearwater Revival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ec00ad4a828540c651f6339c185f0858bb69009/original/badfinger-kent-state-univ-kent-oh-venue-revelation.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Badfinger</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Revelation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kent, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c5c0609fe54b4a5220ad760e3ad6c2df3cd01470/original/1971-van-the-man.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BT9O-MzQFhM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BT9O-MzQFhM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Copperhead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Blue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley Community Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/331ad001f0740fa2efba61a46695fb63f7e3804c/original/capt-beefheart-ry-cooder-comerford-theatre.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/60af0caeb67f6fa538d25bc522c8cc78f9617ecc/original/1971-capt-beefheart-on-stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Comerford Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wilkes-Barre, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's a recent Facebook post by John Drumbo French that captures some of the madness of this Capt. Beefheart tour in 1971: “Winged Eel Fingerling and Grant Gibbs both left the touring party about this time. To be honest, I was happy to see them both leave. Grant had not the strength to be a tour manager. Don got away with far too much, and Grant was constantly frustrated and became almost useless. I kept asking Gibbs if we could get some per diem, and kept saying, '</strong><i><strong>When we get to New York, you'll have money</strong></i><strong>.' In New York, he gave us each an envelope stuffed with twenty one-dollar bills. I looked at the money in disbelief, but most of my stint in the band had been penniless, so I reminded myself of Don's history of not paying the band.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elliot was getting drugs from Jeff Kaplan -- the bassist for Ry Cooder. I often got stuck sharing a room with Elliot, and, truthfully, didn't enjoy his habit of walking around naked. Add to that the fact that the laws on drugs ( cocaine, I think ) were VERY strict in 1971, I had it out verbally with Elliot. He left the group the next day as I recall. The truth of the matter is, I figured that they'd bust me along with Elliot if anyone reported drugs. Maybe I was paranoid, but I was totally anti-drug at that point. Gibbs was replaced by Carl Scott, a large, rather imposing figure who was, I say without a doubt, morbidly obese. Krasnow had introduced him shortly after the failed Mt. Tamalpais show. We met at his house, an A-Frame structure just where Crescent Heights turned into Laurel Canyon. As I recall, he was the manager of the group Harper's Bizarre." This was the first time I'd seen him since -- some four years' later. When we played Comerford Theater, it was the first night without Elliot, and we didn't have a sound check. We had a short time in the dressing room to prepare, and then took longer than usual to get to the stage -- it was almost a Spinal Tap moment -- with us walking backstage in betwixt props and lighting gear in the freaking dark. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Finally, we found it, and standing backstage was Carl Scott, wearing a headset and giving lighting and sound commands I guess. It seems like it was about 3/4 full when we emerged onstage to lukewarm response. Don always started the show with "Big Joan" -- and stuck his horn right over the mic, blasting the ears of the audience. 90% of the audience was gone after that. It's too bad, because there was some great music in the set, and I always thought Big Joan was about the most hostile piece -- because of the repetition and the loudness of the horn -- that we could play. I remember people RUNNING for the exits. Carl Scott must have brought Don's old King soprano from Los Angeles -- as I know his Selmer had been stolen in NY. We had quite an entourage -- 2 roadies, 9 band people, Jan, and a tour manager. Plus all our equipment was excess baggage. We were paid nothing for the tour as all the money was used up in tour expenses. The one thing I'll say is that the band was tighter without Elliot. Bill took over the solo in Blunderland, and it was great to see him being given a chance to solo for once. After the last show, we went back to LA and wound up staying with a LA Times journalist (Charles T. Powers) who gave Artie and I a ride back to our house in Laurel Canyon, which had been rented to someone else -- with all our furniture (mostly Artie's) and clothes still in the house. The whole time we had been on the road, the accountants hadn't paid any of our bills. I should have had the sense to leave then, however, I was still under contract for about 6 months -- long enough to move twice ( Santa Cruz and then Trinidad ) and record "The Spotlight Kid" -- and then be fired from the band for the second time."</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5dd705a02ed23877139067c9e3010cb174847532/original/1971-uk-tour-the-who.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ts193VvyDGw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ts193VvyDGw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p 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</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RUN DMC </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WHODINI </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LL COOL J </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Municipal Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nashville, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"All Hell Breaks Loose at a Run-D.M.C. 'Raising Hell' Rap Concert in California: '</strong><i><strong>I am great--get it straight--that`s what I say--my name is Run--I`m number one--that`s how I rate</strong></i><strong>.' Run-DMC, the biggest group in the history of rap music, is largely responsible for the style`s transition from an inner-city cult following to a nationwide popular audience.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group`s third album, </strong><i><strong>Raising Hell</strong></i><strong>, is the first double-platinum rap album. The album made the Top 10 of the Billboard charts. Run-DMC also had a hit single in the Top 20, </strong><i><strong>Walk This Way</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Raising Hell</strong></i><strong> tour, a 45-city arena series headlined by Run-DMC and also featuring rappers Whodini and L.L. Cool J, has sold out across the country. The tour also generated tremendous controversy after gang violence erupted outside concerts in New York, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The fiercest violence, though, occurred inside the auditorium at Long Beach, Calif., on Aug. 16, when 300 gang members savagely attacked the audience with broken chairs. The concert was called off before Run-DMC took the stage. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Only two years ago it was inconceivable that rap music would attract this kind of nationwide attention." 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Upon hearing his </strong><i><strong>Living With The Law</strong></i><strong> album, I was struck by the freshness he brought to the blues, almost as if this were a new template for that style of music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whitley, who grew up in Texas, employed various open tunings and what I would call, a jazz player's sensibility in his approach to playing blues music. Besides being gifted with a sure hand on the guitar, Whitley sang with a yodel-like quality similar to that of Hank Williams Sr. Whitley's voice also contained a raw-boned huskiness that was perfectly suited for the type of new blues he was creating within the context of his music. His ability to reinvent the blues genre brought him to the attention of the alternative rock community and during his career he recorded with such artists as Dave Matthews, Bruce Hornsby and two of the guys from Medeski, Martin and Wood.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hNtUvbtIwl0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hNtUvbtIwl0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From Fallen Angel: The Life and Death of Chris Whitley (Paul Rees Classic Rock site): “</strong><i><strong>A tape of Whitley’s songs found its way to producer Daniel Lanois, then riding a hot streak from his work on U2’s The Joshua Tree. Lanois arranged for him to go to New Orleans to record at his studio in the French Quarter with the in-house engineer, Malcolm Burn. This session produced such wide-screen songs as Big Sky Country, and led to a deal with Columbia and his debut album. He was somebody who was obviously inspired by the blues as a basic form; he’d invented his own language and wasn’t playing by other people’s rules</strong></i><strong>.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b00248cd288507a6931871f145ab8ee3cc9678fd/original/whitley-guitar-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While </strong><i><strong>Living With The Law</strong></i><strong>, which was released in 1991, Whitley began to search for different ways to play his special brand of blues music. Over the following years, </strong><i><strong>Living With The Law</strong></i><strong> was considered a </strong><i><strong>lost</strong></i><strong> classic by many in the music community. Produced by Daniel Lanois & Malcom Burns (who both had worked with U2 and Peter Gabriel), this record has a dense layered sound that reinforces Whitley's stark blues songs. One element I found particularly moving was how several songs, such as </strong><i><strong>Poison Girl</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Big Sky Country</strong></i><strong>, use a drone-like sound to great effect which in turn gives support to the open tunings that Whitley was using. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7e59419f341da25fc2afd5578e1f35e5daa918d8/original/whitley-dust-radio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All Music Review by JT Griffith: “Chris Whitley's 1991 debut, </strong><i><strong>Living with the Law</strong></i><strong>, was recorded in Daniel Lanois' New Orleans mansion...The sublimely dark, creepy, and possessed collection sounds completely out of place for the era of slick pop/rock…as the tortured album is rich with old-style sounds, from slide guitars to pedal steel. </strong><i><strong>Living with the Law</strong></i><strong> has a full, ambient feel that transports the listener into the recording. Whitley humbly (and falsely) claims, at the beginning of the record, that God knows it's all been done. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These 12 songs attempt an original look at an honest style and passionate mood that is lacking in much of rock music. Whitley sings of drug abuse, alienation, failure, and loneliness with a Delta blues flavor. An exceptional and mesmerizing debut, one with the potential to inspire all who hear it. (This release is also fascinating for those who enjoy Rocket House. Influences on the 2001 album can be heard throughout </strong><i><strong>Living with the Law</strong></i><strong>, released a decade earlier.) An album Robert Johnson may have recorded, were he still alive.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0fb0efb617630837399ccf38a2285fa6348a7699/original/christ-whitley-sepia-shot.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's some excerpts from </strong><i><strong>Chris Whitley: A Brief Retrospective</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Bill Hart, The Vinyl Press)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Whitley threw almost everyone for a loop with his next album, </strong><i><strong>Din of Ecstasy</strong></i><strong> in 1995, a discordant mix of jagged, distorted rock that the LA Times observed likely “… </strong><i><strong>will alienate Whitley’s first round of fans.” </strong></i><strong>Had anybody been paying attention, Whitley wasn’t all blues, all the time; aside from the cues in Living with the Law, his years spent in Belgium gave him more than a taste for Euro-electronica, dance music and synth-pop." This album is a challenging listen, and a radical departure in form from the far more accessible Living with the Law, but it contains superb guitar work and the tracks have a beautiful internal symmetry within the distortion and discord. It’s certainly not a polished product, and doesn’t fit neatly into any genre.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whitley hung in with Sony (or the other way around) for one more album, 1997’s </strong><i><strong>Terra Incognita</strong></i><strong>, before artist and major label parted ways. This, his third album, was viewed as a </strong><i><strong>big improvement</strong></i><strong> over </strong><i><strong>Din of Ecstas</strong></i><strong>y, but at the time, it seemed to reflect an artist still adrift, in search of a mooring. Some critics viewed it as a welcome return to more conventional song forms, but it has adventurous, unconventional guitar playing. I don’t regard this album as an attempt at commercial compromise, but part of a continuing exploration. Whitley was still pushing boundaries here.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whitley may have been adrift commercially, but not musically. Signed to a small New York City label, Messenger Records, Whitley next delivered the magnificent </strong><i><strong>Dirt Floor</strong></i><strong>, released in 1998. Classic Records (a label usually associated with high-end audiophile remasters) released it on a 45 rpm album, taken from a simple two track analog recording made in a barn in Vermont. The title track alone, little more than two minutes long, is worth the price of admission if you can find a copy. There is a rip to Whitley’s voice that doesn’t sound like an affectation, and I get goose bumps every time I listen to this track- it has a stunning ability to reach through the recording and touch you on a visceral level- and I’m not talking sonics here (though the recording is a killer). There is also something absolutely transcendent about his voice here that, combined with the resonance of the guitar strings, is both ethereal and raw at the same time. Whitley’s real link to the blues is less about genre than about genuineness in my estimation- something that can’t be faked. Maybe that’s why Living with the Law, his most polished and accessible album, doesn’t reveal the full measure of this artist."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d28b6abab19408d60360ddc3d4f1b1be9fd9c88/original/cw-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When it came to playing the blues, Whitley created his own unique style. Here are some excerpts from a rare interview that Whitley did for an online magazine called Elsewhere (based in New Zealand): "</strong><i><strong>I don’t strum a guitar or come out of that Austin, Texas, country-folk heritage. I feel more -- I dunno -- acid-rock than that....then there’s the blues, which is a big part of what I do, although I have to say I find a lot of blues very boring - most blues in fact. I respect it, but don’t get much out of it. I guess everyone needs a reference point but I don’t feel particularly rootsy or traditional,,,I love that rural blues thing, it’s like an idea before thinking about it. It has a real purity</strong></i><strong>."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Whitley’s wild spirit, and a deep-rooted sense of insecurity, led him to dismiss his first album as too polished, and he resolved to cut against the grain in future. There were other storm clouds on the horizon: the ending of his marriage, and a growing reliance on booze to combat his doubts and fears. Din Of Ecstasy came and went, as did a third album, Terra Incognita, after which Columbia dropped him</strong></i><strong>."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Over the course of his career which spanned 25 years, Whitley released 14 albums. Sadly, Whitley passed away in 2005 due to lung cancer. Since then, his music has begun to receive wide acclaim. In 2019, Jonathan Mayor, a close friend of Whitley's, created a moving documentary about Whitley which was called </strong><i><strong>Dust Radio</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rih0Ug8TotQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rih0Ug8TotQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ryC19uY0Ml4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryC19uY0Ml4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DUST RADIO DOCUMENTARY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Inner Views website: "Conveying emotional intensity, urgent desires and gritty reality were always at the core of singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Whitley’s edgy folk-blues output. Those elements permeated his 2004 release War Crime Blues even more deeply. That’s not surprising given the album found Whitley, who died of lung cancer in 2005, passionately responding to the military aggression that continues to play out across much of the world. It also offered his perceptions of what it’s like to be someone from America who lives in Germany, and the wartime atrocities both countries have perpetrated. Entirely comprised of his raw, seductive vocals, stunning acoustic guitar work and multi-layered lyrics, the album represented one of his most direct, poignant and powerful statements. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The sense of dislocation found in much of Whitley’s music also stemmed from his personal history. Born in Houston, Texas, Whitley lived a nomadic childhood, moving frequently across the Southeastern United States. At age 11, he relocated to Mexico with his mother after his parents divorced. They moved to Vermont in 1975, where at age 15, he began playing guitar in a local band that drew inspiration from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan. In 1977, after quitting high school a year before graduating, Whitley journeyed to New York City and performed as a street busker. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Looking for new musical avenues, he relocated to Belgium in 1981 and became part of that country’s synth-pop scene. Whitley performed with regionally-acclaimed Belgian acts including Kuruki, Nacht und Nebel and A Noh Rodeo. He wrote and performed music that straddled funk, rock and blues, and enjoyed modest success before returning to New York City in 1988. Renowned producer Daniel Lanois took an interest in his music shortly thereafter and helped him sign with Columbia Records. Whitley’s solo debut, Living with the Law, was released in 1991. It was an adventurous blues-rock record full of rich colors and delicate atmospheres. Though the record was a critical and commercial success, Whitley didn’t feel it accurately mirrored his true leanings. For his 1995 follow-up, Din of Ecstasy, he chose to solely follow his muse. The eloquently dissonant record was steeped in aggressive, distorted guitar and had a darker, more brooding vibe than its predecessor."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c3a9dc798e30ba95d67a9bad636db0ace3ff72ef/original/chris-whitley-with-his-guitars.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IN HIS OWN WORDS: CHRIS WHITLEY ON SONGWRITING:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/3097/chris-whitley-interviewed-1991-the-law-man-living-with-the-lore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chris Whitley Interviewed: The Law Man Living with the Lore</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/3097/chris-whitley-interviewed-1991-the-law-man-living-with-the-lore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Graham Reid, Elsewhere 1991</strong></span></a></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I love that rural blues thing, it’s like an idea before thinking about it. It has a real purity.”</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When Whitley puts that strange, primitive guitar sound together with his literate lyrics it also has a purity about it. His lyrics flick out images and an acute visual sense which he attributes to both his parents being visual artists.</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1230683b35892a47960499aca07af3b366c4b40c/original/chris-whitley-with-a-devils-rainbow.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Visions of an Artist with Both Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ken Robison, The Fresno Bee, Nov 26, 1991</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And what about those sometimes obtuse lyrics? Whitley claims he’s just a guy trying to create visual images — to make people feel instead of think.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I try to simplify complicated ideas, use small words, I’m comfortable with that. Visual references are the simplest way to illustrate a complicated idea …. I try to put [my idea] across in working man’s terms, in hopes of being on the ground. I hate intellectual stuff. I want it to be ‘I understand this and I don’t know why.’ I want people to understand with their instinct more than with their brain. I try to get at how something makes you feel. The logistics of the lyrics don’t matter that much. I try to paint something with lyrics.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/83266bde13f6f10516869e8df9cc16c69f76e7b4/original/whitley-with-his-axe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Chris Whitley Is Striving for Visceral Sounds </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 1995.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“My album </strong><i><strong>Din Of Ecstasy</strong></i><strong> is more confused,” says Whitley, who takes his power trio to the Khyber Pass for three nights, starting Monday. “Which is kind of the point. The gray areas are what attract me when I’m writing. I don’t write well in an obvious, clear kind of way. I’m best in a more mysterious in-between- the-words area.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whitley says his favorite artists are writers like David Byrne and Heroes- and Low-era David Bowie. They “deal in abstraction,” he says, “but you get a real clear feeling about what they’re singing about. As opposed to someone like Michael Stipe, who I never felt was talking about anything.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“The stuff I love is real obvious and simple and dumb on the surface, but you can get something much deeper from it. It’s like Howlin’ Wolf or Kurt Cobain. It’s so human and so literal, but the sound of the music and the pain in their voice gives you a certain vibe that takes you away. It’s excruciating and beautiful.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6449662b029b9c8bb96586f5e66724dd6ed3a19d/original/whitley-lost-in-thought.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Whitley Sweeps Bad Times Away with Dirt Floor </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Spera, <u>The New Orleans Times-Picayune</u>, August 7, 1998</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The stripped-down songs that litter </strong><i><strong>Dirt Floor</strong></i><strong> are made all the more striking by Whitley’s haunted vocals, the tension of his guitar and the fleeting images offered by his lyrics, which he fashions to be abstract.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“My stuff is always personal, but I don’t really go with a confessional thing, because I don’t think I’m confessing anything,” he said. “And I don’t think a song has to be about something to get your subconscious going. That’s where poetry comes from, when you’re not writing about a subject. Most pop songs are clear what they’re about. But most pop songs aren’t poetry, or art; they’re pop art, decorative art, different than a Dylan or a Hendrix.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“I think songs explain themselves to you by your subconscious, if you allow it and if you know how to let it prime your instinct. (On ‘Dirt Floor,’) I got a little wordy on a couple of these tunes, because with the pragmatics of just vocals and one instrument, there’s minimal ways you can deal with emotional tension, so I lean on words. This record has a bit of that in it, but I didn’t particularly know what I was writing about with each tune. That’s when they’re the most elemental, when there’s some instinct behind it. It can be anything, eroticism through life and death, very fundamental things.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>That’s what I wanted to get to with this record. It’s also what I needed spiritually.”</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2d72abaff13e4d5d0cd724683f1aeea794c52553/original/whitley-midnight.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Drinking With … Chris Whitley</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> Jeff McErlain, New York Hangover, April 2000</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Could you talk about your writing process?</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I used to write lyrics first when I began writing songs…. Nowadays I use chord, chord change or a riff as feeling or mood to try to define something lyrically. Basically I try to play shit and mumble over it and listen to it in a Walkman and see what I’m trying to get at subconsciously. I can’t really pick subjects and write about them — I’m not that much of a craftsman, I think that I’m not that motivated to just write about anything."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>So the topics come from the mood of the song?</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Yeah, it’s trying to pull out what you’re feeling without really defining it too much consciously so that the emotion is more, perhaps more intense or more pure or trying to translate something else. It’s really trying to get at the subconscious for me. I think that’s the most exciting thing. I do respect big song writers from Burt Bacharach and Randy Newman to fuckin’ Tom Waits, you know, the people who are high craftsmen as well as write about a specific subject. I don’t think that is a strength of mine really, the song has to define itself a bit in order for me to be able to weed out the abstractions. I don’t mean like surrealism or something, it’s more like poetics. I read a lot of Charles Simic, Pablo Neruda, and lately, Garcia Lorca. But it’s also from visual art; my mom’s a sculptor. What I’m trying to say is, what the tune is literally about is not necessarily as important as the impetus and how resonant the expression is.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There is some abstract writing that really turns me off too, when I feel like the people are being arty or clever or just stupid. …. You’ve got to admit, most pop music is pretty literal, it’s pretty obvious what it’s about, usually.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But when you’re writing for a pop audience you have to shoot to the lowest common denominator. I do think there’s a difference between entertainment and art. I don’t think art has as much purpose, in a way. It’s more important but it’s not as useful."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a893d3562076a7f45c3dcd4f81153c9874fdac01/original/chris-whitley-electric-axe.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Chris Whitley: Melancholic Resonance</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Anil Prasad, Innervisions: Music Without Borders 2010</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tell me how you go about putting songs together…</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I’ve found I have to pull things out in a musical way. It’s hard for me to just write instrumental music or put poetry down on a page without music attached. When I write with the two things happening simultaneously, I can usually encourage myself to articulate something and find inspiration without trying too hard. The important thing for me is to not pressure myself while I’m doing it. I try to trust my perceptions and feelings when I’m writing. There’s usually more going on inside me than I directly realize. I attempt to tap into my subconscious and experiential humanity. Often, I write with a Walkman. I’ll come up with a couple of chords and start mumbling into the Walkman without attaching words right away. Then I’ll listen back to it and try to feel some words within my vamping. I try to let the expression reveal itself to me. It’s like writing by ear. I can get images from the feeling in a chord or a sound, or from the tension that exists between two sounds. Sometimes I won’t know why I’m writing the song or where it was coming from exactly until a year later. The songs can end up having so many more levels that way ….</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I think one of the most important things songwriters need to do is find an identity. It’s a rare thing for listeners to be able to answer questions like “Who is this person singing this?” and “Where are they coming from?” The answers are the things that make people want to listen to songwriters like Tom Waits, Neil Young, Nick Cave, and Bruce Springsteen. They’re truly articulating something of themselves in their music. They’ve attained something that’s the result of overlooking their limitations. Earlier in my career, I overlooked my technical clumsiness as a musician. When I started to accept my weirdness, it gave me strength as a songwriter and musician. You have to trust your individuality.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/86a2b7e9bc9870191231d7e675dac1a9edd61a8e/original/whitley-relaxing-on-a-guitar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>AFTERLIFE: TRIBUTES AND POSTHUMOUS RELEASES</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After Chris’s passing, musicians and fans celebrated his life and music in various tribute events. And, again lucky for us fans, we were delighted by several posthumous releases.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>2006</strong></i><strong> </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://app.box.com/s/1hvus1d7990muig1hk1bbs419l0rloe0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 11</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>: Chris Whitley Memorial Concert – With a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://app.box.com/s/78ootrp82hwxvzfgrohw2tan9y4btd06" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>concert and celebration of Chris</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> at the Windham Hotel in Bellows Falls, the Vermont </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://app.box.com/s/nmewk9e2b8m5lodfawwxdv59u9qw4aqd" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>tribute</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> featured Dan Whitley, Melissa Sheehan, and others.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>February 17: Chris Whitley – A Musical Celebration of His Life and Spirit, NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 3: Chris Whitley Tribute, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 4: </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://app.box.com/s/sj5r7bd65e8y4w3eaflxwas0o13ubz3q" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Night to Remember</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> – Chris Whitley Tribute Concert, Austin, TX, featuring Shawn Colvin, John Egan, DJ Logic, Vernon Reid, Doug Pinnick,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 5: Houston tribute at Warehouse Live featuring many of the same musicians as the Austin tribute.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>March 28: Red Parlor releases </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://wp.me/p3GDKV-Lg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Reiter In</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, with “the Bastard Club.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 19: ABC Music releases </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://wp.me/p3GDKV-17v" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Dislocation Blues</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, produced by Jeff Lang and awarded Best Blues and Roots Album by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) in 2007. The album peaked at number 64 on the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA_Charts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ARIA Charts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, becoming the highest-charting album in Australia for both artists.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 20: Dislocation Blues: Tribute to the Late Chris Whitley, Sydney Australia. A CD-release party celebrating Chris’s collaboration with Jeff Lang and remembering Chris and his music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>2007</strong></i><strong> March 3: </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/allthingschriswhitley/posts/1947880372093429/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2nd Chris Whitley Tribute</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, Bellows Falls, VT.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>2008</strong></i><strong> April 24 -26: </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://app.box.com/s/9b05isj5c2o92fj6iwvdrpwsxt9fi2m6" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3rd Celebration</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> of Chris Whitley, Bellows Falls and Saxtons River, VT The YT playlist below includes videos of Alejandro Escovedo, Vernon Reid, Dan & Trixie Whitley, and others paying tribute to Chris.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>2011</strong></i><strong> On September 26, 429 Records releases </strong><i><strong>Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie</strong></i><strong>, including Chris’s contribution </strong><i><strong>On the High Lonesome</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>2012</strong></i><strong> On May 7, Fire Records releases </strong><i><strong>The Inner Flame: A Tribute to Rainer Ptacek</strong></i><strong>, to which Chris (with Warren Zevon and Dave Pirner) contributed </strong><i><strong>Powder Keg</strong></i><strong>, recorded in a motel room December 6, 1996. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p 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class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/70270752023-07-26T04:03:06-04:002023-07-26T04:44:14-04:00Lost Music: Summertime in New Orleans (Anders Osborne)<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/350ca6f7f9e3e91ba85356139217e3313a1485ed/original/lost-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Remembering Forgotten Songs!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78312d6e726af4b97ff118f2bb875a525e68a1f7/original/anders-osborne.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>ANDERS OSBORNE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9e9702fe5a1aa7974dbdc0865a1d25bd0540c283/original/summertime-in-new-orleans.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Anders Osborne's wonderful ditty, </strong><i><strong>Summertime in New Orleans</strong></i><strong>, is today's Lost Song! </strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8f0c6b9df495b9ca87346345f2f3742cd96e7972/original/mark-carpenieri.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mark Carpentieri</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I first heard this song on an Anders Osborne album titled </strong><i><strong>Coming Dow</strong></i><strong>n which was sent to me from an old friend, Mark Carpentieri, who had released the album on his record label </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mc-records.com/" data-link-type="url" contents="M.C. Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>M.C. Records</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>This particular song really captured my memories of New Orleans. My Dad who was an Army doctor had gotten transferred to New Orleans and our family went there to live for 3 years in the early 1960's. There is a certain magical vibe that belongs to New Orleans and I've returned there many times over the years. Every time I hear </strong><i><strong>Summertime in New Orleans</strong></i><strong>, I instantly become homesick for sweet New Orleans.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rSgnGpzN-5I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSgnGpzN-5I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SUMMERTIME IN NEW ORLEANS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the</strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>front stoop in my house, Watching folks go by </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lazy days chewing on ice </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'm just waiting on July </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And 'OZ plays Irma Thomas </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And we all know what it means </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rag-a-tag of rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>City so slow </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's summertime in New Orleans </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And all my friends are getting drunk on Sunday </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You know they just trying to keep cool </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'm hanging out with these fools playing card games </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And my new best friend who's got a pool </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And 'OZ plays James Andrews </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yeah we all know who that is </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rag-a-tag of rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>City so slow </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's summertime in New Orleans </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Drinking gallons of daiquiris </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eating snowball in the cone </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slow drive by the lake </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And I'm doing 35 through all the school zones </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My brand new AC unit just broke </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And 'OZ plays Kermit Ruffins </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>You know he's barbecuing up at Vaughan's </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rag-a-tag of rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Smoking a J </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's summertime in New Orleans </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The garbage truck just passed you up </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And that potent smell of seafood shells </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet bloom magnolia trees </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yeah that's summertime in New Orleans </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yeah I'm taking a buggy ride with my wife through the Quarter </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We're drinking hurricanes listening to Tuba Fats </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little kids keep splashing water </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And the gutter punks next to the gentlemen in straw hats </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And 'OZ plays Satchmo </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Satchmo baby yeah you know who that is</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rag-a-tag of rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>City so low </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Summertime in New Orleans </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rag-a-tag of rain </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>City so slow </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Summertime in New Orleans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/00db4f2fc937ea92578c68683285e58ce0908506/original/anders-osborne-nola.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Here's an excerpt from a 2007 article about Osborne's album I came across on nola.com: "Osborne crafted the intimate ruminations on </strong><i><strong>Coming Down</strong></i><strong>, his first album in six years, with only one voice in mind: His own. From the sweet-tempered Big Easy scrapbooks </strong><i><strong>Back on Dumaine</strong></i><strong> to </strong><i><strong>Summertime in New Orleans</strong></i><strong>...Osborne's lyrics are '</strong><i><strong>spontaneous life moments</strong></i><strong>,' he says. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>This summer, Anders arrived at a career crossroads as his relationship with Nashville powerhouse Universal Music Publishing Group ended. Released by New York independent label M.C. Records, </strong><i><strong>Coming Down</strong></i><strong> was recorded in Nashville with session players and in New Orleans with sousaphonist Kirk Joseph, pianist John 'Papa' Gros and drummer Eric Bolivar. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2H_NLTNi584" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2H_NLTNi584?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Osborne does not flinch when writing about even the darkest chapters in his life. </strong><i><strong>Lucky One</strong></i><strong>, the album's closing piano ballad, chronicles his close calls: '</strong><i><strong>a serious car wreck, a bad fall from a cliff, sleeping on the streets of New York, and being swept overboard while white-water rafting in Colorado, held up at gunpoint Uptown and strung out in Stockholm</strong></i><strong>.' '</strong><i><strong>I have survived more than I should/pushed it as far as I could reaching for the skies,' he sings. 'I walked on edge more than most, heaven knows I've cut it close, but I'm alive/After all that I have done, it's you that makes me the lucky one</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>At this stage in his life, Osborne claims to be '</strong><i><strong>mainly interested in enjoying what I've got and making sure I appreciate it</strong></i><strong>.' That even extends to Katrina. He sees at least one positive in the storm's aftermath: The camaraderie shared by the scattered tribe of New Orleanians. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>'</strong><i><strong>We all understand each other now because of this, not just your family or a few friends. To me, it's one of the greatest blessings of my life to have been part of something like this, to feel so connected to so many people. When I travel, it's a tight connection out there. We know something that makes us belong together. For me, that feels great.</strong></i><strong>'"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/69afdd9fd0a0dbbd3fcda615af6cfedbf865fe57/original/new-orleans-hansens-sno-balls.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c4421fcdcca1faf47ee92d1e4f8365a01e9678bf/original/mind-smoke-records-jukebox-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c75067bd2ceb4ae6f142200cf2641cdfd43dfffa/original/haiku-monday-ghost-of-pontchartrain-expanded-edition.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/975769/the-ghost-of-pontchartrain-expanded-edition" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>HAIKU MONDAY: THE GHOST OF PONTCHARTRAIN EXPANDED EDITION</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition, is an imaginary movie soundtrack for a ghost story that takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Follow the dark trail of Sammy Thibadeaux, the Ghost of Ponchartrain, as he returns home to his former life of underworld voodoo and murder. Salvation is at hand!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67286232023-07-20T09:25:59-04:002023-07-20T12:18:20-04:00Alive As Yesterday: 1980 Concerts<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7033caff60a7a3481b4f631f61b41c59b4acb66c/original/1980-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/904ca000e20b63a29a732c3cd33c71b4cd71e1a2/original/the-cramps-eldorado-paris-france.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cramps</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eldorado</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paris, France</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e9e31be243b051299a553fd3f0c3e4c57a9c051d/original/the-cramps-el-dorado-1984.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SETLIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TV Set</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-cramps-23d6a8eb.html?songid=33df5cfd" title="Statistics for Zombie Dance performed by The Cramps"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Zombie Dance</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-cramps-23d6a8eb.html?songid=2bc4989e" title="Statistics for Goo Goo Muck (Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads song) performed by The Cramps"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goo Goo Muck</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong>(</strong></small></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/ronnie-cook-and-the-gaylads-2bd4bc2e.html" title=""><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong><u>Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads</u></strong></small></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong> cover)</strong></small></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-cramps-23d6a8eb.html?songid=1bce7554" title="Statistics for Rockin' Bones (Ronnie Dawson song) performed by The Cramps"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rockin' Bones</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong>(</strong></small></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/ronnie-dawson-73d6a275.html" title=""><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong><u>Ronnie Dawson</u></strong></small></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong> cover)</strong></small></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/the-cramps-23d6a8eb.html?songid=1bd7b1c4" title="Statistics for Strychnine (The Sonics song) performed by The Cramps"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Strychnine</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong>(</strong></small></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-sonics-2bd6ac1a.html" title=""><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong><u>The Sonics</u></strong></small></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><small><strong> cover)</strong></small></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><small><strong>NOTE: SET LIST INCOMPLETE</strong></small></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e0427a539fd27cf892f61adeefb1dbad91f3f0e/original/acdc-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back In Black Tour '80</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AC/DC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Uniondale, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The BACK IN BLACK TOUR was a concert tour by the Australian </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>hard rock</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> band </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC" title="AC/DC"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AC/DC</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in support of their seventh studio album </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Black" title="Back in Black"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Back in Black</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, which was released on 25 July 1980. This was AC/DC's first tour with new vocalist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Johnson" title="Brian Johnson"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brian Johnson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who replaced </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Scott" title="Bon Scott"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bon Scott</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> after the latter's death in February 1980, making his first appearance on stage on 29 June 1980 in Namur, Belgium.</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Black_Tour#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerkins2011-1"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerkins2011_1-0">[1]</sup></strong></span></a><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Black_Tour#cite_note-2"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]</sup></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> The band transported their own one-ton "Hells Bell" on the road, which was lowered to the stage each night as the bell tolls of "Hells Bells" were heard. Johnson would finish it off with several hard hits, hammer in hand as the band commenced the show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Hells Bells"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Shot Down in Flames"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Sin City" or "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Back in Black"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Bad Boy Boogie"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Jack"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Highway to Hell"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"What Do You Do for Money Honey"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"High Voltage"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Shoot to Thrill”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Givin' the Dog a Bone”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Whole Lotta Rosie"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"You Shook Me All Night Long"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Rocker”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“T.N.T.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Let There Be Rock"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8b49617ce02632448a65d9d41d1107fb0ecd6885/original/ramones-keystone-palo-alto-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keystone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Palo Alto, CA</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1bc9c7d216235afb5be998db88a17bc0ffa79637/original/ramones-keystone.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9ea1d8d1f3ad80c9c7611d5d0c905632a30cb806/original/1980-the-pretenders.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pretenders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rodney Crowell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tennessee Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nashville, TN</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/34da3dcf6159cc50800dc774656bc683eeddefed/original/the-pretenders-nashville-tn-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba8379fce6abf0a02b40718b44107f7a14fe1e32/original/1980-tom-waits.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rat Cellar Marquee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Phoenix Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dublin, Ireland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lucinda / Ain’t Goin’ Down to the Well</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rain Dogs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Falling Down</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the Other Side of the World</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I'll Shoot the Moon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cemetery Polka</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Get Behind the Mule</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold Cold Ground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Singapore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Circus / Table Top Joe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>God's Away on Business</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On the Nickel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>House Where Nobody Lives</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Innocent When You Dream</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lie to Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hoist That Rag</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bottom of the World</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Green Grass</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Way Down in the Hole</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Metropolitan Glide</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirt in the Ground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Make It Rain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesus Gonna Be Here</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eyeball Kid</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Time</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oYt4o7R5JxA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oYt4o7R5JxA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8952c4e716eca43bd1a4ffb97bf44aadf6380d12/original/1980-devo-merriweather-post-pavilion.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Devo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Merriweather Post Pavilion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Columbia, MD</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST 1</u></strong></span></p><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freedom of Choice Theme Song</strong></span></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=13d7f951" title="Statistics for Whip It performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whip It</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=4bd42b1a" title="Statistics for Snowball performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Snowball</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=43d42b1b" title="Statistics for It's Not Right performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's Not Right</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=bd6c976" title="Statistics for Girl U Want performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Girl U Want</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=43d70b3f" title="Statistics for Planet Earth performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Planet Earth</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=bd22d0a" title="Statistics for S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain) performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=be581b6" title="Statistics for Secret Agent Man (P.F. Sloan song) performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Secret Agent Man</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=23d66043" title="Statistics for Pink Pussycat performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Pussycat</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=7bd692a8" title="Statistics for Blockhead performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blockhead</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=5bd6bfe8" title="Statistics for (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones song) performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=bd7894e" title="Statistics for Uncontrollable Urge performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Uncontrollable Urge</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=23d67c2f" title="Statistics for Mongoloid performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mongoloid</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=6bd42a8a" title="Statistics for Be Stiff performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Be Stiff</strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;">
<a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=23d6cc2b" title="Statistics for Gates of Steel performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gates of Stee</strong></span></a><a title="Statistics for Gates of Steel performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>l</strong></span></a>
</div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"> </div><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a title="Statistics for Gates of Steel performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST 2</u></strong></span></a></div><div class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"> </div><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=5bd6d360" title="Statistics for Freedom of Choice performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freedom of Choice</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=73d622ad" title="Statistics for Jocko Homo performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jocko Homo</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=1bd7bd6c" title="Statistics for Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/devo-53d68b21.html?songid=43d04b97" title="Statistics for Gut Feeling (Slap Your Mammy) performed by DEVO"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gut Feeling (Slap Your Mammy)</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>ENCORE</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Come Back Jonee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>2nd ENCORE</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tunnel of Life</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ba6763add563177e91876f5ce1d917c00d776d4/original/1980-grateful-dead-alaska.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West High Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Anchorage, Alaska</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sugaree</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Minglewood Blues</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Candyman</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Me and My Uncle</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big River</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Loser</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lazy Lightnin'</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Supplication</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Far From Me</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramble on Rose</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Feel Like a Stranger</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Railroad Blues</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Samson and Delilah</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Terrapin Station</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Playin' in the Band</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>drums</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Truckin'</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stella Blue</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sugar Magnolia</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One More Saturday Night</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brokedown Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1980 the Grateful Dead played in a 2,000 seat high school auditorium in Anchorage, Alaska in 1980. Now keep in mind, the band’s previous three shows took place at the Portland Memorial Coliseum (13,000 seats), the Seattle Center Coliseum (15,000 seats) and the Spokane Coliseum (8,500 seats), so it’s not like they were playing nightclubs during the summer of 1980. So how did the Dead find their way up to a high school in Anchorage for three nights in front of a combined audience that didn’t equal the crowd in Spokane?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A fella named Lichter and his brothers George and Andy operated Northern Stage Co., which brought the Grateful Dead to Alaska in 1980 for a three-night stint playing to sold-out crowds at the West High School auditorium during summer solstice. When asked about the band's set up onstage, Lichter said that West High Auditorium, with a capacity of 2,000, was likely the smallest venue the group had played in the last decade.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Local media covered the scene, from the band's arrival and shows to the travels and travails of their fans, known as Dead Heads. ‘</strong><i><strong>Looking and carrying on more like a keg-league softball team than members of a rock group, the musicians and their entourage strode unmolested through the airport</strong></i><strong>,’ wrote Anchorage Times reporter Bill Kossen.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/541b10014840e8a972b0953d8366277806a3d1e3/original/1980-bob-marley-madrid-spain.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Marley & The Wailers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Average White Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Estadio Roman Valero</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Madrid, Spain</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff82c0a75322aeb362fddb7ff0bf600b2f941cec/original/1980-capt-beefheart.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James "Blood" Ulmer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beacon Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9018291c07667385d14a483ddba94c98446f6768/original/capt-beefheart.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>CAPT. BEEFHERT SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Apes-Ma</strong></span></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=4bdfbb62" title="Statistics for Hair Pie Bake III performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hair Pie Bake III</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=63d982db" title="Statistics for Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=43dfbb5f" title="Statistics for Abba Zaba performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Abba Zaba</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=63d9829b" title="Statistics for Hot Head performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hot Head</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=6bd9829a" title="Statistics for Ashtray Heart performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ashtray Heart</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=73d98299" title="Statistics for Dirty Blue Gene performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dirty Blue Gene</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=7bd98298" title="Statistics for Best Batch Yet performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Best Batch Yet</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=5bdfb74c" title="Statistics for Safe as Milk performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Safe as Milk</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=7bd98290" title="Statistics for Flavor Bud Living performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flavor Bud Living</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=63d98297" title="Statistics for Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=4bdfbb5a" title="Statistics for One Red Rose That I Mean performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One Red Rose That I Mean</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=3d9fd73" title="Statistics for One Man Sentence performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One Man Sentence</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=53dfbb61" title="Statistics for Doctor Dark performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doctor Dark</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=63d9829f" title="Statistics for Bat Chain Puller performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bat Chain Puller</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=bd9fd7a" title="Statistics for Old Fart at Play performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Old Fart at Play</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=23dfb8a3" title="Statistics for My Human Gets Me Blues performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Human Gets Me Blues</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=6bd982e6" title="Statistics for Sugar 'n' Spikes performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sugar 'n' Spikes</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=6bd9829e" title="Statistics for Sheriff of Hong Kong performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sheriff of Hong Kong</strong></span></a></p><p class="songPart" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:45px;padding-right:35px;text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-1bd6a170.html?songid=33dca8ad" title="Statistics for Big Eyed Beans From Venus performed by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Eyed Beans From Venus</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Captain Beefheart Radar Station: "Inspired is a word which is frequently misused, particularly when applied to an event or a concept. Yet the pairing of Don Van Vliet (a.k.a. Captain Beefheart) and James </strong><i><strong>Blood</strong></i><strong> Ulmer can be described in no better fashion. Performing before a capacity crowd one chilling night after Thanksgiving, Beefheart appeared in his first formal concert in New York City since 1973. An overwhelming success, it proclaimed once again the innovations Van Vliet has been offering us for years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No less innovative, or inspirational, or highly acclaimed of late is the work of guitarist James “Blood” Ulmer. His music has been described as “jazz / punk” and “harmolodic” (the term Ornette Coleman invented to describe his conceptual theory), but it is more than that. There are dimensions to Ulmer’s art which transcend labels of any kind; while Coleman’s influence cannot be denied, the guitarist has added an individual stamp of excitement and vitality which is intensified by a striking stage presence."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ae5be2d27bddd2793082f335edf6baa52c1ccd1/original/198-peter-gabriel-tour-without-frontiers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tour Without Frontiers</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Gabriel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Hammill</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mozartsaal Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mannheim, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0b190bfc65eb985a31f68b998e927948dabbe75/original/1980-bob-marley-reistadion-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Marley & The Wailers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Reit Stadion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ad49eaeb8fd2bbf5a353cbd52a4a1cd1ccc93754/original/1980-paris-france.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pavillon Baltard</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paris, France</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VxaRf3giiho" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxaRf3giiho?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53018b83677a1db72f83bcab20aa58bed61dc2b1/original/1980-rockpile.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>University of Liverpool</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liverpool, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>SET LIST</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Little Lisa</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So It Goes</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Knew the Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Switchboard Susan</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Three Time Loser</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Trouble Boys</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Girls Talk</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crawling From The Wreckage</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Singing The Blues</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cracking Up</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Promised Land</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Hear You Knocking</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>They Called It Rock</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ju Ju Man</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Down Down Down</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let's Talk About Us</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e5d197ee3775f4f8072838b9ea6e7971721172a7/original/harley-barlow-experience.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This show was also particularly notable for the opening act, a band billed as </strong><i><strong>The Horace Barlow Experience</strong></i><strong>. Actually, it was Elvis Costello & The Attractions performing incognito in an unbilled, unannounced appearance. This was the first of only two shows (the other being the following night in Bedford) where this occurred. Of course, earlier in their career, Rockpile opened for Elvis for many shows on his 1978 US tour, so Elvis was returning the favor here.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ue0N9_ueaU4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ue0N9_ueaU4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f83f9e9fb8281637c4d5331ef554ae8574d7cb49/original/1980-led-zeppelin-tour-over-europe-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tour Over Europe</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2bfdd21bc4091dcba6771a01242b215644b041fe/original/1980-the-clash-the-ramones-friars-maxwell-hall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Friars Maxwell Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aylesbury, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ritz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09a2743865e0787733a1d386aa6cba3f8928442c/original/the-clash-hamburg-markthalle-hamburg-germany.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hamburg Markthalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hamburg, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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Darkness Darkness </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 2. Smug </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 3. On Sir Francis Drake </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 4. Sunlight </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 5. Double Sunlight </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 6. Beautiful </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 7. Turn it Over </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 8. Don't Let The Rain Get You Down </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> 9. Trillum </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>10. Quicksand </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>11. Black Mountain Breakdown </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>12. Sham </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13. Ride The Wind </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b71963e4533390c7de7d2b0c9e1d0deee1a7828d/original/youngbloods-first-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngbloods were a band from the sixties that consisted of members of the East Coast folk music scene-- Jesse Colin Young (lead vocals, bass), Jerry Corbitt (lead guitar, vocals), Lowell Levenger a.k.a. "Banana" (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Joe Bauer (drums). Reflecting the diverse musical elements of the sixties rock scene, the various members favored different styles of music (blues, jazz, bluegrass) which somehow morphed into a style that sounded fresh and new. Most folks remember the Youngbloods from their Top 40 hit, "Get Together" (ah, the anthem of brotherhood) but it was on the magnificent album, Elephant Mountain, that the band reached its creative peak. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/135af833d1a2844aa631b80b0ac0185519af8013/original/the-youngbloods-early-pub-shot.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>After the single "Get Together" stiffed when it was released in 1967 (later to be released in 1969 to widespread acclaim), Corbitt left the band thereby reducing it to a trio. This event, coupled with the fact that the band set up headquarters in the pastoral environs of Marin County in California during this same period, gave rise to a fresh new blend of jazz infused blues music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9597d8e702b9e665a99959859421dbb727d2efa3/original/youngbloods-color-shot-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The writing on this album is confident and assured; songs like </strong><i><strong>Ride The Wind</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Beautiful</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Smug</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Darkness Darkness</strong></i><strong> captured the sensibilities of the late sixties, many of these expressions of love, friendship, betrayal and one's role in society, were prevalent in much of the rock music from this period except here it lacks the pretension that graced many records in the late sixties. The primary reason for this? Jesse Colin Young's angelic voice for one along with the eccentric approach to making music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Youngbloods, much like the UK band Traffic, frequently made keyboard-based material and this lack of a guitar driven sound ultimately made the band stand out somewhat. At the time, I thought </strong><i><strong>Elephant Mountain</strong></i><strong> to be one of the best albums of 1969 and it stands the test of time, still sounding fresh after all these years. The record features an oddball mix of ragtime, bluesy jazz, ersatz classical and simple balladry that slowly insinuates itself into your overall music-head. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/df8a52b60856b2e46edb8cf9b151744b4ae97d2a/original/youngbloods-in-the-studio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesse Colin Young interview on bestclassicband.com: “Charlie Daniels produced that album. What was he like? Jesse Colin Young: You should have seen Charlie in a rayon suit with short hair and milk bottle-bottom glasses. He was a perfect producer. He explained it to me. He said, '</strong><i><strong>Sometimes artists need you to get behind them and push them, and then other times you get in front of them and hold them back, but I think you guys just needed me to be there</strong></i><strong>.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band became a trio at that time. What happened to Jerry Corbitt? Jesse Colin Young: "Three tunes into the </strong><i><strong>Elephant Mountain</strong></i><strong> album, Corbitt left the band. He said, '</strong><i><strong>I can’t fly anymore</strong></i><strong>.' Here we are at the beginning an album; we were recording in L.A. at RCA Studios. So we just carried on and Charlie was the transition. He was always in a good mood, always ready, always appreciative and supportive. He got us through it.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/60acfafad9365c2a8a88d65b4ce809cbd2bf4c3e/original/youngbloods-live-trio.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>With the departure of member and co-founder Jerry Corbitt, Jesse Colin Young became the primary songwriter of the band, penning seven of the 13 tracks on the album, and co-writing four more with Lowell </strong><i><strong>Banana</strong></i><strong> Levinger and Joe Bauer. Young's songwriting ranges from jazzy acoustic ballads (</strong><i><strong>Sunlight</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Ride the Wind</strong></i><strong>), to country/folk pop (</strong><i><strong>Smug</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Beautiful</strong></i><strong>) and bluesy hard rock (</strong><i><strong>Sham</strong></i><strong>). </strong><i><strong>Darkness, Darkness</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Quicksand</strong></i><strong> are songs dealing with depression and suicide, quite at odds with the optimistic to happy-go-lucky image of the band created by songs like </strong><i><strong>Get Together </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Grizzly Bear</strong></i><strong>). The four tracks credited to Young, Banana, and Bauer are all instrumentals. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ll5NGcI00-c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ll5NGcI00-c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Levinger's </strong><i><strong>On Sir Francis Drake</strong></i><strong> is another inventive instrumental named after Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Marin County, an area in California where the band had recently moved. At 6:44 it is the longest track on the album, consisting of two sections, the first an electric piano-based waltz, the second a blues jam with some bass soloing by Young. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The remaining song on the album is </strong><i><strong>Rain Song (Don't Let the Rain Bring You Down)</strong></i><strong> was co-written by Jerry Corbitt, Felix Pappalardi (of Mountain) and Gail Collins, his wife. " </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/739c4191fd637511e6aa2674c05372e02e6fc256/original/lester-bangs-with-his-albums.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lester Bangs was more enthusiastic in Rolling Stone, saying “this is one of the most encouraging albums I have heard in months…This album exudes that supremely rare commodity in these dark, bored, destructive times – joy.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Years later, Rolling Stone said the album </strong><i><strong>bridges the gap between the last days of psychedelia and the outbreak of country-rock that had afflicted artists like the Byrds and Neil Young</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rrnJQzg88PE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rrnJQzg88PE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cf0d6f17c2b2da7e065735a80a99849586417ba5/original/youngloods-pub-shot-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, The Youngbloods were unable to top this release as the band's subsequent live and studio recordings that hardly seemed as if they were made by the same group who came up with the elegant </strong><i><strong>Elephant Mountain</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dl4huqSYZcI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dl4huqSYZcI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d87ab6c2ccbee4a8c4fbe213efda3809ac64fa74/original/youngbloods-trio.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another key element to this slide from grace may be attributed to the band leaving RCA for Warner Brothers, who gave them their own label, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/distributed/raccoon.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Racoon Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Raccoon Records</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. For years, The Youngbloods had been at odds with RCA. Jesse Colin Young, in a Rolling Stone interview, claimed, "They never knew what to make of us and tried to set us up as a bubblegum act. They never knew what we were and never knew how to merchandise us." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Once free of RCA, the band was given free reign by the Warner Bros label but therein lies the rub. Once they were set up with the commercial clout of the Warner Bros nexus and running their own label, the Youngbloods never really made any truly significant music again. The brief glimpse of greatness provided by </strong><i><strong>Elephant Mountain</strong></i><strong> is now but a slow train moving through the mist of time.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Currently, Jesse Colin Young pursues a solo career and Lowell "Banana" Levinger has spent time touring worldwide with Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul along with performing various bluegrass festivals across the world.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80371e17a33fb6a1aec495c7e0622d827040ec41/original/join-our-mailing-list-dont-be-a-stranger.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de34aaf558044244a3f219988c335caeb5626131/original/mind-smoke-records-website-banner-b.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a6c258bb5d7726c1154e5759d92c3d149666f076/original/this-weeks-favorite-songs-final.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/47fd802cd3bc76e4faa16a65573511d67b752d17/original/whiskey-town-illustration.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/22148/whiskey-town" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BISCUIT KINGS - WHISKEY TOWN</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7589475870fea2719e9f0aefc211285eddf32017/original/the-island-is-alive.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/17633/the-island-is-alive" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>FREELANCE VANDALS - THE ISLAND IS ALIVE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a1bde218ff0a04ca992002768a7dad26225cc5b6/original/little-girl-blue.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/17395/little-girl-blue" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>HAIKU MONDAY - LITTLE GIRL BLUE</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/370b7995e9f2af1ef721741192cf58156ce076fe/original/myf-green-onions.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/75196/green-onions" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>MIGHTY YOUNG FISH - GREEN ONIONS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7beb357b42c48148a0ea775ac5fe104e85a23c7c/original/devils-kiss-single-cover-2018.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/42545/devil-s-kiss" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>JOHNNY PIERRE - DEVIL'S KISS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/66875752023-07-12T03:43:37-04:002023-07-12T03:43:37-04:00Alive As Yesterday: 1972 Concerts<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/102a889f9f46c13e6222242412c20ad1bae26f81/original/1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8efe8513b47f62936ebe2d4599f2b5aa625d1bd/original/1972-ny-dolls-mercer-arts-center-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Some people say the 1970s New York rock scene started in the 1960s with the Velvet Underground. Others insist that it began around 1968 with the Stooges and MC5 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Or with Lou Reed’s reconfigured Velvet Underground at Max’s Kansas City in 1970. Or Patti Smith’s poetry reading with Lenny Kaye on guitar at St. Mark’s Church in February 1971. Or in London in 1970, when David Bowie began sewing those pre—Ziggy Stardust costumes. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The truth is that the truth is not so simple. What really happened is that several things happened, all at once, all over the world. But nearly everyone would agree that in early 1972, when the New York Dolls performed every Tuesday night at the Oscar Wilde Room of the Mercer Arts Center in the Broadway Central Hotel, the 1970s New York rock scene was officially born.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Everyone really went to see the New York Dolls. Before they were the Ramones—whose singer Joey had an early glam rock band called Sniper—the Ramones went to see the Dolls. Patti Smith opened for the Dolls, reading poetry. Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine went to the Mercer to see the Dolls before they formed their band the Neon Boys, the precursor to Television." (Lisa Robinson, Vanity Fair 2014)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b24f1ccee63a200b73cae90c6eee6c8f5381c167/original/1972-david-bowie-world-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"To create an art movement, you have to set something up and then destroy it. The only thing to do is what the Dadaists, the Surrealists, did—complete amateurs who are as pretentious as hell—and just fuck it up the ass. Cause as much bad, ill feeling as possible. You’ll only create a movement when you have a rebellious cause." - David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3dd1c5f530d486fa29fbd1f9244fcacce28c9ae8/original/david-bowie-on-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55a92917ed2176f197a94d0e10c35c48b8254f3f/original/david-bowie-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie's most important concert of the 1st US Ziggy Stardust Tour (September - December 1972) was his debut at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall on Thursday 28th September 1972. Carnegie Hall was where The Beatles had performed two concerts in February 1964 and for Bowie this was to be his third concert in the US, after two earlier warm-up concerts in Cleveland and Memphis.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When David Bowie made his Carnegie Hall debut last fall everybody from Albert Goldman to Andy Warhol was there plus a gaggle of weirdo's expecting some kind of a British Alice Cooper. That's not what they got. The concert opened as Bowie, in clockwork orange hair, came onstage amid flashing strobe lights, to the Mooged up strains of Beethoven's Ninth. From there, except for a simulated sex act with silver haired guitarist Mick Ronson, it was a matter of music, ranging from hard rock laid down by Bowie's band, the Spiders From Mars, to a Jacques Brel song with guitar accompaniment..." - Playboy Magazine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ED3SBJhawcA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ED3SBJhawcA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie & The Spiders From Mars</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carnegie Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3634de498b87e4a4c5fa29c619d5aea34b904d60/original/1972-faces-summer-tour-war-memorial-syracuse-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Faces</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Badfinger</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>War Memorial</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Syracuse, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3594d2bf9f3835ab2444bf3cbf1ad4af66a46d7e/original/1972-faces.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c7fc76e9c301345281f6404058379ae4c9fb090b/original/1972-leon-russell-fairgrounds-arena-oklahoma-city-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="F32iOTqoGOY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F32iOTqoGOY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fairgrounds Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oklahoma City, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a6df94842ef27c24f369d48e99d4f9131a86109/original/1972-joe-cocker-fairgrounds-arena-oklahoma-city-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oVs-FXkrQu8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oVs-FXkrQu8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Cocker & Band with Chris Stainton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fairgrounds Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oklahoma City, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/408a686dede3658075dd6dd72f56d48bb4210c64/original/1972-jeff-beck-hara-arena-dayton-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vb5GagBpA5s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vb5GagBpA5s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tranquility</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hara Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dayton, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fca6b73005a45880b55d22f83bb4213d3655fe1c/original/1972-grateful-dead-jahrhunderthalle-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xCgZxrf8nrU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xCgZxrf8nrU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jahrhunderthalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c080a8e2792cfbe62162cfa9f7bf583f6a822cad/original/grateful-dead-kezar-stadium-golden-gate-park-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Waylon Jennings</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kezar Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Golden Gate Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a118d48f9844b9b758da08d4f78547a26f3d352/original/1972-pink-floyd-carnegie-hall-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="adBI7IJTcwk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/adBI7IJTcwk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Carnegie Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b6bef75ead8a9f87d870be75a9a42382ebb490e/original/1972-t-rex-palladium-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tUqAGoPtfto" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUqAGoPtfto?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>T. Rex</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Palladium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9f4720b37e8c53a4465f1725c00fdc02499e1121/original/rock-roll-blog-mailing-list.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c77af4c90951cb9c0e5a1c3866c6beafcc47d5e4/original/1972-van-morrison-copperhead-david-blue-berkeley-community-theatre-berkely-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Copperhead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Blue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley Community Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8602df8a259e9d21bca1a6f99fa8aae9f05a1697/original/1972-john-sebastian-cheech-chong-van-morrison.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Sebastian</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheech & Chong</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bread</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Academy of Music</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/efaa0a1d0910258d0086d6a22d4902ebe200c604/original/1972-the-who-munchen-deutsches-museum-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munchen Deutsches Museum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff91a48d0633ad4459d1c68d97645e82cdda4de6/original/1972-freddie-king-armadillo-world-hdqrs-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WtpCAhbAJdc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WtpCAhbAJdc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freda & the Firedogs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b32b103ee116df0322b5face62e6bb635c063a6c/original/1972-yes-curtis-hixon-hall-tampa-fl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Curtis Hixon Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tampa, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0458c00de4c9888826071c9c62f5df9a150092c1/original/1972-led-zep-denver-coliseum-denver-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RlNhD0oS5pk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RlNhD0oS5pk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0c36243e0afe70483a0b3aff222b81a185f5f7c2/original/1972-david-bowie-technical-college-slough-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Technical College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slough, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/881bfae8932d58a4a6a5424b3d4bd454ce3a9ed8/original/alice-cooper-europe-tour-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mBqiC5ox8Bw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mBqiC5ox8Bw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tour of Europe '72</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alice Cooper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6940d086eaa0c5b2e1d433b5c6dd7926ce38707c/original/1972-ted-nugent-amboy-dukes-luther-williams-baseball-prk-macon-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brownsville Station</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Quincy Tate</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Luther Williams Baseball Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>@ Central City Park Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Macon, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/97903f92d4545a1aad891e5923c3186429b3b8ea/original/1972-taj-mahal.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bpKPhsC9Nnw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bpKPhsC9Nnw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Joel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clean Living</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paramount Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Springfield, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a6223915a446b3cd803f0d4a4d30611590fc399b/original/1972-leon-russell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sacramento, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ed26286b27a2c42f086a11baaa5d1b60e0a30f5e/original/1972-leon-russel-spokane-coliseum.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Leon Russell Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spokane Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spokane, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7bf52389d0826ef700c1671fb5048ea505e8fc01/original/1972-willie-nelson-armadillo-world-hdq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Willie Nelson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Greezy Wheels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36f6a4f8c37c57b2445ba65fb8face1977348c92/original/1972-allman-bros.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jUTORC4eoGc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jUTORC4eoGc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allman Brothers Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wet Willie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John The Night Tripper</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Manley Field House</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Syracuse University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Syracuse, NY</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a2dab57ef769bb370f1ec7278e14cb72d4d760b0/original/1972-santana-dallas-memorial-auditorium-dallas-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Weather Report</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dallas Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b5a07df4ec8536803cf33c909dfc281486de4e40/original/1972-jeff-beck-argent-san-jose-civic-auditorium-san-jose-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Argent</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Jose Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Jose, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c6982b099dfa9313b276a9fb1c83c808b2d832fe/original/1972-savoy-brown-honolulu-intl-center-arena-honolulu-hi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Savoy Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Baldry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honolulu International Center Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Honololulu, HI</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82180499f1fdcb13f78762d85857e6a37aa806a7/original/1972-butterfield-blues-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Masonic Temple</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d812de8c135d68d667042b1c7269f390e4179caa/original/1972-van-morrison-fairgrounds-expo-hall-san-jose-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tower of Power</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jo Jo Gunn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fairgrounds Expo Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Clara, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6cec555f834e7c31a885346dbb32ab6053758cfd/original/1972-david-bowie-technical-college-slough-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Slough College Summer Ball</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Technical College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slough, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d3142dfc96d71368dc7cecbb19c2e4d0a39de45/original/1972-jeff-beck-capitol-theatre-passaic-nj.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jeff Beck Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boz Scaggs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wet Willie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Capitol Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Passaic, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f4a01e2a691a88a19b77480756ee693f8cdb6b89/original/1972-rolling-stones-american-tour-with-stevie-wonder-municipal-aud-nashville-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Wonder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/777106eb056ab8063a1d55030c5fbaa1b9adfaa6/original/swinging-london-movement.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today's blog post is about Swinging London; a moment in time that reconfigured the music, fashion, movies and books of the youth culture.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“</strong><i><strong>There came a moment when London first shook off the coils of hidebound British society, the sobriety of convention, the obedience of norms that had made it a boring place in its post-war years. As no other city has ever done, London suddenly owned a whole decade and became synonymous with the culture of that decade—the 1960's. There was a cultural and social insurrection that transformed every idea of what was permissible in society and in the arts</strong></i><strong>.” (Daily Beast)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69937a5f00a4bdaee497c94a8e4dddeea3fe9a86/original/ready-steady-go.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC1K6G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000FC1K6G&linkCode=as2&tag=thchfrhe-20&linkId=f65a5ac3fa981aa5fc25e7cee6f579c9" target="_blank"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London</strong></span></a><img src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thchfrhe-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B000FC1K6G" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the opening of his in his brilliant book, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2XnKXVH" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Ready, Steady Go! "><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ready, Steady Go! </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (Doubleday 2002), Shawn Levy captures how Swinging London came about: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Britain in the mid-1950s was everything it had been for decades, even centuries: world power; sire of glorious intellectual, aesthetic and political traditions; gritty vanquisher of the Nazis; civilizing docent to whippersnapper America; bastion of decency, decorum and the done thing. But somehow, in sum, it was less. The States, France, Italy all felt modern. Rock music and the rise of the teenager as tastemaker made the American scene come on, naturally, loudest, while decadent, savvy, grown-up style made existential Paris and La Dolce Vita Rome meccas for both the international jet set and an emerging global bohemian underground. England, by contrast, was dowdy, rigid and, above all, unrelentingly gray, gray to its core. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By 1956, the British economy had finally relaunched itself: Key industries were denationalized by a Conservative government; American multinationals were choosing Britain as the home base for their expansion into Europe; unemployment dipped, spiking the housing, automobile and durable goods markets; credit restrictions were eased, encouraging a boom in consumerism; the value of property—particularly bombed-out inner-city sites—soared. In just three years, the English stock market more than doubled in value, and the pound rose sharply in currency markets. Inevitably, as in America, prosperity led to complacency and nostalgia for a prewar era that only in retrospect seemed golden. There was no widely held notion of “cool” or “hip.” The mood, taken at large, was smug—or would have been, if smugness were considered good form. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The common conception of big city excitement—women in long skirts, men in dinner jackets, dance band music, French cuisine, a Noël Coward play and a chauffeured Rolls—was just as it might have been in the twenties…’There was nothing for young people,’ remembered fashion designer Mary Quant, ‘and no place to go and no sort of excitement.’ But as, again, in America, there were intimations of a burgeoning dissatisfaction with the status quo that had become the landscape. And, perhaps because it had been beaten down for so long, or perhaps because its increasing marginalization on the world stage liberated it from grave responsibilities, Britain seemed particularly fertile ground for this sort of seed. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London rose from a prim and fusty capital to the fashionable center of the modern world and then retreated. The fifties were Paris and Rome. The seventies, California, Miami and New York. But the sixties, that was Swinging London—the place where our modern world began. Hardly any of the elements were unique: There had been bohemian revolutions and economic renaissances and new waves in the arts and popular culture and lifestyle before. There had even been other moments when youth dominated the scene: The Jazz Age of the twenties, the brief rock ’n’ roll heyday of the fifties. But in London for those few evanescent years it all came together: youth, pop music, fashion, celebrity, satire, crime, fine art, sexuality, scandal, theater, cinema, drugs, media: the whole mad modern stew. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It wasn’t youth culture that England invented: From James Dean to Levi’s to Elvis, that was America through and through. But where American official culture at the end of the fifties had effectively tamped down the expressive impulses of young people, England embraced them as a way of emerging from decades—maybe centuries—of slumber. It let them grow, coalesce, strut. London was where youth culture finally cemented its hold on all forms of expression, and made itself loudly and exuberantly known. Youth, once something to endure, transformed in the span of a few years of British sensations into a valuable form of currency, the font of taste and fashion, the only age, seemingly, that mattered. The Brits who created Swinging London were unique in their resilience, their ability to absorb and transform elements of American and Continental culture and the cocksureness with which they flaunted their invention of themselves. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the early sixties, the city positively overflowed with out-of-nowhere high energy. At night in London, anything could happen: You might attend a concert by a band of geniuses who would create music worth remembering for decades or see a fortune come and go gambling at an elegant casino in Mayfair or learn the Twist at a trendy discotheque near Piccadilly or smoke pot at an after-hours Caribbean joint in Notting Hill or laugh out loud at the old fart prime minister being lampooned on a West End stage or at a nightclub in Soho. And those were just the outward signs: If you looked harder you could find a bold, spirited and, crucially, employed generation of young people with education, access to birth control, freedom from mandatory military service, a new culture of morals and sensations being reinvented daily and no particular sense that the old ways were set in stone. These were English people who’d absorbed the sensibilities and attitudes of the French and the Italians and grafted them onto the materialism and energy of the Americans. They’d invented themselves as living works of art in a way no Britons had since Oscar Wilde… London had suddenly become the hottest place in the world: New York and Paris and Los Angeles and Rome combined. Nowhere previously had such an agglomeration of globally noted talents combined at one time and with one such sense of common tenor—not to mention the inestimable advantage of tender age. For a few years, the most amazing thing in the world to be was British, creative and young.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And for all the sweep of history and all the pop artifacts and all the indescribable meteorology of human taste, attitude and passion, </strong><i><strong>Swinging London</strong></i><strong> was built of individuals. People became icons because they did something first and uniquely. Everybody overlapped and partied together and slept and turned on and played at being geniuses together, but a few stood out and even symbolized the times: eminent Swinging Londoners, wearing their era like skin. It would be possible, in fact, to explain the age by telling their stories.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5c8322baae22b862b61ae9f3ab25f958de02ac8a/original/david-bailey.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Snapper, David Bailey, was one of the first on the scene, an East End stirrer and mixer and the most famous of the new breed of fashion photographers who helped revolutionize the glossy magazines and popularize the new hairstyles, clothing and demeanor.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a160006d5570e1ba1cadc7b31747cdde68fb0599/original/vidal-sassoon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Crimper, Vidal Sassoon, also from an East End background, but Jewish and, amazingly, a real warrior, who freed women from sitting under hairdryers and ascended into an unimaginable ether: flying to Hollywood to cut starlets’ hair and branding himself into an international trademark.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b19a9348fe15696342915f25eb445ce96d7bd5b2/original/mary-quant.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Draper, Mary Quant, took a Peter Pan–ish impulse to not grow up and sicced her craft, inspiration and diligence on it, creating a new kind of women’s fashion that spoke to the rapidly expanding notions of what it meant to be cool, free and young.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1bda2873dac7b11dd2b7bd21f6191fc005713b3e/original/terrance-stamp.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dreamer, Terence Stamp, another one from the stereotypical Cockney poverty, who wound up winning acting prizes, with his face on magazines, the most beautiful women in the world on his arm and a home among peers and prime ministers in London’s most prestigious </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b006511a9156b908dae712377a1b50d030373230/original/brian-epstein.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Loner, Brian Epstein, who failed miserably at everything until he helped create the greatest entertainment sensation of the century while warring internally against the self-doubts he’d borne his whole life.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2af07e3e954a295d6e0ea58296a2df8c89ab6e8/original/mick-jagger.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Chameleon, Mick Jagger, a suburban boy with a bourgeois upbringing, who could mimic whatever he wished: black American music, the stage manner of raunchy female performers, the go-go mentality of rising pop bands, the chic manners of slumming aristocrats and the arcane sexual and narcotic practices of bohemians both native and exotic—a quiver of cannily selected arrows that let him survive the decade unscathed while the road behind him was littered with the corpses of friends.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/48fea0d4803cdd81dd9a19ec042339d55e24911e/original/robert-fraser.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Blue Blood, Robert Fraser, with every tool that traditional English life could offer a man—birth, schooling, military appointment, connections, polish, bearing—but a restless imagination and a decadent streak that led him into art dealing and sensational living that brought him down.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/36b05ad0ff858e7f95234c96ea32334707186203/original/photo-swirl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lay these lives alongside one another, bang them together, hold them up to the light and you could open an entire time. You could see how people lived and rose and changed and stumbled and faded or kept on rising until they disappeared into the sun. You could see how people made a glory of their day or their days into a glorious apotheosis of themselves. You could hear the music, feel the energy, see the paisley and the op art and the melting, swirling colors. You could go back to Swinging London." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Dzzn3_UthQo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dzzn3_UthQo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWINGING LONDON: THE FILMS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f8b93ffb813e893651dfadd328f6b9d593eb915/original/films.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In his book ‘Psychedelic Celluloid: British Pop Music in Film and TV 1965-1974’, Simon Matthews details an era of pop-influenced movies. Film and TV from the mid to late Sixties is not as revered nowadays as the earlier kitchen-sink period, dominated by northern scribes and working-class actors making their names with A Taste Of Honey and This Sporting Life. That Matthews’s opening year makes a useful cut-off between the two eras is illustrated by two Fab Four vehicles. First, 1964’s A Hard Day's Night, a relatively sleek movie, shot in black and white, scripted by Alun Owen, who had earned his stripes on social-realist small-screen dramas, and featuring Steptoe And Son's Wilfrid Brambell. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>British pop stars, among them Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele, had appeared in many films, but </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day's Night’s</strong></i><strong> global success was unprecedented. In 1964, it was the ninth highest grossing film in the US – even outselling Elvis Presley's </strong><i><strong>Viva Las Vegas</strong></i><strong>. Matthews argues this was “the single event that brought serious US studio money to London and kickstarted [British pop cinema]”. The film already captured some of the new, more sprightly aesthetic, directed as it was by the American Richard Lester, already a dab hand at comedy thanks to his connections to John Lennon faves The Goons. </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day’s Night</strong></i><strong> also had some of the freewheeling, semi-improvised tone of key continental films, among them </strong><i><strong>La Dolce Vita</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Jules et Jim</strong></i><strong>. Lester, though, took this style further a year later in the more exuberant </strong><i><strong>Help!</strong></i><strong>, a surreal comedy chase that came with a far higher budget. The director filmed in colour, set scenes in such exotic locales as the Bahamas and brought on board respected thespians Leo McKern and Eleanor Bron. Its script was co-written by American novelist Marc Behm, previously credited on Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn thriller </strong><i><strong>Charade</strong></i><strong>. Yet the plot was threadbare, held together with barely relevant, promo-style musical sequences. Still, this became a template for further pop films and a definite influence on The Monkees’ TV show.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the space of a few months, UK dramas in particular had gone from the dour and threadbare to fashionable and fast-paced, in a way that cast a wide shadow. If any film could incorporate a British group or singer, either acting or in a musical cameo, so much the better. Thus Mick Jagger would lead in </strong><i><strong>Performance</strong></i><strong>, Lennon appeared in </strong><i><strong>How I Won The War</strong></i><strong> and the Arthur Brown Set performed in Roger Vadim’s Jane Fonda-starring The Game Is Over (La curée). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-JsMWXi5K68" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-JsMWXi5K68?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The peak of this wave came around 1970, with pop-influenced movies evolving into more sophisticated forms, with concert films such as </strong><i><strong>Glastonbury Fayre</strong></i><strong> alongside experimental works, notably Tony Garnett’s post-Kes permissive documentary </strong><i><strong>The Body</strong></i><strong>, which featured background music from members of Pink Floyd, much of it devised from human sounds such as heartbeats and sneezes. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-NN7qJ7xUgU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-NN7qJ7xUgU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The pioneering prog outfit Pink Floyd had already enjoyed a credible cultural impact, beginning with their own light shows, leading to a key scene in the documentary </strong><i><strong>Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By 1971, US studios were beginning to pull the plug on investment in British films in the wake of growing losses. The kudos of UK acts was diminishing, thanks to the break-up of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones’ retreat into tax exile and greater sway for American rock groups and singer/songwriters. British film retreated from youthful positivity and vitality, turning to nostalgia and conservatism. The pop age had ended and looking at these images, we have never gone back." (Psychedelic Celluloid -Simon Matthews)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fc02c1737f88707f7bd77174c924e046860e3742/original/swinging-london-in-the-1960s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>The Swinging London of the 60's</strong></i><strong>, that brief magical span between the first squeals of Beatlemania and the dead man’s float of the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones—when pop music, photography, fashion, and party-going chemically combined and burst into what Tom Wolfe might call a Happiness Explosion…After the long postwar austerity and damp conformity, Britain was overdue for social release and cultural heave-ho. Watch any documentary about the photographers of that era (David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Duffy) and their favorite models (Jean Shrimpton, Celia Hammond, Paulene Stone), or YouTube the semi-documentary pastiche </strong><i><strong>Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London</strong></i><strong>, and behold London sluffing off the prison pinstripes of stiff propriety to go completely mod. Miniskirts, white go-go boots, sherbet-colored slickers, sheepdog bangs, lip frosting, caftans, Chelsea boots, collarless men’s jackets, and Union Jack regalia leapt from the streets to the fashion pages and back again. Just as in New York the advent of Andy Warhol and his Factory superstars was a louche insurgency that would find its orgasmic fulfillment under Studio 54’s coke-spooning moon, London’s overnight aristocracy of the young, beautiful, amateurish, and socially outcast rattled the dentures of the old, established order of birth, rank, and gentility. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No movie captures the exuberant liftoff period better than Richard Lester’s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3cxAxHH" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="A Hard Day's Night&nbsp;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>A Hard Day's Night</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> which remains an offhand marvel of daft humor, deft expediency, paper-doll pratfalls, frenzied chases, and hit songs that meshes the deadpan quirks of each Beatle into a vibrating chord. A Hard Day’s Night has a straggling cloud of Chaplin-esque pathos—a sweet reverie on Ringo Starr’s beagle apartness (apt, since he was the last to join the band)—and a phenomenal fillip by Victor Spinetti as a frantic television director that infuse feeling and tension into a film that might otherwise have been a fan magazine in motion. If only Elvis Presley’s vehicles had had such an inventive zeal and chopstick dexterity. (The Beatles-Lester follow-up, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/36SWTSr" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents=""><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Help!</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>suffered from the sophomore strain of sequelitis.) </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2Xniv6m" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Having a Wild Weekend"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Having a Wild Weekend</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, starring the Beatles’ then rivals the Dave Clark Five and directed by John Boorman (his feature debut), had a bashy energy, but its sprawling antics resembled an American International </strong><i><strong>Beach Party</strong></i><strong> comedy more than a slice of lemon like </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day’s Night</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Far less known to American audiences than either of these time-capsule trophies is </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2MmSJce" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Smashing Time"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Smashing Time</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, which Elvis Costello flags as an inspiration in his recent memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, saying it stuck in his mind more than many of the serious 60's titles everyone cites. This slapstick satire paired Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave as pals from the North of England who descend upon London, get swept up in the poodle parade of street fashion that is Carnaby Street, become improbable sensations and sneering foes, and somehow manage to trigger a power blackout that leaves the streets deserted, the two of them a trifle woozy but re-united once more and back where they started. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="9ei6vNKUJvs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ei6vNKUJvs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The primary fixation and focus of Swinging London films was the beautiful women of creamy complexion, imperious cheekbones, and Bambi eyelashes pinned like a butterfly in the viewfinder and projected onto the world: screen, billboard, magazine layout, tabloid front page—the male gaze powered through a camera lens and sent forth to multiply. Suzy Kendall! Joanna Lumley! Marianne Faithfull! As the camera obsessed over This Year’s Model or musical moppet, everything around her spun wild and fractured into shattered mirror reflections. Where a traditional studio Hollywood film would frame the female star full-on in lustrous light, like a satin pillow come to life, 60s swingers resorted to eclectic tactics and alienation effects, splicing TV advertising gimmicks, documentary elements (man-on-the-street interviews, spoofs of mellifluous BBC chat programs, protest placards), and French New Wave borrowings (jump cuts, heads juxtaposed against wall posters, cool attitudinizings) into a collage expressing the editorial attack or moral judgment of a super-chic message movie. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2XRzxJ5" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Darling"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Darling</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>—a key Swinging London exhibition, directed by John Schlesinger, who went on to do Midnight Cowboy—opens with a billboard of starving children in the Third World being papered over by Julie Christie’s plush lips, and later there’s a charity auction where black boys in white wigs and livery line the wall as well-stuffed socialites raise money for World Hunger relief, ignoring the racism at home while making their philanthropic gestures. (Sixties films were not Zen gardens of subtle ironies—when the charity’s president mentions the “agonies of malnutrition,” the camera cuts to some dowager helping herself to dainty sandwiches.) A study of upward drift from homey obscurity to a princess’s palace, </strong><i><strong>Darling</strong></i><strong> has an aloof integrity, declining to make Christie’s cipherish Diana Scott interesting or likable (it’s the male co-stars who provide the electrical juice, from Dirk Bogarde, nervously nursing some inward dissatisfaction, to Laurence Harvey, so thin, whippy, and sardonic, the transatlantic answer to Sweet Smell of Success); she’s a creature of caprice who gets a picture-perfect life only to find that it’s a joyless façade—a magazine cover with nothing inside. A movie essential, as they might say on TCM, </strong><i><strong>Darling</strong></i><strong> is a fairy tale gone sour where happily-ever-after turns out to be a sad letdown. Joanna, another prime entry, doesn’t deny its Kewpie-doll heroine—enacted by Genevieve Waite—a fairy-tale ending. It denies her nothing. Written and directed by Michael Sarne (whose next film would be Myra Breckinridge, not a happy advance for civilization), Joanna is besotted with its star, giving her so many puckish close-ups and costume changes that the filmmaking grammar breaks down, a very common occurrence in the anything-goes era, as if in this case the male gaze came unstuck and became a pair of ricocheting eyeballs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The male gaze at its most brisk, workmanlike, and controlled is the perceptual driver of Michelangelo Antonioni’s flawed masterpiece </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2yVQ1HD" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Blow-Up"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Blow-Up</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> where David Hemmings’s photographer, patterned on David Bailey and especially John Cowan, puts the models through their coltish paces, turning the once staid studio of fashion portraiture into a passion pit: most famously, straddling the model Veruschka as the lens of his clicking camera bores down like a phallic symbol so blatant that it provokes a knowing laugh, which doesn’t make the scene any the less audacious and legend-engraved. The most cerebral of London swingers, an existential mystery puzzle and rapt examination of fine bone structure, </strong><i><strong>Blow-Up</strong></i><strong> transcends the sociology of blithe hedonism to assign the male gaze a detective mission, a murder to solve. That the murder is never solved keeps the lid on the story unlatched, inviting endless re-investigative viewings, one of the many reasons it’s a classic. The graininess of film under enlargement reveals the dark matter swarming beneath the deceiving surface. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In many Swinging London movies the male gaze is hitched to a singular purpose—skirt chasing, pulling birds, however you want to slangily put it—and one of the shocks of seeing some of them again (and a few for the first time) is how sexually predatory they are, a lot of nasty, tactical gamesmanship operating under the guise of rakishness. Michael Caine’s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/30clTmH" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Alfie"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Alfie</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> in the breakthrough film of the same name, seduces and discards women or tolerates them as domestic appliances handy around the house, referring to this one or that one as “it,” eventually getting his jolting comeuppance and allowing Caine’s Cockney accent to crack sympathetically as he feels a lonely chill and wonders what’s it all about, </strong><i><strong>Alfie</strong></i><strong>. </strong><i><strong>The System</strong></i><strong> (released in the U.S. under the snappier title </strong><i><strong>The Girl-Getters</strong></i><strong>) and </strong><i><strong>The Knack … and How to Get It</strong></i><strong> make a marvelous pair of bookends for any misogynist’s mantel. Directed by Michael Winner, who would later deliver the vigilante justice of </strong><i><strong>Death Wish</strong></i><strong> on a buffet platter, </strong><i><strong>The System</strong></i><strong> is about a pack of prototype pickup artists who rack up as big a score as possible with the young lovelies who arrive in droves at the seaside village that is their stalking ground. (The posse’s leader is played by Oliver Reed, still young and capable of sensitivity before evolving into the glowering steamed crab of his more famous later roles.) Cinematically, </strong><i><strong>The Knack</strong></i><strong> is a far fancier juggler’s act, a whirling marriage of madcap absurdism and magic realism, but the underlying sentiments are strictly ugh. Its smart gleam in 1965 now looks like an icy leer. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Adapted from a play by Ann Jellicoe and directed by Richard Lester, coming off the bounce of </strong><i><strong>A Hard Day’s Night</strong></i><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/36RLp1L" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Knack...and how to get it"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Knack...and how to get it</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> concerns a hapless celery stick named Colin (Michael Crawford) who has no luck with the ladies and requires the coaching assistance of a gloved roué named Tolen (Ray Brooks), whose regiment of interchangeable eye candy in tight white sweaters queues up the staircase to his apartment like an assembly line of ultra-white mannequins or returnable milk bottles. </strong><i><strong>The Knack</strong></i><strong> doesn’t merely depict objectification but colludes with it by offering us not a single female character with a functioning brain, the alternative to these buxom Barbies being a cawing, mannered Rita Tushingham, British cinema’s original manic pixie dream girl. After Tushingham’s Nancy falsely accuses Tolen, and later Colin, of rape, her parrot cry of rape! rape! rape! is treated as quirkily comical and theatrical—cute. (There’s actually an exchange when Colin tells Tolen, “She wants raping, so go in there and rape her!”) It is an indicator of how sensibilities have changed that the rape litany barely seemed to register with reviewers when the film was first released (“A splendid blaze of nonsense,” Newsweek hurrahed), and it even won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1965, perhaps a sign of how desperately with-it everyone wanted to be. The generation gap was widening with a vengeance, and nobody wanted to be on the wrong side and relegated to the scrapyard. Or bone heap. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/aadb7c9eae4eaf1b4e2539aff7e473260b8a1c75/original/more-popular-than-jesus.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A heavy whiff of fascism attended the rise to cultural power of teenyboppers and twenty-somethings and the emergence of the pop messiah. “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” John Lennon infamously told London’s Evening Standard in 1966, a comment that caused little stir in England but set off a fury here in the States, especially in the Bible Belt, where Beatles records and souvenirs were fed to bonfires, much as disco albums would be a decade later. The outrage couldn’t hide the panicky fear that perhaps pop stars really were the new apostles of an electronic religion that would exert control through the sheer force of demographics. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vcUv4dAiCkA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vcUv4dAiCkA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In Hollywood, this prospect bred the hysterically overwrought satire of </strong><i><strong>Wild in the Streets</strong></i><strong>, where the water in Washington, D.C., gets spiked with LSD and anyone over the age of 35 is rounded up and carted off into “rehabilitation” camps (including the pop star’s mother, played by Shelley Winters, who makes such a fuss). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="v_dZEky0KAw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_dZEky0KAw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While in London, the far grimmer Orwellian spectacle of Peter Watkins’s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3clI1gx" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Privilege"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Privilege</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, where a pop idol (played by Paul Jones) is used by big meanies as an instrument of mass coercion. But the Swinging 60s were never really in danger of locking into a goose-step march. There was too much disarray, brain fry, and sullen withdrawal for a mass freak-out to solidify. By the end of the decade, Swinging London had folded its wings and abandoned the stage of the street for the refuge of the inner sanctum. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/de6e67d42b6e2d2c5703729906d146ebb0d23994/original/performance.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lP0zsWupANs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lP0zsWupANs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>No movie serves as a better specimen jar for the rapid decay of grasshopper hedonism into mossy decadence than </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/2yUoR3J" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Performance"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Performance</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, an assaultive, immersive experience about a sleek, vicious London gangster (James Fox) who runs afoul of his boss and, after being savagely beaten in a scene that is a violent orgy of red paint, feathers, ripped fabric, smashed furniture, and shattered glass, as if an Action Painting had attacked itself, cons his way into a basement hideout hosted by an enigmatic figure named Turner, played by Mick Jagger at his lipsticked peak of androgyny. Turner’s lair is the infernal man cave and Moroccan drug den of a decadent dandy, a dream chamber where sexual identities blur, hallucinations bloom (courtesy of magic mushrooms), and no one ever comes round to tidy. It is like witnessing the birth of punk from the blighted womb. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Performance</strong></i><strong> defies critical slotting as being good, bad, great, or god-awful—its grotesqueries and audacities trifle with all that. Charismatic in reptilian repose, Jagger is even more sensational unbound, tearing through the </strong><i><strong>Memo from Turner</strong></i><strong> number, and Anita Pallenberg suggests what might have happened to Julie Christie’s Darling had she dabbled in the satanic arts. Where have all the swingers gone? asked Mike Myers. Into the druggy dark below. Swinging London, like so much in the 60s, went to pieces. What’s missing is an interweaving saga that pulls the pieces back together, tracking the frisky freedom of the early, kicky days to the convulsive reckonings at the blowsy end of the decade and bundling it into a single epic." (Vanity Fair magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7FPIaZfQCbY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7FPIaZfQCbY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWINGING LONDON: THE FASHION TRENDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1586bd7a2fde820506822c54dfac25f1b37cb5f4/original/fashion.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ab4f49fec103315bb9fe60131562b908023d79c/original/swinging-london-time-magazine-cover.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the ‘gear’ boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing</strong></i><strong>.” – Time Magazine April 1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the mid-1960's, London was teeming with baby boomers— 40 percent of the population was under 25. Such a society, driven by youth and unburdened with war, made London a fertile breeding ground for celebrity and pop culture, where such fashion icons including Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Jane Birkin rose to fame.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The fashion revolution was all about the young crowd and started in the streets rather than the runway. Carnaby Street and Kings Road in London were the most popular places in England to shop, with Paraphernalia opening in 1965 in New York being the most famous in America. Pastels from 1950's fashions, gave way to bright, bold color often in geometric designs. Mod clothes leaned toward ultra-short and sleeveless. Popular styles were miniskirts, jumpers, shift dresses, patent rain trenches, patent leather go-go boots, and tights. A popular outfit was coordinating a ribbed knit turtleneck with a miniskirt with matching tights with knee boots.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The British domination of 1960's fashions also extended into hair styles, with Twiggy and Vidal Sassoon having a profound influence on short hair styles. But as with the mod motto of “anything goes”, it applied to hairstyles as well. The most popular hairstyle of the mod era was the bob. Cut short and blunt and stick straight, this haircut was the epitome of '60's mod style. Thick bangs were also a crucial part of this haircut. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another popular haircut of the mod era was the "five point" Vidal Sassoon haircut, popularized by model Peggy Moffitt. This look was very similar to the bob - a short, angular five pointed pixie cut. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The hairstyle in vogue for men at the time was similar to that of mod women. Men sported a shaggy crop of hair or a short cut with a burned in part, much like that of The Beatles." (Fragrance XLibrary, Totally Mod: Fashion, Make-up, And Culture of the 60's)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3fc448086b926a55a8bc42c53a3d72bc20568e6a/original/lady-jane-carnaby-street.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Street Crowd Hanging out @ the Lady Jane Boutique</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9ed5fd3e7df3cd219390af1982dcb0fc151ed9cb/original/1966-1966-john-paul-one-of-the-owners-of-i-was-lord-kitcheners-valet-boutique.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1966: John Paul, one of the owners of 'I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet' boutique</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fafad868662baf015de4230e62d90b01f191ac99/original/carnaby-street.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"In the mid-60's, Carnaby Street was where it was; Swinging London was in full force, and young people flocked to W1’s boutique-lined streets in the hopes of spotting a Beatle or a Rolling Stone while shopping for shorter hemlines and looser trouser legs. The Kinks actually wrote the song 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion', poking fun at the "Carnebetian army" - the fashion victims who strutted through Carnaby Street. Shops like Lady Jane, I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet, and The Mod Male were popular hotspots for the capital's fashionable young things, while lithe model-types (hoping to emulate the popular ‘</strong><i><strong>Twiggy look’</strong></i><strong> of the era) loitered on the street’s crowded pavements." (londonrockhistory.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a19411e3b8befd4d8cf94a94f8c10c61bac81c1/original/beatles-boutique.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/867d5103d8af75f2568ee3ea8629c38c7d9608b8/original/apple-boutique-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was during the Swinging London era, that The Beatles, who had just opened a business entity known as </strong><i><strong>Apple</strong></i><strong>, branched out to include a boutique in London. The store was managed by Jenny Boyd, sister of Pattie Boyd, and Pete Shotton, who was John Lennon’s school mate. In addition to psychedelic and vintage clothing, the boutique sold books, music, spiritual objects, instruments and art. The concept of the store was that everything within it’s walls was for sale and was meant to capture the vibrant essence of the Fab Four and be a cultural centre for their friends and fans alike. Despite the overwhelming popularity of The Beatles at the time, the boutique was not ultimately a success for Apple Corps and had to shut its doors after only eight months. On closing day, The Apple Boutique opened up for the last time and decided to give away the remaining treasures within the store for free, on a </strong><i><strong>one item per person </strong></i><strong>basis." (flarestreet.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wZVA_cTDJD4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wZVA_cTDJD4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWINGING LONDON: THE MUSIC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7a9d0f1b0dee09b6dc7a57adcb8be0c87f00ccc3/original/swinging-london-image-23.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Along with the exciting changes in fashion, literature and film, it was the music that made London the pop music capital of the world. The "British Invasion" laid the groundwork which would go on to define London as the epicenter of pop music. The initial standout groups of this era were, of course, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark 5, The Kinks, The Who and The Animals. By the mid-sixties, the music lost much of its innocence as many songs were about the dissolution of society and its mores.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>8 ESSENTIAL ALBUMS OF THE SWINGING LONDON ERA</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c6d0844fe58804594c490625dc8f71764f5eb2f9/original/hot-platters-thumbnail-image-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/641bed2784bba108ce02a080b8c1e968996765c1/original/revolver-beatles.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BEATLES - REVOLVER (1966)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Most folks tend to lean on the Beatles' </strong><i><strong>Sgt. Peppers</strong></i><strong> album as their greatest effort but the way I see it, Revolver is their masterpiece. They work their way through an exciting investigation of varied genres and along the way reinvent rock & roll itself. It's an album that contains many guises and each time I listen to it, I hear things I never heard before.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0eff8b9125310cf04b9c0915d1204bc4ae8dfe19/original/beatles-revolver-era-artist-klaus-voorman.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The rock historians often point to </strong><i><strong>Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band</strong></i><strong> as the moment, in 1967, when rock magically grew up and became a legitimate art form, at least as it was perceived by the mainstream media. Many fans love the sprawl and variety of the self-titled 1968 double album, popularly known as The White Album. In some quarters there’s a fondness for Abbey Road and its side-long suite of mini-songs, and lovers of the Bob Dylan-influenced folk-rock of the mid-60's cherish </strong><i><strong>Rubber Soul </strong></i><strong>above all. They all have merit, but none of them is as consistently brilliant and innovative as </strong><i><strong>Revolver.</strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It does everything Sgt Pepper did, except it did it first and often better. It just wasn’t as well-packaged and marketed. The hype that preceded Sgt Pepper had a lot to do with the leaps in imagination, the studio-as-instrument adventurousness, that flourished on Revolver in half the time: the sessions for the 1966 album spanned two-and-a-half months whereas Sgt Pepper took an unprecedented five months to record. Where Revolver began tells us a lot about where it ended up. When recording commenced in April 1966, The Beatles dived into the future with </strong><i><strong>Tomorrow Never Knows</strong></i><strong>. John Lennon conjured a sound in his head, and left it up to producer George Martin and a 20-year-old rookie engineer, Geoff Emerick, to figure out how to get it on tape. They succeeded spectacularly.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“</strong><i><strong>He wanted his voice to sound like the Dalai Lama chanting from a hilltop</strong></i><strong>," Martin later recalled. "</strong><i><strong>Well, I said, 'It's a bit expensive going to Tibet. Can we make do with it here?'</strong></i><strong>" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lennon’s voice was filtered through a Leslie speaker cabinet, which gave it a vibrato effect normally associated with a Hammond keyboard. George Harrison brought Eastern drones to the track by playing a long-necked lute called the tamboura as well as a sitar, and Paul McCartney cooked up backward and vari-speed tape loops, including one that evoked the sound of seagulls. Ringo Starr’s drums were pushed to the foreground in the mix, inverting the typical hierarchy of most rock instrumentation. Ringo’s drums became the lead instrument, a thundering focal point amid the sonic chaos. Lennon’s ‘Tibetan-monk’ vocals urged listeners to "</strong><i><strong>turn off your mind, relax and float downstream</strong></i><strong>.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>All The Beatles’ previous albums had been rush jobs – their debut was recorded in 11 hours. But in 1966, the quartet pulled off the road for good to devote themselves to songwriting and record-making. Lennon and McCartney were still closely collaborating and pushing each other to new levels of innovation, and Harrison was emerging as a formidable third songwriter and voice in the band. Now, with the luxury of time to tinker, edit, re-edit and experiment, The Beatles were poised to record a masterpiece.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Tomorrow Never Knows </strong></i><strong>set a high standard for an album that moves from one peak to the next: Harrison’s corrosive guitar lick and McCartney’s commanding counterpoint bassline in </strong><i><strong>Taxman</strong></i><strong> made for one of The Beatles’ toughest-sounding tracks, the brisk strings on </strong><i><strong>Eleanor Rigby</strong></i><strong> presaged the chamber-pop feel and emotional tenor of </strong><i><strong>She’s Leaving Home</strong></i><strong> on Sgt Pepper, and Harrison’s plunge into Eastern mysticism and modalities on </strong><i><strong>Love You To</strong></i><strong> set the stage for the similarly inclined </strong><i><strong>Within You Without You</strong></i><strong> on the later album. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The melancholy beauty of </strong><i><strong>Here, There and Everywhere</strong></i><strong> answered the challenge of Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys masterpiece </strong><i><strong>Pet Sounds</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Doctor Robert</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>And Your Bird Can Sing</strong></i><strong> achieved jingle-jangle guitar-pop perfection, and the horn-fueled </strong><i><strong>Got to Get You Into My Life</strong></i><strong> channeled Motown and Stax soul. Even a relatively lightweight track such as </strong><i><strong>Yellow Submarine</strong></i><strong> presaged the sometimes fanciful, almost child-like wonder of Sgt Pepper tracks such as </strong><i><strong>Lovely Rita</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sgt Pepper</strong></i><strong> proved to be a prettier package, with its elaborate Peter Blake cover art of the satin-suited, newly bearded Beatles among images of cultural icons ranging from Karl Marx to Mae West. The Beatles spent 700 hours in the studio crafting it, but despite its unassailable high points – the staggering </strong><i><strong>A Day in the Life</strong></i><strong>, the acid-rock fantasia </strong><i><strong>Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds</strong></i><strong> – it’s also riddled with the cute and lightweight (</strong><i><strong>When I’m 64</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Lovely Rita</strong></i><strong>) and the drab (</strong><i><strong>Within You Without You</strong></i><strong>). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> was preceded by </strong><i><strong>Rubber Soul</strong></i><strong>, recorded in 1965, in which the band had achieved a new level of sophistication in its songwriting. The evocative wordplay in Norwegian Wood and In My Life aspired to the pop poetry of Dylan and Smokey Robinson. Song for song, it matches up well with Revolver, but it’s not nearly as sonically ambitious....Revolver wasn't always so highly regarded. A few months after it was released, The Beatles began recording Sgt Pepper, an event that was chronicled with great fanfare as the band sequestered themselves in Abbey Road studios. Its magnificence seemed a fait accompli. In contrast, the release of Revolver was overshadowed by Lennon’s infamous and widely misinterpreted ‘more popular than Jesus’ comments. But time has affirmed the enduring worth of </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong>. It now stands as The Beatles’ greatest album." (Greg Kot; BBC.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/919e4163686d10462c275497203a35dc3ddd3bbd/original/kinks-village-preservation.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY (1968)</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ccd019d6aa8f7c3addbc4bd11a5c3dcb99d7d5ed/original/kinks-village-green.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I have always felt that the Kinks were deserving of the same lavish praise that's been heaped upon the other stalwarts of the British Invasion era (i.e. The Beatles, The Stones& The Who). Sadly, this is not the case. Has England produced a true songwriter better than Ray Davies? I think not. To make the case that The Kinks should rightfully be ranked alongside The Beatles, let me put forth a hot platter that is as strikingly inventive as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Yes, friends, I speak of (fanfare please) The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Released in 1968, this concept album paid tribute to the simpler days of English small-town life and all of its daily minutiae. It is a collection of songs about friends, childhood memories and family. While some of these themes had been artfully explored on the Sgt. Peppers album, Ray Davies ability to communicate a certain sense of British sensibility was a bit more striking than what Lennon & McCartney had created on Sgt. Peppers. As Chuck Berry's songs were uniquely American, The Kinks, with the release of this hot platter (and their opus "Waterloo Sunset"), had become the true ambassadors of the English perspective, both old and new.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6beae1d4a3080ad7beb95e855eaffade69b1b992/original/aftermath.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I think this particular album is often overlooked when compared to the triumphs of The Beatles during Swinging London years. </strong><i><strong>Aftermath</strong></i><strong>, an album which was a first in that it was comprised of all original material for the first time, reveals the Stones moving past their dependence on the blues genre and 50's rock & roll. The Jagger/Richards songwriting team was obviously stretching out into new territory. Along with what the songwriters were coming up with was complimented by Brian Jones' adroit command of many differerent instruments such as a marimba, a sitar and a mellotron.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“By 1966, rock ’n’ roll albums were becoming deep. Where LPs were once merely collections of a few singles, fleshed out with some cover songs, they were increasingly treated as cohesive long-form works in and of themselves. </strong><i><strong>Aftermath</strong></i><strong>, the first Stones album to consist of all Jagger/Richards–penned songs, was also their first record that felt like an organized and focused project. As the LP was fast becoming the medium of choice for established artists looking to make an impactful statement, it also allowed for quieter moments like the </strong><i><strong>Aftermath</strong></i><strong> deep track, </strong><i><strong>I Am Waiting</strong></i><strong>…Judging from the material on Aftermath, the Stones’ beer-and-blues days at the Crawdaddy, only three years prior, had slipped into what must have seemed a distant past. ‘</strong><i><strong>One part of their souls resided in a bizarre re-visitation of Baudelairean nineteenth-century debauch and baroque</strong></i><strong>,’ Oldham wrote of the 1966 period of the Stones, the other in a Neanderthal, pretentious, psychedelically entitled, and tripped-out world.” (Bill Janovitz, Rocks Off; St. martin’s Publishing Group)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2edf8746994c312f8b072d7b59cb294e3b427e4/original/the-who-sings-my-generation.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO - THE WHO SINGS MY GENERATION (1965)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As stated here before on this blog in a previous blog post titled </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog/blog/my-very-first-rock-concert" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="My First Rock Concert"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>My First Rock Concert</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, The Who were the first band to capture my imagination. They had it all; power chords, an avalanche of drum fills, feedback guitar and an anthem called </strong><i><strong>My Generation</strong></i><strong>. Shel Talmy, a well-known producer back then, captured the band’s visceral style perfectly on their debut album. The album sports a collection of tasty Pete Townshend power pop tunes that defined their early style best described as </strong><i><strong>Bang! Bang! Zoom! Boom! </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3161630e705ef0565cf1d15e5e0ffb520e5b7ddc/original/face-to-face-kinks.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE KINKS - FACE TO FACE - THE KINKS (1966)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By 1965, Ray Davies (The Kinks’ mastermind songwriter) had established himself as a major songwriter with such classic songs as </strong><i><strong>A Well Respected Man</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Dedicated Follower of Fashion</strong></i><strong> which were a far cry from the band’s earliest triumphs </strong><i><strong>You Really Got Me</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>All Day and All of the Night</strong></i><strong>. By this time in the band’s career, Ray Davies began to write material about social pretensions in the British society.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Face To Face</strong></i><strong>, along with the following three Kinks’ releases, was a byproduct of this newly adopted motif. Not as immediately accessible as the power-chord blasting, heavy-hooked singles of the past, the songs on Face To Face grow on you gradually, relying on the listeners’ intellectual participation, rather than a visceral response, which makes them ultimately more enduring. Lyrically the album serves as the master’s class of bourgeois character studies. On every track Ray Davies’ wry smile and cocked eyebrow are almost audible. Eventually becoming the profligate wastrels that the band once skewered, in 1966 The Kinks still thought of themselves as working-class Muswell Hill yobs taking the piss out of posh strangers who wandered into their pub." (popstache.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/354b05deaf3d084009041af1d1d1f409002cc2be/original/zombies-odessey-oracle.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ZOMBIES - ODYESSY AND ORACLE (1968)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I discovered this magical album after reading an article in </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawdaddy_(magazine)" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Crawdaddy Magazine</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> that featured Al Kooper raving about how good it was.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> "Fate conspired against the making, release and success of </strong><i><strong>Odessey & Oracle</strong></i><strong>. Recorded amid the acrimony of a band imploding, this was the Zombies’ first and last album. Their previous two LP’s; shoddily assembled singles collections issued without the band’s input, and sinfully excluding many of their finest B-sides, had sold poorly. By 1967, after having been conspicuously absent from the Top 40 for over two years, the Zombies truly were the walking dead. They entered Abbey Road Studios in June of that year resigned to the fact that this would be their final record. It was the album of a fractious, defeated band with nothing to prove but plenty left to give, recorded on a meager budget provided by a label who’s indifference was so absolute that it didn’t even proofread the album art (no, the misspelling of </strong><i><strong>Odyssey</strong></i><strong> was not an intentionally trippy 60’s thing). It languished in the CBS vaults for nearly a year before Al Kooper, then an A&R rep for CBS, could persuade an unimpressed Clive Davis to even release it. Despite the inclusion of the biggest hit of the Zombies career (</strong><i><strong>Time Of The Season</strong></i><strong>), </strong><i><strong>Odyssey & Oracle</strong></i><strong>, to nobody’s surprise, was a commercial and critical disappointment. Now widely considered one of the great, lost masterpieces of the psychedelic era, </strong><i><strong>Odyssey & Oracle </strong></i><strong>sounds timeless and ethereal. Awash with lush harmonies, florid piano, majestic mellotron, swirling organ and shimmering guitar, it is a chamber pop honey hole." (popstache.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/68b30f51cdb1c66bc684d94ab61e17254688c5bd/original/sgt-peppers.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BEATLES - SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (1967)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The release of The Beatles </strong><i><strong>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</strong></i><strong> album brought about a sea change in the approach musicians were taking in recording their albums. For a time, many bands released albums that reflected a conceptual element that revealed what was on the minds the youth culture. After their </strong><i><strong>Revolver</strong></i><strong> album release, The Beatles stopped touring so that they could have more time to work in the studio on their latest masterwork. The Sgt Peppers album allowed the Beatles to recreate themselves by creating an album that featured “a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track, and incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music.” (Wikipedia) The Sgt Peppers album broke new ground in many ways; the album cover set a new bar in its artistic expression and the album was one of the first to include song lyrics.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"If, as some have said, Revolver is the Godfather of pop music then Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is, inarguably its </strong><i><strong>Citizen Kane</strong></i><strong>; brashly self-confident, startlingly innovative and eternally influential. Ensconced in the Abbey Road studios for, a then incomprehensible, 129 days, each band member accepted his role dutifully: George Harrison continued his dalliance with Vishnu on </strong><i><strong>Within You Without You</strong></i><strong>, John Lennon gleaned sardonic inspiration from newspaper headlines (</strong><i><strong>A Day In The Life</strong></i><strong>), circus posters (</strong><i><strong>Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite</strong></i><strong>!), a child’s doodles (</strong><i><strong>Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds</strong></i><strong>) and breakfast cereal commercials (</strong><i><strong>Good Morning Good Morning</strong></i><strong>); Ringo Starr stood loyally by awaiting his assignments (playing the role of Billy Shears in the title track and its reprise) and Paul McCartney tried in vain to preserve the confluence of what began as his Edwardian music hall concept album. Retrospectively regarded as the harbinger of the summer of love, it was the first Beatles record to cop to the rumor that the band was indeed… British! No longer content with pandering to American sensibilities, they instead provided us with a collection of short stories vacillating between the celebration and indictment of middle-class English life, laced with references of a colorful double-decker bus, the Albert Hall, the Isle Of Wight and, of course, cups of tea." (Alllen Trenton, Beatles Unlimited; Mystery Trend Publishing)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee0df1f156904db2546faa7f9bf054492619eea3/original/angry-young-them-final.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THEM - THE ANGRY YOUNG THEM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><span><strong>Everybody wants to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, and everybody wanted to be British during the British Invasion, even the Irish. Them was a band that melded the rawness of the blues with the surliness of Northern Ireland. With rock ‘n’ roll’s perennial kelly-green curmudgeon, Van Morrison, on vocals and a blunt, no-nonsense approach, they indoctrinated a generation of garage rock bands to the joys of pop primitivism. </strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Angry Young Them, the U.S. version of the band’s self-titled debut, is superior to the U.K. release because it includes and opens with the fantastic Bert Berns written </strong><i><strong>Here Comes The Night</strong></i><strong>, relegating the chaotic, impromptu studio jam </strong><i><strong>Mystic Eyes</strong></i><strong> to track two. The highlight of the album specifically, and rock ‘n’ roll in general is, of course, </strong><i><strong>Gloria</strong></i><strong>, a song so perfect that it may be the only human creation spared by the machines after singularity occurs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Due to the machinations of the band’s meddlesome label, after this release Them was torn apart and reassembled several times during its short lifespan, Morrison being the only recurring member. The following album, </strong><i><strong>Them Again</strong></i><strong> was ostensibly a solo Van Morrison record with studio musicians, including gun-for-hire Jimmy Page, supporting him. One can only speculate on what they might have accomplished if left grow unimpeded by the suits." (popstache.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/695955b38d77df9b958295a84fb659f56080c411/original/memories.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In closing, let me say that this blog post brought back many memories. In 1965, I moved to France with my family which came about because my father was an Army doctor who got stationed over there. In '65, my Dad took us on a trip to London. Looking back, I can't believe I actually got to see the epicenter of </strong><i><strong>Swinging London</strong></i><strong>. While there, I managed to talk my folks into letting me go down to Carnaby Street with my brothers. There was an intensity out on the streets of London then (just as I've described in this blog post). I ended going into several stores on Carnaby Street and ended up buying Bullseye t-shirt (as popularized by Keith Moon of The Who) and a pair of Beatle boots that didn't quite fit me. As I left the store and was walking down the street, I saw this huge poster on a brick wall...</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f45c8814ecc19a01495f6f6a325afb82c29794f/original/the-who-marquee-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I stood there for the longest time just staring at the image of Pete Townshend on the poster. When I returned to France, I managed to convince my parents that I desperately need an electric guitar. Within another month, I had joined a band and was performing at various clubs. I later realized that when I stood before that poster of Pete Townshend on Carnaby Street that day, I had decided that Rock & Roll had become my State of Mind.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LHghyj9T0wc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LHghyj9T0wc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1dbc305d0b009cf141f240183770077978f8310d/original/rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-mailing-list-link.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea300591988029f8920bf3f70227115980aead68/original/website-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6a9903b237bbce29781696ac8ea950f50e6e556a/original/mc-osso-american-zoom-anthology.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/996110/american-zoom-anthology" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>AMERICAN ZOOM ANHOLOGY</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cc8a3ecb2a1027a197ec4b5e72240c9e2dd414b3/original/hot-biscuits-anthology-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1062262/hot-biscuits-anthology" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>HOT BISCUITS ANTHOLOGY</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ca8d5bd0e1ec3a8903d3ea245088c3d4f35ab1d9/original/haiku-monday-the-ghost-of-pontchartrain.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/975769/the-ghost-of-pontchartrain-expanded-edition" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>THE GHOST OF POINTCHARTRAIN EXPANED EDITION</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a05697a52dbcc910ca5fa0340a92b20b4e3b6740/original/final-cover-for-release.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/912386/yer-money-or-yer-ears" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>YER MONEY OR YER EARS</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><br> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/57904592023-06-21T07:30:41-04:002023-08-14T14:52:10-04:00Rock & Roll: Why The 80's Pretty Much Sucked<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4fa75da1da305b99916881ecac90055901260357/original/the-80s.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5548681e03f82cf4fb7dae62c4670da8a8f1d2ab/original/new-wave-header.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As I remember it, the 1980s was a decade in which the genre known as basic meat & potatoes rock & roll began to undergo a myriad of changes. The punk rock revolution was underway but didn't really become a worldwide "thing" like Beatlemania in the 60s. Most suburban listeners weren't lining up at record stores to buy albums by punk outfits like the Ramones and The Clash. Instead, their musical tastes gave rise to a style of rock called "New Wave". New Wave acts, such as Elvis Costello & The Attractions and Squeeze, were making records that reflected an AM radio pop musical style. With the advent of MTV, New Wave seemed to overpower punk rock and, as time went on, the genre known as rock & roll would begin to fragment into many different styles.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“The 80s decade was one of great upheaval and innovation, and the seeds it planted continue to flourish. It was a time when disco and punk were in tatters, its artists rebuilding from the rubble with new innovations to birth hardcore and new wave. Rock was getting more ridiculous, with Aqua-Net to spare, but it was also paring back into the thoughtful nexus that would someday be called </strong><i><strong>indie rock</strong></i><strong>—or it was throwing up pentagrams, getting dirtier and meaner, and turning into metal. Jazz and ambient were pushing their experimental borders by getting cinematic and free.” (Pitchfork Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2adaacc90b3fe0c9da21aa643b178336e6616cff/original/i-want-my-new-wave.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"New wave moved away from traditional blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music (early new wave) or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music. Initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered sub-genres and fusions, including synth-pop." (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9cb339ec493953875d7e622c392985902c20e58d/original/80s-one-hit-wonders.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another element that defined rock & roll in the 80s reminded me of of the early sixties. The 80's hit parade featured a lot One Hit Wonders that captured the ears of the public but many of these artists never made much of an impact with regards to album sales but many of the songs had me buying singles once again. Some of the One Hit Wonders of which I speak were songs like Haircut One Hundred (Love Plus One), Men Without Hats (Safety Dance), The Vapors (Turning Japanese), Boomtown Rats (I Don't Like Mondays), Soft Cell (Tainted Love), After The Fire (Der Kommisar), A Flock Of Seagulls (I Ran So Far Away), Talk Talk (It's My Life) and Till Tuesday (Voices Carry). It's also interesting to note that today's music charts are once again filled with One Hit Wonders.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6756fc4162a48c91296a598da3ee35d1d06a5300/original/80s-vinyl-cassettes.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The '80s were, above all, a time of international corporatization, as one major after another gave it up to media moguls in Europe and Japan. By 1990, only two of the six dominant American record companies were headquartered in the U.S....After a feisty start, independent labels accepted farm-team status that could lead to killings with the big labels. Cross-promotional hoo-hah became the rule—the soundtrack album, the sponsored tour, the golden-oldie commercial, the T-shirt franchise, the video as song ad and pay-for-play programming and commodity fetish. Record executives became less impresarios than arbitragers, speculating in abstract bundles of rights whose physical characteristics meant little or nothing to them. Rock was mere music no longer. It was conceived as intellectual property, as a form of capital itself." (Robert Christgau / 1980's Christgau Record Guide)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The music industry in the 1980’s was subject to major advancements in technology in both the instruments that were played, plus the methods of recording in the studios. With all of the progress that had been made within the different genres in previous decades the acts of the 1980s were able to take their music into different areas and refine certain ideas. This was certainly the case with a number of bands that had started out in the punk era yet during the new decade were able to evolve into something a little more different… The music videos had a real impact on the industry during this time and the artists that were able to adapt the better were the ones who achieved the greatest success." (The Bay Are Take Over website)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4fa75da1da305b99916881ecac90055901260357/original/the-80s.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Because all of the major turmoil from the 1960s and the 1970s — the counterculture movement, the Vietnam war, the Watergate scandal and the domestic economic crisis — many Americans were left frustrated. Their confidence towards their fellow citizens and the government were severely undermined. By the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the idealistic dreams of many Americans were destroyed by inflation, foreign policy troubles and escalating crime. To cope with the turmoil, Americans adopted a new conservatism in social, political and economic way of living, under the Reagan administration. The 1980's as also a decade known for its materialism and consumerism, not to mention the rise of the “yuppie” culture. Many young, highly-educated people who were enjoying good pay got to also enjoy the benefits from it, of course. Having disposable income at hand, they were able to indulge their pleasures such as hitting the bars, watching box-office films, spending on designer apparel, records, fancy cars, as well as the latest in technology back then. They were also able to imitate the latest fashions of their movie and pop music idols. But by the mid-1980s, the whole thing changed when pop music stars such as Madonna and Cyndi Lauper became popular. They introduced an entirely new style that most people associate with the 1980s to the present day. Bright colors, spandex, bangles, hoop earrings, teased hair, loud makeup and neon clothing were the order of 80s fashion for women. For the guys, activewear such as sweatpants and sweatshirts, denim jeans and jackets, wild-colored thick, itchy sweaters and athletic shoes were “in” during the decade…. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The music scene in this decade was pretty much about image — and with the arrival of the Music Television (MTV) in 1981, the images that accompanied the artist mattered much more than ever. By 1983 MTV was available on over 2,000 cable channels (from a mere 300 on its maiden launch). Another music channel VH1 was launched in 1984 and introduced a more classic rock format. Simply put, the predominance of these music videos as around-the-clock marketing tool was effective and influential in bringing several new artists as well as new genres into the mainstream. Speaking of genres, the 1980s introduced (or re-introduced) many of them such as the resurgence of heavy metal, the advent of new wave, hip-hop, rap music, hair metal, all of which influenced music in the present. The music scene in this decade was pretty much about image — and with the arrival of the Music Television (MTV) in 1981, the images that accompanied the artist mattered much more than ever. By 1983 MTV was available on over 2,000 cable channels (from a mere 300 on its maiden launch). Another music channel VH1 was launched in 1984 and introduced a more classic rock format. Simply put, the predominance of these music videos as around-the-clock marketing tool was effective and influential in bringing several new artists as well as new genres into the mainstream. Speaking of genres, the 1980s introduced (or re-introduced) many of them such as the resurgence of heavy metal, the advent of new wave, hip-hop, rap music, hair metal, all of which influenced music in the present.” (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mentalitch.com/music-of-the-1980s/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="mental itch website"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>mental itch website</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f88687dafc6e5a64554de014077d22e8a51d40c/original/devo-comic-book.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"More than anything, eighties music was heavily produced. Everyone knows the classic 80s sound: huge reverb snare drums, lots of delay on the vocals, electronic rhythms and synthesizers. For the first time ever, musicians were regularly playing with a </strong><i><strong>click track</strong></i><strong>, or metronome. Because many 80s instruments were synced via MIDI, it was very important that the backing tracks (typically rhythm) were recorded in perfect tempo. While this change improved music in some ways, others may argue that music lost it’s humanity because of this. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Before the 80s, many bands recorded live together, or depended on the drummer to keep the tempo. Music engineers and songwriters had more tools at their disposal than ever before. That’s why a lot of music sounds like people playing (“experimenting”) with toys. Especially compared to the music of today, much of the early digital technology was 8-bit and the tonal quality just wasn’t that great. But it was a lively time for experimentation. Analog synth sounds from the 1980s were really great and guitarists like The Edge (from U2, with a little help from producer Brian Eno) showed us all what could be done to a guitar with delay and reverb. Unfortunately, the digital synthesizer took over for the analog synth in the early 80's and in my opinion a lot of good quality synths disappeared because of this. The music industry in the 1980s was driven mostly by the success of a wildly popular new music cable channel called MTV. For the first time in history, image was just as important as the music. A good music video could instantly catapult a new act to stardom. Cyndi Lauper was almost an overnight sensation due to her quirky looks as much as her quirky tunes. Some artists were huge for most of the decade. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Def Leppard to name a few. Cher made a comeback and Guns N’ Roses made a grand introduction. The eighties also witnessed the infancy and eventual growth of hip hop. While not too many acts from the 80s stand up well against today’s artists, they laid the groundwork for what would later be achieved by thousands of modern hip hop artists in the future." (retrowaste.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f1cbd98d193a3ca06fe224927aa4c5a3e3467fa/original/mtv.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I have to say, I never really liked MTV at all. To me, it seemed to indicate that people were becoming more into watching music rather than listening to it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"For many young people the most significant events (in terms of their day-to-day lives) in the 1980s were the technological advancements developed by the music industry. Music Television (MTV) was born in 1981 along with the inventions of the Walkman, the VCR, and boom box. These inventions are what reshaped the music of this era, and between MTV and the development of video games, the electronic world became far more visual. MTV gave musical artists a new medium to promote their music with and to express themselves further. MTV gave New Wave musicians from Europe such as the Eurythmics and the Police the opportunity to enter the U.S. market without embarking on risky, expensive tours. The fans often emulated the images found in the music videos. Madonna bracelets stacked to the elbows were </strong><i><strong>in </strong></i><strong>as was teased hair, and tons of makeup. The technology of the 1980s also created a global effect on music, allowing it to reach into parts of the world that were impenetrable before..Technology was used to increase the volume of the music to a deafening level and to distort the sound and lyrics to a barely discernible point. Boom boxes became walking radio stations and turntables became instruments. The 80s can be best described as a time of rich musical exploration through its globalization given by the development of technology. New styles evolved from earlier ones, and entirely new genres of Rock were invented." (ohiostate.pressbooks.pub)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0fd79fb35fbaa3aa5ca8af56dfc056e25b334560/original/80s-superstars.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Digital recording became huge in the ‘80s, and the possibilities it offered allowed pop music to grow even more. Suddenly, synthesizers and electronic sounds could be put into pop music, and as this kind of dance-pop developed, so did genres like techno. And the artists who emerged in these years were revolutionary for pop—Michael Jackson’s Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time. Jackson was becoming the biggest pop star of the decade, followed closely by Prince, who had his own pop stardom to claim. His music, which pulled from pop, rock, funk, and so much more, coupled with his extravagant and flamboyant presence catapulted him into a spotlight never truly faded away. Female pop powerhouses were also coming into play, like Whitney Houston and Madonna. The latter became the most successful female artist of the decade, with songs like </strong><i><strong>Like A Virgin</strong></i><strong>. The ‘80s was creating a pop-music culture like no other decade had before it, a culture that would carry through in the decades to come." (theculturetrip.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58cad0074226508530b24bf4af658f62e5f0ef9c/original/cd-versus-cassete.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Along with the rise of videos in the world of rock & pop music, a major change began to happen the 80s with regard to how music was listened to. The Phillips conglomerate had finally developed a serviceable version of the compact disc in 1982. "The new technology would go on sale in Japan later that year, and in other markets around the world the following March. Though CD players at the time cost hundreds of dollars—up to $1,000 when TIME reported on their introduction to the U.S. market, though competition was expected to more than halve their cost quickly—manufacturers were confident they’d be a hit. (CDs themselves sold for about $17 at the time, which is the same as about $40 in today’s dollars.) One of their big advantages was the sound quality they promised..." (wildsounds.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/88ac20f70a9d205e2cf23198fc1df9ea7bfaf518/original/ramones-its-alive-cd.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It seemed immediately obvious that compact discs definitely influenced the way music sounded. Everything sounded much cleaner and that didn't necessarily mean that the music was better sounding. As I started to purchase compact discs, I noticed how the sound of compact discs lacked warmth. There was one absurd moment when I was at a party and a person put on the CD version of the Ramones 1977 live album, </strong><i><strong>It's Alive</strong></i><strong>. Hearing the raw sound of the Ramones sounding so polished caused me to turn to the person who put that CD on and say, </strong><i><strong>"This is a joke, right?" </strong></i><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Another factor that made me dislike compact discs was when I later learned that compact discs cost less to manufacture than vinyl albums and yet the music labels charged twice as much for the CD version of an album thereby ripping off music fans to a great degree.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ec1e526fb255c19e7edda34d64e7f1963625a82/original/duran-duran.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Every generation likes to complain about how musical creativity peaked </strong><i><strong>when we were young</strong></i><strong> and has died a slow death ever since, but according to a new computer algorithm, we’re all wrong. Mainstream music in the US has actually remained stylistically diverse over the past 50 years, with the exception of one decade, the 1980's." (sciencealert.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87818b13cc946ff5b16124fe638e15a4206c0b03/original/the-80s-sucked.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"It was during the ’80s that radio stations began to tighten their playlists all to the happy applause of corporate music execs. The rapid creativity of the 1970s radio stations died, to be replaced by preplanned and survey-tested radio formats. The most significant of these were the songs stations received from the radio syndication company Drake-Chenault. No longer were program and music directors left to their own knowledge and gut as to what made a hit. They deferred to the “experts.” It was a disaster. The same songs were played and replayed to the point of monotony. Music and then radio began to lose its audience, and the music that was created for just this purpose suffered. In a significant way, it all began to sound the same. The 1980s represented the creeping destruction of musical creativity. The few shining moments in this decade were achieved by those acts allowed by their corporate producers to test the boundaries of acceptable on-air material—Michael Jackson’s </strong><i><strong>Thriller</strong></i><strong> falls into this category....When the record labels merged and clamped down on musical talent, they froze out the bands that would have carried their creative market into the next decade. Those who wanted to remain a signed act were forced into the company playlist with company producers and company song writers. Many bands before the explosion of the internet and independent labels were sadly never to find broad fame and marketability they deserved because music executives really did not have the expertise they thought they had...The pressure the industry put on artists in the ’80s led to the present musical explosion we are now witnessing. Suffocated by the music industry’s grip on what was acceptable, bands started to go on their own. The best songs of the ’80s were not created in that decade, but long after...It was not just pop that stunk in the nostrils of the musicians and smart disc jockeys of the day. Country also suffered from the same stagnation. The slow rolling creation of an entirely new genre (alt-country) that came out of the Byrds (via Gram Parsons and Scott Hillman) would not reach its breakout moment until the 1990s. This is a legacy even the Beatles do not have. The Byrds were the most influential band in American music for what they unleashed and created, but it took time because of the resistance from the major labels that wanted to kill music not created in their hot-house market tested image. The tight grip of elite music producers and writers caused Robbie Fulks to pen this irreverent tune to corporate execs. But he was not the only one who did so. The indie and alt-country movements were born out of the putrification of a decade. When people like Jack White of the White Stripes lent his support behind not only recreating the minimalist sound, but also independent record companies to put the power of music back in the hands of the creators and the fans, new radio stations under the new influence began to fill the void and thousands of fans left the preplanned and predictable sounds of the major labels." (amgreatness.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2139d53c5fe7bfba413722bee7c4796a7b1cd6f/original/80s-icons.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>"Say, what's your beef with the music of the 80s anyhow??"</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's an article from the NPR site that inspired me to write this blog post: </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Computer Scientists Prove 80s Pop Music Is Boring</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“</strong><i><strong>Pop music is dead</strong></i><strong>...You’ve heard the refrain dropped by nostalgic music lovers at backyard barbecues. And it’s no surprise. Everyone thinks the tunes of their generation marked a sort of cultural pinnacle and that music has since become bland. The researchers relied on Billboard’s Hot-100 list, the music industry’s tome that ranks the most popular singles by radio plays, online streaming and record sales. (They define pop music as any song that makes that list, regardless of genre.) The team downloaded nearly every song on this chart dating back to 1960 –- close to 17,000 total tracks. The computer program scanned each tune for two features: harmony and timbre. Harmonies are the musical chords that define a song’s melody. Timbre describes the character of music, the quality of tone. For instance, a piano and a guitar can play the same chord, but they sound different to the ear. Timbre is the word for that audio difference. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Next, after deciphering the harmonic and timbre qualities, the team built a fossil record of pop music, defined by when certain chords and timbre styles became fashionable or disappeared from our cultural consciousness. On the timbre side of evolution, energetic, loud guitar peaked in 1966, and again in 1985 as hair bands like Motley Crue topped the charts and then once more in recent years. Another example: music laden with pianos and orchestras dipped in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but this style returned at the turn of the millenium. Next, the songs were sorted into sub-genres via tags created by the 50 million users of Last.fm, a UK-based music discovery website. The team then tracked how diversity – the number of styles within pop music – changed over time. They found that pop music mimicked how life evolved on Earth. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Original formulations by Charles Darwin assumed a constant rate of evolution, where everything changes in small steps. That turned out to be slightly false, as 20th century biologists recognized that life on Earth is punctuated by bursts of very fast rates of evolution…Pop music follows the same pattern. The team highlights three years that represent musical revolutions — that is, years that sparked a boon of innovative styles and variety: 1964, 1983 and 1993. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Of the three revolutions, 1964 was the most complex, enriching the styles of soul and rock, before ultimately spawning the dance crazes of funk and disco. The trends seems to have come at the expense of Doo Wop, which dropped off the charts. Music historians attribute this wholesale change to the British Invasion of the early 1960s, when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones arrived in America and were followed by dozens of other Brit bands. Computer analysis paints a different picture. The signature features of this era — such as loud guitar, major chords with no changes and bright, energetic melodies — predated the arrival of Brit bands. This theme makes sense; when we think of styles, the prototypes are often not the earliest examples. Based on the Billboard charts, other domestic acts like Bobby Vinton were already capitalizing on these musical traits and rising in the charts during the early 1960s. But even though the Beatles and the Rolling Stones didn’t initiate the revolution, the study argues that they “fanned the flames” by exploiting the genre — both bands had 66 hits on the Hot-100 before 1968. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The second landmark movement in 1983 came with the adoption of aggressive, synthesized percussion — think Phil Collins and his pulsating drum machine — and loud, guitar-heavy Arena rock with lots of chord changes, such as with Mötley Crüe, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon, Queen, Kiss and Alice Cooper. These rock bands were joined by new wave acts — like the Police and Cyndi Lauper — plus a surge of metronomic dance-pop heroes like Madonna and the Pet Shop Boys. (Michael Jackson’s </strong><i><strong>Thriller</strong></i><strong> dropped in late-1982) Meantime, classic country and folk lost popularity and wouldn’t return until the early aughts. But these sounds and styles of the Reagan era flooded the music scene, pushing out genres like country and folk to the point that mid-to-late 1980's became most humongous period in music over the last 50 years, based on the team’s computer analysis. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For instance, they spotted the death of dominant 7th chords, which were a staple of jazz in the 1960's. The use of these chords gave a shade of gritty tension to Blues music and were featured in tracks by Elvis Presley, such as </strong><i><strong>I Feel So Bad</strong></i><strong>. But they’re wrong, according to a new computer program that has systematically charted the evolution of popular music. By treating each hit song like a fossil, the London-based research team found that America’s mainstream music has remained stylistically diverse over the last 50 years, with one decade as an exception: the 1980's...Overall, the study shows that musical diversity since the 1960s hasn’t dropped precipitously, even despite the lull in the 1980's."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dec9067dad6509a3286f4d3104c285d5270df868/original/hiatus-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While I know some folks reading this blog post might be offended by my overall perspective regarding the music of the 1980s, there was some credible music to be had but much of the time, mediocrity was the order of the day. Here’s a list of some of the albums that got me through a decade whose music (at various times) reminded me of processed cheese:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CHatn3_UxEU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CHatn3_UxEU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>REMAIN IN LIGHT > TALKING HEADS 1980</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“A lot of people don't realize this, but Remain in Light was the worst-selling Talking Heads record ever, says drummer Chris Frantz. Financially, we took a beating on that one, says David Byrne. At the time, it was a really hard sell. The reaction that we heard was that it sounded too black for white radio and too white for black radio. Remain in Light may have been a commercial disappointment, but musically, the band's 1980 album — which combines funk, disco and African rhythms — was years ahead of its time." (Rolling Stone Magazine)</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8XDuHPLzsxM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8XDuHPLzsxM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IMPERIAL BEDROOM > ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS 1982</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elvis Costello's </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong> is a magnificent album in many ways. Various elements such as Costello's brilliant songwriting and the crisp production by Geoff Emerick make this a must-listen album for sure. While the album was not wildly popular, it has gained much respect from music lovers over the years. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Having gotten country out of his system with </strong><i><strong>Almost Blue</strong></i><strong>, Elvis Costello returned to pop music with </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong> -- and it was pop in the classic, Tin Pan Alley sense. Costello chose to hire Geoff Emerick, who engineered all of the Beatles' most ambitious records, to produce </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong>, which indicates what it sounds like -- it's traditional pop with a post-Sgt. Pepper production. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Essentially, the songs on </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong> are an extension of Costello's jazz and pop infatuations on </strong><i><strong>Trust</strong></i><strong>. Costello's music is complex and intricate, yet it flows so smoothly, it's easy to miss the bitter, brutal lyrics. The interweaving layers of </strong><i><strong>Beyond Belief</strong></i><strong> and the whirlwind intro are the most overtly dark sounds on the record, with most of the album given over to the orchestrated, melancholy torch songs and pop singles. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Never once do Costello & the Attractions deliver a rock & roll song -- the album is all about sonic detail, from the accordion on </strong><i><strong>The Long Honeymoon</strong></i><strong> to the lilting strings on </strong><i><strong>Town Cryer</strong></i><strong>. Of course, the detail and the ornate arrangements immediately peg </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong> as Costello's most ambitious album, but that doesn't mean it's his absolute masterpiece. </strong><i><strong>Imperial Bedroom</strong></i><strong> remains one of Costello's essential records because it is the culmination of his ambitions and desires -- it's where he proves that he can play with the big boys, both as a songwriter and a record-maker. It may not have been a commercial blockbuster, but it certainly earned the respect of legions of musicians and critics who would have previously disdained such a punk rocker." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ln3iKL6wF-M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ln3iKL6wF-M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LET IT BE > THE REPLACEMENTS 1984</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 1984, The Replacements were a band that reminded me that the true wild nature of rock & roll was still alive and well. "From track one (I Will Dare) to track 11 (</strong><i><strong>Answering Machine</strong></i><strong>), The Replacements album Let It Be plays like an eclectic masterpiece of pop music. But, while Let It Be was, and remains, a darling of the critical elite—No. 241 on Rolling Stone’s list of 500 greatest albums of all time—it was an absolute failure upon release, moving a mere few thousand copies...While Let It Be does contain its share of punk rock bombast with tracks like </strong><i><strong>We’re Comin’ Out</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Gary’s Got A Boner</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Seen Your Video</strong></i><strong>, the best songs and truest statements are delivered in the most staid pop formats imaginable. </strong><i><strong>Androgynous</strong></i><strong> is, in essence, a piano ballad. The guitar-arpeggiated </strong><i><strong>Sixteen Blue</strong></i><strong> has more in common with the earliest manifestation of The Beatles than it does with The Buzzcocks. And then there’s the greatest punk rock sin of them all: a cover of Kiss’ </strong><i><strong>Black Diamond</strong></i><strong>...In the most literal sense, The Replacements adhered closer to the non-conformist ethos purveyed by their punk rock forbears than those who most loudly propagated it ever did. Even before they had a real career to sabotage they were sabotaging themselves. Even before they had a real audience to subvert, they were actively subversive. This extends to this record’s name itself, which Westerberg later explained was '</strong><i><strong>our way of saying that nothing is sacred, that The Beatles were just a fine rock ’n’ roll band. We were seriously gonna call the next record Let It Bleed</strong></i><strong>.' The modern day legacy of Let It Be is perhaps most closely aligned with that of another low-selling, now-iconic record released by the New York art-rock outfit, The Velvet Underground. In 1982, Musician magazine famously asked Brian Eno about the commercial flop that was The Velvets’ first release. He responded with the now-classic quote, '</strong><i><strong>I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band</strong></i><strong>.' That same sentiment can be applied to Let It Be. It is the ultimate bridge between what came before it and what followed in its wake. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Larger musical movements aren’t created in a vacuum. In most cases they are simply manufactured by those looking to capitalize on the success of a singular entity. The British Invasion rode in on the coattails of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix made psychedelia acceptable, and everyone and their mother donned a flannel shirt in the wake of Nirvana’s success. The real sticking point of this process is that few artists or entities ever live up to the artistic truth of what came before them. That’s why we don’t celebrate Herman’s Hermits, Strawberry Alarm Clock, or Bush in the same sort of way. The best art isn’t accomplished when the artist is attempting to do something new just for the sake of doing something new or, conversely, trying something old because, hey, it worked once. The best art comes out of artists who are willing to take a chance because what they are creating is equally stimulating and rewarding. Ultimately, that’s just what The Replacements did with Let It Be." (From the AV Club website)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-Y8Bxy8MRyI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Y8Bxy8MRyI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RAIN DOGS > TOM WAITS 1985</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tom Waits is one of my favorite songwriters. When he started out, Waits took on the persona of a beat generation hep cat but by the 80's he wisely deconstructed his approach to his art which deepened his songwriting in such a meaningful way. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Waits had refreshed his sound on </strong><i><strong>Swordfishtrombones</strong></i><strong> two years earlier by moving beyond piano and guitar to dabble with a wider variety of instruments, and on </strong><i><strong>Rain Dogs</strong></i><strong> his repertoire continued to expand, with pump organs, accordions and bowed saws...The range of musical styles sprawled, too, and </strong><i><strong>Rain Dogs </strong></i><strong>contains cabaret numbers, country songs, gospel, polkas, ballads and sea shanties. Waits is a sucker for the theatrical, and the ragbag cast here is at the carnivalesque end of things, plus sad-eyed dames and a girl with tattooed tear – one for every year he's away, she said – at the late-night, romantically downbeat, Edward Hopper-ish end. Waits can be extremely funny – I love the hilariously grotesque lineup of stingy senior relatives on </strong><i><strong>Cemetery Polka</strong></i><strong> – but he can also rein in his more bacchanalian impulses and write spare, heartbreaking beautiful songs, such as </strong><i><strong>Hang Down Your Head</strong></i><strong>, that always make me want to shush people so that they can experience it with the degree of reverence that I, with a convert's zeal, believe it deserves.” (The Gaurdian)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gwLi0AoHjd8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gwLi0AoHjd8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SKYLARKING > XTC, 1986)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zPN_nR53oOA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zPN_nR53oOA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Skylarking (XTC, 1986) – I’ve always been an XTC fan and this lush sounding album is perhaps their most realized effort. “Arising from a series of difficult sessions with producer Todd Rundgren (‘</strong><i><strong>As if there were any other kind of sessions with Todd</strong></i><strong>,’ say the New York Dolls), </strong><i><strong>Skylarking</strong></i><strong> polishes up the group's sometimes thorny pop and creates a shimmering, technicolor gem that I'm pretty sure every critic everywhere has called pastoral—and for good reason. Not only does it sound wholly organic with its lush strings and instrumentation, but it also conveys an almost spiritual quality in its underlying wisdom, </strong><i><strong>Dear God</strong></i><strong> notwithstanding. </strong><i><strong>Skylarking</strong></i><strong> is so nearly perfect to my way of thinking that it's hard to actually pull it apart and turn it into words.” (Pop Matters)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QvNnEeaa_1Q" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QvNnEeaa_1Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BRING THE FAMILY > JOHN HIATT 1987</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Bring the Family</strong></i><strong> was John Hiatt's breakthrough album and it quickly added fuel to the growing Americana music genre.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“In 1987, John Hiatt, clean and sober and looking for an American record deal, was asked by an A&R man at a British label to name his dream band. After a little thought, Hiatt replied that if he had his druthers, he'd cut a record with Ry Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums. To Hiatt's surprise, he discovered all three were willing to work on his next album; Hiatt and his dream band went into an L.A. studio and knocked off </strong><i><strong>Bring the Family</strong></i><strong> in a mere four days, and the result was the best album of Hiatt's career. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The musicians certainly make a difference here, generating a lean, smoky groove that's soulful and satisfying. Ry Cooder's guitar work is especially impressive, leaving no doubt of his singular gifts without ever overstepping its boundaries...but the real triumph here is Hiatt's songwriting. </strong><i><strong>Bring the Family</strong></i><strong> was recorded after a period of great personal turmoil for him, and for the most part the archly witty phrase-maker of his earlier albums was replaced by an wiser and more cautious writer who had a great deal to say about where life and love can take you. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hiatt had never written anything as nakedly confessional as </strong><i><strong>Tip of My Tongue</strong></i><strong> or </strong><i><strong>Learning How to Love You</strong></i><strong> before, and even straight-ahead R&B-style rockers like </strong><i><strong>Memphis in the Meantime</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Thing Called Love</strong></i><strong> possessed a weight and resonance he never managed before. But </strong><i><strong>Bring the Family</strong></i><strong> isn't an album about tragedy, it's about responsibility and belatedly growing up, and it's appropriate that it was a band of seasoned veterans with their own stories to tell about life who helped Hiatt bring it across; it's a rich and satisfying slice of grown-up rock & roll.” (AllMusic)</strong></span></p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8EdxM72EZ94" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8EdxM72EZ94?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIGN O' THE TIMES >PRINCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Sign O’ The Times (Prince, 1987) – Along with The White Album and Exile on Main Street, Sign O’ the Times is the template for the perfect double album. Take an artist at the peak of his powers, give him the space to work all his crazy ideas to their logical conclusion, and then edit the results into a varied four-sided collection. Club classics (</strong><i><strong>Hot Thing</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>U Got the Look</strong></i><strong>), ballads of epic rock (</strong><i><strong>The Cross</strong></i><strong>), sexy R&B (</strong><i><strong>Adore</strong></i><strong>), and flat-out amazing pop songs (</strong><i><strong>I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>If I Was Your Girlfriend</strong></i><strong>) are all here in abundance. Oh yeah, he wrote, played, produced, and sang just about everything himself, too. Was he the greatest quadruple threat ever? Listen and decide for yourself.” (Pop Matters)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wWbkcjIl7xo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wWbkcjIl7xo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TIDDLYWINKS > NRBQ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Every new album from NRBQ is an adventure. From the get go, the band’s main focus was to play…everything and anything! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“NRBQ's ecclecticism made it impossible to market, but was an absolute joy to their devout followers. The sound of the Tiddlywinks album is crisp and the committed, performances are proof of NRBQ's legacy. Regardless of how tough a day you've had, listening to the wonderful Tiddly Winks will make you break out with a goofy smile. That's a testament to the band's spirited talents and ageless musicianship.” (All Music)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="adyjlP_nHAI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/adyjlP_nHAI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GET HAPPY! > ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Get Happy</strong></i><strong> is perhaps the most fun album that Elvis Costello every invented. The songs captures the atmosphere of AM radio in it's best energy. i often think of this particular a record as a time machine.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was a time when I was in a band and we were in the midst of non-stop arguments and fisticuffs and suddenly I found myself singing the lyrics to Costello's excellent song, “The Imposter” and it made perfect sense.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Get Happy!!, </strong></i><strong>which is influenced by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>R&B</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska" title="Ska"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ska</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>soul music</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> of the 1960s helped create a departure from Costello's prior works. Two cover songs, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Dave" title="Sam & Dave"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sam & Dave</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s "</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Stand_Up_for_Falling_Down" title="I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>" and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merseybeats" title="The Merseybeats"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>the Merseybeats</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>' "I Stand Accused", are included. In contrast to the upbeat music, the mostly downbeat lyrics cover recurring themes such as doomed romances. Initial album sleeves reversed the side labels, which was corrected for later reissues. The cover art reflects the soul influence and was designed to resemble a 1960s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records" title="Stax Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stax</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> record, with initial copies boasting a pre-worn sleeve.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Initially delayed due to a dispute with </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" title="Warner Bros. Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warner Bros.</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and Costello's former label </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_Records" title="Radar Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Radar</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Get Happy!!</strong></i><strong> charted at number two in the UK and number 11 in the US, but sold less than </strong><i><strong>Armed Forces</strong></i><strong>. It was supported by a UK tour and three singles, of which "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" reached the UK top five. The album received positive reviews from music critics. Many focused on the quantity of tracks, which they felt varied in quality, although others gave high praise to the record and Costello himself. It is retrospectively viewed as one of his best works. Appearing on lists of the best albums of the 1980s.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5ee19f08d57f4ac0d3961ab95c0c48174fcb27ed/original/hot-platters-deluxe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pndhO5DcSI0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pndhO5DcSI0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While Bob Dylan had been battling his ability to reach the same level of songwriting with which he knocked us out over the decades. Upon the release of the Oh Mercy album it seemed that Dylan had found solid ground as a songwriter once again.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Oh Mercy was hailed as a comeback, not just because it had songs noticeably more meaningful than anything Bob Dylan had recently released, but because </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daniel-lanois-mn0000955544"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Daniel Lanois</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>' production gave it cohesion. There was cohesion on </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/empire-burlesque-mw0000650099"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Empire Burlesque</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, of course, but that cohesion was a little too slick, a little too commercial, whereas this record was filled with atmospheric, hazy production -- a sound as arty as most assumed the songs to be. And Dylan followed suit, giving </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lanois-mn0000955544"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lanois</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> significant songs -- palpably social works, love songs, and poems -- that seemed to connect with his past.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Oh Mercy</strong></i><strong> exists on its own plane, and the same is true of New Orleans, where it was fashioned…The slow-burn noir of </strong><i><strong>Oh Mercy</strong></i><strong> exudes the untouched gothic mystery of its New Orleans environs—the humid timbre of the recordings shaped heavily by their setting. The region’s enigmatic spirit affected Dylan’s writing, which drifts between the worldly and introspective, setting a decidedly postmodern tone. Uncertainty is a mossy through-line, connecting anxieties both political and romantic, as if there was no dividing line between global unrest and personal disorder." (aquariumdrunkard.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c667279299878d0793683b3949a80423b94a4bf1/original/monday-profile.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Well that's about all I can say about the 80's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Heh heh heh!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="JOIN THE ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST TODAY!"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f0f44d5461fbe8fcd217e95e2c906242537a7cea/original/mailing-list-icon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="JOIN THE ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST TODAY!"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>JOIN THE ROCK & ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND</u></strong></span></a><a data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="JOIN THE ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST TODAY!"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u> </u></strong></span></a><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="JOIN THE ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MINDMAILING LIST TODAY!"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>MAILING LIST!</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea300591988029f8920bf3f70227115980aead68/original/website-banner.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0acc327ac0d98747e9ee6459fce5c544eead0be7/original/johnny-pierre.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/johnny-pierre-store" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="JOHNNY PIERRE STORE" contents="Johnny Pierre - Rock &amp; Roll is a State of Mind"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><u>ROCK & ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>BACK TO ALL POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p><p> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/72281402023-06-18T05:52:00-04:002023-06-19T15:22:58-04:00Rock & Roll Sunday Songs On A Sunday<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bc76bacaa5ca7827358cc16b2b2c5d7c16b83f31/original/rock-roll-songs-on-a-sunday-icon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It's a beautiful morning on a Sunday</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>which always reminds me of rock & roll songs that are all about Sundays!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tT3JJmVbe3w" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tT3JJmVbe3w?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Blue Sunday </strong></i><strong>is track 10 on the Doors’ fifth album </strong><i><strong>Morrison Hotel</strong></i><strong>, which was released in February 1970. The album continues the bands’ trend from their previous album, </strong><i><strong>The Soft Parade</strong></i><strong>, in using more bluesy and hard rock influences. Blue Sunday, which was written by guitarist Robby Krieger, is a rare song in the band’s discography as it is one of the few tracks where drummer John Densmore does not provide any percussion.</strong></span></p><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors wrote Blue Sunday in 1965, when they were first starting out. For the </strong><i><strong>Morrison Hotel</strong></i><strong> album, they wanted to get back to their early sound, and felt recording this would be a good way to do it.</strong></span></div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;"> </div><hr><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="u5SmLgGnKJ4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u5SmLgGnKJ4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sunday Girl</strong></i><strong> is a song recorded by the American new wave band </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band)" title="Blondie (band)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, from the band's 1978 album </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lines" title="Parallel Lines"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Parallel Lines</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Written by guitarist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stein" title="Chris Stein"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chris Stein</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, the song was inspired by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry" title="Debbie Harry"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Debbie Harry</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>'s cat, who was named Sunday Man—the cat had recently run away, inspiring the song's "plaintive" nature.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sunday Girl</strong></i><strong> was released as the follow-up single to the band's number one hit single, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Glass_(song)" title="Heart of Glass (song)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Heart of Glass</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, in the UK and Europe (though not in the US). The single was a number 1 hit in the UK and Ireland and reached the top ten in several European countries. It has since seen critical acclaim and has been included on several compilation albums.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GnaUL8OpBck" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GnaUL8OpBck?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the few songs on Joe Jackson's debut album </strong><i><strong>Look Sharp!</strong></i><strong> that isn't about interpersonal relationships and matters of love, </strong><i><strong>Sunday Papers</strong></i><strong> is a takedown of the Fleet Street press, the UK print media that were prone to cover sensationalistic and frightening news stories to boost readership. Jackson had his battles with the press, who often categorized him in ways that weren't to his liking (New Wave?). His message here: don't trust everything you read, and don't let it affect your lifestyle.</strong></span></div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In 2011, it was revealed that the British newspaper </strong><i><strong>News of the World</strong></i><strong> was involved in phone hacking, and it produced quite a scandal. In 2012, we asked Joe Jackson about this event and if his song was prophetic. His reply: "I think that what applied now applied then. I think that some of the worst people just got busted, that's all. All that stuff with the </strong><i><strong>News of the World</strong></i><strong>, I think it was business as usual. There are certain publications in the UK that have gone down market, that have gotten trashier. And there are some that are still at least trying to maintain a certain dignity. But yeah, I'm not a big fan of the UK media in general." (Song Facts)</strong></span></div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;text-align:justify;"> </div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:999999px;overflow:hidden;padding:10px;text-align:justify;"> </div><hr><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="z-oZoB715iM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z-oZoB715iM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati of The Rascals wrote this song after they realized that because of their work schedule, they could see their girlfriends only on Sunday afternoons. It's implied that these Sunday afternoons are spent with a nice romp. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cavaliere told </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/seth-swirsky"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seth Swirsky</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who was shooting footage for his documentary </strong><i><strong>Beatles Stories</strong></i><strong>, "I met this young girl and I just fell head over heels in love. I was so gone that this joyous, wonderful emotion came into the music. Groovin' was part of that experience. If you look at the story line, it's very simple: we're groovin' on a Sunday afternoon because Friday and Saturdays are when musicians work. The simplicity of it is that Sundays you could be with your loved one. And the beauty of is this joyous bliss that at that time I equated with a person, but that's the beauty of music - when it's an example of what you do it lasts forever. You're in love forever because of that moment in time that you captured, and that's what was happening with Groovin'." (Beatles Stories)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The record company executives who worked on </strong><i><strong>Groovin'</strong></i><strong> didn't particularly like the song, but as they listened to the playback, influential New York DJ Murray the K overheard it and pronounced it a #1 record. Unbeknownst to the group, Murray went to Atlantic Records president Jerry Wexler and demanded it be released. As the program manager and top DJ on the first FM rock station (WOR-FM), Murray the K had this kind of clout, and also the rare ability to connect with listeners and recognize what songs would become hits. The Rascals, who started out as The Young Rascals, were playing at The Gordion Knot club on York Avenue when Murray picked them as his </strong><i><strong>house band</strong></i><strong> - the group that backed him up at personal appearances. It was that relationship (based on Murray's gut sense that the band had genuine potential) that drove his partisan support. (Record World)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2CXD8PK6Djc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2CXD8PK6Djc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Sunday</strong></i><strong> is a song by American </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>alternative rock</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> band </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Youth" title="Sonic Youth"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sonic Youth</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. It was released in 1998 by record label </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Geffen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> as the first and only single from their 10th studio album, </strong><i><strong>A Thousand Leaves</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The video for </strong><i><strong>Sunday</strong></i><strong> was directed by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Korine" title="Harmony Korine"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harmony Korine</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and starred Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Miner. The video made liberal use of slow- and fast-motion cameras and images of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballerina" title="Ballerina"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ballerinas</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> dancing and Culkin playing a banjo and interacting with Miner.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Df4FAuOQRQ0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Df4FAuOQRQ0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><span><strong>On Oct. 10, 1970, </strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.wideopencountry.com/the-story-behind-johnny-cashs-most-famous-story-song-a-boy-named-sue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Cash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong> took the </strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.wideopencountry.com/kris-kristofferson-and-willie-nelson-sunday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kris Kristofferson</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>-penned song "Sunday Morning Coming Down" to No. 1 on the </strong></span><i><span><strong>Billboard</strong></span></i><span><strong> Hot Country Singles Charts. Cash's recording of the song forever solidified it as one of the great entries in the American songbook. The tale of how it caught </strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.wideopencountry.com/inside-johnny-cashs-lakeside-tennessee-compound/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cash</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>'s attention is also one of country music's greatest stories.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>In 1969, the now legendary songwriter Kris Kristofferson was sweeping the floors at Columbia Records' offices in </strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wideopeneats.com/loveless-cafe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Nashville</strong></span></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Anyone who knew Kristofferson's background might have scoffed at his new role. He was an Oxford graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Captain in the Army, and a helicopter pilot. Despite his impressive resume, Kristofferson wanted nothing more than to be a songwriter, and he did anything to make that happen.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>His janitor gig at Columbia was one step closer to achieving that goal. He watched Bob Dylan record</strong></span></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://amzn.to/3omaclG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong> Blonde on Blonde</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>, but never mustered the courage to say hello. He did, however, meet another one of his idols: Johnny Cash.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kristofferson would watch Cash in the hallways and through the glass windows when he was recording. They met a few times in passing, but Cash only knew him as the man pushing the broom. At this point, Kristofferson was already a prolific songwriter. He was desperate to give Cash tapes of his songs but knew that he'd get fired if his employers caught him. So he tried a different angle.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>He befriended Johnny's wife, June Carter. June liked Kristofferson, and would often sneak demo tapes of his songs in her purse to bring home to Johnny. At night, she'd play the tapes for him in their bedroom above Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee. Every night Cash would listen and chuck them out the bedroom window into the lake below.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As fate would have it, Kristofferson was also working part-time as a helicopter pilot for the Army Reserve. On a routine flight training mission, Kristofferson veered off his course and headed for Cash's home on Old Hickory Lake. After landing the chopper on Cash's lawn, he walked up to the home with the demo of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" in hand. The rest is history." 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Monterey Pop was also the first multi-day concert with rock artists from around the world. The development of the Monterey Pop Festival validated rock music as an art form, forever revolutionizing the music industry. The festival also made waves politically and socially, as it is credited with helping to catalyze the “Summer of Love” and strengthening the 1960s American counterculture movement. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“By the middle of the 1960’s, attitudes about music had certainly changed. Mainstream America continued to enjoy romantic ballads and frothy pop music, but a harder edge was emerging as young people began to experiment with the more lyrically and musically intricate rock music…It was a new world and the music of the late sixties was the perfect vehicle for expressing the transformation of America’s youth…The idea of music festivals wasn’t anything new. The three-day Newport Jazz Festival had been popular since it first debuted in 1954…Modeled aft the Newport festival, folk and jazz festivals also became popular on the West Coast, in particular in the small city of Monterey, California. Monterey was known as a community of artists and was home to painters, writers, dancers and musicians…it wasn’t so much the need to gather with like-minded people that brought about the first rock festival, but rather a desire on the part of the organizers to validate the music that the young people of America were creating and enjoying.” (Marley Brant, Join Together: Forty Years of the Rock Festival, 2000 Back Beat Books) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3b4b787e683e7eb4f6ae22e0575d8cd78d9e887f/original/monterey-pop-collage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There was a buzz in the air, and it wasn’t from the perpetual plumes of pot smoke. Something big was happening – something that had never happened before, and everybody could feel its energy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“From 1962 until 1969, nothing happened in linear time, everything was happening at once. There were all these random factors: LSD, the Beatles, the sexual revolution, the anti-war movement, the Civil Rights Movement. It was exhilarating and encompassing and with the Pop Festival we wanted to bring all that emotion and passion to Monterey… It was a revelation.” (Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3d5e7eebd5bdbc779f72c610c07064f0a3dfbd5b/original/cass-elliots-house-where-many-rock-stars-hung-out-back-in-1967.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The impetus behind the staging of the Monterey International Pop Festival evolved one night in 1967, at Mama Cass Elliot’s house. Paul McCartney, John and Michelle Phillips, Cass and Lou Adler were discussing, along with other highly inspired issues, the general perception of Rock ‘n’ Roll…and that although jazz was considered an art form … Rock ‘n’ Roll on the other hand…was continually viewed as a fad, a trend … both were American born musical genres. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The actual idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival initially came from Alan Pariser, who had attended the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival. John Phillips and Lou Adler were approached by Alan Pariser and his partner, a promoter named Ben Shapiro who wanted to hire the Mamas and The Papas to headline a blues and rock concert at the Monterey Fairgrounds…and as the story goes … later that night actually three o’clock in the morning John and Lou had decided, influenced by some heavy </strong><i><strong>California Dreamin’ </strong></i><strong>that it should be a charitable event…and with six weeks to go the Monterey International Pop Festival; a three-day non-profit event was about to become a reality. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alan Pariser would stay on as a co-producer along with Peter Pilafian. Chip Monck would come on to handle lighting and staging. Derek Taylor, who had worked with Brian Epstein and The Beatles, became the publicist. Tom Wilkes was hired as art director, David Wheeler as head of security… A Board of Governors was established that consisted of: Donovan; Mick Jagger; Paul McCartney; Jim McGuinn; Terry Melcher; Andrew Loog Oldham; Alan Pariser; Johnny Rivers; Smokey Robinson; Brian Wilson, John Phillips and Lou Adler. It was agreed that the line-up of acts would represent all genres of the immediate past, the present, and the future of contemporary music, and that all the acts would be treated the same and have first-class travel and accommodations. The Monterey International Pop Festival production offices were in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. housed in the old Renaissance Jazz Club building. The festival’s office had a real buzz going through it … David Crosby and Stephen Stills hanging out…Procol Harum’s yet to be released ‘Whiter Shade Of Pale’ being played over and over…Michelle Phillip’s was on the phone selling ads…John and Lou on the telephone talking to managers and potential acts … A whirlwind of excitement, of gentle strong-arming, calling in every chip imaginable, dealing with the concerns of the San Francisco group’s managers, charming the Monterey City Council and Police Department and getting it all done… for charity…giving something back. (The Official History of Monterey Pop Festival 1967)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/926d8ebc7ca6a5609338611a18729941faabacbc/original/lou-adler-john-phillips.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Adler & John Phillips</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In short order, others joined in to help this project go forward. Among those who became involved were record producer Terry Melcher, Johnny Rivers and Paul Simon. An executive committee was formed that included John Phillips, Lou Adler, Paul McCartney and his fellow Beatles, Alan Pariser and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys along with the added help of Terry Melcher and Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Planning did not get off to a smooth start: Though the idea for the festival had always been to showcase a wide range of musicians, the psychedelic bands from San Francisco wanted nothing to do with the more commercial pop musicians from Los Angeles. Those meetings that took place in San Francisco, Adler says, 'pretty much almost came to blows.' </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On top of that, local authorities in Monterey were starting to get cold feet over the prospect of their town being overrun by hippies. To smooth things over, Phillips wrote a song, </strong><i><strong>San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)</strong></i><strong>. The song was an instant hit and broke through to the Top 10 charts in the United States.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4b12c713ac31ab98990d2de55af7db9f4814d898/original/monterey-pop-film-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ec21cb29f5d8ddb9f35de658efd85b19a1abc6bd/original/monterey-film-crew.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pennebaker's team used recently developed portable 16mm crystal-sync motion picture cameras that stayed synchronize with double-system sound-recording systems. The film stock was Eastman Kodak's recently released high-speed" 16mm Ektachrome 100 ASA color reversal motion picture stock, without which the nighttime shows would have been virtually impossible to shoot in color. Sound was captured by Wally Heider's mobile studio on a then state-of-the art eight-channel recorder, with one track used for the crystal-sync tone, to synchronize it with the film cameras.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the meantime, ABC TV put up a $200,000 advance to get a film made about Monterey Pop for its new "Movie of the Week" series. Pennebaker, fresh off the success of his Bob Dylan documentary </strong><i><strong>Don't Look Back</strong></i><strong>, was hired to make it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9607e59b539f68166559dc7dee615d756397ec1e/original/d-a-pennebaker.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>D.A. Pennebaker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Usually I just did my films by myself. The idea of having to do a concert film with four or five or six cameramen was something I never even thought about doing before. When I sat down to edit, I thought the best thing I could do was to make a film that’s like putting on a record. No interviews. No philosophy. Just the music." (D.A. Pennebaker)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Most of the Monterey Pop musicians played for free, with ticket proceeds going to charity. A foundation set up for the festival still donates royalties from any Monterey-related releases and from Pennebaker's documentary, which was released in theaters the following year. However, Monterey Pop never aired on ABC, the network that bankrolled it — a decision made by Tom Moore, the head of ABC at the time and, according to Adler, 'We showed him Jimi Hendrix fornicating with his amp and we said, 'What do you think?' ' Adler recalls. 'And he said, 'Keep the money and get out.' He said, 'Not on my network.' " (www.kazu.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The financing for the festival would be provided by the afore-mentioned executive committee. Those who were providing the finance to present the festival would end up being able to dictate who might appear at the festival. The committee decided to avoid booking a lot of acts who were supported by corporate interests. They decided to focus on many acts from the local scene in California. The committee also decided that none of the performers would be paid since the event was a charitable one; it was assumed that in lieu of payment for their performances, the artists would receive significant exposure in the media. As predicted, some of the artists who played the festival were indeed rewarded with media coverage; such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Ironically, both Hendrix and Joplin were on major corporate record labels. In lieu of payment, the artists received transportation, meals and hotel rooms during the festival. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/726ce41d60274ea548664bc8b1d175a662a69ecf/original/lou-adler.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Adler</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Our idea for Monterey was to provide the best of everything – sound equipment, sleeping and eating accommodations, transportation – services that had never been provided for the artist before Monterey.” (Lou Adler)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7a572b72d860f95f60dae8357d4218ddf94a5a1/original/monterey-pop-festival-poster-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3c667fc39f237bc5659a77dcf9b4cffba5a8e1a8/original/performers-loung.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Backstage @ the Performers Lounge</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Below the single stage that hosted 32 acts was a 24-hour cafe serving the artists steak and lobster. The organizers also set up a first-aid clinic for concertgoers and those folks with any drug-related problems.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0608a387a8e1f7c83a1012112331ccc134cf0c6/original/bob-hite-elvin-bishop.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob "the Bear" Hite (Canned Heat)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>& Elvin Bishop (Paul Butterfield Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a4527abd3e5271f6a569ac54e0e53bdd9223f574/original/brian-j.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brian Jones & Jimi Hendrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many of the artists who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 would go on to become rock music icons.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca3fdc6c4d25da6a8a9f60b141871facf167ff7b/original/monterey-fairgrounds-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/46e3d33d5d165f1668f89cb14df8ba68799bb622/original/monterey-pop-june-16-tix.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">FRIDAY JUNE 16 </span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b22c832a79860c8aff06a033d084e7677da266d2/original/the-association.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Association </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by John Phillips </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Enter The Young </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Along Comes Mary </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Windy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(this set list is incomplete</strong></span>)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"At Monterey Pop one of the biggest shocker was the Top 40 pop group the Association. Their lush harmonies weren't just the product of studio tinkering, it turns out, and aggressive bass lines and a sharp-edged Rickenbacker guitar sound made </strong><i><strong>Windy</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Along Comes Mary</strong></i><strong> sound like something more than just moldy oldies." (paperback writer blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1218064e605d31ffd73585e37b21d212c5ffee43/original/paupers1967stage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Paupers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by David Crosby </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Magic People </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Think I Care </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tudor Impressions </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Simple Deed </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Let Me Be </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. Feelgood/Bass Solo/Dr. Feelgood</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"...the bassist for The Paupers, Dennis Gerrard, a stubby bullfrog with bulging eyes that seem to rise clear out of his head when he would start fooling around with the feedback--The Paupers really know how--and gradually worked into an unanticipated solo. It was really good--Gerrard was the most expressive bass player I've ever heard in a rock band. He's one of the few musicians who explored the kind of facility the electric bass was invented to provide--and as he played his bass he kept going, his eyes half-closed and showing nothing but white, and after a couple of good stretches he got scattered applause. Then he appeared to finish and was cheered enthusiastically. But Gerrard wasn't through yet. He turned to the amplifier, doubling the cord so he got shuddering interference on every note, and played some more, not so well this time, but very intensely, perhaps even hoking it up consciously, and now, although the whole solo was turning into an exhibition, the place really broke up, unable to withstand the impulsion of its own excitement." (YardByrd blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3NTbkZEgvVQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3NTbkZEgvVQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Rawls </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Peter Tork </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love Is A Hurtin' Thing </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dead End Street </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tobacco Road[1] </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On A Clear Day You Can See Forever </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Autumn Leaves</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Lou Rawls, the R&B singer from Chicago delivered big time here with some very charismatic and articulately humored performances that the crowd responded to. Every line he utters has a eye wink with it and when he gets serious, he’s a soulful and passionate vocalist. Fantastic R&B performances from Lou Rawls and his band bring plenty of applause and laughter. Rawls storytelling with instrumental backing and his singing just wins over the audience and me when I first heard how likable he sounds musically and comically. I say 'yes and double dee-dee' joking around (a double yes, indeed!)-one of his ad-libs during this set. He seems to use a lot more 60’s slang then most addressing the audience and the set is better for it. “Tobacco Road” brings humor, drama, and a mix of rock, soul, jazz & blues. It’s multi-suite arrangement and long drawn out vocal at the end is stellar." (Steve Hoffman Music Forums)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81445d1a92235a8638ea3c15565ce6d3b36c8c92/original/beverly-martyn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beverly Martyn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Paul Simon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Joy (solo) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweet Honesty (solo) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Picking Up the Sunshine (with 'house' band)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ied9sLUCnuc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ied9sLUCnuc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Beverley Martyn (born Beverley Kutner on 24 March 1947), singer, songwriter and guitarist. Beverley was born near Coventry and fronted The Levee Breakers, a jug band who played the folk circuit in south east England. At the age of 16 she recorded her first single. </strong><i><strong>Babe I'm Leaving You</strong></i><strong>, released on Parlophone 1965. Martyn was then signed as a solo artist to Deram. In 1966 she released a single, </strong><i><strong>Happy New Year</strong></i><strong> (b-side </strong><i><strong>Where The Good Times Are</strong></i><strong>), written by Randy Newman, on which she was accompanied by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Andy White. </strong><i><strong>Happy New Year</strong></i><strong> was chosen, together with </strong><i><strong>I Love My Dog</strong></i><strong> by Cat Stevens, to launch Deram as the progressive branch of Decca Records. She also recorded an unreleased single in the same year, </strong><i><strong>Picking Up The Sunshine</strong></i><strong> / </strong><i><strong>Gin House Blues</strong></i><strong>. These last two tracks also featured John Renbourn and Mike Lease. During this period she was taught the guitar by the folk guitarist Bert Jansch who also encouraged her songwriting. Her follow-up single </strong><i><strong>Museum</strong></i><strong>, written by Donovan was released in 1967, produced by Denny Cordell. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Closely involved with the folk scene, Beverly met Paul Simon who invited her to New York where she contributed to the track </strong><i><strong>Fakin' It</strong></i><strong> on the Simon & Garfunkel album </strong><i><strong>Bookends</strong></i><strong> on which she says in the middle of the song: '</strong><i><strong>Good morning, Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day</strong></i><strong>.' She later appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on 16 June 1967, as did Simon & Garfunkel." (coventrygigs.blogspot.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TWMkwJSBA2I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TWMkwJSBA2I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Rivers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Peter Tork</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Help Me, Rhonda </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, Tennessee </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mountain of Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Midnight Special </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do What You Gotta Do </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tunesmith </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Baby I Need Your Loving </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poor Side of Town </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Secret Agent Man </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Help! (performed twice during set)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Another singer that shows the diversity of the festival, Johnny Rivers brought more star power than psychedelic rock. Both had strong chart showings at this time, but Rivers was a bonafide star by this time. Scanning the setlist, </strong><i><strong>Memphis, Tennessee</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Mountain of Love</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Poor Side of Town</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Secret Agent Man</strong></i><strong> were all hits before 1967. With Rivers there, it was guaranteed some AM radio hits would be played." (Steve Hoffman Music Forums)</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa3a7b9d4603a7361bf8b6ec08a44332f52ebafc/original/eric-burdon-the-new-animals.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iLo8GJJLUhE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iLo8GJJLUhE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Burdon and The Animals </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Chet Helms </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Franciscan Nights </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gin House Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Gyp </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paint It, Black</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Eric Burdon will always be associated with the Monterey Pop Festival largely due to his hit single </strong><i><strong>Monterey</strong></i><strong> which was released in 1968. During the Animals set at Monterey Pop, Eric & his new band of Animals performed the Rolling Stones song, </strong><i><strong>Paint It Black</strong></i><strong> which gave off a vibe of frightening psychedelic dark wastelands around the world. The “New” Animals were a remarkable band that always played well and with so much diversity. Burdon had so many different styles he was trying and they usually pulled off great music-always staying creative within their psychedelia. A great set from The Animals who show so many facets of pop/rock in just 4 selections." (Steve Hoffman Music Forums)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/43b6c43567d285315a8f5ab602679d5c69cebdd6/original/s-g.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Simon & Garfunkel </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by John Phillips </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Homeward Bound </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>At The Zoo </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her[1] </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sound of Silence </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Benedictus </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Punky's Dilemma</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Simon & Garfunkel closed out the first night of the festival. Paul Simon, who felt the festival reflected the spirit of a 'jubilee', was anxious to perform for the crowd.. Simon's beautiful melodies, when matched with Garfunkel's angelic voice, captured the spirit of 1967.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8de216c3dadae0d2b519739f5d92263be7c0bcd9/original/merry-pranksters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The communal group, the Merry Pranksters & their leader Ken Kesey, traveled to Monterey in Further, their notorious dayglow bus, to be part of the festival.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c573bb9bf29f5a6183ed0b229345b48191c7573/original/monterey-crowd-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Across the fairgrounds, the crowd was filled with the notion that they were part of a watershed event that would be remembered for the ages.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/81772ce1f7c271eee3f30431a513eded94ae221f/original/monterey-fairgrounds.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SATURDAY JUNE 17</strong></span><br> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="mBpu3ia7Lwo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mBpu3ia7Lwo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by John Phillips</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rollin' And Tumblin' </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dust My Broom </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bullfrog Blues </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: Canned Heat set list is incomplete.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Monterey Pop was the festival that broke Canned Heat on a big scale. Prior to this, Canned Heat had mainly played smaller gigs around the L.A. underground scene – a scene that was bubbling, and threatening to erupt at the time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat's set was filmed by director DA Pennebaker (who directed Dylan’s legendary ‘Don’t Look Back’ film) and a rave review of their set in popular music rag Down Beat gushed: “Technically, Vestine and Wilson are quite possibly the best two-guitar team in the world and Wilson has certainly become our finest white blues harmonica man.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band's performance at Monterey and the release of their debut album the following month saw the band quickly rise to fame.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5454733df8e1100be461b4b0727e5201821bf5d2/original/big-brother-and-the-holding-company.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother and the Holding Company </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Chet Helms</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Down on Me </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Combination of the Two </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Harry </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roadblock </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ball 'n' Chain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As one of the first acts on Saturday afternoon at Monterey, Bib Brother and the Holding Company clearly made an impression with a song called </strong><i><strong>Ball and Chain</strong></i><strong>. The song provided Joplin with the the opportunity to build slowly and summon her powers at various points along the way. When Pennebaker’s crew ran out of film and could not film the band's Saturday performance, they had a second shot at filming on Sunday.</strong></span></p><p>.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YDhLYJMPlYg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YDhLYJMPlYg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Country Joe and the Fish </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bomb Song </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Section 43</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Country Joe & The Fish entered the music scene with their debut album, </strong><i><strong>Electric Music For The Mind and Body</strong></i><strong>, was one of the best full-fledged psychedelic albums of its time, the instruments, particularly the guitar and organ taking center stage in their songs. The band knew how to craft their music that it didn’t adhere to the era’s commercialized rock radio candy.: (iclassicrock.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d02ba253f979100a92ea4496e5b3666f2bda5fe3/original/barry-melton-country-joe-the-fish.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I attended the entire Monterey Pop event. Jimi Hendrix and The Who were phenomenal, as were Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat, The Electric Flag, Otis Redding and Ravi Shankar. The Monterey Pop movie was shot on a shoestring. But, that Festival contained the hope, promise and idealism of the era. Two years later, by the time of the Woodstock movie, much of what went wrong with the Sixties became obvious." (Barry "The Fish" Melton, Country Joe and the Fish Lead Guitarist)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/055aed7cd02d99a9b5d8abb192b7b387a62a8021/original/al-kooper-monterey.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Al Kooper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Paul Butterfield </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wake Me, Shake Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Al Kooper was in a bit of flux when he performed in Monterey. After famously being a part of Bob Dylan going electric, he joined the NY-based The Blues Project who were somewhat successful with their live reputation and had released two albums in 1966 plus the single </strong><i><strong>I Can’t Keep From Crying</strong></i><strong> in November of that year. Sometime after that, Kooper left the group despite being a major part of its sound and released a solo single in March. While The Blues Project also played Monterey, Kooper did 2 Blues Project songs – both arranged by him and The Blues Project did Al Kooper stuff like </strong><i><strong>Flute Thing</strong></i><strong> later. Kooper proved he could bring entertainment on his own. Regardless, maybe he didn’t feel totally right as a solo artist perhaps because of this show and formed Blood Sweat & Tears soon after- before again going solo the following year." (Steve Hoffman Forums)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="e3LEhfbKCSc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3LEhfbKCSc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Butterfield Blues Band </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Look Over Yonders Wall </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mystery Train </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Born In Chicago </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Double Trouble </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mary Ann </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Droppin' Out </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One More Headache </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Driftin' Blues </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: The Butterfield Blues Band set list is incomplete.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Paul Butterfield Blues Band were based in Chicago and already were established as one of rock’s innovators engaging in long jamming, Chicago blues rock, and excellent instrumental work. Butterfield gaves extended harmonica performances, with impressive ones on both </strong><i><strong>Mystery Train</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Born in Chicago</strong></i><strong>. Mike Bloomfield, who left the band to form form his Electric Flag combo, was sorely missed.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tIcj3kNCPA0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tIcj3kNCPA0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List </u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dino's Song (All I Ever Wanted to Do) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If You Live </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Acapulco Gold and Silver </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Too Long </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Who Do You Love?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Quicksilver Messenger Service started life during the folk-rock boom as an electric backing band for singer-guitarist-songwriter Dino Valenti. Before they could develop in that capacity, however, Valenti was arrested for drug possession and received a prison sentence. However, rather than splitting up, the group continued on without their front man, and over the next two years, the group proceeded to astound audiences in San Francisco with their performances, consisting of extended jams, stretched out through Cipollina’s shimmering angular lead guitar lines. For a time, the two top acts in the city were 'the Quick and the Dead (The Grateful Dead)', but at the time of their appearance at Monterey, Quicksilver had yet to be signed by any label." (Arthur's Musical Journey blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7970509ad6d25700784e6ba96d8a905ff11c34e1/original/steve-miller.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="u536Y0bPu8A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u536Y0bPu8A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Living in the USA </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mercury Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Super Shuffle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"San Francisco was almost the center of the universe. It was a swirling amount of energy -- art, lights, posters, writing, music -- and the world seemed to be looking to it for inspiration. Whereas L.A. just had a bunch of pop stars trying to make money." (Steve Miller)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="37fNUR3aWrk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/37fNUR3aWrk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Electric Flag </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by David Crosby</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Groovin' Is Easy </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Over-Lovin' You </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Night Time Is the Right Time </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Barry Goldberg (The Electric Flag, keyboards): "We were from Chicago. We’d never seen surfers before. It was like H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine -- we were the Morlocks, living under ground and not getting enough sun. These perfect blonde people with hardly any clothes on, they were the Eloi. Some hippie girls dressed me in a sharktooth necklace and a cut-off Levi jacket. [Electric Flag guitarist] Michael Bloomfield said, 'Take off those stupid clothes right now.' I’d just heard </strong><i><strong>Strawberry Fields Forever</strong></i><strong>, so I said, 'There’s nothing to get hung up about.' Then he threw a book at me." (Monterey Pop's Oral History)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8rVYZ4hYnt0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8rVYZ4hYnt0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Tom Smothers. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Indifference </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mr. Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sitting By the Window </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Omaha </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fall On You </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Grandma </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lazy Me</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hm8Wj4keXH4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hm8Wj4keXH4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Lewis (Moby Grape): "Moby Grape were backstage with our manager, Matthew Katz, and Lou Adler. Lou talked about putting us on Saturday night, and filming it. That story is absolutely true: Matthew said, 'I own the band’s name, and you have to pay me $1 million or you can’t film my band.' Adler was pissed off, and said, 'Fine, you’ll play in the afternoon.' [Moby Grape singer] Skip Spence went crazy and fired Matthew right then. If we had been in the movie, like Janis, it would’ve made us huge stars.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Lewis: Monterey was the first time I took acid. Some chick gave it to me. She mentioned getting it from David Crosby, and I split it with [bandmate] Bob Mosley. I remember thinking I was dead. Then light appeared in front of my eyes, and I realized I was lying in the parking lot of our motel, and the light was the stars. By the time the sun came up, I thought, “This is a real beginning.” I had died to my identity as [actress] Loretta Young’s son, and woke up to a new identity: a guy who played music. Making it in show business was not part of my vision of who I was. The age of the individual was coming." (The Oral History of Monterey Pop Festival)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="e0PzJLVWBHY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e0PzJLVWBHY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hugh Masekela </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Set List</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here, There And Everywhere </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Society's Child </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bajabula Bonke (Healing Song) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: Hugh Masekela set list is incomplete.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"D. A. Pennebaker, whose classic documentary </strong><i><strong>Monterey Pop</strong></i><strong> captures Masekela in one of the breakthrough performances of his early career. The filmmaker noted that what struck him about Masekela was how he served as a vital contrast to the rest of the concert lineup. 'The film begins with Canned Heat playing </strong><i><strong>Rollin’ and Tumblin</strong></i><strong>,’ followed by Simon & Garfunkel doing </strong><i><strong>The 59th Street Bridge Song</strong></i><strong> —personal performances, which I think is where music began. Then the film jumps into the big sound of Masekela and his band, and with that beginning I always think of the film as a kind of history of music.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/033f6d8f334f6762dce8d9a7e4532ebe2ab68fb3/original/the-byrds-monterey.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Byrds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Mike Bloomfield </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Renaissance Fair </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Have You Seen Her Face </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Joe </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>He Was a Friend of Mine </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lady Friend </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chimes of Freedom </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Know My Rider </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(featuring Hugh Masekela on Trumpet)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/410d7ceefc4d7dc25fd7377db1665349049e73a7/original/david-crosby.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On stage with The Byrds, David Crosby pissed off his bandmates by lecturing the audience between songs on the Kennedy assassination and expressing the notion that every man, woman and child should take LSD. Four months later, they kicked Crosby out of the band.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="raxswPy0bW4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/raxswPy0bW4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Laura Nyro </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eli's Comin' </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stoned Soul Picnic[6] </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wedding Bell Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Poverty Train</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Laura Nyro underwent an almost nightmarish experience when she played the Monterey Pop Festival. Nyro, dressed up in gypsy Vegas garbs and backed by a black chic trio, thoroughly alienated the hippie audience by attempting to put on a soul revue and was all but booed off the stage." (montereyherald.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dsDdJWn55G0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dsDdJWn55G0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Jerry Garcia </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Somebody to Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Other Side of This Life </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>White Rabbit[1] </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>High Flying Bird </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>She Has Funny Cars </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Young Girl Sunday Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"My idea of a good festival, the best festival of all time, was Monterey. They had these little booths where you could actually walk up if you wanted to buy something, with artists' stuff on display. You could get food. You could go to the bathroom. People could see things. It wasn't too big. When it was over and you wanted to go home, you could just get in your car and drive there." (Grace Slick)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2c320541b069b6ec88dbde69c52a2ea446de953/original/lou-adler-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Adler</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Adler: "The Beach Boys had confirmed that they would play the festival on Saturday but then they decided not to play, which catapulted Otis Redding, backed by Booker T. & The M.G.'s and The Mar-Keys, into the Saturday night headlining spot."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/07346b883a1cac4dab2fb1da84364c8b9923e032/original/booker-t-the-mgs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker T. & the M.G.'s </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mar-Keys </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker Loo </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hip Hug-Her </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Philly Dog </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Green Onions </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: Booker T. & the M.G.s set list is incomplete.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"I didn’t have any knowledge of the counterculture, so I was one shocked young fella. Everyone was dressed so casually, and there we were, in silk mohair suits. We could not have been more out of place." (Booker T. Jones)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AqYWfxmAStU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AqYWfxmAStU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Otis Redding </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Tommy Smothers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shake </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Respect[1] </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've Been Loving You Too Long </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Satisfaction </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Try a Little Tenderness</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:right;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c3e4defdbf56146619ee3a19095d956fda3c5b13/original/otis-rocking-the-house.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Booker T. Jones: "We were very anxious about Monterey. Otis came out onstage timidly. That lasted about two seconds. The crowd made him feel at home. It came on the heels of an extended tour of Europe, and those performances stand out in my memory as, in some ways, unsurpassable. But because of the crowd energy in Monterey and the occasion, it was another superlative performance from Otis. That evening was surreal to me because of the cultural changes I was seeing. It was like coming home, but stepping into a new world. It was an America I hadn’t seen before. (The Oral History of Monterey Pop Festival)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Monterey Pop placed Otis Redding before a whole new audience. These young hippie kids, not to mention all the industry folks and press who also attended the event, took him to a whole new level. Listen to his voice control in the clip above — how gently he starts, like velvet; and how easily he flips to a thundering wail. My favorite moment is around the 1:00 mark, where he howls </strong><i><strong>Oh!</strong></i><strong>, pauses, and asks to do it again. He does it three times total, working the audience without directly addressing the audience. This was a masterclass in subtlety." (Consequence of Sound blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/305eebc99bcc63a4ec54f6426e135b1714372adf/original/monterey-pop-june-18-tix.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffbbfab5f5e85dcb3fd17405423cb38c041347b0/original/monterey-fairgrounds-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SUNDAY JUNE 18</strong></span><br> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/22b1cebefb706a82e4b7e37374ce8ac80268a9e6/original/ravi-shankar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ravi Shankar </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rãga Todi-Rupak Tal (7 Beats) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tabla Solo In Ektal (12 Beats) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rãga Shuddha Sarang-Tintal (16 Beats) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rãga Bhimpalasi </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dhun In dadra and fast teental (6 and 16 beats)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="n91Vhdrrkss" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n91Vhdrrkss?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"On the third day of the festival, Ravi Shankar was given the stage for the entire Sunday afternoon. It really came out of nowhere. Rumor of Shankar had been circulating for a bit. George Harrison was a student and a couple of rock stars were starting to dabble in Eastern mysticism. Shankar had been playing in the U.S for years, notably at Carnegie Hall, and at Royce Hall in UCLA in 1961. A recording of the Royce Hall concert was released in cooperation with the school’s Institute of Ethnomusicology. Shankar moved to California earlier in 1967 because he was in such demand. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But his appearance on the Monterey County Fairgrounds stage in 1967 — and the recordings that followed — would be Shankar’s real introduction to a larger audience. It was so different and so mesmerizing that it opened the minds of American youth to a culture completely separate from their own. And that’s saying something. At 48, Shankar was a relative geezer in that place at that time, and his instrument resembled some loon attempt to make a centipede musical. In Monterey, he lets loose with a collection of classical Hindustani music of his own</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It was apparently an other-worldly experience for Shankar himself. On stage with his elaborate instrument, Shankar was joined by his tabla player, Alla Rakha, and his partner at the time, Kamala Chakravarty, on tambura. Critics say it was his greatest performance ever, and Shankar himself agreed." (voicesofmontereybay.org)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1oIE95Ro9Ms" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1oIE95Ro9Ms?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Blues Project </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flute Thing </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wake Me, Shake Me </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: Blues Project set list is incomplete.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Blues Project's last hurrah was at the Monterey International Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in June 1967. By this time, however, half of the band's original line-up was gone. Katz left soon thereafter, followed by Kalb. Al Kooper was at the festival in the capacity of "assistant stage manager" to "Chip" Monck. Along with sitting in with the Blues Project for two tunes, Kooper also performed a short set with a pickup group of players.</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="X1zFnyEe3nE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X1zFnyEe3nE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother and the Holding Company </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Tommy Smothers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Combination of the Two </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ball and Chain </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Note: Big Brother and the Holding Company second set is the one filmed for Monterey Pop. The first set was not filmed, but the band wanted to appear in the film after their first set (Saturday afternoon) received huge acclaim.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Group With No Name </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Set List is Unknown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a2f544a26e01035def695ffd3c58fc3dc2fbfe0/original/cyrus-faryar-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cyrus Faryar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Group With No Name took the stage. Michael Lydon, a well known rock writer, for once, got it right, predicting they 'may well not last long enough to get a name'. No one seems to have recognised, recorded or recalled anything they played. The band was led by Cyrus Faryar, a founder member of The Modern Folk Quartet.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Yes indeed, there is little known about The Group With No Name. The only name I could come up with is the band's leader, Cyrus Faryar (who once recorded a psychedelic album for Elektra Records). I came across an interview with Faryar that briefly mentioned the Monterey Pop Festival: "For me, the whole of the Monterey Pop event was a bit like a fabulous banquet with so many different dishes and flavors; from outright bar-b-q to ice cream and cake. There should be one very year. Each player was so unique and amazing in their own way. It felt like an endless outpouring of talents and gifts. Some of the performers were old friends and they were just as amazed being part of that wonderful menu of great artists." (Blues GR blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TXVe2XH5rpk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TXVe2XH5rpk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield (played with David Crosby) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Peter Tork </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(With David Crosby guesting in place of Neil Young, plus Doug Hastings) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>For What It's Worth </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock and Roll Woman </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bluebird </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Child's Claim to Fame </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pretty Girl Why</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ec14cbaa1e81d4b0237ac819c3b04b449ab1a57/original/buffalo-springfield-monterey-pop-festival-set.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2011 Interview with Richie Furay in Goldmine Magazine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Goldmine Magazine: "Years ago, Buffalo Springfield performed at the Monterey Pop Festival. Will the footage of the band’s entire performance ever be released? </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richie Furay: Our performance at Monterey we were definitely not on. It was not a real good representation of the band, from my perspective. Neil wasn’t there, and that was disappointing. David Crosby sat in with us for our set. Monterey wasn’t our best performance. I was just coming off tonsillitis and I was half there myself. (Laughing) It was just not a really good representation of how I’d like the Springfield to be remembered."</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qjN5uHRIcjM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjN5uHRIcjM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Eric Burdon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Substitute </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Summertime Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pictures of Lily </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Quick One, While He's Away </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Happy Jack (the only song not filmed from this performance) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>My Generation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Although already a big act in the UK, and now gaining some attention in the US after playing some New York dates two months earlier, The Who were propelled into the American mainstream at Monterey. The band used rented Vox amps for their set, which were not as powerful as their regular Sound City amps which they had left in England to save shipping costs. At the end of their frenetic performance of </strong><i><strong>My Generation</strong></i><strong>, the audience was stunned as guitarist Pete Townshend smashed his guitar, smoke bombs exploded behind the amps and frightened concert staff rushed onstage to retrieve expensive microphones. At the end of the mayhem, drummer Keith Moon kicked over his drum kit as the band exited the stage. During Jimi Hendrix's stay in England he and the Who had seen each other perform, they were both impressed with and intimidated by each other, so neither wanted to be upstaged by the other. They decided to toss a coin, with The Who. The Who won the coin toss and ended up performing before Hendrix." (alchetron.com)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ROHpBgcmHBA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ROHpBgcmHBA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Viola Lee Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cold Rain and Snow </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alligator/Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Dead finally made their appearance in a sunburst of San Francisco warm.'You know what foldin' chairs are for, don't you?' asked Bob Weir, his dirty blond hair hanging down past his shoulder blades and over his face. 'They're for foldin' up and dancin' on.' As the group drifted into </strong><i><strong>Viola Lee Blues</strong></i><strong>, the hangers-on in the wings started to dance, slowly gravitating toward the center of the stage, and some of the audience got up as well. Adler's compulsive streak was really beginning to show. He was mad. Before too long he helped the stagehands hustle the dancers off, and the ushers did the same in the aisles. There was no resistance per se, but everyone was annoyed. The Dead looked as if they might actually leave the stage themselves." (Robert Christgau, Esquire)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fed83279424953f45902ca9299f3839e6514c900/original/jimi-hendrix-fire.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jimi Hendrix Experience </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Brian Jones. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Killing Floor </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Foxy Lady </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Like a Rolling Stone </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock Me Baby </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hey Joe </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Can You See Me</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Wind Cries Mary </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Purple Haze (Only partly filmed - cameras were changing reels) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wild Thing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"With the Rainbow Shriek of his flaming Stratocaster at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix dramatically announced the arrival of the new Aquarian age of peace, love and spiritual aspiration. At the same time, he liberated rock & roll guitar once and for all from the choke of Top Forty dictums. The way he tore into </strong><i><strong>Purple Haze</strong></i><strong>, scratching the song's elephantine funk intro with sawtoothed distortion, and calmly skated up the shimmering, ascending chorus of </strong><i><strong>The Wind Cries Mary</strong></i><strong> had no precedent in rock guitar and, even at Monterey, no equal. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The American debut of the Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey on June 18th, 1967, is still a revelation, an orgasmic explosion of singing feedback, agitated stretches of jazzy improvisation and recombinant R&B guitar. Sucking the crowd into his hurricane sound, Hendrix dragged Dylan's </strong><i><strong>Like a Rolling Stone</strong></i><strong> through Mississippi-blues mud, attacked his own </strong><i><strong>Can You See Me </strong></i><strong>with amphetamine impatience and, egged on by Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell's rhythmic frenzy, drove </strong><i><strong>Wild Thing</strong></i><strong> head-on into a wall of white noise.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hendrix employed epic volumes to the music in his performance, which made for that monumental feedback. And, of course, after his rendition of </strong><i><strong>Wild Thing </strong></i><strong>Hendrix poured lighter fluid over his black Fender Stratocaster, setting it ablaze and making rock and roll history." (Rolling Stone Magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WxcVZ2Hompk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WxcVZ2Hompk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Scott McKenzie </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>(Backed by The Mamas & the Papas) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fba297bb4c0a22013ef3bf2f6c9c2be22a53daae/original/mamas-pappas-monterey.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The Mamas & the Papas</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Introduced by Paul Simon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Set List</u></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Straight Shooter</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Spanish Harlem </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Somebody Groovy </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Got a Feelin' </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>California Dreamin'</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I Call Your Name </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Monday, Monday</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dancing in the Streets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Mamas and the Papas ended up being the final act at the festival on Sunday, June 18. The already-successful band was a big draw but because the entire group had been working as festival organizers, they had very little time to practice for their performance. When the reviews for the festival came out, critics dismissed their performance as mediocre. When you watch their performance in the movie, it's obvious that they their set was akin to sleeping walking.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f69f5086d2f1a4ca78927d17c4c14641bf85a3a4/original/peter-lewis.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Lewis (Moby Grape)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Lewis (Moby Grape): "Media and music executives flocked to Monterey and discovered a burgeoning sound and culture. Soon, underground music was a commodity, which tore some groups apart. After Monterey, the world discovered the word, “hippie.” Then, when the music business began to get involved, compromises were definitely made. “Hippie” became a big business. Monterey, was where the culture began and ended, in a sense.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d12796be3ff14adc224f2cd278d73687ff575128/original/monterey-crowd-11.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Monterey Pop Festival was a watershed moment in the whole rock culture movement. Although it had this outsized historical influence, it really was a small-scale event. The arena sat 8,500 people. There were another 5,000-8,000 people admitted to the festival grounds, and possibly as many as 15,000 hanging out outside the fences.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock is an art form in decline. That's in the nature of art movements. You have an avant-garde that seeps ideas into the mainstream. Then you get this bell curve where people keep repeating ideas until you get diminishing returns. And it's been a long time since there were any important popular new ideas in music. I guess hip-hop was the last one, but even that has become formalized. And when an art form becomes formalized, it will no longer innovate.” (Joel Selvin, Monterey Pop, Chronicle Books 1992)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c45c36b21bd877ae3c824e441bba7112a61401b0/original/mont-crowd.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37e6026214a70022ec6bc82eae42150bddade5f1/original/say-it-aint-so-cancellations.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cancellations & No Shows @ Monterey Pop</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beach Boys</strong>, <strong>who had been involved in the conception of the event and were at one point scheduled to headline and close the show, failed to perform.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Beatles were rumored to appear because of the involvement of their press officer Derek Taylor, but they declined, since their music had become too complex to be performed live. Instead, at the instigation of Paul McCartney, the festival booked The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kinks were invited but could not get a work visa to enter the US because of a dispute with the American Federation of Musicians.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donovan was refused a visa to enter the United States because of a 1966 drug bust.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band was also invited to appear but the band turned the offer down at the insistence of guitarist Ry Cooder, who felt the group was not ready.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dionne Warwick and The Impressions were advertised on some of the early posters for the event, but Warwick dropped out because of a conflict in booking that weekend.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The group,</strong> <strong>Love, rejected an invitation to perform at the festival.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The promoters also invited several</strong> <strong>Motown artists to perform and were even going to give the label's artists their own slot. However, Berry Gordy refused to let any of his acts appear,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors did not appear because the coordinators forgot to invite them. Drummer John Densmore, in his book Riders on the Storm, expressed his belief that the band was not invited because its music didn't express the "peace and love" ideals of the time.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Monkees were seriously considered but eventually John Phillips nixed their invitation to play.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to Eric Clapton,</strong> <strong>Cream</strong> <strong>did not perform because the band's manager wanted to make a bigger splash for their American debut. However, it has since been revealed that the band were not considered by the festival organizers.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ypDTyw1bcys" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ypDTyw1bcys?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OnV34yEby44" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OnV34yEby44?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/88adc3cd96dfe943528f1ac5e5b59494473404a3/original/monterey-foundation.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Monterey Pop spawned an eponymous nonprofit foundation that donates to musical and humanitarian efforts in the names of the festival’s original performers. Its money comes from video and audio profits generated by the festival.</strong></span><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36981cbed115d010dd64e2992e21608a177dc75a/original/monterey-international-pop-festival-foundation.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation (MIPFF) is a non-profit charitable and educational foundation empowering music-related personal development, creativity, and mental and physical health. In the spirit of the Monterey International Pop Festival, and on behalf of the artists who took part, the Foundation awards grants to qualified organizations and individuals with identifiable needs in those areas. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The genesis of the Monterey International Pop Foundation was borne of the musical reverberations created on the weekend of June 16, 17 and 18, 1967. Those artists who performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival, in Monterey California, continue to be the musical messengers sustaining the Foundation’s aims and ideals. It is their historic performances that keep the promise and spirit of Monterey Pop alive. We have never veered from the mandate established in 1967, when John Phillips, who co-produced the festival suggested, ‘Let’s give something back.’ </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Monterey International Pop Festival’s nonprofit foundation continues to generate thousands each year from its intellectual property. That revenue is donated to various organizations. The Foundation has successfully generated funds through audio and video ancillaries and has made donations to worthwhile recipients over the past five decades. Each and every donation has been made in the names of those artists who performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival. 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Subsequent grant recipients whose initial contact or in name of are in parenthesis and include: Blue Monday Foundation – Marin County initial contact Mark Naftalin, Chicago’s Providence St. Mel Music Program (Otis Redding), UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital – Music Therapy initial contact Gregg Perloff, Another Planet Entertainment, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music at New York University, San Francisco Earthquake Fund (Bill Graham), Texas Habitat for Humanity (Janis Joplin), H.E.A.R. – Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (Pete Townsend), New York’s Children’s Health Fund - Mobile pediatric clinics, providing care to homeless shelters, housing projects and schools (Paul Simon), Romanian Angels- initial contact Olivia Harrison, Berklee School of Music – Five week program Scholarship. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Since 1967, everything relating to the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation’s 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The Right Track Inn Reunion!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0884d141e6b9036da61cab762968f8998704302a/original/june-10-benefit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7fc37c84489897840393625949524f4496ca7616/original/june-10-warehouse-3-band-images.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE LI MUSIC HALL OF FAME TONIGHT!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e0a3cd3e4541a2c57d3a46e4a1d93e83825a625a/original/freeport-herald.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="A2CYvViV7PY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A2CYvViV7PY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Jx_Q3451qLA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jx_Q3451qLA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="5rJpEan3USk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5rJpEan3USk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1b38b6d498afaa0da6dda5ca98582208d0d5eabc/original/long-island-music-hall-of-fame.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>History of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Founded in 2004, the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame is a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to the idea that Long Island's musical heritage is an important resource to be celebrated and preserved for future generations. The organization, which encompasses New York Sate's Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Kings (Brooklyn) Counties was created as a place of community that inspires and explores Long Island music in all its forms. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>To date, the organization, the organization has inducted more that 100 musicians and music industry executives and also offers education programs and scholarships to Long Island students, sponsors the Long Island Sound Award, and features traveling educational exhibits, including a state-of-the-art mobile museum.</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c98ca7736a1a5d1b9cc086a7472e10eced593354/original/long-island-music-hall-rock-items.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1960s - 1970s</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Long Island music landscape was rather barren and more of a stepchild to that of New York City, which had become a focal point of the music industry. New York City had both iconic recording studios, such as Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios, and iconic music venues such as Max’s Kansas City (the epicenter of the early ’70s glam-rock scene), CBGB (the iconic punk-rock venue), Fillmore East, and Electric Circus. During this time, there was limited accessibility to music east of the East River other than performances at local bars and schools and, perhaps, Westbury Music Fair, which featured sporadic performances by artists such as Judy Garland (1967), The Who (1968), and Bruce Springsteen (1975).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>According to Norm Prusslin, music historian and a founding member of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, in the late 1960s Stony Brook University, located in Stony Brook, New York, began to establish itself as an important venue in bringing music to Long Island. “In its heyday, there were literally several shows a month—sometimes with the biggest bands in the world playing at Stony Brook,” says Prusslin, who has taught at Stony Brook for many years and once served as faculty manager for the university radio station, WUSB. “Whatever the big bands of the time were, just about everybody except for The Beatles and the Rolling Stones played here.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FM radio stations began popping up on Long Island, giving national recording artists Long Island airplay, but there still was little opportunity on the radio for Long Island burgeoning musicians. However, soon college radio stations—such as WRHU (Hofstra University), WCWP (Long Island University/C.W. Post), WHPC (Nassau Community College), WBAU (Adelphi University), and, later, WUSB (Stony Brook University)—began to fill the void. “The Adelphi station, for example, is where a lot of hip-hop music came out of,” Prusslin says. “The group Public Enemy—Chuck and Flava Flav—kind of hung around that radio station, and that’s where they got their start.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Long Island college radio stations were important in bringing to the airwaves local musicians of all genres, and that certainly contributed to Long Island artists getting heard and getting spoken about,” Prusslin adds.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Simultaneously, Long Island-based publications, such as Good Times magazine, began pioneering local music coverage and talking up Long Island artists. “They deserve a lot of credit for that as well,” Prusslin says. “Good Times magazine played a very important role.” And venues, such as My Father’s Place in Roslyn, brought in a lot of local bands who didn’t have the opportunity for commercial exposure before.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4f05536f1f00ae0f51c9a87291d56d8ed8c11ff3/original/long-island-music-hall-images.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1980s - 1990s</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the early 1980s, some of the commercial radio stations, particularly WLIR and WBAB, began to follow Long Island college radio’s lead, focusing on Long Island artists. In particular, the Homegrown show, the brainchild of WBAB’s then program director Bob Buchmann—who would later become an early member of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame’s board of directors—was an important outlet for bringing Long Island’s new music talent to light. “WBAB was very responsible for bringing to the commercial radio airwaves local bands like Zebra and Twisted Sister and The Good Rats, who were making a name for themselves playing bars and places, but they really couldn’t get any radio airplay other than college stations,” Prusslin says. “BAB had a lot to do to bring it to the commercial airwaves, which obviously brought in a whole different type of listener.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/33ac6e7feaf3d7a0bfb4c9c975abe6a27dab761d/original/long-island-music-hall-images-of-artists.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2000s - 2010s</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the early 2000s, Long Island had become a hotbed for upcoming musicians as well as a sophisticated music scene. It now had its own music festivals, such as the Great South Bay Music Festival (established in 2006) and the Long Island Bluegrass Festival (which premiered in 2002), as well as the establishment of music-specific societies and organizations such as the Long Island Blues Society and the Long Island Traditional Music Society.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In August 2003, Prusslin had been reading an editorial in a local music magazine written by Richard L’Hommedieu—who would go on to become the founding chairman of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame—about the new Georgia Music Hall of Fame, which had opened in 1996. L’Hommedieu wrote that it would be great if Long Island had its own music hall of fame.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Prusslin was intrigued.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>He sent L’Hommedieu an email (an email he still keeps in his outbox!) and the two men met, inviting other music educators and music lovers to join them. In January 2004, this enterprising group of founding members held an event at the Patchogue Theater, announcing the creation of a nonprofit organization that would recognize, honor, and preserve Long Island’s longstanding and diverse music heritage—a heritage that fought its way out of the shadow of New York City and would go on to inspire generations of music lovers.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame was born.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>On November 23, 2022, 19 years after those first meetings at SUNY Stony Brook, The Museum opened with a VIP preview event that was attended by the press and a slew of Long Island Celebrities’. You had JJ French and Mark Mendoza of Twisted Sister (Dee was in Europe but made sure he sent a collection of his on stage costumes), Johnny Juice (Public Enemy), EPMD, Elliot Murphy (Who flew in From France for the event), Bonnie Parker, Carol and Paula (From the Childrens TV Show “The Magic Garden”}, Jen Chapin (Daughter of Harry Chapin), Joe Bouchard (Blue Oyster Cult) to name just a few.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SUPPORT THE MUSIC HALL OF FAME & ENTERTAINMENT!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ab18ad53a398efb415968a4edcd08f865fbc7e09/original/li-sounds-final-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="e1AXbiu9vyU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e1AXbiu9vyU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</u></strong></span></a></p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/70103362023-06-05T04:28:43-04:002023-06-05T15:45:59-04:00Rock & Roll Advertising 1970's<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The early, much-romanticized years of the ‘70s -- when Lester Bangs was starting to inspire a generation of imitators – were a time when print advertising relied on a lot more words than it usually does today, and when it was one of the few means available to promote music to reach the rock & roll audience.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Few historical Rock & Roll documents can chart the musical fashions of a period better than an advertisement.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/45406526de6564d7838fae1c4f8ac48ea50a9477/original/alice-cooper-schools-out-ii-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0896d26378d4726b1cf1e4119fed2dce5af238b2/original/al-kooper-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a40f94b4162fcb65097f73cad90487dca2d6eef/original/butterfield-blues-band-1971.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Some of the best advertising copy was for artists who had their own mythology would always appear in the popular rock magazines in the 70's. Flip through the music magazines published today, and the album ads that still exist are almost entirely image-based, or else feature a couple of quotes from favorable reviews. Which makes sense, given both the distribution changes for music, the shift in pervading ad styles—fewer words!—and the obvious pitfalls of trying to pitch records that the reader couldn’t yet listen to. The ad writers themselves, even in the ‘70s, were aware of the strange task before them.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/950e22624a312530b2954e119c97cc3df8458185/original/atlantic-records-1970.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0f3a3f17b893a57f554d6c3c1cdb2072389a6a3f/original/bob-seger-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d228f8540ae2bf3b0bb86551ed9fe682e6d9eea6/original/alice-cooper-elected-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52548e5f2c1de0a285690c3a64e050eb09ffcc77/original/todd-rundgren-1971.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e384b07b4a7b79095adf701101841cd190581035/original/the-who-whos-next-1971.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86ae953790ea7d1577b6f25ccfee3e847a4a4c6d/original/the-kinks-1972.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rock in the 1970s</strong></span></p><section id="ref93495" data-level="2" data-has-spy="true"><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Corporate Rock</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The 1970s began as the decade of the rock superstar. Excess became the norm for bands such as the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Rolling-Stones" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, not just in terms of their private wealth and well-publicized decadence but also in terms of stage and studio effects and costs. The sheer scale of rock album sales gave musicians—and their ever-growing entourage of managers, lawyers, and accountants—the upper hand in negotiations with record companies, and for a moment it seemed that the greater the artistic self-indulgence the bigger the financial return. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the end of the decade, though, the 25-year growth in record sales had come to a halt, and a combination of economic recession and increasing competition for young people’s </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/leisure" data-term="leisure" data-type="EB"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>leisure</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> spending (notably from the makers of video games) brought the music industry, by this point based on rock, its first real crisis. The Anglo-American music market was consolidated into a shape that has not changed much since, while new sales opportunities beyond the established transatlantic route began to be pursued more intently.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In short, the 1970s was the decade in which a pattern of rock formats and functions was settled. The excesses of rock superstardom elicited both a return to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/do-it-yourself"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DIY</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/rock-and-roll-early-style-of-rock-music" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>rock and roll</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (in the roots sounds of performers such as </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bruce-Springsteen" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and in the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/punk" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>punk</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> movement of British youth) and a self-consciously camp take on rock stardom itself (in the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/glam-rock" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>glam rock</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> of the likes of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roxy-Music" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roxy Music</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Bowie" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Queen-British-rock-group" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>). </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>As the 70's rolled on, Rock was routinized, as both a moneymaking and a music-making practice. This had two consequences that were to become clearer in the 1980s. First, the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/musical" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>musical</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> tension between the mainstream and the margins, which had originally given rock and roll its cultural dynamism, was now contained within rock itself. The new mainstream was personified by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elton-John" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, who developed a style of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/soul-music" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>soul</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>-inflected rock </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/pop-ballad" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ballad</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> that over the next two decades became the dominant sound of global </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/popular-music" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>pop music</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But the 1970s also gave rise to a clearly “alternative” rock </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideology" data-term="ideology" data-type="MW"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ideology</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> (most militantly </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/articulated" data-term="articulated" data-type="MW"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>articulated</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> by British </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/punk" data-show-preview="true"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>punk</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> musicians), a music scene self-consciously developed on independent labels using “underground” media and committed to protecting the “essence” of rock and roll from commercial </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/degradation" data-term="degradation" data-type="MW"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>degradation</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. The alternative-mainstream, authentic-fake distinction crossed all rock </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genres" data-term="genres" data-type="MW"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>genres</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> and indicated how rock </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture" data-term="culture" data-type="MW"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>culture</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> had come to be defined by its own contradictions." (Encyclopedia Britannica)</strong></span></p>
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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c4502ff1f14172b1cc5ebd815c4dea3cf3d26e2b/original/band-logo-header.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back in the early 1960’s, rock band logos were never quite as important as they are today in this age of branding. Over the years, official logos became an essential item that every band needed to have in order promote their band. Nowadays, picking a band logo seems to be one of the first things the average band does as they embark on their journey as professional musicians. Here's a look at some of the band logos that have become legendary over the years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9a2cf97cf5d66fc0b18d696ed58c0ac7f687e875/original/beatles-logo.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here’s the story behind The Beatles iconic logo from the fastcompany.com website: “Basically, for the band’s first few years, there was no Beatles logo. It was never featured in any of the band’s original albums recorded in the U.K. The logo started its life on the bass drum of Starr’s Ludwig drum kit in April 1963, three years after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Starr got together in Liverpool and formed the most influential music group of all time. Starr got this Ludwig set from a shop, Drum City, on Shaftesbury Avenue in London. Founded by a guy called Ivor Arbiter in 1929, the shop was a popular destination for jazz drummers. Arbiter later recalled the encounter with a certain ‘Ringo, Schmingo, whatever his name was, at that time I certainly hadn’t heard of The Beatles.’ But when Starr entered the shop alongside the band’s manager, Brian Epstein, The Beatles were already quite popular, having released their debut studio album, Please Please Me. the month before. They weren’t known around the world yet, but the single that gave the album its name became No. 1 on the U.K. charts, and the album itself was No. 1 for 30 weeks, which was unprecedented at the time. Perhaps that’s why, despite Arbiter’s later claims, he agreed to give Starr his last £238 Ludwig Downbeat kit in oyster black pearl finish for free as requested by Epstein, with the condition that the band keep the Ludwig brand on the front. Apparently, Arbiter had an exclusive distribution deal with the brand, and he wanted to give it some publicity. Epstein agreed–as long as the band’s name also appeared prominently. Arbiter then proceeded to sketch a logo on a paper, making the “B” bigger than the rest of the letters, and extending the “T” in the way we all recognize today. Then, for £5, Epstein paid Drum City to paint the logo on the bass drum. Arbiter gave the logo to a local sign painter, Eddie Stokes, who finalized the logo. The logo stayed in that form until a performance at Paris’s Olympia Theater on February 4, 1964. The next version of the logo, used for the first time in the drum kit at famous U.S. appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, was slightly different and more powerful.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/98c36a1d79cb939b3358fb8a2550854246be61eb/original/beatles-ed-sullivan.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“The logo, painted again by Stokes, occupied most of the drum’s face and used a bolder typeface. That logo was used for the band’s first U.S. tour. After that, the logo evolved slightly several times between 1963 and 1967… The funny thing is that, having never appeared on any of the band’s original albums covers, a version of The Beatles’ logo that combined all the drum heads was only registered as a trademark by The Beatles company Apple Corps in the 1990s.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/828c8957d4cf45bec1b852fd7ba13bd3106d0825/original/the-who-logo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I’ve always loved The Who’s logo which features the colors of the Union Jack aka the British national flag. The logo was created by noted painter and artist Brian Pike. The colors, the lettering and the target shape of the logo reflected the mod culture of the early sixties. The arrow on the ‘o’ is intended to represent masculinity and the combination of the two h’s were meant to symbolize unity.</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8fdc27557639a8120f25cc825fcacf3557a1f308/original/the-who-marquee-club.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I have a personal connection with The Who's logo. In 1965, I was an Army brat living in Verdun, France and have many pleasant memories of the time that my Dad took us all on a trip to visit London England. I went down to </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnaby_Street" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Carnaby Street"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Carnaby Street</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> to purchase some Beatle Boots but couldn’t find any boots my size. However, I saw a t-shirt bearing The Who’s logo. Being a rabid Who fan, I immediate purchased the shirt. I vividly recall leaving the clothes shop and seeing a poster on the wall of a building which was for a show at </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee_Club" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Marquee Club"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Marquee Club</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> featuring The Who. The poster contained the striking lettering of the band’s logo. Shazam! It was a rock & roll moment I will never forget.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5492844556c23d2b9f9044536a3eeed0670959b6/original/grateful-dead-steal-your-face-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c725b045b68997e54acef6e7cc6eb616d5102a68/original/grateful-dead-1976.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's the background story behind the Grateful Dead's Steal Your Face logo from the complex.com site: "Over the years a number of logos and designs were used to promote the Grateful Dead, the biggest band to emerge from San Francisco's psychedelic scene. Images such as the </strong><i><strong>Dancing Bear</strong></i><strong>s, </strong><i><strong>Skull and Roses</strong></i><strong>, and </strong><i><strong>Uncle Sam Skeleton</strong></i><strong>, all helped in a continuous-motion of branding. None of those logos are considered more popular than the "Steal Your Face Skull" which first debuted on the Steal Your Face double-live album in 1976. </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Stanley&nbsp;Owsley"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>Stanley Owsley</strong></span></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>, a soundman for the Dead (and,a </strong></span><i><span><strong>recreational</strong></span></i><span><strong> pharmacist), conveyed the initial idea to Bob Watson. Watson's original sketch consisted of a lightning bolt within a circle. A short time later the evolving logo was made into a spray-paint stencil by Ernie Fischbach to identify equipment easier. The skull was a later addition to the circular lightning bolt, with the latter replacing the top of the skull."</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ff1c10e302b11e94479a072ae262c360ecd0f4/original/the-doors.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8214132090fddfd4b9d8c1fde848b0e0c16b819e/original/the-doors-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's the rundown on the logo used by The Doors from the onthescene.creativeallies.com site: "Any respectable shortlist of rock & roll’s most iconic band logos would have to include The Doors’ logo. The simple, bold geometric shapes; the reflective double-O’s; the tiny but essential psychedelic </strong><i><strong>THE</strong></i><strong>. That simple one-color logo is by now one of the most recognizable images in rock history. We found one forum thread on TheDoors.com where a poster stated '</strong><i><strong>I’m pretty sure it was designed by the Art department at Elektra in New York, which was headed by Bill Harvey at the time</strong></i><strong>.' Another poster noted the similarities between the lettering used for </strong><i><strong>The Doors</strong></i><strong> and Elektra Records’s </strong><i><strong>E</strong></i><strong> logo from the same time period. It seems likely that the same creative team, headed by Bill Harvey, developed both logos. We came across a brief biography of Bill Harvey on Answers.com (a Wikipedia search came up empty). In it, we learned that in the 60s, independent folk/rock label Elektra was highly revered for the inventive, high-quality graphic design of its LP sleeves.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/799ba8815eef9b6d274ad8e4653f9b819a703649/original/rolling-stones-tongue-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91e9906ab33a7c9ef45f5097bcd2b6ea67557678/original/rolling-stones-1973.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I would venture to say that the Rolling Stones' tongue & lips logo, which was first used on the band's </strong><i><strong>Sticky Fingers</strong></i><strong> album, just might be the most popular band logo of all time. It was created by John Pasche, an art student at the Royal College of Art in London in 1973 when Mick Jagger was looking for a logo for their new record label, Rolling Stones Records. Upon recalling his first meeting Jagger to discuss a possible design, Pasche stated, "</strong><i><strong>Face to face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth</strong></i><strong>." Pasche ended up coming up with a striking design that was a unique combination of Mick Jagger's mouth and Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Time, Creation, Destruction and Power. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be74b7ce82a30610f5fc489987c6271a79848983/original/rolling-stones-logo-defined.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The original name of the logo is </strong><i><strong>Tongue and Lips</strong></i><strong>, which some have shortened to </strong><i><strong>Hot Lips</strong></i><strong>. In an interview with Adweek, Mash Bonigala, who runs an image consulting firm Spellbrand said, '</strong><i><strong>It's really the most evocative logo of any band. By distilling the essence of the band into one single visual reference, the designer was able to create a logo that worked superbly well for 50 years. Since the creation of the logo, it has been a prominent feature of the band and their identity. Appearing on posters, t-shirts, concerts, it must without reasonable doubt be one of the most universally recognisable logos is in rock or even branding history. They even adapt the logos and customize it for the country they are going to play, almost like a hat tip from the band to their fans</strong></i><strong>."' (scoopwhoop.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/57a9b41b1cda462b94d9af272d71c48a4e4cc68a/original/led-zeppelin-logo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's logo: “</strong><i><strong>After all this crap that we’d had with the critics, I put it to everybody else that it’d be a good idea to put out something totally anonymous. At first I wanted just one symbol on it, but then it was decided that since it was our fourth album and there were four of us, we could each choose our own symbol. I designed mine and everyone else had their own reasons for using the symbols that they used,</strong></i><strong>” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/477fec51d4bddd5ef9dd4b2dbab9858e5fecd356/original/led-zep-jimmy-page.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bb1ceb4f24e3ed3e740baee7ce76dee26bfb15a0/original/jimmy-page-symbol.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Page is represented by the symbol "ZoSo".</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Traced back to the year 1557, this symbol is associated with Saturn</strong></span>. </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9361f692c45c3e8cb814a555cc798d308175fcb1/original/led-zep-john-bonham.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8028fc9c8d9584495de3c1feb45fe93deb5b9cd/original/john-paul-jones-symbol.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The symbol for John Bonham (Led Zeppelin's Thunder of the Gods drummer); consists of three interlocking rings, which represent the mother, the father and the child.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0767665f758fb6a78b28f0f85671dc374abb46cf/original/led-zep-john-paul-jones.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/50b4e50b4a395e037fec8d26eeac46d57076b718/original/john-bonham-symbol.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bassist John Paul Jones’ symbol resembles a circle intersecting 3 vesica pisces (a triquetra); it symbolizes a person who has confidence and competence.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e7239cfed0d249e2d72f832325f5809009ccf6c/original/led-zep-robert-plant.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a30b8e44b3fe3d86b822e02fa802e497e4efa857/original/robert-plant-symbol.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Singer Robert Plant’s symbol is a feather inside a circle and was designed by him. The feather is an emblem of a writer (aka song lyrics) which is based on the lost civilizations and continent of Mu. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d2f33deb91269a050c02dc4f70547a6007880f96/original/ramones-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/faef211da570e9bf9b460aceb3e8435cbec11ca1/original/arturo-vega.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Arturo Vega</h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When it comes to punk rock, the most vibrant band logo of that particular era is the one that was created for the Ramones by artist </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Vega" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Arturo Vega"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Arturo Vega</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. In an interview Vega revealed how he created the band's memorable logo: </strong><i><strong>“I saw them as the ultimate all-American band. To me, they reflected the American character in general. I thought the great seal of the president of the United States would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows – to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whoever dares to attack us – and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a little bit. Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the arrows!” </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de3a1941765863b1261f8107fbe346582da540f3/original/queens-logo-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/210957108125c8505ec252a87328031752303dca/original/queen-logo-explanation.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the complex.com website: "Queen's crest-styled logo is easily one of the most overlooked band logo designs in terms of how detailed and symbolic of the band's members it is. The logo, which contains the zodiac signs of each original member, was designed by Freddie Mercury prior to the band releasing their self-titled debut album. Both John Deacon and Roger Taylor are represented by the two lions symbolizing Leo, the crab that sits atop the "Q" represents Brian May's Cancer sign, and the two angel-like fairies represent Mercury's Virgo symbol. The logo also appears to be heavily influenced by the Royal Coat of Arms. Within the crest is a huge phoenix-like dragon and crown, the latter directly attributed to the band's name."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3730aab2d8f0fb4107933ae5f04f7c79d1f2237f/original/ac-dc-logo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/829052917fe31a745b97fd9b2cde8e844ccdac16/original/acdc-logo-story.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The AC/DC logo, which is one of the most recognized logos in rock history, was created by two artistic collaborators; Atlantic Records’ art director Bob Defrin and renowned graphic designer Gerard Huerta. The logo made its debut on </strong><i><strong>Let There Be Rock</strong></i><strong>, their fourth studio album. Gerard Huerta came up with the Gothic lettering which was discovered as a font in the Gutenberg Bible. As fate would have it, Malcolm and Angus Young chose the name AC/DC for their band after seeing it on their sister’s sewing machine. AC/DC is an abbreviation for alternating current/direct current. These are references to electric signals and voltages which explains the bolt in the logo design. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b6545d370c72b803188572483e5cd1dfa7197861/original/nirvana-logo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There are multiple stories surrounding the creation of Nirana's logo. Some folks feel that it was inspired by the Lusty Lady, a Seattle strip club. Other fans claim that the face image is Kurt Cobain's drawing of Axl Rose (of Guns 'n' Roses) while there are many sources close to Cobain who insist that that the face drawing in the logo is Kurt Cobain's representation of the crowds of Nirvana fans who stared at him while he did his thing onstage. The first appearance of the logo was on a wall in an apartment where Cobain was living in Seattle. The logo made its first official appearance on in September 1991 on a flyer promoting the release party for Nirvana's Nevermind album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Alrighty then! These were the most famous band logos I could think of at the moment. I'm sure some of you out there might feel that there are some band logos that should have been included in this list but perhaps we'll revisit this in future blog post, eh?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a283abae7cd47faa6251f299872a22acec68d58c/original/but-wait-theres-more.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1c5fb5db29fb72049e4072131bc74a06fbbfddb/original/freelance-vandals-bumper-sticker-scan.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ooh la la! I just remembered another logo! Pictured above is a logo that was used for the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/freelance-vandals-store" data-link-type="url" contents="Freelance Vandals"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>Freelance Vandals</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>, a popular Long Island band that I was in during the 70's & 80's. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/68f8ea55c7ba712d258c2695d84df41501f44724/original/billy-cairns-created-our-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The band's logo was created by our drummer, Billy Cairns (pictured above) in 1979. 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One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll's seismic influence was felt across culture and society. Early rock musicians were attracted to the wail of the electric guitar and the distortion of early amplifiers, a sound that became forever associated with rock music and its defining voice. Rock fans have long been fascinated with the instruments used by musicians. Many have sought out and acquired the exact models of instruments and equipment used by their idols, and spent countless hours trying to emulate their music and their look. The instruments used in rock and roll had a profound impact on this art form that forever changed music. The exhibition is co-organized with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and will present approximately 130 instruments alongside posters and costumes. Many of rock's most celebrated and recognized instruments are featured, representing artists across generations and subgenres. In addition to institutional and private collectors, many musicians are lending their performance and recording instruments. This exhibition explores the instruments that came to define the music. Often an extension of the artists themselves, these objects are designed and engineered to perform both visually and audibly. They are decorated, exaggerated, and, most importantly, beloved—by those who play them and those who watch in awe. They are the link between the artist and the audience, the physical source of a glorious noise. The iconic instruments here were played by some of the most influential musicians across seven decades of artistry. In their own way, they represent the countless instruments picked up by ordinary individuals, inspired by their musical heroes and rock and roll's defiant spirit."</strong></span> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/031d1e480555940bfebafcd2f13aa006787476bc/original/jp-the-met.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/674946aa47cea2534a7239b80e1f7b71873a5bcb/original/lo-the-met.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>December 2020: my daughter Molly and her husband Kyle gave Sweet Loretta and I a wonderful gift; they said they would take us me to see The Metropolitan Museum of Art at a time of our choosing. Well, needless to say, when I learned that there was an upcoming exhibit called </strong><i><strong>Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock & Roll</strong></i><strong>, I told Molly, </strong><i><strong>"I wanna go to the Met to see that exhibit!"</strong></i><strong> So a couple of weeks ago, we took Molly and Kyle up on their generous offer of a day in the city. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dcdfc9cc21a7a3d5275a9727d3ae5127895de4c/original/xue-kyle-molly-the-met.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Xue, Kyle & Molly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>One thing that made the trip extra special was that Xue, a close friend of Molly's from her days @ Stony Brook University who works in the Photography Department at the Met, was able to get us in to see the exhibit an hour before the museum officially opened to the public. Today, I'd like to share with you all some of the historic instruments that we saw at The Met.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I have to say that the time I spent gazing at this grand exhibit of rock & roll relics was amazing. The vast collection of these treasured instruments brought back a flood of warm rock & roll memories. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/927fb9193903952d2aeeeec14fedf64a5ce4a732/original/keith-moon-pictures-of-lily-drum-kit-1967.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Moon's Pictures of Lily Drum Set 1966 - 1967</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Premier Music Intl., Ltd. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Keith Moon (British, 1946–1978) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:1966-1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Courtesy of The Victoria and Albert Museum. Given by the estate of Keith Moon.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>One memory in particular was that of the first rock concert I ever went to back in 1967 at DAR Hall in Washington D.C. where I saw The Who open for Herman's Hermits. The item that sparked such vivid memories was Keith Moon's infamous Pictures of Lily drum set. It was the very same set that I'd seen at that concert 52 years ago! Suddenly, I was that 15 year old kid at that concert again. For me, that was a real time machine moment that I will never forget.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Keith Moon received this drum set at the beginning of the Who’s 1967 U.S. tour and used it extensively for the performances that followed. The custom artwork features nude photos of Lily Langtry, the subject of the Who’s 1967 single “Pictures of Lily.” The psychedelic design incorporates a Union Jack and the text “Keith Moon Patent British Exploding Drummer,” a reference to Moon’s tendency to pack his drum shells with flash powder and detonate them onstage. The two original bass drums are lost, possibly destroyed by Moon’s pyrotechnics."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18a307b85949bbe2ae9ca908516709c3eabb4028/original/chuck-berry.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Gibson 1958</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (American, St. Louis, MO 1926–2017 St. Louis) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Maple, rosewood, nickel, gold plate, plastic, mother-of-pearl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Courtesy of Joe Edwards, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, MO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The exhibit got off to a rousing start due to the fact that as you walk into the exhibit, the very first instrument you see is Chuck Berry's guitar!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Chuck Berry established the electric guitar as the primary instrumental voice of rock and roll. His guitar solos featured expressive bends and double stops that led the way for other rock guitarists and largely replaced other solo instruments such as the piano and saxophone. An electric guitar’s pickups use an electromagnet and wire coil to transmit the vibrations of steel strings to an amplifier as electrical signals. In 1957, Gibson introduced Seth Lover’s patent-applied-for (PAF) humbucking pickups, which have two coils with currents running in opposite directions, canceling (or bucking) an electrical hum that the earlier single-coil pickups could produce. Berry used this instrument to perform his hits, including “Johnny B. Goode,” at many notable performances in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Technical Description: Archtop with F-holes and Venetian cutaway; laminated maple body and neck, rosewood fingerboard; 23½ in. scale; natural finish with white & black double binding, set neck with mother-of-pearl split parallelogram inlays and white binding to fingerboard; mother-of-pearl Gibson headstock logo with crown inlay; two PAF humbucking pickups, three-way selector switch, two volume and two tone controls; gold-plated ABR-1 tune-o-matic bridge, w-shaped tubular tailpiece engraved “ES-350T,” pickup covers, and Kluson tuners, gold and clear plastic knobs, black plastic three-ply pickguard."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53aae65f84044d3fcba714894b94179a76eab844/original/jerry-lew-lewis-piano.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Lee Lewis Piano</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:George Steck & Co. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Jerry Lee Lewis </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1955 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Wood, metal, ivory, ebony </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Gift of Jerry Lee Lewis</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>After seeing Chuck Berry's guitar, the next object that presented itself was Jerry Lee Lewis' piano!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Jerry Lee Lewis was a superstar of rockabilly music, an early style of rock and roll that combined elements of country music with R&B influences. Lewis, along with Fats Domino and Little Richard, was part of a generation of pianists who dominated rock and roll. He was renowned for his high-energy performances that scandalized conservative audiences, playing while standing, pounding his fist or feet on the keyboard, and, according to rock lore, once setting a piano ablaze with lighter fluid before performing “Great Balls of Fire.” The instrument here, painted gold, was Lewis’s home piano from 1957 to 2017."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8ff7a2ab9658915b508c0b9780ae564e6b17843/original/muddy-waters-telecaster.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muddy Waters The Hoss Telecaster (serial no. 026176),ca. 1958 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Ash, maple, walnut, rosewood, brass, nickel, chrome, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Courtesy of the Estate of McKinley Morganfield pka Muddy Waters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>“In 1943, Muddy Waters moved from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, where he formed the first significant electric blues band. By 1951, his group included guitarist Jimmy Rogers, harmonica prodigy Little Walter Jacobs, and pianist Otis Spann. Waters’s blend of rural blues with modern amplification profoundly influenced a generation of British rock guitarists, including the Rolling Stones, named after Waters’s song “Rollin’ Stone.” This guitar was the primary instrument used by Waters from 1958 until his death in 1983.”</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/63042d365a40a5169207953bac3954e54096a528/original/bo-diddley.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bo Diddley "cigar box" Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Twang Machine",ca. 1960 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fred Gretsch Manufacturing Company </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Next was the instrument of choice of one of my all-time rock & roll heroes, Bo Diddley! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Bo Diddley built his first guitar from a rectangular piece of wood fitted with a pickup made from Victrola turntable parts. He was one of the first electric guitarists to collaborate directly with instrument makers on adventurous designs, including this “Twang Machine” and other radically shaped guitars based on the modernistic curves of luxury automobiles. Diddley introduced the hambone rhythm to American popular music through his eponymous 1955 hit single. The Bo Diddley beat strongly influenced other early rock and roll musicians, including Buddy Holly, whose hit “Not Fade Away” features the rhythm prominently."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e0807ddbe751ce9037397fdda1245982a9d23bd/original/louis-jordans-saxophone.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Louis Jordan Saxophone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Henri Selmer (Paris) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Louis Jordan (American, Brinkley, AK 1908–1975 Los Angeles, CA) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1954 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Classification:Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-single reed conical </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Gift of Martha Jordan</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Another favorite artist of mine was Louis Jordan whose saxophone was on display. I recently did a </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.msmokemusic.com/blogs/mind-smoke-blog/posts/louis-jordan" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="blog post "><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>blog post </strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>on Jordan. He was very influential in the development of rock & roll.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Louis Jordan was a charismatic saxophonist and bandleader who pioneered the “jump blues” style with his rhythm-driven combo, the Tympany Five, and was known as “King of the Jukebox” for his success with both black and white audiences at a time when the music industry was segregated. His 1949 single “Saturday Night Fish Fry,” with its rapidly spoke-sung lyrics and driving rhythm-section riffs, is considered one of the earliest rock and roll songs. The saxophone was an important lead instrument in early rock and roll, and Jordan used this top-of-the-line Selmer Mark VI during the height of his career. Jordan’s music influenced many later artists, including Chuck Berry."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91e0c2336bed8cda3d3332bb3bc190d6e232a509/original/jp-rock-exhibit-met-profile.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>At this point of walking through the exhibit, my mind was spinning. The various rooms were filled with the tangible feeling of history. I can't remember exactly what instruments came next as I was overwhelmed by the sight of these magical objects. Here's the rest of the instruments I managed to take some pictures of. I couldn't manage to take pictures of every single item at the exhibit but I managed to get a lot of my favorites.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/394e08460e777d0c1f4d457f55fe39f94d7ddcd9/original/buddy-hollys-acoustic-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buddy Holly Acoustic Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Buddy Holly </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:1943–1944 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Spruce, mahogany, rosewood, metal, celluloid, tooled leather cover </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:The Collection of Michael and Barbara Malone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Shazam! Buddy Holly's Acoustic Guitar! The body of the acoustic was encased in leather!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Though Buddy Holly was famous for performing with a 1954 Fender Stratocaster, he composed many of his hits with this wartime Gibson J-45. It is probably the acoustic guitar used to record 'Everyday,' 'Send Me Some Lovin’,' and 'It’s Too Late.' Holly was likely inspired to add the hand-tooled leather cover, a popular decoration among country-western guitarists, when he saw one on the cover of Elvis’s 1956 debut album. The leatherwork features the titles of several of Holly’s songs and the name of his home state. A leather-tooling enthusiast, Holly probably made it himself."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/100c2a2ca409032b5f44cdbf005e083f72425d9c/original/don-everlys-acoustic-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don Everly Acoustic Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Don Everly </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1954 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Spruce, mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Collection of Don Everly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"The Southern Jumbo is a powerful flat-top guitar favored by many country and western musicians. This one was Don Everly’s main songwriting instrument from the age of sixteen, which he used to cowrite many of the Everly Brothers’ hits, including “(‘Till) I Kissed You” and “Cathy’s Clown.” The duo was famed for their close vocal harmonies and driving rhythm-guitar playing. Their music, including their characteristic open tunings (when a guitar’s open, or unfretted, strings are tuned to a major chord), had an impact on the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Rolling Stones, among others."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ab748aeda1fb0124f96b410dbc4210c001e02f7/original/james-jamersons-bass.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James Jamerson Standup Bass</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:James Jamerson (American, Edisto South Carolina 1936–1983 Los Angeles, California) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1957 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Laminated spruce and maple plywood, ebonized wood fingerboard, metal </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"James Jamerson was the most prolific session bass player in the Motown Records studio. Though he was uncredited on most recordings, his buoyant and melodic lines were a fundamental part of the “Motown Sound.” This was his main instrument in sessions from 1957 to about 1961, when he switched to the electric Fender Precision bass (and on occasional songs thereafter). Jamerson’s background on this bass led to his unusual technique of playing all his lines with his index finger, nicknamed the claw. He may have played this instrument on the Marvelettes’ “Please Mr. Postman” (1961), Mary Wells’s 'My Guy” (1964), and Martha and the Vandellas’ 'Heat Wave' (1963)."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/997a156c78c3387ba2924f72f54f754469d23641/original/sister-rosetta-tharpes-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sister Rosetta Tharpe Les Paul Custom Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Sister Rosetta Tharpe </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1961 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Mahogany, ebony, nickel, plastic, mother-of-pearl, gold plate </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Collection of Perry A. Margouleff</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Legendary guitarist and gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe used a white Les Paul Custom like this one for her pioneering work in the 1960s. In 1961, Gibson redesigned the Les Paul model with a thinner, lighter body, a flat top, and beveled and pointed double cutaways. After Les Paul rejected the new design, Gibson rebranded it as the “SG” (Solid Guitar) Custom model, and it became the company’s high-end solid body of the early 1960s, attracting other notable players like Jimi Hendrix. Later musicians who championed SG-style instruments include Pete Townshend, Duane Allman, Angus Young, and Tony Iommi."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/afebe83c4ffe8199e1e461b3b66dbe3fefe1c119/original/john-lennon-12-string-rickenbacker.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN LENNON'S 12 String Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Rickenbacker, Inc. (American) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: John Lennon (English, Liverpool 1940–1980 New York City) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Maple, padauk, chrome, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Courtesy of Yoko Ono</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Pictured above is the 12 string that John used @ the Shea Stadium concert!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Shortly after John Lennon used a Rickenbacker guitar in the Beatles’ first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, Rickenbacker built him this one-of-a-kind twelve-string version of his Model 325. Lennon played the guitar throughout the Beatles’ North American tour in 1964 and during the recording sessions for A Hard Day’s Night and Beatles for Sale; it is probably heard in the introduction of Ticket to Ride.” </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b53dff3309cbf3aa1dd161d6db991453c58951b6/original/the-beatles-stage-set-up.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RINGO'S Drum Set</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Ludwig Drum Company / Artist: Zildjian Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Ringo Starr </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Boosey & Hawkes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:1963 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Jim Irsay</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GEORGE HARRISON'S Guitar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Höfner Gmbh & Co. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: George Harrison (English, Liverpool, 1943–2001 Los Angeles) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:ca. 1958 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium:Spruce, maple, rosewood, ebony, brass, steel, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line:Courtesy of The Karsh Family</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The aforementioned John Lennon 12 string guitar was part of this cool Beatles tableau which also featured a 1963 Ringo Star Drum Set and George Harrison's Hofner Electric guitar.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ringo's Drum Kit: </strong><i><strong>"In postwar Britain, American-made instruments were rare and desirable. The Beatles’ Ringo Starr, seeking his first American drum set, purchased this Ludwig kit from London’s Drum City music store in 1963. The shop’s owner, Ivor Arbiter, designed the Beatles’ “drop-T” logo on the bass drum head so Ringo could also retain the Ludwig logo, demonstrating proof of its American provenance. He used this kit for European performances from 1963 to 1964."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>George Harrison's Guitar: </strong><i><strong>"George Harrison acquired this Club 40, his first electric guitar, in 1959, at a time when he, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney were moving away from acoustic-guitar-driven “skiffle” music toward an American pop-influenced electric sound. He used the Club 40 in shows at Liverpool’s Casbah Coffee Club, where the young Beatles had their first residency as the Quarrymen. In 1966, Frank Dostal, the guitarist of the German bands Faces and the Rattles, won this guitar as a prize in a competition. The signatures on the guitar were actually written by Neil Aspinall, the Beatles’ road manager."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d22c07f53e1a4d450055311a766a53607c04cf0e/original/bruce-springsteen-guitar.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Keith Richards "Micawber" Telecaster,1954 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Fender </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Keith Richards (British, born Dartford, Kent, 1943) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1954 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium: Ash, maple, chrome, brass, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Collection of Keith Richards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Richards received this guitar from Eric Clapton on his twenty-seventh birthday in December 1970 and first used it to record Exile on Main Street, in 1971. During the session for that recording, Richards removed the low E string and tuned the five-string guitar in an open G chord (GDGBD), a technique that became part of his signature sound. He went on to use the guitar for most of his songs in open tunings. In the 1980s, Richards named the instrument 'Micawber' after a character from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38df8732869bde2aaa192b23904d0db5575a5fe1/original/jimi-hendrix-flying-v-electric-ladyland-all-along-the-watchtower.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix "Love Drops" Flying V,1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist:Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Jimi Hendrix (American, 1942–1970) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date:1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic, nail polish </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Collection of William C. Butler, Vanderpool, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Though known for playing Fender Stratocasters, Jimi Hendrix played this Gibson Flying V extensively from 1967 to 1969. He probably used it on his 1967 BBC Radio 1 sessions and 1968’s Electric Ladyland, notably for his solo on 'All Along the Watchtower'. Hendrix modified the nut and strap button and painted the instrument himself using nail polish. When Hendrix gave the guitar to Mick Cox of the Irish band Eire Apparent in 1969, Cox refinished it in black and removed the original design. In the 1990s, session musician Dave Brewis acquired the instrument and restored Hendrix’s original paint job."</strong></i></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/886d6ab7a9e434b7111f21f67e1aace519659762/original/pete-townshend-guitar-1975-tour.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pete Townshend "No. 6" Les Paul Deluxe (serial no. 133592),1975 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Pete Townshend </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1975 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium: Mahogany, maple, rosewood, nickel, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Collection of David Swartz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Pete Townshend is known for his aggressive showmanship, which includes his “windmill” strumming technique and destruction of his instruments. This guitar was one of nine numbered guitars used on tour with the Who in 1975, each set to specific tunings and capo settings for various songs. This organization, along with a customized strap-lock system, was developed by Townshend’s guitar tech Alan Rogan. The headstock for this instrument snapped off after a December 23, 1975, show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon as the guitar came flying out of a second-story window, breaking into two pieces when it hit the ground. In 2002, the body and headstock were reunited and restored by luthier Cristian Mirabella."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba10de2ceddce73d703dbe4c9f0f588e6601585d/original/pete-townshend-smashed-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peter Townshend Smashed Gibson SG Special preserved in Lucite, ca. 1973 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Pete Townshend </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: ca. 1973 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium: Lucite, Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Classification: Sculpture </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Penske Media Corporation/Rolling Stone Mag</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>This item caught me eye as it once again reminded me of the 1967 concert I'd mentioned earlier on in this post. At that show, Townshend and Moon destroyed their instruments with demented glee. Townshend's smashed guitar is encased in lucite which made it difficult to get a clear photo of it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"While a student at Ealing Art College in London, Pete Townshend studied with Gustav Metzger, a founder of the Auto-Destructive Art movement. Embracing material destruction as a protest of capitalist production, Metzger’s philosophies guided the rebellious anger behind the musician’s smashing of instruments. Townshend destroyed this example during a photo shoot with Annie Liebovitz for Rolling Stone that resulted in 'How to Launch Your Guitar in 17 Steps'. This sculpture made from the remains has been on display in the Rolling Stone office building for decades since."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6da3d15fce5f7520244cf7ebac5e36d37ad15810/original/claptons-fool-sg.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Clapton "The Fool" SG,1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: The Fool Collective </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Eric Clapton (English, Ripley, Surrey b. 1945) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, mother-of-pearl, plastic, oil-based enamel paint </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Private Collection</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"In 1967, Cream’s manager Robert Stigwood commissioned Dutch artists Marijke Koger and Simon Posthuma to create a custom-painted set of psychedelic instruments, costumes, and posters for the band’s upcoming U.S. tour. This guitar became known as “the Fool” after the art collective that Koger and Posthuma later founded. Eric Clapton received the guitar from George Harrison before it was painted and went on to use it as one of his main instruments with Cream, playing it while recording Disraeli Gears (1967), Wheels of Fire (1968), and Goodbye (1969). “The Fool” was restored after 1972 by former owner Todd Rundgren."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/74effb51a37c5e583b91cd6ffea677900976486b/original/jack-whites-white-stripes-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jack White Airline Res-O-Glas,1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Valco Manufacturing Company </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Jack White (American, Detroit, Michigan b. 1975) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Jack White</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Jack White used this guitar extensively in his live performances and recordings with the White Stripes. The Valco Airline, with its unusual design, plastic composition, and red color, became a key element in the duo’s look. It appears in numerous music videos, including those for “Seven Nation Army” and “The Hardest Button to Button,” and was featured in animated form during White’s cameo on an episode of The Simpsons."</strong></i></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5267b14065be6d9accf7d2188ecd0e6da2d4246d/original/jeff-beck-esquire.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck Esquire "The Ugliest Guitar"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Fender </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Jeff Beck </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1954 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Collection of Seymour W. Duncan - Chairman, Seymour Duncan Pick-ups, Santa Barbara</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Jeff Beck used this Esquire in his brief but influential work with the Yardbirds in 1965 and 1966. While the Yardbirds were on tour with the Walker Brothers in 1965, Beck purchased it from the latter’s guitarist John Maus. Among other modifications, the Esquire’s slab body had been sanded down and contoured to imitate the ergonomics of the Fender Stratocaster, exposing the ash woodgrain underneath. On 'Heart Full of Soul', an important song in the development of psychedelic rock, Beck played this instrument with a fuzz pedal to simulate the buzzing harmonics of a sitar."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6250019aa1b72894edc7b93ee48009aca8ca53fe/original/joan-jett-guitar.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joan Jett Melody Maker 1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Gibson </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Joan Jett (American) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1977 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Joan Jett</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"Joan Jett was a founding member of the Runaways and, later, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Seeking a lighter instrument than her Les Paul, she bought her first Gibson Melody Maker from Eric Carmen of the Raspberries and used it to record hits such as 'I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll' and 'Bad Reputation'. This example was Jett’s touring guitar from the 1980s to the present day. It is decorated with stickers celebrating feminism and gay identity, including a lesbian love symbol, a leather pride flag, and one that reads 'girls kick ass'."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2d9c128cce7e56f2daafe01a6ac7d8e77e24d358/original/5-neck-guitar.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rick Nielsen's Custom 5-Neck Guitar 1981</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Hamer Guitars </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Richard Alan "Rick" Nielsen </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: 1981 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"An unusual five-neck guitar has been a feature in guitarist Rick Nielsen’s performances with Cheap Trick. After a period of playing live with multiple guitars strapped on simultaneously, he began collaborating with Hamer in 1981 to combine all of his needs into one outlandish instrument. This guitar, Nielsen’s first of its kind, was built by laminating together the bodies of five Hamer Specials. Nielsen went on to commission and perform with several other five-neck instruments, each with a different configuration."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In addition to some of the well known artifacts at this exhibit, there were also some period pieces; instruments that were popular in the hazy crazy years of the 60's!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d63d0bfd8fbfa3134e4ee04aeb27987eeafe0c8/original/coral-electric-sitar-1968.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Coral Sitar, Model 3S19,ca. 1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Danelectro Company </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Steve Miller </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: ca. 1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Courtesy of Steve Mille</strong></span>r</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> </strong><i><strong>"The sitar became a popular sound in the late 1960s, especially after it was used by George Harrison on the Beatles’ 'Norwegian Wood' and by Brian Jones on the Rolling Stones’ 'Paint It, Black'. Working for Danelectro’s Coral line, New York studio musician Vincent Bell developed a guitar with an elongated bridge that creates a buzzy, sitarlike tone without requiring guitarists to learn another instrument. Steve Miller has used this example in recordings and live performances of his song 'Wild Mountain Honey' since the 1970s."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/216de175aa3f87a24eb80890a42640ac262765bc/original/mellotron.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Stones Mellotron MkII,ca. 1964-67</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Object Details </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Bradmatic/Mellotronics </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: The Rolling Stones </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Artist: Brian Jones (British, Cheltenham 1942–1969 Hertford) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Date: ca. 1964-67 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Credit Line: Collection of Mick Jagger</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wow! An actual mellotron! I'd always wondered about this instrument which was used extensively by The Beatles and The Moody Blues among other rock artists of the mid-sixties era.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>"The Mellotron uses prerecorded three-track tapes to reproduce a variety of orchestral instrument sounds, rhythm tracks, and special effects. When a key is depressed, it plays a recording from a sample library that includes string sections, flutes, brass, and vocal choirs for up to eight seconds. This is one of two Mellotrons owned by the Rolling Stones; Brian Jones played one on '2000 Light Years from Home' and 'She’s a Rainbow' from Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) and on several songs from Beggars Banquet (1968). The Mellotron’s atmospheric sound became popular with psychedelic and progressive rock bands."</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e5a7d4a3d2919932ff3af9ea2a9abb1374a2d969/original/image-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In addition to the instruments on display there was a cool room whose walls were covered with some historic rock & roll posters!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8daa17ce40301b1381b1e96c8eeeda846fec7ac5/original/1964-rolling-stones.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Rolling Stones & Jerry Lee Lewis at Ricky Tick R&B Club, Windsor, England 1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><i><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1851d1858338b6355ed833124f116c41f44d9084/original/dead-battery.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></i></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ay! Caramba! That's all of the instruments that I was able to photograph because the battery in my camera died! Since I couldn't photograph any more of the instruments, I ending up spending most of my time studying the minutia of each instrument I came across. Some of the artifacts I missed photographing included such guitars as </strong><i><strong>"Eric Clapton’s “Blackie”; Eddie Van Halen’s “Frankenstein”; Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf”, St. Vincent’s electric guitar, which Annie St. Vincent Clark designed in collaboration with Music Man in 2015; and Jimmy Page’s dragon-embroidered costume (Los Angeles, 1975)—the elaborately hand-embroidered suit took over a year to complete and Page wore it during Led Zeppelin’s live performances from 1975 to 1977." </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.metmuseum.org/primer/play-it-loud#lets-rock" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The&nbsp;Play It Loud&nbsp;Primer"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Play It Loud Primer</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> sets the stage before you go inside. 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(NY Times obituary 1999)</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>From the Counter-Currents Publishing site: “Louis Thomas Hardin, Jr. (1916–1999), known as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, poet, pamphleteer…Hardin stepped onto history’s stage in 1943 as a blind street musician and beggar in Manhattan. In 1947, the year he began to seriously compose music, he took the name Moondog after Lindy, the dog on his family’s farm in Hurley, Missouri who always howled at the moon. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>At the age of 16, Louis Hardin, Jr. was blinded by a blasting cap carelessly discarded by a railroad crew… After young Louis Hardin was blinded, he abandoned his Christian faith. It was the classic problem of evil. How could a God who is good, all-knowing, and all-powerful allow him to be blinded and left in agony? Once he put Christianity behind him, young Louis embraced a new outlook on the world based on the so-called laws of nature and one’s relation to them…He began earnestly to study music, which was then as now one of the few careers open to the blind. He studied piano, violin, viola, and organ and began listening to classical recordings and radio broadcasts. He enjoyed the patronage of a number of dedicated teachers who recognized his talents. When he moved to New York, he was taken under the wing of Artur Rodzinski, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who gave him liberal access to the orchestra and its rehearsals.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f6b7ad7385ad10ee9eccb46ae326f0f5a23e907a/original/young-moondog.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moondog had a striking appearance: tall and handsome, with long hair and a beard, he wore unusual clothing of his own manufacture and design. Many found him a “Christ-like” figure, which he found intensely annoying, as he had rejected Christianity in his late teens.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Eventually, he quashed the Jesus comparisons by creating a Viking costume complete with horned helmet and spear. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moondog had an intensely charismatic personality. But he first became known because of his unusual appearance and constant presence on the streets of Manhattan, where he played his music, recited his poems (which resemble Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Zen koans, and nursery rhymes), and just talked with passers-by. Columnists looking for an item or reporters looking for a story began to mention him in the papers, which caused more people to seek him out. Soon he was the darling of various avant-garde musical and artistic circles, probably for mostly the wrong reasons. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Over the years, Moondog came to know writers like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Alan Ginsberg; jazz musicians and composers like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Benny Goodman; classical composers like Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Steve Reich, Philip Glass; conductors Arturo Toscanini, Artur Rodzinski, and Leonard Bernstein; popular musicians like Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Elvis Costello; and celebrities like Marlin Brando, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Muhammed Ali, and José Ferrer. One night in the ’60s he shared a Greenwich Village stage with Tiny Tim and Lenny Bruce.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xjDfIEiU0Q0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xjDfIEiU0Q0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>"Moondog devoted himself to Norse mythology and a wholesale rejection of the Judeo-Christian society he believed hijacked the old and noble Norse ways, going so far as to wear a helmet of horns, chain mail, a bearskin cape (based on the warrior uniform of the Beserkers, who believed that wearing the cape empowered them with the spirit and strength of the animal), and shoes which he fashioned himself out of scraps of leather. Though he was blind, he made most of his clothing himself. This is a minor accomplishment compared to the other activities he carried out without the benefit of sight: hunting with a bow and arrow, building a log cabin by himself, living on the streets of New York for over twenty years." (The Population blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f503ddb31e3357bf5d4465489a6d39b9181dc91d/original/image-6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>As a matter of fact, Moondog may be the only street musician and beggar who had recording contracts with major labels. By 1949, he was making his first 78 rpm recordings. In the 1950s, he released a number of lps, including Moondog and His Friends (Epic, 1953), Moondog (Prestige, 1953), More Moondog (Prestige, 1956), The Story of Moondog (Prestige, 1957), and Tell It Again (Angel/Capital, 1957), a delightful children’s album and the recording debut of Julie Andrews. In 1969, Columbia Masterworks released Moondog (Columbia, 1969) followed by Moondog 2 (Columbia, 1971). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In 1974, Moondog moved to Germany, where he lived the last 25 years of his life. He arrived as a beggar and a street musician. In 1976, he met Ilona Goebel, with whose family he lived the rest of his life. She became his manager and amanuensis, who mastered the difficult and time-consuming art of translating Moondog’s scores, which were encoded in Braille, into conventional musical notation. Ilona gave Moondog the environment and assistance necessary to allow him to compose steadily. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>During his European years, Moondog enjoyed growing recognition as a serious composer. He received commissions from orchestras and festivals and conducted concerts of his music in Paris, London, Salzburg, Stockholm, New York City, and elsewhere. There was particular interest in his music in Sweden, where from 1981–1987 he led a number of concerts, made recordings, and even met the king and queen. Later, he enjoyed similar attention in England from 1992–1995, conducting concerts and making recordings with saxophonist John Harle and songwriter Elvis Costello. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Although Moondog was championed by avant-garde elements, his music is deeply conservative. He said, ‘I’m a dyed-in-the-wool classicist, and I’m tonal…I would rather listen to rock & roll than Schoenberg because rock music is tonal and simple harmonically, as is mine’. Moondog’s regular, spritely rhythms, simple harmonies, and counterpoint most closely resemble Renaissance and Baroque music. Thus the jazz label is highly misleading. Moondog’s compositions have proved quite amenable to big band adaptations. He also wrote concert band and march music. But Moondog was far removed from avant-garde and improvisational jazz. Even his apparent improvisations were based on completely worked out scores. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1dd5b075a13e47f5af9d406a1fdbe8e9d0c628c4/original/moondog-53rd-6th.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>"By 1948, Moondog had grown sick of New York and decided to leave “Coca-Cola culture” behind. He hoped to go live among the Navajo in New Mexico, but they firmly rejected him. He noted how they envied the culture he had left behind, while he coveted the culture they themselves were leaving. The final straw came when a group of them lead him between lanes on a busy highway and left him there. He traveled around the country instead, and by fall 1949 he was back in New York with a new elkskin cloak and square, wooden drum. Both of his own design. His awkwardly cut, “square clothes” and self-invented instruments would soon become emblematic of his unique musical style and personality.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ever since Moondog first set foot in New York, he had the attention of celebrities, artists, hipsters, tourists, and flâneurs. Years before the full bloom of his “viking self”, he had already influenced, befriended, or been approached by today famous figures like Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Dean Martin, and Bob Dylan. Muhammad Ali always referred to him as either “Moon” or “The Dog”. He performed with Tiny Tim and once jammed with Marlon Brando, who played the bongos. All the while, he was making five dollars a day on the street while sleeping on the floor of his record producer's basement. It was there he wrote “All is Loneliness”, a harrowing composition which would later be covered by a range of artists, including Janis Joplin, usually in far simpler rhythms than Moondog himself intended. The English folk-revival band Pentangle later recorded a song about him, and the Beatles may have plagiarized his name when they first started performing as Johnny and the Moondogs. David Bowie would later claim the sight of Moondog as his first distinct New York memory. He was less than enthusiastic about modern pop music: “The human race is going to die in 4/4 time”, he joked sardonically.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>If people saw him as a living anachronism between the skyscrapers of Midtown, it should be said the feeling was mutual. Moondog claimed he never felt like an American. He idealized Northern Europe and referred to himself as a European in exile. When the music brought him to Germany in 1974, he was delighted to visit sites such as Teutoburg Forest, where Germanic tribes under the military leadership of Arminius lay waste to three Roman legions in the year 9 CE. As well as the Sachsenhain monument in Verden, where Charlemagne allegedly subjected thousands of pagan Saxons to forced baptism, before executing them en masse on the banks of the rivers Aller and Weser. These pilgrimages must have spoken to Moondog's yearning towards a more native and ancient atmosphere, as well as the Machiavellian sentiments of his personal philosophy. Every now and then, I make little pilgrimages of my own to Moondog's corner, where only his ghost remains to those who still remember, or are otherwise initiated into the secret of his existence. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>While people tend to imagine Moondog busking on “his corner” on 6th Ave, this was not usual. For the most part, Moondog’s daily routine consisted of standing in the shadow of the Manhattan skyline, tapping along as he wrote music in braille. He composed poetry, sold his own sheet music, sipped coffee, relished the sounds and rhythms of the city, chatted with strangers, joked with friends, and disarmed hecklers, rain or shine."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In the 1950s…disc-jockey Alan Freed, who specialized in packaging black music for white teenagers, took the name Moondog. In 1956, Moondog sued him for copyright infringement. It was a long, bitter battle, particularly for a blind homeless man, but in the end, Goliath beat David, and Freed had to pay $6,000 in damages. (At one point, Arturo Toscanini took the stand as a character witness for Moondog.) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>It is hard not to find Moondog’s life inspirational. He was a creative genius who triumphed over enormous obstacles. Some of those obstacles were surely self-imposed, as his critics and second-guessers point out. Moondog was not forced to live on the streets. Many people were willing to take care of him. He chose to live on the streets because he had a strong need for independence, and he was willing to pay the price. Yet even so, he demonstrated just how much one can do with how little—just how far the power of personality and genius can take you—how one can live a spiritually rich and creative life while blind and in poverty on the streets of New York."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0492eb5df787a808fea73373530bc03ccfbe7fa7/original/image-7.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca50de562787872956e29d2ff98f5c2b980851b1/original/image-8.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><span><strong>As I sit here typing, my mind clock is slowly turning back to the summer of 1972 when I actually had a strange encounter with the one and only Moondog.</strong></span></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c9b922a71698cee00c7d44d7807fdc39ef28151e/original/m-frank-music-anazlyzer-at-large.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>M. FRANK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I was living in a tiny apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a college friend of mine named Michael (these days known as M. Frank, author of the popular Beatles book, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://maddaysout.com/newsletter_ennj" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>MAD DAYS OUT</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>). That summer in Ann Arbor, We were pretty much being bums and liking it. Just next door to the apartment we were renting was a bagel factory that sold their bagels for 9 cents apiece. These cheap bagels were the mainstay of our daily food intake; our biggest culinary issue being that we couldn't afford anything to put on the bagels so we were pretty much eating them as they were...au natural. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>That summer, since we had no air conditioning in the sauna that was masquerading as our apartment, we used to go driving around town in Michael's car searching for things to do. Sometimes we would head up towards this old football field where they'd have free live concerts. As I recall, they usually put on shows by a lot of local players such as The Stooges, MC5, Bob Seger, and Commander Cody. Most of the time we'd hop into Michael's old Toyota and go driving around to different record stores just to look at the records in the rack. Seeing as how we couldn’t afford to buy any albums; we would pretend to be searching through the stacks of records in search of a particular one. If the store clerk said, "Can I help you find something?" I would always name a fictitious band. "I'm trying to find the new album by The Hoot Men; they're a band from Scotland that plays Velvet Underground songs on banjos."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de13f63d399d0cef57eb87b331e8e04f0dae9de3/original/image-9.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>One particularly hot day we were on our way to a little record store in town called The Cave or something exotic like that. On the way to the store we caught sight of an old man dressed up as a Viking standing by the side of the road with his thumb out. The sight of this guy wearing a Viking helmet with two long horns and holding a tall homemade spear sort of froze us up for a second; but then we pulled the car over, backed up a bit and opened the door to give this roadside apparition a ride. It was only as we got closer that we both realized, "Hey, this guy is blind...and he is hitch hiking..." The old guy fumbled around quite a bit as he got in the back seat of the old Toyota. We heard a ripping sound and Michael yelled, "Hey, watch where you point that spear of yours, it's ripping up the upholstery fella!" The old Viking guy leaned forward and stuck his horned helmet head between us in the front seat. In a quiet voice he announced, "My name is Moondog and I'm hitch hiking around the country to promote a new album of mine that was just released by Columbia records. I'm supposed to do an in-store appearance at a local record store called The Cave somewhere in Ann Arbor. Would you happen to know where this store is located?"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><span><strong>Now I'm looking at Michael and he's looking at me. The look in my eyes is saying something along the lines of: "Let's see if I got this straight…this guy just had a record released on Columbia records, he's blind, he's dressed as a Viking, his name is Moondog and he's hitch hiking across the country...what's wrong with this picture?" But seeing as we were two college students out on a summer lark, we didn't really think the matter required much debate. "Sure Moondog, we can take you there!" ...and off we went through the streets of Ann Arbor. Moondog's long white beard wistfully danced in the breeze as he leaned his helmet head out the backseat window staring around intently as if he really was seeing something out there. Maybe he was hearing a new piece of music in his head, I didn't know for sure.</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2e21e0a9cb10c2f5f5b9ffbddd85c3e5103750a/original/image-10.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>When we pulled up outside of The Cave there was a small crowd waiting to meet the one and only Moondog. A few hippie types who were wearing Sonny Bono fur vests, a couple of suburban housewives who had their hair up in curlers, one fella in a Marine dress uniform, a little kid in a gold lame jump suit and two guys who looked like champions from their chess club at the local university. Moondog thanked us for the ride and then as the crowd led him into the record store started whistling a happy little tune of some sort. We went in and skimmed through the record racks while Moondog held court in the front of the store. The music from his latest album, Moondog 2, wafted across the length of the store. I was taken aback by the sound of this music. Many of the songs were simple compositions that were in the style of rounds (you know, like "Row Your Boat") and sung with the type of circular logic that only a true musician of Moondog's caliber would create.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In short order, I dedicated myself to purchasing a copy of Moondog 2 as soon as my meager funds allowed such a luxury... which I finally did about six months later. I found the record still held the same magical sway over me as it did that day I first heard it in The Cave record store, watching Moondog holding court and from time to time shaking his head and doing a little jig of a dance. "</strong><i><strong>Hee hee hee</strong></i><strong>!" The music was so free of attitude and so full of simple joy.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="l7hZNx_NdFU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l7hZNx_NdFU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moondog 2 is an album that evoke visions of childhood. Among the wonderful little songs that populate Moondog 2 are two of my favorite Moondog pieces; one is called This Student of Life. "</strong><i><strong>This student of life has enrolled as that student of life, his alma mater is of the world, it's such a timeless mentor</strong></i><strong>." The other song on this album is an early morning favorite of mine called "Coffee Beans" The song is almost...stupid...that's how artfully simple it is as it perks along, dispensing its caffeine-addled joy: "</strong><i><strong>Coffee beans make the finest coffee in the world, it's time to take a coffee break</strong></i><strong>" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Here's more info on the Moondog 2 album from Wikipedia: "Unlike his previous instrumental album, which was largely performed by an orchestra, Moondog 2 contains vocal compositions in canons, rounds, and madrigals. In the liner notes to the album, Hardin states he first began writing rounds in the late winter or early spring of 1951 but soon moved on to instrumental music. But after he'd heard in 1968 that Big Brother and the Holding Company had recorded </strong><i><strong>All Is Loneliness</strong></i><strong>, he took to writing them again."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18991eb488a065c8d8714c979c9627a31fdef4d0/original/moondog-2-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Many years later, as I get lost in the memories of that day in Ann Arbor, I find myself grateful to have had a chance encounter with such a renowned musician. Moondog was indeed a magical character. His music on Moondog 2 always reminds me that all we ever really need is a simple song.</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OwBGtgoVPLs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OwBGtgoVPLs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>From the Counter-Currents Publishing site: "If you’d like to explore Moondog’s music, the best place to begin is the two-CD compilation Moondog: Rare Material (Roof Music, 2006), the first disc of which is the Big Band CD of 1995, which contains some of Moondog’s most appealing compositions. The second disc is a representative compilation of Moondog recordings from 1949 to 1989, beginning with his first 78s. 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data-video-id="1TQDhnzH8rE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1TQDhnzH8rE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f80f87a394f43fa1742533dde15f33004816e845/original/1974-the-who-summer-of-74-charlton-athletic-f-c.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Summer of '74</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlton Athletic F.C.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QB3MFvIoXus" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QB3MFvIoXus?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lou Reed</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Humble Pie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bad Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lindisfarne</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dave Mason</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a66bc69608dac5cfc53c4b70cd9028159bc7b4d0/original/csny-1974.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Doom Tour" 1974</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wORwlCy3JDI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wORwlCy3JDI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CSNY</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Day Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Launched Their 'Doom Tour' In the summer of 1974, the concept of "stadium rock" was still pretty much in its infancy. All that would change, however, when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited on July 9 in Seattle for the first date on their famously turbulent "Doom Tour."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/177996d0e4066e250b06b7286f977e2018788822/original/1974-stevie-wonder-denver-coliseum-denver-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="roGGIreTt-4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/roGGIreTt-4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stevie Wonder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rufus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/213959b362a9866c542357b0293b945cc93c7f29/original/1974-electric-flag-fans-stadium-decatur-il.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A Good Times Sunday!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Electric Flag</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>REO Speedwagon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clmax Blues Band, Areosmith</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls, Renaissance, The Flock</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fans Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Decatur, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64491111d843e5fc63479724e5fc42273a9f3441/original/1974-bruce-springsteen-walsh-gymnasium-seton-hall-univ.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xx3MUIu9-Ak" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xx3MUIu9-Ak?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Walsh Gymnasium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seaton Hall University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>South Orange, NJ</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d087e402b7c168450e273e0578a65521f21ed218/original/1974-dr-john-toledo-sporta-arena-toledo-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toledo Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toledo, OH</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4e85e6d5bca185c6290510df0e4a17c534fec4ac/original/1974-bruce-springstten-lone-star-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Lone Star Comes Back To Texas Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d693bfbf024d1fa1edb90a8b9c188c972f759dd0/original/1974-bruce-springsteen-armadillo-world-headquarters-austin-tx.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a3bc04bd35f96b66a403cf94ce308dcb3bc595f6/original/1974-dr-john-armadillo-world-hq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Greezy Wheels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/06477b70fed2af15aa0ae37d98f2210883142c8a/original/1974-ry-cooder-greezy-wheels-armadillo-world-hq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="cjHyrO-RVaw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cjHyrO-RVaw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Greezy Wheels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ae3ebca32216bd65fed663bde1dc6786f3ba14ca/original/1974-csny-oakland-stadium-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Walsh & Barnstorm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jesse Colin Young</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9b58be815de93f7adea3d79ab557e36b7ac9e1c/original/david-bowie-diamond-dogs-tour-mid-south-coliseum-memphis-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WtI7TWSi5sw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WtI7TWSi5sw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mid-South Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80467b75728dfa5311ef5490fd2f89868ced931c/original/1974-steely-dan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="c8DoIC5tJw0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c8DoIC5tJw0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steely Dan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1974 All American Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orpheum Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2c2c4959112eed6ca23364b43dcb47b0a837368/original/1974-steely-dan-warnors-theatre.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig 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src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ZBtPf7FOoM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mott The Hoople</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Regis College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa9051756bd52d032ca2688757937c9f3f6e9024/original/schaefer-music-festival-central-park-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Schaefer Music Festival 1974 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 12: Benny Goodman and his Sextet </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 14: The Original Righteous Brothers; Sam & Dave (7 PM and 9:30 PM) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 15: An Evening with Melanie (7 PM and 9:30 PM) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 17: James Gang; Maggie Bell; Duke Williams & The Extremes </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 19: Steeleye Span, Bonnie Raitt w/ John Hall, Howdy Moon</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 21: Two Generations of Brubeck: Dave Brubeck, Darius Brubeck, Chris Brubeck, Danny Brubeck; John P. Hammond </strong></span><br> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="3F90D75Ft7I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3F90D75Ft7I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 22: Todd Rundgren's Utopia (w/ Special Guest Chaka Khan) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 24: Mahavishnu Orchestra </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 25: Dionne Warwicke; Barry Manilow; Janie Olivor </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 28: Herbie Mann; Carlos Potato & His Bata Cubano; Joe Bataan </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>June 29: Mandrill; Labelle </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 1: King Crimson; Golden Earring </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 8: ZZ Top; Brownsville Station </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 10: Bobby Womack and Peace; Bloodstone; Minnie Ripperton</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 12: Robert Klein; Melissa Manchester; Jim Dawson </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 13: José Feliciano; Freddie Prinze; Druick & Lorange </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 15: Souther Hillman Furay Band; Leo Kottke </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 17: America; Ian Matthews </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 19: Linda Ronstadt; Martin Mull </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 20: Tom Rush; Janis Ian </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 22: B.B. King; Bobby Blue Bland </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 24: Harry Chapin </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 26: Poco; Snafu </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 27: Blood, Sweat & Tears, Tim Buckley </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>July 29: Dave Mason; Premiata Forneria Marconi </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 3: Anne Murray; Bruce Springsteen; Brewer & Shipley</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 9: Uriah Heep; Manfred Mann </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 10: David Bromberg </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 12: Marshall Tucker Band </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 17: Don McLean </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 23: Peter Frampton; Snafu </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>August 31: Premiata Forneria Marconi </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 3: John Sebastian </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 4: Foghat; Bad Company </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>September 7: Rory Gallagher; Aerosmith</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4854e1f95d7d6cfb6f1f8a1f8fed269872b86f5c/original/1974-capt-beefheart-armadillo-world-headquarters-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="MG4msJr0pdk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MG4msJr0pdk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ef53e7765ab8ffd48eda8396a2fb23a71f1b8e8e/original/1974-indiana-univ-fieldhouse-bloomington-in.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-uZQ7lgJijk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-uZQ7lgJijk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I.U. Fieldhouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Indiana University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bloomington, IN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb2823bfe161aa8db9a76e9df73e589f56840834/original/1974-world-series-of-rock.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The World Series of Rock!</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beach Boys</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tI6mJhPc9f4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tI6mJhPc9f4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joe Walsh & Barnstorm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lynyrd Skynyrd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>REO Speedwagon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3fdb3e3058cf457f2620dbe6e954f873c435d23b/original/1975-the-heartbreakers-cbgbs-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0551594e6d2acdd8fb5e060bb72a3fa19c05ddae/original/1974-freddie-king-armadill-world-hq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freddie King</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="F1v0vlqIEGM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F1v0vlqIEGM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e83b7d6e718790125fa7cc2da9717b58e3b6f143/original/1972-elton-john-kent-state-univ-kent-ohio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Dillards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memorial Gym</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kent State University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kent, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9f0fb60d33109156202b4c52b762db256f9c57db/original/1974-zz-top-lauderdale-coliseum-florence-al.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_GOH2vw2q0A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_GOH2vw2q0A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ZZ Top</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lauderdale Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Florence, AL</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a632159d266713e778bb378e78fe8ec50bb514f/original/1974-dr-john-the-agora-ballroom-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Agora Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e1e8d5a2f53bdebe6e59d4e12890c97642afda6a/original/1974-david-bowie-radio-city-music-hall-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RuwNYAm6zAo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RuwNYAm6zAo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bowie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Radio City Music Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ca4762cb529ea2d670ae61aad67bfe7b3de3e4e5/original/1974-garden-state-summer-music-fair-roosevelt-stadium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Garden State Summer Music Fair 1974</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Allman Brothers Band / Grinder Switch</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CSNY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seals & Crofts / America /</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Maria Muldar / Souther Hillman & Furay</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Emerson Lake & Palmer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Clapton / Ross</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beach Boys / The Eagles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago / Doobie Brothers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/266fd20a61defc219e090f8d9a99f2b0ca4fc446/original/1974-fall-1974-cornell-univ.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santana</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Taj Mahal w/ Minnie Ripperton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Return To Forever</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Eleventh House with Larry Coryell</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cornell University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ithaca, N</strong></span>Y</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/898c9c7935bd3334aa128f0147af98f4f99a2128/original/1974-david-bromberg-armadillo-world-hq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>David Bromberg</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="y4VcZCR9DlA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y4VcZCR9DlA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8b00e6a474da020d10ff9ecf708893300921a9a7/original/1974-box-scaggs-capitol-theatre-porchester-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boz Scaggs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Roy Buchanan</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dXdMKPkDapQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dXdMKPkDapQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Capitol Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portchester, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/22467dd2901ffe481aac855638fe01f0d7b62bc7/original/1974-allman-bros-band-san-diego-sports-arena-san-diego-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7wzC066-vn0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7wzC066-vn0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Allman Brothers Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boz Scaggs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Diego Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Diego, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1001ed5fd28636992cee5cb32f9b5e5507c447ca/original/1974-the-who-quadrophenia-tour.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DKKELGpCo6o" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DKKELGpCo6o?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quadrophenia Tour 1974</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e768b2235d786367db5b1c561b14a832367524e/original/1974-aretha-franklin-auditorium-theatre.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="S1vlGz4wAgM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S1vlGz4wAgM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aretha Franklin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Auditorium Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/449df4ca970030fb07c3ba61ea0ddd6d9c477ca6/original/1974-marvin-gaye-oakland-coliseum-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sGhV5BxWGLM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGhV5BxWGLM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Marvin Gaye</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Talbot & DeThangs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Del-Tones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/041f960bbb9f02ecd12d65251a5f87a5b3ef7f1a/original/1974-todd-rundgren.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="20JXm5m89sE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/20JXm5m89sE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dan Hicks'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Elvin Bishop Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Robertson Gym</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UC Santa Barbara</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Barbara, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d09a13c8e5a357a0b6ccb581110b6f26f10a0295/original/1974-csny-wembley-stadium-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crosby Stills Nash & Young</strong></span></p><p 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead, Beach Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ten Years After</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>King Crimson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Strawbs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cow Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5acfdd238b5fd7a5bf76b6c9f3ef2553189fc492/original/1974-ny-dolls-bottom-line-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suzi Quatro</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c70e7859bff3e97c88d0e22d4266a3ae39ec216d/original/1974-patti-smith-television-maxs-kansas-city-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wIEPMVpXnXg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wIEPMVpXnXg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Patti Smith</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Television</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Max's Kansas City</strong></span></p><p 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86f995b61fae45474be9c69771ccd389d501ce7b/original/1974-kiss-peru-circus-center-peru-in.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Rock and Roll Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kiss </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Stone Wall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Peru Circus Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peru, IN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3d5510f917bfa23f574bd03728d133d5b9a3db0e/original/1974-grateful-dead-portland-memorial-coliseum-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="g-5Nw2W-hPE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-5Nw2W-hPE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dad</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland Memorial Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e0b0dbd0885261bd2e6e1c77fd0cfa0aa89d9cec/original/1974-new-york-dolls-kiss-i-m-a-auditorium-flint-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kiss</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I.M.A. Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flint, M</strong></span>I</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d24ffa755493a4536b20ab73cd589cbe2e73606c/original/1974-ny-dolls-iggy-stooges-auditorium-south-hall-memphis-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Iggy & The Stooges</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Auditorium South Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Raleigh Springs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a5115729ab134c96482c924ac75059d1621b34ea/original/1974-ny-dolls-jimmys-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New York Dolls</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Suburban</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img 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style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1a0b2ad4bc19688f901d7154326dab09c6f19c06/original/1974-zz-top-brownsville-station-dr-john-seattle-center-coliseum-seattle-wa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ZZ Top</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brownsville Station</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle Center Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jahrhunderhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/784c2659a6dc7e0089757e96860e14ad6c269e8d/original/1974-bb-king-maassoni-aud-detroit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>B.B. 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However, I'm very particular about which ones I collect. In my world view, I only collect cover songs that are unique in the fact that they recreate the song rather than just imitate the original version. A perfect case of this is Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon's unique take on the Aerosmith tune, </strong><i><strong>Sweet Emotion</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>"The two stellar musicians have teamed again to bring us Sixty Six Steps, an incredibly wonderful album. While the initial inspiration for the album comes from Gordon’s love of Calypso and Caribbean music...in the midst of the album, Kottke and Gordon launch into </strong><i><strong>Sweet Emotion</strong></i><strong>. 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Fieldhouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Erie County, PA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8b6d3bff1a6aa425f6ae602a4f5f21e4ade8bb2/original/jeff-beck-warnors-theatre-fresno-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jeff Beck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Warnor's Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fresno, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2848ddd4f3a34658a48f60d31d89963a49997ea9/original/muddy-waters-his-chicago-blues-band-antones-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Eu3CbGyKgiA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eu3CbGyKgiA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Muddy Waters & His Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Antone's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6aba9d885d1fedd8dbb566374882ced9fdc7112d/original/queen-saginaw-civic-center-saginaw-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LvB2MnIIdMw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LvB2MnIIdMw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Saginaw Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Saginaw, MI</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4988fc6a6f08b660b57913b8b731a95e1a549074/original/1976-wayne-county-tuff-darts.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eLEo2qgHDLs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLEo2qgHDLs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wayne County</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tuff Darts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/997c4bcbf1779e1700da3e5ea35aec9c7e19c127/original/1976-the-sensational-alex-harvey-band-germany-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1976 Tour Germany</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1y6vc-amBn0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1y6vc-amBn0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sensational Alex Harvey Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a7e20481ad3f46a612cd643602a9dadb981ce5fd/original/1976-clifton-chenier-antones-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Clifton Chenier</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Antones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b359ec8b5053a1fc250d45d612ec020d13aa368e/original/1976-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QPWJFobREpA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QPWJFobREpA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1976 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89e6283cbe96f8dfe45980420406d28580342bb2/original/1976-ry-cooder-armadillo-hdwq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ry Cooder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/243d102da0dc06a3cfd554795fa8a283a77ae987/original/1976-lynyrd-skynyrd-vets-memorial-columbus-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lynrd Skynrd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Outlaws</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vets Memorial</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Columbus, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e742f094a38e676d0787a7ed9cfe2e4a10612517/original/1976-jethro-tull-frankfurt-festhalle-frankfurt-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jethro Tull</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Miles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt Festhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Frankfurt, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de77209d98e31b0c978d107611043fa1548d947a/original/1975-new-riders-armadillo-whq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>New Riders of the Purple Sage</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doak Snead Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a5b79fbcb042c5479de4ecba98f583b5fe4d0d9/original/1976-hotuna-cains-ballroom-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hot Tuna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gasolin'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cain's Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b61613c9c91f7319dfc810b35762aa6a76319956/original/1976-zz-tops-world-wide-texas-tour-coliseum-theatre-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>World Wide Texas Tour</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0V9m_sEDzJw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0V9m_sEDzJw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ZZ Top</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blue Oyster Cult</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Coliseum Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b90545e9d4143fab649fb44f7d464468e5c38b46/original/1976-bad-company.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bad Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle Center Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6cee44287f85e1d336180bdfe51e9c30ae350abf/original/1976-deep-purple.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="vsvAxPM15DE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vsvAxPM15DE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Deep Purple</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nazareth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/487a6a2b456742efc7981d6eb74f7e27a32eb458/original/paul-mcartney-wings-wings-over-the-world-madison-square-garden-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/105b6e9d655fe9a5722bf2da487a0b24bf3b966b/original/lou-reed-rainbow-theatre-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Lou Reed</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Rainbow Theatre</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">London, UK</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1f12ca45c193b8021a05e35dd92a368afbf5c313/original/patti-smith-the-stranglers-hammersmith-odeon-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lWnGQFtHtM0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lWnGQFtHtM0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Patti Smith Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Stranglers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hammersmith Odeon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d48bad1161716fdeb0f3a776bdfe2aed334c107f/original/ramones-cbgbs-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2c22e8b7446c31d7959cad9c8194dbfe09d569a8/original/grateful-dead-orpheum-theater-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Orpheum Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52cee764914671d30086ecf44fe9381aee201ae2/original/jerry-garcia-band-delmar-theater.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jerry Garcia Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Delmar Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>St. Louis, MO</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ee4ab013c2468fddaec6c7b9330134fdb2580f7e/original/1976-the-who-edmonton-coliseum.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KHql_CDdtqk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KHql_CDdtqk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edmonton Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Edmonton, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/118c02d15f88c0bdb8ec7eecec478f2ef56972db/original/1976-the-who-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Olympahalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c2b63756c0d9994626deaf3ce3b38be9e6ed81a7/original/1976-thin-lizzy-graham-parker-free-trade-hall-manchester-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>UK Tour 1976</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="INiYaZKmeTo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/INiYaZKmeTo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Thin Lizzy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Graham Parker & The Rumour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2ca0f73ae9037e249dc66788865bfc43282964c/original/r-r-state-of-mind-blog-mailing-list-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4fcf920bdfd68df019e7f11fa237b99533a8530/original/1976-springsteen-miami-university.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/39e4f11d38e6384d72a2fe8c4ee080e3f6d8641f/original/e-street-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Millett Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Miami University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Oxford, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4de47780183192a0883c2795d63f9c2c7077e016/original/1976-pattti-smith-sparks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Patti Smith Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sparks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69b192c7f5fba8c95fdd33b0fa14ddb8c68da1b3/original/1976-muddy-waters-joyous-lake-woodstock-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l 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data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DLQ68Q8CCMM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Marley & The Wailers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Beacon Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/98bc3c3255607bfe62d4cdbd0a5efaca51d58c43/original/van-halen-pasadena-center-exhibit-hall-pasadena-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Headwinds, Eulogy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pasadena Center Exhibit Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pasadena, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/362155bc5a2e287288b5c8053622ef9715c7ff59/original/the-runaways-whisky-a-go-go.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Runaways</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Quick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whisky A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/133ad93d536f240164d52c7b7c329e05bb1570ca/original/1976-zz-top-world-wide-texas-tour-liberty-bown-memphis-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Worldwide Texas Tour </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ZZ Top</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lynrd Skynrd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Outlaws</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Liberty Bowl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Memphis, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/835c217057cf46283f7798fa5d9acaadf2cdfec1/original/1976-ramones-the-new-yorker-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ramones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The New Yorker Hotel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/50301086e67c727b0c1a25405e5268ae79c0687f/original/1976-return-to-forever-musichalle-hamburg-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xJI2IzHgy6M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xJI2IzHgy6M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Return To Forever</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Musikhalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hamburg, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/46b7a91755f7f1f470d0646b24395d0403192d59/original/1976-slade-hollywood-palladium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Slade</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The James Gang</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Brownsville Station</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lynyrd Skynyrd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood Palladium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e695799c2959cd55cc4464091d0af630773cacfb/original/1976-queen-music-hall-boston-ma.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cate Bros.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Music Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/caf1ffc3d8c25fc0641fe5a4677ebcd735fe968d/original/1976-billy-joel-moore-theatre-seattle-wa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Joel</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moore Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a71b9a240f10ef2ee646898740202c18dca21474/original/1976-dylan-rolling-thunder-revue.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="fURyb48wD-M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fURyb48wD-M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Rolling Thunder Revue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Dylan'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Joan Baez</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bob Neuwirth</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/86877f6dfcd1051c06d1c1a59b3f2489d9932b8c/original/1976-john-lee-hooker-antones-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Lee Hooker</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Antone's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d763c58d057d4c7e46e2d5d8a32dcc2e435e921/original/1976-todd-texas-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Texas Tour 1976</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Todd Rundgren's Utopia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Liberty Hall (El Paso, TX)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Texas Hall (Arlington, TX)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Trinity University Auditorium (San Antonio, TX)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Municipal Auditorium (Austin, TX)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e544f20992012c10c0dae1e5b4dae32b5e36429/original/1976-elton-john-the-spectrum-philly-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Spectrum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><h3> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c74eb38df17f12d18382a2beb6f369677420464b/original/1976-elton-john-the-coliseum-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Elton John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Columbus, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/445f2b69c3c057ae50f902f0bb34962b73ed8283/original/sex-pistols-dundee-caird-hall-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c2a96c0d10bc630a907a93c0c718f47205de1d87/original/the-who-charlton-athletic-football-club.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Who Put The Boot In Tour</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sensational Alex Harvey Band</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bCEFSAmLBBA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bCEFSAmLBBA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Little Feat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Outlaws</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Streetwalkers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1bb0034b131830e55aada28f579a7ce5d2df7af3/original/1976-peter-frampton-msg-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UAynwzutk0A" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UAynwzutk0A?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Patti Smith Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oakland Aud. 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f0b54d2d7c30f812b15ade8df62cdbb558229f1/original/1979-cheap-trick-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OPemyipJzAM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OPemyipJzAM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cheap Trick</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>War Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Nashville, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7ce450ec76891706953d0af4da884339b53db74/original/1979-the-police.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Police</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Knack</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Robert Johnson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Zellerbach Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>UC Berkeley Campus</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/769f13ba81d615c2c6e679107bf37820b1ff160e/original/1979-b52s-paradiso.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>B-52s</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Paradiso</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a3f50175281338ebbe14ef73b681bfff8264df9/original/1979-b52s-theatre-le-palace.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>B-52s</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Theatre Le Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Paris, France</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4626f195b4a6934817ecc2f1ee2889f40087ab76/original/1979-rockpile-hammersmith-palais-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GmQOhQeQ6J0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GmQOhQeQ6J0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lew Lewis Reformer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Specials</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hammersmith Palais</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f849d5d210494263ad731cb5944828df3940a5a0/original/1979-talking-heads-armadillo-world-hdq-austin-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Armadillo World Headquarters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Austin, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5714870ad9984765267a96d4eb91bed951934104/original/1979-the-damned-malvern-winter-gardens-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Damned</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Ruts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Malvern Winter Gardens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Worcestershire, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5406250f5663656a21b4fb8aa5a475d527d5c486/original/1979-edinburgh-rock-festival-scotland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TmkS-ndc7Qk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TmkS-ndc7Qk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Van Morrison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Undertones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Steel Pulse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Squeeze</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Chieftains</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Royal Highland Showground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Edinburgh, Scotland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a4d84ace998896e7216d6e61aa42c1a1470f618b/original/1979-van-halen-assembly-center-tulsa-ok.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Van Halen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Assembly Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tulsa, OK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b666dc863dae45a0f747f61cd323037978e49dd3/original/1979-the-clash-masonic-aud-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>David Johansen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Undertones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Masonic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9d5fbf81b6e866ded7afde8518c0a485be8eb29a/original/1979-talking-heads-electric-ballroom.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Electric Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/413f1fdd3ecd224155bfa79a119cd713af0b8ecd/original/1979-graham-parker-live-in-america-1979.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Live In America Tour 1979</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Graham Parker & The Rumour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c66d49b47d39ff8cf03f66798ae4ba3f0124b1e7/original/1979-joe-jackson.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Joe Jackson</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moon Martin & The Ravens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tower Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/abcb4b7968f653a3d0b6b90e0754183bc2ec6b6a/original/1979-blondie-rockpile.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>US Tour '79</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fox Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/978a500cb1e1ce505c36286aa53a5dcc0106345e/original/1979-iggy-pop-tiffanys-late-bar-disco.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Iggy Pop</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tiffany's Late Bar Disco</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Edinburgh, Scotland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d522e04e87c1d9af8bf5e41201be1e554167463/original/1979-talking-heads-nihon-seinenkan-tokyo-japan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Talking Heads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Nihon Seinenkan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tokyo, Japan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65becc4dcc2996af5a0a0241532bcd71aac33b1f/original/1979-elvis-costello-i-u-auditorium-bloomington-in.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Armed Funk Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Elvis Costello & The Attractions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Rubinoos</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I.U. Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bloomington, IN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f2b76514585146964223dc7e2ae4d91348267eb/original/1979-give-em-enough-rope-tour-the-clash-ontario-theatre-canada.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Give 'Em Enough Rope Tour</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Clash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bo Diddley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>D. Ceats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ontario Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ontario, Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/954e3ea60ce699220d5f856ea7ebf05767056886/original/1979-the-who-wembley-stadium-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Wembley Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2bcfacd9271f352563194a5f2002d4b9f8389909/original/1979-dr-pepper-music-festival-wollman-skating-rink-theatre-central-park-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1979 Dr. Pepper Music Festival</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Blondie</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rockpile</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Wolman Skating Rink Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Central Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/40acb8a33c0f0e284a4615e6bd1027561ac5eb01/original/1979-tom-petty-palace-theatre-clevland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Fabulous Poodles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Palace Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b57944a7a9ee416cf8f5c2b94c795c970da13246/original/1979-queen-japan-tour-79.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Japan Tour '79</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Queen</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4c24dfc316e5f401e79c923715b71d696e65dfc1/original/1979-breakfast-in-europe-tour-supertramp-munchen-olympiahalle-munich-germany.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Breakfast In Europe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Supertramp</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Munchen Olympiahalle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Munich, Germany</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37c5525f801ad0c23349a94da9d892ef24cd88bd/original/1979-led-zeppellin-l-s-u-assembly-center-baton-rouge-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Led Zeppelin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>L.S.U. 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data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/63853722023-05-10T06:04:12-04:002023-05-10T07:33:51-04:00Dancing On The Ceiling With Sid Bernstein & The Freelance Vandals<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d92e3dd5a3a1d8bc30d5b33bc8fe185d17a934a/original/1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="M6DfG7sml-Q" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M6DfG7sml-Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Just the other day, I happened across a YouTube video of the Beatles at Shea Stadium and the name Sid Bernstein immediately took centerstage in my mind. For those of you who never heard of Sid, here's some background info from Wikipedia: " </strong><i><strong>Sid Bernstein was an American music producer and promoter who changed the American music scene in the 1960's by bringing The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Moody Blues and The Kinks to America.</strong></i><strong>" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>At the time that Sid broke into the concert promoter biz, it was pretty much unheard of to promote shows outside of clubs and small concert halls. Bernstein was the first impresario to stage rock shows on a large scale. Along with making history by presenting the first rock concerts in sports stadiums such as The Beatles at Shea Stadium, Bernstein was the first promoter to stage rock shows at large venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York city. He was a true pioneer in the presentation of live rock & roll.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2295f60e5912c27daae36f1db5a8191a3a1343a/original/2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As it turns out, I have my own Sid Bernstein story to share with you all today. My Sid Bernstein story begins in 1978, back when I was the lead singer in a rock band named the Freelance Vandals. We had started making some noise in the music biz after we signed a production deal with a fella named Dennis Ganim. Ganim's main claim to fame was producing Green Eyed Lady, a Top 40 single by the band Sugarloaf. The production deal we signed with Ganim, which involved recording an album for RCA which ultimately ended up being shelved, gave the band one of our first lessons about how down and dirty the music business can be. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>By 1979, after the RCA deal collapsed, the band realized that it needed professional management. Our search for management was relatively short because Edward E. Finch, the father of Ray Finch (lead guitarist) and Jack Finch (keyboard player) in the Freelance Vandals), had connections in the entertainment industry. He was friends with Sid Bernstein and was able to convince Bernstein to come check us out at a live show and possibly manage us. I was aware that Bernstein had managed such acts as The Young Rascals and Laura Nyro and was looking forward to working with the man who brought The Beatles to America!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fb4da00874981bc6fb527a84ee8dfc0a2ca1c475/original/3.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The first order of business was to perform a showcase performance for Sid at a New York club to see if Sid would be interested in handling us. Sid pulled some strings and arranged for us to do a June 25th show at Trax, one of the hottest clubs in the city. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa84c824ab70073802be72b6ac65c6ab3a777ed2/original/8.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53241883d08dc2436c53bc771398e600de97c63f/original/4.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Diamond" Ray Finch (Lead Guitar / Vocals)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d56d8d4dcd1fbeb989f07c4051654a6008a067e8/original/5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Garry Pritchett (Bass / Vocals)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f772ba925509fde40c781933f1cddfc7a49fe78a/original/6.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Johnny Pierre (Lead Vocals / Rhythm Guitar)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37666c41768b548143322f0baafabb418a45c881/original/7.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Billy Cairns (Drums / Vocals)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b32ad6007120e5e31e5406014b7f55d502783789/original/1982-rti-jack-the-kingpin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jack Finch (Keyboards)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3941cd077f23f9563431c76cce0d280c88ae729/original/9.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3efead850707b71dc8e64022ad528d4356c5c599/original/10.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As I entered the band's dressing room. I ran into none other than Sid Bernstein himself. Pictured above, you can see Sid giving me the old school two handed showbiz handshake. I remember asking Sid about the Beatles' Shea Stadium show and he recounted the story of how he had the Shea Stadium staff flash the message "The Rascals Are Coming!" on the ballpark's big board and apparently Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, took issue with him promoting another act during the Fab Four's show. The entire band chatted amicably with Sid for awhile and then we all drove off in the night.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/baecf2ce44bdc561d91d0e16f8f7bcb618c0762a/original/11.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>After a few weeks went by, we heard back from Sid. We were jumping for joy when he informed us that he was definitely interested in managing us. I think the phrase, “You guys will be more popular than sliced bread!” came echoing across the phone lines. It was decided that the the band was scheduled to show up at Sid’s office in the city for a photo op for Billboard magazine which would announce our signing with Sid's company, Sid Bernstein Presents. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>We showed up at the appointed time and the photographer from Billboard positioned us around Sid, who was seated at his desk. The photographer tried to get numerous shots but all of the Freelance Vandals kept moving around as he tried to take his pictures so he couldn’t really get a decent shot. Finally, he read us the riot act. “Hey! You guys aren’t rock stars yet! Let’s get this over with!” We all hunkered around Sid at his big desk. I glanced at Sid and noticed his eye lids were quite droopy. I remember thinking, "Hmmm...what's up with that?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The photographer, who had been snapping away, suddenly stopped and said, “What the hell!” We turned our heads and discovered that Sid was fast asleep! For a moment, the collective mind-think of the band was, "Our new manager just had a stroke!" Once we realized that Sid was only sleeping, we all burst into a fit of nervous laughter. The sound of our guffaws woke up our new manager and the photographer finished taking his picures. We all shook hands and the band journeyed back to Long Island, anxiously awaiting Sid Bernstein to work his showbiz magic. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3cd23ab2ca3f175b4d377cb21aa4a639133a6198/original/12.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>A short time later we found out that, yes, Sid suffered from narcolepsy; a condition which causes frequent excessive daytime sleepiness. After all of the music biz carnage of the past year, we had been looking forward to making a new start with Sid. After discovering that Sid was a narcoleptic, we suddenly realized that the man who was now in charge of our musical careers would most probably fall fast asleep while in the midst of making a big deal on the phone with a major record label! "What the hell!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As it turns out, Sid was never able to get the Freelance Vandals a major label record deal or do much else for us. Pretty much all the band ever got out of this whole experience was a good barroom story but, in the music biz, life can be like that sometimes. I still have fond memories of having met the man who brought The Beatles to America.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In closing, I'll leave you all with this Sid Bernstein quote which I think captures the true spirit of the man: " My secret to success is that I’ve always loved good music and people. The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It’s all about how many bucks can you make on a concert. That’s permissible. I mean, we are in a capitalistic society. But I feel a lot of the art thing is lost. It shouldn’t just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.”</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/496781932b057a1c4d93d7c46b6aaa216d7c035d/original/13.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Photo Credit: the photos of the Freelance Vandals show at Trax </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>were taken by renowned photographer,</strong></span><span class="text-big"> </span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.collitonstudio.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Paul Colliton"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Colliton</strong></span></a></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_inline" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="A2CYvViV7PY" 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class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Recorded Live 1983 @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1d5ac4f43f29f699bdd102cea20d0ee74eb1cd22/original/freelance-vandals-out-of-order-album-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1224252/out-of-order" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>OUT OF ORDER</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Recorded live @ The Right Track Inn (Freeport, NY) on Easter Sunday 1981.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ab551f04e8b7cd68e67bd13344d1c2d26a31dc/original/live-the-music-box-1978-fv.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1758841/live-the-music-box-1978" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LIVE @ THE MUSIC BOX 1978</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>It's 1978 and The Freelance Vandals are getting wild and crazy @ The Music Box in Bellmore, NY on New Year's Eve!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/753a0f26229ba572aff31c375e944cd77d39ef75/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/57e90d4c68759d0396ac8481b2f0537121cc9eed/original/li-sounds-weely-edition-edit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/963c1dbf8cf153df6bde051f7d1a9a5e91816a87/original/greetings-from-long-island-banner-2.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/77270f855262e32ec5751c1ccef89f7cbf269ce5/original/support-local-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Don't Miss Out On All The Great Shows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>That Are Happening This Week!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 9</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e664f61b933f64d66d9721df71b608961ef47259/original/dead-ahead-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DEAD AHEAD BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Montauk Distilling Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>24 East 2nd St Riverhead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Hey! Come on down for Friday Happy Hour and check out the Dead Ahead Band!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/674fae87868fedbc8146d961a753c06115883378/original/may-9-pamela-betti-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TUESDAY BLUESDAY featuring THE PAMELA BETTI BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Beau's Bar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Sparks will fly when the Pamela Betti Band head on down to Beau's so get ready to enjoy a night of tasty blues you can use!</strong></span></p><hr><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 10</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ded938ebf30184b0f3ac5ba709edd43db764af5e/original/wed-the-kingbees-vintage-beano-vino-artwork.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8ef7fea694cb69162ad7a73136e8ba0460b422ac/original/the-brother-pluckers-orchestra.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BROTHER PLUCKERS ORCHESTRA WITH JIM FLEMING & KEVIN GRIFFITH</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GARaILNb7pE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GARaILNb7pE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: The Warehouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>203 Broadway Amityville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>$10 Cover</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>The Brother Pluckers are joined by Kevin Griffin on pedal steel and Jimmy Fleming on fiddle, $10 cover</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/264d1d695c31e2f0abcd0a467f0dcfe21b2fa531/original/may-10-bob-westcott.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ff64e666fd79d64c57a1e3c44a6bca8d1367e0a2/original/li-sounds-show-of-the-week-new.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="X4sApDs76W0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X4sApDs76W0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ec29528a6e4332b965334fbb4c576bf68adf8a1f/original/robert-bruey-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ROBERT BRUEY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Frank's Steaks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>4 Jericho Turnpike Jericho, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Singer Songwriter and finger style guitarist Robert Bruey grew up in rural New England and lives on Long Island's North Fork. His roots and how they have helped to shape him are reflected in the original music on his recently released CD, 'Carousel', and are even more evident during a live performance. He has performed at The Great South Bay Music Festival and at many of LI's best clubs.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 11</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0e3b1aefcbccb87df31d53f96426c684161d10c3/original/fm-steely-dan-tribute.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FM: A STEELY DAN TRIBUTE</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nqk_kkEJyAI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nqk_kkEJyAI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: The Warehouse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>203 Broadway Amityville,, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 6 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>This combo is a 12-piece ensemble is dedicated to lovingly recreating the songbook of Steely Dan!</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/615a2a9718ad46dbb4a878ab8b6a0f0da7561e67/original/admit-one-ticket.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>PURCHASE TICKETS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www-152q.bookeo.com/bookeo/b_viewTime.html?bsid=urtlmlcxeay6u9ul&backNav=true&ncs=lymrte46tk&ncs2=upt7h6nxxf" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 12</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5d5390eabfded7e6e78f6001627a394fa8b96ca3/original/tom-san-fillippo-happy-hour-mr-beerys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>TOM SAN FILIPPO @ MR. BEERY'S HAPPY HOUR</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="E01G0AcyVtw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E01G0AcyVtw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue Mr. Beery's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>4019 Hempstead Turnpike Bethpage, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 5:30 pm - 8:59 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Tom San Filippo is at Mr. Beery's with two sets of acoustic rock classics at 6:30pm. 21+ NO COVER!</strong></span></p><hr><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/206fb66beb821b1411f50526a76255d040db16f5/original/kerrykarney.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KERRY KEARNEY</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tVeWjljZmuU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tVeWjljZmuU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Bar Marseille</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><span itemprop="streetAddress"><strong>190 Beach 69th St / Rockaway Beach Blvd</strong></span><strong> </strong><span itemprop="addressLocality"><strong>Arverne</strong></span><strong>, </strong><span itemprop="addressRegion"><strong>NY</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Kerry Kearney’s style of music comes from the “Psychedelta” and he has his own brand containing an upbeat mix of American Blues & Roots, created from writing and performing on the circuit for over 40 years. Along with his band, he has continued to experience an overwhelming and positive response over the airwaves and especially when performing live. His wailing upbeat style of blues, driven by tasty, inspired guitar riffs, electrifying slide and infectious rhythms, has allowed Kerry to amass a huge loyal following.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b5e421c4398b011ba35d10df1767b2d28061f936/original/gene-casey-the-lone-sharks-alive-and-well.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GENE CASEY & THE LONE SHARKS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Liam's Landing</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>248 S Ketcham Ave, Amityville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>SHARKS NIGHT at Liam's Landing in Amityville. Dining and dancing. The fun starts at 8pm!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c9b1adbac1349126bed59ca017fd37c73e901a8e/original/back-on-bourbon-street-color-shot-39.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BACK ON BOURBON STREET</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="qZn3IrXpK_s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qZn3IrXpK_s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Twisted Cow Distillery</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>13 Hewitt Square East Northport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>This combo always brings some tasty New Orleans music to whichever club to they go to…so be sure to get some mojo in yer soul!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6fbdc54c9e8ddd53d21f333f7526b1fb509daec1/original/surfcasters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE SURFCASTERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Prohibition</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>109 Front St Massapequa Park, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - Midnight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>The Surfcasters is a band comprised of Long Island singer Cait Fazio and some of Long Islands finest musicians.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/363b380ec456bbc05e538470a69c76887b7a50fb/original/the-lucky-ones-b-w.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE LUCKY ONES</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="LtoVdX_BUEQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LtoVdX_BUEQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Finley's Of Greene St</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>43 Greene St Huntington, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>The Lucky Ones return to Finley’s. One set only at 8 pm to be followed by the band Hitz.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e10d44046c3772637b3bd4eeb8a21bb3185a19e7/original/the-rover-boys-trio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ROVER BOYS TRIO</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CtbGLfetypc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CtbGLfetypc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Otto's Shrunken Head</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>538 E 14th St NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><i><strong>The Rover Boys Trio </strong></i><strong>consists of veteran New York rockabilly musicians Brian "Bobo" Hack (guitar/vocals/songwriter, Rhythm Bound!, Screamin' Rebel Angels, Bobo and the Blue & Lonesome Two) and Bobby Moller (drums, Little Lesley and The Bloodshots, The Spastiks, Bobo and the Blue & Lonesome Two, The Bobby Lee Combo), and Steve Spano (upright bass, The Deep Grass). Combining originals with well-chosen covers from the rich history of rockabilly, '50s R&B, and hillbilly bop, </strong><i><strong>The Rover Boys Trio</strong></i><strong> are ready to tear it up right!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e2cb7509e7ffb9d419157964ce4d99afbded18bf/original/half-step-logo-for-shows.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HALF STEP</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bH_kIaenPKg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bH_kIaenPKg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: The Space @ Westbury</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>250 Post Ave Westbury, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1756343052302917a7feb3e59f3614304e3b3f87/original/may-12-jazz-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CATE & CO JAZZ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Vintage Beano & Vino Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>3316 Route 112 Medford, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm - 10 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>The Vintage Beano & Vino lounge is proud to welcome back Cate & Co Jazz, one of the Best Jazz Bands on Long Island !!! </strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/494cea8a5bee8bb5d030c4ea61c8d45ade2ea3f0/original/deep-pockets.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DEEP POCKETS</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ImkqAvCpopo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ImkqAvCpopo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue Charlotte's Speakeasy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>294 Main St Farmingdale, NY </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Come down and enjoy the eclectic soul sounds of Deep Pockets along with the great food and drink at Charlotte's Speakeasy!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3ae8a3783d4144d870dd225ff84d78333525795b/original/kane-daily-new-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>KANE DAILY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: The Checkmate Inn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>94 N Country Rd Setauket - East Setauket, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 5 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Come on down for some tasty blues a la Kane Daily!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cb2b33fb6c4457af699a0959fb1c27ffe051e3fb/original/shecky-the-twangtones-electric-quartet-jamming.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SHECKY & THE TWANGTONES</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xgsRCHTScMI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xgsRCHTScMI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Still Partners</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>225 Sea Cliff Ave Sea Cliff, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Head on down to Still Partners </strong><span><strong>& catch this spectacular show featuring Shecky & The Twangtones, a razor sharp mix of retro surf, reggae & soul jam combo!</strong></span></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6e8e7f9145437db764b59d0f0850d0484f56e983/original/may-12-flip-flop-fly.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>STEVE KREBS & THE MAYNARD G'S</strong></span></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="t8V9Ys3fe10" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t8V9Ys3fe10?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>CURTIS SUBURBAN</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><span><strong>THE ROVER BOYS TRIO</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><span><strong>Venue: Otto's Shrunken Head</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><span><strong>538 E 14th Street NYC</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>This month's FLIP FLOP & FLY is a special one: SIMONE'S BIRTHDAY BASH! That's right, it's time once again to celebrate the Incredible Simone Zimmermann! It's going to be a special night with some special guests! Come on down to OTTO'S SHRUNKEN HEAD where all the Cool People hang, put on your dancing shoes, have a few Tiki drinks and hoist a toast to the Magnificent Simone! Dig the scene baby! Here's the line up:</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>8:00- THE ROVER BOYS TRIO</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>9:00- CURTIS SUBURBAN (NYC Power Trio) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>10:00- MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN (Rockabilly/Mid Century Rock-n-Roll)</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>11:00- STEVE KREBS & THE MAYNARD G'S (Garage/Punk)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Doors 7:30 First Band 8:00 As always NO COVER!!</strong></span></p><hr><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/db20974a1a5ab85f30d92e83e02d557cae7a6c20/original/eddie-trap.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>EDDIE TRAP BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Farrell's Bar & Grill</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>263 Higbie Lane West Islip, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span><br> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 13</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d8475142352f2e101436e3b19bc7e3a567d82ded/original/may-13-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SUPPORT OUR LOCAL LI ARTISTS @ THIS GREAT EVENT!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DIRTY VICE BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PETE MANCINI & THE HILLSIDE AIRMEN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MJT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>QUARTER HORSE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BELLE CURVES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Amphitheater @ Bald Hill</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>1 Ski Run Lane Farmingville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 1 pm - 11 pm</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd7dbd4b21e493fa380f0e0feb30d207d5504ea5/original/admit-one-ticket.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>PURCHASE TICKETS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00005E41BCAF4A3C" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/756df0d24c85b51490a366a68a31f038f281e316/original/sonic-gumbo-live-color.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SONIC GUMBO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Montauk Distilling Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>24 E 2nd St Suite B Riverhead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 4 pm - 7 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>You can expect a sonic mix of rock, blues, funk, rockabilly, jump blues and much more!</strong></span></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8ba69fa663272e0cc29dc06cdfb5be215e17d817/original/shecky-the-twangtones-li-sounds-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Shecky & THE TWANGTONES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Dunton Inn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>701 S Country Rd East Patchogue, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm - 11 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>RETRO SURF REGGAE AND SOUL JAM MUSIC FOR ALL!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/fd8968bb1f120f864e05387f535f3ccad3134a1b/original/ahmad-ali-original-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AHMAD ALI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Corey Creek Tap Room</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>45470 Main Rd Southold, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 1 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Raised in a diverse community on Long Island, N.Y. Ahmad was exposed to a wide variety of Soul and Jazz.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b885c9789d7d6b0b8e0d9ec067100c88b8e3888a/original/lisa-polizzis-janis-joplin-experience.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE JANIS JOPLIN EXPERIENCE STARRING LISA POLIZZI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Lucy's Pleasantville</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>446 Bedford Rd Pleasantville, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 9 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>This is a 21 and over show. Limited seating available on first come basis. The Band was conceived when a promoter heard Lisa singing a Janis tune during a sound check. He told her she needs to do a tribute to Janis and before she knew it she was booked!</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>The search began for players who were interested, but for the first 2 years it took 2 guitarists, 3 bassists and 2 keyboard players. Finally she found the right line up with Michael, Stewart, Richard & Rick to form what is now known as "The Janis Joplin Experience starring Lisa Polizzi”</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/615a2a9718ad46dbb4a878ab8b6a0f0da7561e67/original/admit-one-ticket.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Purchase Tickets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/janis-joplin-experience-starring-lisa-polizzi-tickets-577590036347?fbclid=IwAR3fLHI_Jk1cV7ya1PN8YyTZlIBGxfOcvKOCjGJr37dCBDL4CwzpDcourHY" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/637f872d797a9b66c117e1411d0e283ea45b5511/original/may-13.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TEN TON MOJO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRIMM JACK DINE STREET ARMADA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: G's aka the avenue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>157 Hempstead Ave West Hempstead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Note: Call For Ticket Info > (516) 984-8317</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Ten Ton Mojo of NYC return to Long Island at a new location: The Avenue Music Hall (formerly G's) with Grimm Jack (NY) and Pine Street (NY) for some home grown, local FIRE!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/17b6929961182adf5f286d427e6490f314a793cd/original/sweet-suzi-the-smokin-js.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWEET SUZI & THE SMOKIN' Js</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Gunther's Tap Room</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>84 Main St Northport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Sweet Suzi & the Smokin Js will be rockin' Gunther's Tap Room!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d58c96a366cf58b93709a58160bec1dadb819703/original/dave-diamond-band-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DAVID DIAMOND BAND</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Y4DUgaCIr_U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4DUgaCIr_U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Beau's Bar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 9:30 pm</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1a035773ffb32725a4f4d0112328e728190b7da7/original/dave-march-art-deco-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DAVE MARSH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Peconic Brewing Co</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>221 East Main St Riverhead, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 2 pm - 6 pm</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/dc71cc05d64776657fd3700a9e20c81320ef1ec4/original/confidence-machine.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>COINCIDENCE MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Bartini Bar</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>124 N Carll Ave Babylon, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 8 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Come on down & sit in with Coincidence Machine on any of their repertoire. Just let them know what songs and instruments (or just come and observe the struggling)!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 14</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bdebfdc51132a9156991b79c0b0bf59d172b2ef1/original/joe-roberts-jazz-ensemble.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CELEBRATE MOTHER'S DAY WITH THE JOE ROBERTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Vintage Beano & Vino Lounge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>3316 Route 112 Medford, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 12 noon - 3:30 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Along with the tasty sounds, there will be a Sunday Brunch Buffet!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Make sure you get some reservations before they are all gone!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/22db663f9853c056e263c3616ce473692fc4928c/original/acoustic-hand-pink-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MOTHER'S DAY WITH ACOUSTIC HAND & JC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Port Bistro & Pub</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>201 Main St Ste A Port Jefferson, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 12 Noon - 3 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Come on out & celebrate your early part of Mother’s Day with Acoustic Hand & JC as they parlay beautiful music at the all newly renovated Port Bistro and Pub on the strip in Port Jefferson.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9a0fdaddcd5d6cf2b4d7de2ec6e7490a7f75b878/original/patrice-ryan-warm-acoustic-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PATRICIA RYAN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Lucharitos Of Center Moriches</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>177 Main St Center Moriches, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime; 1 pm</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>It's Mother's Day and Patricia Ryan will be performing at Lucharitos of Center Moriches!</strong></span></p><hr><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b3d00ed5bb24bc33c88cf989f8259b4605ebeabb/original/andy-del-the-courageous-cats.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ANDY DEL & THE COURAGEOUS CATS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Margarita's Cafe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>445 S Main St #5116 Freeport, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Celebrate Mother's Day with Andy Del & The Courageous Cats!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAY 15</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0d0dfbb7119e5c2d06ba71ccdf82f69ddf96cf2f/original/mondays-richie-cannatas-monday-night-jam-bitterend.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="icCmJ4DYvDs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/icCmJ4DYvDs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a1d2c7daf1984f94a09bd76b4c0f7db8853dfc5c/original/bowery-electric.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JAMES & THE ULTRA SOUNDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PETE MANCINI & THE HILLSIDE AIRMEN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BELLE CURVES (Solo)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: The Bowery Electric</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>327 Bowery NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 6 pm</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/615a2a9718ad46dbb4a878ab8b6a0f0da7561e67/original/admit-one-ticket.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Purchase Tickets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.ticketweb.com/event/james-the-ultrasounds-pete-the-bowery-electric-tickets/13190548?pl=boweryelectric&REFID=clientsitewp" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/af9340fa139feddea123c9ca597079b899a818b5/original/mondays-prohibiton-open-jam-thorogood-jenkins-mondays.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c52f4871a234594e74f08a4c34c1702a3aabd175/original/mondays-bartini-open-mic-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,167,7);"><strong>OPEN MIC MONDAYS! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Venue: Bartini Bar </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>124 N Carll Ave Babylon, Ave </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Showtime: 7:30 pm </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:rgb(235,208,7);"><strong>Open Mic this and every Monday at Bartini Bar! It's all happening @ 124 N. Carll Ave, Babylon (the west side of the Babylon RR station)! Sign up starts at 7:30. All skill levels and genres are welcome. Full backline provided. No cover charge. Nearly 16 years running! Come Out and PLAY!!</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/49b6c0e4620bfced5b1e26cafe21145c2873ed6f/original/wes-houston-may-calendar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b3cbe923b4570297aa6724512155a0f99e80326b/original/msmoke-com-official-logo-for-facebook-sidebar-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR TRACKS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e15b0c8832655ce939ec1adbec054f105e193e9e/original/across-the-river-to-algiers-single-haiku-monday.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/track/1628554/across-the-river-to-algiers" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HAIKU MONDAY - ACROSS THE RIVER TO ALGIERS</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5b555c5105d6f3b17696d6c407983e8a6eab672c/original/no-u-turn-m-c-osso.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/track/1646337/no-u-turn" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>M.C. 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Beefheart</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Monica Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Monica, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a82d8e2789a06ee9a7543e02e390492c1d1f9712/original/grateful-dead-whisky-a-gogo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whisky A-Go-Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/61e939742a2d1f092ac69dc3127e9c88d6b311cd/original/1967-long-island-arena-in-commack-ny-the-who-vanilla-fudge-the-illusion.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Murray The K Presents</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NCwzCQcjC0M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NCwzCQcjC0M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vanilla Fudge </strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UbiYSdzwlxs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UbiYSdzwlxs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Illusions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Island Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Commack, N</strong></span>Y</p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/120ec829bcf603b3edcdf3b4f88a8d176e6e8152/original/1967-andy-warhol-plastic-inevitable-hill-auditorium-ann-arbor-michigan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Andy Warhol Plastic Inevitable</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hill Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ann Arbor .Michigan</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f36c10fdcb20014a413242ad2245827fe5ceb089/original/image-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d8hNA4qotTE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d8hNA4qotTE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Seeds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The West Coast Branch & The Boston Party </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheetah Club </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venice, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4bd36f6998fe2928ffe98d5f734b5b0baccbfd6e/original/soul-survivors-box-tops-family-dog-sf.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Soul Survivors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Box Tops</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family Dog Productions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmerfield Legend </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Denver, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b7a8172015f1d0de31617ade8f62ee910d750f43/original/hendrix-sweden-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Kommer Konserthuset </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sweden</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/57d2bc6601cfc3dee34d7d1ba48d6a21b7321dcb/original/1967-fillmore-a.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Otis Rush</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Canned Heat Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fillmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="J03gRqccZC0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J03gRqccZC0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53b58726fe888b3943886ff83692d6a9afc23091/original/wes-wilson-buffalo-springfield-steve-miller-blues-band-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Blues Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/632747bbc9b01015e870184990ec7fcae13034ba/original/1967-cream-psychedelic-concert-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cream</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grande Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Ko602nLyeeM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ko602nLyeeM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/481643074d4d8490373d7f4fdba25cbdb1261808/original/1967-jefferson-airplane-buffalo-springfield-electric-prunes-shadows-of-knight-minnesoata.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Happening '67</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Electric Prunes & Shadows of The Knight</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Minneapolis Convention Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Minneapolis, MN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/943dfffb9b624989d3b13c44f64316f0b457892d/original/1967-moby-grape-the-sparrows-charlatans-family-dog-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sparrow</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charlatans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d6b4cb17fdcc542c9973cd0639cf63e923f1225/original/jefferson-airplae-charlatans-blue-cheer-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Jefferson Airplane</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Charlatans, Blue Cheer</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Winterland San Francisco, CA</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f2cdbac7b4b1e24a3ad94fde2aabf3e26720a276/original/1967-jimi-hendrix-experience-saville-theatre-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Brian Epstein Presents:</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix Experience</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Lpz3A2LR0Cg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lpz3A2LR0Cg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Procol Harum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Chiffons, The Electric String Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Saville Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4e493107d86e9d5e124da2be1ae572bc402ef135/original/jefferson-airplane-grateful-dead-big-brother-holding-co-hollywood-bowl-la-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood Bowl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4d4f7d619793ce5a0ddb63e4dbc2163e5715f4e6/original/1967-moby-grape-the-ark.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0CzBxYYXih8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0CzBxYYXih8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Ark </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sausalito, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/13917841bdbbdd0823abbcecb7bc9c49456d807d/original/1967-bo-diddley-crystal-ballroom-portland-or.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bo Diddley & His Orchestra</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Soulful Deacons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crystal Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ba6abe043d014a001b719ed6a7ae17669dc33de/original/barn-barbecue-concert-dance.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Barn Barbeque Concert & Dance </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donovan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall's Blues Breakers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fairport Conention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Blossom Toes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fleetwood Mac</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Move</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>James & Bobby Purify </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pesky Gee</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hal C. Blake </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Amen Corner </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whittlesey UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3258521875b45e5db2169f1c0abe4bb68efc4f26/original/eric-burdon-the-animals-cheetah-1967.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Eric Burdon & The New Animals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheetah Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venice, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d8e3a7c2b0ee520dbc48bb3b07899a416c3770ef/original/1967-the-standells-the-leaves-the-pooppler-effect.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Standells</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Leaves</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Pooppler Effect</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cheetah Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Venice, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dc1674b4aaf99a0e25a4c44b497a00fe5c6874be/original/1967-cream-saville-theatre-london-uk-john-mayalls-bluesbreakers-jeff-beck-group-and-jimmy-powell-the-dimensions.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Cream</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>John Mayall's Bluesbreakers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jeff Beck Group</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jimmy Powell & The Dimensions</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Saville Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/974387a358f583d4697fe7bea01c3e57a2cd645d/original/1967-new-years-eve-jefferson-airplane-big-brother-the-holding-co-quicksilver-messenger-service-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>New Year's Eve 1967</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freedom Highway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5e6ebf6fd2fc7384d9dcb369eb20ef96b83264d9/original/quicksilver-messenger-service-1967-iii.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family Dog</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hollywood, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffbbc058feb5c429513880fa6515f878d831cb31/original/1967-forest-hills-music-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e9029f36d66e12c0b600c0e44b8e404298286d5e/original/1967-james-brown-oakland-aud-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Fabulous James Brown & The Famous Flames</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jewels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Albert King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Flying Burrito Brothers </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach Arena </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e633e2cd505aadd7d1f4b9f771aff1083fca68ac/original/1967-doors-cheetah-venice-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Earl Warren Showgrounds </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Barbara, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6840484f5b7ee9c8806dc7571df64ca9bebba45b/original/1967-big-brother-the-holding-company-santa-venetia-armory-san-rafael-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Morning Glory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Santa Venetia Armory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Rafael, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36a0abcaa7f8a70305c966c39e6eac58e8c594c6/original/rheingold-central-prk-music-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/085088cf877848569e377eb49201b8882cd02094/original/rheingold-central-park-music-fest-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e6c82d2f932efa66b68b29c0c2a6739fc291439b/original/1967-grateful-dead-ambassador-theatre-washington-d-c.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ambassador Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Washington DC</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/848058fdc7338811e9fe80e7f327ed2fa79b00a9/original/1967-grateful-dead-daily-flash.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Daily Flash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Magic Fern </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/379c9b1d7c24187297ba6c4469660a354b6dd6f0/original/1967-the-who-fillmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Loading Zone </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/07d9823e67716239fc88d81fe0a8297192120f03/original/1967-chuck-berry-fillmore.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chuck Berry</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ONh9ReXNtLg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ONh9ReXNtLg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0a740e7c1d0e0cb2d61971cf2e5e5e4cf2e8a13e/original/1967-love-the-doors.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pasadena Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Pasadena, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/db215f8ecfc6165a4785ef92e70ea01cef6f385b/original/buffalospringfield-concert-march-22-1967-crystal-ballroom-portland-or.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Warlocks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Crystal Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Portland, OR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In the 1960s, the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.crystalballroompdx.com/1902-cbr-ballroom-history" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Crystal Ballroom"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Crystal Ballroom</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong> was the ultimate rock palace. People still argue about whether it was really Jimi Hendrix whom Little Richard fired in the middle of a performance at the Crystal. It is agreed, however, that bands like the Grateful Dead (twice), Ike & Tina Turner, Country Joe & The Fish, and Buffalo Springfield (with Neil Young and Stephen Stills), and a hundred others thrilled audiences at the big ballroom.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ed52964a5ba2399807cb6d4dd19dd8768b6dcf6/original/1967-golden-bear-club-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vanilla Fudge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Mama Thornton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Golden Bear </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Huntington Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d4d42785f83dddeacd1bd8ae2ceb59bbd456ad6/original/1967-donovan-hp-lovecraft-mother-earth-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donovan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>H.P. Lovecraft</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mother Earth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Winterland </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0322681f74bb4aa4f8289d313c5237d60119303/original/1967-big-brother-the-holding-company-and-the-steve-miller-blues-band-fillmore-aud-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Blues 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</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Peanut Butter Conspiracy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fb3de0fabf43e7080b12227c3a24dc6049e15465/original/the-kaleidoscope-canned-heat-new-age-nightclub-la-ca.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Kaleidoscope, Canned Heat </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The New Age nightclub </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e41327a3304e038e46e1e96d6724700ccdcf13e/original/the-doors-jim-kweskin-band-fillmore-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Kweskin Jug Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b99d8e00fedb7f2f420cce29e32462530b3ead4/original/mc5-grande-ballroom-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grande Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2263964b1d434c438263f0c5f1fa13c2a826f494/original/1967-toronto-canada.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>O'Keefe Centre </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Toronto Canada</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7a64d622b894fb6371a96543a46a78d45c4510e6/original/1967-b-b-king-moby-grape-steve-miller-blues-band-fillmore-auditorium-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BB King</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Steve Miller Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53063a1a7dc0f5372f12e1408e9bcc25102c4dd9/original/lothar-the-hand-people-denver.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Lothar & The Hand People </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Capt. Beefheart & His Magic Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>West Evans Street Denver, CO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c4d545e09443728e59a4481d65e3fb3ad950b935/original/dead-daily-flash-dantes-inferno-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Daily Flash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dante's Inferno </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dcc2932fb248b57241c16620af7675bc418f60d/original/dead-quicksilver-avalon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0a015d040a205b1e4c9698af3eb139e3128bc27/original/1967-the-chapel-auditorium-at-susquehanna-university-in-selinsgrove-pa.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Chapel Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Susquehanna University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Selinsgrove, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5936eaad46e9ebedaac999bcaaa3a78f7a496aac/original/1967-butterfield-blues-band-charles-lloyd-quartet-fillmore-auditorium-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Charles Lloyd Quartet</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9aa4da3926e396689405ce582fc0202a71a599ee/original/big-brother-and-the-holding-company-1967-iv.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Freedom Highway</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Mother Earth</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Ace of Cups</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Congress of Wonders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Family Park </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Jose, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27955e0d1b731b6ee88cbee4fc2d953ea8fb5bde/original/1967-hells-angels-janis-joplin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Hell's Angels </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Janis Joplin & Big Brother </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>California Hall Concert </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7519473cd0830449db3023ef99356d9708ba12f1/original/1967-grateful-dead-sons-of-champlin-straight-theater-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Sons of Champlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Straight Theater </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8735e372e7e1a6c2a3a638e146f704703bdf23a4/original/1967-the-who-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Loading Zone</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a32e0740ee85a4eeab303ae3f80ad47ccb8d482/original/1967-the-grateful-dead-invite-you-to-a-party-celebration-for-the-release-of-their-new-album-fugaze-hall-sf-ca.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>The Grateful Dead Invite You To A Party-Celebration</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>For The Release of Their New Album! </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Fugazi Hall </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0b49057e5cc5cc2b77178a70e8fc86c1566f600e/original/younger-than-yesterday-image-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/02544d1165157c323806b1a2e8b15b5b19d47631/original/chuck-berry-late-1930s.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Chuck Berry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>in the late 1930's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c6f60a3bd3c89e63a5ca541546539e3aa23087a8/original/hank-williams-in-the-early-1930s.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1933</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hank Williams</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/05327a32fc92c2f9cef63878c7f8bc593711502d/original/eddie-cochran-age-15.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1953</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Eddie Cochran Age 15</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="C4UQhLcHtVM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C4UQhLcHtVM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Eddie Cochran & Chuck Foreman - Rockin' It 1953</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7559560b6abb2198b25ef058d48e3466bb012f49/original/1953-edgar-and-johnny-winter-where-they-won-their-first-talent-contest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1953</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Edgar & Johnny Winter after winning a radio music contest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba9cdbd879faa601212b65a43576105968762dc6/original/image-2-quarrymen-1957.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="xKo80eZqq-0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKo80eZqq-0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8fbd95fa440202ee37a513d8fb952b8af8977687/original/1959-mac-rebennack-later-to-become-dr-john.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1959</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Mac Rebennack later to become Dr. John</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="id1iPAzoSMc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/id1iPAzoSMc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff7fd8edd07d1c2f376653065e2ceae358d9762c/original/syd-barrett.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1960</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Syd Barrett with his monkey</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5789f3181af0679f7eb3c111b3b95177a596e0f0/original/a-young-brian-eno.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1960</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Brian Eno</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf017e8ecbacf535a180860cf5192d82aa74d9d0/original/1960-david-crosby.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1960 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>David Crosby </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A member of the folk music combo Les Baxter's Balladeers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="14rAXyUIrC8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14rAXyUIrC8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/68c106b4916df005876cb8576b348461a98b580e/original/1961-blues-incorporated-mick-jagger.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1961</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Mick Jagger on stage with Blues Incorporated</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dff5584c19de6f109359a5afb2eceda6edce8f6/original/1961-eric-clapton.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1961</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Eric Clapton</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9b02046b025c764cd2a93314ce1771bc582cd6e7/original/1961-beatles-concert.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1961 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beatles perform for 18 people in a modest club </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>in the town of Aldershot, December 1961</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="b9vveqKgDIk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b9vveqKgDIk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beatles - Money (With Pete Best) At The Cavern Club (1961)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d09e4932711a4418ee6a4b41c99eca4cf75d0e1/original/1961-jimi-hendrix-us-army-fort-campbell-kentucky.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1961 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix: a member of the US Army</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fort Campbell, Kentucky</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53bedb503da0868548d6b8d637ded5631334badb/original/1961-brian-wilson-in-the-studio.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1961</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A young Brian Wilson in the studio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kw9ixMs90uA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kw9ixMs90uA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beach Boys "Surfin" Home Recording 1961</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6cdc9a7804cd418abcb5f6388ddfe33f68daf171/original/1962-keith-moon.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1962 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Keith Moon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Drummer for The Beachcombers (A surf music combo) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BL11t6o-xHY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BL11t6o-xHY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beachcombers - Mad Goose</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12cedf4d755f1f4d873735646691078515428e0a/original/1962-rolling-stones.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1962 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>here's a clean cut band called the Rolling Stones </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Dig those neat haircuts!</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="facz5L35D-I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/facz5L35D-I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Rolling Stones - Johnny B. Goode 1962</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a3f2ccbb9238d68cc4fd4ee93bcac95f87bbaec/original/1962-stephen-stills.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1962</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A young folksinger named Stephen Stills</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="x8YKYx9GfoU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x8YKYx9GfoU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stephen Stills - Travelin' 1962</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b29c1757cd79f5171370c7a1439b4b54abaea332/original/jerry-garcia-1963.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jerry Garcia</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OuRd3WTOGP8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OuRd3WTOGP8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Susan Ruppenthal and Jerry Garcia 1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d79f92233c60d2f9bbb9beaa005b5d25c9597be6/original/1963-david-bowie.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Here's a 16 year old David Bowie </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Saxophonist & Lead Singer for The Kon-rads</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Kyq66shV33k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kyq66shV33k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Konrads (with David Bowie) - Baby It's Too Late Now / I'm Over You</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/431102b671669ec1a03bb0648806610da70648cb/original/1963-the-monarchs-van-morrison-2nd-from-the-left.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Monarchs </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>(Van Morrison second from the left)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8b8a478ac7f109b1f0add44448c9dcfb6554ec5f/original/1963-jim-morrison.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jim Morrison (before he became the Lizard King)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8n94QBf2zEk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8n94QBf2zEk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36477b25e572a389d184a529d084ab111e3258ec/original/1963-rolling-stones-begin-their-career.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1963</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Rolling Stones officially begin their career in Show Business</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/711f255167627fe2f67ed842d9add5964d2d6f75/original/the-high-numbers-1964.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The High Numbers (early version of The Who)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="waxaiAjh-r0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waxaiAjh-r0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30d15ecba379d230d0718709ea8baa8ae5429bb9/original/1964-alice-cooper.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1964 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Vincent Damon Furnier aka Alice Cooper </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>when he was a member of The Earwigs </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>(a Beatles parody band)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6346d4abb7b80d92c0269936b0460f39370e2069/original/1964-neil-young.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Neil Young when he was a member of </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Squires, a Canadian rock & roll band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="O_K-vkRxMiE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O_K-vkRxMiE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I'll Love You Forever - Neil Young & the Squires</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4391c9bfea2b74b95c6d55fdd90e28cb0863be3/original/1964-john-cale-lou-reed.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1964</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lou Reed & John Cale</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In 1964, Lou Reed came up with a parody single, titled, ‘The Ostrich’. He composed and sang the song along with future ‘Velvet Underground’ mate, John Cale. The song caught on as a popular number with the masses and his talent as a songwriter and a singer, captured the attention of critics.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="85VkYiaM7vk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/85VkYiaM7vk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/11300c784684df442ebf786085b75402fb868c3e/original/a-young-iggy-pop.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A Young Iggy Pop circa 1965</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4e493c0ff6f0be680eeb8b6c29f72300d9c39a12/original/iggy-pop-the-iquanas-circa-1965.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Iggy Pop (on drums) 1965</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>He was a member of a band called The Iguanas</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Qmp3unVlVhI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qmp3unVlVhI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c9f2ba7edc23d03b99c8eca24ab2289effa4f5d4/original/davy-jones-in-march-1965-before-changing-his-name-to-david-bowie.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1965 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Davy Jones before changing his name to David Bowie</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dc8aba86fbb9f09b7620d5c80b1e3a84bbc0ead8/original/stevie-nicks-1965.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1965</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stevie Nicks</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dd0fa6d9b1702398363855a90380217f1753024/original/1967-rick-james-neil-youngs-band-the-mynah-birds-bass-bruce-palmer.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1965</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Mynah Birds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bruce Palmer (Bass Guitar)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rick James (Lead Vocalist)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Neil Young (Lead Guitar)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tQTE8hKvaaI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQTE8hKvaaI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>"Ricky James Matthews had this group in 1965 bouncing around Toronto, and it seems he couldn't keep guitar players. Late winter '65, Bassist Bruce Palmer sees Neil Young on the street with his guitar case, and suggests he join up. Neil, the struggling folk singer agrees, and history is made. Rick James gets a deal with Motown, and 16 tracks supposedly were done in Feb. '66. This was to have been the first single from a scheduled album. Ricky gets caught AWOL from the Navy, busted, and the record deal falls apart. I guess then more history is made. Neil and Bruce sell the Mynah's equipment, and head west looking for a couple of other folkies, Steve Stills and Richie Furay. More history is made. Ricky James Matthews did OK for himself too. He became a super freak, and a superstar. Enjoy a little bit of music history. On Motown, from Hitsville USA --Ricky James, Neil Young,and Bruce Palmer. The Mynah Birds." (unknown writer on YouTube)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fb9070560fd91b6eb35cda1082a139df77509395/original/tom-petty-playing-bass-gainesville-high-school-1966.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tom Petty playing Bass Guitar @ Gainesville High School</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/34b3b4ee09a001d5aed7236a525319eb0ca35691/original/1966-jimi-hendrix-a-member-of-wilson-picketts-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1966</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix as lead guitarist in Wilson Pickett's band</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="a9prXnAGyTc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a9prXnAGyTc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0e7163dd193b8bb7e23b5e1ba29a8dd41829e18f/original/1967-todd-rundgren.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1967</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Todd Rundgren (a member of The Nazz)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9448c0778b49cf356a8f9bf575d5379e39074404/original/1963-steven-tyler-of-aerosmith.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1967 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Steven Tyler (before Aerosmith)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f32a130f3e538afe9ed81a0c2fbfa37ba3634d8/original/1967-jeffrey-hyman-aka-joey-ramone-playing-drums-with-a-band-called-the-intruders.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1967</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong> Jeffrey Hyman (aka Joey Ramone) playing drums </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>with a band called The Intruders</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82abc18e422a98443690f1fe447cd7b7ba361aeb/original/1968-billy-gibbons-zz-top.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1968 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimi Hendrix with Moving Sidewalks,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>a psychedelic rock band from Houston, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>which included a young Billy Gibbons</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ICJ1NaSS1ZE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ICJ1NaSS1ZE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eeca77ae758ca12e58f1032163f7c742be2a6961/original/1968-debbie-harry-playboy-bunny.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1968 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Debbie Harry aka a Playboy Bunny</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="WSA_9Xu1JHk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WSA_9Xu1JHk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Debbie Harry - Djini Judy (1968)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/621a79bdbc3d292be43136b58c4d801c38c51b50/original/johnny-ramone-high-school-yearbook-in-the-60s.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>John William Cummings aka Johnny Ramone</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c4fea3eb0646751cc515a710540e3d51645cc548/original/1968-joey-ramone.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A pre-Ramones Joey</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ed5d00c3beefecc9a13dc3ac2e8fb4c6fdaea24c/original/sid-vicious.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sid Vicious</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d723bed6b3ae0c7079f3601b6e197292a7b13f2/original/1970-bruce-springsteen.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1971</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bruce Springsteen </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>(a member of a band called Steel Mill)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tkcpeSH555M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tkcpeSH555M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Steel Mill @ The Upstage, Asbury Park, NJ</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/83e61a2444fd05010f9b9afb0d4e5f5b79f603e8/original/r-r-is-a-state-of-mind-mailing-list-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/548fe90399d8ef38973c9f716d602ee4b3724e11/original/1971-john-lydon.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1971 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hippie John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8dd312a2013764e9aa4c4eb94bb240a3116eae3f/original/1975-joe-strummer.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1975 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Joe Strummer </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>(a member of the pub rock combo, The 101ers)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tzt9uhwhOOs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzt9uhwhOOs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cd88220f43c6ef9e52d04f3f8ea918a2d54e32b7/original/1975-tom-petty.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1975 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tom Petty (a member of a band called Mudcrutch)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Py6mZeV-iJ4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Py6mZeV-iJ4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/da549a5db4584812b0c58e38652e245aba2e93a6/original/1976-tina-weymouth.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1975 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tina Weymouth (the early days of the Talking Heads)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="U3ppy7zteNE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U3ppy7zteNE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 1975</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Introduction by Seymour Stein, Sire Records</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5e43bb880b4602e0475161aa0f15d76af486aee/original/1976-prince.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Prince when he was just starting out in the music biz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dtOrx9PRqwE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dtOrx9PRqwE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>This is Prince at age 19 , and is Funky as Hell. The musicians are PRINCE (Keyboards and Guitar), Andre Cymone (Bass) and Bobby Z (Drums). They Recorded instrumentals demos in the rehearsal room of Owen Husney's Loring Park office. They sound like well-crafted compositions.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b4b45c3c1312db3a5b967e5d4972e327f8e1e6a2/original/1978-devo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh & Jerry Casale </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>perfecting their musical act in their apartmen</strong></span>t</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gYwL3SmcnB4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gYwL3SmcnB4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Devo Live in NYC 1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7256e5fa6dba1c54d08530eb8b2233d956fafa18/original/1981-slash.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1982</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>an 18 year old Slash </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>performing with a band called Titus Sloan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d4fb81cb4e399fcca6b16103f708a574cf47f65/original/1981-kurt-cobain.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1981 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Kurt Cobain in his pre-Nirvana days</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08af78fa1b15de5688daa07a7f1cd758cdd8762f/original/1986-billie-joe-armstrong-green-day.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1988</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>A 14 year old Billie Armstrong (Green Day)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>in a band called Sweet Children </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hKPexSbwdCU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hKPexSbwdCU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e40069d4aed03ba779be5d51ce8562d44292d7b/original/1990-trombone-shorty-bo-diddley.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>1990</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bo Diddley & a four year old Trombone Shorty</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>"Someone in the celebratory chaos Jazz Fest inspires, lifted Shorty up, trombone and all. Hundreds of hands passed him overhead and towards Bo until he arrived, shell-shocked, on stage. Shorty was already a local prodigy. He marched through the streets of Tremé with musicians twice his height and ten times his age regularly. Once Shorty arrived on stage, Bo hunched over, looked Shorty dead in the eye, and said, 'Blow. Blow the horn.'" (gonola.com)</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e94f0f4197931bd5576d871da39dff632f51aa12/original/sunday-comics-thumbnail-image-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38f0cb31a245b9f8f86429c62f34c39cc9843f99/original/the-beat-goes-on.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a54feea1ad34fae4f53fc0ecab6dd74d07521f9f/original/a1-msr-cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18d168c31a41a32d873671ee1d8962d61856fc15/original/mind-smoke-records-promo-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8eb34284ea0389290b5c54d40a3d9a0e33caa5ad/original/singles-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/albums" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="ALBUMS" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4a69a0b0cfa772154f0218be2607837608a5bbe6/original/albums.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></h3><p> </p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3><p> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/65716972023-04-30T05:08:23-04:002023-04-30T05:08:23-04:00Hot Platters: Live Albums That Changed My Life<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3472b9cd84cb0005053dd80eee46de6564fff4b0/original/hot-platters.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Live albums were once a staple of most rock acts but could possibly be considered an endangered species nowadays. Sure, over the years there have been many live albums that were released as a holding action because a band didn't have a studio album of new material ready for public consumption or the band needed to fulfill the last album owed to a label on their contract. It's also worth noting that some live albums have come to define the careers of certain artists such as The Allman Brothers Band's Live at the Fillmore East album. Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus or Peter Frampton's smash hit live album, Frampton Comes Alive. I've always enjoyed live recordings and my enjoyment of this facet of the rock genre has never been based on whether or not I was at the actual show when it was recorded. I think the greatest live albums capture your imagination. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>My criteria for what makes a great live album is very simple: the music has to capture certain moments in my life. Over the past 50 years or so, whenever the mood would strike, I have found myself listening to a small group of live albums much more than I ever realized because they create a parade of memories that I find extremely enjoyable. The greatest live albums always seem to go beyond the physical reality of actually being at the show. Without further adieu, here's a list of live albums that literally changed my life.</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e579627dacf1ffdbac0c1ea2a484591f2a7261fd/original/taj-the-real-thing.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TAJ MAHAL - THE REAL THING (1971)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JPF485guOH0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPF485guOH0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Real Thing by Taj Mahal, a live show that was recorded at the Fillmore East in 1971, is an old favorite of mine from my college days that still retains its freshness to this very day. I think what I enjoy the most about The Real Thing is that, much like John Mayall's The Turning Point (recorded at the same venue in 1969), the record seemed to break new ground in the blues genre. Whereas Mayall brought forth an ensemble sans drums to give his music a pared down sound, Taj Mahal concocts a wide ranging mix of blues styles that range from down home Delta style ("Fishin Blues") to jazz/swing ("Ain't Gwine To Whistle Dixie No Mo'") to Chicago style ("You Ain't No Street Walker Honey, But I Sure Do Love The Way You Strut Your Stuff"). The transition between styles is seamless thanks to Taj's excellent 10 piece band which features such luminaries as John Hall (guitar), John Simon (piano) and a four man Tuba section head up by the legendary Howard Johnson. The horns add funky, colorful touches to the material that couldn't be achieved otherwise. If you're a blues fan and haven't had the opportunity to check this one out, do so at your earliest convenience. It's the type of album that grows on you with each spin. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8ff1e1bf9c6827f877e7901e474f9806942462bd/original/taj-mahal-real-thing.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>The Real Thing</strong></i><strong> (1971) is drawn from a mid-February run of shows at the Fillmore East in New York City. Mahal is supported by an interesting extended aggregate with a brass section consisting of Joseph Daley (tuba/horn/trombone), Bob Stewart (horn), and Earl McIntyre (horn) and Howard Johnson (horn). While at times they tend to overpower the usually intimate nature of the performances, that is certainly not the case for the majority of the arrangements. The opener, </strong><i><strong>Fishin' Blues</strong></i><strong>, is a solo with Mahal accompanying himself on banjo. </strong><i><strong>Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')</strong></i><strong> is significantly lengthened from the form found on Giant Step (1968) as it stretches nearly nine minutes and allows plenty of room for interaction, offering up a spirited fife interlude from Mahal. In addition to providing an overview from Taj's back catalog, </strong><i><strong>The Real Thing</strong></i><strong> contains a few new compositions. The full ensemble gets a workout on the funky </strong><i><strong>Sweet Mama Janisse</strong></i><strong> and the toe-tappin' rural flavor of the instrumental </strong><i><strong>Tom and Sally Drake</strong></i><strong> is lightly augmented by a sole tuba -- presumably that of Howard Johnson. </strong><i><strong>Diving Duck Blues</strong></i><strong> provides the most successful incorporation of brass, sporting a driving, full-throttle rhythm and soulful interpretation.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Taj Mahal is one of those happy contradictions of popular music. Originally a blues musician, and still essentially one, he is nevertheless only 28 years old and a university graduate. Though Taj is black, his initiation into the world of blues was more through scratchy recordings than the songs relatives and neighbors sang.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Naturally, the differences in age, background, education and geography manifest themselves in the music. While Junior, Buddy, etc., play city blues, Taj plays the country blues electrified. That is, his band does. Taj himself plays a National steel-bodied guitar, occasionally amplified, mouth harp, banjo and fife.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>It is Taj's combination of earthiness and musical breadth and sophistication which enables him to do some of his most challenging material." (allmusic.com)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Fishin’ Blues </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ain’t Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo’) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Sweet Mama Janisse </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Going Up to the Country and Paint My Mailbox Blue </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Big Kneed Gal </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>You’re Going to Need Somebody on Your Bond</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side One </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Tom and Sally Drake </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Diving Duck Blues </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>John, Ain’t It Hard </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>You Ain’t No Street Walker Mama, Honey but I Sure Do Love the Way You Strut Your Stuff</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e43e450abecbf05bdb5df53a8fdf7ed44d494c6/original/taj-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d9f0fb6c1f5c4d9df9cc9fa82912543250acf347/original/jerry-lee-lewis-live-at-the-star-club.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JERRY LEE LEWIS - LIVE AT THE STAR CLUB HAMBURG (1964)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="lQfUeLUgjFA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lQfUeLUgjFA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>To me, this live recording will always represent the defiant spirit of rock & roll. The album features the inimitable rocker Jerry Lee Lewis performing with The Nashville Teens that is one of the wildest rock & roll live albums ever made. This precious rock document was recorded during Jerry Lee's wilderness years which took place after the scandal of his 1958 marriage to his 13 year old cousin Myra. The result of this scandal forced Lewis to tour non-stop so that he could pay his bills. Jerry Lee's relentless touring produced the frantic energy that exists on this recording.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Words cannot describe -- cannot contain -- the performance captured on </strong><i><strong>Live at the Star Club</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Hamburg</strong></i><strong>, an album that contains the very essence of rock & roll. When Jerry Lee Lewis performed the concert that became this album in the spring of 1964, his career was at its lowest point. Following his scandalous marriage to his teenage cousin, he was virtually blacklisted in the U.S., and by 1964 it had been six years since he had a real hit single, he was starting his recording career again with a new label, and, to make matters worse, America had fallen in love with the Beatles and the bands that followed in the British Invasion, leaving him exiled from the charts. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ironically, he wound up in the Beatles' old haunt of the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, in the spring of 1964, backed by the Nashville Teens, who still had yet to have a hit with "Tobacco Road" (which would scale the charts later that year). Lewis and the Nashville Teens had been touring throughout the group's native England for about a month, capped off by a stint at the Star Club, where the band played for two weeks, but was only joined by the Killer for one night, which was what was captured on this incendiary recording. Who knows why this was a night where everything exploded for Jerry Lee Lewis? It sounds like all of his rage at not being the accepted king of rock & roll surfaced that night, but that probably wasn't a conscious decision on his part -- maybe the stars were aligned right, or perhaps he just was in a particularly nasty mood.." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-huge" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side One </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Mean Woman Blues </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>High School Confidential </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Money (that's what I want) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Matchbox </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>What'd I Say (part 1) </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>What'd I Say (part 2) </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Great Balls of Fire </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Good Golly Miss Molly </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Lewis Boogie </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Your Cheating Heart </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Hound Dog </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Long Tall Sally </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/790265615468151dcfd1c2591ecdb4920a42aad6/original/jerry-lee-star-club-onstage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8dd70e2c7f0c9ab3b30bb6eccbe991905c0fae41/original/van-morrison.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VAN MORRISON - IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW (1974)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Vtn4ufLtCvE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vtn4ufLtCvE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Recorded in 1973 with his 11-piece band, the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, this double album, which was recorded at The Troubadour (Los Angeles, CA), the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and The Rainbow (London, UK) still stands as one of Van the Man's finest moments. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>From </strong><i><strong>Inside Van Morrison's Legendary It's Too Late To Stop Now Tour</strong></i><strong> (Rolling Stone magazine): "On preceding albums like </strong><i><strong>Saint Dominic’s Preview</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Tupelo Honey</strong></i><strong>, Morrison was on a groundbreaking creative roll, blending elements of jazz, folk, Marin County country, R&B and rock & roll. Now came the moment to bring that no-boundaries blend to the stage, and Morrison’s comment to Labes, who excelled at string arrangements, was the first step. Soon enough, Morrison had assembled the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, a 10-piece band incorporating four string players and a horn section (and named after a legendary unreleased jam from 1970’s His Band and the Street Choir). With that band, Morrison would be able to explore nearly every facet of his music onstage, and those exuberant, musically expansive shows, in the U.S. and Europe throughout 1973, would be a pinnacle for Morrison and his creative vision."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ain't Nothing You Can Do </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Warm Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Into The Mystic </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>These Dreams of You </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Believe To My Soul </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I've Been Working </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Help Me </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Wild Children </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Domino </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Just Wanna To Make Love To Yo</strong></span>u </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Bring It On Home To Me </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>St. Dominic's Preview </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Listen To The Lion </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Here Comes The Night </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Gloria </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Caravan </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Cypress Ave</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9043936d4232e3b3e1c9aa3b6d5390fcee772b1a/original/van-the-man-1974.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d0f02d7288d6455dc0f901d43472e2fc2aa28c3/original/little-feat-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LITTLE FEAT - WAITING FOR COLUMBUS (1978)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QdKdIx05_Pg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QdKdIx05_Pg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Waiting for Columbus</strong></i><strong>, Little Feat's first live album, was the album every Little Feat fan had been waiting for. The album, which captured the band's essential swampy New Orleans vibe and seemed to validate just how good this band had been over the years, turned out to be the most popular album in the band's storied history. Waiting For Columbus gets a regular spin on my turntable as it brings back the memories of all the Little Feat concerts that I went to over the years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Recorded over seven shows the band did in 1977 (August 1 thru 4 at the Rainbow Theater in London and August 8 thru 10 at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C.), the band's tasty grooves were enhanced by the presence of the Tower of Power horn section. </strong><i><strong>Waiting For Columbus</strong></i><strong> which saw de facto leader, Lowell George, restored to his role as the band's producer. The album does an excellent job of capturing the onstage improvisational interplay that characterized many of Little Feat's best concerts. George, in particular, brings a renewed sense of energy to his singing and playing. I really like how the album opens with the members of Little Feat singing </strong><i><strong>Join The Band</strong></i><strong> in their dressing room which dissolves into crowd noise and then the percussion based beginning of </strong><i><strong>Fat Man in the Bathtub</strong></i><strong>. My favorite track off this album is </strong><i><strong>Spanish Moon</strong></i><strong>. The live version is miles ahead of the studio version that appeared on the band's 3rd album release, </strong><i><strong>Feat Don't Fail Me Now</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Join The Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Fat Man in the Bathtub </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>All That You Dream </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Oh Atlanta </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Old Folks Boogie </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Time Loves A Hero </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Day Or Night </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Mercenary Territory </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Spanish Moon </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Dixie Chicken </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Tripe Faced Boogie </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Rocket In My Pocket </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Willin' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Don't Bogart That Joint </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Apoitical Blues </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Sailin' Shoes </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Feats Don't Fail Me Now</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b13c0a622abfe5352dbc0a303df519e30e8bf0ee/original/lowell-george-church-stained-glass.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78012162dfc8b6bd5f5e6e06ae286d4623c28500/original/ray-charles.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RAY CHARLES - LIVE AT NEWPORT 1958</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="i9R5SVlODlA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i9R5SVlODlA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ray Charles has always been essential listening for me. Along with his studio catalog, this particular live album really captures the drive and energy of a Ray Charles show early on in his career. The raucous album opener "Night Time is the Right Time" grabs the listener right away. An added bonus is some of the major players who were in Charles' band at the time; such as David "Fathead" Newman (Tenor Sax), Edgar Willis (bass) and The Raelettes (vocal group). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"The Newport Jazz Festival had begun in 1954, and while already well-known and well-loved by jazz fans, the yearly event caused significant tension in Newport: this unfamiliar new black music attracted not only black audiences to white Newport, but also white college kids who descended on the town and had an easygoing, hedonistic bent that made many uncomfortable. This tension could often propel the performers to greater heights, and several performances from the festival’s early years are now legendary. Ray Charles’ At Newport album is one such document." (It's All About Ray blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side One</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Right Time</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In A Little Spanish Town</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Got A Woman</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Blues Waltz</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Hot Rod</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Talkin' About You</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Sherry</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>A Fool FOr You</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3516cfe11df740bf54512493e953ac67d2eede7/original/sam-cooke.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SAM COOKE: LIVE AT THE HARLEM SQUARE CLUB 1963 (1985)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="jfbEZgEYiyg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jfbEZgEYiyg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I vividly remember the first time I heard this album. It was 1985 and I was in a record store somewhere in New Orleans. As I was browsing through the album bins, the clerk behind the counter put on this new Sam Cooke album. The music captured my imagination immediately and I stood there listening to the entire first side of the album as if in a trance. I then purchased the album and brought it back home with me to Long Island whereupon it's been a steady listen over the past several decades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Initially recorded on January 12, 1963 to be released as a live album entitled One Night Stand, the concert at Miami's Harlem Square Club was not released until 1985. RCA Victor, at the time, viewed the album as too gritty and raw and possibly damaging to his pop image, and quietly kept the recordings in their archive. In 1962, RCA Victor decided it was time for Cooke to record a live album, and a warm January night at the Harlem Square Club in Miami was picked to record. Cooke's band, which was led by the late great King Curtis, featured such tasty players as Cornell Dupree (guitar) and Albert "June" Gardener (drums). The entire band brings a crisp energy to this recording. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Harlem Square Club was a small downtown nightspot in Miami's historically African American neighborhood of Overtown, and was packed with the singer's most devoted fans from his days singing gospel. RCA found the results too loud, raw and raucous — not the Cooke the label was trying to break as an international pop star — and shelved the recordings for over two decades. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In 1985, executive Gregg Geller discovered the tapes and quickly issued Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 that year. '</strong><i><strong>Sam was what we've come to call a crossover artist: He crossed over from gospel to pop, which was controversial enough in its day. But once he became a pop artist, he had a certain mainstream image to protect,' Geller said in 2013. ‘The fact is, when he was out on the road, he was playing to a predominantly, almost exclusively black audience. And he was doing a different kind of show — a much more down-home, down-to-earth, gut-bucket kind of show than what he would do for his pop audience</strong></i><strong>.’</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIde One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Feel It </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Chain Gang </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Cupid </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Medley: It's Alright / For Sentimental Reasons </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Twistin' The Night Away </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Somebody Have Mercy </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Bring It On Home To Me </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Nothing Can Change This Love </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Having A Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55d50611504c03ea8764eadc812acf0aeb90da90/original/talking-heads-live.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TALKING HEADS - STOP MAKING SENSE (1984)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yCXT5Fs-V10" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yCXT5Fs-V10?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The only time I ever caught the Talking Heads live was at Queens College (Flushing, NY) in 1979. Back then I was overwhelmed by their unique approach to songwriting and live performance. During the time I saw the Talking Heads live, one could sense that this band was moving towards a whole new direction. </strong><i><strong>Stop Making Sense</strong></i><strong> was recorded as the soundtrack for a live concert film which was directed by Jonathan Demme. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Due to the fact that the band was aware of a film being made led them to work with Demme to give the film a conceptual nuance; starting with the opening song featuring David Byrne performing a solo version of </strong><i><strong>Psycho Killer</strong></i><strong> with just an acoustic guitar and a percussive boombox. As the film continued, players would drift onstage to become part of the magic. It's safe to say, that </strong><i><strong>Stop Making Sense</strong></i><strong> was the best live album that was released in the 1980's and it still stands the test of time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Psycho Killer </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Swamp </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Slippery People </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Burning Down The House </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Girlfriend is Better </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Once in a Lifetime </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>What a Day That Was </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Life During Wartime </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Take Me To The River</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>It should be noted that many of the conceptual elements in the Stop Making Sense project were once again used recently in Byrne's American Utopia which eventually became a wonderful film made by director Spike Lee.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1e3d425d197ecadbbba44e0162af6825895a77ec/original/king-curtis-fillmore-west.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KING CURTIS – LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST (1971)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QISOupYqTi4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QISOupYqTi4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Live At The Fillmore West</strong></i><strong> was part of a concert that was headlined by Aretha Franklin. Curtis and his excellent combo provided backing for Franklin's part of the show. The folks at Atco Records had the foresight to record the opening set by the King Curtis group. The band Curtis was working with at this time was top notch and featured the following players: Bernard Purdie (Drums), Cornell Dupree (Guitar), Billy Preston (Organ), Jerry Jemmott (Bass), Pancho Morales (Congas) and Truman Thomas (Electric Piano). Also on hand was the one & only Memphis Horns brass section: Jack Hale (Trombone), Roger Hopps (Trumpet), Wayne Jackson (Lead Trumpet), Andrew Love (Tenor Saxophone) and Jimmy Mitchell (Baritone Saxophone). Curtis, to my mind, was one of the greatest rock sax players ever; his playing could be melodic and sweet and then he could give you a taste of some down & dirty roadhouse blues. I really love the groove of this whole album. I always find that listening to this particular live album to be very relaxing.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"On </strong><i><strong>Memphis Soul Stew</strong></i><strong>, the opening track Live At Fillmore West, King Curtis introduces the band. When it comes time for Cornell Dupree’s introduction, the saxophonist says something about </strong><i><strong>four level tablespoons of boiling Memphis guitar</strong></i><strong>. Dupree responds by playing a simple run, nothing fancy, just octaves, sevenths and thirds. It’s a professional distillation of Memphis guitar, and as such sets the tone for this live recording from San Francisco in March 1971.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Along with a group of superb musicians that includes Dupree, drummer Bernard Purdie, organist Billy Preston, and bassist Jerry Jemmott, Curtis plays the hits of the day — Jerry Jeff Walker’s </strong><i><strong>Mr. Bojangles</strong></i><strong>, Led Zeppelin’s </strong><i><strong>Whole Lotta Love...</strong></i><strong> As a gesture toward what these musicians perceived as the hippie audience, they tackle Procol Harum’s </strong><i><strong>A Whiter Shade Of Pale</strong></i><strong>...As rock history sheds its aura of sublimity and dispenses with the old divisions between what used to be called art and the so-called commercial calculation of an artist such as King Curtis, we can take a record like Live At Fillmore West straight." (No Depression magazine)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side One </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Memphis Soul Stew </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Whiter Shade of Pale </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Whole Lotta Love </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Stand Accused</strong></span><span class="text-big"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Changes </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ode To Billie Joe </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Mr. Bojangles </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm Your </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Soul Serenade</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/adbcd0d450b4d65a74b15836d0f5bebda43e69c5/original/king-curtis-in-action.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9ec6013cb6089b1c0366800fee63558c6671acb/original/get-yer-ya-yas-out-stones.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ROLLING STONES– GET YER YAS YAS OUT (1970)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="n5unQhz2-I8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n5unQhz2-I8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In 1967, after dipping their toes into the late 60's psychedelic pop culture with the release of the </strong><i><strong>Their Satanic Majesties Request</strong></i><strong> album, the Stones entered a fallow period. It was only after recording the brilliant </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog/blog/faces-in-the-crowd-jimmy-miller-producer" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Jimmy Miller</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> produced albums, </strong><i><strong>Beggar's Banquet</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Let It Bleed</strong></i><strong>, were they able to turn things around with an exciting return to their blues roots. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>At the time, much like the Beatles, the Stones had forsaken doing live shows but with the return to their true musical identity, launching a tour of the USA seemed like an obvious move the band had to make in order to restore their reputation in the rock world. </strong><i><strong>Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out</strong></i><strong> was an affirmation of the band's original energy from the early sixties as displayed on the two Chuck Berry songs on the album; </strong><i><strong>Oh Carol</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Little Queenie</strong></i><strong>. It was also good to see the band experimenting with songs like </strong><i><strong>Midnight Rambler</strong></i><strong> which was transformed into a highlight of the concerts with the use of blood red spotlights and Jagger's diabolic showmanship. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"There are better live albums available, but there isn't a better one by the Rolling Stones, who've had a thorny history of concert LPs – from their first, 1966's </strong><i><strong>Got Live If You Want It!</strong></i><strong>, where the band was nearly drowned out by the audience, to the various '70s, '80s and '90s records that served as layovers between the increasingly long gaps between studio albums. </strong><i><strong>Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!</strong></i><strong> captures the menace, the arrogance and the excitement of the Rolling Stones at their peak. Hitting the road for the first time without Brian Jones, who had died in July, and with Mick Taylor, the band sounded raw, rough and ready to rock. On </strong><i><strong>Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!</strong></i><strong>, the jagged guitars stab rather than pierce, the rhythm section is tight but bulldozing and Mick Jagger is cocky and at times tentative. Reportedly, some overdubs, mostly done by Jagger, were recorded at the start of the new year." (ultimateclassicrock.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side One </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Jumping Jack Flash </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Carol </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Stray Cat Blues </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Love in Vain </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Midnight Rambler</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Sympathy For The Devil </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Live With Me </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Little Queenie </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Honky Tonk Women </strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Street Fighting Man</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e779158b94592be3a88328fe668af67a4d1a33f/original/stones-1969-tour.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fc5012ce23c9764292c0d3106d9d524644097192/original/john-mayall-turning-point.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN MAYALLL - TURNING POINT (1969)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zLp0AsKXMEs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLp0AsKXMEs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>This record will take you places. The groove starts with the drug law commentary </strong><i><strong>The Laws Must Change</strong></i><strong> and continues on with the straight-no-chaser blues of </strong><i><strong>I'm Gonna Fight For You J.B.</strong></i><strong> (a song about noted bluesman J.B. Lenoir), a little further along it moves into the dreamy </strong><i><strong>California</strong></i><strong>, and finally touches down with the uptempo </strong><i><strong>Room To Move</strong></i><strong>--- while I would say this album is definitely a product of its time, it still retains its freshness and each listening enhances this record's ability to catch your attention at any given time you put it on.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in July 1969, this record caused quite a splash with the FM radio crowd which, by '69, had redefined the record charts--- for the hip crowd, albums were iin, singles were out. For me, I was amazed at the fullness of a band that was playing blues without a drummer. Yes, that's right... in this era of heavy blues a la Cream and 10 Years After, Mayall (along with folks like The Band) helped rock music return to a no frills, down-to-earth sound and probably the major reason Mayall was able to pull that off here was because of the band's commitment to creating a rhythmic landscape without the use of traditional rock & roll drums; the songs stood apart from the </strong><i><strong>heavy</strong></i><strong> sounds that were currently popular. Much of the album finds Mayall and company finding inventive new ways to add the "feel" of drums without actually having a stickman present --- most notable example being the use of mouth percussion & tapping on the back of an acoustic guitar on </strong><i><strong>Room To Move</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Somewhere between the tumultuous decade that was the British music scene in the 1960s, several bands came out on the backs of lesser-known groups. While the names Jagger and Clapton come off the top of most people’s heads, others such as Alexis Korner and John Mayall have lesser recognition but, historically, just as much significance. Korner created Blues Incorporated that later became the Rolling Stones; John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers was a great stepping stone for Mick Taylor, Jack Bruce, and particularly Clapton after leaving the Yardbirds but prior to Cream. While the notoriety was short lived, Mayall continues to forge to this day with a blues style harking back to the same Chess and Stax records his peers purchased. But an important turning point was, well, this album </strong><i><strong>The Turning Point</strong></i><strong>. It was here that Mayall opted to meld blues with jazz and less likely genres, with a definitely stellar result.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>One of the noticeable traits is how organically sounding the album is, needing little in the way of literal electricity to evoke the same slow blues swagger and sway in the audience, which you can imagine hanging on basically every note." (popmatters.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SIde One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Laws Must Change </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Saw Mill Gulch Road </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I'm Gonna Fight For You J.B. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>So Hard To Share </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>California </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Thoughts About Roxanne </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Room To Move</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7dcda9493a1c138d367008c55dcdd872be23a6a2/original/john-mayall-1969.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/aa2ff26c5f5d69a3bde21a72a32a7e22650cbe7d/original/ramones-its-alive.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RAMONES - IT'S ALIVE (1977)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tcSZinOuQlM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcSZinOuQlM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>It's Alive</strong></i><strong> is a double album that was recorded at the Rainbow Theater in London on December 31, 1977. It was the first Ramones live album that was ever released. I remember seeing the Ramones at CBGB's the same year this came out and when I bought a copy this album I thought it was a true document of where the band was at that time. The more I listened to this double album set, the more I realized that it was a raw glimpse of where rock & roll was headed. It's Alive is often referred to as the band at its live peak.</strong> <strong>I think as time goes on, the Ramones will continue to be one of the most valid examples of what embodies the true spirit of rock & roll.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>It's Alive</strong></i> <strong>draws from the band's first three studio albums: </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_(album)" title="Ramones (album)"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Ramones</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> (1976), </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_Home" title="Leave Home"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Leave Home</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> (1977), and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_to_Russia" title="Rocket to Russia"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Rocket to Russia</strong></i></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> (1977). Four concerts during the UK tour were recorded, but the New Year's Eve one was chosen because ten rows of seats were thrown at the stage after the concert and it was considered the best of the performances at the venue.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>'Since it was New Year's Eve, our management brought in some balloons and gave everybody these 'Gabba gabba hey' signs to wave around. It was very celebratory. Johnny Thunders was there, and Sid Vicious with his new girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Elton John was there, dressed up like Marlon Brando in </strong><i><strong>The Wild One</strong></i><strong>. We'd honed our craft really sharp by then. The Ramones' sound was basically the essence of rock 'n' roll. That's what we were going for' (Tommy Ramone)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ce53f30b894d723ad5ac04c5332a3e1d26111949/original/ramones-gabba-gabba-hey.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>It’s Alive</strong></i><strong> was a significant punctuation mark in the Ramones’ life-span, albeit an out of place one. Drummer Tommy had already quit by the time it was released; indeed the band had already released its fourth studio album, </strong><i><strong>Road To Ruin</strong></i><strong> with new drummer Marky, by the time </strong><i><strong>It’s Alive</strong></i><strong> came out. And </strong><i><strong>Road to Ruin</strong></i><strong> was a departure, sometimes harder, sometimes not really Ramones-like at all. Those first three LP’s had a cohesion – they never sounded like anything other than the Ramones, even when the band was covering oldies like “Do You Wanna Dance” and “Let’s Dance” – and it’s the elements that are presented so cohesively on those records that laid the foundation – and provided the songbook - upon which the band’s legacy lies. Only a handful of later songs – “I Wanna Be Sedated” and maybe a couple of things like “The KKK Took My Baby Away” and “Poison Heart”, which became familiar to new fans via later compilations – have had anything like the impact of virtually all the 28 songs on </strong><i><strong>It’s Alive</strong></i><strong>. </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> </strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>If you only own one Ramones album, make </strong><i><strong>It’s Alive</strong></i><strong> the one. The band’s prime years condensed into four sides of never-bettered ballistic energy. 28 songs that will knock your socks off and leave holes in your jeans." (likeyeroldstuff.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b350b220c4c86468b53ea9b380f6c655c8cbbc34/original/ramones-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Rockaway Beach </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Teenage Lobotomy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Blitzkrieg Bop </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Wanna Be Well </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Glad To See You Go </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>You're Gonna Kill That Girl </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc One / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Don't Care </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Sheena is a Punk Rocker </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Havana Affair </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Commando </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Here Today, Gone Tomorrow </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Surfin' Bird </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Cretin Hop </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side One </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Listen To My Heart </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>California Sun </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Pinhead </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Do You Wanna Dance </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Chainsaw </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Disc Two / Side Two </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Judy is a Punk </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Suzy is a Headbanger </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Let's Dance </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Oh, Oh, I Love Her So </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>We're A Happy Fami</strong></span>ly</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/186ff1f256127032134d9f48e111423049b7ef35/original/ramones-gabba-gabba-hey.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/17fcc58d8999b0b62388b12c49bb27babd3b10b9/original/bo-diddley-spring-weekend.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BO DIDDLEY - SPRING WEEKEND 1959 (1960)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ARexFz5R4qc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ARexFz5R4qc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Gadzooks! I saved the best live album for last! This Bo Diddley album is a live show that was recorded at a frat party at Cornell University in the Spring of 1959. It's probably the most primal live album I've ever heard. I picked it up in a record store back in 2010. As I walked into the store the album was blasting away at full volume. The counter person told me what was playing and for a moment, I actually thought that I was at a Frat Party circa 1959! The album is definitely a bootleg of some sort that some enterprising Bo fan must have unleashed upon the world. The earthiness of the distorted sound, the drunken crowd and Bo's slightly out-of-tune guitar all adds up to putting you right there in that Frat house. It's Spring Weekend 1959; the beer is ice cold, the girls are cute and rock & roll is a state of mind!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"I never knew the existence of this LP. I never found it on my way and probably if i did, i wouldn't have the money to make it mine. It supposed to be a "private pressing", whatever this shit means but i tell you guys, this is a hot smokin' piece of rock n' roll! It has a surprisingly good fidelity for the time it was recorded (rough to the bone!) and the Originator here just kills! I didn't found on the net more things about it. I just made an order n' i can't wait this big fat piece of plastic to come in my hands. It has only six songs, but the band is at FULL POWER and Bo's vocals came out so distorted and raw like i never heard him before! This was at frat party on Cornell University and i can imagine hearing it, what a blast these lucky bastards at the audience had!" (White Trash Soul blog)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/220e7b57dd58d0c4be27f15bd022c54283b6f8c2/original/radio-ichiban.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I came across a comment on the WFMU Ichiban blog: "When Bo played a gig at Philadelphia's Penn's Landing, I slipped back to his trailer and actually showed him the LP. Upon seeing it, Bo became immediately enraged (not the reaction I anticipated), saying "What's this? What's this? I didn't authorize this!" For a few moments, it seemed likely he was going to rip it to shreds in front of me! Fortunately, he cooled down and finally signed the thing for me. 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Concerts<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/dab9c5904c2a67eeaa0f3b2a17ffc55b4e696a4b/original/year1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb808ba3ed91377a35a9eceb8450afce555b4719/original/1968-benefit-for-rfk-la-sports-arena.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE BYRDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SONNY & CHER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAHALIA JACKSON</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ROOSEVELT GRIERE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Benefit For RFK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ff7edd0fa57e577df63e5bc5ebe2cf5769b30e6d/original/1968-stonybrook-u-jimi-hendrix-experience-soft-machine.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stony Brook University</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Campus Center (Gym)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stony Brook, NY</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c31a621d728f53d61a899e989b2283436e89e1f1/original/1968-carousel-ballroom-dr-john-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/62925aff453c227514f2cddd1032bb2be6e45cc1/original/thelonious-monk-live.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THELONIOUS MONK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DR. JOHN The NIGHT TRIPPER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE CHARLATANS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carousel Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b97f9d849c2ba2f213d27a982b1f1919d9b05264/original/1968-the-who-blue-cheer-san-jose-civic-aud-san-jose-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/76c5db7fedd500385c0882dcf2aaab0eb5cc73b2/original/the-who-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLUE CHEER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Jose Civic Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Jose, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f1bae63bb754434b9c9e01e1e91f8867559c5999/original/1968-velvet-underground-shrine-aud-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHAMBERS BROTHERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DR. JOHN THE NIGHT TRIPPER</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/be3800d65e8900ab4d5366bdb4b73977b262654e/original/1968-velvet-underground.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VELVET UNDERGROUND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shrine Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/675d5f88eddbde7ddbc5abb533799487c695909a/original/miami-pop-festival-may-18-19-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/010927c4f9584c9489a22fc63d6d334648c13719/original/jimi-hendrix-miami-pop-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Miami Pop Festival </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Miami, FL</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e516dd4202c98f8514a5e0f9b3bceeb741ce9c4c/original/1968-fillmore-west-jeff-beck-group-spirit-sweet-linda-divine-sweetwater.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5f939c0bad97712dc1fcb51329646a10c1101d44/original/1968-jeff-beck-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JEFF BECK GROUP</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SPIRIT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWEET LINDA DIVINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SWEETWATER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5658f3f1250e1b096088374bdb3b070cd6f7fb71/original/1968-grateful-dead-chico.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Silver Dollar Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Chico, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d0c57d2213a47d3b9598c31cabe8dc78151c7495/original/1968-flaming-groovies.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FLAMIN GROOVIES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/459f4442ad63f8c242e49954f1d3444a2c61813e/original/1968-carousel-ball-room-sf-ca-big-brother.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY COMPANY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FLEETWOOD MAC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DR. JOHN THE NIGHT TRIPPER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carousel Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9cf8b67096296939ea97dc1da6c8d10909ee586/original/1966-grace-slick-and-great-society-mod-hatter-mill-valley-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GREAT SOCIETY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>T</strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>he Mod Hatter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Mill Valley, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e730db05488b56846dee8d921ac236e203aba670/original/1968-cream-and-grateful-dead-in-sacramento.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sacramento, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/efb955038364e090860c7d4e67be83d44a160e0f/original/1968-cream-and-canned-heat-at-san-fernando-state-college.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5dee4848350673321ca65b5086478cd62899db40/original/cream.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>By most accounts, Cream took the live concert experience to a whole new level. Gone was the maniacal chalice of teenage worship and bad sound. Here was a trio of exceptional musicians, scruffy and weathered, determined to transfix their audiences with their virtuosity and improvisational skills. On that basis, they were successful. As individuals and human beings, of course, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had all sorts of issues that ensnarled the creative process and impeded upon further collaboration. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Valley State College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Fernando, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2fd1a37fa0df76c9a7ea7439a7f08547f805a0a2/original/1968-electric-flag-buddy-guy-freddy-king.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLUE CHEER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BUDDY GUY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IKE & TINA TURNER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FREDDY KING</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ce0d693405ad68a33afe2c7a4baf4ac5983b7850/original/1968-cream-with-james-cotton-jeremy-and-the-satyrs-and-blood-sweat-and-tears-winterland-arena-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JEREMY SATYRS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore / Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2e198206859b3c56cacfe719ad5f852300141c42/original/1968-donovan-at-the-seattle-center-arena.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/502bbda852ec4fc4ef838452df0287bef4fbcf90/original/donovan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DONOVAN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Seattle Center Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Seattle, WA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f3de4a7f9971a8c3a2cde27327a8155a1e6f92b/original/1968-la-cave-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/413da0c8f8cba6b34424c3e69bcb6c330001bc96/original/1968-silver-apples.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SILVER APPLES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HELLO PEOPLE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BREWER & SHIPLEY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JEFF BECK GROUP</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ckOPKnuD0xE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ckOPKnuD0xE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRAFFIC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>La Cave</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/509a507c853ecfcb074c61237b14693fc433a389/original/1968-hendrix-shrine-auditorium-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/923cf1fa940ab6ffc5f0b67032fe8645750606d3/original/soft-machine.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLUE CHEER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shrine Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/082a28d638a1b66ec38759d3cf1804cd257e327a/original/1968-jim-hendrix-experience-vanilla-fudge-amboy-dukes-soft-machine-atlanta-municipal-aud-atlanta-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/6cd10f2c4abad591dc91fc2cf3abc4c22d87563e/original/vanilla-fudge-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VANILLA FUDGE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>AMBOY DUKES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Atlanta Municipal Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8e2aeb2c0cef4db010eb6a36eeb31eda618e733c/original/1968-love-congress-of-wonders-sons-of-champlin-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b66b224074d654f69e9cda11d26b11a21e3dc96c/original/love-arthur-lee-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LOVE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CONGRESS OF WONDERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SONS OF CHAMPLIN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#eba707;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6d17e6f1078c077250aa327eac3f61d4203047cc/original/capt-beefheart-crawford-hall-uc-irvine-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4c28348882054dcd6b84b47949082c2a78ea6d81/original/capt-beefheart-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CAPT. BEEFHEART & His MAGIC BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Crawford Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Univ. of California</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Irvine, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4464caa22c737cc2f8a83c1ef9691e35514f7c8e/original/doors-who-singer-bowl-forest-hills-ny.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NEW YORK ROCK FESTIVAL</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b099f0a70342641cd6f39901e908406d6fa7fb75/original/doors-ny-rock-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DOORS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHAMBERS BROS.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE RASCALS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE VAGRANTS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Singer Bowl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Forest Hills, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea15065e7dfc2c3d7845ff4f9bdae784d165f3cd/original/1968-the-electric-flag-mad-river-the-fugs-the-13th-floor-elevators-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/352ec951b349f73352d3f9d518a8e5afc804e91f/original/electric-flag.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MAD RIVER </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE FUGS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>13th FLOOR ELEVATOR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36c6281cd700af662a3fd4d4446e3bfe320d0bb8/original/big-brother-fillmore-west.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/b178ce296744c54155f82599ada143913ef3e224/original/big-brother-the-holding-co.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SANTANA </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>FIllmore West </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/949c3826a581a18b6551cde00bf0c16a67755150/original/the-doors-ars-nova-crome-syrcus-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d5ef0c71fc11ecc81b8ec37699f4e891e29fc5a1/original/1968-doors-fillmore-east.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_p5ouhzgiIA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_p5ouhzgiIA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DOORS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ARS NOVA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CROME SYRCUS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore East</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/70228307c87fe74a030b08f005dd96d3f505f96f/original/1968-the-doors-hollywood-bowl.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pzXQ67cbKKo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pzXQ67cbKKo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>One July 5th, at the height of their popularity, The Doors played the prestigious Hollywood Bowl in a memorable concerts that became on of Rock's most famous performances. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DOORS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STEPPENWOLF</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hollywood Bowl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d19acfc5d4228008b775479830ca7eabf7746e5e/original/northern-ca-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9efa3d3c16a6414c649e1486536877df99fa95ef/original/1968-folk-rock-festival.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FOLK ROCK FESTIVAL </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE DOORS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ANIMALS</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7IaToz55khU" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7IaToz55khU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JEFFERSON AIRPLANE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KALEIDOSCOPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Clara County Fairgrounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Clara, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27b8b13309267c5d697ed75524924b2cdab55817/original/the-fugs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE FUGS & ALLEN GINSBERG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>One of the most unusual "rock" acts of the mid 1960s, the Fugs composed of Beat poets Ed Saunders (owner of New York's Peace Eye Bookstore) and Tuli Kupferberg, plus drummer Ken Weaver. They took their name from a peculiar word used as a substitute for a popular four-letter euphemism found in Norman Mailer's novel, </strong><i><strong>The Quick and the Dead.</strong></i><strong> This poster, featuring their "patriotic" red, white, and blue logo, comes from a brief period in early 1967 when the band was signed to Atlantic Records (who would eventually reject the completed album the band delivered to them). Opening the show was another well-known poet from the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Monica Civic Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Monica, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6db7190b0bee4a0f084230824634655a63c4f58e/original/yadbirds-cecil-taylor-fillmore-west-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>THE YARDBIRDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>CECIL TAYLOR</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE YARDBIRDS SET LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1. The Train Kept A Rollin'</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>2. You're A Better Man Then I</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>3. Heart Full Of Soul</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>4. Dazed And Confused</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>5. Shapes Of Things</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>6. White Summer</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>7. I'm A man</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>8. How Many More Years / Waiting For My Man</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>9. 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KING</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BOOKER T. & THE MGs </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West / Winterland </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/853be20119f739aee83d4b57156433d8ed19da7b/original/velvet-underground-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VELVET UNDERGROUND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>INITIAL SHOCK </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/551a7c0fb235253844ee814fbf963e24848b6310/original/hendrix-fillmore-west-winterland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALBERT KING</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West / Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>SanFrancisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c04c2505b9046e6b23b2204bd552c95704110ba/original/grateful-dead-country-joe-carousel-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRAEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carousel Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span 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EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE RATIONALS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Masonic Temple</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7c8000dbd01545c873d8030b9392a27070b47287/original/ccr-fillmore-west-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREEDENCE 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style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Campus Hall @ UC Irvine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Irvine, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37923618360dd816fc319b63fb5a74e027c0d9d1/original/1968-moby-grape-electric-factory-philadelphia-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MOBY GRAPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHRYSALIS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WOODY'S TRUCK STOP</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Electric Factory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64bfe91396e53d31e0ceff0e1947882eed1fb514/original/1968-country-joe-the-fish-the-charlatans-and-dan-hicks-his-hot-licks-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH</strong></span><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE CHARLATANS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DAN HICKS & HOT LICKS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/de44fe65e54d15fdb1246e53b8dee6ab5ee38ca1/original/jimi-hendrix-baon-rouge-la.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SOFT MACHINE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Independence Hall </strong></span></p><p 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/54b8f218b2c6f9d53da30c51f8f5651ffd1804f4/original/1968-eric-burdon-and-the-new-animals.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRASS ROOTS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DEEP PURPLE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FRATERNITY OF MAN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHNNY RIVERS</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f3de5a3ca910249e784e497bdea57e7588378464/original/1968-chuck-berry.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHUCK BERRY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STEVE MILLER BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Alameda County Fairgrounds Pleasanton, CA+</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Kensington Market </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/64d845ae340392ba2100577594d15c7c9fd8dede/original/electric-flag-carousel-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dqUq0-Ej7MI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dqUq0-Ej7MI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PACIFIC GAS & ELCTRIC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carousel Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f671afd201f5021c31363d03f151abb300f1d20f/original/flaming-groovies.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FLAMING GROOVIES</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE PHOENIX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Ark </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sausalito, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9ff07ee77f739d851045aab68e8b88cce12309fc/original/the-who-dallas-tx.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IRON BUTTERFLY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Memorial Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9fd9c18645c2063770c575bcf3a921815176d852/original/dead-steve-miller-moby-grape-avalon-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e0e92863a39b5e5e5c72e2e47860cc633020f118/original/grateful-dead2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STEVE MILLER BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MOBY GRAPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d203bf5164fc63781e271b0c7b9d730421b5068b/original/love-the-doors-pasadena-civic-aud-pasadena-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/63f32b7fd072985d8e801f0088100658d6322e27/original/love-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Love</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/af4b048009e7a8c2412930986b0fdbd46e82d020/original/the-doors-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Doors </strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d2a4e4cfe6b9ac90c3cd860c367e22e81dc784ac/original/canned-heat.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Canned Heat</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Pasadena Civic Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Pasadena, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f8ff5ca6dfc1ae37af63a3425266a5b34427d4f/original/quicksilver-avalon-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="J90HlLJNiQE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J90HlLJNiQE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STEVE MILLER BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE OTHER HALF</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2fd08df005fe07ec0b5dc8fb820ce474cb5d005f/original/tiny-tim-merriweather-post-pavilion-columbia-md.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/88a0724e48913bf82ca1a8a63e8d6780507bf3e8/original/tiny-tim.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TINY TIM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Merriweather Post Pavilion </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Columbia, MD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f29b2bde118e8bc59914612fd20891beed596bc/original/paul-butterfield-blues-band-fillmore-wes-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7bec89058bb6400d26687a10b8d4b63b50da1b94/original/1968-paul-butterfield-blues-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/099c732b3bff0e6346f74051e43ec2f96bfa642c/original/country-joe-fish-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>INCREDIBLE STRING BAND</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Kv0mlTdonxQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kv0mlTdonxQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALBERT COLLINS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>FIllmore </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6c28239b7d64f68795f2ee7f7d8da4230f9efd79/original/iron-butterfly-fillmore-wesst-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IRON BUTTERFLY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>INITIAL SHOCK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>HELLO PEOPLE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore West </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8621a3f30a1850b500452595e7b3fd6ce1e62538/original/the-who-cannonball-adderly-vagrants-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNONBALL ADDERLY</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="y8M1JN8ESKs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y8M1JN8ESKs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE VAGRANTS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fcee957c882fc3dcb523006d0cefe9cb90c885e6/original/cream-electric-flag-robertsons-gym-us-santa-barbara-santa-barbara-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ELECTRIC FLAG</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Robertson's Gym </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>UC Santa Barbara </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Barbara, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/41f4e3f41dfee4663514496373ba51c8cc35a5ec/original/yardbirds-mentor-hullabaloo-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="W_SturUfdOI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W_SturUfdOI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE YARDBIRDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHN PAUL JONES & THE AMERICAN NAVY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JAMES GANG (FEATURING JOE WALSH)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Mentor Hullabaloo </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e18c64239c76f9d648445acc556693fdced5a27/original/iron-butterfly-indian-head-band-avalon-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IRON BUTTERFLY </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>INDIAN HEAD BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE COLLECTORS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ELECTROLUMINECENSE </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/771919f09278d571bff70e39b8c7233738169e55/original/fank-zappa-alice-cooper-cal-state-fullerton-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FRANK ZAPPA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ALICE COOPER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cal State </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fullerton, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91462788591efed1bf5c8d568e67078c1483b664/original/the-who-small-faces-paul-jones-australian-tour-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Small Faces</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Paul Jones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Australian Tour 1968</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0ef75ec0c84c7bd93df23614d6eb2adf8fe03f65/original/the-who-peter-greens-fleetwood-mac-crazy-arthur-brown-shrine-aud-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shrine Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b974b70ae483422f8718d08982d2ba0e1a14e1f6/original/grateful-dead-blue-cheer-shrime-auditorium-la-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLUE CHEER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shrine Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e3c52655b58ce7cbb3eef9d9370df00cc785c936/original/association-1968-charleston-wv.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE ASSOCIATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Charleston Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Charleston, WV</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2519c48f7f69bcf7dc489ed6a127fe654616f2fc/original/chuck-berry-grateful-dead-carousel-ballroom.gif/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHUCK BERRY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>GRATEFUL DEAD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carousel Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/38cc4aacb46e6083fb31d6012fb59a457145b4c7/original/young-rascals-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gM1fbZBfcgA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gM1fbZBfcgA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>YOUNG RASCALS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Orlando New Sports Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Orlando, FL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f22472d48328378025f59b9b2d6f636da7b33a1/original/aretha-franklin-revue-knoxville-civic-coliseum-knoxville-tn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>ARETHA FRANKLIN REVUE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Knoxville Civic Coliseum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Knoxville, TN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2728bdac854e444f9c9849c5a4372f7088f11a97/original/pink-floyd-grand-union-hampstead-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PINK FLOYD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grand Union</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Westfield College</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Hampstead, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65b638ad454a57efe2db9f51736eb4a4c727cccf/original/cream-woodys-truckstop-electric-factory-philly-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WOODY'S TRUCKSTOP (WITH TODD RUNDGREN)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Electric Factory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/35cfb6021f7069e0223c0425b56382d1d48fa2c1/original/1968-philadelphia-rock-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>QUAKER CITY ROCK FESTIVAL</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VANILLA FUDGE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY </strong><i><strong>FEATURING</strong></i><strong> JANIS JOPLIN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CHAMBER BROTHERS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MOBY GRAPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BUDDY GUY BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Spectrum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Philadelphia, PA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ce4fa89aa5ce20976406ddd6b4e6c0a1db093cef/original/fleetwood-mac-pink-floyd-the-who-frost-psychedelic-stooges-grande-ballroom-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE WHO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PINK FLOYD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FLEETWOOD MAC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5071e5e92ec7baf85aa118d3cb7a37b6fab17484/original/paulrevere-theraiders-1968-charleston-civic-center.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>DICK CLARK CARAVAN OF STARS</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS </strong><i><strong>Featuring</strong></i><strong> MARK LINDSAY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Charleston Civic Center</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Charleston, NC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/319c8c2452ab808e0a8ef0597e119bf6872683ed/original/electric-carnival-buffalo-springfield-long-beach-sporth-arena-long-beach-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>ELECTRIC CARNIVAL</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE HOOK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Long Beach Sports Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Long Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fac6dacd3f6b8f2859b7c894608fe2c560b3417c/original/vanilla-fudge-steve-miller-winerland-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VANILLA FUDGE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>STEVE MILLER BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore / Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9d0c571512ddc2ca215a764d9d005678884d52d4/original/cream-james-gang-psychedelic-stooges-grande-ballroom-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CREAM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6af7bc80ebc3099b8215e0d7a6f7e50e13352534/original/1968-johnny-cash-folsom-prison.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="U9uk6NHK-AE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U9uk6NHK-AE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JOHNNY CASH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Folsom State Prison</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Represa, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/47139ec2983a8756d770d361746086fdd4f48c76/original/yardbirds-traffic-blue-cheer-palace-theater-cleveland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>YARDBIRDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TRAFFIC</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KKT0Kz5VGhw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KKT0Kz5VGhw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLUE CHEER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Palace Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10c6d37a33377a8c1747e7345d9ac30d1ec2fd9d/original/yardbirds-frost-mc5-grande-ballroom-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>YARDBIRDS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FROST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5104701716f84004a0c8a79e3f960064a30e7608/original/168-canned-heat-velvet-underground-apple-pie-motherhood-music-hall-clevland-oh.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CANNED HEAT</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VELVET UNDERGROUND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>APPLE PIE MOTHERHOOD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Music Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cleveland, OH</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/39df3d0213c8e0836d94dbad6bc8240d851387d4/original/moby-grape-procol-harum-anderson-theater-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="aRhmjP8hb-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aRhmjP8hb-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MOBY GRAPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PROCOL HARUM</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Anderson Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69592ec8fe262ca513067b0867d12b745774b261/original/mc5-grande-ballroom-detroit-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="c57qLiskcYk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c57qLiskcYk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2a94ddc3a2aa2ef735e87c2ba66c4cf4af3c825c/original/kaleiscope-james-cotton-blues-band-its-a-beautiful-day-straight-theater-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>KALEIDOSCOPE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>MINT TATTOO</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Straight Theater</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25bf4a7899f11e48772159f59f69d6e21f1d30f1/original/pink-floyd-black-pearl-the-bank-torrance-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Note: During Pink Floyd's American Tour, The Bank was the venue for the band's 1968 appearance in Torrance, California. Among the tracks that were performed during their show at The Bank were </strong><i><strong>Interstellar Overdrive</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Astronomy Domine</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Let There Be More Light</strong></i><strong>. The Bank, at 19840 South Hamilton in Torrance, California, about 20 miles Southwest of Los Angeles, is one of the least remembered and most obscure venues in Southern California.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PINK FLOYD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>BLACK PEARL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Bank</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Torrance, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/519574f29536402d7bf12ef0622ce98d8e398df6/original/1969-velvet-underground-the-trauma-philly-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" 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GALLAGHER</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Royal Albert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/423e00e6d5f18039b2dea1420d1090e05f0cf27d/original/its-only-rock-roll.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/18d1a93f8bb8a3631bf6e9211969ed2535ffdc01/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img 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Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71687442023-04-26T04:26:30-04:002023-04-26T08:36:36-04:00Lost Albums Of The 70's (part 4)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bbbeeb69444ff71c26c7a8924ff7576f38cb76c0/original/lost-albums-of-the-70s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Today, I thought it would be cool to look back on 6 albums</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>that pretty much got lost in the proverbial sauce back in the 70's</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c5344a35e9916a0a71515973d5fd9b54c022e680/original/laura-nyro-gonna-take-a-miracle.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1971: LAURA NYRO & LABELLE : GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="4Ma--gGaU5s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Ma--gGaU5s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>From the first time I listened to Laura Nyro's music, I became a true fan of her work. I recently came across a wondeful article from The Afterword which does justice to Nyro's beautiful </strong><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong> album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Laura Nyro's first album for Columbia, </strong><i><strong>Eli And The Thirteenth Confession</strong></i><strong>, is the one with exuberant, uplifting songs. The second, </strong><i><strong>New York Tendaberry</strong></i><strong> is more introspective but full of gospel fervor. The third, </strong><i><strong>Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat</strong></i><strong>, is R&B on side one, assisted by the hundred carat soul pedigree of The Swampers from Muscle Shoals, and almost a symphony on side two. All three aspects came together for </strong><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong>, her fourth and contract ending album: exuberance, gospel and R&B. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>It is easy to assume </strong><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong>, an album of covers, probably the first of its kind by an artist who primarily writes their own material, is a half-hearted contractual obligation record but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s a carefully thought-through expression of an artist’s heart and soul that could only be achieved in collaboration with a group of sisters, sympathetic and supportive producers and stellar musicians.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The album had its germ of origin on the album, </strong><i><strong>Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat</strong></i><strong>, when Laura covered </strong><i><strong>Up On The Roof</strong></i><strong>, a Goffin/King composition originally performed by The Drifters. Putting a list of songs together that they all loved was the easy part. Recruiting Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, just as they were launching the Philadelphia International Records label, was a masterstroke. Their feel of the material was second to none and their production skills exemplary. They also had a book full of ace musicians to call on: Norman Harris & Roland Chambers guitar, Ronnie Baker bass, Jim Helmer drums, Lenny Pakula organ, Larry Washington & “Liberty” Mata bongos and Vincent Montana Jr. percussion, all gathered together for two weeks at Sigma Sound Studios.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The keys that unlocked the magic were the arrangements. Any preconceptions Gamble and Huff had, or Laura herself, were quickly abandoned. As excited as she was at the prospect of playing with these musicians, they, on the other hand, struggled to adapt to her quirks and foibles. It took a little while, a great deal of discussion and considerable patience to lock into her groove and accommodate her dynamism. A great fan of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, who had supported her in full-on Bitches Brew mode at The Fillmore East, she had McCoy Tyner-esque pedal points and fourth chords. Gamble and Huff needed to shape the R&B of the band around Laura’s stylings and LaBelle’s doo-wop gospel while staying true to the songs. They did so with affection and warmth and a little help from their friends, Thom Bell for the strings and Bobby Martin and Pakula for the horns.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Straight away, the album puts us in the subway of Laura’s youth as she sings her heart out with the three women, singing in the round, a capella, accompanied only by handclaps and finger snaps, each taking a line in turn. The song is </strong><i><strong>I Met Him On A Sunday</strong></i><strong> by The Shirelles, issued in 1958, a perfect example of </strong><i><strong>favorite teenage heartbeat music</strong></i><strong> as Laura described it. They go straight to their wellspring of joy. It’s impossible to listen to it without being uplifted. Laura, Patti, Nona and Sarah must have felt like teenagers again. However, it segues into The Originals’ </strong><i><strong>The Bells</strong></i><strong>, a performance that implodes lost innocence almost halfway through. These are not women on a nostalgia trip. They are grown, matured, experienced, damaged even, but no less passionate and no less subject to the vagaries of love. The vocals swoop and holler over Thom Bell’s restrained strings, almost, but not quite, untethered and deranged. Marvin Gaye had co-written and produced the song for his backing group but this version puts the backing vocalists on an equal footing with the lead and keeps the production to a minimum.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Medley of </strong><i><strong>Monkey Time</strong></i><strong>/</strong><i><strong>Dancing In The Streets</strong></i><strong> is where the party starts with purses on the floor and snakebite for fuel. Major Lance and Martha Reeves have never felt so free and uninhibited. There is no hint of insurrection here. They take on face value the exhortation to dance. It’s track three of ten and the band kick in properly for the first time. Helmer’s drumming keeps Laura’s piano sharp. She is definitely the focal point, taking the lead throughout, with LaBelle proclaiming encouragement. By the last minute, when the horns finally play the famous riff and the repeated ‘</strong><i><strong>don’t forget The Motor City</strong></i><strong>’, the girls have kicked off their shoes, let their hair down and are waving their arms above their heads.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Desiree</strong></i><strong> is the secret teenage crush hidden in a private diary. An obscurity by The Charts, its place on the album seems odd, sandwiched between two big dance numbers, until you realise that Laura’s longest relationship, one lasting most of her adult life, was with Maria Desiderio. LaBelle are solemn and attentive as they cross their hearts and swear to die. Its quiet simplicity, just piano, vibraphone and voices, is its beauty.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>You Really Got A Hold On Me</strong></i><strong> is another signature tune for Tamla Motown and Smokey Robinson in particular, and was thrillingly covered by The Beatles no less. As such, it has a special place in every music lover’s heart. In 1973, it was a bold decision to do another version. Whereas Smokey just seemed to want a hug and Lennon was vulgar in his desire for sex, Laura and LaBelle begin with the confused kindling of first love. Then, hormones enraged by the relentless rhythm section, the ecstasy in the voices increase and there is no denying they are experiencing a collective sexual awakening. It’s a remarkable conclusion to side one. First up on side two, Spanish Harlem has the feel of a morning after. LaBelle’s role is performed by horns that maintain a discrete distance, as though they are birds in a tree outside, as Laura wakes with her Spanish rose, “with eyes as black as coal, that look down into my soul/And starts a fire there and then I lose control.” As Aretha had already proved, it’s a song that suits the female voice extremely well, and there is tone in Laura’s, a belief, as her heart opens up, like a flower blossoming, that tells us love is a miracle.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Within one more heartbeat, another boy catches her eye. </strong><i><strong>Jimmy Mack</strong></i><strong> is free, relaxed and glad to be alive. The groove rolls around the piano just as the LaBelle’s backing ‘woo’s envelope the lead voice and, again, the handclaps take us to the street corners of the Bronx. </strong><i><strong>The Wind</strong></i><strong> is the oldest song, a doo-wop classic by Nolan Strong and the Diablos, released when Laura was a child. They treat it with respect, the voices harmonizing beautifully, anchored by a quiet piano and vibraphone. It’s nostalgic about a lost love, a wistful daydream before the big finish.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Nowhere To Run</strong></i><strong>, a third Martha Reeves and The Vandellas song, is a tour de force. The Motown original is built on the rhythm section of Bennie Benjamin and James Jefferson. Baker’s bass pops and squirms as brightly as Jefferson’s and tambourine and handclaps solidify the beat, but, on this version, it’s the vocals that steal the limelight. The song is stretched to double its length by inventive harmonizing of the title phrase, spinning with delight rather than twisting with the paranoia of the words themselves. The effect is hypnotic. The finale is the title track, a song of heartbreak originally by the girl group The Royalettes. It is entirely built around Laura’s emotional range from hushed sorrow to a roaring grief, LaBelle matching her all the way, cushioned by a sensitive string arrangement and Laura’s own piano.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>These ten tracks, eleven songs, five of which are Tamla Motown, map a route around and through a young girl’s heart. These are songs designed to move an audience both physically and emotionally. Revisited and refashioned by grown women, they carry greater resonance. Gonna Take A Miracle is an album about an individual, the best expression of her career, but, also, that of a collective, a group. It captures the conflict and dichotomy of adolescence, being both shy and brazen at the same time. Laura Nyro was known as a singer/songwriter, bracketed with Carole King and Joni Mitchell, someone who created and performed music essentially by herself. She could have made another inward looking album like Tapestry or Blue but, instead, opened herself up and rejected her categorization and immersed herself in a collective endeavor. On an album consisting entirely of other people’s songs, she found the perfect vehicle to articulate the myriad aspects of her personality. It’s also an album of liberation, a shrugging from the shoulders of the burdens of responsibility, the responsibility of living up to the music business’s unrealistic expectations. It’s the sound of Laura Nyro pleasing herself.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Laura Nyro intended </strong><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong> to be her swansong as she retired to quiet domesticity as soon as recording finished. The dark cloud that overshadows this album is that at the tender age of twenty-four, Laura Nyro was worn out, to such a degree she felt old before her time and longed for her ‘youth’. She wasn’t hard-wired to cope with fame, struggled with the attention it brought, the hyperbolic marketing and suffering from crippling stage fright. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Her marriage failed, she had a son by another lover and made a comeback in 1975 when she regained control of her music and her destiny. She observed the business from the arm’s length of a lower-key career, focussing on evolving her art and balancing her need to express herself with a full family life. She set up home with Maria Desiderio and lived happily ever after. She died at the age forty-nine of ovarian cancer, the same age and disease as her mother.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong> is a crowd-pleaser of an album that demonstrates the power of music to bring together people from different backgrounds and cultures. Recorded at a time when musical tribes were fracturing, it speaks to kinship and common ground, about how we, as humans, are basically the same, with similar experiences and feelings. It’s about caring and sharing and bringing out the best in each other. It tells a love story, a public one with music with a hint of a personal one with Maria. The music within the LP’s grooves is more positive and hopeful than any other record released in that bumper year of 1971. </strong><i><strong>Gonna Take A Miracle</strong></i><strong> is a small miracle in itself, enough to make you believe in true love and restore your faith in the ability of the even the most fragile amongst us to stand firm and assert their true personality."(https://theafterword.co.uk/fifty-years-of-gonna-take-a-miracle/)</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c774cde06884d45d5753d9ceb710cd4e49e10c89/original/edgar-winter-white-trash.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1971: EDGAR WINTER'S WHITE TRASH</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zC6w0mOE2Mg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zC6w0mOE2Mg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ah yes, I remember listening to this slab of vinyl while I was at the University of Dayton out in Ohio back in the 70's. I enjoyed Edgar Winters first album, </strong><i><strong>Entrance</strong></i><strong>, and was just as pleased with </strong><i><strong>Edgar Winter's White Trash</strong></i><strong> album. The main reason I think this is a “lost album” is that the album has definitely been forgotten over the years. Wind up your turntables folks! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's A Wide Variety Of Reviews</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jon Landau, Rolling Stone Magazine 1971:</strong></span> <span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"The sound of the band is loose and rangy in the best tradition of white Southern R&B (</strong><i><strong>a la</strong></i><strong> the best of John Fred and His Playboy Band) and Winter's singing is fully equal of it: he never stops at mere competence. On a quick listen some of the music could have easily been mistaken for Stax soul. But the difference is in the white gospel roots that both Winter and co-vocalist Jerry laCroix exhibit throughout the record. Up-tempo songs like "Save the Planet" and "Keep Playin' that Rock and Roll" are fine rockers but the guts of the album is in slow, semi-religious "You Were My Light." The latter is the highlight of the album: Winter sings flawlessly, first in front of his superb rhythm section, and then with a beautifully arranged and blended horn section. On the choruses the three elements come together with tremendous impact -- enough to blow me back listen after listen. The lyrics here, as throughout, are almost charming in their openness, directness, and simplicity. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the album is the emergence of Edgar Winter as an excellent songwriter.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>At the peak of their frenzy, both Winter and LaCroix cross over the gospel line and into pure shrieking and screaming. In the controlled doses they administer here, it is very powerful stuff. Such vocal techniques are easily misused, but like everything else on </strong><cite><strong>White Trash,</strong></cite><strong> Edgar keeps it under control and makes it work for him. The results are a revealing and exciting album -- hopefully, only the first of many more to come. It's the kind of record that makes you want to see the group perform. What higher praise is there for a new album by a new group?" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Don Heckman, Stereo Review 1971:</strong></span> <span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Edgar Winter, brother of the more highly-publicized Johnny and one of the most adept performers on today's pop scene, is having difficulty putting it all together. Clearly, his skills trace to a jazz-blues background (he is a good enough saxophonist to play with most major jazz groups), yet Columbia seems intent upon transforming him into a heavy-rock star.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Given that decision, however, the group Winter has assembled includes the sort of players who can make it work -- who </strong><i><strong>should</strong></i><strong> make it work. Paired with him in the front line is tenor saxophonist/singer Jerry LaCroix, a solid talent in his own right; the back-up ensemble of trumpet, tenor saxophone, and rhythm section plays with self-assured professionalism and the down-home raunchy-rock South Texas blues feeling Winter is reaching for. The problem, for me, is that the qualities that make Winter most interesting -- his fine technical skills both as a saxophonist and a keyboard player, for example -- are shunted aside in favor of his singing, and in favor of his generally derivative compositions (usually written in collaboaration with LaCroix). Winter's vocals are peculiarly hard to pin-point; sometimes he sounds like Joe Cocker, sometimes like Leon Russell, and only rarely like an exciting </strong><i><strong>new</strong></i><strong> singer. I assume the higher-pitched, wailing voice that carries most of the harmony lines is LaCroix's; it sure doesn't do much to improve the music."</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a8920df71d5a66b6f7a0713e5ffb5320c6778bb2/original/radio-city-big-star.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1973: BIG STAR - RADIO CITY</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="skFpHFmjW5c" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/skFpHFmjW5c?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="68J-hJkWhqg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/68J-hJkWhqg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><hr><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As I've seen over the decades some magnificent rock bands never seem to make it and Big Star is a perfect example of that. Big Star had been around in the 60's instead of the 70's, they would have certainly been able to have been as iconic as Buffalo Springfield or The Byrds. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>“Instead, Big Star found themselves terribly out of time as a brilliant pop band sitting at odds amongst the glam and bluesy rock of the early 70s. Their second album </strong><i><strong>Radio City</strong></i><strong> is probably their best. It’s full of bright, shining pop songs with a touch of Southern soul alongside the trebly guitars and keening lyrics that seem to constantly reflect on a lost adolescence. Alex Chilton had previously enjoyed success with chart toppers the Box Tops but here, following the departure of songwriting foil Chris Bell, he came into his own. The chugging melodic songs such as ace in the hole </strong><i><strong>September Gurls</strong></i><strong> basically invented the career of bands like Teenage Fanclub. However, Big Star struggled to get noticed and it was only when bands such as R.E.M. and the Replacements started name checking them that their music started to get rediscovered.” (normanrecords.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Jody Stephens, drummer of Big Start stated that “was filled with enthusiasm for the band's </strong><i><strong>#1 Record</strong></i><strong>. Fresh, new and exciting, with hints of The Beatles, Badfinger and The Byrds in its musical DNA, Big Star’s debut album was championed by legions of enthusiastic rock critics but met with public indifference. The blame for that was laid at a distribution network that failed to get the album into record stores. After the departure of guitarist Chris Bell, pushed the remaining band members to create another album. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The band became a three-piece, and all had a little bit of a larger role to play musically. And because there were just three of us, there was a lot more space we could do something with, or not. So, there was a lot more opportunity, and, certainly, it helped with our evolution and changed the character of the band.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Stylistically, the band's 2nd album, </strong><i><strong>Radio City,</strong></i><strong> picked up from where </strong><i><strong>#1 Record</strong></i><strong> left off, blending taut rock’n’roll (</strong><i><strong>O My Soul</strong></i><strong>) with dreamy power-pop (</strong><i><strong>September Gurls</strong></i><strong>) and reflective acoustic ballads (</strong><i><strong>I’m In Love With A Girl</strong></i><strong>). Suddenly, there was more of a worldly outlook on the band's lyrics and music.</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Released in February 1974, </strong><i><strong>Radio City</strong></i><strong> boasted striking artwork featuring front and back cover photographs by William Eggleston. The front cover, called </strong><i><strong>The Red Ceiling</strong></i><strong>, ‘was taken in Mississippi and was part of his catalogue of photographs and Alex was the one who picked it out.’" (udiscover.com)</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ac3de6290a4a8a60e9430dc491c281a68eab88db/original/neil-young-time-fades-away.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1973: Neil Young - Time Fades Away</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I remember buying this album at a record shop called The Forest during my college years in Dayton, Oh after I happened to go to see a Neil Young concert at Cincinnati Gardens. The concert itself had a dark vibe to it.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>SET LIST @ CINCINNATI GARDENTS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>01. On The Way Home</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>02. I Am A Child</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>03. Sugar Mountain</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>04. Out On The Weekend</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>05. Harvest</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>06. Old Man</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>07. Heart Of Gold</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>08. The Loner</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>09. The Last Trip To Tulsa</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>10. Don't Be Denied</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>11. Time Fades Away</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>12. Alabama</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>13. New Mama</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>14. Lookout Joe</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>15. Cinnamon Girl</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>16. Southern Man</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>17. Are You Ready For The Country?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>18. Last Dance</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Neil Young was still laid up at his Broken Arrow ranch, just south of San Francisco, recovering from spinal surgery, when Harvest made him the biggest-selling solo artist in the world. During the long months of his recuperation, there had been a growing clamor for him to tour that had gone unanswered, although he knew there were big bucks to be made by everyone after the album’s phenomenal success. </strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The same month, Neil Young started to assemble a large crew of technicians at his ranch to prepare for a three-month, 65-date tour, the largest and longest of its kind to date, which would find him playing nightly to audiences of up to 20,000 people in sports stadiums, basketball arenas, ice hockey rinks. Also at the Broken Arrow ranch were The Stray Gators, the band who’d played on </strong><i><strong>Harvest</strong></i><strong>, including veteran Nashville session drummer Kenny Buttrey, bassist Tim Drummond, pedal-steel player Ben Keith and on keyboards Jack Nitzsche, the producer and arranger who’d first worked with Young on his Buffalo Springfield epic, </strong><i><strong>Expecting To Fly</strong></i><strong>.</strong></span><br> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>They would be his backing band on the forthcoming tour, rehearsals for which were interspersed with recording sessions for the official follow-up to Harvest. Young had already recorded four solo acoustic demos at A&M studios in LA – “Letter From Nam”, “Last Dance”, “Come Along And Say You Will” and “The Bridge” – and worked up more new songs at Broken Arrow. The new record’s working title was ‘Last Dance’. There was even a track listing for it that included the songs “Time Fades Away”, “New Mama”, “Come Along And Say You Will”, “The Bridge”, “Don’t Be Denied” on side one, with “Look Out Joe”, “Journey Through The Past”, “Last Dance” and “Goodbye Christians On The Shore” completing the album.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As the recordings and rehearsals continued and perhaps the scale of the tour he was about to start became increasingly apparent, Young grew ever more fretful about his physical condition. He hadn’t played electric guitar on stage since a CSNY concert in Minneapolis on July 9, 1970. For most of the past 12 months, because of his debilitating spinal condition, he’d had to wear a back brace which sometimes made playing even acoustic guitar painful, and he’d therefore made only one public appearance during the last 18 months, at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario in July 1971. With the tour now looming, he began to worry that he wouldn’t be able to carry an entire show on his own.</strong></span><br><br> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_ZicLKYDGBE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ZicLKYDGBE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><br><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>What became know as the ‘Time Fades Away’ tour opened on January 4, 1973, at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin, and it was fraught from start to finish. Young would later describe it as one of the unhappiest times of his life, probably the worst tour of his career.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>He’d already fallen out with the band, over their demands for more money than they’d originally signed up for and when they weren’t on stage, travelling together on the turbo-prop Lockheed Elektra jet Young had chartered for the tour, he tended to keep his distance from them. He stayed on separate floors in hotels, retreating to his room after most shows to get drunk on tequila and stoned on pot.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>After only a few shows, he became frustrated with the way the band were playing, how they sounded in the cheerless arenas into which they’d been booked. His mood was worsened by the behavior of the crowds. They were distracted and noisy during the acoustic parts, restless and inattentive elsewhere. Most had come to hear their favourite songs from Harvest. They were noisily indifferent to anything they were unfamiliar with, which turned out to be a lot. At least a third of every show was devoted to new songs, previously unheard. These were emotionally raw and came from a much darker place than Harvest.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Young’s performances became increasingly erratic, prone to hysteria, confrontational. He took to berating audiences. More than once, enraged, he quit the stage and took the startled band with him. There were few nights when Neil didn’t throw a major strop. His moods took a toll on everyone, especially the crew, who struggled with the inadequacies of the custom-built PA and the inhospitable acoustics of the huge sheds they were playing. Neither did the band escape his often boozy wrath. Kenny Buttrey had made his bones as a studio drummer, in which environment he had few equals. Nothing he played on tour seemed to satisfy Neil, however, and none of it was loud enough, even though he used bigger and bigger sticks and hit the drums so hard his hands bled. After 33 shows, he was replaced by Johnny Barbata, who’d played on the last CSNY tour.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>By now, with a month of the tour left, Young’s voice was giving out. David Crosby and Graham Nash signed up for the last three weeks, although what they could have done to lighten the sour mood that had settled on things is unclear. Crosby’s mother was dying of cancer and Nash’s girlfriend had just been murdered by her brother in a drugs-related killing.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>There was one more flashpoint. On March 31, the ‘Time Fades Away’ tour fetched up at Oakland Coliseum, where during a version of “Southern Man”, Young saw a cop laying into a fan. “I can’t fuckin’ sing with this happening,” he announced, storming off, as the angry crowd pelted the stage with bottles.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Three nights later, on April 3, in Salt Lake City, after exactly 90 days, the ‘Time Fades Away’ tour was finally, to the relief of everyone, over.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Back at Broken Arrow, Young’s mood was dark. He continued to brood over Whitten’s death, which took on a symbolic significance. Whatever he released next, in other words, would have to recognize the harsh new realities he’d recently had to face. In his present mood, the winsomeness of </strong><i><strong>Harvest</strong></i><strong> was far beyond him. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Early in 1971, a double live album had been announced, along with a track listing. It had never been released. Now, however, Young’s thoughts turned again to a live album. Elliot Mazer, who’d produced </strong><i><strong>Harvest</strong></i><strong>, had recorded 45 of the dates on the </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away</strong></i><strong> tour and Young started to review them, discarding familiar songs in favorr of the new material he’d played to an often hostile reaction from an audience who’d only wanted to hear the hits they knew.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>What eventually became the </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away </strong></i><strong>album would reflect the strains, tensions and conflict of the recently completed tour, a documentary roughness, unflattering in many ways, but painfully honest, which was as much as Young could ask of himself at the time.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The album when it came out featured seven tracks recorded during the last month of the </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away</strong></i><strong> tour, plus a 1971 live version of </strong><i><strong>Love In Mind</strong></i><strong>. The album opens with the six-minute title track, a feverish narrative about junkies, politicians and the military, intercut with a running dialogue between a wayward son and his weak, pleading father. Musically, you can imagine it was perhaps intended to recall something like the lean howl of Dylan’s </strong><i><strong>Highway 61</strong></i><strong>. Instead, it’s noisy, cantankerous, all over the place. Nitzsche’s frantic piano, high in the lop-sided mix, drowns out Young’s guitar and Ben Keith’s pedal steel. Half way through, there’s a wheezing harmonica solo, mercifully brief. Barbata should be driving all this along with some urgency, but nobody seems to have told him where the song is going and spends the entire number hammering away in the background like a man building a shed.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Yonder Stands The Sinner</strong></i><strong> is no less reassuring, a demented 12-bar thrash, with Young barking the lyric like someone apparently possessed you’d walk around in the street. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The record’s three ballads – </strong><i><strong>Journey Through The Past</strong></i><strong>, introduced as ‘</strong><i><strong>a song without a home</strong></i><strong>’, </strong><i><strong>The Bridge</strong></i><strong> and the gorgeous </strong><i><strong>Love In Mind</strong></i><strong> – offer some respite on a record whose battered psychology is most bruisingly represented by the two long tracks that open and close its second side. </strong><i><strong>Don’t Be Denied</strong></i><strong> is graphically autobiographical, directly descended from </strong><i><strong>Helpless</strong></i><strong>. Its four verses cover Young’s childhood, his parents’ divorce, his troubled adolescence, the corruption of youthful optimism and the redemption offered by music.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Last Dance</strong></i><strong>, meanwhile, much changed from the original A&M sessions, opens with a blast of feedback and over the next 10 minutes becomes a thing of relentless mayhem. The track has been in many ways limping towards a predictable end, and the band sound on the verge of packing up for the night, when from somewhere Young gets a second wind. ‘No, no, no,’ he starts singing, hoarsely, apparently rejecting the somewhat self-righteous message of the song so far. ‘No… No… No…,’ he goes on, screaming now. ‘NO! NO! NO!’ There’s more feedback, the band sounding confused by what’s happening. ‘NONONO!!!’ Young rants, out there, in a place you wouldn’t want to be for long. The song ends in a kind of exhausted chaos, leaving behind it an ominous silence.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Anyone who’d sat, largely appalled, through performances like this on the </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away </strong></i><strong>tour would have been astonished if you’d told them they’d soon be released on a live album as a follow-up to Harvest.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>Time Fades Away</strong></i><strong> was released in October ’73, to the worst reviews of Young’s career to date. Young archivist Joel Bernstein, whose photo of the audience at Philadelphia’s Spectrum was used for the LP cover, printed on a paper stock that was intended over time to fade, summed up the bafflement of many.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>And this is a clue to the significance of </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away</strong></i><strong>. What Neil Young became, the wilful unpredictable iconoclast of subsequent legend, he started becoming here. Alone, really, of his superstar peers, he was clearly alert to the shifting mood of things and thus with </strong><i><strong>Time Fades Away</strong></i><strong>, he distanced himself at a stroke from the dreamy utopianism of the so-called Woodstock Nation and the sybaritic indulgence that now prevailed in the circles from which he had so dramatically with this record absented himself.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Four years before punk’s howling disenchantment, Young was already challenging the old order. By the time it came out, he had already recorded </strong><i><strong>Tonight’s The Night</strong></i><strong>, a tequila-soaked musical wake for Danny Whitten and CSNY guitar roadie Bruce Berry, who had recently died from a heroin OD. There would be no turning back from here." (glidemagazine.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9144ba5ce0c0d662b26e55fa999bd448bfce2aa2/original/phonography-stevie-moore.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1976: R. STEVIE MOORE - PHONOGRAPHY</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rs_Ym-z2lyI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rs_Ym-z2lyI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Among the strangest album that I ever came across in the ‘70’s was </strong><i><strong>Phonography</strong></i><strong> by the one and only R. Stevie Moore.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Phonography</strong></i></span><span style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>was lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore's first vinyl release - only 100 copies were pressed in 1976. The album (including a slightly larger 1978 pressing) barely earned the artist lunch money. But </strong><i><strong>Phonography</strong></i><strong> has since become the cornerstone of the Do-It-Yourself movement, while establishing Moore as the Granddaddy of home recording. Both </strong><i><strong>Rolling Stone </strong></i><strong>and </strong><i><strong>Spin</strong></i><strong> have proclaimed it one of the most influential independent releases of the past 50 years. </strong><i><strong>Phonography </strong></i><strong>was recorded by a self-taught control-freak, using cheap, malfunctioning analog equipment. Robert Steven Moore was born in 1952, in Nashville. His dad, veteran bassist/producer Bob Moore, taxied between sessions for major stars (including Elvis Presley). But Stevie preferred Brit Invasion, Zappa, Brian Wilson's idiosyncratic arrangements, and outliers like (gasp!) The Shaggs. At the urging of his supportive uncle, Harry Palmer, he moved to New Jersey in 1976.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The </strong><i><strong>Phonography</strong></i><strong> material was recorded by this one-man virtual band at home between 1974 and 1976 with a pair of analog open-reel stereo decks and no multi-tracking equipment. Moore built songs starting with a rhythm track (e.g., played on drums, furniture, or boxes), upon which he layered instrumental and vocal tracks in a primitive sound-on-sound technique. Multiple generations of sound caused frequency loss and sonic distortion - the embodiment of "lo-fi" - but these are charming artifacts that don't obscure the brilliance of the compositions and Moore's masterful music eccentricities. Moore and Palmer culled the top-tier songs, which were interspersed with spoken word, audio verit, and radio snippets to create a "program" effect. The song styles were eclectic, reflecting Stevie's omnivorous music appetite: hard rock, sweet ballads, Britpop, guitar raves, glam, and Zappa-esque weirdness. The album laid the foundation for Moore's four-decade underground career.</strong></span><br><br><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>R. Stevie Moore has self-released hundreds of albums on each successive era's format du jour (cassette, LP, CD, digital download). He's had vinyl and CD compilations produced worldwide on two dozen indie labels. For a songwriter with a massive catalog of prime material, Moore's revenue stream has barely afforded him the luxury of replacing gear plagued by worn-out switches. Yet most of the surviving labels who turned deaf ears to R. Stevie Moore are now, like him, struggling to make a buck on their catalogs. Their corner-office execs come and go. R. Stevie Moore is still here. And </strong><i><strong>Phonography</strong></i><strong> is back."</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9794c12b86279dd382fd76384ba08fcfe9af4641/original/capt-beefheart-the-spotlight-kid.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>1972: CAPT. BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND -</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>CAPT. BEEFHEART THE SPOTLIGHT KID</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1BnbnH2i5VI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1BnbnH2i5VI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Capt. Beefheart aka Don Vilet was a quirky musician who had his own views on how music should appeal to the average person. He was a unique artists who at times would present musical situations that would leave the listener stunned by what they were hearing. With that in mind, if you are looking to check out any Capt. Beefheart recordings perhaps you should start with this album, Capt. Beefheart The Spotlight Kid.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"On The Spotlight Kid, Captain Beefheart took over full production duties. Rather than returning to the artistic aggro of Trout Mask/Decals days, Spotlight takes things lower and looser, with a lot of typical Beefheart fun crawling around in weird, strange ways. Consider the ominous opening cut "I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby" -- it isn't just the title and Beefheart's breathy growl, but </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rockette-morton-mn0001600692"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Rockette Morton</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>'s purring bass, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/zoot-horn-rollo-mn0001241716"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Zoot Horn Rollo</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>'s snarling guitar, </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ed-marimba-mn0001664420"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Ed Marimba</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>'s brisk fade on the cymbals again and again, and more. 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/574411a3c43aecb1df7c8766e0fc5cd42ddf9905/original/1966.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3882e5490daf6ca7559d2d993757fb3bedf06573/original/2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Bb29dmQVJJw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bb29dmQVJJw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beatles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Cyrkle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Ronettes</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Remains</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Candlestick Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/25f82f81aad7fad9a9482241b174043db61e5800/original/3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container 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Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco Cow Palace</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/50e716af2aacf923174322304542b676dc6ed85f/original/7.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="a3iXEPvG_ss" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a3iXEPvG_ss?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Doors</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Iron Butterfly</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Berkeley Community Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Berkeley, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b61c67127cf054caa252e65b0f74315c6e51704c/original/4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rolling Stones</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The McCoys, The Standells</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Buffalo Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Buffalo, NY</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tG56XMsTQkA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tG56XMsTQkA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/095644a0cfae5f27fc95470b18c140d8412bd641/original/rheingold-central-prk-music-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4d34a0ec0b5913224278de3e23ead331d6dc04a4/original/schaefer-music-fest-july-1966.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center 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It featured a number of notable performances. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Beginning life in 1966 as the 'Rheingold Central Park Music Festival', the series was sponsored by F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company, brewer of Schaefer Beer. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The F. and M. Schaefer Brewing Company took over sponsorship of the Central Park Music Festival in 1968, from Rheingold beer. The cost of the annual music festival was about $500,000, and admissions, at $1 per person in 1968, were expected to bring in $250,000 to $270,000 for the summer program, leaving a deficit, picked up by Schaefer, of more than $200,000. "Until Schaefer decided to assume sponsorship, the prospect was that the ticket price [from 1967] would have to be doubled. The $2, [Commissioner of Parks August Heckscher] said, would have been 'too expensive for a lot of New Yorkers.' </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In the 1960s, before the rise of corporate concert organizers and ticket agents, top rated bands would often play for free (especially in San Francisco) or for amounts that resulted in reasonable concert ticket prices. Just before the Schaefer Music Festival kicked off in the summer of 1968 a free concert was given in Central Park featuring the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, three of the top acts at that time. 6,000 people "jammed into the bandstand near the [Central Park] Mall while thousands more sprawled out on the grass and under the trees." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Club owner and musician Hilly Kristal co-founded the series with producer and concert promoter Ron Delsener. Over the years a veritable Who's Who of superstars of the popular music scene performed there. Inexpensive tickets, which started at $1 in 1967 and rose to only $3 by 1976, further contributed to the event's popularity. While the capacity of the Wollman Rink was usually limited to about 6,000 to 7,000 people, it is reported that Bob Marley's performance in 1975 had attracted about 15,000 people. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In 1976, Dr. Pepper assumed sponsorship of a Central Park concert series, renamed the 'Dr. Pepper Central Park Music Festival'. Due to residential noise complaints, this series was moved to Pier 84 on the West Side in 1981. In 1983 Miller Beer took over sponsorship, continuing it as the 'Miller Time Concert on The Pier' until 1988.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e8e34c5410d50918cebccd6c214bc1c52db7fe85/original/6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Procol Harum</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Pink Floyd</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>H.P. Lovecraft</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Winterland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ce36acb90317c3c1c19f951388b3173e266543e/original/10.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Herman's Hermits</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Animals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dallas Memorial Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dallas, TX</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/dd00358a99f1651fc6d5210c40234276ac8069ca/original/13.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Count Five</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>New Generation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Third Eye</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Redondo Beach, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>13th Floor Elevators</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b845ad7e2ce5e2f0700d7b86ceee4759c66bf7fe/original/21.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Euphoria</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Daily Flash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Rising Songs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8e44e7c3b8b2131fe75b536e381c5220de34e053/original/18.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Love</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/369c54c2641873286378f1f007fe34a7f920c265/original/19.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Otis Redding</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Garnet Mimms, Sam & Dave</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Patty La Belle & The Blue Belles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Percy Sledge, Mitty Collier, James Carr</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Ovations, Sad Sam (comic M.C.)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carrs Beach</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Annapolis, MD</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18364f42da1e3bed3d657d78c6ac1eba53936344/original/22.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ebf9093dd878703431e45b631d056db0ccc29101/original/1966-fox-theatre-atlanta-ga.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Motortown Revue</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Stevie Wonder</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Smokey Robinson & The Miracles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Marvelettes, The Contours</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Gladys Knight & The Pips</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Chris Clark, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Willie Tyler & Lester (the dummy)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fox Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Atlanta, GA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/53c73d1489deb4a78ff5637a8743969fe301ad4b/original/27.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Animals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sam The Sham & The Pharohs</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Brutus & The Roamin's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Winchester Roller Rink</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Winchester, VA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58feddc8888096149d2af7df59da6b773ab5364d/original/20.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Country Joe & The Fish</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lee Michaels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c34347d493b953a114d24485eb87bbf7a01ac28/original/26.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Grassroots</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sunshine</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8c37043f319f71fcfc07ac78904dbc78ad73798b/original/1966-the-byrds-swing-auditorium-nat-l-orange-show-grounds.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Buffalo Springfield</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Dillards</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Swing Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Nat'l Orange Show Grounds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Bernadino, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e86aa8504a2f0b872093ae4142d85fca280d5121/original/16.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beatles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Reycard Duet, Wing Duo</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lemons Three, Eddie Reyes & D'Downbeats</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Dale Adriatico, Pilita Corrales</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/abd81c21d834d96f268d553c27cb3a270eb89751/original/beatles-rizal-memorial-football-stadium.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>July 4, 1966 - The Beatles played two shows at Rizal Memorial Football Stadium, Manila, in the Philippines to over 80,000 fans. The Beatles failed to appear at a palace reception hosted by President Marcos' family, who were not informed that the Beatles had declined their invitation. The next day, as The Beatles make their way to the airport they were greeted by angry mobs, the Philippine government had retaliated by refusing them police protection.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Rizal Memorial Football Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Manila, Phillipines'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8884338a14ee6ea69683eb78325b4045a33c682/original/25.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beach Boys</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lulu</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>David & Jonathan</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sounds Incorporated</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Golden Brass, Jerry Stevens</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Odeon Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Leeds, UK</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3c682dc1284c2b16dba822c663791899f20d99be/original/24.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Grassroots</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f772d7bcbd799a29a95fd663bb42515c9474e797/original/23.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Blues Project</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a57a367dd2d0e6a1aa90572458db4a8d3bc5ef59/original/blues-project-at-the-matrix.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Matrix</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1c7016bb7e37826c561bd31baa17ec86f29a8630/original/38.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Mothers</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f81ec0b9ae0bca5e0c1415a6d1d4a7ccc48633af/original/zappa.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oxford Circle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2ca0f73ae9037e249dc66788865bfc43282964c/original/r-r-state-of-mind-blog-mailing-list-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></a></p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ced3f2aed6be23a59679365c42867c9e01d1c69/original/30.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Great Society 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class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Mickey Finn</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jeff & Jon, The Riot Squad, Val McKenna</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Goldie & The Gingerbreads, Bob Bain (MC)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Guild Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Portsmouth, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cbac6419c8eb94dd4a0630542af4eebc797601ad/original/31.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Butterfield Blues Band</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Muddy Waters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Winterland / Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10d1e53a91509f22ce80d1af00f7630168090ac5/original/37.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Young Rascals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/9af958475a8a60dbca14b4bb2d8d6d8f4889f96e/original/rasca-s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4967b1c8db1cc9e4acb4ba113d2172d5faeea12a/original/1966-bo-diddley-big-brother-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Earthquake Party!</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2197f31bf07320500194951f369e42a37bf31c63/original/bo-diddley.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bo Diddley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Co.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/50ab5d1adfa7e13c4ebcc3f9f9b2a9577cb7b931/original/1966-rolling-stones-carnegie-hall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l 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/></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Andrew Staples</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Old Cheese Factory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/37fb33b47111c9853298e55329665cf8aa947717/original/34.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Blackburn & Snow</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sons of Champlin</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1fc7b523394816f103c91b7d218888450a19dc9b/original/36.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c6a00da3af93e28e5a40fd22141f1131535353f8/original/captain-beefheart.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Charlatans</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/69f877c12229b7314e716b47bb4964546be0518e/original/35.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Grass Roots</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Sons of Adam</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/042b1f0c1079d6d1778c9001f1f22b828ac350db/original/47-1966-acid-test.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Allen Ginsberg</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Big Brother & The Holding Company</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Longshoreman's Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fisherman's Wharf</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/54fa69a3cd85699a41446db62e26390bd63984aa/original/41.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jefferson Airplance</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0703e6d08fd13940f9b99a5190edff1b84fa3dc8/original/40.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>James Brown</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Apollo Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/91ead2cadd8a35a6be8e7f91c6619d0af06b4f4f/original/46-1966-sid-bernstein-shea-stadium-show.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Beatles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Shea Stadium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Flushing Meadows</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Queens, NY</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b16b86609f3c4df5aca9438abdab2d4345015562/original/44-1966-bob-dyan-royal-albert-hall-london-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Bob Dylan</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/c9725d71fc51b1e9e021e897137d3ad385b1039b/original/bob-dylan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Royal Albert Hall</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>London, UK</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5aa735c883d8a784f2ea337d735258afe699e4a3/original/50-1966-mc-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/8e867868102b79f6005f06fcffed837d396876ac/original/mc-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Chosen Few</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/248a11bbc1074bb43a7f67c85c01b33f0da33b9e/original/39.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Andy Warhol's </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Exploding Plastic Inevitable Show</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/82726ac70a778e8337739cf820694424e894584d/original/warhol-exploing-plastic-inevitable.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Velvet Underground'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Nico (Pop Girl of '66)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Poor Richard's</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Chicago, IL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8e990fe8e80fed9c07ffa5866fdb406edcd75cce/original/45-1966-frank-zappa-tim-buckley-pepperland.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Tim Buckley</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Kindred</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Brotherhood of Light</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Pepperland</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Rafael, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/56a6fb634a69052d273142b5c115178c0f3ce966/original/48-1966-grateful-dead-avalon.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oxford Circle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Avalon Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eb656c97c4857e9c8e37afbb2d5fb18e7ec8d54d/original/1966-frank-zappa-fillmore-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/822ed7da4407492e75049813e04f97767ab9fb47/original/51-1966-village-gate-nyc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Byrds</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/477bb78a4cbe7b24ea65dfdf56f0b6738d5e13db/original/the-byrds.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Village Gate</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>NYC</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d65bd66ded64bc27ba2a367b25722787967355f7/original/42-1966-13th-floor-elevators-quicksilver-messenger-service-avalon-ballroom-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7fa4bf5e27bed2551fc291230fa4f2c21dfd7197/original/13th-floor-elevators.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l 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Ronnettes, The Shangrila's</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Left Bank, Lenny Welch</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Monti Rock III, Brian Hyland</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Terry Knight & The Pack</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Clay Cole & Scott Muni M.C.'s</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">The Action House</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Island Park, NY</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/12451abdf2795314113ff8bd8a24f80833362bf5/original/1966-zappa-freak-out-tour-los-angeles-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Little Gary Ferguson</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">The Mothers of Invention</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">The West Coast Pop Experimental Band</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Count V</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">The Factory (featuring a young Lowell George)</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Shrine Exposition Hall</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Los Angeles, CA</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8ecdc5974de04abe858c1c0b67fa5cf2eb3bfb91/original/53-1966-sam-the-sham-pharohs-fillmore.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Sam The Sham & The Pharohs</strong></span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7253e00a8a32e0580f2153008c758e58b7ead40e/original/sam-the-sham-the-pharohs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1feb7b8897f0f33a397cf7e7df1f76b7896e60f4/original/52-1966-yardbirds-grande-ballroom-mi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Yardbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Frost</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>MC5</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grande Ballroom</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Detroit, MI</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p 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style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Harbinger Complex</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Wm. Penn & His Pals</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oakland Auditorium Arena</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/497d39bd25489675972d0cdb6d10b27a61f26f5e/original/1066-greatful-dead-santa-venetia-armory-san-rafael-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moby Grape</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Morning Glory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Santa Venetia Armory</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Rafael, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c8213ebbc5d13fe047f113bc1d538a4f8f71a358/original/1966-beau-brummels-concert.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Beau Brummels</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Triumvirate</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><i><strong>Unknown Venue</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/464fafdb0d1b4ad25ac04dd5a8dc9e0d0e613a62/original/1966-fillmore-auditorium-the-turtles-and-oxford-circle.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Turtles</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oxford Circle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/96b7a1f3f2cfecb3a961902d62063ce8d4a4518a/original/1966-andy-warhol-plastic-inevitable-poster.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Andy Warhol Presents</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Plastic Inevitable Who</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Velvet Underground</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Nico chanteuse</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Trip</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Los Angeles, CA</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ffb4eaa9b0985dbe16bc784a26745a23683477cd/original/warhol-velvet-underground-the-trip.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Velvets were supported by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and accompanied by members of Warhol's entourage. Although scheduled for a two-week residency, the shows ground to a halt after just three nights when the Sheriff's Department closed the club down. 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style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Eaton's Park</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Boston, MA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/89e81009d96bfcfa4b26252aab3da6674a88138a/original/1966-yardbirds-lima-oh-spring-gardens-teen-club.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Yardbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Breakouts</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Spring Gardens Teen Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Lima, OH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7c1bca800f607e3f960a75e51e693078cdf711f8/original/1966-johnny-cash-krnt-teater-des-moines-iowa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Johnny Cash</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Statler Bros.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Harden Trio</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Carl Perkins</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Waylon Jennings, The Tennesee 3, June Carter</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>KRNT Theatre</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Des Moines, IA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e0d4521eaea2446a79d99faffe6752d804c3ac81/original/1966-the-monkees-cow-palace-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Monkees</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Cow Palace Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img 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Yardbirds</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Country Joe & The Fish</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Fillmore Auditorium</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>San Francisco, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f8f3def2a237b242944b9a6dbae7fc6c94ac121/original/1966-jefferson-airplane-dead-fillmore-aud-sf-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jefferson Airplane</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Grateful Dead</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span 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style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d9fb707562b34dc970f038e674e5a4fa61ed3f91/original/1966-continental-club-the-temptations-oakland-ca.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The Temptations</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Continental Club</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Oakland, CA</strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a9dd71dc4f5f79e651bc152d40310f55895a9da3/original/4-seasons-maysers-gym-lancaster-pa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" 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Mink De Ville (Capitol Records, 1980)<h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/700f0c1054026fbdd2b4bc5b8d196c26ac6ace05/original/blast-from-the-past-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2f2ca9d578ea83b83d83126bf763afe720075807/original/image-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1f3a91b3f00a26cb7d7c8dfaaee6c767cdcc789b/original/le-chat-bleu-mink-de-ville.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>TRACK LIST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>1. This Must Be The Night </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>2. Savoire Faire </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>3. That World Outside </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>4. Slow Drain </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>5. You Just Keep Holding On </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>6. Lipstick Traces </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>7. Just To Walk That Little Girl Home </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>8. Every Which Way But Loose </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>9. Heaven Stood Still</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Le Chat Bleu by Mink De Ville is what I would consider to be a lost classic and it is the creative high point for this great band from New York city. Mink De Ville, headed by one Willy De Ville, was a great rock/soul/blues outfit that somehow wedged itself into the mid-seventies scene that was happening at CBGBs. While Mink De Ville really had no punk rock leanings of any sort they were, as they say in the biz, "in the right place at the right time." The band's first two albums for Capitol, produced by Jack Nitzsche, harkened back to the Brill Building magic of the sixties along with some harder edged bluesy sounds; all of which was a unique mix to be sure. The album was recorded in Paris, France. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Willie De Ville stated that he </strong><i><strong>"…wanted that French sound…French records are so much more vivid. I knew what I was going for—this record was my dream.” </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/78dfb6b40a5e0f8fbc150511536cb65e5cefe9d8/original/le-chat-bleu-disc-image.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Released in 1980, the album did not immediately achieve release in the U.S For awhile, you could only get it as an import; thereby adding to the initial "mystique" of this fine slice of vinyl. One of the key ingredients of this record was Willy De Ville's association with Brill Building songmeister, Doc Pomus (best remembered for the many Elvis Presley classics he co-wrote with Mort Shuman). "Willie De Ville created a record that sounded like nothing that had come before... It was clear that Willy had realized his fantasy of a new, completely contemporary Brill Building record. To the symphonic sweetness of the Drifters he added his own Gallic romance and, in his vocal, a measure of punk rock's Bowery grit. Doc was elated when he heard it. Thinking they'd signed a new wave band, Capitol didn't know what to do with Willy's rock and roll chanson and shelved it for a year. When it was finally released in 1980, Le Chat Bleu, remixed by Joel Dorn, made nearly every critic's list of the year's best records." (Alex Halberstadt, Doc Pomus biographer)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ad4e08bc538f4d71f4c6fb34a65473d89ec1192/original/le-chat-bleu-doc-pomus-biography.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>From </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.popmatters.com/lonely-avenue-by-alex-halberstadt-2496190133.html" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="In Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong><u>Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus</u></strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> (Da Capo Press 2007): Alex Halberstadt describes what it was like when Pomus first heard Willy De Ville's marvelous voice: "One night, Doc's pub crawl took him to The Bottom Line club in New York City. He sat at his usual table and watched an empty spotlight. Cigarette smoke wafted into the shaft of light from offstage while the sax player blew 'Harlem Nocturne.' Willy DeVille strode out of the wings and snatched the microphone. With his pedantically trimmed pencil mustache he looked like a cross between a bullfighter and a Puerto Rican pimp. The tightest black suit clung to his thin frame; he wore a purple shirt, a narrow black tie and shoes with six-inch points. A pompadour hairstyle jutted out above his forehead like the lacquered hull of a submarine. The show was the most soulful Doc had seen in ages. Onstage, Willy’s band, Mink DeVille, had nothing in common with the New Wave CBGB bands that the press had lumped them with. Unlike Television, The Ramones, or Blondie, at heart Mink DeVille was an R&B band, and Willy an old-fashioned soul singer. He borrowed much of his phrasing from Ben E. King and couldn't believe it when someone told him that Doc Pomus wanted to meet him after the show. He was even more amazed when Doc asked whether he'd write with him. 'Look me up. I'm in the book,' Doc hollered before rolling away in his wheelchair." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/120549c247bcaaec4c456712f1a5a419a6c62af5/original/bassist-jerry-scheff.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Bassist Jerry Scheff, who worked with Elvis Presley for many years, wrote about the session for Le Chat Bleu in his 2012 autobiography,</strong><i><strong> “In 1979 I was invited by my friend Steve Douglas, the saxophone player, to go to Paris to make an album with Mink DeVille. Steve was co-producing the album and had invited Ronnie Tutt to play drums. I don't know how Steve came to the impression that Ronnie and I would fit in this scenario, but I have to say that the end result, Le Chat Bleu, is one of my favorite rock albums of all time... Willy's songs had a heavy Hispanic influence as well as a hint of Cajun music. Put all of that together with street-corner doo-wop, accordion playing, and Willy's wonderful velvet voice and what you get, in my opinion, is great rock 'n 'roll.”</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b7d8baec6c7e21df08598221249af2df61987844/original/willie-de-ville.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><i><strong>"</strong></i><strong>On Le Chat Blue we had all these great people involved, you know, and we thought we had something great. I came back to America, and my label at that time said, '</strong><i><strong>Well, we think we should put it on the shelf for a while</strong></i><strong>.' This was right before Christmas for God's sake when you know people are going to be buying stuff, so I asked them what the problem was. They said they had never heard anything like it before and didn't know what to do with it. We had Charles Dumont, Elvis's goddamned rhythm section, and they say they've never heard anything like it. I was heartbroken and angry. Finally Maxine Schmidt from my distributor in France (EMI Paris) phones and he says, '</strong><i><strong>Willy what's going on?</strong></i><strong>' So I told him. He said don't worry we'll release it over here. We did, and then it became a matter of not what are we going to do with Willy Deville, but who the hell let him get away. As an import it was wracking up great sales here. Capital finally went and released a copy of it, but never did too much work on it." (Leap in the Dark magazine)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/631a7f08a31e35497a27d344075582d80a7dbb35/original/le-chat-bleu-record-label.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>As the above excerpt from a a Willie De Ville interview indicates, Capitol Records had absolutely no idea what to do with the Le Chat Bleu album. “Capitol Records, Mink DeVille’s record company, was not happy with Le Chat Bleu, believing that American audiences were incapable of listening to songs with accordions or lavish string arrangements.” (Wikipedia). As a result, Capitol Records initially only released the album in Europe “’That really broke my heart,’ DeVille said, ‘That record was my Starry Night. Records are like children; it’s like having a baby. Your blood is on those tracks, and you do the best you can. They threw dust in my face. To them the music was too Avant-garde. They said, ‘We really don’t know what to do with this. We’ve never heard anything like this before.’” (Rolling Stone magazine).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/991a991b287b83748058df40f53540ec76fd59d8/original/le-chat-bleu-reviews.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Guardian: "Le Chat Bleu’s lush romanticism was underpinned by some DeVille songs written with Doc Pomus, previously a lyricist for Elvis Presley and the Drifters. In the US, Capitol refused to issue the record, claiming its strings and accordions were </strong><i><strong>uncommercial</strong></i><strong>, and only relenting after strong import sales and Rolling Stone championing it as one of the best albums of 1980. That year, the New York Times wrote of DeVille: </strong><i><strong>He embodies [New York’s] tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that’s both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original</strong></i><strong>.”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>allmusic.com: "Le Chat Bleu is angel-headed hipster rock. The Doc Pomus influence on the opening track, </strong><i><strong>This Must Be the Night</strong></i><strong>, with its cascading harmonies and 1950's girl group melodies, is a doo wop fantasy for the punk age. That influence was more than that as Pomus and Willy DeVille co-wrote three songs together for this stellar effort. Far more reverent than the Ramones and nowhere near Robert Gordon's stilted revivalism, Mink DeVille could sing and play rock & roll sweetly and razor sharp, kind of like a lollipop on the edge of a dagger. The first of the DeVille/Pomus soul ballads is included here. </strong><i><strong>That World Outside</strong></i><strong>, with producer Steve Douglas' lilting tenor saxophone that twists itself around each line and breezes through the chorus, is pure Pomus, with DeVille carrying a vocal he'd never attempted before. This was the beginning of something for the band, and the end of something else. Piss and vinegar were not enough to fuel the band's muse any longer -- it also took polish, sensitivity, and a deep commitment to subtlety and drama, and this ballad contains them in spades. The other two, </strong><i><strong>You Just Keep Holdin' On</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Just to Walk That Little Girl Home</strong></i><strong>, burn as brightly. Of the rockers, </strong><i><strong>Savoir Faire</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Lipstick Traces</strong></i><strong> contain the wooly garage stomp of the earlier records and keep their switchblade honesty and punky edge. Contrary to popular belief, this album is not the sound of a band losing its innocence as much as it is the sound of a rock & roll band finding its identity." </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>noripcord.com: "One could picture the blanched faces of Capitol Records executives when Willy DeVille explained the concept for his band’s third album. He wanted to record in France, using the string-arrangement skills of Jean Claude Petit to capture the Continental sounds he heard in his head. It sounded risky and expensive. The sensible course for a fledging, unproven band was to record in New York, as quick and cheap as possible, but Willy DeVille was not a sensible man...Le Chat Bleu was a grander concept, taking the music back to the Latin-tinged arrangements heard in classic songs by The Drifters and the melodrama of European cabaret songs. Three of the album’s ten songs were written in partnership with songwriting legend Doc Pomus, all standout tracks that could be mistaken as Brill-Building standards. Pomus could put together a story with a few choice lines. A case in point is Just To Walk That Little Girl Home which, from the first note, conveys the mood of a closing bar, deep romantic longings, and late-night lonely strolls. There’s no detachment here, no ironic distance. This music is meant to be felt, capable of disarming hardened cynics. DeVille, who learned his lesson from a master, follows this emotional tread throughout Le Chat Bleu. </strong><i><strong>This Must Be The Night</strong></i><strong> opens the album like an electric storm, with DeVille and a female chorus capturing the excitement of a first date, climaxing with a delirious sax solo by Steve ouglas. </strong><i><strong>Savoir Faire</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Lipstick Trace</strong></i><strong>s are hard-driving rock ‘n roll songs about obsession. There are two sides to it; the former has a man in thrall of a French beauty, thrilled by the chase, and the roles are reversed in the latter, with the man trying to get out of a suffocating relationship. The tempo slows to adagio on </strong><i><strong>That World Outside</strong></i><strong>, a song about the power of love helping to cope with a harsh reality. You Just Keep Holding On speeds up the tempo with a full Spector sound, complete with castanets and soaring strings. There are two well-chosen non-originals; </strong><i><strong>Bad Boy</strong></i><strong> is an obscure doo-wop track from 1957 that fits perfectly with DeVille’s persona while </strong><i><strong>Mazurka</strong></i><strong> is an accordion-driven zydeco song by Queen Ida which points forward to DeVille’s latter career as a New Orleans revivalist. The song was replaced in the U.S. version of the album by the guitar-driven </strong><i><strong>Turn You Every Way But Loose</strong></i><strong>. If you find the album’s expanded edition, you’ll get both. </strong><i><strong>Slow Drain</strong></i><strong> is another highlight, a danceable cha-cha track with Latin horns and percussion. The lyrics, drawn from personal experience, are about people losing their will to drugs and having no-one to blame but themselves. If Lou Reed had grown up in the barrio, he’d sound like this. </strong><i><strong>Heaven Stood Still</strong></i><strong> caps the album with melodrama, a French chanson in the Jacques Brel style. Maybe it was the audacity of these songs that scared Capitol executives, who refused to release the album in America. To this day, it’s easier to pigeonhole an artist into one niche, branding them as a commodity for public consumption. DeVille never played by those rules. Le Chat Bleu was hailed by many critics as the best album of 1980, which didn’t sway Capitol until import sales shot up. This belated, grudging release made little impact on retail sales, and the album stalled at number 167 on the U.S. charts....DeVille died of pancreatic cancer in 2009, leaving a legacy of 14 studio albums, eight released as a solo artist. It’s a legacy that’s still underappreciated to this day, but that could be remedied. If you love passionate, intimate, and heartfelt music, listen to Le Chat Bleu. It’s all there in the grooves."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="9tGAKWHo5Lk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9tGAKWHo5Lk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h2><yt-formatted-string force-default-style="">Willy deVille and Doc Pomus Interview Robert Klein Show November 2,1980</yt-formatted-string></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> Willie DeVille & Doc Pomus Interview On The Robert Kein Show 1980</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Listening to Le Chat Bleu always sparks the memories I have of meeting both Willey De Ville and Doc Pomus. In 1978, I was working in a studio with the Freelance Vandals and as it turned out, Mink De Ville were in an adjacent studio working on their second album, Return To Magenta. One afternoon, I happened to strike up a conversation with Willie De Ville in the hallway. We were both taking a break from cutting some vocals. I know Willie struggled with drug addiction throughout his life but as we stood there talking about the rigors of working in the studio, he struck me as a down to earth guy. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>I remember meeting Doc Pomus many times over at the Lone Star Cafe and always enjoyed talking about songwriting with this Brill Building legend. With the involvement of Pomus, Mink De Ville's Le Chat Bleu moved into a stylistic territory that is steeped in the sixties sound of American pop and rhythm & blues that is best described as urban soul. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rKoYdtMq0BQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rKoYdtMq0BQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a283abae7cd47faa6251f299872a22acec68d58c/original/but-wait-theres-more.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fcecf2e15ed3f39faf6b8843a57268ceff415d40/original/le-chat-bleu-expanded-edition.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>In 2003 deluxe compact disc expanded edition of Le Chat Bleu, which featured 8 live tracks and an interview with WIllie De Ville and Doc Pomus, was released. Along with the original album, the live tracks offer a deeper perspective on Wille De Ville's creative direction with regards to the Le Chat Bleu album. I was lucky enough to be at the New York show where some of these tracks were recorded.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND BLOGMAILING LIST"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ebe1f19fdc487f308af14a675080fc8da8891d1d/original/orange-mailing-list-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND BLOGMAILING LIST"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>ROCK & ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND BLOG</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="ROCK &amp; ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND BLOGMAILING LIST"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>MAILING LIST</strong></span></a></p><hr><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a54feea1ad34fae4f53fc0ecab6dd74d07521f9f/original/a1-msr-cool-sounds-for-the-modern-world-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/492fe3e0b70207c2a2192854d1d7a6085b2626af/original/freelance-vandals-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1d5ac4f43f29f699bdd102cea20d0ee74eb1cd22/original/freelance-vandals-out-of-order-album-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1224252/out-of-order" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>OUT OF ORDER</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/85ab551f04e8b7cd68e67bd13344d1c2d26a31dc/original/live-the-music-box-1978-fv.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1758841/live-the-music-box-1978" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LIVE @ THE MUSIC BOX 1978</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/753a0f26229ba572aff31c375e944cd77d39ef75/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2045680/live-the-pastime-pub-1980" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>LIVE @ THE PASTIME PUB 1980</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/a05697a52dbcc910ca5fa0340a92b20b4e3b6740/original/final-cover-for-release.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>YER MONEY OR YER EARS (1983 @ The Right Track Inn)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2ab51366d5b1dde3b1b773d371436d0b8f7b5853/original/vandalogy-cover-final.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/717708/vandalogy" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>VANDALOGY</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80ed42da0df6c6fb82297f16684f830ae90b126b/original/fv-songs-from-the-vault.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2353274/songs-from-the-vault" data-link-type="url"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>SONGS FROM THE VAULT</strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="BACK TO ALL POSTS"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>BACK TO ALL POSTS</strong></span></a></p><p> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71494662023-03-29T03:58:50-04:002023-03-29T04:24:42-04:00Lost Albums Of The 70's (part 3)<p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bbbeeb69444ff71c26c7a8924ff7576f38cb76c0/original/lost-albums-of-the-70s.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Today I thought it would be fun to check out some more "Lost" albums of the 1970's! </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Back in the 1970's, there were excellent records that popped up on my radar whenever I would go through the album racks in various record stores during this particular rock & roll era. As a matter of fact, many times I would discover some very unique and special albums in the $1.00 bins! So, without further adieu, let's check out some of those great lost albums of the 70's!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7c98b1b4ca8f72ce7d71c149d79fa720a62dccac/original/devo-are-we-not-men.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year of Release: 1978</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Devo's debut album took me completely by surprise as it made it's way forward and played a big part in the formation of the New Wave movement. Devo was one of the first bands to employ synthesizers which seemed to give off a science fiction sound.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"</strong><i><strong>Q: Are We Not Men</strong></i><strong> also revived the absurdist social satire of the Mothers of Invention, claiming punk rock's outsider alienation as a home for freaks and geeks. While Devo's appeal was certainly broader, their sound was tailored well enough to that sensibility that it still resonates with a rabid cult following. It isn't just the dadaist pseudo-intellectual theories, or the critique of the American mindset as unthinkingly, submissively conformist. It was the way their music reflected that view, crafted to be as mechanical and robotic as their targets. Yet Devo hardly sounded like a machine that ran smoothly. There was an almost unbearable tension in the speed of their jerky, jumpy rhythms, outstripping Talking Heads, XTC, and other similarly nervy new wavers." (All Music)</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dftEL1PhFjE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dftEL1PhFjE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Of all the sideways-thinking iconoclasts clearing the rubble after punk’s big bang, Devo were perhaps the least comprehensible, and most apparently sui generis of them all. A pop group wrapped in a surrealist art troupe inside a gang of synth-wielding, terraced headgear-sporting maniac philosophers from Akron, Ohio (of all places), the five-piece offered a blunt rejection of the previous decade’s tired rock and roll cliches on their debut album, an idiotically catchy collection of stilted rhythms, barked vocals and childlike imagery that roundly rejected the slop and mess of guitar rawk (a tactic that reaches its acme on their gloriously bananas, totally de-sexed redo of the Stones’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’). Thoroughly postmodern in their mingling of highbrow satire and lowbrow artifice, it’s little wonder Brian Eno elbowed his way to the front of the queue to act as producer on Q: Are We Not Men?." (factmag.com)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c7223de5dfb548bcedfdfccc29470f7d298a6041/original/richard-hell-blank-generation-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year of Release: 1977</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This statement from Richard Hell says it all: “</strong><i><strong>I was saying let me outta here before I was even born – it’s such a gamble when you get a face!</strong></i><strong>”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Richard Hell became a superstar on the CBGB scene who was known for wearing safety-pinned shirts and bizarre spiked hair which later invented the punk look which was stolen by Malcolm McLaren to create a look for the Sex Pistol. Strange as it seems, Richard Hell remains underrated when compared to his peers at CBGB peers. Widely known for his song </strong><i><strong>Blank Generation</strong></i><strong>, his career did not move forward as expected even though he was asked to be a member of the band Television by Tom Verlaine.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zr38FooIId0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zr38FooIId0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Hell was the consummate punk rock star; what he lacked in chops he made up for in charisma and spittle, elastic yelps and seedy street poetry – although the secret weapon in the Voidoids’ line-up was the mighty Robert Quine, whose erratic, sinewy guitar lines are a like match to Hell’s gunpowder on highlights like the flawless ‘</strong><i><strong>Love Comes In Spurts</strong></i><strong>’." (CBGB History Guide)</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/72bcf0b3204be090b1aade7fbab9d666b9da557d/original/the-ballad-of-todd-rundgren-worn-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>RUNT - THE BALLAD OF TODD RUNDGREN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year of Release: 1971</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Todd Rundgren, after leaving his band The Nazz, suddenly became a great solo artists with a number of albums that forged a forever band of fans. Of his solo albums, I find that his </strong><i><strong>Ballad Of Todd Rundgren</strong></i><strong> is (dare-I-say it) a work of art that shows Rundgren at his finest when it comes to creating beautiful and haunting pop music. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Most of the album's 12 tracks are piano-led ballads, with the only exceptions being the rock tunes </strong><i><strong>Bleeding</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Parole</strong></i><strong> and the anthem </strong><i><strong>Chain Letter</strong></i><strong>. As with his first album, this album was initially credited to "Runt". Rundgren himself wrote, arranged, and produced every tune on </strong><i><strong>The Ballad of Todd Rundgren</strong></i><strong>, as well as handling all the guitars, keyboards, and vocals.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>When asked about the production of The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren, Todd stated that '</strong><i><strong>I was pretty overbearing to deal with. I was also becoming very particular about arrangements, so I took a crack at playing it all myself. But I still had some dependence on other musicians. I wasn't yet ready to play drums or to seriously address what bass playing should be like</strong></i><strong>.'</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/266ecab453654554d2593b5ac37b38a1f7a0a3ce/original/todd-mask.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The track, </strong><i><strong>Chain Letter</strong></i><strong>, is the longest song on the album. It opens with acoustic guitars before piano, organ, bass, and drums march in. He also uses ‘</strong><i><strong>The Putney</strong></i><strong>,’ also known as EMS VCS 3, a portable analog synthesizer with a flexible semi-modular voice architecture.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dL4cZ6aJohw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dL4cZ6aJohw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Tony Sales, who played bass on Todd's first solo album, </strong><i><strong>Runt</strong></i><strong>, plays on the majority of the tracks on this album, but his brother, Hunt Sales, the drummer on the first album, plays drums only on one cut and conga on one. Studio musicians Jerry Scheff and John Guerin provide the rhythm section on two tracks; Norman D. Smart, who would later become a member of the Hello People and was Mountain's first drummer, plays on the remainder. On two of the tracks, Rundgren is the only performer.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The album cover was designed by Milton Glaser. the inside photographs and design were created by </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser" title="Milton Glaser"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Milton Glaser</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>. Inside photographs and design were by Ron Mael (later to be part of the band, Sparks). The tracks for The Ballad of Todd Rundgren were recorded at I.D. Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The engineer on the project was James Lowe. Voices and mix down were finished at Bearsville Studio in Bearsville, New York.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/1e3d9937926dc61a41ef5e539fd96d9b05ab481d/original/tonio-k.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>TONIO K. - LIFE IN THE FOODCHAIN</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year of Release: 1978</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“One of the best things about the late-'70s punk rock explosion is that it changed the rules for pop musicians across the board, and while Tonio K. wasn't a for-real punk rocker (or even really new wave), there's no way he could have made an album as willfully strange and bitterly witty as </strong><i><strong>Life in the Foodchain</strong></i><strong> without Elvis Costello or Johnny Rotten first raising the stakes in the rock outrage department. And it's a good thing; Tonio K. (aka Steve Krikorian) was actually a staunch Leftist moralist wearing the cloak of a raving lunatic, and on </strong><i><strong>Life in the Foodchain</strong></i><strong>, his rampantly cynical trades about the abuse of wealth, the collapse of values, and the emotional abuse that passed for love near the end of the 20th century cut like a chainsaw while also managing to be pretty damn funny. </strong><i><strong>The Ballad of the Night the Clocks All Quit (And the Government Failed) </strong></i><strong>is nearly as ambitious as its title (and even funnier), while </strong><i><strong>Life in the Foodchain</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>The Funky Western Civilization</strong></i><strong> say a lot more about the failings of our culture than most </strong><i><strong>serious</strong></i><strong> songwriters were offering in 1979, and side two's meditations on romance (especially </strong><i><strong>American Love Affair </strong></i><strong>and</strong><i><strong> How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror</strong></i><strong>?) make Warren Zevon sound like James Taylor. And while one might wish that Tonio K. had had a band as tough and brittle as the Attractions backing him, he and producer Rob Fraboni got an admirably hard-rocking, stripped-down sound from their band of studio professionals (including Earl Slick, Albert Lee and Garth Hudson) -- and Tonio K. was way ahead of the hipster curve in giving Dick Dale a guest shot on a couple cuts. And who wouldn't love an album released by the same people responsible for Dan Fogelberg's career that featured the line '</strong><i><strong>I wish I was as mellow/As for instance Jackson Browne/But 'Fountain of Sorrow' my ass, motherf--ker/I hope you wind up in the ground</strong></i><strong>!'? A masterpiece.” (All Music)</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bZJzw7LSXc0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZJzw7LSXc0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>“Steve Simels, the legendary rock critic for Stereo Review called this ‘</strong><i><strong>the greatest record ever made</strong></i><strong>’. We call it indispensable trash. Full on rock and roll, with outrageous lyrics, inventive song titles and a crack band who just happened to be some of the best sidemen in the business (Earl Slick, Albert Lee, Garth Hudson and the immortal Dick Dale). At the time nobody knew who Tonio K. was, but he was one hotshit writer, singer and composer who turned out to be a guy named Steve Krikorian. Bitter, funny, and politically, socially and morally astute. Puts just about every other songwriter back then to shame. This record is our number one recommendation for sated music fans who think everything that came out of the ’70s was eminently forgettable. Should you be lucky enough to track this one down, whatever you need to pay, go for it. You’ll thank us.” (vivascene.com)</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/77a0fab0fe91df672a18ecba4d102c596f904de7/original/nick-lowe-jesus-of-cool.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>NICK LOWE - JESUS OF COOL</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year of Release: 1978</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I remember getting this import version of Nick Lowe's debut album, </strong><i><strong>Jesus Of Cool</strong></i><strong> and was knocked out by every single track on this amazing album.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Before I put the needle on the platter, I was intrigued by the six rock & rollers on the album's front cover which featured a variety of players such as a hippy, a folkie, a greasy rock & roller and a new wave hipster. It should be noted that Lowe's American label were a bit nervous with the British title, </strong><i><strong>Jesus of Cool</strong></i><strong> and settled for </strong><i><strong>Pure Pop For Now People</strong></i><strong> on the American release.</strong></span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UCaf8woXAeM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UCaf8woXAeM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"Yes, Nick Lowe isn’t above borrowing inspiration where he finds it. Still, he puts a playful twist on traditional rock & roll and has just enough of punk rock’s satirical wit to make it all sound fresh and new.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Despite the various costume changes on the front cover and Lowe’s shared passions for pop, punk, country music and rock & roll, </strong><i><strong>Jesus of Cool</strong></i><strong> isn’t as scattershot a record as you might think. Songs like </strong><i><strong>Music For Money</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Tonight</strong></i><strong> may be world aparts emotionally, but musically they inhabit the same world.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Behind Lowe is a mishmash of Attractions, Rumours, Blockheads and the redoubtable Rockpile contingent. They give the songs some muscle which Lowe either amplifies or undermines in his production. Thus, a few of the songs feel unfinished or overly experimental (</strong><i><strong>Breaking Glass</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Music for Money</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>36 Inches High</strong></i><strong>), while others sparkle (</strong><i><strong>Tonight</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>So It Goes</strong></i><strong>, </strong><i><strong>Marie Provost</strong></i><strong>)." (progrography.com)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>In conclusion, this is wonderful album is pop about pop, a record that challenged the industry in and of itself. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/80371e17a33fb6a1aec495c7e0622d827040ec41/original/join-our-mailing-list-dont-be-a-stranger.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/ced10caa879f7eb23af139f4556b51f458d8d420/original/nils-lofgren-fat-lady-album.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Nils Lofgren also known as “The Fat Man” album</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year Of Release: 1975</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I was a big fan of Nils Lofgren's work with the band Grin so naturally when Lofgren released his first solo album in 1975, I knew Lofgren would deliver the goods.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AGWLPvJl6H0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AGWLPvJl6H0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"When Nils Lofgren released his first solo album in 1975, most fans were expecting a set confirming his guitar hero status, and more than a few listeners were vocally disappointed with the more laid-back and song-oriented disc Lofgren delivered. However, with the passage of time the self-titled album, </strong><i><strong>Nils Lofgren,</strong></i><strong> has come to be regarded as an overlooked classic, and with good reason -- Lofgren has rarely been in better form on record as a songwriter, vocalist, musician, and bandleader. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>While Lofgren doesn't lay down a firestorm of guitar on each selection (with his piano unexpectedly high in the mix), when he does solo he makes it count, and the rough but tasty chords and bluesy accents that fill out the frameworks of the songs give the performances plenty of sinew. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Just as importantly, this is as good a set of songs as Lofgren has assembled on one disc, consistently passionate and forceful, from the cocky </strong><i><strong>If I Say It, It's S</strong></i><strong>o and </strong><i><strong>The Sun Hasn't Set on This Boy Yet</strong></i><strong> to the lovelorn </strong><i><strong>I Don't Want to Know</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>Back It Up</strong></i><strong>, while </strong><i><strong>Keith Don't Go (Ode to the Glimmer Twins)</strong></i><strong> comes from the heart of a true fan and </strong><i><strong>Rock and Roll Crook</strong></i><strong> suggests Lofgren had already learned plenty about the music business by this time. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The production on Nils Lofgren is simple but simpatico, giving all the players plenty of room to shine, and Lofgren's rhythm section (</strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/wornell-jones-mn0001564342"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Wornell Jones</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on bass and </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/aynsley-dunbar-mn0000046145"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Aynsley Dunbar</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong> on drums) fits the album's funky but heartfelt vibe perfectly. Lofgren has made harder rocking and flashier albums since his debut, but he rarely hit the pocket with the same élan as he did on Nils Lofgren, and it remains the most satisfying studio album of his career." (All Music)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="f6sqZJNAH6U" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f6sqZJNAH6U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The album was produced by Young’s frequent collaborator David Briggs and recorded in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Falls Church, Virginia. Despite having released over 20 solo albums since the release of his first solo album, Lofgren writes in his brand-new liner notes that he considers his first “</strong><i><strong>still one of my best.</strong></i><strong>” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Though Lofgren introduced the album showcasing his liquid guitar chops on the brief, under-a-minute caution to </strong><i><strong>Be Good Tonight</strong></i><strong>, this album is filled with accessible, melodic and tight songs. This stylistic point is driven home by the album’s closing track, a strong rendition of Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s classic </strong><i><strong>Goin’ Back</strong></i><strong> – associated with artists from Dusty Springfield to The Byrds – which he made his own. Indeed, the album has proven to be not just a vibrant and inspired debut but one of Lofgren’s strongest and most consistent collection of songs ever, boasting twelve tracks of spirited rock and roll crafted with a pop tunesmith’s flair.</strong></span></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/91f51680047ab1bcf5eefc8ff4fe08b00d1ad469/original/jerry-hahn-brotherhood.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>THE JERRY HAHN BROTHERHOOD</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Year Of Release: 1970</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>If I had to choose one album to have while on a desert island, this particular Hot Platter would definitely be in the mix. The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood was formed by jazz guitarist Jerry Hahn who had paid his dues working with John Handy, the Fifth Dimension and Gary Burton. By 1970, he wanted to get a band together that would reflect a myriad of musical influences--- jazz, blues, rock, gospel, country etc. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One of the best parts of the early 1970's was the great amount of experimentation that was going on among bands in general. A very fertile period indeed. As a matter of fact, one could easily make the claim that this here record was one of the very first true fusion albums to hit the scene. Later came such bands as Return To Forever and Weather Report who received wide acclaim for bringing together elements of jazz and rock but let's face it…The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood had been there first.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood had several key elements: Hahn's jazz inflected rock guitar, a solid versatile rhythm section of George Marsh (drums) & Clyde Graves (bass) and most importantly, the lead vocals & Hammond B-3 organ of the great Mike Finnigan.</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="S5ErPcdCYYI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5ErPcdCYYI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This hot combo was formed by jazz guitarist Jerry Hahn who had paid his dues working with John Handy, the Fifth Dimension and Gary Burton. By 1970, he wanted to get a band together that would reflect a myriad of musical influences--- jazz, blues, rock, gospel, country etc. One of the best parts of the early 1970's was the great amount of experimentation that was going on among bands in general. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Sadly, this self-titled effort is the only recorded output by The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood. Prior to recording a follow-up album, the band broke up due to management problems. As I write this, The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood album has not seen the light of day due to ongoing legal difficulties and it looks like this record may never see release on compact disc or as a digital download (at least not in our lifetimes). </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Here's an article from the NY Times: Verlyn Klinenborg, (August 19, 2006 ) that provides information on what happened to this great band after their album release.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Caught in the Limbo of Vinyl: The Case of Jerry Hahn Brotherhood </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The other day a song popped into my head, just a few up-tempo instrumental phrases — guitar, bass, drums and a Hammond B3 organ. I knew instantly what it was, though I hadn’t heard it in at least 20 years. It was a passing moment from “Martha’s Madman,” the first song on the first side of an LP called “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.” I bought the record when it was released in 1970. I was a freshman at Berkeley. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>It would have been easy to see the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood performing that year, though I never did. Its lone record was a sunny mixture of straight-up jazz with a blues spine, a music that wants the latter-day word “fusion,” though that word does so little good. Above all, it was a reminder of the eclecticism of the time. Audiences that would soon diverge found themselves packed in a hall together all night long, like one October weekend at Fillmore West when the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood shared the bill with Van Morrison and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I heard “Martha’s Madman” in my head, and I did what I usually do. I went to the iTunes Music Store. Nothing. Same at Amazon. So I walked down to the barn, where all my old albums are stored, and dug out my vinyl copy of “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood,” which is now sitting on my desk. I no longer have the equipment to play it. Nearly every album in those boxes in the barn was converted to CD long ago — some of them several times over. But not “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>We live, of course, in an age of accelerating digital replication. Before long, it seems, every recording of every kind in existence, along with all the outtakes, will have been turned into a CD or a DVD or a digital file for download over the Internet. But some things get left behind. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Digital conversion seems almost effortless, a virtual transcription of the world as we know it. But there is a financial friction to it nonetheless. These days it’s no longer necessary to produce an actual physical CD to sell in record stores. Downloadable files will do — no packaging required — but even making these has its costs. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What it takes to push a work from analog to digital is a marketing opportunity. The death, for instance, of Johnny Cash and a movie based on his life was a wonderful chance, as one industry spokesperson put it, to revisit his inventory, which, as it happens, is partly on Columbia, a company now owned by Sony BMG. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>There will probably never be a movie based on the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, no commercial incentive to remaster and rerelease this album. The story of the band is a good one but all too familiar — the inevitable clash between the artistic and business sides of the recording industry. The band fell apart disputing the honesty of its manager. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>What’s left is an orphaned vinyl LP. The inner sleeve, a space for record company promotion, says, “If It’s in Recorded Form, You Know It’ll Be Available on Records.” Well, I wish it were available on CD. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I talked to Jerry Hahn the other day. He teaches jazz guitar in Wichita, his hometown. He’ll be 66 in September, with grandkids. He sounds good. ‘You should have heard us,’ he said. He also said that the master tapes of The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood are stored somewhere in New York State. The man who produced the record has retired to Hawaii, where he and his wife own several restaurants. I haven’t been able to track down the manager. I’d like to hear his side of the story. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>And as for hearing The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood album, one fan has posted the whole album in MP3 form — ripped from the vinyl — on the Web. I downloaded it the other day. It’s a digitally compressed version of an analog recording that was, according to Hahn, too compressed to begin with. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Even through the compression, you can still hear the brightness of the music. But someone needs to find those master tapes, breathe some air into them, and do this minor masterpiece (and all the outtakes) justice at last. 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As the drummer for The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers, Nolan set the pace, crafting the face of hard rock during the 1970s – a distinctive combination that was at once raw, rough and rugged, yet highly dandified and charismatic.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7287c7bf19410cf727f1324433c9cf06446ac8a8/original/duane-laying-it-down-with-the-twin-drummers-of-the-allman-brothers-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>DUANE ALLMAN DRIVING THE MUSIC FORWARD </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>PUSHING BUSH TRUCKS & JAIMOE JOHANSON TO MOVE THE GROOVE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Duane Allman has since been ranked No. 2 in 2003 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 greatest guitarists of all time, second only to Jimi Hendrix.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/0bdb882d0da2d714067a3541a9d60d36e49d68b6/original/willie-dixon-hittin-the-groove-as-always.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>WILLIE DIXON HITTIN' THE GROOVE (AS ALWAYS)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Willie Dixon has been called “the poet laureate of the blues” and “the father of modern Chicago Blues.” He was indisputably the pre-eminent blues songwriter of his era, credited with writing more than 500 songs by the end of his life. 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src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/57c851aa93224621c59dfaaf6b6302f1f0a96eeb/original/image-1.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/57dd19f161b5b3fb7290f29c089cf0ce52b8fbe4/original/image-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;"> </h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Just the other day, I clicked on the TV and, much to my surprise, that cinematic opus </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(film)" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="HAIR"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>HAIR</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> (1979, directed by Milos Forman) appeared on the screen. It’s funny how some random thing can trigger a rush of memories which is exactly what this movie does for me every time I it happens to appear on my tv screen. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The movie HAIR stars a chanteuse by the name of </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Golden" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="Annie Golden"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Annie Golden</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>. Back in the 70's, she was the lead singer of a band called </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shirts" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="The Shirts"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The Shirts</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>, one of many bands who rose to semi-notoriety out of the </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="CBGB's"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>CBGB's</strong></span></a><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> scene in Manhattan. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="f7NvvZHa4Vs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f7NvvZHa4Vs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Now, whenever I see the movie HAIR on ye old boob tube, my mind is transported back to a gig I played with the Freelance Vandals years ago when we opened up for Annie Golden and the Shirts at the Pastime Pub (Amityville, NY) on June 21, 1979. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>First, let me preface this story by letting you all know that whenever the Freelance Vandals worked as an opening act there always seemed to be an incident of some sort. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>This particular tale of rock & roll woe took place at a rock club in Amityville called The Pastime Pub. Anybody out there remember that club? I recall it was a really long room with a raised stage. The club owner, a fella named Jeff, had booked us many times as headliners but now as he was bringing in a major act, he wanted to hedge his bets by adding on to the bill a popular local band (that would be us) who could guarantee a crowd and help pack the joint. I'd never really heard of Annie Golden or the Shirts other than seeing them listed in CBGB's ads in the Village Voice. I remember that I was excited to be working with them. "Wow! We’re opening for a CBGB's band!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4b5871ff3793128911a02fed7e909023e8326781/original/image-3.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>On the day of the show, we got to the club at the scheduled time to do our sound check. For all of you non-musicians out there: a sound check is a time before the show (usually in the afternoon) when you set up onstage and play a few songs in order to get the proper microphone levels and sound balance in the club. Our experience working with the Shirts was no different than what had happened many times over; we'd arrive at the club to find the headliner already onstage doing their sound check and refusing to give up the stage. Ultimately, as the time allotted for a sound check came and went, the house sound guy would inform us that </strong><i><strong>"Gosh guys, there's no time left for you to do your sound check! Don't worry though, I’ll fix the mix during your first song. This is a great sounding room!" </strong></i><strong>This turn of events would usually put me in a really bad mood because I knew we wouldn't sound as good as we wanted to; at least not for the first couple of songs as the house sound guy would most probably only let our soundman, aka Rich Keeler, start with the levels he set on the PA board so basically Rich was going to be forced to set the instrument/vocal levels flying by the seat of his pants. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The second thing to burn my ass was that, during the entire sound check time that was allotted for both bands, The Shirts practiced the same lame song over and over and over! From what I could gather, this song was the band's new single that had just been released and they had to make sure they got it down "just right". The entire time that the Shirts persisted in playing endless versions of this “masterpiece”, it became readily apparent that their latest single didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of changing the history of rock & roll. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/68b27d1102ba8b7a90fcab9bd22288d33cc33974/original/image-4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The final thing about this gig that rubbed me the wrong way was The Shirts' road manager. She was a mid-30's faux seventies female hipster who affected an "Annie Hall" look; a style that was relatively popular in the 70's that featured pants, vest, newsboy cap... the whole schmear. This trendy gal also enjoyed inserting pretentious literary references into her non-stop dialogue with the Shirts and anyone else she could engage in conversation. Her non-stop badinage sounded something like this: </strong><i><strong>"This club is so Kafkaesque, boys and girls! I think we're in the belly of Herman Melville's white whale! Being on the road with you guys is so like Travels with Charley!" </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>My eyes began to glaze over as I imagined "Annie Hall" roasting on a spit while a herd of pygmy cannibals danced around her squirming carcass as she screamed, </strong><i><strong>"There's something rotten in the state of Denmark!" </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Whenever we did a gig, I could usually tell early on whether or not it would be a good one. This particular gig looked to be a bust but it was decided that we'd have to act like a professional outfit. Good behavior was supposed to be the order of the day. We went on and did our opening set which went fairly well. Little did I know that the evening would rapidly go downhill from there. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The way the club was set up was that the headliner's dressing room was situated directly next to the stage and the opening act had to literally walk through the headliner's dressing room in order to get on and off stage. After our set came to a close and I was traipsing through the headliner's dressing room, I overheard the "Annie Hall" manager say to Annie Golden, </strong><i><strong>"Thank God they're off!" </strong></i><strong> Alarm bells went off in my head. Never one to take an insult lying down, I strolled over to Ms. Golden and announced, </strong><i><strong>"Say Annie, I don't know how to tell you this but that song you guys were beating to death at sound check this afternoon really sucks." </strong></i><strong>You could have heard a pin drop in the dressing room as "Annie Hall" and Annie Golden both stared at me as if I had just taken a leak in the corner of their dressing room. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ebc0a0f7e4563113c888b480be6e6ef8ebab4e27/original/image-5.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Suddenly "Annie Hall" jumped up and began hitting me over the head with her shoulder bag. </strong><i><strong>"You bastard! How dare you insult Annie Golden! Get out! Get out!"</strong></i><strong> Her blows forced me to walk backwards towards the backstage area where a long buffet table had been set up with the ubiquitous 12-foot hero and a large urn of coffee that was festooned with a sign: "For Headliners Only!" </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>"Annie Hall" got in one last shot with her shoulder bag which sent me tumbling backwards onto the buffet table. The large coffee urn crashed to the floor. People scrambled around as hot coffee oozed everywhere. The long hero sandwich fell on the floor and was soaked with coffee. "Annie Hall", eyes ablaze, screamed, </strong><i><strong>"You'll never work in this club again!!" </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>The club owner, hearing the commotion, had come backstage and was immediately confronted by "Annie Hall". He stared in amazement at the manager of The Shirts who, by this point in time, looked like a mad dog, frothing at the mouth. She demanded the club owner ban us from The Pastime Pub forever! This was the last straw for the club owner, who, having been badgered by this "Annie Hall" character demanding special things for The Shirts all afternoon, told her to kiss his fat Irish ass. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Then, in a bizarre turn of events, "Annie Hall" began to strike the club owner in his face with her shoulder bag. As he backed away from the onset of these blows, he bumped into me and then we both began to lose our footing as we did the slip & slide across a sea of hot burning coffee. As I began to fall, I instinctively reached out and grabbed onto the thing nearest to me which, funnily enough, turned out to be "Annie Hall". Suddenly, the club owner, "Annie Hall" and I were sprawled on the floor, getting soaked with freshly brewed coffee. As "Annie Hall" let out a stream of curses, all of the injured parties retired to their neutral corners.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7f2815ad210010a3013bfe59571ded8bbb0913aa/original/image-6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Needless to say, all of the principals carried on in a professional manner for the rest of the night. The Shirts played to no great acclaim, all the while plugging their new single three times during the set and, when they finally played the song, it drew scattered applause from the audience. As they left the stage, one audience member turned to the person next to him and in a loud sarcastic voice yelled, </strong><i><strong>"Hey! I thought you said these guys were good!" </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong> The Freelance Vandals were not banned from The Pastime Pub. We went on to play many return engagements there. The same year that we did this gig with Annie & The Shirts, the movie, HAIR, in which Annie Golden portrayed a hippie chick, was released and Annie Golden morphed into an acting career.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>Over the years, I never saw that "Annie Hall" manager again but I suspect that she is currently the CEO of some global corporation; only now she's wearing a three-piece suit and smoking a big fat Cuban cigar while she addresses a herd of business folks huddled around a table, hanging on her every word: </strong><i><strong>"It is an Orwellian pleasure to be here in Geneva speaking to the Global Widget Committee today. This is such an Edgar Allen Poe moment for me!" </strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#ebd007;"><strong>It’s things like this gig that will always remind me of how many wonderful memories I have of my early days in the music business. 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style="color:#ebd007;">RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/66028052023-02-23T09:53:56-05:002023-02-23T09:59:10-05:00A Moment In Time: The British Invasion<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8f7f5f25d9465099bbdd37819e147e53c0ab1c70/original/1963-22.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">This story starts in the United Kingdom...</h3><p style="text-align:justify;">""The British music industry was rigidly controlled by the BBC and London’s Denmark Street music publishers. A handful of powerful managers groomed a stable of homegrown singers in the mold of Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. This clean-cut, nonthreatening lot included Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and Billy Fury — hardly household names stateside. On another front, however, a movement of musical purists, enamored of black American music, began replicating New Orleans-style jazz (a.k.a. <i>trad jazz</i>) and acoustic folk blues. This route would indirectly lead to the Beatles and an indigenous British rock & roll sound. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">One of the more promising offshoots of the trad-jazz movement was a simplified jug-band style of music known as skiffle. Britain’s premier skiffle artist was Lonnie Donegan. Singing in a nasal American twang, he enjoyed a run of hits in the late Fifties; he mostly covered songs by Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. In fact, Donegan charted sizable hits over here in 1956 and 1961 with “Rock Island Line” and “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the Bedpost Over Night)” — an early warning sign that England could successfully sell America reconstituted versions of its own music. Young Britons — like John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey, the future lineup of the Beatles — took note of this. Prior to skiffle, the only significant blip on the British pop-culture time line had been a brief flurry of juvenile delinquency occasioned by the arrival of Bill Haley’s 'Rock Around The Clock'." (Rolling Stone Magazine)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/41501a7bc639fdc314552e3aca1d4b811d44e98f/original/please-please-me.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e5a95ff7054c4f857181338b4f377768be4c4073/original/gerry-the-pacemakers.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Liverpool, a seaside town in the UK, became the first hotbed of the so-called “beat boom.” With the Beatles, other exuberant male quartets such as the Searchers and Gerry and the Pacemakers plus the quintet Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas—launched <i>Merseybeat</i>, so named for the estuary that runs alongside Liverpool. Before anyone really knew what was happening the British Invasion exploded in 1963.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">"What’s less remembered are the specifics of precisely what and whom this invasion encompassed. Today, the term <i>the British Invasion</i> is usually employed to describe (and market) the triumphal epoch of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who, with honorable mentions to the Kinks and the Animals. In hindsight, and on merit, this sounds about right—these are the best and most revered of the English bands who came of age in the 1960s—but the reality of the British Invasion, which was at its most intense in the two years immediately following the Beatles’ landfall, was somewhat different. Far from being solely a beat-group explosion, the Invasion was a rather eclectic phenomenon that took in everything from Petula Clark’s lushly symphonic pop to Chad and Jeremy’s dulcet folk-schlock to the Yardbirds’ blues-rock rave-ups. And while the Beatles were unquestionably the movement’s instigators and dominant force, the Rolling Stones and the Who were, initially, among the least successful of the invaders—the former group struggling throughout ’64 to gain a foothold in America while the Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, and even Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas vaulted ahead of them.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Nevertheless, The British Invasion was a very real phenomenon. Prior to 1964, only two British singles had ever topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart—Acker Bilk’s <i>Stranger on the Shore</i> and the Tornadoes’ <i>Telstar</i>, both instrumentals—and between them they held the No. 1 spot for a total of four weeks. In the 1964–65 period, by contrast, British acts were at No. 1 for an astounding 56 weeks combined. In 1963 a mere three singles by British artists cracked the American Top 40. In 1964, 65 did, and in 1965, a further 68 did. Beyond all the statistics, the English musicians who came to America between 1964 and 1966 found themselves in the grip of a rampant, utterly unanticipated Anglophilia that made them irresistibly chic and sexy no matter what their background—London or Liverpool, middle class or working class, art school or tradesman’s apprentice, skiffle or trad jazz. Anything English and sufficiently youthful was embraced, exalted, fondled, and fainted over. This applied not only to the important bands whose music would stand the test of time, like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Kinks, but also to such confectioners of engaging period work as the Hollies and Herman’s Hermits, and to such one-hit wonders as Ian Whitcomb (<i>You Turn Me On</i>) and the dubiously named Nashville Teens (<i>Tobacco Road</i>). America lapped it all up, and the cultural exchange proved beneficial to both sides: the Brits, still very much in the throes of postwar privation, saw their nascent swinging youth culture further buttressed, their country abruptly transformed from black-and-white to color; the Americans, still very much in mourning for John F. Kennedy, were administered a needed dose of fun, and, thus re-invigorated, resumed the youthquake that had lapsed into dormancy when Elvis joined the army, Little Richard found God, and Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran met their makers." (Vanity Fair magazine)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/690aef8cad6b908d4fd074cf86f2d4145e11c60a/original/1964.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/40d324b0747e4ca40bf418bc78ded6f941906977/original/1964.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"In October 1963, the first newspaper articles about the frenzy in England surrounding the Beatles appeared nationally in the US.[18] The Beatles' November 4 Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen Mother sparked music industry and media interest in the group. During November, a number of major American print outlets and two network television evening programs published and broadcast stories on the phenomenon that became known as <i>Beatlemania</i>.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">On December 10, CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, looking for something positive to report, re-ran a Beatlemania story that originally aired on the November 22 edition of the CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace but was shelved that night because of the assassination of US President John Kennedy. After seeing the report, 15-year-old Marsha Albert of Silver Spring, Maryland, wrote a letter the following day to disc jockey Carroll James at radio station WWDC asking, '<i>Why can't we have music like that here in America?</i>' On December 17 James had Miss Albert introduce <i>I Want to Hold Your Hand</i> live on the air. WWDC's phones lit up, and Washington, D.C., area record stores were flooded with requests for a record they did not have in stock. James sent the record to other disc jockeys around the country sparking similar reaction. On December 26, Capitol Records released the record three weeks ahead of schedule. The release of the record during a time when teenagers were on vacation helped spread Beatlemania in the US. On December 29, The Baltimore Sun, reflecting the dismissive view of most adults, editorialized, '<i>America had better take thought as to how it will deal with the invasion. Indeed a restrained 'Beatles go home' might be just the thing</i>.' In the next year alone, the Beatles would have 30 different listings on the Hot 100." (Wikipedia)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XSLi4pWxKEg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XSLi4pWxKEg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">"Rock swept Britain and by 1964 London could claim the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, the Kinks, the Pretty Things, Dusty Springfield, tPeter and Gordon, Chad and Jeremy, and Manfred Mann. Manchester had the Hollies, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Freddie and the Dreamers, and Herman’s Hermits. Newcastle had the Animals. And Birmingham had the Spencer Davis Group (featuring Steve Winwood) and the Moody Blues. Bands sprang up from Belfast (Them, with Van Morrison) to St. Albans (the Zombies), with more inventive artists arriving to keep the styles moving forward, including the Small Faces, the Move, the Creation, the Troggs, Donovan, the Walker Brothers, and John’s Children. While the beat boom provided Britons relief from the post-imperial humiliation of hand-me-down rock, the Beatles and their ilk brought the United States more than credible simulations. They arrived as foreign ambassadors, with distinctive accents (in conversation only; most of the groups sang in <i>American</i>), slang, fashions, and personalities. The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night (1964), further painted England as the center of the (rock) universe. American media took the bait and made Carnaby Street, London’s trendy fashion center in the 1960s, a household name." (Encyclopedia Britannica) </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/163ce4befe27cd6f50542c7bdb408dc93a262400/original/british-invasion-we-hit-the-top.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">It wasn't very long before the sounds from England</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">began to affect music lovers in the USA. </h3><p style="text-align:justify;">"What many young Americans in 1964 didn’t realize was that these <i>new</i> sounds coming from across the Atlantic weren’t new at all. Many of the British Invasion bands and artists claimed America and its remarkably rich pop music tradition as their primary influence. What made the re-invention of American music by the British acts so alluring was the fresh and innovative ways they interpreted it and then the manner by which they made it their own. Coupled with intriguing accents, radically new fashion ideas and hairstyles, and a genuine artistic excellence, the British Invasion ignited a music renaissance in America and permanently and prominently established the U.K. on the rock & roll map." (Billboard magazine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;">"Nineteen sixty-four belonged to the Beatles. From the moment 'I want to Hold Your Hand' was first played on an American radio station — WWDC, in Washington, D.C., in December of 1963 — the country fell under their spell. Preceded by a promotional campaign that included bumper stickers (<i>The Beatles Are Coming!</i> and <i>Ringo For President</i>), buttons (<i>Be A Beatle Booster)</i> and Beatle wigs — as well as tantalizing glimpses of their performances on Walter Cronkite’s newscast and The Jack Parr Show — the Beatles’ February 7th landing at New York’s Kennedy Airport generated an unprecedented fanfare. The group’s February 9th appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show drew a TV audience estimated at 70 million, the largest in the history of the medium." (Rolling Stone magazine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f8063dd2c23d50734a5cee9d4b9ebff5c76481f2/original/billy-j-kramer-the-dakotas.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Billy J. & The Dakotas</h3><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b0362a290004f1c3d23666387626c9ff2b8c0272/original/bad-to-me-billy-j-kramer.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Beatles success in America was followed by a flood of pop music bands from the UK. One of the British artists that made a big impact was Billy J. & The Dakotas who were managed by Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager.. Having Epstein as their manager provided the Peter & Gordon with access to some unreleased Lennon-McCartney songs such as "Bad To Me" and "I'll Be On My Way".</p><p style="text-align:justify;">One day, Peter Asher (who was the brother of Paul McCartney's girlfriend) heard McCartney complain that Billy Kramer didn't want to record one of their new songs, <i>World Without Love.</i> Hearing this, Asher step forward and said, "Can Gordon and I record that song?" More singles followed from the Lennon / McCartney songbooks: <i>Nobody I Know</i>, I Don’t Want to See You Again and <i>Woman</i>; all of which made the Top Twenty. But even without McCartney’s help, Peter and Gordon reaped hits, with Del Shannon’s <i>I Go to Pieces</i> and a music-hall novelty titled <i>Lady Godiva</i>.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Peter & Gordon</h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eadc81177532631a38bba46377fa1c1f0e8d0fb3/original/peter-gordon-record-ad.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Another British Invasion act that benefited from gaining access to several unreleased Lennon-McCartney songs were Peter & Gordon. One day, Peter Asher (who was the brother of Paul McCartney's girlfriend) heard McCartney complain that Billy Kramer didn't want to record one of their new songs, "World Without Love". Hearing this, Asher step forward and said, "Can Gordon and I record that song?" More singles followed from the same cask — “Nobody I Know,” “I Don’t Want to See You Again” and “Woman” — and all made the Top Twenty.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ed6965d1b2cbe5b26dc6e38c9cdcb0d12786fd6/original/peter-gordon-1965.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Even without McCartney’s help, Peter and Gordon reaped hits, with Del Shannon’s “I Go to Pieces” and a music-hall novelty titled “Lady Godiva.” </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b10edacd0a62499330be5b92f1639748ccc2a549/original/searchers-needles-pins.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p>Another popular British combo was The Searchers who were popular due to their sweet harmony vocals and crafty guitar hooks. They were known for their cover versions of songs that were released by American pop artists; <i>Love Potion Number Nine</i> and <i>Needles and Pins</i>.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7519dba123921d8ff641007ca8d5320fd6a94395/original/dave-clark-five-glad-all-over.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/be0e905eef27791d4d459aae517fe835aba31aca/original/dc5-1964.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CAFcZ_vcbbg" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CAFcZ_vcbbg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f51deb562be1c26dde1f8bab86a75e2a009c89e/original/epic-records-1965.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ce795399207f422145ebcf8ba0c84db4376b771/original/1964-dc-5-on-stage.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"Scads of would-be contenders were tapping their toes on the far side of the Atlantic, just waiting for a chance to show the Yanks a thing or two. The group that initially gave the Beatles the best run for their money was the Dave Clark Five, who hailed from London’s northern suburb of Tottenham. Although they placed a poor second to the Beatles, the DC5 racked up seventeen Top Forty hits between 1964 and 1967 — more than the Rolling Stones or any other British act during that span of years. By the time the Sixties rolled to a close, the DC5 had sold 70 million records worldwide. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Because the band’s single <i>Glad All Over</i> unseated <i>I Want to Hold Your Hand</i> from its lengthy perch atop the British charts in January 1964, it was assumed for a while that the DC5 were neck and neck with the Beatles in the superstar sweepstakes. But they didn’t “progress,” in the sense of graduating from pop stars to poets, as the Beatles did. Nonetheless, the Dave Clark Five were what they were: a singles band, a dance band and one of the best. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Meanwhile, Liverpool was teeming with an estimated 300 bands, and several performers under the aegis of Beatles manager Brian Epstein were having a field day. Gerry and the Pacemakers weren’t a very convincing rock band, but they had a solid way with ballads like “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying.” Gerry’s star shone only dimly after 1965, but his hits are pleasant memories, and he’s notable for being the second act out of Liverpool (behind the Beatles) to crack the British charts." (Rolling Stone magazine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/add6d1a47254f14a0495ce97a10bb1a2a91adb35/original/stones-its-all-over-now.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6cd4f63a0bc7f86b8fdc660a979a3856b0b6f0df/original/1964-stones-on-stage.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"In the spring of 1964, San Bernardino had one place for rock shows: The Swing Auditorium on E Street. A 6,000 capacity dance hall that — before the Stones — hosted Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and other tamer acts until Bob Lewis came around. Lewis, now a retired concert promoter, had set up dozens of rock and roll shows in the Inland Empire already, but that spring he was approached by a couple investors looking to put on a concert on Friday, June 5, at the Swing. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">'Of course, they wanted the Beatles,' said Lewis. Which wasn't as crazy an idea back then as it seems now. He made a few calls to New York, but, no dice. The Beatles were all booked up and that was that. But word got around and about an hour later he got a call from Kevin Eggers, another talent agent who heard Lewis was looking to book a British band. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">'He said I've got an act coming to the states called the Rolling Stones. Never heard of em! Never heard of the Rolling Stones,' said Lewis. 'So I called the radio station, KMEN, the general manager. I said, 'Jerry, I've got an act coming in and I want to see what you think because I'd have to have their sponsorship.' So he repeated over the phone, "Rolling Stones" and his program director was walking by his office, and he said 'The Rolling Stones, they're really hot!'" </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The show was booked, and the Stones were on their way to make their US debut in San Bernardino, a city more famous today for its messy finances than its contributions to the arts. Bob Lewis says it wasn't always like that. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">At the time, the Rolling Stones weren't nearly as famous as they are now. They'd had a couple hit singles in the UK, all of them covers except for one original: a sunny and acoustic pop tune called 'Tell Me.' Despite that, they still had a few loyal fans in the States. After all, this was the British invasion.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The band had just arrived in the states a few days earlier performing on Dean Martin's Hollywood Palace show. He wasn't impressed, and the only things rolling were Martin's eyes. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> That Friday, the band arrived in San Bernardino. The audience was 4,000 strong. After hours of waiting, at around 9:30, the Rolling Stones walked on stage, opening with a Buddy Holly cover. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The room was hot. Mick danced. The girls screamed. Gastineau says the highlight of the band's set for her and other locals happened halfway through. 'The favorite song that they played was Route 66, because San Bernardino was mentioned in that song. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Rolling Stone's 11-song set at the Swing lasted just 20 minutes. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">'That was their total repertoire. That was it. They didn't rehearse a lot. After a 20 minute set, the show's over and the Stones did their London exit,' said Lewis. 'They just dropped their equipment, ran out and we had a school bus--we didn't have limousines then, we didn't have a budget for limousines! So we put them in a little yellow school bus that would get them in and out of town unnoticed, which worked.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Stones wrapped up that first tour with less than a dozen dates. While they may have been a hit in San Bernardino, the rest of the tour was by all accounts a failure: more awkward TV appearances followed, a couple of state fairs with indifferent audiences. The site where the Swing Auditorium once stood is a parking lot now." (www.scpr.org)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b88a567abecad13223326c0476f4d2680ae2c691/original/stones-last-time-record-ad.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa2dd6f8673fc35dc5cac560e1847c2e74bf8562/original/1965.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d42efb919f85e4605f127b1dd9778a8dbfcfffae/original/stones-satisfaction.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NEjkftp7J7I" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NEjkftp7J7I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">"The Stones got a delayed start in the U.S. They didn’t enter the fray in a major way until 1965. After warming up the Top Ten with <i>Time Is on My Side</i> and <i>The Last Time</i>, they delivered a knockout punch with <i>(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction</i>. Its central riff and basic lyrical thrust were created by guitarist Keith Richards one restless night in a Florida motel room. Recorded in Los Angeles, with Richards’ fuzz-cranked guitar blasting like the Stax-Volt horn section, <i>Satisfaction</i> remains one of the bedrock songs of the age. From here the Stones turned up the heat with numbers like <i>Get Off of My Cloud</i>, <i>19th Nervous Breakdown</i> and <i>Paint It Black</i>. The music of the Rolling Stones was an ice-and-fire contrast to the Beatles. Simmering, blunt edged and angry, it set off the lads from Liverpool and their sunnier pop visions in a way that perfectly caught the spirit of the times. " (Rolling Stone Magazine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1dbc8c46ca71b1e01bfca191cd68857a2c5cc4a7/original/the-yardbirds.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/bc3ba195ffe606e86147a5f7799164d65c0e28ce/original/yardbirds-record-ad.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"The Yardbirds, who inherited the Stones’ regular spot at London’s Crawdaddy Club, used their blues background as a launching pad for a series of experiments in futurist rock. They were the first British Invasion group to be recognized for the instrumental prowess of their guitarists — who were, in order of succession, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They stretched the boundaries of pop, adding a harpsichord in <i>For Your Love</i> and a droning, sitar-style lead in <i>Heart Full of Soul</i>. But most Yardbirds fans climbed aboard for the <i>raveups</i> — extended instrumental breaks that served as showcases for Clapton, Beck and Page." (Rolling Stone Magazine)</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6dd5955a8f9120b9c9e47f08e72fe36fd099abcb/original/the-kinks-65.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Whereas the Yardbirds were known for instrumental virtuosity, a couple of other rising London bands — the Kinks and the Who — established themselves through the force of their songwriting.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yFWJmPXY3pw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yFWJmPXY3pw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/484d1e7d233c076857a61c8903871326efee885b/original/kinks-sunny-afternoon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Among the many bands scrambling to make the charts, The Kinks' Ray Davies was, next to Lennon-McCartney, the most unique composer during the British Invasion. His diverse songwriting ability was illustrated by his mastery of various genres; "You Really Got Me" (Hard Rock) and "A Well Respected Man" (British Life & Social Commentary).</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9e8488a0bf988a76d9313c7271d0c66789e9c6c/original/the-who-65.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_5WJWfOoi-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_5WJWfOoi-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OiSKu7SbGNQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OiSKu7SbGNQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a9210a66d40d7ec1745e8724e9051ac0249f9579/original/the-who-1967-iiii.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Who (which happened to be my favorite band back in 1965) caught the attention of music fans with their auto-destruct stage antics which included the band destroying guitars, amps and drums along with setting off smoke bombs on stage. Pete Townshend, the band's main songwriter, was an expert at capturing the true essence of teenage angst with such classic tunes as <i>My Generation</i> and <i>I Can't Explain</i>. While The Who were immensely popular in Europe, it wasn't until 1967 with the release of <i>I Can See For Miles</i> that the band made a major impact on the American charts.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/09a15cd6601ebbcd814c1cc44ae01804b6fa97d4/original/the-animals-65.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BxJxcvS8gck" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BxJxcvS8gck?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/adea5376db246036ba0f37242be3b41cf72e47e6/original/its-my-life.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Eric Burdon of the Animals, had a vocal style that made him sound decades wiser than his age. This alone enhanced such classic singles as <i>We Gotta Get Out of This Place</i> and <i>It’s My Life</i>. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5731de7db0b72b718a27da5c99dacb89f562cc90/original/manfred-mann-album.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Manfred Mann who hit the charts with their 1964 chart topper, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames (<i>Yeh, Yeh) </i>and the Nashville Teens (<i>Tobacco Road</i>) kept London jumping to a bohemian beat. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/531230c369baa8038a7d3300bfe35bd9ddb899e9/original/them-here-comes-the-night.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">From Belfast, Ireland, a band called Them, made the charts with <i>Here Comes the Night</i>, and another song called <i>Gloria</i>, which became popular with garage bands across the USA. Them’s lead singer was Van Morrison, who went solo in 1967 with his smash single, <i>Brown Eyed Girl.</i></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/adc9b068e20e3e45efda06b3470a65a9a571a476/original/british-invsion-london.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"The statistical high-water mark of the British Invasion fell only a month later, on June 18th, 1965. On that date, no fewer than fourteen records of British origin occupied the U.S. Top Forty. It was a record that stood until July 16th, 1983, when the second British Invasion — led by Duran Duran, Culture Club and the Police — landed eighteen hits on the chart. Ironically, during that historic week in the summer of 1965, the top seven positions all belonged to American acts. Herman’s Hermits (<i>Wonderful World</i>) and the Beatles (<i>Ticket to Ride</i>) nailed down Number Nine and Number Ten, respectively, while the rest of the British entries were scattered among the middle and lower reaches of the chart... </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/574b0cf1acd99790c50a9b151cdceb88afce33c3/original/beatles-1967.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">...The Beatles continued to reign supreme in the second half of the Sixties, although the British Invasion, in the sense the term is commonly understood, had pretty much run its course by 1967. It was still the Beatles everyone tried to emulate or top, though the music, the audience and the rules of the game had changed markedly. The simmering down of Beatlemania after 1965 reflected the group’s loss of appetite for celebrity more than any waning of interest on the part of the public. With the release of Rubber Soul (December 1965) and Revolver (August 1966) and their decision to stop touring (they performed their last concert in San Francisco on August 29th, 1966), the Beatles moved into another phase. They were turning inward, and their music was greeted not with screams but with a more mature appreciation of the new places the Beatles were taking their audience." (Billboard Magazine) </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a283abae7cd47faa6251f299872a22acec68d58c/original/but-wait-theres-more.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6991719e4836ecdcf51eae22acba2024cda55586/original/british-invasion-small-banner.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">In the course of my research for this blog post, I happened to come across this fascinating article that appeared in Vanity Fair:</p><p style="text-align:justify;">"Here, a variety of figures who witnessed and participated in the British Invasion in the Beatles’ wake—musicians, managers, industry folk—recount the era as they experienced it, from its arrival in the form of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to its dénouement in the hairier, heavier year of 1967, by which time American bands had begun to redress the imbalance, and the pheromonal hysteria had worn off. </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/012d1c0cbc18c2de7d68dca8cbbaaca7b98ba1da/original/1964.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5724b78db1de9bf7fa0c340bf2961fb4bec08982/original/dave-clark.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Dave Clark (Drummer for the Dave Clark Five)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Of all the early Invasion acts, the Dave Clark Five, from the dismal North London neighborhood of Tottenham, were the most serious challengers to the Beatles’ supremacy—far more serious, initially, than the Rolling Stones, who were still playing blues and R&B covers on the U.K. circuit. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Dave Clark:</strong> 'When people talk about my business acumen, I have to laugh. I left school when I was 15. My dad worked for the post office. Looking back, I think I was just streetwise.' Clark, the band’s drummer and chief songwriter, was a preternaturally driven young jock, aspiring actor, and stuntman who had first organized his band to finance his youth soccer club’s trip to Holland for a tournament (which they won). He also managed the band and produced its records, securing a royalty rate exponentially higher than the Beatles’ and becoming a millionaire at 21. Clark attracted Ed Sullivan’s attention when <i>Glad All Over</i>, a No. 1 hit in the U.K., started climbing the U.S. charts, portending another Brit sensation. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">When Ed Sullivan first asked us to do his show, we were still semi-professional—the boys still had day jobs—and I said we wouldn’t go professional until we had two records in the top five. This was before <i>Bits and Pieces</i>. I turned him down, but then he offered us an incredible amount of money, so we came over. We did the show, and Sullivan liked us so much he said, 'I’m holding you over for next week.' But we were already booked in England for a sold-out show. I said we couldn’t do it. So he called me up to his office and said, 'I’ll buy the show out.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">For some reason, without thinking, I said, 'Well, I don’t think I can stay in New York for the whole week.' And Sullivan said, 'Where do you want to go?' Well, on the way in from the airport, they had these billboards out, and one of them said, Montego Bay, Island Paradise. So I said to him, 'Montego Bay'—I’d never heard of it! And so we went to Montego Bay just for the week, all expenses paid. Went on the Monday and came back on the Friday, and there were 30,000 or 35,000 people waiting at the airport.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">We’d get hundreds of girls leaving us hundreds of dolls and gifts in every city. And one of the gifts was a sheep. I didn’t have the heart to send it anywhere, so I took it back to the hotel suite. And we came back after the show, and it had chewed every credit card, every piece of furniture—we didn’t trash hotel suites, but the sheep did.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">By that May, we were touring America, every show sold out, in our own private plane, which we leased from the Rockefellers. It had <i>DC5</i> painted on the nose.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Dave Clark Five’s tour was the first by an Invasion band, pre-dating even the Beatles’ first tour proper. With an innate grasp of the American marketplace and a gift for writing peppy, stadium-friendly stomp-alongs (the propulsive <i>Bits and Pieces</i> virtually invented glam rock), Clark scored seven straight Top 20 singles in the U.S. in 1964, and four more in ’65. His band also sold out 12 straight concerts in Carnegie Hall and, over the course of the 1960s, made 18 appearances on Ed Sullivan, more than any other rock group. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ed57314807a933af99bae35fe047a7e8ff1aea1a/original/graham-nash-hollies.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/216cece520d0de9a671819a7e8c1baadb3c91c15/original/the-hollies-single.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Graham Nash:</strong> 'We fuckin’ hated the Dave Clark Five! They were just awful to us. They were snotty and they couldn’t play for shit. I mean, if you’re great, maybe you have the right to be a little stuck-up, but if you’re not great, fuck you and your attitude!'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Beyond the Dave Clark Five, the acts that broke early in the Invasion seemed to be those with Beatle associations, whether because they were fellow Liverpudlians, like the Searchers (<i>Needles and Pins</i>, <i>Love Potion No. 9</i>); fellow clients of manager Brian Epstein and Gerry and the Pacemakers (<i>Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying</i> and <i>Ferry Cross the Mersey</i>).</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0da19f0415d616ab5eb59c12d29e8bba28296c2d/original/paul-jones.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Paul Jones (lead singer for Manfred Mann)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Manfred Mann’s song picker was its singer, the dreamy Paul Jones. The band, named after its bespectacled, Beatnik keyboardist, started out as a jazz combo but had little success. Enlisting Jones, they reconstituted themselves as an R&B outfit but still weren’t having much luck, prompting the singer to take them in a poppier direction. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><i>Do Wah Diddy Diddy</i> had been written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, one of the hit-making teams that worked in Manhattan’s fabled Brill Building. But the Exciters’ version had done surprisingly little business in the U.S. Manfred Mann’s version, however, a future staple of sports-arena playlists, became another No. 1 for the British side in October of ’64. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Paul Jones:</strong> 'I would avidly listen to the very few programs on British radio where you could hear American popular music. And every time I heard something that I lied, I would go to one of the very few record shops in London you could rely on to stock that stuff. And I heard this <i>Do Wah Diddy,</i> by the Exciters, and I thought, It’s a smash! </p><p style="text-align:justify;">I wanted to get over to America as fast as possible. And when some guy said, “There’s a tour with Peter and Gordon,” I said, “Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!” And it was dreadfully arranged, in the depths of winter ’64-’65. When we got to New York, we played at the New York Academy of Music, and ticket sales were very poor indeed. So they decided that it would be necessary, at the last minute, to beef up the bill with some local talent. And of all the blind-blank stupidities, the local talent that they booked was the Exciters, who then sang “Do Wah Diddy” before we did.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Manfred Mann’s tour wasn’t a total washout, though. While the band was in Los Angeles, the ubiquitous scenester Kim Fowley witnessed what he deems a seminal event in music history: the first official campaign by a groupie to bed a rock star. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/39275473bebd8e44d5b806b67f1ee4f68e6bdd67/original/kim-fowley-teddy-bear-gun.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Kim Fowley (producer / promoter)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Kim Fowley: '</strong>Her name was Liz, with red hair and green eyes; she looked like a Gidget version of Maureen O’Hara. She was about 18 years old. She was the first girl who I ever saw walk into a hotel room for the express purpose of fucking a rock star. I was standing in the driveway, between the Continental Hyatt House and Ciro’s. I had just gotten out of a cab, and I was gonna go over to the hotel and welcome the guys. Then her cab came up. I said, '<i>Hey, Liz, what’s going on?</i>' She said, 'Do you know Paul Jones in Manfred Mann?' I said, '<i>Yeah</i>.' And she said, 'Well, I want to fuck him.' I said, 'Really? So what do you want me to do?' She said, 'I want you to drag me into their room and introduce me, so I can nail this guy.' So we knock on the door, and they open the door, and I said, 'Paul Jones, here’s your date for the evening.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Paul Jones:</strong> 'I seem to remember that at the time there were lots of girls that made a beeline for groups—especially the singer. Look: the music was always the main thing for us. If I did get into debauchery, then I have to admit that girls were more likely to be the subject of it than drink. And drugs a poor third.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The greatest of England’s song pickers in the Invasion era was Mickie Most, a former pop singer of middling achievement who’d made himself over as a Svengali-like producer. Unique among London music figures, Most was jetting off to New York even before the Beatles’ breakthrough, trawling the Brill Building music publishers for songs that he could turn into hits with the promising young groups he’d found, the Animals and Herman’s Hermits. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/407371ca1395d4a665aec166f5c7e63c2b3b6afb/original/mickie-most-producer.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Mickie Most (Producer)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mickie Most: '</strong>The previous generation of British pop artists, like Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, and Marty Wilde, were basically clones of the Americans, except that they didn’t have the ability to write. They used other people’s songs, normally covers of American records that had already been successful. So I designed a shortcut—go to America, to the publishing companies, and get the songs before they were recorded. When I’d find a band like Herman’s Hermits—I liked the band, but they didn’t have any tunes. So off I went to New York, and we found a song called <i>I’m into Something Good</i>, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. And the Animals, for instance—their first hit was <i>House of the Rising Sun</i>, which was an old folk song they were doing in their set; they weren’t writers. So <i>We Gotta Get out of This Place</i>, <i>Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood</i>, and <i>It’s My Life</i>—those tunes were all American songs which had never been recorded. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The Animals, from Newcastle, were an earthy blues-R&B act fronted by Eric Burdon, a volatile, charismatic belter of small stature and serious intellect. Their slow, portentous version of <i>House of the Rising Sun</i> held the No. 1 spot for three weeks in September ’64, establishing them as rootsy heavyweights of the Invasion. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/feefd363b1bcdef39a4c2a761054b88a5918fbdd/original/eric-burdon.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Eric Burdon (lead singer of The Animals)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Eric Burdon: '</strong>I still resent being lumped in with the British Invasion. That’s just not the way I saw music—to have our management look around for chewing-gum commercials. We weren’t bubblegum. I was fuckin’ serious about the blues. In one of my first journals, I made an incision into my arm and wrote the word “blues” in blood. It was a crusade.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">As the winter of ’64 progressed into spring and summer, the American charts were inundated with British product—not just the Beatles’ hastily issued ’62–’63 back catalogue (<i>She Loves You</i>, <i>Love Me Do</i>, <i>Twist and Shout</i>, <i>Do You Want to Know a Secret</i>, <i>Please Please Me</i>), but singles by the Dave Clark Five, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Peter and Gordon, Chad and Jeremy, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, the Animals, the Kinks, the Searchers, and Manfred Mann. With all these chart-storming acts came an attendant, and often ridiculous, American Anglophilia. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Kim Fowley:</strong> 'There were three trade papers in those days, Billboard, Cashbox and Record World. All of a sudden, <i>I Want to Hold Your Hand</i> comes along, and it went straight to No. 1..America just laid there, spread its legs, and said, '<i>Come on in, guys. Come over and violate us with your Englishness</i>.' Everybody suddenly wanted an English band, an English song, or something that could be sold or classified or categorized or manipulated into that area.'</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/27e23d306fad77ac27fd0811143ac0d42f6ed76e/original/andrew-loog-oldham.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Andrew Loog Oldham (Manager of the Rolling Stones)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">"Andrew Oldham, just 20 years old in 1964, had already made a name for himself in England by embarking on a whistle-stop apprenticeship tour of early Swinging London, working brief stints for the designer Mary Quant, the jazz-club impresario Ronnie Scott, and the Beatles’ famous manager, Brian Epstein. The son of an American soldier who had been killed in World War II combat before Andrew was born and an Australian-born Englishwoman who concealed her Russian-Jewish background, Oldham gorged himself on American culture, became obsessed with Alexander Mackendrick’s quintessential New York film, <i>The Sweet Smell of Success</i>, and became one of Swinging London’s greatest self-inventions—an immaculately turned-out press manipulator who loved trouble, wore eyeliner, and, in Marianne Faithfull’s words, '<i>would say things you only hear in movies, like I can make you a star, and that’s just for starters, baby</i>!’ At 19, Oldham took over the management of the Rollin’ Stones (as they were then known), a nice group of middle-class blues enthusiasts from the suburbs of London, and masterfully recast them as mystique-laden bad boys—scruffing them up, encouraging them to unleash their delinquencies, and stoking the newspapers with his infamous promotion <i>Would you let your daughter marry a Stone?</i> campaign. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Andrew Loog Oldham: 'You sucked up America as energy, to get you out of the cold, gray, drab streets of London. Before global warming, I doubt that England had more than three sunny weeks a year. Which is one of the reasons that England fell in love with the Beach Boys, to a certain degree, more than America did. America was not even a possibility for anybody before the Beatles. As a place to practice your business, it wasn’t even a consideration. Before the Beatles, what were the possibilities? </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> It should be remembered that the Dave Clark Five were the next God for more than a few minutes. In March and April of 1964, with “Glad All Over” and “Bits and Pieces,” they hit the U.S. Top 10 twice. “Glad All Over”? The Stones and I thought it was sad all over. London was as big as the world in those days, very territorial, and Dave Clark came from no-man’s-land, according to our New Wave elitism. But we did not laugh at his business acumen and ability to get it right in America. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">All the people that we would laugh at while we were backstage at Ready Steady Go!—Dave Clark, Herman’s Hermits, the Animals—they were having hits in America a long time before the Rolling Stones. Name anybody—even [the unforgivably glutinous Irish vocal trio] the Bachelors got to No. 10.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">February ’64, when the Beatles came to America, it was a big <i>Uh-Oh</i>—no, a huge one. I was in a fuckin’ panic, man. All of my gifts were of absolutely no use to me. This was a country where you killed your president. I mean, c’mon, we’re turning up only six months after you’d popped Kennedy. That did have an effect on one.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">But, for all his bravado in England and his romance with America, Oldham never anticipated that he would actually have to try to crack the States. The Stones arrived in the U.S. in June for a disastrous two-week tour that found them, at one juncture, playing four consecutive shows at the Texas State Fair in San Antonio. <span class="text-big"> </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;">'Texas . . . [Sighs.] There was a swimming pool in front of us. With seals in it. Performing seals were on in the afternoon, in front of us. And Bobby Vee appearing in tennis shorts—forget the American Dream, now we’ve got the American nightmare. The tour was only 15 dates, but it was a hard slog, a lot of disappointment. You know, if the Beatles’ landing at J.F.K. was like something directed by Cecil B. DeMille, it looked as if Mel Brooks directed our entry.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The indignities piled on. Making their American TV debut on the ABC variety program The Hollywood Palace, the Stones were ritually abused by that week’s host, Dean Martin, who said of them, 'Their hair is not long—it’s just smaller foreheads and higher eyebrows.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Oldham did manage one coup on the Stones’ first trip, though, getting the group a recording session at Chess Studios in Chicago, where many of their blues idols had put down their most famous tracks. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">'I could not have them going back to England with long faces. So, as a compensation, I organized a recording session at Chess, where they could basically record at the shrine. That got us as far as <i>It’s All Over Now</i>, the Bobby Womack song . . . . . . the Stones’ cover of which squeaked into the American Top 40 in late summer ’64, peaking at No. 26 in mid-September—just as their nemesis, Martin, was enjoying his eighth week in the Top 10 with <i>Everybody Loves Somebody</i>.'</p><p>The early Stones were hardly the only British group whose repertoire consisted almost entirely of covers of American R&B singles. For bands who were not writing their own material, it was crucial to have a good song picker. The Searchers, from Liverpool, had one of the best in drummer Chris Curtis. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d5bf6e56c470fce1edb35608d4953f4ad1f31778/original/chris-curtis.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Chris Curtis (Drummer for The Searchers)</strong></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3346d41028b105325bc7f3fa5797481ebd0bade8/original/peter-noon.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Peter Noon (Herman's Hermits)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Herman’s Hermits were the perfect teen-dream band, acutely polite and forever dressed for school-picture day. Herman was actually Peter Noone, a relentlessly chipper, well-to-do boy from the suburbs of Manchester who had been a child actor on the English soap opera Coronation Street. He was barely 17 when <i>I’m into Something Good</i> became an American hit in the fall of 1964. Precocious and possessed of energy and political skills, Noone proved adept at ingratiating himself to the appropriate American media figures. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Peter Noone</strong>: 'I made an alliance with Gloria Stavers, the editor of 16 magazine, because I knew that she was the most important person in rock ’n’ roll in America. She developed acts. If she liked what you represented—she liked Paul McCartney; she liked John Lennon—she made you look better. She would change your answers to make you look better. And Ed Sullivan was charmed by Herman’s Hermits because I was a bit brighter than the average musician. He said, '<i>You’re a Catholic, aren’t you? Meet me tomorrow at Delmonico’s</i>'—which I thought was a restaurant; he meant the building—'<i>and come with me and my family to Mass</i>.' It was a big honor. I showed up, suited up and everything, and genuflected in all the wrong places; I hadn’t been for about 10 years. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">There was a time when we were all staying at the City Squire hotel in New York—us, the Stones, and Tom Jones. Herman’s Hermits had just done <i>Henry the VIII</i> on The Ed Sullivan Show, and there were two or three thousand kids standing outside the hotel for us—it had been on the news. We went up on the roof—the Stones and Tom Jones too—and it must have made a big impact on the Stones, because they started to write pop tunes. No more of the blues stuff, <i>Little Red Rooster</i>—that was instantly gone. They went and started writing songs, ’cause they said, '<i>Look what happens when you make it in America</i>.'</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a788f812912dd84eea213c137f7f6c1faa97d45/original/hermans-hermits-single.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Noone’s politicking and Most’s production savvy paid off. Herman’s Hermits commenced a streak of five straight Top 5 hits, including the No. 1s <i>Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter</i> and <i>I’m Henry VIII, I Am</i>. </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ed966c63bf076d5ed1a232a15cc40fbf52204c2/original/1965.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">As ’64 turned into ’65, the Invasion grew ever more literal, with British groups coming over in great numbers for package tours, New York variety showcases hosted by D.J. Murray “the K” Kaufman, and appearances on the various manic television programs that had arisen to cater to the hysterical-teen demographic: NBC’s Hullabaloo, ABC’s Shindig! and Where the Action Is, and the syndicated Hollywood A Go Go. Among the groups to visit were the Kinks, whose Ray Davies-written originals <i>You Really Got Me and All Day</i> and <i>All of the Night</i> were all over the radio; the Zombies, whose extraordinary debut single, <i>She’s Not There</i>, was the first self-written British No. 1 after the Beatles; the Yardbirds, who came to America with a new featured guitarist, Jeff Beck, because the old one, blues purist Eric Clapton, found the band’s hit <i>For Your Love </i>inexcusably poppy; the Hollies, who were having hits in England but who wouldn’t crack the U.S. Top 10 until ’66 and ’67 with <i>Bus St</i>op and <i>Carrie-Anne</i>; and lesser acts like Nashville Teens, yet another Mickie Most discovery, who had a hit with a cover of John D. Loudermilk’s <i>Tobacco Road</i>, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, who went to No. 1 with the soulful <i>The Game of Love</i>. </p><p>For young Brits abroad for the first time, America was at once a wondrous land of untold exotica</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c87ab5f6a5b1bc67cda7c29f92ac0fb53f4037cb/original/dave-davies-kinks.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Dave Davies (lead guitarist, The Kinks)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Dave Davies:</strong> "On our first tour, I was surprised how old-fashioned Americans were. Ray and I grew up listening to Big Bill Broonzy and Hank Williams and the Ventures, all these really cool people. So before I went, I was in awe of America, thinking, We’re gonna go places where all these great people are, and we’re gonna listen to the radio and hear all this great music! And they didn’t play anything on the radio that was any good; it was all that poppy, croonery, 50s kind of stuff. I expected to hear Leadbelly on the radio—no one knew who he was! </p><p style="text-align:justify;">I said the word cunt on the radio in Boston once. The D.J. was talking like the Beatles, so I called him a cunt on the air. They closed the radio station down and dragged me out of the building." </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1efe081e10989a0001d53004e7d8ef8ea4d52a6f/original/rod-argent-of-the-zombies.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Rod Argent (of The Zombies)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Rod Argent:</strong> "We did the Murray the K Christmas Show at the Brooklyn Fox. It was Ben E. King and the Drifters, the Shangri-Las, Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles, Dick and Deedee, and another English band, Nashville Teens. Headlining the show was Chuck Jackson. We started at 8 o’clock in the morning and did six or eight shows a day, until about 11 o’clock in the evening. Each act did a couple of songs—our hit and one other song—and then we would have to go to the back of the stage and sort of dance, almost like a very naff chorus line."</p><p>But, for all the bands who were chagrined at having to go the cornball route, there were those who embraced the opportunity. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/82a385b0c51c7224ef9fe86bff4734df5c02b15e/original/gerry-marsden.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Gerry Marsden (Gerry & The Pacemakers)</strong></p><p><strong>Gerry Mardsen: "</strong>On Hullabaloo, I think I was in a hairdresser’s chair, singing<i> I Like It </i>while surrounded by a bevy of beauties. I found it great—bloody hell, to be on television in America, I would have shown me bum to get on!"</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Chad and Jeremy, a harmony duo whose mellow, Kingston Trio-like sound on such hits as <i>A Summer Song</i> and <i>Willow Weep for Me</i> was as far away as could be from that of the Rolling Stones, were so Old Guard-friendly that they actually lived with Dean Martin for a short time. Jeremy Clyde was the Invasion’s one authentic English aristocrat, the grandson of the Duke of Wellington. Between his august lineage and his and Chad Stuart’s drama-school backgrounds, Hollywood could not keep its hands off the pair. They could sing; they could act; they had English accents; they had mop-top hair—they were TV-land’s official Invasion mascots. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ba32e89d0aaa5164ea0a5d65ee578191bbbb0d11/original/jeremy-clyde.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Jeremy Clyde (of Chad & Jeremy)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jeremy Clyde:</strong> 'We were brought over to do the Hollywood Palace show as a sort of antidote to Ed Sullivan—'<i>Well, he’s got the Beatles, so we’ll get Chad and Jeremy</i>!' My parents knew Jeannie Martin, so we stayed with Dean and Jeannie and hung out with Dino, Deana, and Claudia. The house revolved around this great big wet bar. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">We were on tv shows; <i>Batman</i> and <i>Patty Duke</i> and <i>The Dick Van Dyke</i> Show. On Dick Van Dyke, we played a British band, and Rob and Laura Petrie kept them in their house for three days—actually, not unlike Dean and Jeannie Martin. On Batman, we did a double episode. We played ourselves, Chad and Jeremy. Catwoman stole our voices—Julie Newmar, who was gorgeous. As I remember, because Catwoman had stolen our voices, the amount of tax that Chad and Jeremy were paying to the British Exchequer would then be lost, and Britain would collapse as a world power. It was a Beatle joke, obviously.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Like Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Dreamers were a clean-cut English group who, through the magic of American television and the sheer force of the Invasion, became much bigger in the U.S. than they were in their homeland. Freddie Garrity, a 26-year-old who’d shaved five years off his age to appear more youthquake-friendly, was an impish little fellow in Buddy Holly glasses whose trademark was a spasmodic leg-flailing dance that came to be known as the Freddie. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5810c54fe71782a9063e7cec2f0ca57acbb333e9/original/freddy-garrity.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Freddie Garrity (of Freddie & The Dreamers)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Freddie Garrity: '</strong>We were really just a cabaret act. The Freddie dance was just an old routine—it depicted a farmer in a field kicking his feet out in the mud.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Freddie and the Dreamers’ chart placings were already in decline in England when, in 1965, Brian Epstein, moonlighting as the host of Hullabaloo’s London segment, showed a clip of the group performing its 1963 U.K. hit <i>I’m Telling You Now</i>. The clip proved so popular that the group was invited to Los Angeles to perform live on Hullabaloo.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Freddie Garrity:</strong> 'So we went on, did <i>I’m Telling You Now</i>, and the phones lit up. Policemen were doing the Freddie in the street. And the song shot to No. 1 in America . . .. . . which it hadn’t done even in Britain. Freddie-mania took such hold in America that Garrity’s record company hastily put together a follow-up single called <i>Do the Freddie</i> for him to sing (it reached No. 18), and on Hullabaloo such luminaries as Chuck Berry, the Four Seasons, Trini Lopez, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello joined Garrity in doing the dance. Freddie and the Dreamers also embarked on a U.S. tour with two fellow Manchester bands, Herman’s Hermits and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. </p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1d4cf3627165b4682726254454ec9bb56b629319/original/ian-whitcomb.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Ian Whitcomb (pop singer)</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Another young Englishman unwittingly caught up in the slipstream of the Invasion was Ian Whitcomb, a wellborn boy who, while attending Trinity College in Dublin, had started up a band called Bluesville and secured a modest recording contract with Tower, a small subsidiary of Capitol Records. At the end of a Dublin recording session in which he’d committed to tape a protest song called <i>No Tears for Johnny</i>, he and his band played a boogie-woogie joke song they’d made up in which Whitcomb panted like a phone pervert and sang, in falsetto, <i>C’mon now honey, you know you really turn me on</i>.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4e23c134624295255accf804e4e5e60f91a1629c/original/tower-records-ian-whitcomb.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Ian Whitcomb: '</strong>I was brought across to New York in spring of ’65 by Tower Records. And, to my horror, the promotion man had a copy of the next release of mine, and it was called <i>Turn On Song</i>. I said, 'You’re not gonna release this! It’s supposed to <i>No Tears for Johnny</i>! I’m gonna be the next Dylan!” </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Conveniently, the British Invasion dovetailed with the sexual revolution, which made for plenty of post-show action for visiting English musicians. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Peter Noone:</strong> 'I thought I was in love with every girl, and I was gonna get married. I never, ever took advantage of anybody. I didn’t know that they were groupies. I thought, What a nice girl! She likes me!' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Freddy Garrity:</strong> 'It was difficult. I had a wife and a baby daughter. And all of a sudden you’ve got girls coming out of your ears! And, you know, I didn’t want to go deaf.'</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a4ede456bd65727b5d8ab9b186f09c7f8f90c329/original/wayne-fontana.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Wayne Fontana (of Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7d163533ca51246846207ee42cef2d5cceb439ce/original/game-of-love.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Wayne Fontana: '</strong>Oh, Freddie was the worst! Even though he was the funny one that jumped around—oh, what a lech! The group joined in—they hired film cameras and everything, so they could set movie scenes up in bedrooms.'</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/65466338128623a81f0686666d0c17264b772346/original/cynthia-plaster-caster.jpeg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Cynthia Plaster Caster</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Among the most famous of the early rock groupies was Cynthia Albritton, a shy Chicago teen who, for reasons she barely understood, found herself suddenly impelled to storm the hotels where visiting British musicians were staying. In time, she would make a name for herself, literally, as the groupie who made plaster casts of rock stars’ erect penises—she became Cynthia Plaster Caster. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cynthia Plaster Caster:</strong> 'I’d say the British Invasion made me what I am. It was the hysteria of Meet the Beatles that evolved into plaster-casting. When it happened, a lot of us were virgins. We would climb fire escapes—like 15, 20 stories—to get to the rock ’n’ roll floor, because the hotel security guards just didn’t allow girls in. They didn’t think it was proper. I didn’t know what my goal was. I didn’t even know why I was drawn there. The guys were like magnets, and I didn’t know what I wanted at first. ’Cause I’d only made out with a boy or two before that.'</p><p>In time, though, Cynthia and her friends embraced overt naughtiness. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cynthia Plaster Caster:</strong> 'We discovered along the way this Cockney rhyming slang that only British bands seemed to know. So we learned all the dirty words that we could find out. Such as Hampton Wick, which rhymes with <i>dick</i>, and Charva, which meant <i>fuck</i>. I’m guessing it rhymed with <i>larva</i>. Maybe larva’s a sexual term, I don’t know—they didn’t go as far as telling me what it rhymes with. But it was a very popular word; we made a lot of contacts from that word. We actually wrote a note to somebody saying that we were the Charva Chapter of the Barclays bankers. And Barclays Bank rhymes with <i>wank.</i> 'Would you like to make a deposit? Would you like to make a nightly deposit? We have nightly banking hours'—that was it. This was for somebody in Gerry and the Pacemakers. And we didn’t even know what a wank was. We were still virgins. The end result was that two days later I got a long-distance phone call from the guy. And it transpired into him finding out very quickly that I didn’t know what the fuck I was talking about.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The plaster-casting idea arose from Cynthia’s and her friends’ desire, having given the matter some consideration, to lose their virginity to British pop stars. Nervous about how to break the ice, Cynthia and company decided that asking musicians to submit to having their members coated in a viscous molding agent was the way to go. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Eric Burdon:</strong> 'I was fascinated by the whole thing. They had a team, and one of them was a real expert at fellatio, and she was beautiful. They came with a wooden box and showed us all the equipment and everything.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The problem was that, initially, Cynthia was not well schooled in the art of molding. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cynthia Plaster Caster:</strong> 'There was, like, a two-year period where we were dragging the casting-equipment suitcase around, not really knowing how to do it, just wanting to try it out, using it as shtick to get to the hotel rooms. We’d tell people, 'We need someone to experiment on. Would you like to help us experiment?' We’d get the pants down, and then, ultimately, they would put the make on us, and voilà—sex would happen. I think we encountered Eric Burdon during that time period. We were on an airplane with him, and we were gonna try aluminum foil, wrap it around his dick. That proved not to work. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Eric Burdon:</strong> 'It was on a tour plane, and the engines were already running. And they had me in the bathroom and the plane was rocking backwards and forwards. They got as far as getting the plaster on. It wasn’t very comfortable, you know. I’m a romantic character—I have to have candles, music, and a bottle of wine.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The British Invasion also ushered in a new kind of sex symbol—not the Brylcreemed, conventionally handsome pop idol of yore, but the skinny, spotty, often myopic, often dentally deficient Englishman whose magnetism derived from his Englishness and status as a musician. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">For all the fun that touring America entailed, there were some rocky moments for the invaders. Some were merely tempests in a teapot . . . </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Eric Burdon:</strong> "America was hotter than I expected it to be and colder than I ever imagined it would be, weatherwise and culturally. I went to the Stax Studio in Memphis one day and watched Sam and Dave cut “Hold On! I’m a Comin’,” and the next night, in the limousines on the way to the gig, we ran into the Ku Klux Klan on the streets. So one minute you were like, 'This is the new South! This is the new dream!,' and then the next minute the old world would just come and slap you upside the head.'</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/266d9b8c9eca767c66da613dcc1f19e9c77aba9d/original/petula-clark-65.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Petula Clark</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d737aa245115443fcf6da342fe088022d43adf88/original/downtown.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">More sure of herself was Petula Clark, who, at the time of her first U.S. smash, the winter ’65 No. 1 <i>Downtown</i>, was a trouper already in her third show-business incarnation—as a child she’d been an actress, England’s answer to Shirley Temple, and as a young woman she’d married a Frenchman, relocated to Paris, and had a second career as a French-singing chanteuse. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Petula Clark:</strong> 'The first show I did live was The Ed Sullivan Show. I got there on the day of the show, which was unheard of. But I had a show in Paris on Saturday night, so I got there on Sunday just in time for the dress rehearsal, which was in front of a live audience. I was totally jet-lagged, no makeup, just enough time to throw on my funny little black dress, and they were playing my music—too fast, actually. I walked out onstage, my first time in front of an American audience, and before I’d sung a note, they stood up and cheered. It was extraordinary—that was the moment that I realized what this British Invasion really meant. And then I remember waking up in the hotel and hearing <i>Downtown</i>, thinking, Am I dreaming this? It was the St. Patrick’s Day Parade going up Fifth Avenue—the marching band was playing it."</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f84dd0595c8b7fe67775b7683d90c372b870db58/original/marianne-faithful.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>Marianne Faithful</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/58366882bae02960eb278e7d726fd447179854e0/original/marianne-faithful.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">The most beguiling of the Invasion gals was Marianne Faithfull, an aristocratic beauty who was just 17 when Andrew Loog Oldham discovered her at a London party in March of 1964, pronouncing her 'an angel with big tits'. By Christmastime of that year, her single <i>As Tears Go By</i> had become the first original Mick Jagger / Keith Richards composition to crack the American Top 40. Though she was at the epicenter of the Swinging London scene—friends with Paul McCartney and Peter Asher, a visitor to Bob Dylan’s Savoy Hotel suite as chronicled in D. A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary, <i>Don’t Look Back</i>, affianced to bookstore and gallery owner John Dunbar—Faithfull was reluctant to plunge headlong into America to capitalize on her success. She had her reasons. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Marianne Faithful:</strong> 'I was pregnant. So I got married to John Dunbar and had my baby. But, also, I was so young, I couldn’t quite get my head ’round going away to America for a long tour. A very sheltered little girl I was—I honestly did think I would be eaten alive in America. So I couldn’t imagine touring America, and maybe I was right. I did do Shindig!, and it was very weird. I was really beautiful, right? And they covered me in makeup, and put false eyelashes on me, and made me look like a tart—a fucking dolly bird!'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Still, Faithfull’s success augured the beginning of better times for the Rolling Stones. The group had secured its first U.S. Top 10 hit late in ’64 with yet another R&B cover, of Irma Thomas’s <i>Time Is on My Side</i>, but Oldham had already realized that for the Stones to compete they would have to start writing their own material. After a tentative start, Jagger and Richards, egged on by their manager, finally hit their stride in 1965. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Andrew Loog Oldham:</strong> 'That was a hell of a process for two people who basically thought I was mad, telling them that they could write songs. My stance, as I was not a musician, was based on the simplicity of 'Hey—if you can fuckin’ play music, you can write it.' And they did. <i>The Last Time</i> was the first time they got into the Top 10 in May 1965 with a self-written song. And then the record after that was <i>Satisfaction</i> which was a No. 1 in the summer of ’65, to be followed by <i>Get off of My Cloud</i>, to be followed by <i>19th Nervous Breakdown</i>, to be followed by <i>Paint It, Black</i>, and so on. The Rolling Stones were at last the Rolling Stones.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Another significant development of ’65 was the emergence of Invasion-inspired American bands. Back in ’64, the future members of the Byrds, all folkies, had bonded over their mutual love of the Beatles—a bold stance in the severe, smoky environs of hootenanny-land. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ecc3b10e07dc9252f804002d364e7f3447b0a352/original/the-byrds-1965.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Chris Hillman:</strong> 'I was a bluegrass mandolin player before I was in the Byrds, and I’d cross paths with David Crosby and Jim McGuinn, as Roger was then known, at this folk club in L.A., the Troubadour. So one night I’m down there with my bluegrass group to play open-mike night, and Jim McGuinn gets up. His hair is a little funnier, it’s starting to grow out, and he’s doing <i>I Want to Hold Your Hand</i> on an acoustic 12-string! And I’m going, 'What the hell is that?' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Roger McGuinn:</strong> 'I was working for Bobby Darin in New York, working in the Brill Building as a songwriter, and he was a mentor to me. He said, 'You ought to get back into rock ’n’ roll,” because I was influenced by Elvis Presley originally. So I would go down to the Village and play these sort of souped-up folk songs with a Beatle beat. Then I got a gig at the Troubadour in California and did the same thing. Of course, it didn’t go over well—it was like Dylan at Newport. They were antagonistic, and I got the freeze, and they’d talk and talk over my set. Except Gene Clark was in the audience and was a Beatles fan, and he liked what I was doing. So we decided to form a duo around that, and then Crosby came in a few days later. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>David Crosby: '</strong>Roger and I and Gene Clark all went to see <i>A Hard Day’s Night</i> together. I was, like, spinning around the stop-sign poles, thinking I’d just seen my life’s work. We started growing our hair right away. We learned how to manipulate a dryer and a comb pretty quickly."</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Soon enough, the Byrds were holding their own during the Invasion with their jingle-jangle No. 1's <i>Mr. Tambourine Man</i> and <i>Turn! Turn! Turn!</i>.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Meeting one’s heroes was a big part of the American experience for Invasion acts and meeting one’s black heroes, however, was fraught with difficulties, especially given the British artists’ obvious debt to American R&B.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9a82d1b6e9c876e709e9e260f31383fb7d4004a0/original/chuck-berry-65.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>The One & Only Chuck Berry</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Eric Burdon: '</strong>The agent would say, 'Well, boys, I got you on a Chuck Berry tour in the U.S. And guess what? You’re the fuckin’ headliners.' What? We were headlining above these guys who I’d worshiped since I was 14. Chuck was really nice to me. I’ve heard a lot about how nasty Chuck can be, and how difficult he can be to work with, but I showed some interest in his feelings, knew all his records, and told him that I thought he was America’s poet laureate. He was embarrassed, I think, but he was kind enough to take me to dinner, sit me down, and say, 'Look—stay away from booze and drugs, you know, and keep your money in your sock.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/818ad0f19b6c7189c9448776100115ae0db71a47/original/dylan-1965.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>The One & Only Bob Dylan</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Resolutely unimpressed by the Brit parade was Bob Dylan, who, though gracious enough a host to introduce both the Beatles and Marianne Faithfull to marijuana when they visited New York, was otherwise disdainful. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Marianne FaithfuI:</strong> 'I don’t think Bob’s ever thought much of the British Invasion. What I do know is how he treated people in London, all those who came to worship at the shrine. He felt that he was much, much, much, highly superior. I think he was really irritated that I wouldn’t run away with him to America, or whatever it was he wanted. And then I went off with bloody Mick Jagger! I can see what he means, quite frankly.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">By 1966 and 1967, there was a palpable shift under way in music, from pop to rock. The vestigial flourishes of 50s showbiz began to fall away, endangering the more clean-cut Invasion acts like Freddie and the Dreamers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Chad and Jeremy. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jeremy Clyde:</strong> 'For us, I think it lasted about two years, ’64 to ’66, and then the girls stopped screaming. And we wanted them to stop screaming, because it was annoying, actually. Chad and I tried all kinds of things. We did a two-man show and took it ’round colleges—bits of drama, mime, and songs, very mixed-media. And then people started to re-invent popular music, and it all became very serious and, in quite a lot of cases, certainly ours, pretentious.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3070774e21f94a1663813d7a659a459d7c2745c4/original/the-yardbirds-66.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /><strong>The Yardbirds</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">This should have been the moment for the Yardbirds, who, with their instrumental virtuosity and futuristic original compositions such as <i>Shapes of Things</i> and <i>Over Under Sideways Down</i>, were poised for greatness. But they proved too volatile to last, as Simon Napier-Bell, who took over their management from Giorgio Gomelsky, found out.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Before the group’s 1966 U.S. tour, Paul Samwell-Smith, their bassist and driving musical force, quit. Jeff Beck recommended that they draft in his guitarist friend Jimmy Page on bass. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Simon Napier Bell:</strong> 'The Yardbirds were a miserable bunch. They were always arguing, bickering, and they weren’t fun. After three days, Jimmy said, 'I think I should play guitar.' And then [rhythm-guitarist] Chris Dreja had to play bass. It was sensational, but, of course, Jeff no longer was getting 100 percent of the credit for his own solos, ’cause he was playing them with Jimmy, and Jimmy wasn’t getting any credit, ’cause everybody knew they were Jeff’s solos. So both of them were pretty dissatisfied. You could see it was just gonna get sourer and sourer, and on the American tour Jeff just walked out.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jim McCarty (drummer for the Yardbirds):</strong> 'There was a bit of competition going on, ’cause they’d follow each other playing solos, and try and outdo each other, and maybe play at the same time. Sometimes it sounded good, but not very often. But I think Jeff just got stressed out. We were on this dreadful Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour, and it was the totally wrong sort of thing for us—Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Sam the Sham, Brian Hyland, all these really straight American acts. We’d play in some of these little southern towns, and they’d shout, 'Turn the guitars down, you’re too loud!' Jeff just blew his top, smashed his guitar up in the dressing room, and disappeared.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d051bc8e53df12714e5c2839ce3234d3178b6a7/original/gimme-some-lovin.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VxA3atHD2QM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxA3atHD2QM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Another band to break on the later end of the Invasion, in 1967, was the Spencer Davis Group, whose Top 10 hits <i>Gimme Some Lovin</i> and <i>I’m a Man </i>featured the uncannily black sounding vocals of Steve Winwood, a white, 17-year-old Birmingham boy. The group, named after its founder-guitarist, had actually been knocking around for a while, with two U.K. No. 1s already to its credit. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Spencer Davis:</strong> 'We had a kind of cult status in America, with the young Winwood prodigy, Little Stevie—a name he hated with a passion. In respect to why we were late in having hits, we weren’t really a pop group. A lot of groups—Manfred Mann, Stones, Animals—weren’t pop, but went pop for a minute to have a hit and then went back to what they were doing. For us, the hits came when there was a better climate for rhythm and blues.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">The only trouble was that the Spencer Davis Group, like the Yardbirds, couldn’t keep its hit-making lineup together. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Spencer Davis:</strong> 'We didn’t quite invade as a complete unit. When we recorded <i>Gimme Some Lovin’</i>, the band was already splitting. Steve was going into Traffic with Dave Mason. We ended up going to New York in 1967 with a new singer, Eddie Hardin. Elton John had shown up as Reggie Dwight for the audition, wearing a milkman’s outfit, and we didn’t think that was cool.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">A lot of the Invasion groups were beginning to splinter or close up shop, either outpaced by musical currents or eager to try new styles with new colleagues. Eric Burdon organized a new lineup of the Animals. The Jeff Beck less Yardbirds carried on briefly before packing it in, prompting their remaining guitarist to form the New Yardbirds, soon to be known as Led Zeppelin.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The increasingly psychedelicized Graham Nash was growing disenchanted with the Hollies and more interested in hanging out with his friends David Crosby from the Byrds and Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Graham Nash:</strong> 'I realized that I was drifting far away from the Hollies. And then, when they didn’t want to do <i>Marrakesh Express</i> or <i>Teach Your Children</i>, I said, 'I’m done.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0317ce43902e20562327e540a93b8d76ccf5515b/original/the-who-my-generation.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">For London’s The Who, the tail end of the British Invasion was just the beginning. In 1965 and ’66, they were already a massive success in England with their mod anthems <i>I Can’t Explain</i>, <i>My Generation</i>, and <i>The Kids Are Alright.</i> Their single <i>Anyway Anyhow Anywhere </i>had been adopted as Ready Steady Go!’s theme song, and their volcanic live act was thought to be the U.K.’s greatest. But they didn’t make so much as a dent in the American charts. Part of the reason for this was that their managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, were film producers making their first foray into the music business. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d850743ccec8646ab3543d88141b0f03be74439/original/chris-stamp-kit-lambert.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Chris Stamp:</strong> 'We signed in America with a company called Decca, which we thought was the same as the English Decca, which was the second-biggest label in England. In fact, American Decca was utterly unrelated, an old-fashioned label that released Bing Crosby, “White Christmas” sort of stuff. They were Sinatra guys—they didn’t know rock ’n’ roll, didn’t even like it. Well, there was a natural outbreak of Who fans somewhere in Michigan with <i>I Can’t Explain</i>, and the next record was <i>Anyway Anyhow Anywhere</i>. And this company, Decca, sent it back to me, because they thought there was something wrong with the tape, because of the sounds the Who were making. We think of those songs now as pop, but, you know, they weren’t Herman’s Hermits. <i>My Generation</i> had stutters in it; it had feedback.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Lambert and Stamp were desperate to break the Who in America, no matter what it took. Kit Lambert was a total eccentric, very upper-class, very upper-crust. And we didn’t know till afterwards that he was selling the family silver, pawning the cuff links his dad had given him, to bankroll the Who.. </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Stamp, who was in charge of the Who’s American campaign, caught a break when his brother, the quintessential Swinging London actor Terence Stamp, was going off to the U.S. on a promotional junket. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Chris Stamp: '</strong>The first time I got over to New York, I got over because my brother had a premiere of a film called The Collector, and he was coming over to do Johnny Carson and promote the film. He exchanged his studio first-class ticket for two economy class tickets, and I came over with him and stayed in his hotel room for three days while he was doing all this stuff.'</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Stamp managed to make the acquaintance of promoter Frank Barsalona, whose firm, Premier Talent, had developed a reputation as the best of the booking agents for British groups. One of Barsalona’s star clients at the time, Mitch Ryder, was from Detroit, the one place where the Who had an American fan base. Ryder, an early champion of the Who, had gotten his big break in 1965 playing one of Murray the K’s 10-day multi-act shows, and in gratitude had promised to come back whenever Murray Kaufman beckoned. </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/606f1e214c3a9d3692fd3e215b3309ff7aaa27d5/original/frank-barsalona.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><strong>Frank Barsalona </strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b2c8eea259989d29df1f11e3e13bfc9832dfb24b/original/murray-the-k.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8753db151483dadc8d0f58554a57e35ab8198e99/original/murry-the-k-easter-show.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Frank Barsalona:</strong> 'Well, of course, a year and a half later, Mitch was really happening, and Murray, of course, wanted him to headline his Easter show. And Mitch called me and said, 'Frank, that’s 10 days, five shows a day. I can’t do that.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;">Barsalona, in an effort to extricate Ryder from this situation, tried to sour Kaufman on Ryder by making a series of absurd demands, such as having Ryder’s dressing room done up entirely in blue, from the walls to the carpet to the curtains. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Frank Barsalona:</strong> 'Murray kept saying yes to everything. So then the last thing I said was 'Look, Mitch has this thing about this British act called the Who, and he would like them on the show.' Murray said, 'They don’t mean anything.' I said, 'Murray, that’s what I’m saying. So why don’t we forget about Mitch?' Then Murray said, 'I’m not going to forget about Mitch!' so I said, 'Well, then you have to put the Who up in the show.' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ab2ae8704a3aaeacdd2fe9669f99c9c9288e9746/original/murray-the-k-with-the-who.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Murray the K with The Who</h3><p style="text-align:justify;">In such a fashion did the Who secure its first American engagement, as a support act, along with Eric Clapton’s new group, Cream, in Murray the K’s 1967 Easter show at the RKO 58th Street Theater in New York. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Frank Barsalona:</strong> 'I had never seen the Who live, and I thought, Oh my God, I’m going to screw myself over! I went to the dress rehearsal with my wife, June, and I said, 'You know, June, they’re not bad at all.' And then Pete Townshend starts smashing his guitar to pieces, and Roger Daltrey is destroying the microphone, and Keith Moon is kicking over the drums. I said, 'June, do you think this is part of the act?' </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Chris Stamp: '</strong>Murray the K was still doing these old-fashioned shows in Brooklyn where the act came on, sang their hit, and walked off. So we had to compromise—we stretched it out, I think, to about four songs. The Who would come on; do, like, <i>I Can’t Explain</i> and some other song; and finish up with <i>My Generation</i> and smash their equipment. Normally, the smashing came about of its own volition—it wasn’t meant to be a showbiz thing. But in the Murray the K thing, it tended to be slightly that. Although Pete was just as angry, I suppose, about having to do only four songs. </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8820102c8d6c70617dba83bdc4dec63c5b13b559/original/the-who-monterey-pop-fest.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Naturally, the Who stole the Murray The K show, and their reputation grew to the point that by June of ’67 they were one of the major attractions of the Monterey Pop Festival in California, a three-day event that effectively brought down the curtain on chirpy, well-groomed, besuited 60s pop—and, therefore, the phenomenon known as the British Invasion." 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Anticipation fills the air! For today's post, I thought it would be fun to take a look at The Ghosts of Mardi Gras. </span></h2><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5b41ecac13442690c36b2bac031e0212b8d25b27/original/a1-mg-masks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">While Mardi Gras might stir up visions of parades, costumes, beads there is a dark side to the festive masquerade. Elaborate masks cover the faces of of many Mardi Gras revelers. Every kind of indulgence is the order of the day before they have to be put away during the season of Lent. Seldon talked about at the heart of this jubilant season is a place where death and madness become themes of Mardi Gras itself.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/4eb3d485d2462f9d0a1b7f77b95922620be0a898/original/ghost-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">MARIE LAVEAU</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau, was not only a powerful healer and a hairdresser during her time in the 1800s, but she also introduced Catholic teachings and practices into the Voodoo religion that still persist today. Known for her compassion, Laveau would help any and all who came to her regardless of race and financial status. A popular tradition was started years ago that if you wanted Lavaeu to grant you a wish, you had to draw an X on her tomb, turn around three times, knock on her tomb, and yell out your wish, much to the frustration of the Archdiocese and Save Our Cemeteries. People have sworn that when they left offerings at Laveau’s tomb after having their wish granted, they could hear a woman whispering in their ears and had ghostly images show up in photos of her tomb." (Whereyat) </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"Born around 1801 to the freed slave Marguerite and a free (and wealthy) mulatto businessman, Charles Laveaux, Marie was the first generation of her family to be born free. Laveau’s great-grandmother came to New Orleans as a slave from West Africa in 1743 and her grandmother, Catherine, eventually wound up being bought by one Francoise Pomet: a free woman of color and successful entrepreneur. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">It was not unusual for free blacks to purchase their own slaves; despite her reputation as a charitable woman and an important figure in the black community, Laveau would own several slaves. Catherine was eventually able to buy her freedom and build her own small home, where her granddaughter would become famous. After a brief marriage to another free part-black, Laveau entered into what would be a thirty-year relationship with a white Lousiana man with a noble French background, Cristophe Glapion. Interracial relationships were also not uncommon in New Orleans, although the couples were forbidden by the law to marry.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f095ceb53ccb3fdb04142fcb57657a541928984a/original/ghost-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Laveau was a devoted Catholic all her life, and to her voodoo was not incompatible with her Catholic faith. The front room of her cottage housed altars filled with candles, holy images, and offerings, and she would lead weekly meetings (that included whites as well as blacks) where the participants would dress all in white, then chant and sing and leave an offering of liquor and food to the spirits. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Marie Laveau also saw individual clients, giving them advice on everything from winning lawsuits to attracting lovers, when she died her obituary in The New York Times claimed: “lawyers, legislators, planters, and merchants all came to pay their respects and seek her offices.” </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Although people of all races visited Laveau and attended the ceremonies she led, the white community as a whole never accepted voodoo as a legitimate religion (which is partly why today it is still associated with the occult). Racism and a natural tendency for newspapers to seek out sensational stories led to the descriptions of Marie Laveau’s ceremonies as occult “drunken orgies” and her nickname as a “Voodoo Queen.” </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Laveau was able to rise to such a prominent position in New Orleans through a combination of her strong personality, charity works, and natural flair for theatrics. During her lifetime she performed notable acts of community service, such as nursing yellow fever patients, posting bail for free women of color, and visiting condemned prisoners to pray with them in their final hours. After her death in 1881, her legend only continued to grow. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Whether Marie Laveau was a powerful priestess with supernatural abilities or simply a clever entrepreneur who knew the value of giving people the spectacles they wanted, she is doubtless a fascinating figure for having been a black woman with great influence in the Deep South during the days of slavery. And her rise certainly wouldn’t have been possible anywhere but New Orleans." (allthatsinteresting.com)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="8abnes8TpW8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8abnes8TpW8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cc376d98d5fe449da8bbc062ddbc48f0b8b3a6bc/original/ghost-4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">THE DEVIL BABY OF NEW ORLEANS</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"In the early days of Marie Laveau’s rise to fame, her clientele consisted mainly of negroes, country folk, and other free people of color whose long association with the practices of vodou and rootworkers made her a natural attraction to them. But at the height of her power, when her mystique was talked about constantly in the salons of the rich Creoles and white-bread Americans, Marie Laveau began to receive visits from the upper crust of society. And it was her service to this sector that embroiled her in one of the greatest legends of Old New Orleans: the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Mam’selle Laveau was often called to the ornate mansion on Dauphine Street to delight and amuse the doyenne of the famous Creole family who lived there and all her idle and very wealthy friends. The voodoo queen had been referred to the ladies by a woman of the highest social standing in the city, none other than Madame Delphine LaLaurie. The family was a well-known, old line New Orleans family who had risen to prominence through their dealings with the wealthy Americans who lived on the Uptown side of Canal Street. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">The Creole family of Dauphine Street had a beautiful daughter named Camille, and according to legend, when Camille came of age she had many suitors. To her great disappointment, however, all of them were Creole. To most young women of her station, this would be a fabulous dilemma; but for Camille, it was truly disheartening. All her life she had been envious of the wealth and station of the Americans, of their fabulous homes built in the Northern style, and of their immutable business dealings, all of which ended in profit that the Americans did not hesitate to flaunt. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In her few visits to the American quarter, Camille befriended the daughter of an American family, Josephine Brody, who often invited Camille to her home for tea and other activities. It was on one of these outings that Camille, it is said, met the man who would change her life forever and gain her a place in New Orleans’ haunted history. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Mackenzie Bowes was a Scotsman by birth, though his history and how he had obtained his considerable fortune were obscure. He never made much comment on it, and the shallow Americans in whose circles he moved with such ease were satisfied to simply know that he was “obscenely wealthy” and that the money was “very old,” coming down from old Scottish Lairds and some very lucrative family relations. He had arrived upon the steps of the Brody home in the company of August Brody, the eldest son, whom he had accompanied from New York. He was looking for a place to settle down, the Brodies were told, and New Orleans seemed just the place for a man like Mackenzie Bowes. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">From the moment Camille laid eyes on the handsome Scotsman, she was smitten, and she began to look for every opportunity to spend more and more time with the Brodies and their Scottish houseguest. It greatly pleased Josephine and her family when Bowes began to return Camille’s interest with an immediate attentiveness and devotion. Camille’s parents, who also became regular houseguests of the American Brodies, encouraged the romance, hoping for a fine union for their daughter. But not all were so delighted. In scorning her Creole suitors, Camille had mostly embarrassed them and wounded their pride; nearly all turned their attentions to other sultry Creole daughters. Nearly all, that is, except Etienne Lafossat Matthieu. It did not please Etienne at all that he had been set aside by Camille like a plaything that had outlasted her attention. As Camille’s romance and her stature among the Americans grew, it was clear to all, including Etienne, that marriage was imminent. When Bowes threw off his Presbyterian faith and converted to Catholicism, marriage was certain, and shortly after the plans were announced in St. Louis Cathedral. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">All this while, Marie Laveau had watched with interest, and she was not surprised in the least when Matthieu came to her cottage on St. Ann imploring her aid. He wanted Camille back, he said at first, but when the voodoo queen shook her head and assured him it could not be so, then Matthieu ground his fist into the table and pronounced: “Then I want her dead!” To his surprise, Mam’selle Laveau laughed at his request. “You cannot know what you ask, boy,” she said in her heavy Creole French. “You will pay dearly for me to take her life. Are you ready for this?” Matthieu thought it through as quickly as his fevered mind could. “Then make her suffer, like she has made me suffer. She goes to the Americans to make a spectacle of herself; make a spectacle of her for all to see.” </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Marie Laveau spat upon the ground and stamped the spot with her feet. “So let it be,' she said, then set about instructing Matthieu on all the things she would need to make a fetish and to effect a good curse. 'Bring these to me within a week–,' she had told him, “–and be patient after that. You will see the Scotsman ruined and Camille suffer as you have asked. Now, go!” </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">On a bright October morning, Camille became the bride of the mysterious Scotsman in the halls of the great St. Louis Cathedral. All the high society of New Orleans, from both quarters, attended the fabulous wedding and the celebration at the family home afterward. Yet, in the dark of her cupboard on St. Ann Street, Marie Laveau worked her charm. It would be months in coming, but Etienne Matthieu would have his revenge, and would regret the day he asked it. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">When Camille and Mackenzie returned from their wedding trip, the new bride was already pregnant. Beaming with delight, the handsome couple settled down in a townhome on the Rue Bourbon, not far from the French Market. While her husband went about his affairs in the day, Camille spent hours planning the nursery that would receive her child. Nothing could dim her enthusiasm or quell her excitement–except on one occasion when she happened upon Etienne Matthieu in the market. His scowl was so dark and intense that Camille thought she would faint, and her mother, who was with her, called for the carriage to take her home. Soon, however, the shadow passed. Or so it seemed.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OfrC0fbzRzQ" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OfrC0fbzRzQ?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Camille’s mother, Adelaide, began to become restless in her sleep. Never one to be plagued by sleeplessness or dreams, she began to have vivid nightmares that would wake her in the middle of the night; afterward, she would be so unnerved that she found it impossible to go back to sleep. She tried desperately to keep her troubles from Camille, not wanting to intrude upon the young woman’s joy, but one day the daughter confronted her. When Adelaide told Camille about her dreams and fitful sleep, the young mother-to-be was disturbed. 'My husband is having dreams as well,' she told her mother. 'He wakes suddenly in the night, calling for me, but he will not tell me what he has dreamed, or why he cannot sleep again.' </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">This greatly troubled Adelaide, and when she had departed from Camille, she spied a beautiful mullatress selling fish beside the road and this immediately put her in mind of Mam’selle Laveau. As soon as she arrived home, Adelaide sent out a servant with a message for Marie Laveau. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Within a half hour, the servant returned and announced that Mam’selle Laveau was waiting to be admitted. Adelaide went to the door herself and quickly brought Marie into the house. For what seemed like an eternity the two were closeted together in the Creole parlor while Adelaide poured out her concerns and told Marie every detail of her troubling dreams. When she added that Camille’s husband was having nightmares too, a glimmer passed Marie’s dark eyes. 'I believe the child to be in the greatest danger,' Mam’selle Laveau finally pronounced. 'This is what the ancestors are telling me. When Camille is confined, and the time of her delivery comes, I alone should be called to midwife her. Otherwise, I fear there will be a great evil laid upon this child. The problem is with the husband, you know.' </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">This troubled Adelaide greatly, and she could not understand the meaning of it. Nonetheless assured by the voodoo queen that all would be well so long as she alone might bring the baby, Adelaide put aside her fears. She watched as her carriage clattered away down the cobblestoned streets of New Orleans, taking the mighty Mam’selle home to await the call. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Mackenzie Bowes was always a dark and mysterious man, and much about his past he kept to himself. The most that Camille had been able to wrest from him was his connection to a family of Scottish lords called Strathmore...One day, while looking through a Gazetteer, Camille came across a story about the Earls of Strathmore and the gloomy Scottish castle they called home. It was a cursed place, or so the article said, and had been associated for ages with the darkest form of malign arts. 'Glamis,' it read, 'is purported to have locked within its walls the Devil himself!' More specifically, she read of the 15th century Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord of Glamis, who is otherwise known by his more infamous moniker of Earl Beardie. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">According to this legend, which Camille read, Earl Beardie was a cruel and indulgent man, who was thrown down a stone staircase after being accused of cheating in a poker game with two Scottish chieftains. So humiliated in his own castle, the lord returned to his room in a drunken rage, and demanded his servants find him someone to play cards with immediately, notwithstanding the late hour. The servants, however, demurred, reminding their wroth liege that it was nearly the Sabbath and no man would play for fear of committing sacrilege. In response, Lord Glamis shouted for all to hear he would play until Doomsday if he wanted and ordered the servants out of the room. At five minutes to midnight, one brave servant returned, warning his lord that no man would play due to the time. Beyond irate, Earl Beardie said he would “play with the Devil himself” and ordered the servant out. At the stroke of midnight, there was a knock on the door, and a tall stranger dressed in black entered asking to join the game. The stranger sat down and placed thirteen rubies on the table. Greedy and impulsive, Earl Beardie did not object to the company. Thus began their game, the host dealing, and the guest setting the stakes. According to the legend, Lord Glamis lost it all by the sound of the morning church bell–including his soul, and for his sacrilege, is allegedly cursed to endlessly play cards till Judgment Day. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Naturally, such tales disturbed Camille, for combined with the dreams and fitfulness of her husband and mother, this seemed to her an omen of some sort. She began to wonder, but soon all thoughts would turn to her delivery: her first labor pains began, and she entered her confinement. Dutifully, Adelaide sent for Marie Laveau. Camille’s labor was long and arduous, but the patient Marie did not once leave her side. She would soothe her through her pains and pat her head with a cool towel. Sometimes she would talk to Camille in a sing-song using the strange French patois of the island Kreyola. And it seemed that Camille’s pangs were having a strange effect on Mackenzie as well, for as the pains increased and the delivery neared, Mackenzie became more and more agitated and nervous. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">He insisted upon being in the room, but Marie Laveau was not one to be bullied, and no sooner did he step inside than he was put out again. The Scotsman fidgeted as the time neared and would not be comforted. At last, unable to bear it, his mind seemed to completely collapse, and he ran from the home into the dark night. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Camille suffered greatly from the labor and mercifully passed into unconsciousness before death came for her. Her grieving family was inconsolable when Mam’selle Laveau told them that Camille could not be saved, but that the child had survived. Then the voodoo queen looked at them and told them to be prepared. 'There is a curse upon this child and it has nothing to do with your poor girl,' she said. 'This is the work of years of malice and someone who hated this child enough to bring the devil out of hell to curse it.' </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Then Marie Laveau revealed to the family the bundle laying in her arms. All present gasped in horror, including the family priest who had arrived in time to perform the last rites over Camille’s stiffening body. In the arms of the mambo was not a plump and blushing human baby, but a grotesque and lurid imitation, a horror, a curse. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Wails filled the room when the thing was exposed, and all could see that where light tufts of hair should be were two lumps–the early roots of horns to come. Where little hands and feet should have been were the claws of some wild animal, like a possum or a raccoon. There were scales upon its body, though its genitals were perfectly formed, and all could see it was a boy. But it was the eyes, the horrible, leering hell-like eyes that caused Adelaide to faint in despair and Camille’s poor father to turn his back. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">'Take it!' he said to Marie. 'But Monsieur!' said the sly mambo, 'What of his father?' 'It's father has thankfully gone mad! He was taken in by the Ursulines just an hour ago, ranting and foaming at the mouth. He is quite beyond our help!” came the heartless reply. “This is the curse of his family, not ours!' 'As you wish,' said Marie Laveau, as she bundled the little infant to her. A barely perceptible smile crossed her full lips as she passed out into the humid New Orleans night and made her way toward St. Ann Street. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Suddenly out of the shadows came the hunching form of Etienne Matthieu. Marie Laveau stopped suddenly but was not moved by the sight she saw: Etienne’s own curse had come home to roost and he was hideously deformed. Where once a handsome Creole man had been, there was now only the bent and broken form of a cripple. His face was so contorted that Marie knew no one save she alone could stand to look upon it. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">'What have you done to me!' Etienne cried and lunged for Marie Laveau. The voodoo queen held up a hand. 'Stop!' she said in a commanding voice. 'You are marked for all to see, Etienne, for Camille has died because of your hatred. Now you may be testament to her life. Go away, and do not show your face to me again. It offends me!' With that, Marie Laveau passed into the night, and Etienne passed into obscurity. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">A thought came to the voodoo queen and she turned quickly on her heel, making her way to Royal Street and the familiar doorway of another renown woman, Madame LaLaurie. After the servants had let her inside, Marie was greeted in the crimson parlor of the fabulous LaLaurie home. When Marie had told her tale and shown the baby to Madame LaLaurie, the parlor rang with their laughter at what fools humans are to tamper with the will of the gods. 'But he must be baptized!' Madame said. 'I know a priest who will do it right away!' </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">However, the story does not end there. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">It is said that Marie Laveau and Madame LaLaurie shared the care of the unwanted child between them. Sometimes the child would be kept with Marie at her home on St. Ann; other times, Madame played host to it, and, it is said, she even had a nursery made for it on the second floor of her home. Servants and slaves who caught glimpses of the baby began to whisper tales back and forth; when any came to the ears of either woman, the reaction was brutal and quick. Most of the gossips said that Marie and Madame used the baby to call to its true father, the Devil himself. But no one had any proof, and no one wanted to get close enough for it. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">When Madame LaLaurie was chased from New Orleans after a fire in her home led to the discovery of horribly mutilated, tortured and dead slaves, the care of the “Devil Baby” fell to Marie–a duty she is said to have shared with her eldest children. For a few years, the fact that such a monstrous being was kept in the heart of the French Quarter was the subject of continuous gossip. The pitiful and chilling wails were not of this earth, and whenever the rain would fall, it seemed, the baby would moan and howl incessantly, to the great disturbance of French Quarter residents. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">One rainy day, however, there were no howls and shortly afterward the Laveau family was seen, all dressed in black, gathered in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, where they were laying someone, or something to rest. Could it have been the Devil Baby? Most people assumed this to be the case. But if Marie Laveau buried the Devil Baby back in the 1800’s, other said, then what continued to howl and terrorize tourists and locals alike all along Bourbon Street for years to come? No, the devil child did not die; he merely grew...the devil child found himself all too at home, and so the matured scion fashioned a place of his own. According to the legends, he made no secret of his address: 1319 St Charles Avenue in the 1840’s. According to legend, the baroque mansion went up overnight, as if by fell witchery. The mansion is said to have been built so quickly that it made little sense inside: every room reputedly is on a different floor, and stairs go off in all directions but can only ever be climbed downward. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Reportedly, Camille’s diabolic child-grown man built this house for his mistress, one Madeline Freneau, whom he kept in lavish luxury. Sadly, Ms. Freneau’s beauty and lust was only surpassed by her feckless indiscretion. Distracted by the city’s many sins, the devil of New Orleans was oft busy, leaving Ms. Freneau lonely and bored. Consequently, she took another lover, one Alcide Cancienne. Failing to consider the diabolical nature or her first lover or even the common inhibition to keep her affair a secret, Ms. Freneau dined openly with Alcide in the mansion’s main dining room. During one of these occasions, the house’s master returned and asked after Alcide’s identity, who glibly named himself as Ms. Freneau’s lover. That night at dinner, Alcide told his lovely mistress that the devil had told him he could have Ms. Freneau and thirteen thousand dollars if they would take the name Mr. and Mrs. L. Ms. Freneau was delighted, and told Alcide they should be together forever. Alcide laughed at the beautiful young woman and told her he was bored with her and wouldn’t keep her even for such a fortune. Enraged, Madeline leapt across the table and killed Alcide. Her first lover then entered, laughing. He delighted in the horrific scene and celebrated promptly by eating both Alcide and Madeline. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">For many years after this, the house on St. Charles Avenue sat empty, but eventually a few intrepid families dared to occupy the mansion. The reports of the haunting there were terrifying. Apparently, the fateful dinner would replay over and over again in front of residents in phantom form and both Alcide and Madeline’s ghosts haunted the house. Some say that the image of the Devil himself was embedded on the outside of the house and that blood would drip from his open mouth. Others instead have noted the eerie similarity between the graven image and that of the earlier accounts of the Devil of Bourbon Street. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In time, though, 1319 St Charles Avenue was demolished. Some say the devil finally came to collect his son. Some say the diabolic entity was slain. Others, however, say that the devil child merely moved. After all, New Orleans promises plenty of real estate for the damned." (bloodberrbon.com)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/16bbfb88698b609bbca9859df68bf37a322f97c4/original/ghost-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">THE GHOST OF ARNAUD'S RESTAURANT</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"The famed Arnaud’s Restaurant was opened in 1918 by Count Arnaud Cazenave, his beautiful daughter Germaine was just 16 at the time. Due to her father’s immense wealth and fame, along with her unwavering beauty, Germaine was repeatedly crowned Queen of Mardi Gras, elected more times than any other woman in New Orleans history. On one of her crowned years she had the perfect Mardi Gras gown handmade just for her, so perfect in fact, that she requested a duplicate gown that she could later be buried in. The elaborate horse-drawn carriage Easter parade to St. Louis Cathedral from Arnaud’s was another claim to fame that Germaine started in 1956, inspired by the Easter strollers of New York’s Fifth Ave that were popular at the time. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Adorned in her favorite royal gown, Germaine Cazenave Wells’ spirit is frequently seen moving about the Mardi Gras museum inside of Arnaud’s Restaurant where her memorabilia is lovingly displayed, including her past gowns resting on the shoulders of mannequins with her resemblance. Even without her specter strolling about, it sounds like the visions of the museum itself are enough to startle one at first. Her father’s spirit likes to hang around the bar, perhaps she is there to join him for a drink and celebrate their favorite holiday?" (Ghost City site)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/903e65df1992279f244cd12783197fd0391c961a/original/ghost-6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">MADELINE FRENEAU & THE DEVIL HOUSE</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"Sometime during the 1820s, according to legend, the Devil himself took a mistress in New Orleans, named Madeline Freneau, and built her a luxurious ornate mansion to accommodate her. While the Devil provided Freneau with a lavish lifestyle, she ultimately grew bored of him and took on another lover, Alcide Cancienne. The couple did not keep their affair a secret from the Devil. So one night while they were having dinner in the ballroom, Cancienne told Freneau that the Devil had made him an offer: he would give him Miss Freneau along with $1000, and all they had to do in return was adopt the name Mr. and Mrs. L. However, Cancienne said he had refused the deal because he had already grown tired of her. In a fit of rage, Freneau killed Cancienne, and then the Devil came in afterward to devour them both. Before the mansion was torn down in the 1930s, reports claimed that the ghosts of Freneau and Cancienne would replay the events of that dinner, and an image of the Devil was seen outside the house with blood dripping from its mouth." (whereyat)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/75576632fdda44748b0a2f2b26ca3e5e85410922/original/ghost-7.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">JULIAN ELTINGE THE GHOST OF GALATOIRE'S RESTAURANT</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"Julian Eltinge, whose given name was William Julian Dalton, was a famous cross-dressing actor during the early 1900s. Having given a special stage performance before King Edward VII and staring in Hollywood films like 1918’s The Isle of Love with Rudolph Valentino, Eltinge was considered to be one of the highest paid actors at that time. He had dined at Begue’s Restaurant—which is now Tujague’s—in 1917 when he was performing in the city, and he autographed a photo of himself that ended up being framed and hung in the restaurant for nearly 100 years. In 2013, the picture was taken down and put up in the attic during renovations. After that, a couple had taken a picture of themselves while dining at Tujague’s and noticed a ghostly face that had appeared behind them, right where Eltinge’s photo used to be. The owner has since rehung the photo and Julian Eltinge has not reappeared since." (Whereyat)</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/30380c40370b9e58258c81eaba8a4c306ec1356c/original/ghost-8.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">THE GHOSTS OF TOULOUSE STREET</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">This ghost story begins with the doomed Guillaume Marre and his soon-to-be-widowed new wife Mary Alice arriving in the French Quarter in 1803. They bought neighboring buildings in the 500 block of Toulouse Street, opening a feed store at 508 Toulouse above where they also lived. Next door, at 514 Toulouse, they opened an oyster-shucking house which naturally smelled to high heaven. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"> </h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">This being 19th century New Orleans, Marre soon died of yellow fever, leaving the property and fortune to his widow. Mary carried on the businesses and eventually remarried to the chubby, balding Frenchman, Joseph Baptandiere in 1806, her third foray into wedded bliss. It wasn’t long before her wayward hubby entered into a placage, the tradition whereby men of European descent took on mistresses of native or mixed blood. Joseph’s mistress was the fetching Angelique DuBois, who some sources say was also employed at the Toulouse Street feed store where she lived in a small attic room. Angelique grew quite attached to Joseph and eventually demanded he leave his wife (who controlled all the money) and marry her. Joseph refused and in 1810 the pair had a heated argument at the feed store. Angelique ran to the third floor where, it is surmised, she threatened Joseph she was going to spill the beans to the missus about their affair. In a rage, Joseph supposedly choked her unconscious and threw her limp body down to the courtyard below where she died of a broken neck. To cover his misdeed, Joseph stuffed the body into a sewer hole that had been dug in the courtyard and covered her up with dirt. But his foul deeds were witnessed by a teenage slave looking out a fourth-floor window onto the courtyard. The young man fled after Joseph spotted him, leaving the murderer no choice but to kill himself to escape punishment. He went back to the third floor and hung himself from the balcony. The slave returned later and pointed out where Joseph had stashed the body of his mistress Angelique. Despite the scandal of adultery and murder that now attached itself to her home, the thrice-widowed Mary continued to run the businesses and live in the building until her death in 1817 at the age of 35. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Soon after the deaths of Joseph and Angelique, their ghosts began to appear. The ghost of Joseph was spotted hanging by the neck from the third-floor window and the ghost of Angelique was seen wandering the third floor right after sunset. In the mid-1800’s during the yellow fever epidemic, the building was turned into a quarantine hospital for doomed victims. In order to escape a lingering, agonizing death, many patients were said to throw themselves from the windows of the upper stories to end their suffering. To combat this, metal bars were put on the windows and remain there to this day. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In 1989, the building became home to the famed O’Flaherty’s Irish Pub and the ghosts were frequent visitors to the ensuing rowdy Celtic evenings. The ghost of Angelique herself was seen in the courtyard, described as slender with brown hair down to her waist. They say she liked to posthumously flirt with handsome young men, touching their hands or caressing their necks. She was also said to fling bottles across the bar when she was feeling petulant. The sewer hole where Joseph dumped her corpse became a brick-lined planter the area around which people found noticeably colder. Her murderer haunted the balcony over the Ballad Room where Daniel O’Flaherty would perform his Celtic music. Visitors reported feeling pushed while others said they were scratched by the ghost of a portly, tall man. It was said that as you climbed higher into the house towards the top floors, the more intense his malevolent presence could be felt. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">The less menacing spirit of Mary would also materialize on the balcony to listen whenever O’Flaherty would play the song “Red is the Rose.” She would often appear in the kitchen and restaurant to oversee that all was running smoothly and could be seen peering through a second story window down into the courtyard where Angelique had landed. It was said Mary would throw books off the shelves in the complex’s Celtic gift shop whenever a pretty young woman would walk in. Apparently, her experiences in life left her prone to fits of ethereal jealousy. The eternal love triangle isn’t the only haunting of the premises. People reported flashing lights, coughing and moaning coming from the sealed off floors that once housed the dying yellow fever patients as well as the cries of sick children calling for their mothers. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">O’Flaherty’s never reopened after Hurricane Katrina and the buildings were vacant for several years before being redeveloped into residential apartments. Today, the ground floor of 514 Toulouse is home to the New Orleans Creole Cookery restaurant. Several of the places where ghostly activity had been observed disappeared during renovations; the balcony over where Mary listened to music is gone and the raised, brick planter where Angelique was buried ain’t dere no more. However, Mary, Joseph and Angelique are still very active according to the staff, as are the yellow fever victims. An employee tells how a female patron recently ran in fear from the stairs in the courtyard, telling people she had heard ghostly children crying “Mommy! Mommy!” </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">One long-time employee, when I told her I was a bit of a skeptic told me, 'Don’t be a skeptic…they’re real.' She went on to relate a long list of recent patron and staff encounters with the ghosts, including seeing Mary floating through the courtyard and of hearing the children’s cries for their mothers, even saying of Angelique 'the bitch is even in the bathroom!' " (nola.com)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/363628d7f646dccba0fa8f8ee980e0fb313d6b78/original/ghost-9.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">THE HAUNTED MARDI GRAS PARADE</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Last but not least there is a story of a New Orleans parade that takes place at Mardi Gras which is hosted by The Krewe Of Mid City that seems to attract tourists from beyond the grave. In 1974 when I was New Orleans I stopped into Pat O'Brien's for a tall cool Hurricane cocktail. While I was enjoying this libation at the outdoor bar in Pat O's courtyard, a tourist sat down at the bar and showed me some photos of a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade he had taken. After a quick glance I, I noticed that the images consisted of manifested spirits mingling amongst the large crowds of parade goers at this particular parade. It kind of shook me up so I ordered another hurricane cocktail and thought about the ghosts of Mardi Gras all afternoon.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/f4c566c947653bc19569e4fdddc43cc8015d79de/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d6279e7e3d195aa08a89f4755120f4802d859ed2/original/haiku-monday-the-ghost-of-pontchartrain.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition, is an imaginary movie soundtrack for a ghost story that takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Follow the dark trail of Sammy Thibadeaux, the Ghost of Ponchartrain, as he returns home to his former life of underworld voodoo and murder. Salvation is at hand!</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="me-JTbwvbHk" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/me-JTbwvbHk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/e00a6f8c008120d9a99d9d12a9590545cda9f52b/original/mind-smoke-mardi-gras-compilation-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">This album will get you in a Mardi Gras mood!</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="uYUSEQ0CeNo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uYUSEQ0CeNo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/bd382f05a75200994a5e68f972db2b3d2c02c929/original/dscn7260.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#ebd007;">RETURN TO ALL BLOG POSTS</span></a></h2>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68749112023-02-19T13:00:00-05:002023-02-19T13:11:18-05:00The Legendary Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans (Expanded Edition)<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1e89a75afab42a66c6100ba0a99f777681e8ea9d/original/image-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">One of the most unique aspects of Mardi Gras in New Orleans is the existence of the Mardi Gras Indians. From the neworleans.com site: “Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/517d17dbab5a8361ce409d987928520b9f865eb5/original/image-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The origins of the black Indians of New Orleans seems to have many variations. Many Mardi Gras tribal members point to black-Indian relationships in the French, Spanish and later American colonial periods wherein Native Americans assisted in the escape of slaves and establishment of maroon communities on the margins of New Orleans and nearby plantations. Some Mardi Gras Indians declare that they have Native American ancestry. Others insist on crediting West African and Afro-Caribbean sources in dance, song style, and rhythms.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The presence of local Native American tribes who mingled with free people of color and French and Spanish locals attending dances and festivals during the 18th and 19th century in Congo Square near today’s French Quarter is considered to be a source of today’s black Mardi Gras Indians. Some historians also credit the arrival of Wild West shows in the city of New Orleans in the 1880s as a source of cultural representation.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/52f8b145db69c12554364b72c6ca6a1bced1a33e/original/image-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span>"Membership in a Mardi Gras Indian tribe is voluntary and based on social networking rather than birthright. Tribes are organized with very specific roles for each member, following a system begun by early tribes such as the Creole Wild West and Yellow Pocahontas. The big chief is the tribal leader, often assisted by second chiefs and queens. The spy boy marches several blocks in front of the chiefs and queens, seeking out other tribes. He relays directions to the flag boy, who notifies the chief by waving a flag or stick. When tribes meet, the wild man clears a path among the onlookers so the chiefs can face off. Changes in the tribe membership often lead to changes in these positions, but the hierarchy of the tribal organization—akin to a military unit—is strictly maintained. Matters of any significance fall under the authority of the chief. </span></span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Fraternity within the tribe and competitiveness with other tribes characterize Mardi Gras Indian culture. The Indian embodies a particularly masculine representation of fierceness that has historically relegated women to supporting roles; there are few queens, and men virtually always fill the other ranks. In this way, the big chief and other tribe members correspond both to the figure of the Native American who <i>won’t bow, won’t kneel</i> in the face of adversity, as well as the protagonists of African-American songs and stories of “big men” such as John Henry and bad men such as Stagger Lee. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The language of the Mardi Gras Indians is the most elusive and mysterious aspect of the culture. Made up of English and French as well as invented words, the speaking and singing of the Indians is a form of verbal art that resists precise translation but is widely understood by Indians. In many Indian songs, <i>hoo na nae</i> is synonymous with the phrase let’s go get ‘em,”while the meaning of the frequently heard refrain <i>tuway pockyway</i> is entirely dependent on the context. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The songs of the Mardi Gras Indians are the most popular and accessible aspect of the culture. At Indian gatherings, songs are arranged in call-and-response fashion, with the chief improvising a solo vocal and the tribe responding with a repeated chant: shallow water oh mama! big chief got a golden crown! A second line (an informal parade) of percussionists accompanies the chants with tambourines, cowbells, and found objects such as beer bottles.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Popular chants have also become the basis for rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and hip-hop recordings, including James Sugarboy Crawford’s 1954 rhythm and blues recording of <i>Jockomo</i>. The music and spectacle of the Indians has also spawned tribute songs, such as Earl King’s <i>Big Chief</i>, popularized by pianist Professor Longhair in a 1964 recording." (64parishes.org)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7kqR8jLu07M" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7kqR8jLu07M?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JOCK-A-MO : JAMES SUGAR BOY CRAWFORD</span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="JjZ0RgxtLvY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JjZ0RgxtLvY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - BIG CHIEF PART 2 FEATURING EARL KING ON VOCALS</span></h2><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The most popular song associated with the black Indians of New Orleans is Big Chief. Written by the late New Orleans guitarist-composer Earl King, also the originator of the Mardi Gras anthem Street Parade, the song was first recorded in 1964 for Watch Records. The session included Mac Rebennack, who later became known as Dr. John, on guitar and Professor Longhair on piano. King whistles and handles the vocals on Big Chief Part 2 (“Me big chief me got ’em tribe/got my spy boy by my side”), considered to be the session’s definitive version.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hDuEly52p7Q" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hDuEly52p7Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE GOLDEN EAGLES FEATURING MONK BOUDREAUX </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">LIVE @ THE H&R BAR IN NEW ORLEANS</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e062730e5acb7a445fb652644419a8ec3b2ebf6d/original/image-4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">“Historical records suggest that blacks were dressing up as Indians to celebrate Mardi Gras as early as 1746. Intermingling of the two races soon led to a boom in mulatto babies. Some of these Creoles even used their costumes to sneak into the secret society Mardi Gras balls. This development ultimately prompted the Spanish government that ran New Orleans at the time to ban them from wearing masks. So instead they stuck to the black neighborhoods around Congo Square. That is, until the 1811 slave revolt led to a complete ban on all gatherings by people of color, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free men. In 1866, after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of former slaves joined the U.S. Army’s 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments. These were established by the United States Congress as the first all-black regiments to serve during times of peace. Approximately 50 to 60 Plains Indians marched on the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 1885, all of them wearing traditional costumes. Some historians suggest that the first Mardi Gras Indian gang– “Creole Wild West”– was formed later that year, but CWW members suggest their origins date back to the early 1800s.” (green globe travel site)</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/49cf82dd36b129c7271535834190bda2417b5f38/original/mardi-gras-indians.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The Mardi Gras Indian tradition remained largely underground for decades, dividing geographically into loosely organized gangs (now known as tribes). They would secretly gather to sing and chant in the ancient tribal tradition. They worked all year long to create colorful suits bedecked with intricate hand beading, false gems and decorative feathers. They would also craft matching accessories such as staffs, shields, and tribal flags. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="OjXO8JKEB08" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OjXO8JKEB08?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">TO-WA-BAC-A-WAY - THE INDIAN RACE</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MARDI GRAS INDIANS WITH JOE DEGRAIT</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">On Mardi Gras day, the police were often kept busy protecting the tourist-focused French Quarter, so the Mardi Gras Indians would take to the streets of their neighborhoods to strut their stuff and honor the Indians who had helped them obtain their freedom. When they met with a rival tribe, some reports suggest that it often led to violence, with stabbings and shootings relatively common. But other Mardi Gras Indian historians (including Cherice Harrison-Nelson, founder of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame) argue that these reports of violence were greatly exaggerated.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CNbhyac_cXI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CNbhyac_cXI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BIG CHIEF TOOTIE MONTANA</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Allison "Tootie" Montana was born December 16, 1922, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Alfred Montana, was a baker. He served as Big Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian tribe from the 1920s until 1941,when World War II forced the cancellation of the carnival. After the war, Tootie began masking with the Eighth Ward Hunters, and in 1947 he became Big Chief of the Monogram Hunters, a tribe he founded with some friends. In 1956, Montana married Joyce Francis, who never masked herself, but who has helped Tootie make his costumes, which might cost several hundred, and even thousands, of dollars to make.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="K5GzVZjd0iI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K5GzVZjd0iI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE DIXIE CUPS - IKO IKO</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The Mardi Gras Indians first entered American pop culture consciousness in 1965. That’s when New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups had a hit with Iko Iko (a cover of 1953’s Jock-A-Mo, by Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters). The lyrics described a quintessential collision between two tribes, who exchange taunting chants: "<i>My flag boy and your flag boy were sittin’ by the fire. My flag boy told your flag boy, ‘I’m gonna set your flag on fire...</i>"</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b1409f642fb67d9bf89c98ae76de1745dd912fce/original/1970s-indian-chiefs.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Powerful Big Chiefs such as including Bo Dollis (Wild Magnolias), Donald Harrison Sr. (Guardians of the Flame), and Tootie Montana (Yellow Pocahontas) came together in the ’70s and put an end to the violence. Together, they moved this iconic African-American tradition into the New Orleans mainstream. </span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Few in the ghetto felt they could ever participate in the typical New Orleans parade. Historically, slavery and racism were at the root of this cultural separation. The black neighborhoods in New Orleans gradually developed their own style of celebrating Mardi Gras. Their krewes are named for imaginary Indian tribes according to the streets of their ward or gang. The Mardi Gras Indians named themselves after native Indians to pay them respect for their assistance in escaping the tyranny of slavery. It was often local Indians who accepted slaves into their society when they made a break for freedom. They have never forgotten this support. In the past, Mardi Gras was a violent day for many Mardi Gras Indians. It was a day often used to settle scores. The police were often unable to intervene due to the general confusion surrounding Mardi Gras events in the city, when the streets were crowded and everyone was masked. This kept many families away from the parade, and created much worry and concern for a mothers whose children wanted to join the Indians.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b0841a151c0ea58dd8c1ec1fec575b8e12102e45/original/indians-meeting.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Today, when two Mardi Gras Indian tribes pass one another, you will see a living theater of art and culture. Each tribe's style and dress is on display in a friendly but competitive manner. They compare one another's art and craftsmanship. The Big Chiefs of two different tribes start with a song/chant, ceremonial dance, and threatening challenge to Humba. The Big Chief's demand that the other Chief bows and pays respect. The retort is a whoop and equally impressive song and war dance with the reply, <i>Me no Humba, YOU Humba</i>!</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The good news is Mardi Gras day is no longer a day to settle scores among the Mardi Gras Indians. Now that the tradition and practice for the Indians to compare their tribal song, dance and dress with other tribes as they meet that day, violence is a thing of the past. The Mardi Gras Indian has invested thousands of hours and dollars in the creation of his suit, and will not run the risk of ruining it in a fight. This tradition, rich with folk art and history, is now appreciated by museums and historical societies around the world. It is a remarkable and welcome change from the past.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yZZezmDYZgE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yZZezmDYZgE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MARDI GRAS INDIAN BATTLE ON ST. CLAUDE AVENUE</span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bx-zYRyIjfA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bx-zYRyIjfA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE GOLDEN EAGLES ON MARDI GRAS DAY</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MARDI GRAS INDIAN CULTURE</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b7686156779ba3a4d2d53925d7f5273ccfa0c6b9/original/indian-culture-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b868ea591f5a284b714c674b1ed4752fde78fe08/original/indian-culture-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/cf3e88ccaa3522b032519164fcdd508858c740b9/original/indian-culture-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="yvkhKCZ75wo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yvkhKCZ75wo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans celebrate</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">St. Joseph's Night in elaborate costumes</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">From the Folklife in Louisiana site: "The honor of being an Indian Chief carries with it many responsibilities. Time and money must be spent throughout the entire year creating and painstakingly sewing together the costumes. Naturally, the Chief must have the most beautiful and most elaborate outfit in his group. He is in competition with other tribes to out-dress their Chiefs. He must also command the respect of his tribesmen, teaching them to follow his commands, so that their dancing and singing is as sharp as it can be. He must motivate them to participate in long practice sessions and help them to design their own costumes. Additionally, the Chief represents his community at various functions throughout the year...The art of sewing Indian costumes, as well as accompanying cultural tradition was passed on to Charles by his uncle, who undoubtedly devoted many painstaking hours towards teaching the intricate and detailed craft. This art is complicated and involves special tools and special knowledge which can only be taught by someone who has been involved in the tradition for many years. Pride is an important aspect of the Mardi Gras Indian culture--pride in a job well done, in one's own creation, and in one's own heritage. Charles has expressed his joy in being able to pass on this information '<i>so that the younger generation will understand and be proud of their history. Even though they are poor in other ways, they can be rich in pride for being able to create something so wonderful as a Mardi Gras Indian costume, which embodies art, culture, and history</i>.' </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">With names like <i>Creole Wild West</i>, <i>Yellow Pocahontas</i> and <i>Wild Magnolias</i>, the Indian men and families work for months to sew elaborately-colored bead and feather “suits” that are shared traditions of creativity drawn from images of Plains Indians hunting, making war, riding horses or other pursuits. Many of those who “mask Indian” also design and sew highly individual works that may come to them in dreams. In spite of the term, very few Mardi Gras Indians actually wear masks, though many paint their faces and use long hair, braided wigs. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Each tribe is divided into a hierarchy with a Big Chief at the top, and various supporting second chiefs, queens, and princesses. Special roles are taken by a spy boy who keeps a lookout for other gangs of Indians and a wildman who may clear a path in the crowded street between tribes so that the chiefs may meet to face-off in ritual dances and chants that demonstrate power and demand respect. Historically this could lead to violence, but in recent decades, under the leadership of the late chief Allison ‘Tootie’ Montana, the chiefs and tribal members have moved toward competing with their costumes, song and dance <i>to be the prettiest</i>.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/256fcd6b6cb8f4d7f6cc7eaa1f414c547e8c47b1/original/big-chief-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Each chief is expected to be a good singer capable of improvising songs over a dense rhythm section of bass drums, tambourines and various bottles, sticks and bells. The words may comment on his prowess and the day’s activities with the full tribe and followers in backing chorus. One song, <i>Sew, Sew, Sew</i>, describes the work of the men preparing costumes; another, <i>My Big Chief Got a Golden Crown</i>, offers praise to the leader; <i>Indian Red</i> is a hymn-like song of prayer to the Native spirits assembled in a clubhouse or home at the start of an Indian practice or parade. Words of some songs and street commands like <i>J’a q’ mo fille na-nay</i> or <i>Tu way pas qui-way</i> show of mix of French Creole and secret group language that defies direct translation.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/af7611bf03f01c61f81c491c158a6c09b2d1c8d7/original/mg-coconut.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="JOIN OUR MAILING LIST"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JOIN OUR MAILING LIST</span></a></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2be59bf6d5d1a34dc5db177ce69c857e77e99b7f/original/big-chief-monk-boudreaux.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX</span></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The Mardi Gras Indians who walk and dance in the streets of New Orleans have often received less attention than Zulu, the famed African American parody-filled float parade, or elite white Uptown krewes like Rex and Proteus with their originally mule drawn wagons of elaborate papier-maché theme floats. However, the black Indians have also come to signify African roots and communal power in a city where class disparities based on race have been profound. Famed Indian chiefs like Monk Boudreaux, Bo Dollis and the late Donald Harrison Sr. became better known in annual New Orleans Jazz Festival appearances, sound recordings and international touring. In the immediate post-Katrina flood period (2005), Mardi Gras Indians famously returned early to their ritual and festival ways and were viewed as emblematic of the will of black New Orleanians to return to and rebuild their distressed city in articles from the local Times-Picayune newspaper to the New York Times. At today’s Carnival in New Orleans the Mardi Gras Indians continue their pomp and pride-filled march through the 21st Century.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="P00axcsvmds" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P00axcsvmds?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Big Chief Monk Boudreaux</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85e4307daec7ab1b69f051e9cb6e458742b200e2/original/big-chief-assembly.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">From the neworleans.com site: “Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.”</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Esv7RV3jDbc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Esv7RV3jDbc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">A Mardi Gras Indian Remembers The Early Years Of Parading</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e8383fc589e47cc800519607334c2dc32375f4b/original/indian-sketch.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1cyfA7EoNGs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1cyfA7EoNGs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Handa Wanda</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indian Band</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;">In 1971, Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias were the first Indians to make a commercial recording of their own music, using a group of funk musicians to arrange Dollis’s Handa Wanda. Under the musical direction of pianist, composer, and arranger Wilson Turbinton (Willie Tee), the Wild Magnolias recorded two LPs in the early 1970s and toured the United States and France.</h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9da0d593b8d7d68245ac78ddace52c96ad177d97/original/wild-tchoupitoulas-album-1976.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Mardi Gras Indian music was given a sizable boost in 1976 when the Wild Tchoupitoulas tribe recorded an album, titled Wild Tchoupitoulas, with arrangements by the city’s acclaimed funk group, The Meters. On the record and in performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, lead vocalist Joseph Landry (Chief Jolly) was accompanied by his nephews, the Neville Brothers. Like Willie Tee, the Nevilles—Art, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril Neville—grew up listening to the Indians on Mardi Gras Day.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="YvMofiuaW98" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YvMofiuaW98?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE WILD TCHOUPITOULAS</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ea213431da734e91166a1aad42b3fe630f6673a/original/wild-magnolias-new-suit.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Music composed for these recordings, such as the Magnolias’ New Suit in 1975 and the Wild Tchoupitoulas’ Meet De Boys on the Battlefront, released the next year, now stand alongside Big Chief and Iko, Iko as the most prominent and durable signs of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Musical recordings and staged performances brought extraordinary recognition to what had been a relatively obscure and even secretive community practice, attracting a much larger public to the tradition of masking and chanting. The increased attendance at Indian parades on Mardi Gras Day and especially the proliferation of official cultural presentations—museum exhibitions of costumes, Indian parades at local festivals, concert performances of traditional chanting—owe much to the ongoing popularity of Indian music.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EMFLPTKTq8g" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EMFLPTKTq8g?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">The WIld Magnolias - New Suit</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f21c1b58344fd498e07be760364219eb61c655d2/original/mg-indians-rehearsal-in-local-bar.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Mardi Gras Indians @ Rehearsal in a local bar</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">"The Indians also gather together on Sunday afternoons for what they call <i>Indian Rehearsals</i>. At the rehearsals they sing Mardi Gras Indian songs, dance, and fellowship. This may be seen as a modern-day extension of festivities held by blacks on Sunday afternoon in Congo Square, New Orleans, many years ago. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Mardi Gras Indians are a prominent and vital thread in the tapestry of local culture. Once seen only on Mardi Gras day and St. Joseph’s Day night by a select few, today the Indian has become a fixture at events all over the city and throughout the year. “Super Sunday” has become a popular springtime outing for a diverse crowd of spectators who come to see the tribes in three neighborhoods: Uptown, Downtown, and the West Bank. At the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, tribes parade through the fairgrounds and appear onstage. Chiefs such as musician Donald Harrison Jr. and the late plasterer, Tootie Montana, became respected public figures and voices of the community through their Indian-related activities. And new tribes have continued to form even after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, demonstrating the vitality of this cherished local tradition." (64parishes.org)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="48Vp370bkOs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/48Vp370bkOs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians: Shallow Water O Mama</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fbdb140f63fa2699cd73bdafc4c4f111d07fb55b/original/mg-indians-jazz-fest.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Mardi Gras Indians performing at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival</h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/36c6835450def9117aa934fc3669ed6d12a191de/original/dr-john-full-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Dr. John - Going Back To New Orleans</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">"Having cut an album of standards on his first Warner Brothers album, In a Sentimental (1989), Dr. John turned for its follow-up to a collection of New Orleans standards. On an album he described in the liner notes as "a little history of New Orleans music," Dr. John returned to his hometown and set up shop at local Ultrasonic Studios, inviting in such local musicians as Pete Fountain, Al Hirst and the Neville Brothers and addressing the music and styles of such local legends as Jelly Roll Morton, Huey “Piano” Smith, Fats Domino, James Booker and Professor Longhair. The geography may have been circumscribed, but the stylistic range was extensive, from jazz and blues to folk and rock. And it was all played with festive conviction -- Dr. John is the perfect archivist for the music, being one of its primary proponents, yet he had never addressed it quite as directly as he did here." (All Music)</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GgDZ4ks7y-k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GgDZ4ks7y-k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/32fe1168094e853d62319fe3d482cd1b62472868/original/jp-thanksgiving.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">I'll close out my Mardi Gras Indian blog post </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">with this unique recording</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="i6U5JcS-Pao" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i6U5JcS-Pao?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">SHOO FLY</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Bo Dollis, Monk Boudreaux, Kermit Ruffins &The Rebirth Brass Band</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d38dd0da96814889e51d65b3f2ba1850070a6314/original/our-good-friend-jim.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Our good friend Jim sez </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Join our</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"> <a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" contents="MAILING LIST "><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MAILING LIST</span></a><span style="color:#f1c40f;"> </span>
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</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">& enjoy some Mardi Gras Sounds!</h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3a2d3cee0a7e1b9d6a247c43d3e8dd3d87e2d722/original/record-store-regular.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG" contents="Return To All Blog Posts"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71528622023-02-14T09:43:36-05:002023-02-15T03:48:21-05:00Celebrating Valentine's Day @ the start of our Mardi Gras Week!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/3e43b91f1df3711d3684c1c4ff0d0164462e5cf0/original/mg-valentines-day.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">We're kicking off Mardi Gras Week with a celebration of Valentine's Day! </span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Yeah You Rite!</span></h2><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/371cf6a1c433f34987e72c1ab263e37e7d79be22/original/set-list-gold.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><hr><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/cb2daf117aac4daf18bd6f09beafa4c881bdd255/original/if-ever-i-cease-to-love-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">IF EVER I CEASE TO LOVE</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In a house, in a square</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In a quadrant,</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In a street, in a lane,</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In a road.</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">Turn to the left</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">On the right hand---</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">You see there my true Love's abode.</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">I go there a' courting</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">And cooing to my love like a dove</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">And swearing on my bended knees,</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">If I Ever Cease To Love,</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">May The Sheepheads Grow on Apple Trees</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">If Ever I Cease To Love</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">CHORUS:</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">If Ever I Cease To Love</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">If Ever I Cease To Love</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">May the moon be turned to cream cheese</span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">If Ever I Cease To Love</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">"<strong>If Ever I Cease to Love</strong>" is a music hall song published by the English Lion comique George Leybourne, who was popular in the Victorian music venues, in 1871. It has been performed by several musical artists and theatrical entertainers, including Lydia Thompson, who featured the song in her traveling operetta <i>Bluebeard</i>. Though Leybourne is best known for his composition “The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze”, the comedic lyrical content and catchy melody of "If Ever I Cease to Love" became a popular song in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season. Since the first King Rex parade in 1872, the song has been ceremoniously played to the Krewe's figurehead, Rex, who bears the title "King of Carnival" in New Orleans.</span></h2><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In 1872, the School of Design selected "If Ever I Cease to Love" as the royal anthem to be played for their appointed monarch, Rex, a position which is considered to be one of the highest honors in the City of New Orleans (a different individual is selected every year to reign as Rex and bear the title "King of Carnival" for that year's festivities). Already, the composition was in popular demand among the city's populace for its lighthearted premise, and interpretations by several songwriters.</span></h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="B96K8qd4QR4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B96K8qd4QR4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;">Here's some other Mardi Gras love songs</h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/63276eab3f45b5b7e9e203563a89533aac41d692/original/dr-john-careless-love.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="486A57qqqys" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/486A57qqqys?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/5e21aa017ba84ce2434ea820ce46027b652114bd/original/allen-toussaint.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-P9b4AEypzM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-P9b4AEypzM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2b53bc9598f04971189dedcda95a04d05bf3cad1/original/beau-jocque.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;">BEAU JOCQUE & THE ZYDECO HI ROLERS - I'M A GIRL WATCHER</h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="1EAzspUDekA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1EAzspUDekA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/2d6caf6b83af111e1a37845fc438902c8145a83e/original/new-orleans-nightcrawlers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;">NEW ORLEANS NIGHTCRAWLERS - FUNKY LISA</h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dnfVQzVA1Mw" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnfVQzVA1Mw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/d40ad7e82f41dd89885f19382f3f373578f7deb0/original/danny-barker.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><h2 style="text-align:center;">DANNY BARKER</h2><h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ebd007;">In 1972 Danny Barker established a youth music program at New Orleans’ Fairview Baptist Church. 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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Though Mardi Gras Day aka Fat Tuesday isn’t until February 21, 2023, the season actually began on January 6. This means that there’s plenty of time for some Mardi Gras magic with parades and king cake tastings, Carnival exhibits and so much more. People flock to New Orleans in the week leading up to Fat Tuesday, but there’s so much more to experience by coming early. In fact, it may be the best kept secret: visit New Orleans this January or early February, and you’re in for a cool treat!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Some of the best Mardi Gras parades take place well before Fat Tuesday. There’s the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus, a walking parade perfect for science fiction fans and creative minds, on January 28. Or you could check out the adults-only Krewe du Vieux, a raunchy, satirical, and irreverent French Quarter favorite, on February 4. The family-friendly, all-female Krewe of Nefertiti rolls on January 29. Then there’s the adorable miniature floats of ‘tit Rəx on February 5. Find the full parade schedule here, and plan to catch these can’t-miss, early-in-the-season parades.</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE COLORS OF MARDI GRAS</span></span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"Every year during Carnival season the question is raised about the significance of the Carnival colors. The true answer has most often been blocked with misinformation. Liberating the truth first raises the question, are we talking about the meaning of the colors purple, green and gold or the origin of the colors? The truth is the meaning can be anything. Through a fluke, Rex, which first proclaimed the colors in 1872 but did not attach a meaning, settled in 1892 for justice, faith and power – 50 year after the colors were announced. Rex borrowed from an earlier parade assigning a meaning to the rainbow of colors, but those were just words from various color association books. They really didn’t mean anything that is significant. Why not borrow from the Louisiana motto of Union, Justice and Confidence? Or from the Boy Scouts’ Trustworthy, Loyal and Helpful? Or in honor of Donald Duck’s nephews; Huey, Dewey and Louie.</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">On the other hand, if the question is about the origin of the colors you get into some meaningful history. This history provides insight into the minds of the well-educated that were the 19th century men who founded Rex. Disregard what you might have read on king cake boxes or from unknowing websites and publications. Here is the truth, and you need to understand it to appreciate the New Orleans Carnival’s evolution.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The key word here, and a word that has been missing from attempts to solve the colors’ origin, is <em>heraldry</em>. The explanation of it has a few twists, so hang on tight. Dating as far back as the 15th century, the rules of heraldry governed the colors of coats of arms and, hence, flags and banners. In1872, the founding men of Rex, educated and steeped in the romanticism of monarchy, would have been familiar and respectful of heraldry. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">According to heraldry, the “fields” in a heraldic device, such as a flag or banner, should consist of “metals” and “colors.” The metals are either silver, represented by white, or gold. Indeed, every national tricolor has either white or gold. So then for one of Rex’s choices the selection was narrowed to two. Should the metal be gold or should it be white? The choice of gold for royalty seemed obvious.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the days preceding the first Rex parade when the Royal edicts were published, the field, as first mentioned in Edict XII, were stated as being, in this order, <em>green, gold, and purple</em>. Over time the order of the colors would be changed in popular verbal usage, yet when Rex first pronounced them they were in perfect heraldic order. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">(The combination of colors does have the extra benefit of looking good together but that is not the reason they were selected. Practically all tricolor symbols with their metal of gold or silver in the center look good together; i.e. red, white and blue.)" (New Orleans Magazine)</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MARDI GRAS MASKS</span></span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"Masks and costumes have been associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations for centuries. And even today of the masks commonly seen in New Orleans on Mardi Gras are the same types popularized by the two-to-three-week-long Carnivale in Venice that culminates with Fat Tuesday. But masking and costume-wearing in New Orleans also has a specifically American history, as it was another way for revelers who were officially excluded from the festivities to join in, by concealing their identities. This phenomenon was particularly pronounced during the Jim Crow era of the early 20th century. For example, the African-American men now known as Mardi Gras Indians first paraded down the city’s back streets in Native American costumes, in a nod to Native Americans who took in and protected runaway slaves. Another poignant example, the breaking of the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition, can be found in the African-American prostitutes who dressed up as Baby Dolls — a persona chosen because that’s what male clients called them — in hopes that the costumes would help them land work at a time when sex work was racially restricted. Legend has it that the custom of throwing Mardi Gras beads from parade floats started sometime in the 1880s when a man dressed like Santa Claus was cheered when he tossed some beads into the crowds along the parade route. In short order, other Carnival Krewes adopted this popular Mardi Gras tradition. The throwing of beads and fake jewels, from parade floats to those watching down below, is thought to have started in the late 19th century, when a carnival king threw fake strands of gems and rings to his “loyal subjects” sometime in the 1890s. By the early 1920s, one of the Krewes, probably Rex, started regularly throwing strands of glass Czech beads, a precursor to the plastic beads seen today. Other throws — such as doubloons marked with the names of the krewes that make them — followed after." (The Culture of Mardi Gras)</h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MARDI GRAS BEADS</span></span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">“Though there’s some debate over the extent to which ancient beads are evidence of advanced syntactical language, the cross-cultural importance of beads goes so far back that much of its meaning has been lost to time. Since antiquity, humans have used beads to reflect cultural identity and social status. Fast forward to today—and today, specifically, being Mardi Gras—and New Orleans is arguably the planet’s most bead-drenched city. (The environmental implications, it seems, are no match for tradition. Mardi Gras has been called the season of madness in New Orleans. The ritual of Mardi Gras has survived Hurricane Katrina, Prohibition, and the Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that. The earliest Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, an import from France, date back to the 17th century. The first krewe, the local term to describe the clubs that organize Mardi Gras festivities, was founded in 1858. By around 1870, krewes were throwing trinkets, baubles, and candies to crowds during parades. A decade later, they were throwing medallions. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Beads occupy a paradoxical space at today’s Mardi Gras celebrations. They can be both the centerpiece of festivities and the trimming. They’re prized objects, and yet many strands of beads—or pairs, to use the proper New Orleans lingo—are discarded, metallic snakes left curled in gutters. They’re simultaneously coveted and cast aside. Strands have become longer, in general. Machine-made beads largely replaced hand-strung beads. Glass was replaced with plastic. Opaque plastic medallions gave way to transparent plastic ones. Medallions gradually got bigger and bigger. Most recently, beaded strands for medallions have been swapped out for satin cords. These details all factor into a deeper understanding of a celebration that’s, for all its lunacy, much more complex than it may appear. Mardi Gras beads, to the uninitiated, are just chintzy party favors doomed for the landfill. But they’re also a link to the past, a symbol of a celebration that’s been going on for as long as recorded history.” (The Atlantic)</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">"An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans." — Mark Twain <br>"There's no place like New Orleans." — Harry Connick Jr. <br>"You can live in any city in America, but New Orleans is the only city that lives in you." — Chris Rose <br>"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ― Helen Keller <br>“New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse.” — Harry Connick, Jr. <br>“There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.” — Bob Dylan <br>"New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture — even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner." — Unknown</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For me, Mardi Gras is always a special time. When I was a kid I lived in New Orleans in the early 1960's. I got to go my first Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1963 and after that I was never the same!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Within a short amount of time I simply became entranced by the city of New Orleans, it's music, it's food and it's culture. For me, there was no going back...New Orleans became a magical place that has always played a big part in my life over the years.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As I grew up and became a musician, I fell under the spell of New Orleans music. In particular, the sounds of Professor Longhair & Dr. John.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Later on, my love for New Orleans was enhanced when I became a Chef and worked with my wife, Sweet Loretta, in our Cajun / Creole restaurants over the years.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">...and so here I am once again</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">as I find myself totally captivated by Mardi Gras!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">If you're a fan of The Hideaways, be sure to check out THE HAYMAKERS!</span></h3>
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<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71437372023-01-26T07:59:37-05:002023-02-11T12:52:11-05:00Remembering My First Gig<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/70497c0b340384131bef80e67712554ca90be9ad/original/my-first-gig-image-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Johnny Pierre circa 1966 Verdun, France</h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">I remember my first gig as if it took place yesterday. In October of 1966. I was 15 years old and playing in a trio that went by the name of US (the name had something to do with our high regard for such cool band names as Them and The Who). At the time, my family was living in Verdun, France because my Dad, an Army doctor, had been stationed overseas. </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/ea0c21d68792b644b719cf3f88eeaf8c10da813d/original/my-first-gig-image-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">My Mom had gotten involved with the church choir and through her connections, I had managed to wrangle a gig at a Catholic Parish Supper which was held in a small party room at the Officer's Club on the Army base on October 9, 1966. The crowd at this gig was a mix of parents, priests, nuns and assorted military personnel. We were hired to be the after-dinner entertainment. </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6133758e8a90e4512f7f4db0125a926c910ff088/original/telefunken-hi-fi-1966.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Our PA set up was pretty crude. Basically, we did not own any actual amplifiers for our instruments so we pumped 2 guitars, a bass and a vocal mike thru my Dad’s old Telefunken hi-fi set up. This produced a wall of distortion which, at the time, we thought was what a real rock & roll band was supposed to sound like. </h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Our first song was a 5 minute "jam" on the rock classic, <i>Little Latin Lupe Lu</i> : "<i>Talkin 'bout my baby...Little Latin Lupe Lu...she's a hot footin baby....there ain't no dance she couldn't do...she's my groovy little baby...Little Latin Lupe Lu</i>" </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/030d06b9a6ee07c45f227d5b01ab22359d9c582f/original/my-young-singing-style.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">As I recall, my vocal style back in those days consisted of a high pitched hysterical screech which was accented with the occasional barking sound. To those in the audience, it was immediately obvious that our band's musical enthusiasm outweighed any actual talent we might have possessed at the time. We did not dwell on our meager talents as we played our hearts out. Of course, it was a dream come true to find ourselves playing rock & roll in front of a real crowd of people. Never mind the fact that the look on the faces in the crowd seemed to give forth the expression, "<i>Who hired these guys?!</i>"</h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">
<br><i><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/853961a9a8ccbe43b550ed02470d12bc9f2fb4f6/original/smoke.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></i>After <i>Latin Lupe Lu</i>, in an unintentional homage to The Who, a thin trail of white smoke began drifting out of the hi-fi speaker. The audience was looking at each other nervously. "<i>Is this part of the act?</i>!" </h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Seeing as the crowd was getting restless, we quickly launched into a 10-minute version of the Van Morrison / Them classic, <i>Gloria. </i>Suddenly, my vocals reached a new height of caterwauling: "<i>G-L-O-R-I-A! Glooooooria!</i>" Thrashing electric guitars and my yelping vocals filled the tiny party room. A waiter dropped a whole tray of drinks onto a table of nuns. </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/854292f37d17c67b86e2019c9d766ffd725170ab/original/a-priest-making-a-sign-of-the-cross.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;">Glancing around the room, I suddenly noticed a priest making the sign of the cross!</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/eaf4a94ba6ea4b6d5533a394deb152ad1467d65f/original/image-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3>As the song <i>Gloria</i> crashed to an end, a fire alarm began to go off in the hallway just outside the party room. <i>Whoo Whoo Whoo</i>! <i>Whoo Whoo Whoo</i>! There was much running about by various officials and two firemen who happened to be attending this event. By this point the stunned audience looked as if we had taken to smacking the back of their heads with ballpeen hammers. </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d502e012826bfbbceac6e17fe1e18914cd016872/original/speaker-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Before we could dive into our third and final song, the master of ceremonies grabbed the microphone and said, "<i>Ok everybody, how about a big hand for these very gifted young musicians!</i>" Gadzooks! I'm pretty sure some of the folks who were there are still talking about how bad we were. Hell, ya gotta start somewhere, right? </h3><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/79e72d18bb0e4e78f8ba26e0cc8930ae1a00a9e7/original/ham-monster-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Looking back on this time of my life now, I remember how big an impact this one event had on my psyche. My alter ego, aka <i>The Ham Monster</i>, had been let out of its cage! From this point on in my life, I would consider myself to be a real musician.</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"> </h3><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7783b5272010f35bad5379b538d8d17413323b5c/original/no-live-music-allowed.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:justify;">Shortly after this gig, all live music was suspended from all future Parish Suppers. Imagine that!</h3><p> </p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/80371e17a33fb6a1aec495c7e0622d827040ec41/original/join-our-mailing-list-dont-be-a-stranger.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3390d5faaf68a01d1ce638809f57736729574e93/original/msr-large-on-black.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e6bf6e9b85bc00981f88bdd0c9427de6cb88c03/original/jp-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;">Move ahead, don't get left behind...Rock & Roll is a State of Mind!</h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1039646/rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></a></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://johnnypierremusic.bandcamp.com/album/rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BANDCAMP</span></a></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind/1455435143" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">APPLE MUSIC</span></a></h3><hr><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="/blog" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="BLOG"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Return To All Blog Posts</span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71410632023-01-25T06:13:34-05:002023-01-25T13:15:05-05:00Remembering David Crosby<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a56b60c6aeb46adb1ba51c4208e4974d8b6a679c/original/crosby-the-voyager.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Just the other day, I woke up to the news that Singer-songwriter David Crosby, a founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, passed away at the age of 81. Looking back at Crosby's overall career, I guess the best description of his career would be to describe him as a genuine idiosyncratic musical artist.</h3>
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<span class="font_regular">From The Guardian: "B</span>y all accounts, including his own, David Crosby could be a tricky and difficult character. His career was regularly punctuated by angry arguments, bitter fallings-out, sackings, general discord. Joni Mitchell once waspishly suggested he was '<em>a human-hate</em>r'. His former bandmate Roger McGuinn described his behavior while a member of the Byrds as that of a '<em>little Hitler</em>'. Perhaps the best way to describe him was mercurial. He could be utterly charming and mischievously funny – fans gave him the affectionate nickname the Old Grey Cat – and incredibly generous to other musicians: Mitchell, among others, owed him a great deal. He could also be impossible: overbearing, mouthy, convinced of his own brilliance."</h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">David Crosby Quotes</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">“I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.”</h3>
<h3>“I produced Joni Mitchell's first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!”</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">“CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.”</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">“The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?”</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">“Bob Dylan told me that to be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed. Not necessarily violent and ugly, just unfriendly and distracted. You’re self-sufficient and you stay focused.”</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them."</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">“Don’t waste time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power – it’s time.”</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">1962: Crosby in Les Baxter's Balladeers</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">In 1962, Crosby ended up pursuing a career in music after dropping out of college. Crosby managed to become a member of Les Baxter's Balladeers.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Jet Set circa 1964</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">After leaving New York city, Crosby ended up in Chicago where he hung out with one of his music friends, Terry Callier, who knew multi-instrumentalist, Jim McGuinn. Callier introduced McGuinn to Crosby. Crosby joined Jim McGuinn (who later changed his name to Roger McGuinn), and Gene Clark, who were then named <em>The</em> <em>Jet Set</em>.</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Eventually, the members of <em>The Jet Set</em> were augmented by drummer Michael Clarke, at which point Crosby attempted, unsuccessfully, to play bass. Late in 1964, Chris Hillman joined as bassist, and Crosby ended up relieving Gene Clark of his rhythm guitar duties. At some point The Jet Set changed the band's name to <em>The Byrds</em>.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d3348801f835ae484d3a6adae8ebeac86b8ade4b/original/the-byrds-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The Byrds</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Through connections that Jim Dickson (The Byrds' manager) had with Bob Dylan's music publisher, the band obtained a demo acetate disc of Dylan's <em>Mr. Tambourine Man</em> and recorded a version of the song, featuring McGuinn's twelve-string guitar as well as McGuinn, Crosby, and Clark's vocal harmonizing. The song turned into a massive hit, reaching No. 1 in the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom during 1965. While McGuinn originated The Byrds' trademark 12-string guitar sound, Crosby was responsible for the soaring harmonies and often unusual phrasing of their songs, but while he did not sing lead vocals on either of the first two albums, he sang lead on the bridge in their second single <em>All I Really Want to Do</em>.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gene Clark</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">In 1966, Gene Clark, who then was the band's primary songwriter, left the Byrds because of stress and this placed all the group's songwriting responsibilities in the hands of McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman. Crosby took the opportunity to develop his songwriting craft and soon became a relatively prolific songwriter, collaborating with McGuinn on the up-tempo <em>I See You</em> (covered by the band Yes on their 1969 debut). His early Byrds efforts also included the 1966 hit <em>Eight Miles High</em> (to which he contributed one line, while Clark and McGuinn wrote the rest), and its flip side <em>Why,</em> which was co-written with McGuinn.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">David Crosby circa 1967</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By 1967, when the band created the album, <em>Younger Than Yesterday</em>, Crosby became one of the main songwriters in the Byrds as he began to find his trademark style on songs such as <em>Renaissance Fair</em> (co-written with McGuinn) and <em>Mind Gardens</em>. The album also contained a rerecording of <em>Why</em> and <em>Everybody's Been Burned</em>, a jazzy torch song from Crosby's pre-Byrds repertoire that was initially demoed in 1963.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby with the Byrds @ Monterey Pop</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby, who was becoming an agitator towards his fellow Byrds, was soon to be thrown out of the band. Friction between Crosby and the other Byrds came to a head in mid-1967. Tensions were high after the <a contents="Monterey International Pop Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog/blog/rock-geography-monterey-pop-festival-1967"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Monterey International Pop Festival</span></a> in June when Crosby's onstage political diatribes and support of various John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories between songs elicited rancor from McGuinn and Hillman. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby continued to be a troublemaker who further annoyed his bandmates when, at the invitation of Stephen Stills, he substituted at the Monterey Pop Festival for an absent Neil Young during Buffalo Springfield's set the following night. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The internal conflict boiled over during the initial recording sessions for <em>The Notorious Byrd Brothers</em> (1968) that summer, where differences over song selections led to intra-band arguments. In particular, Crosby was adamant that the band should record only original material despite the recent commercial failure of <em>Lady Friend</em>, a Crosby-penned single that stalled at No. 82 on the American charts following its release in July. McGuinn and Hillman dismissed Crosby in October after he refused to countenance the recording of a cover of Goffin and King's <em>Goin' Back</em>. While Crosby contributed three compositions on his final album with The Byrds, his controversial ménage à trois ode <em>Triad</em> was removed from the band's album just prior to release.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/263aa424ed0ca28846140866c67f2872532a39e9/original/crosby-stills-nash-mama-cass-house.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Crosby, Stills & Nash @ Mama Cass's house</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Soon after leaving The Byrds, Crosby began to hang out at the home of Cass Elliot (aka Mama Cass of The Mamas & Papas) where he ran into Stephen Stills, who was in similar circumstances after leaving the Buffalo Springfield. Crosby and Stills started getting together to do some jamming and share some songs. In short order, they were joined by Graham Nash, who had just left The Hollies. The trio's beautiful harmonies sealed the deal.</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">The band's debut album, <em>Crosby Stills & Nash</em>, was an immediate smash on the charts due to two Top 40 hit singles and receiving key airplay on the new FM radio format, in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing entire albums at once. </span>Upon release of their eponymous 1969 debut, everything clicked perfectly. The trio’s harmonies, usually arranged by Crosby, were considered to be astonishing and it was no surprise that <span class="font_regular">Crosby Stills & Nash immediately became superstars overnight. </span>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young @ Woodstock 1969 </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">In 1969, Neil Young joined the group and, after appearing @ the Woodstock Festival the band released <em>Deja Vu</em>, their follow up album, which quickly reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. I can recall being surprised by Neil Young joining CS&Y after the constant clash of egos that Young and Stills created towards each other during their time in Buffalo Springfield. Their disgust for each other was a major reason for the demise of Buffalo Springfield, one of the greatest bands of the 1960's. I think Young's membership in the band might have put off Crosby & Nash's outlook on the future of CSNY.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">On September 30, 1969, Crosby's longtime girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in a car accident. Crosby was devastated by this personal loss which led to Crosby abusing drugs more severely than he had ever done before.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">At the time this album was recorded, tensions between the band members were high, with their dressing-room fights becoming the stuff of rock legend, even being referenced by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in their 1971 album <em>Fillmore East - June 1971</em>. The tensions led to CSNY dissolving shortly after the recording of <em>4 Way Street</em> album and <span class="font_regular">the group went on a temporary hiatus to focus on their respective solo careers. </span>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">At the beginning of 1970, Crosby briefly formed a new band with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart from Grateful Dead, billed as <em>David and the Dorks </em>when they ended up making a live recording at the Matrix on December 15, 1970.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1971, Crosby released his first solo album, <em>If I Could Only Remember My Name</em>, featuring contributions by Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, and members of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Santana. Panned on release by Rolling Stone magazine, it later became embraced by many music fans over the years.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">CSNY reunited in the summer of 1973 for a series of unsuccessful recording sessions in Maui (Hawaii) and Los Angeles. Despite lingering arguments, they reconvened at a Stills concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in October. Surprisingly, this served as a prelude to their highly successful stadium tour in the summer of 1974. Following the tour, the foursome attempted once again to record a new album, provisionally entitled <em>Human Highway</em>. The recording sessions, which took place at the Record Plant in Sausalito, were very unpleasant, marked by constant fighting over who had the best songs for the album. The bickering eventually became too much and the album was canceled.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">1974 The Doom Tour</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">During an interview when asked about what was called the <em>Doom Tour</em>, Stephen Stills said, '<em>We did one tour for the art and the music, and one tour for the chicks. This one’s for the cash</em>.' During the tour things became affected by the group's bickering, though they managed to finish the tour without interruption. A greatest hits compilation entitled <em>So Far</em> was released in 1974 to capitalize on the foursome's reunion tour and many fans seemed extremely disappointed with a "<em>greatest hits</em>" album.</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The quartet did not perform together again until ‘Live Aid’ in 1985. Without Young however, Crosby Stills & Nash performed consistently in support of 1977’s ‘<em>CSN</em>’ and 1982’s ‘<em>Daylight Again</em>,’ and starting in the late 80’s, toured regularly year after year. They would eventually release an additional 4 albums of new material: ‘<em>American Dream</em>’ (1988, with Young), ‘<em>Live It Up</em>’ (1990), ‘<em>After the Storm</em>’ (1994) and ‘<em>Looking Forward</em>’ (1999, with Young). These efforts resulted in generally-negative reviews and diminishing commercial success. Full scale CSNY tours nonetheless took place in 2000, 2002 & 2006. But in 2016, Nash announced that Crosby Stills & Nash would never perform again because of poor relations with Crosby.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Duo of Graham Nash & David Crosby</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As a duo, Crosby & Nash (C&N) released four studio albums and two live albums. Also it should be noted that during the mid-1970s, Crosby and Nash enjoyed lucrative careers as session musicians, with both performers (both as a duo and as individuals) contributing harmonies and background vocals to albums by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne (whom Crosby had initially championed as an emerging songwriter), Dave Mason, Rick Roberts, James Taylor (most notably on the songs <em>Lighthouse</em> and <em>Mexico</em>), Art Garfunkel, J. D. Souther, Carole King, Elton John, and Gary Wright.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1985, Crosby spent nine months in prison after being convicted of drug and weapon offenses. The drug charges were related to possession of heroin and cocaine. Later that same year, he was arrested for drunk driving, a hit-and-run accident and possession of a concealed pistol and drug paraphernalia. In 2004, David was found guilty of criminal possession of a hunting knife, ammunition and an ounce of marijuana.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby, Pevar & Raymond</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">In 1996, Crosby formed CPR or Crosby, Pevar & Raymond with session guitarist Jeff Pevar, and pianist James Raymond, Crosby's son. The group released two studio albums and two live albums before disbanding in 2004.</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Over the next decades, Crosby & Nash continued to create music in various situations with such artists as Phil Collins, the Indigo Girls and David Gilmour.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Crosby was the subject of the documentary film David Crosby: Remember My Name which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Crosby mentioned that Cameron Crowe, who asked the interview questions for the film, knew 'where the bones are buried.' Following the premiere of the film, Crosby toured as David Crosby & Friends from May to September 2019.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In July 2021, Crosby released what would become his final studio album, <em>For Free</em>. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The <em>For Free</em> album was followed by the release of the 50th-anniversary expanded version of <em>If I Could Only Remember My Name</em> on October 15. It contains remastered songs as well as demos from the original recording sessions. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Dean Budnick (Interviewer): I’d like to jump back to a lingering question I’ve had ever since I saw Remember My Name. The film opens with you telling this remarkable story about Coltrane bursting into a bathroom while soloing, at a time when you were in there taking solace from the intensity of the music. Did he specifically follow you in there? </h3>
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<span class="font_regular">Crosby: No, he didn’t know I was there, and he couldn’t have cared less. He didn’t follow me into the men’s room. He went into the men’s room because it sounded good in there. It was a tile men’s room, and it had an echo. </span>This was a club on the South Side of Chicago. It was maybe a thousand seater. He wandered off the stage while he was still playing. He wasn’t through with the idea. Then he decided that he liked the sound of the men’s room, kicked open the door and walked in while he was still playing. [Laughs.] </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Dean Budnick: Let’s turn to your songwriting...Will you write with a specific personnel in mind or is your focus on the song itself? </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby: I’ll write without a project in mind. There’s a strange chemistry that happens with certain words that will work together and seem magical to me. They seem to have a really potent effect and then I’m on the trail. I’ll say, “Wait a minute, this is a lyric,” and then I’ll follow it. But I don’t go into it knowing where it’s going to go. I have no idea what I’m gonna write. I have no idea if I’m gonna finish the song. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Dean Budnick: At what point during this process does a narrative come to mind? </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby: It starts to happen as soon as the words begin to connect with each other. At first, I’ve got four words that I really like. Then all of a sudden, I’ve got 16 words and I’m into the song. Usually, it starts with a core group of words that evokes some kind of magic for me. Then it goes on from there. At least that’s how it always did work because my process has changed. </span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">When I wrote <em>Wooden Ships </em>with Kantner and Stills, that was the first one where I realized, '<em>Wow, wait a minute. I don’t have to do this by myself. There could be a chemistry here</em>.' That’s developed to the point where now, in my old age, I write more with other people than by myself. And I love it. In terms of creating that initial scrap, will you typically compel yourself to sit down and try to work up something or will you sort of see it in your peripheral vision while walking through life? Both. Sometimes if we sit down and have a writing session and we have a purpose in mind, we do it together, word for word. Other times, I send them something that’s about the color blue and they write me back a song about the color green. It’s just unbelievable how the chemistry takes place.</span> </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Dean Budnick: You often have had an acerbic take on politics. Has it been a challenge to express that perspective in your writing? </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby: I write about political stuff pretty strongly when I go for it. It’s just that anger itself doesn’t work. It has to be really clean. It has to be '<em>Tin soldiers and Nixon comin</em>’.' If, instead, you say, '<em>I don’t really like this and I don’t really like that, and I’m really pissed about this, that and the other thing</em>,' then it comes off as whining and sniveling. It doesn’t communicate at all. If you’re writing a song like <em>Almost Cut My Hair</em> or <em>Long Time Gone</em>, something where you feel like you have a point to make, then that anger can come in there but you’ve got to be careful with that shit. There is some anger in <em>Ohio</em> without any question at all. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Dean Budnick: Speaking of political subjects, do you feel that music serves a similar communicative role as it once did? </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Crosby: Music can do that, but most of the ways that music communicates these days are shallow. Those songs are all about ego, they’re all about me. They aren’t communicating at the level that Joni can. Of course, she wrote the best songs of any of us. This new kind of consciousness doesn’t lend itself to conceptual advancement or communication. It’s mostly about, '<em>Don’t you think I’m cute?</em>' Well, I don’t think they’re cute. They’re shallow. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I like songs that take you someplace. Joni’s a perfect example. Her song <em>River</em> takes you on a voyage. It will expand your goddamn consciousness. It was a major event in my life.</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Dean Budnick: How do you think Joni Mitchell's album <em>Blue</em> as a whole would be received if it came out today? </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Crosby: In my opinion, that’s probably the greatest record ever made. It’s without question the best singer-songwriter record that’s ever been made. How it would be received today? It’s too complex. It requires too much thought."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">REMEMBERING DAVID CROSBY</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Graham Nash: Former CSNY partner Graham Nash, who had been estranged from Crosby in recent years as their group went its separate ways, paid tribute on his social media. "It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned that my friend David Crosby has passed. I know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years. <span class="font_regular">David was fearless in life and in music and he leaves behind a tremendous void as far as sheer personality and talent in this world. He spoke his mind, his heart, and his passion through his beautiful music and leaves an incredible legacy. These are the things that matter most. My heart is truly with his wife, Jan, his son, Django, and all of the people he has touched in this world."</span>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Stephen Stills: "“David and I butted heads a lot over time, but they were mostly glancing blows, yet still left us numb skulls. I was happy to be at peace with him. He was without question a giant of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius. The glue that held us together as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun. I am deeply saddened at his passing and shall miss him beyond measure.”</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">Neil Young: </span>“We had so many great times, especially in the early years. Crosby was a very supportive friend in my early life, as we bit off big pieces of our experience together. David was the catalyst of many things.”</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">reading the cartoons in the daily Newspapers. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Cartoon Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Music expresses that which cannot be said </span></em></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The DUST-A-PHONICS: Johnny & BO</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>JEFF BECK FOREVER!</em></h2>
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<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71396302023-01-18T12:12:45-05:002023-03-16T11:26:31-04:00Rock & Roll Bands On Tour!<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5fd29b16863fe1afade593b923f6d0d9ba5ce4f4/original/rock-roll-bands-on-tour.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/545e3f15043a2f01679520183b22a4eb2855f6bf/original/jp-sepia-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Ah yes! I've always loved hearing wild stories that happened on Rock & Roll tours! Today I got 2 juicy Rock & Roll Tour stories for all you rock & rollers!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b5106fccbd32e7d1649bc84c29a989954c38c2f9/original/stop-hey-whats-that-sound.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/45be06343506ac0906554d42a6a49e9a386ca846/original/keith-moons-21st-bday-holiday-inn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Legend Of Keith Moon's 21st Birthday Party</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In the 1960's and 1970's, many rock bands toured frequently and quite often a party would break out in the band's hotel which would lead to all sorts of madness such as throwing out a tv through a hotel window or setting off fireworks in the band's hotel room...the stories are pretty darn wild. I think the wildest story is Keith Moon's 21st Birthday Party!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>On August 23rd, 1967, The Who were in the midst of their first North American tour, are opening for Herman’s Hermits at Flint Michigan’s Atwood Stadium. Around 10 pm The Who and their entourage headed back to their hotel rooms at The Holiday Inn. Without warning, all of the inebriated rock musicians went to town with the hotel's fire extinguishers which led to the Holiday Inn staff running wildly throughout the hotel. </strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/afbdcb76bb6c5cd677467542d8d8c1492ed85cfd/original/keith-moon-toilet.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Following the invasions of the fire extinguishers, there was an explosion that occurred when Keith Moon used a lethal firework bomb and blew up the toilet in his room. </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/29e237d18d7c69ef4a8883e213e771a25c31e075/original/moon-partying.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The entire tour entourage went to the hotel's ballroom where Moon was presented a gigantic Birthday cake. Suddenly, a naked woman jumped out of the cake much to the chagrin of Moon. Within moments a wild food fight erupted in the ballroom. The fight spilled out of the ballroom and into the hotel lobby which immediately caused massive chaos and confusion. It was during this melee that Keith Moon lost the rest of his clothes, which at this point was his underwear.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Just as Keith was seen running naked through the lobby covered in birthday cake, the police arrive at the hotel which led the tour entourage to scatter to various places in the hotel.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4dfb77605f637efcf22637aa2341347945f82543/original/lioncoln.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moon, fearing that he might be arrested, ran out of the hotel seeking an exit plan in the form of a 1967 Lincoln Continental. Moonie then jumps into the car and quickly releases the handbrake. This causes the car to promptly begin to roll backwards while crushing a property fence and plunging the brand new car into the hotel pool!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Moon surfaces in the pool after exiting the now sunken Lincoln Continental and realizes he’s surrounded by circle of police who have their guns drawn and pointed at him. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Not one to surrender to the police, Moon, after getting out of the pool, decides to make another run in order to flee from the police. Unfortunately for Moon, he slips on a soggy piece of cake and hits the deck, which knocks out his front tooth. </strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36176fbc63657a645454b082f4fe14767fdf5176/original/moonie-in-the-holiday-inn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>The cops are finally able to arrest Moon but before hauling him off to jail they stop at a dentist to repair his broken tooth. Apparently, the dentist reportedly tells the police that Moon is so intoxicated that he doesn’t require any pain killers while he works on his tooth! After the dentist repair Moon's tooth, the police throw Keith Moon into a jail cell. The next morning Moonie gets bailed out by his manager and is sent on a chartered plane to his next gig in Philadelphia. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>In closing, it should be noted that Keith Moon and The Who were banned forever at every Holiday Inn Hotel in existence. Amen!</strong></span></p><hr><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b5106fccbd32e7d1649bc84c29a989954c38c2f9/original/stop-hey-whats-that-sound.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/34767ef71f1333dcce78a330a33c81e4dd020c78/original/1969-the-guess-who.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Guess Who circa 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Burton Cummings On Tour with the Guess Who: “In 1969, an astounding set of circumstances allowed me to spend a whole night with Jim Morrison. Every word of this story is true…The Guess Who flew to Los Angeles for the very first time (at least since I had joined the band). I had never set foot on California soil in my life before this particular night. We landed around eight in the evening, and by the time we had checked into our hotel it was about nine thirty. We were staying in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. at a place called the Hallmark House. It’s a Travelodge these days.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8629cd8781377f43b0b41e582fa5eeb9252aaad/original/dinos-lodge.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Dino's Lodge</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d07cf272392993b22af0ec0cd97d56ebe78d49ab/original/the-shisky-a-go-go.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Whiskey A Go Go</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>There I was in Los Angeles, right on Sunset Boulevard, where Dino’s and the Whiskey stood. Randy, Jim, and Gary were content to stay in their rooms but I just took off walking...I knew that Dino’s and the Whiskey were both on Sunset and that if I kept walking long enough I was bound to see them. I walked miles up Sunset...from just west of Highland to the Whiskey. When I first saw Dino’s it seemed surreal to me. I continued West on Sunset and eventually approached the Whiskey A Go Go. When I first stared up at it, I had a semi religious experience right there on the sidewalk. This place was a mecca of the rock music world. It had been home and training ground to the Byrds, The Buffalo Springfield, and the Doors. Johnny Rivers had done those great live versions of Memphis and Maybelline here. I stared wide-eyed for quite a while until I eventually regained enough composure to venture inside.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>It was now some time after midnight...I had been in California for a total of less than four hours. As I stood inside and looked around, I noticed a rather drunk Eric Burdon at a table in the corner. The band seemed to have finished temporarily, whoever they were, and there was some sort of mass exodus going on. Many people were leaving and they all seemed to have a common destination in mind. I stayed at the Whiskey for about half an hour, gulping in the vibes and trying to imagine all the historic moments in pop music that had occurred within its walls. Then, replete with experience, I went outside onto Sunset to hail a cab back to the Hallmark House in Hollywood. It was 1969...I was 21. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I managed to get a cab rather quickly right outside the front door and as soon as my ass hit the back seat the driver said '</strong><i><strong>So...I guess you’re going to the big party too, huh...?</strong></i><strong>' Reacting quickly I nodded in the affirmative. The driver went down Sunset about a block and a half and suddenly made a turn up into the hills above Hollywood. I was on my way to some house in Los Angeles where I didn’t personally know a living soul . As we twisted and turned up the winding streets of the hills, I started to panic. I came clean with the driver and told him that I had no idea where he was taking me, much less who was giving or attending the party he was talking about. He told me that I was his third fare there in the last hour. I was now dying with curiosity. I told the driver that if he would take me to the party, I would pay his full fare up to that point and try to get in the door. I asked him kindly to wait and see if I got in. He said he would wait and see whether I did, and if I was turned away, he would take me back to the Hallmark House and nobody would be much the worse for the experience. </strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/17859994d81fb7e263720afbb02f18460c2a6146/original/nightime-mansion.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>We pulled up to the gate of one of those houses that looks like the one the Beverly Hillbillies lived in...the gate was wide open and it sounded as if all Hell was breaking loose inside the house. I handed the driver thirty bucks and walked up to the huge door and rang the bell. Somebody very drunk opened the door and shrieked '</strong><i><strong>Come on in</strong></i><strong>' with a thick British accent. I was now inside some mansion in the hills with a real shaker going on, still only having been in California for about four hours. There was loud music...there were a lot of people, all of whom seemed to be blitzed on various things...there were naked people in the pool, and a lot of counters and table tops had lines of various powders on them...I had no fucking idea what I was doing there, so I sauntered into the kitchen and grabbed myself an ice cold Budweiser. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I walked back out into the living room and spied a cutoff upright piano. No one was sitting at it, so I graced the piano stool and started fingering the keys while surveying the room and the guests. No one could hear me playing with all the noise, so momentarily I guess I just faded right in to my surroundings.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f6b394b690ada0896e5884d7d46fe40b8bcd914a/original/1969-jim-morrison.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Jim Morrison circa 1969</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I had been there about twenty minutes when a fairly drunk guy with long hair stumbled in, a girl on each arm kind of holding him up to steady him. Upon first glance he looked familiar ...then it hit me...it was Jim Morrison. Ladies and gentlemen, it was 1969, I was 21, I had first set foot on California soil only a few hours previously, and here I was in some mansion in the Hollywood hills in the same room with Jim Morrison. No one seemed to notice him...well, maybe they did, but just didn’t care. I sure noticed him. The whole night had become surreal at that point, and unbeknownst to me, it was just beginning. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jimbo had recently faced the charges of allegedly showing his penis on stage in Florida, and many people thought the Doors might just be on a final downward spiral. They hadn’t played live for a while due to all the negative publicity and craziness that seemed to surround them. When I saw him swill down the remaining beer in his can and go to the kitchen for more, I got up and followed him. In the kitchen, after we’d both gotten a new beer, I went up and asked him '</strong><i><strong>So, how’s the trouble...how’s the shit, man...?</strong></i><strong>' He looked at me and said '</strong><i><strong>Oh, it’ll all be ok...</strong></i><strong>' not volunteering much information or willingness to talk. Not wanting to get in his face in any way, I left the kitchen with my new beer and went back over and sat down on the piano bench. I had talked to Jim Morrison. Now I could be a little happier in life, although I already thought that nobody in the world would ever believe me. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Being somewhat overwhelmed by the evening’s events, I just took a long cold swill of beer and began playing the piano softly. About two minutes later a guy sat down on the bench to my right and started doodling along on one of the higher registers of the keys. It was Jim. We actually played piano together for a few minutes and to this day I have no idea what I was thinking during that period of time...perhaps even Sodium Pentothal could never retrieve those minutes from my memory...I seem to have blanked permanently with regards to our piano duet. But I swear by all that’s Holy, it really happened and I’m recalling it as best I can. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jim got up suddenly. He was very drunk and almost fell over when he reached his feet. He said to the two girls '</strong><i><strong>Let’s go...gimme my keys...</strong></i><strong>' For reasons still unknown to myself, I stood up and said '</strong><i><strong>Hey man, you shouldn’t be driving...let me drive you where you’re going...just tell me where to take you, and when we get there I’ll hop out and get a cab or a bus</strong></i><strong>.' One of the girls handed Jim his keys and he promptly handed them to me. Off we went. We piled into Jim’s GTO, he and the two girls in the back seat and me at the wheel. I had touched California soil for the first time in my life at about 8:45 pm that night...it was now about 1:45 am and I was driving Jim Morrison around in his GTO through the hills and streets of Los Angeles. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Jim had about forty cold beers in the trunk, in some sort of metal washtub... one of the girls had brought a few of them into the back seat when we all loaded in. Jim drank fast. The girls barely drank anything. Every so often he’d say '</strong><i><strong>Some for the driver...some for the driver</strong></i><strong>...' whereupon one of the girls would hand me a cold beer...they were Millers in clear bottles...I didn't really swill much, cause the last thing I needed was to be pulled over with alcohol on my breath...I think Jim’s GTO was silver with a black roof, but it’s decades ago and some details have faded. I kept hearing '</strong><i><strong>Go left here...go right here...just go straight for now</strong></i><strong>' and other directions from the back seat. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I drove the three of them around until after sunup. During those hours I spoke very little to the back seat. I was more than content to listen. I never once mentioned that I was a musician, much less the biggest Morrison fanatic in North America. After all...how many million other people thought the same thing, and how many fucking times had Jim heard that already...? He spoke about physics, existentialism, Magritte, the blues, and Edgar Allan Poe among other things that night. Surreal, surreal, surreal. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>I think it was about eight in the morning when they decided one of the girls should drive and I should be cut loose from the herd. I never argued over the decision. I had already lived a personal dream, and wanted to do absolutely nothing to taint it. They dropped me off right where the Sherman Oaks Galleria now stands and took off due west on Ventura Blvd. A series of busses and a cab got me back to my motel on the other side of the hill by about ten in the morning. I had no idea of the geography of LA, but I managed to get back before any pressing Guess Who business that day. 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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Once upon a time, on a late September evening in 2006, four guys calling themselves The Hideaways, walked in EKO Studio in Deer Park, NY and created this 2-Track live-in-studio recording that features elements of blues, R&B, Country, Rockabilly, and jazz.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This wild & loose proto-punk band always conjures up an atmosphere of Chuck Berry meets The Ramones with a side order of Blonde on Blond Bob Dylan!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away on Tuesday due to spinal meningitis. I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton. </h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Often described as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Beck – whose fingers and thumbs were famously insured for £7m – was known as a keen innovator. He pioneered jazz-rock, experimented with fuzz and distortion effects and paved the way for heavier subgenres such as psych rock and heavy metal over the course of his career.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Eric Clapton...Jimmy Page...Jeff Beck</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Beck was born in Wallington, Surrey. He began playing guitar in his teens, on a homemade model (which he constructed in emulation of one of his heroes, the American guitarist-inventor Les Paul). His idols included Gene Vincent’s lead guitarist Cliff Gallup and American bluesmen Buddy Guy and Otis Rush. In a striking coincidence, three of the greatest guitarists of the rock era, Clapton, Beck and Page — the latter two became friends in their early teens after being introduced by Beck’s sister — grew up within 15 miles of each other.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Like many young British musicians, he was drawn to blues and R&B, and his first bands — the Night Shift, the Rumbles, the Tridents — all drew from the classic American repertoire. His break came in 1965, when Clapton, impatient with the Yardbirds’ increasingly pop-oriented, experimental bent, exited the group to join John Mayall’s purist unit the Bluesbreakers.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">A fleet, imaginative soloist, Beck brought formidable instrumental firepower to British band the Yardbirds, which he joined in 1965 as a replacement for Eric Clapton. Entirely at home with the group’s blues roots, he burnished their pop hits with an adventurous and virtually unprecedented use of feedback, sustain and fuzz. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">After a precipitous exit from the Yardbirds — where he had been joined by another future guitar star, Jimmy Page — he established his own band, the Jeff Beck Group, which was fronted by vocalist Rod Stewart, soon to become a solo star. The unit proved as unstable as it was powerful, and lasted for just two albums. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During the ’70s, Beck assembled a second, more R&B-oriented edition of his group, and briefly formed a short-lived power trio with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge and Cactus. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0d35e8eab9e4fff07de8b55169493f60411cd979/original/jeff-beck-6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The Jeff Beck Group</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">At the turn of the decade, the guitarist founded a new quintet edition of the Jeff Beck Group that leaned heavily on the jazzy keyboard work of Max Middleton. Though the band’s albums Rough and Ready (1971) and its self-titled 1972 follow-up performed respectably, they were largely considered inferior to the records produced by the Stewart-Wood lineup.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Beck reached the probable apex of both his critical and commercial success with a pair of mid-’70s all-instrumental albums, “Blow by Blow” and “Wired,” that found him moving into jazz-fusion terrain. The latter LP was recorded with keyboardist Jan Hammer, formerly of the top fusion act the Mahavishnu Orchestra. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">From the early ’80s onward, the temperamental Beck — a notorious perfectionist in the studio and a prickly band mate — would sporadically reappear, retrench, retire and reappear again. His latter-day work ranged from an homage to rockabilly singer Gene Vincent to instrumental sets reflecting the influence of techno, electronica and ambient music.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">While a famously mercurial personality, Beck was indisputably one of the greatest guitarists of the rock era, and his playing remained innovative, imaginative and full of surprises until the very end." (Variety)</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">For me, one of the most moving moments that Jeff Beck ever did was his spectacular version of The Beatles' <em>Day In The Life</em> that took place at </span>The 25th anniversary rock and roll hall of fame concert. His performance illustrated the depth of his artistry.</h3>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">The Jeff Beck Band performing <em>A Day In The Life</em> @ The 25th anniversary rock and roll hall of fame concert</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">RIP Jeff Beck...blessings for eternal peace. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">May you swing the good thing always.</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">JEFF BECK DISCOGRAPHY</span></h2>
<h2><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span>ALBUMS<span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span></span></h2>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Truth 1968</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Beck-Ola 1969</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Rough and Ready 1971</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Jeff Beck Group 1972</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Beck, Bogert & Appice 1973</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Blow by Blow 1975 </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Wired 1976</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">There & Back 1980</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Flash 1985</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop 1989</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Crazy Legs 1993</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Who Else! 1999</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">You Had It Coming 2001 </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Jeff 2003 </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Emotion & Commotion 2010</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Loud Hailer 2016</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">18 (with Johnny Depp) 2022</span></h3>
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<span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span>SINGLES<span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">1967 "Hi Ho Silver Lining" / "Tallyman"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1968 "Love Is Blue (L'amour est bleu)" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1969 "Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)" (with Donovan & Jeff Beck Group)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1972 "Hi Ho Silver Lining" (re-issue)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1973 "I've Been Drinking" (with Rod Stewart)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1975 "She's a Woman"― "Cause We've Ended as Lovers"― "You Know What I Mean"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1976 "Come Dancing"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1980 "The Final Peace"― </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1982 "Hi Ho Silver Lining" (2nd re-issue)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1985 "Gets Us All in the End" ― "Stop, Look and Listen" ― "Ecstasy"― "Ambitious"― <br>"People Get Ready" (with Rod Stewart)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1986 "Wild Thing"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1989 "Stand on It"― "Guitar Shop" (with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1993 "Manic Depression" (with Seal)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">2014 "No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)" (with Joss Stone)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">2022 "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" (with Johnny Depp)</span></h3>
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<span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span>GUEST APPEARANCES<span style="color:#f1c40f;">*</span>
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<h3>Beck has appeared as a guest artist on many recordings, including the following: </h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">1968 Donovan's album Barabajagal on the title track and "Trudi" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Stevie Wonder's 1972 album Talking Book on the track "Lookin' for Another Pure Love" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Badger's song "White Lady" from the 1974 album White Lady </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Stanley Clarke's 1975 album Journey to Love on the title track and "Hello Jeff" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Narada Michael Walden's 1976 album Garden of Love Light on the track "Saint & the Rascal" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Stanley Clarke's 1978 album Modern Man on the song "Rock 'n Roll Jelly" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Rod Stewart's album Camouflage (on three tracks) </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Tina Turner's album Private Dancer </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Diana Ross's album Swept Away </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Mick Jagger's 1985 album She's the Boss & 1987 album Primitive Cool </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Malcolm McLaren's 1989 album Waltz Darling, on the tracks "House of the Blue Danube" and "Call a Wave" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Buddy Guy's 1991 album Damn Right, I've Got the Blues on the tracks "Mustang Sally" and "Early in the Morning"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Kate Bush's 1993 album The Red Shoes </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Jimi Hendrix's song "Manic Depression" from the 1993 album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix with Seal </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Duff Mckagan's 1993 solo album Believe in Me on the tracks "(Fucked Up) Beyond Belief" and "Swamp Song" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Seal's 1994 album Seal </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Instrumental version of "A Day in the Life" on the 1998 album In My Life </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">ZZ Top's 1999 release XXX on the track "Hey Mr. Millionaire". </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">ZZ Top's 2016 live album Live: Greatest Hits from Around the World on the songs "Rough Boy" and "Sixteen Tons" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Joe Cocker's Heart & Soul album on the track "I (Who Have Nothing)"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Brian May's song "The Guv'nor" from the album Another World </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Pretenders song "Legalise Me" from the 1999 album Viva El Amor </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Chrissie Hynde's song "Mystery Train" from the 2001 album Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Roger Taylor's song "Say It's Not True" from the album Fun on Earth </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Vanilla Fudge's album Mystery (credited as J. Toad) </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Roger Waters' album Amused to Death </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Cozy Powell's album Tilt on the tracks "Cat Moves" and "Hot Rock"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Jon Bon Jovi's solo album Blaze of Glory </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Paul Rodgers' songs "Good Morning Little School Girl" & "I Just Want To Make Love To You"</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Morrissey's album Years of Refusal on the song "Black Cloud" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Imelda May's album Life Love Flesh Blood on the song "Black Tears" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">The Yardbirds' 2003 album Birdland on the song "My Blind Life" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Ruth Lorenzo's 2018 album Loveaholic on the song "Another Day" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Dion´s 2020 album Blues with Friends on the song "Can't Start Over Again" </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Ozzy Osbourne's 2022 album Patient Number 9 on the songs "Patient Number 9" and "A Thousand Shades"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Throughout any given year, I've always found myself reading an inordinate amount of rock & roll books. It's a habit I fell into back in my high school days. Whenever I hear about a new rock & roll book that is coming out, I make a note to check it out so without further adieu, here's a list of the best rock & roll books that I ended up reading in 2022!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And on Piano ...Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Author: Julian Dawson Foreword by: Klaus Voorman</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Plus One Press; 1st edition (April 1, 2011)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Calling All Rock Fans: I Highly Recommend This Book!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">About a year ago, I started researching a blog post on Nicky Hopkins. In the course of digging up information on Hopkins I came across this wonderful paperback that offered up a wealth of details about Nicky. Hopkins was a brilliant musician who left his mark across the history of rock and roll thru the 1960's and 1970's. You can look up the credits on any number of rock albums (from the '60s to the '80s) and you'll come across the name Nicky Hopkins. a multi-talented keyboard artist who is remembered as the most in-demand session keyboardist in rock & roll.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Excerpt from the book: "The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The Who. The Kinks. The Jefferson Airplane. Joe Cocker. Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Yardbirds. Harry Nilsson. At the heart of their music, and of hundreds of others, was one man and a piano: Nicky Hopkins. For three generations, rock'n'roll has been the heartbeat of our world, and Nicky Hopkins defines rock'n'roll. For thirty years, before his tragically early death in 1994, Nicky Hopkins put his mark on some of the most unforgettable popular music ever made. This is the definitive work on rock music's greatest session player, and one of its unsung heroes."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Nicky Hopkins, who described himself in his own typically understated way as “just a piano player” did more to form, define and inspire some of the finest moments of rock and roll during his time than any session musician and sideman before or after. Julian Dawson has given a detailed and engaging document of one phenomenally talented artist’s impact on the popular music of his day. Like many session musicians, he preferred the anonymity and the egoless ride of working in the background, even though he managed to frequently shape many of the songs he contributed to, raising them to a higher level than originally envisioned. His list of collaborators included The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Jerry Garcia, Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker and Art Garfunkel. He was also a member of The Jeff Beck Group with lead singer Rod Stewart and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Though The Beatles discovered him later than the rest, it was not too late for him to appear on their hit single, “Revolution,” followed by important contributions on solo projects including Lennon’s Imagine and George Harrison’s Living in the Material World, Ringo’s 1973 self-titled album and Paul McCartney’s later solo work.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">At times Nicky seems like a kind of rock and roll chameleon, but as the book moves deeper into it’s subject, a portrait that emerges is one of an artist deeply committed to creating visionary music for the artists who called him into the studio. Based on Dawson’s book, history shows The Rolling Stones gave Nicky the widest berth of creative opportunity. His participation in the studio on classic albums, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, alone demonstrate the importance of his contributions to rock music. It becomes clear that while Nicky sought and even craved anonymity, he also deeply longed for appreciation and recognition but not so much from a fan-base, as is shown by his inability to define himself as a solo artist. Dawson reveals that Nicky knew well the importance of his contributions to the long list of artists he worked with in the studio and strove to give them his best work on every take." (No Depression magazine)</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments In Rock And Roll<br>Author: Lenny Kaye Published by Ecco</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Calling All Rock Fans: I Highly Recommend This Book!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">To me, I have always felt that Lenny Kaye is a true rock & roller who has spent many years following the trends of rock music. The first time I came across Lenny is when he created a wonderful box set called <em>Nuggets</em>. Soon after that, Kaye became Patti Smith's guitarist. These days he pursues doing a late night show as a DJ on Little Steven's Underground Garage. I would venture to say that Lenny Kaye has immersed himself in rock and roll for many years and his recent book reveals his ability to clarify and explain many of the fantastic moments that have exposed various rock & roll sounds. To cap things off, Lenny released an amazing book titled <em>Lightning Striking, Ten Transformative Moments In Rock And Roll</em>.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Kaye highlights ten places where a series of events developed to create a cultural phenomenon eventually exploding and transcending the place where it was created. Whether it’s Memphis in 1954, Liverpool in 1962, or Seattle in 1992, it’s based on a concept called <em>scenius</em> conceived by producer Brian Eno whereby a phenomenon is created not by one person but rather by a convergence of artists, hustlers, oddballs, and fans. The book is painstakingly detailed, highlighting not only the main artists but other players on the periphery.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Kaye often puts himself in the midst of the scenes, describing how watching artists performing on the TV dance shows from Philly in the 50s and early 60s helped the music come alive for him and the transformation he shared with so many others watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He also gives firsthand accounts of seeing bands like Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Quicksilver Messenger Service, featuring guitarist John Cipollina, in the ballrooms of San Francisco, after driving out west with a buddy to experience the Summer of Love. Kaye is the only rock critic I can recall who shows equal appreciation for the Dick Clark dance scene of the early 60s and the psychedelic groups emerging later in the decade. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">He was a participant in the New York punk scene that sprung up in the 70s, playing at CBGBs, with the Patti Smith Band, alongside Television, the Talking Heads, and The Ramones. He remembers Patti Smith mixing covers of the Velvet Underground’s “Real Good Time Together” and The Marvelette’s “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” with her beat generation-inspired originals. He looks back with wonderment on playing 150 seat venues in the early 70s then performing before 70,000 in Italy later in the decade.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The last chapter is set in Seattle in 1991 with the beginning of grunge, a garage band genre a generation removed from the bands highlighted on the Nuggets collections. Like in the other chapters, the bigger names like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains are not ignored but lesser-known acts like the Melvins are given equal time. He calls the heroin-induced darkness of the scene, a “downer miasma.” He exalts Eddie Vedder for overcoming it, praising his humanitarian spirit writing “may it be long and fruitful.” </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">There is a heightened level of recall in the book that can be daunting whether he is delineating the scenes in the aforementioned cities, or in New Orleans, Detroit, and London. I imagine he wants to be sure the whole story is told. While that can be challenging to the reader, his unpretentious intellectualism and passion for music and the “scenius” that surrounds it, is infectious. At several points, he ponders whether one chooses the music or whether the music chooses them. For anyone pondering the same question while plugging in their guitar, counting all the bands you have seen, or wondering whether there is enough time to listen to all your records, this book is for you." (Bob Condren, culturesonar.com)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tom Waits By Matt Mahurin</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Author / Photographer: Matt Mahurin Publisher: Abrams: The Art of Books</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">If you are a rabid Tom Waits fan, buy this book!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Published in 2019, <em>Tom Waits By Matt Mahurin</em> is filled with Matt Mahurin's complex imagery surrounding Tom Waits. Being a Tom Waits fan every since his first album, <em>Closing Time</em>, I was instantly drawn to this book.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mahurin’s visually pioneering approach to his artistic output has resulted in a number of high profile collaborations, directing music videos for the likes of U2, Metallica, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and, of course, Tom Waits.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The book collects no fewer than 100 dormant film negatives garnered during their three-decade time together, work which has originated from magazine portraits images, album covers, music videos and, at times, their social time together. In what appears to be fantastically inspired by the demeanor of Tom Waits, Mahurin’s portraits are often surrealist and, at times, morosely poetic. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The images vary from traditional portraits to ones that capture Waits in concert—but the majority are richly imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician,” the book states. 'In addition to the diverse images, the book includes a foreword by Waits, an essay by Mahurin on their longtime collaboration, and 20 original paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images inspired by Waits’ song titles. Speaking in his foreword, Mahurin explained: 'This book is one more chapter in our artistic history—told from three thousand miles apart and without a word between us. Tom’s body language part-ape, part-ballerina. His facial expressions part-prankster, part-monster— all whispering or wailing to me what they wanted to be. A huffing bull, a puffing tractor, a suffering clown.'</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Matt Mahurin had never heard of Tom Waits when he was first commissioned to paint a portrait of the raspy singer/songwriter for the cover of his first compilation album, 1984’s <em>Anthology of Tom Waits</em>. But that job led to a long and fruitful collaboration between visual artist and musician, now captured in Mahurin’s new collection of illustrations and photographs, Tom Waits By Matt Mahurin. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b9881120d9bb05f2cf0e1b9caea9ba2b39f0f009/original/matt-mahurin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" />Matt Mahurin</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mahurin recently described the origin of project to Paste: 'One day as I was organizing my photography archives, I came upon the film negatives from the various times Tom and I had gotten together to shoot a music video, portrait for a Rolling Stone interview, record cover illustration, or live performance,” he writes. “It was a compelling collection of images of this truly one-of-a-kind musical artist captured over three decades—and although I had hundreds of negatives of Tom, only a handful had been used in magazines and record covers. The realization that so many of these images from such a long and fulfilling collaboration would never see the light of day not only seemed like a waste, it made me mad. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Although the idea of doing a book on one person had never occurred—let alone appealed to me—to consider the alternative that so many unused yet unique images would have been captured for nothing, compelled me to pursue the possibility of resurrecting them through the purpose of creating a book. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">'The final decision to create this book was made when I imagined that rather than seeing the project as a collection of portraits of one person, I would envision it as a portrait of a creative collaboration—a shared journey of artist and subject that has not only spanned many years, but has explored diverse projects and multiple mediums along the way.”</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Nick Tosches Reader</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Publisher: Da Capo Press 2000</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I Highly Recommend This Book!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I first encountered the writings of Nick Tosches in 1984 when I got my hands on Tosches brilliant book, Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll. His earthy approach to the history of rock knocked me out. In fact, I still read Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll once a year. To me it's like the bible of rock & roll. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sadly, Nick Tosches passed away in 2019...but in the following year I was so excited to learn that the Da Capo publishing company had released an excellent collection of Tosches writings. Once I got my hands on The Nick Tosches Reader I read the book at least 4 times in a row! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's a few witty Nick Tosches quotes</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">“<em>The older you get, the more you live with ghosts</em>.”</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">“<em>I want to be alone, not forgotten</em>.”</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">“<em>It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves</em>.”</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6263bf3dbe7376da5228690fc391a19dbdc71d84/original/nick-tosches.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Nick Tosches</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"Nick Tosches emerged from the primordial swamp of the 1960s American rock press to earn a reputation as one of the most compellingly original biographers and novelists of his generation. To his subjects he applied a high style formed by an admiration of William Faulkner, Hubert Selby Jr and the King James Bible, a feeling for the lives of gamblers and gangsters, and a formidable erudition perhaps surprising in one who had declined a college education and learned many of his life lessons in the bar owned by his father in Newark, New Jersey. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Tosches, who has died aged 69, won widespread praise for his biographies of the rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis, the crooner Dean Martin and the world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston. Among his fellow writers, many envied the confidence with which he slipped into the vernacular of his subjects as if it were his own while infusing the result with characteristics that made his work utterly distinctive." (The Guardian)</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Quotes About Nick Tosches:</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Back in the early 1970s, Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer, and Nick Tosches were longhaired young malcontents who sometimes drank together while each tried to make a living as a rock critic. From the start, each had a distinctive voice, and each used the fluid medium of music journalism to his own subversive ends (as Tosches later put it, the game was to write ”pretty much whatever one wanted, as long as it was under the pretext of writing about rock ‘n’ roll”). Along the way, all three became great writers.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Tosches has found a way to successfully meld nuts-and-bolts journalism with a sardonic solipsism. As his new collection, The Nick Tosches Reader, makes clear, his early work wasn’t as consistently mind-bending as Bangs’ or Meltzer’s. Reading through these chronologically arranged selections, however, you come to understand that Tosches — equal parts sneering cynic and visionary poet — became as unique a stylist as either of his peers. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Having written acclaimed biographies of Dean Martin and Jerry Lee Lewis, in The Devil and Sonny Liston Tosches turns his attention to a nonmusician, an illiterate, much-maligned, and feared boxer who was in many ways the Mike Tyson of his time. Fortified by a plethora of talkative sources, Tosches’ hard-bitten prose is well suited to the task of bringing Liston, and the criminals who masterminded his career, to vividly seedy life. Like the Martin bio, the book has already been optioned by Hollywood, making Tosches one of the few music writers to make the leap to the big leagues. What a gas — and what an inspiration for aging rock critics." (ew.com)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">"Best known for his classic Jerry Lee Lewis biography, <em>Hellfire</em>, Tosches has compiled his book and record reviews, articles, rock interviews, and other works that have appeared in magazines (under- and overground) in the last 30 years. While organizing this anthology-of-sorts, he also wrote funny and insightful introductions to each piece. The best parts are the short fiction and personal essays, which are often overtly sexual and hubristic but written with an Olympian mastery of language--it's like reading Bukowski by way of Tennyson. The resulting work would, in a just world, make Tosches the patron saint of literate, disaffected male college students with an ear for caustic, honest work. The music writings and book reviews are ultimately esoteric but help forge this collection into a fascinating document of New York City subculture and the dissipation of the Altamont generation." (Library Journal)</span></h3>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/806cd9916290134c35e4b0e55e0d3e7a67d7e9ea/original/rock-roll-library-thumbnail-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/610ca353dfd0bf324481439e1f859eac75a12552/original/mad-day-out.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />MAD DAYS OUT (the 2nd Beatles book in a trilogy by M. Frank)</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Publisher: M. Frank</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I Highly Recommend This Book!</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">MAD DAYS OUT is M. Frank's multimedia account of a time when the Beatles were regularly creating masterpieces like Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I should point out that I involved with this book as the Editor and have been a long time friend of the author, M. Frank. This book started as a simple flip book with images and writing but as time went on M. Frank wanted other elements that would improve the book as a whole. His determination to finish the book after many roadblocks was unique and showed just how much love he put into creating MAD DAYS OUT. Down below are some links where anyone who's interested can simply read this wonderful book. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Beatles from Strawberry Fields to the White Album </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">100 memorable photos, 17 classic songs, 5 groundbreaking videos </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Engineered to be experienced on hi-speed Internet </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The deluxe version includes a <a contents="BEATLES JUKEBOX&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://maddaysout.com/newsletter_en"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BEATLES JUKEBOX </span></a></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">At slower speeds, try the <a contents="STANDARD VERSION&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://maddaysout.com/newsletter_ennj"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">STANDARD VERSION</span> </a>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">For the best results try watching</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">on your best audio-visual equipment </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">(cell phones don’t do the book justice)</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Say, how much does this book cost?"</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">IT"S FREE!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre - Shadow Play (album)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre's Shadow Play is about the human condition as the world continues to fall apart.</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="LISTEN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2346009/shadow-play"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">LISTEN</span></span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Freelance Vandals - Songs From The Vault (album)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Late one night Johnny Pierre & Diamond Ray finally opened up the Freelance Vandals vault!</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="LISTEN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2353274/songs-from-the-vault"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">LISTEN</span></span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Biscuit Kings - Hot Biscuits Anthology (album)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Biscuit Kings will be returning to live performances this February!</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="LISTEN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/1062262/hot-biscuits-anthology"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">LISTEN</span></span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Haiku Monday - The Ghost Of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition (album)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition, is an imaginary movie soundtrack for a ghost story that takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Follow the dark trail of Sammy Thibadeaux, the Ghost of Pontchartrain, as he returns home to his former life of underworld voodoo and murder. Salvation is at hand!</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="LISTEN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/975769/the-ghost-of-pontchartrain-expanded-edition"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">LISTEN</span></span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Huey Smith & The Clowns - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ring A Ding Ding! I've always had a thing about seeking out what I consider the best Christmas albums. My first encounter with a actual Christmas album was in 1962 in New Orleans when the <em>T'was The Night Before Christmas</em> album by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns came blasting out of the radio. There was no turning back after that heady moment. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Like a personification of New Orleans itself, HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & THE CLOWNS sound as if they could withstand a hurricane with their irrepressible good humor intact. So, when they grafted their trademark Crescent City sound to the wonderful world of Christmas, the results were merry indeed. <em>T'was The Night Before Christmas</em> (1962) includes ten songs that seem to flow from one to the next with nary a break in the fun. Smith's rollicking keyboards, Curly Moore's mischievous vocals, and the band's incessant rhythms propel the listener through an amusing series of holiday mishaps, none of which dampen the party spirit - the raison d'etre of any good New Orleans record. In <em>Rock 'N' Roll Santa Claus</em>, old St. Nick has slimmed down and moved away from the North Pole (in a rocket ship, no less) because 'people down there don't rock 'n' roll.' The song, '<em>I Wrote To Santa Claus</em>', finds the singer so desperate to win his baby back that he appeals to a higher, jollier power - Santa Claus! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By '<em>All I Want For Christmas</em>', however, our hero has given up on love, simply requesting that Santa 'bring him a little bit of music'. No beggar, though, he demands that it be records to which he can dance the Twist and Hully Gully! Then, on traditional songs like <em>Silent Night</em> and <em>White Christmas</em>, Smith and the Clowns render the least pious, most joyful vision of the holidays ever waxed. Huey even slaps the word <em>Blues</em> onto the latter song's title - and steals the writer's credit from Irving Berlin! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Smith and his band were a little past their peak when they recorded <em>T'was The Night Before Christmas</em> for Mississippi's Ace Records - with an assist from Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John. While the songs do sound a bit alike - and bear a suspicious resemblance to several previous Clowns hits - it is one of the most infectious, unusual Christmas albums I've ever heard. It was so unusual, in fact, that rumors circulated among collectors (fueled by the record's scarcity) that Ace had withdrawn it from the market when enraged listeners condemned it as sacrilegious." (from the Hip Christmas Music Site)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Brave Combo - It's Christmas Man!</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">Brave Combo is an amazing group who are quite adept changing various musical styles along with kicking in the Christmas groove via polka sounds! </span>As part of their perceived artistic mission to expand the musical tastes of their listeners, Brave Combo has often played and recorded covers of well-known songs in a style radically different from the original versions. Examples include polka versions of Jimi Hendrix's <em>Purple Haze</em> and The Doors' <em>People are Strange</em>, The Rolling Stones' <em>(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction</em> as a cha-cha, and <em>Sixteen Tons</em> as a cumbia. While their records may have a sense of humor, they are played straight and not usually considered joke or novelty records. <span class="font_regular">Carl Finch, the band's legendary leader, has often described Brave Combo's influence as a polka band with rock styles as an earnest way to escape an increasingly corporate cultural landscape. As far as Christmas albums go, Brave Combo's It's Christmas Man! is a genuine masterpiece!</span>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Brave Combo - Must Be Santa</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Ventures - The Ventures Christmas Album</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1965, I discovered another excellent Yuletide album; <em>The Venture's Christmas Album</em>! What made this particular slab of vinyl so great was that The Ventures were very clever to fill this album with unique covers of secular Christmas songs which in turn borrowed riffs from popular mid-'60s hits and incorporated these tasty songs into guitar twangy versions of hits of other artists which included an off the wall version of <em>Frosty the Snowman</em> which was set to the song <em>Tequila</em> by The Champs.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"This unusual little album is not well known, probably because while the Beach Boys sound is iconic and everlasting, as is Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound,” the Ventures guitar-driven surf rock sound has not stood the test of time so well. That being said, this album has one of the most creative approaches to traditional Christmas music I’ve ever heard.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Venture's Christmas album offers up Christmas standards, surf-rock style, and intercut guitar intros and riffs from other popular hits at the time. Johnny Rivers’ <em>Memphis</em> is incorporated into <em>Jingle Bell Rock</em>, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs’ <em>Wooly Bully</em> is mixed into <em>Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town</em>, The Searchers’ <em>When You Walk Into the Room</em> is melded into <em>Blue Christmas</em>, The Champs’ <em>Tequila</em> leads into <em>Frosty the Snowman</em>, and so on. My two favorites are <em>Sleigh Ride</em>, which opens with the Ventures own <em>Walk Don’t Run</em> and samples it throughout, and <em>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer</em>, which uses the Beatles’ <em>I Feel Fine</em> as its intro and also throughout the song. This may sound odd, but it’s actually exquisitely done and — for lack of a better expression — turns out to be pretty cool!" (Retro Rebeat site)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Ventures - Frosty The Snowman</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Los Straightjackets - 'Tis The Season For Los Straightjackets</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Los Straightjackets are a magical combo that offers up more than just surf rock music. When I heard that Los Straightjackets had released a Christmas album I ran outta my house and went to a nearby record store and got my grubby hands on this Yuletide album which is solid all the way through!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"If you're looking for someone to help you share the joy and magic of the holiday season, who better than the world's leading masked instrumental surf band? Los Straitjackets don't offer up a whole lot of surprises on <em>'Tis the Season</em> but that isn't necessarily a bad thing; Eddie Angel and Danny Amis serve up lots of tasty guitar work, and Pete Curry and Jimmy Lester are one solid rhythm section, just as they've always been, and on these 13 tunes (11 covers and two originals) the lucha libre-obsessed guitar wranglers show off the smarts, humor, and sterling chops that have become their trademark. <em>The La Bamba</em>-accented <em>Feliz Navidad</em>, a version of <em>God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen</em> which channels the spirit of the Chantays, and the Ventures tribute of <em>Sleigh Ride</em> are highlights, and while this album will go over best with those who thrive on retro cool, this should send your next Christmas party into a state of dance fever with anyone who appreciates the era of enjoyable AM radio. How's the surf at the North Pole these days, anyway?" (All Music site)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Los Straightjackets - Tis The Season</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The World's Greatest Jazz Band - Hark The Herald Angels Swing</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This particular album just might be one of the best Christmas albums I've ever heard. Back in the late 70's, my wife, Sweet Loretta, and I got our hands on this Yuletide classic when Sweet Lo's Dad (Nick Sassone who was a fabulous jazz artist) gave us a copy. Since then it's been a frequently played Christmas album every December here at Mind Smoke Manor. When it comes to Christmas album, there aren't that many that are as tasty as this one!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"This is one of the happier Christmas jazz LPs ever released. Although barely 32 minutes, this outing by the World's Greatest Jazz Band is filled with delightful performances of Yuletide favorites including <em>Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer</em>, <em>Joy to the World</em>, <em>Jingle Bells</em>, and <em>Winter Wonderland</em>, showing that many Christmas songs lend themselves well to Dixieland. The hot music is performed by trumpeters Yank Lawson and Billy Butterfield, trombonists Vic Dickenson and Eddie Hubble, Bob Wilber on clarinet and soprano, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, pianist Ralph Sutton, bassist Bob Haggart, and drummer Gus Johnson." (All Music site)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The World's Greatest Jazz Band - Hark The Herald Angels Swing</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Little Steven's Underground Garage Presents: Christmas A Go Go </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ahooooooo! Here's a classic rock & roll album as parlayed by Little Steven (of the E Street Band & solo career). Released in 2008, the Christmas A Go Go was one of the first credible rock & roll Christmas album in the modern age. The group of tracks assembled by Little Steven are what rock & roll is all about! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Little Steven's Christmas A Go Go album was a genuine godsend that reminded us of rock & rollers should always come up with some Christmas albums fer sure! Among the excellent racks here are the songs that I immediately fell in love with...the Kinks' <em>Father Christmas</em>, Clarence Carter's <em>Backdoor Santa</em>, the Ramones' <em>Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)</em>, Bob Seger's high energy tune <em>Sock It to Me Santa</em> and Keith Richards's <em>Run Rudolph Run</em>. Yes indeed, CHRISTMAS A GO-GO is a XMas must-have!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre (hey! that's me!) - Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Surprise Surprise! Back in 2015, I actually released a Christmas album featuring songs that I had written with Sweet Lo (my wifey). There were no Christmas standards on the album whatsoever. We had a dang good time writing all of these Yuletide tunes.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's A Review Of the above mentioned album from </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Stubby's House Of Christmas website: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"C'mon and take a trip with me to Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree. Now, for cover art alone, I'd pick it up if I came across it in the bins and crates. I keep telling people the cover art is very important. And here we have a perfect example. I mean, look at it. Don't you want to hoist one of those green things with Santa? His expression is perfect, the background is perfect, it's just...perfect. So Johnny Pierre gets an A+ on the cover art. Now, of course, what's in the grooves is where the real points are scored. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Johnny Pierre has been making the Long Island Blues Rock scene for some 40 years. He lived for a long while in New Orleans, so he picked all that music up. His gravely vocals can remind you of Tom Waits on the slower stuff and he can bring on Howlin' Wolf on the stuff that cooks. Over the years, Johnny's opened for some of the greats...Dr. John, Albert King, John Hiatt and NRBQ to name a few. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">While making a Christmas record, Johnny decided not to simply spit out the same tunes everyone else does. Every song on Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree is an original and this album provides an excellent mix for a Holiday party. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">For whatever reason, I was actually drawn more to the weird stuff, here, than the blues rockers. Christmas Night is a 2 minute tune in which the vocals don't come in until the second minute. It's weird and kind of beautiful, all at once. I'm still not entirely sure what's going on in Christmas Eve @ Santa's Workshop. But I like it. And I dug New Year's Party because, to me at least, it's got a Doug & The Slugs vibe. And, if it is the Blues Rock you came for, you can't go wrong with Santa's Housetop Blues. Happy Holidays to one & all!"</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Christmas Cards: The Video</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">At some point, Sweet Lo and I decided to make a (gasp!) Video </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">to promote the album...shazam!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Special Thanks to our daughter Molly who took on the job of Editor!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Johnny Pierre Holiday Jamboree album is available @</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">KEEF RICHARDS on his (gasp!) Birthday!</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From the dw.com site: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"From boy soprano to rock hell-raiser, Keith Richards singlehandedly sums up the sex, drugs and rock and roll ethos. He cuts an iconic figure with his mane of unkempt hair and impossibly lined face. He's been a key figure in the music business for more than half a century and is one half of one of rock's most successful writing partnerships. Rolling Stone magazine credits him for creating <em>rock's greatest single body of riffs</em>.</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Richards has sung backing vocals on all the Stones' albums and occasionally takes on lead vocal duties during live shows. But he is best known as a guitarist. Richards himself modestly described his job as "oiling the machinery." But former bandmate Bill Wyman said of him that while most musicians follow the drummer, "there was no way of not following his lead."</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">While he has co-penned many Stones classics, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1993, Richards himself has stated that playing has always been a more satisfying creative expression than songwriting.</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Eschewing flashy virtuosity, his guitar-playing focuses instead on solid chords and rhythms. Despite taking to the stage over the years with iconic guitars like the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul, Richards regards the acoustic guitar as the basis for playing and has laid down guitar tracks for several Stones songs with the instrument. The tracks are then re-amped through a speaker during studio production."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From thegaurdian.com:</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"It's very difficult to say - when did I identify the blues as a particular form of music? My mum was playing me jazz - a lot of Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan. I mean, it's not your country blues but, as I went on, I realised that I was brought up on a broad basis of blues music without even knowing it, so, in a way, I'm a result of what my mum played. I had a natural affinity for it, I think, so it wasn't like a conscious thing or anything like that. You know, I didn't think in terms of black or white then. You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. It was just what came in the ears and, my, what it did to you. And then I slowly realized that what these cats were doing was closely related to what I'd grown up listening to. You know, it was more stripped down, it was more rural. And then I went into this thing of finding out - where did he get it from? And without actually being able to call up Chuck Berry - I was 15 - and say, '<em>Hey, Chuck, where do you get that from?</em>', you went through record labels and found out that Muddy Waters had been the guy to introduce Chuck Berry to Chess Records - then there's a connection. Then I got into Muddy Waters and then, before I knew it, that leads you immediately to Robert Johnson."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From wsj.com site:</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Whether the Rolling Stones are recording or not, Richards says that his songwriter’s brain is always engaged. 'Writing songs, you don’t get a minute off, not even to sleep,' he says. 'You wake up in the middle of the night with a couple of notes in your head, and you’ve got to get out of bed and figure it out. It’s like being incontinent—either you’ve got to take a pee, or you’ve got to lay this little line down. 'So you get up, go to the piano or the guitar and hope it sticks. I don’t record shit. If I don’t remember it, it’s no good. I’ll wait for the wife or one of the daughters and see if they start to sing it without knowing it.'"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From the thisdayinmusic.com site:</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Keith Richards – The World’s Most Elegantly Wasted Human Being! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">1. The Fort Harrison Hotel (known at the time as the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel) where Keith Richards rolled out of bed with the idea for the riff for <em>I Can't Get No Satisfaction</em> was bought by the Church of Scientology in 1975 and now frequently hosts religious retreats.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2. In his autobiography, Keith said he once cleared a hotel room of unwanted guests by getting a gun out and firing it through the floor.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">3. In 1976 when Keith Richards arrived two and a half hours late for a UK court appearance, on drug and driving charges, he blamed his late arrival on the fact that his trousers had not been returned from the cleaners on time.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">4. In his <em>Life</em> autobiography, Richards reckons that on average, he slept only two nights a week for many years of the Stones’ glory years. '<em>This means that I have been conscious for at least three lifetimes</em>,' he calculated.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">5. On the night of the infamous 1967 Redlands drug bust, Keith was so far gone on LSD that when the police arrived at his Sussex country mansion, he mistook them for uniformed dwarves, welcoming them in with open arms.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">6. Keith Richards recorded the rough version of the riff for <em>(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction</em> in a hotel room. He ran through it once before falling asleep. He said when he listened back to it in the morning; there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and '<em>then me snoring for the next forty minutes</em>'.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">7. Perirehaedulus richardsi is a species of prehistoric trilobite named after Keith Richards.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">8. Keith once nearly burned down the Playboy Mansion. At a party in the 1970s, he and sax player Bobby Keys accidentally set fire to a bathroom.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">9. Keith coined a name for his preferred tipple. According to the man himself, “Whiskey wasn’t agreeing with me anymore. The old body couldn’t take it. Brandy is a killer, and wine is best with food, so somehow I settled on this.” His recipe is 2 oz. premium vodka. 1 oz. of orange soda and plenty of ice. Keith calls it Nuclear Waste.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">10. Nellcôte, which was leased during the summer of 1971 by Keith Richards, and used for recording sessions for their Exile on Main St. album, had previously served as the headquarters of the local Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of France in the early 1940s.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Beatles Mad Days Out:</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Leaving The Past, Moving Like Butterflies</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Tick Tock! Tick Tock!</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">On December 20th back in 2020, M Frank, a longtime friend of mine from my college days, emailed me and revealed that he had been working on a book called <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em> which was about (you guessed it) The Beatles! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Of course, we immediately began to discuss and critique any news about The Beatles and their music via emails. Along the way, M Frank decided he would like me to be involved with the book so I signed on as the Editor.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">As the concept for <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper </em>developed, M. Frank imagined the book as a scrapbook; something that would reinforce the readers' personal memories of The Beatles. A short while later, after a title for the book was conceived (<em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em>), the scrapbook suddenly turned into an electronic flip book! </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">As things began to move rapidly, <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em> became the first in a trilogy of ‘digital scrapbooks’ that will re-tell the story of the Beatles via a blend of words and images. Becoming Sgt. Pepper focused on the group’s meteoric rise to fame and - by its end - explains why they turned their backs on ‘Beatlemania’ and adopted the musical alter egos that would later lead them to record 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'.</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Much to our surprise, as we released <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em>, we were suddenly overwhelmed by an impressive legion of readers who embraced the book immediately which sealed the deal that there would indeed be a 2nd M. Frank Beatles book!</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular"> In a short spa</span>n of time, <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em> received a response from over 80 thousand readers from over 100 countries around the world. This immediately caught each and every one of us by surprise! M. Frank and the team he assembled to create the first book were as excited as the readers.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">MAD DAYS OUT (the 2nd Beatles book in a trilogy by M. Frank)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">MAD DAYS OUT is M. Frank's multimedia account of a time when the Beatles were regularly creating masterpieces like <em>Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band</em> and the <em>White Album</em>.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">All of us, who participated in the efforts to help M. Frank create his 2nd Beatles book, now find ourselves at the finishing line of the new book. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">With that in mind, I thought it would be a great idea to get some response from M. Frank regarding how this 2nd Beatles book came to life.</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Greetings Michael, I thought it would be great for you to provide the readers of my blog with some inside info on how your MAD DAYS OUT book came to life.</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">M. Frank</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The author of MAD DAYS OUT</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Well JP, I started working on the book about 2 years ago! I wrote in episodes. For example: I started by writing an episode on the making of Strawberry Fields Forever. And I would test the episode by posting it with various photos on Facebook to see which episodes & photos generated the best responses (and which ones didn’t). The episode gathered some interest. As time went on, I became sure that this was a great method of testing out various parts of the 2nd book.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In February of this year, I started assembling the book by inserting the episodes that had either drawn the most unique responses to various Beatles moments or certain stories that I thought were critical to the story that I had been posting on Facebook. The assembly process took roughly 8 months as we whittled the book down from approximately 200 pages to its final length of 130.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">To some extent, there is one part of the book that I think the readers will find themselves drawn into which is the fabulous tableau of London circa 1967. However it's also important that <span class="font_regular">MAD DAYS OUT </span>not only reflects the colorful psychedelic era it springs from but it also practically represents the entire era. I'm very proud that the new book tells the story in a unique way through music, videos, photos & text that covers the Beatles from November 1966 (when they started recording <em>Strawberry Fields</em>) to January 1969 (when they started recording the Let It Be film/soundtrack). </h3>
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<span class="font_regular">Over the past several months, M. Frank and his team have been working diligently to present readers with a deluxe Ebook that will allow them to enjoy videos and a 15-song Beatle ‘jukebox’ as they experience MAD DAYS OUT.</span> </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">It's important to let you know, that due to these deluxe features, users may experience some difficulties depending on the quality of their WiFi connection. During our vigorous evaluation of MAD DAYS OUT, we found that a large WIFI capacity is required to enjoy the full experience. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">We ask you to be patient should you encounter any performance issues. As we move forward, we plan to release a standard (non-deluxe) version of MAD DAYS OUT that can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of their Wifi connection. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Note: If the book isn't working properly you may want to try a different online browser. This morning I was having a bit of trouble reading the book while on Google Chrome and when I switched to Microsoft Edge the book worked perfectly.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Oh! I almost forgot...you can read MAD DAYS OUT for FREE! So without further adieu, click on the link below and enjoy the ride!</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">For those of you who have not had the chance to </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">check out M. Frank's first book</h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Here is the link to <a contents="BECOMING SGT. PEPPER" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.becoming-sgt-pepper.com/tben"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BECOMING SGT. PEPPER</span></span></a>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">NEW ALBUM RELEASES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!</span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">JOHNNY PIERRE - SHADOW PLAY </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">FREELANCE VANDALS - SONGS FROM THE VAULT</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">VARIOUS ARTISTS - MIND SMOKE HOLIDAY SAMPLER 2022</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This just in...I've been working as the editor of my dear friend, M. Frank's 2nd installment of his Beatles books trilogy for about the past two years and tomorrow we are launching the book. A preview on YouTube just went live. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The past is never where you think you left it</h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The New M. Frank Beatles Book </span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">goes LIVE tomorrow EST New York! !</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">MAD DAYS OUT is M. Frank's multimedia account of a time when the Beatles were regularly creating masterpieces like Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Check out today's promotional video:</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Special Thanks go out to Josie and Molly!</em></span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>NEW ALBUM RELEASES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!</em></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">JOHNNY PIERRE - SHADOW PLAY</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://johnnypierremusic.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-play"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BANDCAMP</span></a></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/shadow-play/1655215821"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">APPLE MUSIC</span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">VARIOUS ARTISTS - MIND SMOKE HOIDAY SAMPER 2022 </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">FREELANCE VANDALS - SONGS FROM THE VAULT </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Rock Around the Clock says it's time for </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">one of the strangest yuletide songs of all:</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Santa Claus is Coming To Town</em> </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">by the one and only Joseph Spence!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Joseph Spence</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Here's an article I came across on the <em>American Christmas Songbook</em> website that covers some of the mysteries of the late great Joseph Spence.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Stumbling Upon the Musical Genius of Joseph Spence </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"As a professional singer, I have a pretty low tolerance for the “holiday” music that wallpapers America nonstop for the last month of every year (or, to my dismay, more than the last month). I’ve done my share of starting Christmas music rehearsals before Columbus Day, so musical holiday cheer is not a strong motivator for me. Maybe that’s why my first encounter with Bahamian guitar genius Joseph Spence was such an epiphany.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">My spouse and I were sitting on the couch listening to a local radio show called Traditions with Mary Cliff: 'folk music and things you can see from there.” Suddenly, the sounds coming from the radio were unlike anything we’d ever heard. I stared at him wide-eyed, and he scrambled for the volume knob. We listened in pure delight to Joseph Spence’s genre-defying interpretation of <em>Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town</em>. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">We set out to find out everything we could about him. It turned out that we were pretty late to the party. Joseph Spence lived from 1910 to 1984, and among those who cite his influence are Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, and the Grateful Dead. His songs were first recorded and brought to a wider audience in 1959 with the release of the Smithsonian Folkways album Music of the Bahamas Volume One: Bahamian Folk Guitar (below). This album features field recordings taken by Samuel Charters, whose personal interest in the varieties of music made by North Americans of African descent were seminal in bringing to light the influence of the blues on jazz.² His enthusiasm for such music led him to amass field recordings of now legendary folk musicians whose contributions may otherwise have been lost forever, including those done on Joseph Spence’s front porch.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">One of the things that makes Joseph Spence’s recordings so delightful is his vocalizations. The actual lyrics of the songs occasionally make appearances, but they are overshadowed by the instantly recognizable scat style that employs his unique idiolect, influenced by the rhythmic lilt of Bahamian creole.³ As easy as it is to get lost in the pure joy of Spence’s vocal style, his guitar technique and facility with improvisation are truly remarkable. The first time Samuel Charters heard Spence, he thought there were two guitarists playing together,⁴ and many accomplished guitarists have found Spence’s plucking technique easy to admire but difficult to imitate. Spence’s fancy finger work on his sometimes out-of-tune guitar, the percussive effects of his vocal sounds, and his rhythmic beating on the body of the instrument make a complete one-man band. Now that’s what I call holiday cheer!"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/johnny-pierres-holiday-jamboree/1033888881"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPLE MUSIC</span></span></a></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Wishing One & All Happy Holidays!</span></em></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gadzooks!</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It's (almost) Christmas Card Day!</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Every year, Christmas Card Day is celebrated on December 9th and serves as a reminder to get your stamps, envelopes, and cards together so you can share your holiday cheer.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Henry Cole (who created the very first Christmas Card)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">"A prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Cole travelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian England, and had the misfortune of having too many friends. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During the holiday season of 1843, those friends were causing Cole much anxiety.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The problem were their letters: An old custom in England, the Christmas and New Year’s letter had received a new impetus with the recent expansion of the British postal system and the introduction of the <em>Penny Post</em>, allowing the sender to send a letter or card anywhere in the country by affixing a penny stamp to the correspondence. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Now, everybody was sending letters. Sir Cole—best remembered today as the founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London—was an enthusiastic supporter of the new postal system, and he enjoyed being the 1840s equivalent of an A-Lister, but he was a busy man. As he watched the stacks of unanswered correspondence he fretted over what to do. 'In Victorian England, it was considered impolite not to answer mail,' says Ace Collins, author of Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas. 'He had to figure out a way to respond to all of these people.' </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f116cb2f51efe57cb9dc3889d7c7ee03fb8e2ccf/original/a1-the-first-xmas-card.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The First Christmas Card (created by Henry Cole)</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Cole hit on an ingenious idea. He approached an artist friend, J.C. Horsley, and asked him to design an idea that Cole had sketched out in his mind. Cole then took Horsley’s illustration—a triptych showing a family at table celebrating the holiday flanked by images of people helping the poor—and had a thousand copies made by a London printer. The image was printed on a piece of stiff cardboard 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches in size. At the top of each was the salutation, 'TO:_____' allowing Cole to personalize his responses, which included the generic greeting <em>A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You</em>. It was the first Christmas card." (Smithsonian Magazine)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Back in 2019, I created a Christmas album called <a contents="Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://johnnypierremusic.bandcamp.com/album/johnny-pierres-holiday-jamboree"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><em>Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</em></span></a>. which was unique in that it only featured original Christmas music rather than the usual old time Yuletide tunes. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">After recording of one of the songs called <em>Christmas Cards</em>, I assembled a crew of myself, my wife Sweet Loretta (Camera Operator & Director) & my daughter Molly (Editor) to create a wonderful video called (you guess it) CHRISTMAS CARDS!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's A Review Of the above mentioned album from Stubby's House Of Christmas website: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"C'mon and take a trip with me to <em>Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</em>. Now, for cover art alone, I'd pick it up if I came across it in the bins and crates. I keep telling people the cover art is very important. And here we have a perfect example. I mean, look at it. Don't you want to hoist one of those green things with Santa? His expression is perfect, the background is perfect, it's just...perfect. So Johnny Pierre gets an A+ on the cover art. Now, of course, what's in the grooves is where the real points are scored. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre has been making the Long Island Blues Rock scene for some 40 years. He lived for a long while in New Orleans, so he picked all that music up. His gravely vocals can remind you of Tom Waits on the slower stuff and he can bring on Howlin' Wolf on the stuff that cooks. Over the years, Johnny's opened for some of the greats...Dr. John, Albert King, John Hiatt and NRBQ to name a few. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">While making a Christmas record, Johnny decided not to simply spit out the same tunes everyone else does. Every song on <em>Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</em> is an original and this album provides an excellent mix for a Holiday party. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For whatever reason, I was actually drawn more to the weird stuff, here, than the blues rockers. <em>Christmas Night</em> is a 2 minute tune in which the vocals don't come in until the second minute. It's weird and kind of beautiful, all at once. I'm still not entirely sure what's going on in <em>Christmas Eve @ Santa's Workshop</em>. But I like it. And I dug <em>New Year's Party</em> because, to me at least, it's got a Doug & The Slugs vibe. And, if it is the Blues Rock you came for, you can't go wrong with Santa's Housetop Blues. Happy Holidays to one & all!"</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">WISHING ONE & ALL A COOL YULE!</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's This Year's Random Christmas Tidbits </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From the World Wide Interweb!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Haiku Monday: Every Heart Comes Home To Christmas</span></em></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This wonderful Yuletide music was created by Haiku Monday's leader, Margarite. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">C'est Si Bon Margarite!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="12 Of The Worst Holiday Albums Of The Last 20 Years&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-worst-holiday-albums-last-20-years-20141202-story.html"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">12 Of The Worst Holiday Albums Of The Last 20 Years </span></a></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Mojo Time Machine:&nbsp;Rock ’n’ Roll’s First Christmas" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.mojo4music.com/time-machine/1950s/mojo-time-machine-rocknrolls-first-christmas/"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Mojo Time Machine: Rock ’n’ Roll’s First Christmas</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="David Byrne Presents: Eclectic For The Holidays" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://davidbyrne.com/radio/david-byrne-presents-eclectic-for-the-holidays"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">David Byrne Presents: Eclectic For The Holidays</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Christmas Wrapping Spreads Cheer Years Later" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/lifestyle/2021/12/05/christmas-wrapping-the-waitresses-chris-butler-song-1981/8769307002/?fbclid=IwAR2qeAWdjvgFQm5jQUiiTaIyCrjHg5UmhjWaQaP-TA5q4cE8jNEuP61Rd4k"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Christmas Wrapping Spreads Cheer Years Later</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Untangling The History Of Christmas Lights" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/untangling-history-christmas-lights-180961140/"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Untangling The History Of Christmas Lights</span></span></a></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Six Million Dollar Man Christmas Record</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sweet Fancy Moses! It suddenly happened back in the summertime. After a rousing cocktail hour, several Mind Smoke Records artists (Haiku Monday, Freelance Vandals, Johnny Pierre and the Biscuit Kings) decided they wanted to be part of Mind Smoke's annual Holiday Sampler this year!</span></h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2348221/mind-smoke-holiday-sampler"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h2>
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<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/71154972022-12-02T08:03:49-05:002022-12-02T08:03:49-05:00A Forgotten Holiday blog post from 2021!<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0fdfe2a462296a0cedaedf0e195cfd9ca8b15e41/original/christmas-cards-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gadzooks! I just came across a 2021 Holiday blog post </span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">that I had completely forgotten about!</span></h2>
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<span class="font_regular"><a contents="Mind Smoke Records Holiday Mailbag 2021!&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/blog/blog/6783569/mind-smoke-records-holiday-mailbag-2021"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Mind Smoke Records Holiday Mailbag 2021! </span></a></span><br> </h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The new Johnny Pierre Album is out now!</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://johnnypierremusic.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-play"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">BANDCAMP</span></span></a></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/shadow-play/1655215821"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPLE MUSIC</span></span></a></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2346009/shadow-play"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h2>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67691832022-11-30T06:32:10-05:002022-11-30T10:17:22-05:00The Worst Christmas Songs of All Time!<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/074c6a21d406cd5721a1ef3913f643158ee4366d/original/dscn0456.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ho Ho Ho Boys & Girls! </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As the years roll by and with the arrival of every Christmas, there are always Christmas songs that are as crappy as all get out. Once these malignant sounds begin to play, you just might find yourself drinking heavily!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It's Time For The Worst Christmas Songs of ALL TIME!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">10. Lou Monte: Dominick The Donkey</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Lou Monte’s <em>Dominick The Donkey</em>, a yuletide tune that was released in 1960, is about Saint Nicola distributing his Christmas gifts across the Italian countryside with the aid of a donkey whose hee-haw noises makes this holiday song beyond listenable.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">09. Elmo & Patsy - Granma Got Run Over By A Reindeer</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Released as a single in 1979 by Elmo and Patsy, this novelty tune has a heady dark vibe and it's a sure thing that you'll end up bringing your kiddies to therapy if you insist on playing this Yuletide mistake when they're within ear shot!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">08. Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Gadzooks! Every time this Xmas ditty comes on the radio I find that it seems to create an image of a young child creeping around the house, spying on his mother, whom he thinks is having an affair with jolly old Santa Claus. It appears that we’re supposed to know that it’s actually Daddy who's wearing the Santa suit. But the kid never seems to figure this out as he vows to rat out Mom like a member of the Hitler Youth. As the song moves along you can imagine the child saying, <em>Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! My mom’s an adulteress!</em> This<em> </em>version, parlayed by a young Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, comes across as both peppy and disturbing. Oh my!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">07. William Hung - Winter Wonderland</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"No one needs to remind you that William Hung is a horrible singer. What makes this album so terrible is the crass commercialism that went into releasing it. In 2004, when Hung was an unexpected American Idol phenomenon, and the joke of the country, Koch Records cashed in and released his album. Just to make sure they’d rung every possible cent out of the Hung sensation, they released a Christmas album, too. And now some smart ass is going to bring it to your holiday party every year to play '<em>as a joke</em>'. Thanks go out to all you a-holes!" (flavorwire.com)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">06. William Shatner - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ahwooooooooo! William Shatner (widely known from his past recordings such as his interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man") brings his dinner theatre style of Shakespeare-like vocalizing to this old Xmas warhorse. Shatner is joined by such stalwarts as Billy Gibbons and Iggy Pop. A new level of downright cheesiness is achieved here! Note: Do not eat anything prior to listening to this recording!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">05. Iggy Pop: White Christmas (Dubstep Remix)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I've always been a big fan of Iggy Pop but this particular track is pretty much crap. In his vocalizing, Iggy attempts to use a David Bowie approach (or did Bowie steal Iggy's vocal style? Hmmm...) There's a narcotic atmosphere through out this sparkling piece of toonage.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">04. David Hasselhoff - T'was The Night Before Christmas</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This track was part of a David Hasselhoff Christmas album that was released in 2004. Surprisingly (nyuk nyuk!) this fine album never reached the shores of America but was a smash hit in Germany. The German people have embraced the Hoff the way French people embrace Jerry Lewis. In 2013, the New York Post rated the album as <em>number 1 worst celebrity Christmas album</em>, saying the album spread 'Christmas fear instead of cheer'. Enjoy the title track folks!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">03. Tiny Tim - Santa Claus Has Got the AIDS This Year</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sweet Fancy Moses! Talk about a musical car wreck! "In May 1968, Tiny Tim featured in the American magazine Newsweek; the article was called <em>The Last Innocent</em>. It might be suggested that the passage of time resulted in him losing his innocence, but although this Christmas song cum novelty song sounds in extreme bad taste, it was actually written around 1980 <em>before Rock Hudson </em>in Tiny Tim's own words...Be all that as it may, the 1994 publication <em>The Book of Lists: The '90s Edition</em>, by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace listed <em>Santa Claus Has Got The AIDS This Year</em> as number 7 in Dr. Demento's 11 Worst Song Titles Of All Time." (songfacts.com) Amen.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">02. Steve Mauldin - O Holy Night</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Be sure you have a shot of strong whiskey before you listen to this one. "This bizarre yuletide track has a definite link to southern gospel music. For years, an mp3 floated around the gospel industry of an objectively terrible rendition of Oh Holy Night. It was often viewed by industry insiders as the perfect example of someone who is blissfully unaware of how bad they really are at singing." (Holidays In Hell blog)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">01. Joel Grey - I'm Gonna Put Some Glue 'Round the Christmas Tree</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"This is a song about a budding serial killer and torturer devising an elaborate Saw-like trap for Santa Claus, who he plans to hold captive for the entire year. Creepy enough before you get to the fact that Joel Grey was a grown man singing in the voice of a little boy by the time he recorded this one." (esquire.com)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree album</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">will get you in the Holiday Mood fer sure!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9fbe308ea660883651bc4afab18559798b6d9c78/original/dscn0456.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><span class="font_regular">Here's A Yuletide Review from the stubbyschristmas.com website:</span>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"C'mon and take a trip with me to <em>Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</em>. Now, for cover art alone, I'd pick it up if I came across it in the bins and crates. I keep telling people the cover art is very important. And here we have a perfect example. I mean, look at it. Don't you want to hoist one of those green things with Santa? His expression is perfect, the background is perfect, it's just...perfect. So you get an A+ on the cover art, dude. Now, of course, what's in the grooves is where the real points are scored. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre has been making the Long Island Blues Rock scene for some 40 years. He lived for a long while in New Orleans, so he picked all that music up. His gravely vocals can remind you of Tom Waits on the slower stuff and he can bring on Howlin' Wolf on the stuff that cooks. Johnny's opened for some of the greats--Albert King, Paul Butterfield, and NRBQ to name a few. In making a Christmas record, Johnny decided not to simply spit out the same tunes everyone else does. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Every song on <em>Johnny Pierre's Holiday Jamboree</em> is an original and this album provides an excellent mix for a Holiday party. For whatever reason, I was actually drawn more to the weird stuff, here, than the blues rockers. <em>Christmas Night</em> is an under 2 minute tune in which the vocals don't come in until the second minute. It's weird and kind of beautiful, all at once. I'm still not entirely sure what's going on in <em>Christmas Eve @ Santa's Workshop</em>. But I like it. And I dug <em>New Year's Party</em> because, to me at least, it's got a Doug & The Slugs vibe. And, if it is the Blues Rock you came for, you can't go wrong with <em>It's Christmastime Again</em>. Happy Holidays to one & all!"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">& various music streaming outlets</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The <em>Rock Around the Clock </em>says it's time for our Yuletide Song of the Day: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Put The Loot In the Boot Santa by Mae West!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny's Pierre's Holiday Jamboree </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">is an album of original rock & roll songs that celebrate the Yuletide Season!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Available Now @</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& all of streaming platforms</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Lost Music!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Lost Music is a fantastic single circa 1966 by the Talon Brothers, <em>I Think There Is Something Sleeping In My Refrigerator</em>! I first came across this gem of a song on my favorite radio station, WFMU.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This particular single offered up scant info on the band. However, I came across something posted on the Rate Your Music sight: "Though there was at least one member of the group named J. Talon (A-side song writer and vocalist), the band's name seems to come from two historical brothers who were members of French explorer LaSalle's ill-fated expedition to locate the mouth of the Mississippi river in the gulf of Mexico toward the end of the 17th century. Most of the search party was massacred by native Americans, though some of the children were spared and adopted by the tribe. Among these were the two French Canadian Talon brothers. The musical group's first of two releases was this single from late '66 which seems to be about the aftermath of an LSD trip in which the singer thinks he hears noises coming from inside his ice box. It's a mid-tempo semi-garage/pop number with some mild novelty elements and perhaps even a few nascent bubblegum vibes. It features a strong bass line, semi-psychotic sounding vocals and vocal harmony on the chorus. The other side is mid-slow garage/folk/pop with more vocal harmony on the chorus and vocal duet on the verses and featuring some mild guitar accompaniment. Both songs are good, though the A-side is clearly the star of this show. It may have been a promo-only release, as no stock label copies can be located anywhere on the web."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /><span class="font_regular">Here's some various comments on the YouTube site:</span>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Joe Strong (one of the band's guitarists): "I'm the guitar player playing the fuzz tone. I remember Johnny Talon very well. We recorded this tune and a few others at Sunset Vine studios in Hollywood CA in late1965. He actually had a very good voice. We really had a tight sound and a great thing going but three of us got drafted into the service and that was that. I was the lead guitar (Joe). Craig Forrest was on rhythm guitar, now deceased, Al Wright was the drummer and who is now a retired fireman and Charlie Brown was the bass player and who is also deceased. We have no idea where Johnny is today."</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Music Fan: "Har har har! It's difficult to believe that Clive Davis would have ever green-lighted something like this. The lead vocalist sounds like Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson and Sean Bonniwell all rolled into one!"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Talon Brothers - I Think There Is Something Sleeping In My Refrigerator</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">If there's anyone out there who might be able to provide further info</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">on the Talon Brothers and this song</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">please feel free to leave a comment on this blog post!</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Johnny Pierre's new single</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>GRAVITY BONE</em></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">is out now!</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The clock on the wall says it's almost Turkey Day</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span class="font_regular">& it's time to get </span><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><span class="font_regular">in the Holiday Spirit!</span> </span>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">they are the charming gardeners </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">who make our souls blossom." </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">— Marcel Proust</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's some tasty sounds that will</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">help you celebrate your Thanksgiving Holiday!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Red Rodney Sextet - Dig This Menu Please!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Red Rodney was a well known jazz artist who spent some time playing with Charlie Parker. After paying his dues with Charlie Parker, Rodney assembled his own combo and came up with this great track. Every year, I always start things off with this cool track!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Cab Calloway - Everybody Eats When They Come To My House</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">I've always been a big fan of what I like to call "Hep Cat Music". For me this Cab Calloway tune really captures the spirit of a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Everybody Eats When They Come To My House</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"> </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Have a banana, Hannah </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Try the salami, Tommy </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Get with the gravy, Davy </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Everybody eats when they come to my house </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Try a tomato, Plato </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Here's cacciatore, Dory </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Taste the bologna, Tony </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Everybody eats when they come to my house </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Pass me a pancake, Mandrake </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Havin' a derby, Irvy </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Look in the fendel, Mendel </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Everybody eats when they come to my house </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Hannah, Davy, Tommy, Dora, Mandrake </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Everybody eats when they come to my house </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Pasta fazoola, Tallulah </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Oh, do have a bagel, Fagel </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Now don't be so bashful, Nashville </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Everybody eats when they come to my house </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Hey, this is a party, Marty </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Well, you get the cherry, Jerry </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Now look, don't be so picky, Mickey </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">'Cause everybody eats when they come to my house</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5a26c0cf4d936bfb0e72f8724c07004f0d0d6285/original/thankgiving-plate-1.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2UNGUxhFIrI" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2UNGUxhFIrI/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2UNGUxhFIrI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette - Oysters and Wine At 2 A.M.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Clickety clank of the bottles as the cheer is passed around...Clank! Clank!</span></em></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This tune by Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette is on my Thanksgiving Playlist each and every year. Awhile ago, I was trying to find some info on Polk Miller and came across an article on him on the Wikipedia site: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Polk Miller was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in August 1844. While growing up, he learned to play the banjo from slaves on his father's plantation. He became a druggist in Richmond in 1860. During the American Civil War, he served as a Confederate artilleryman. At his drugstore in Richmond, Miller began making remedies for Sergeant, his favorite hunting dog. His friends soon found these remedies worked for their dogs as well. In 1868, began selling the products in the drugstore. This was the beginning of Sergeant's Pet Care Products, Inc. The tradename was established in 1886. By 2007, over 400 pet care products were sold under the Sergeant's trade name. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Polk Miller</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1892, he began performing music professionally. Through the 1890s he had a solo act in which he played banjo, sang songs and told stories. Already comfortably well-off from his drugstore business, Polk Miller had little need to earn money from such appearances, using them to raise funds for church repairs, Confederate monuments and Confederate veterans, while broadcasting his apologist views. In his own words: 'As an entertainer, it has been my aim to vindicate the slave-holding class against the charge of cruelty and inhumanity to the negro of the old time.' </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette had a variety show of Stories, Sketches and Songs depicting African American life before the Civil War. Miller was white, and the four members of the quartet were black. Until recently, only 2 of the 20 or so black singers that sang in the quartet were widely known: James L. Stamper and Randall Graves. However further research has identified the names of five others: Anderson Epps, first or lead tenor; Archie Johnson, baritone; Clarence Smith, second tenor; Alphonso DeWitt, basso; and Walter Lightfoot, baritone. They gained national prominence and toured between 1900 and 1911, stopping out of concern for the dangers of touring a racially integrated group. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">At one performance, Mark Twain introduced Polk Miller at Madison Square Garden...Miller and his quartet played colleges and military schools, as well as the "most exclusive social clubs" in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. Polk Miller's and the Old South Quartette were featured on some of Thomas Edison's earlier phonograph recordings. In 2008, Tompkins Square issued seven 1909 Edison cylinder records and seven 1928 disc recordings in the compilation Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">From slate.com: A Brief History of Pie </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">At the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621, Pilgrims brought English style, meat-based recipes with them to the colonies. While pumpkin pie, which was first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash. It was not popularized in America until the early 1800's. Historians don't know all the dishes the Pilgrims served at the first Thanksgiving feats, but primary documents indicate that the pilgrims cooked fowl and venison and it's not unlikely that some of that meat found its way between sheets of dough at some point...because of their crusty tops, pies acted as a means to preserve food and were often used to keep the filling fresh during the winter months...Further, as the colonies spread out, the pie's role as a means to showcase local ingredients took hold and with it came a proliferation of new, sweet pies. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">A cookbook from 1796 listed only three types of sweet pies; a cookbook written in the late 1800's featured 8 sweet pie varieties; and by 1947 the Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking listed 65 different varieties of sweet pies...There are few things as American as apple pie, as the saying goes, but like much of America’s pie tradition, the original apple pie recipes came from England. These pre-Revolutionary prototypes were made with unsweetened apples and encased in an inedible shell. Yet the apple pie did develop a following, and was first referenced in the year 1589, in Menaphon by poet R. Greene: “Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies.” </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Pies today are world-spanning treats, made with everything from apples to avocados. The winners of this year’s annual APC Crisco National Pie Championship included classic apple, pumpkin and cherry pies, but citrus pies, banana foster crème and Wolf Pack trail mix pies have all made the awards list. Pies have come a long way since the days of magpie and pepper, but many bakeries — including The Little Pie Shop in New York City, in the audio below — say a classic apple pie is still their top holiday</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Blue Velvo - Hungry</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Blue Velvo were a one-of-kind Long Island rock band. They were sharp as a razor and always brought the heat! Sadly, Blue Velvo broke up but their music lives on!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Louis Prima with Keely Smith Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Closer To The Bone</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Louis Prima! It don't get much better than that! This song was originally recorded by a cowboy singer named Granpa Jones back in 1952. Somewhere along the way, the great New Orleans jazz artist, Louis Prima got his hands on this food oriented tune and the rest is history!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Closer To The Bone</span></em></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Closest to the bone <br>Sweeter is the meat <br>Last slice of Virginia ham <br>Is the best that you can eat </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't talk about my baby <br>She's slender but she's sweet <br>Closest to the bone <br>And sweeter is the meat </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Now she'd make a good thermometer <br>If she drank a glass of wine <br>She's built just like a garter snake <br>She climbs up like a vine </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">'Cause closest to the bone <br>Sweeter is the meat <br>Last slice of Virginia ham <br>Is the best that you can eat</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The History of Thanksgiving </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">From the history.com site: "Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans. In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. Historians have suggested that many of the dishes were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of 1621, the meal did not feature pies, cakes or other desserts, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians, earning her the nickname the Mother of Thanksgiving. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Although the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, its roots can be traced back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays—days of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As an annual celebration of the harvest and its bounty, moreover, Thanksgiving falls under a category of festivals that spans cultures, continents and millennia. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans feasted and paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest. Thanksgiving also bears a resemblance to the ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Finally, historians have noted that Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest with feasting and merrymaking long before Europeans set foot on their shores."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp And Gumbo</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Dave Bartholomew, one of the great New Orleans artists of the past, recorded this tune for Imperial Records. Shrimp And Gumbo is a real groove that has some definite Caribbean influence. There aren't many songs that sound more festive than Shrimp And Gumbo, a wild mix of party noise that's exactly what you'd hear at any Mardi Gras carnival. The band kicks in with a sound that is a nice slice of mambo-Mardi Gras gris-gris!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Steve Lucky with The Rhumba Bums & Miss Carmen Getit - Where's My Gravy</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> One of my favorite food tracks is by a good friend of mine named Steve Lucky. If you're ever in the San Francisco area, be sure to catch the one and only Steve Lucky. Steve plays frequently with his hot combo, the Rhumba Bums featuring Miss Carmen Getit!</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">IF YOU'RE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CHECK OUT THEIR UPCOMING SHOWS!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bo Diddley - Soul Food</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Bo Diddley was one of the first rock & rollers that captured my imagination. I've always dug his earthy approach to hittin' the groove. Go Bo Go!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The JB's - Pass The Peas</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Thanksgiving dinner wouldn't be magical without a nice bowl of peas and ham! The JBs were and still are one of the funkiest combos ever to walk the earth. "The J.B.'s were the legendary supporting cast of musicians behind James Brown, earning a well-deserved reputation as the tightest, best-drilled instrumental ensemble in all of funk. The name J.B.'s is most often associated with three horn men in particular -- saxophonists Maceo Parker and Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, and trombonist Fred Wesley, all of whom originally joined Brown's backing band at various points during the '60s.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Harold Burrage - You Eat Too Much</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">"This song is a cool early R&B track that is as hilarious as it is insulting!"</span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Alka Seltzer Commercial - Plop Plop! Fizz Fizz!</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Wishing One & All A HAPPY (Almost) THANKSGIVING!</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't miss out on the perfect song for dysfunctional families everywhere! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre's Holiday Single: Have A Happy Thanksgiving!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Download the tune @ the Mind Smoke Records!</h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This morning I woke up humming <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em>, a popular song by a combo called Smash Mouth. Back in 1997, when the tune was a big hit single, my daughter Molly played <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em> constantly. Somehow, it burrowed its way into my subconscious but over the years, the song never really found a place in my music collection....until this morning that is! Somehow, someway <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em> crawled out of my subconscious and pretty much set up camp somewhere in the side of my brain that gathers musical sounds. This was a strange moment but hey...if I really like a song, I always play it over and over!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Some salient info from the songfacts.com site: "The jaunty melody, featured in <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em>, belies the serious nature of this song, which is about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The song was written by the group's guitarist Greg Camp, who told Songfacts: '<em>The song was basically a social and racial battle cry. It was a sort of 'Can't we all get along?' song for the time when I wrote it. It was just about all the things that were going on around me as a young person. And I'm, like, God, what is going on? I don't understand why this is happening. It's like we might as well be walking around a planet on fire</em>.' </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Walkin' On The Sun</em> was Smash Mouth's first major-label single and their breakout hit. The group is from San Jose, California, where they had a supporter in Carson Daly, at the time a DJ at the alternative rock radio station KOME. In April 1996, the group was unsigned, but KOME put their song <em>Nervous in the Alley</em> in rotation anyway, and later added <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em>. Soon after, Daly moved to the mighty Los Angeles station KROQ, where he continued to champion the song and give it airplay. Other stations followed suit, attracting lots of attention to the band, which was courted by a passel of record labels. They signed with Interscope, which released <em>Walkin' on the Sun</em> as their first single in 1997. It landed at #1 on the Modern Rock chart and #2 on the Airplay chart (the song wasn't sold as a single, so it wasn't eligible for the Hot 100), helping the band's debut album <em>Fush Yu Mang</em> sell over 2 million copies. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The song interpolates the keyboard riff from the 1966 single <em>Swan's Splashdown</em> by the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley (Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley), which gives it a '60s retro sound. The mixing of musical genres and eras served Smash Mouth well and helped set the tone for their future hits. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The creation of <em>Walkin' On The Sun</em> dates back to 1992, when Greg Camp wrote it. He was in a different band at the time, which turned it down. When he joined Smash Mouth in 1994, he brought it to them. When Camp was asked about the song, he stated: '<em>I wrote it on a chintzy little nylon-string guitar that I had, and it sounded to me more like Santana or something. It had bongos and maracas and stuff on the original demo. We took it into Eric Valentine, who produced the record, and we just put this more locomotive driving beat to it. It was already simple, so we just did the little Doors-y style riff in there and that's what happened. The singer [Steve Harwell] brought it out to where it was supposed to be. He has this gravelly voice, but it still has a melody, so it just worked</em>.' </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun (Official Video)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">WALKIN' ON THE SUN</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It ain't no joke, I'd like to buy the world a toke <br>And teach the world to sing in perfect harmony <br>And teach the world to snuff the fires and the liars <br>Hey, I know it's just a song but it's spice for the recipe </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This is a love attack, I know it went out but it's back <br>It's just like any fad, it retracts before impact <br>And just like fashion, it's a passion for the with it and hip <br>If you got the goods, they'll come and buy it just to stay in the clique </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out <br>Allow if you're still alive, six to eight years to arrive <br>And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow <br>But if the offer's shunned <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Twenty-five years ago, they spoke out and they broke out <br>Of recession and oppression and together they toked <br>And they folked out with guitars around a bonfire <br>Just singin' and clappin', man, what the hell happened? </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Then some were spellbound, some were hell bound <br>Some they fell down and some got back up <br>And fought back against the melt-down <br>And their kids were hippie chicks, all hypocrites <br>Because fashion is smashin' the true meaning of it </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out <br>Allow if you're still alive, six to eight years to arrive <br>And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow <br>But if the offer's shunned <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It ain't no joke when our mama's handkerchief is soaked <br>With her tears because her baby's life has been revoked <br>The bond is broke up, so choke up and focus on the close up <br>Mr. Wizard can't perform no godlike hocus-pocus </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">So don't sit back, kick back and watch the world get bushwhacked <br>News at ten, your neighborhood is under attack <br>Put away the crack before the crack puts you away <br>You need to be there when your baby's old enough to relate </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out <br>Allow if you're still alive, six to eight years to arrive <br>And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow <br>But if the offer's shunned <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">You might as well be walkin' on the sun <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun <br>You might as well be walkin' on the sun</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The new Johnny Pierre single is out now!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">HALLOWEEN NIGHT</span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">along with BANDCAMP, APPLE MUSIC </span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Greetings One & All!</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Please Note That I Will Be On Hiatus</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">OCT 5th Thru OCT 10th</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Lost Music is a quirky and happy-go-lucky song called <em>Birdhouse In Your Soul</em> as parlayed by a combo called <em>They Might Be Giants</em>. The lyrics are taken from the perspective of a nightlight by a bed. The song employs some digital composition that provides it with some unconventional musical elements for a pop song.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Here's some info from songfacts.com: "<em>Birdhouse In Your Soul</em> was They Might Be Giants' biggest hit in both the USA and the UK. The song is a story of a child's blue canary-shaped night light, told from the night light's point of view. Across the room from the night light is a picture of a lighthouse, which would be his primitive ancestor. It could be interpreted that the night light is a metaphor for God or a guardian angel protecting the child. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The lyrics refer to Jason and the Argonauts, who were a band of heroes who in Greek legend set out in the ship Argo to fetch the Golden Fleece. It is unclear what relationship they have to the night light. Possibly the night light is comparing the small amount of light it beams with the lighthouse's powerful beam and it is admitting that if it had been me on that shore when Jason and the Argonauts arrived rather than the lighthouse, they would have been smashed on the rocks because of its shortcomings. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The song's video, directed by Adam Bernstein, was filmed inside the New York County's Surrogate's Court and Hall of Records building in Manhattan."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">John Linnell of They Might Be Giants</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">On They Might Be Giants' website, John Linnell stated that '<em>Birdhouse In Your Soul</em> is a song about a night light. That's it. It's written from the perspective of a night light serenading the occupant of its room. The thing is, there are so many syllables in the songs that we have to come up with something to fill the spaces. So it ends up being kind of Gilbert and Sullivany.'</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Linnell also told Rolling Stone Magazine that 'The melody and chords were cooked up years earlier, and the lyrics had to be shoehorned in to match the melody, which explains why the words are so oblique. I mean beautiful. I didn't find out what the Longines Symphonette was until after the song was released. It rhymed with '<em>infinite</em>' (sort of).'"</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I'm your only friend <br>I'm not your only friend <br>But I'm a little glowing friend <br>But really I'm not actually your friend <br>But I am </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch <br>Who watches over you <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul <br>Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I have a secret to tell <br>From my electrical well <br>It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells <br>So the room must listen to me <br>Filibuster vigilantly <br>My name is blue canary one note* spelled l-i-t-e <br>My story's infinite <br>Like the Longines Symphonette it doesn't rest </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch <br>Who watches over you <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul <br>Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I'm your only friend <br>I'm not your only friend <br>But I'm a little glowing friend <br>But really I'm not actually your friend <br>But I am </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">There's a picture opposite me <br>Of my primitive ancestry <br>Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free <br>Though I respect that a lot <br>I'd be fired if that were my job <br>After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts <br>Bluebird of friendliness Like guardian angels its always near </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch <br>Who watches over you <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul <br>Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">(and while you're at it <br>Keep the nightlight on inside the <br>Birdhouse in your soul) </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch (and while you're at it) <br>Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the) <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul) </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch (and while you're at it) <br>Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the) <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul) </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Not to put too fine a point on it <br>Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet <br>Make a little birdhouse in your soul</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">John Simon is an American music producer, composer, writer and performer. Recognized as one of the top record producers in the United States during the late 1960s and the 1970s, Simon produced numerous classic albums that continue to sell more than 50 years later, including the Band’s <em>Music from Big Pink</em>, <em>The Band</em>, and <em>The Last Waltz</em>, <em>Cheap Thrills</em> by Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, <em>Songs of Leonard Cohen</em> by Leonard Cohen, and <em>Child Is Father to the Man</em> by Blood, Sweat & Tears.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">John Simon began his career as a trainee at Columbia Records where he was first assigned to the Legacy department under the guidance of Goddard Lieberson, then the president of Columbia. Simon’s work during that period involved original cast albums of Broadway shows and audio documentary albums, including Point of Order, an LP of the notorious Senate hearings conducted by anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy, and The Medium Is the Massage, inspired by the writings of media guru Marshall McLuhan. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1966, he arranged and produced the single Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. The song, which was co-written by Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">With the success of Red Rubber Ball, Simon was assigned other pop music artists like Frankie Yankovic, 'America’s Polka King', and jazzman Charles Lloyd. The first production for which he also wrote extensive arrangements was Songs of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen’s debut album. While assisting on what was to become the Simon and Garfunkel album Bookends, he met Al Kooper, who encouraged him to leave Columbia and become a freelance producer, which he did, producing Blood, Sweat & Tears’ first album, Child Is Father to the Man. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">About that time, he was recommended to Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary to help Yarrow with a movie he was making with cinematographer Barry Feinstein. The film was released in 1968 as You Are What You Eat and contained the song My Name Is Jack, written by Simon for that movie, which later became a hit for Manfred Mann. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Work on that film brought Simon to Woodstock, where he met manager Albert Grossman. Grossman asked him to produce several acts from his stable of talent, the first being Gordon Lightfoot. Once again, Simon sweetened the project with his orchestral arrangements. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Following that, he was asked to produce an album for Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother And The Holding Company (Cheap Thrills, which featured the hit single Piece Of My Heart. While producing an album for the Electric Flag, he met blues artist Taj Mahal, beginning a musical association which continues to the present. His name is often linked with the Band, with whom he was very closely associated, and he has been referred to as 'the sixth member of the Band'. The albums he produced with them in the 1970s, Music From Big Pink, The Band, and The Last Waltz, stand as precursors to the genre later labeled Americana. He was also the music director for The Last Waltz concert and contributed as a musician to Stage Fright and Islands and produced, played on, and cowrote for their 1990s comeback album Jericho. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Other albums from this period were Morning Bugle by John Hartford, Jackrabbit Slim by Steve Forbert, Priestess by the jazz arranger Gil Evans, Mama Cass's Dream a Little Dream of Me album, Tiger In The Rain for Michael Franks, and Down Home by Seals and Crofts, as well as albums for Rachel Faro, Hirth Martinez, Cyrus Faryar and others. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Simon, as would be his natural habit, kept quite busing as time went on. He composed the score for the controversial Frank Perry film, Last Summer (1969), starring Barbara Hershey and Richard Thomas. He played keyboards on the album Alone Together (1970) by Dave Mason, including the haunting piano on the song Sad and Deep As You. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Once popular music sprouted disco and heavy metal, he lost interest in producing and only occasionally produced new recordings. In the early 70's, Simon recorded two albums for Warner Brothers, John Simon’s Album and Journey. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the Eighties, Simon wrote two ballet scores for the choreographer Twyla Tharp and composed circus music for aerialist Philip Petit (after his solo walk between the World Trade Towers). He was the music supervisor for a Broadway venture called Rock & Roll! The First 5,000 Years, modeled after Beatlemania, and produced the original cast album of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">A self-described 'compulsive musician', Simon continues to be active. These days he performs his own material in concerts on rare occasions, but plays piano weekly with his jazz trio in his hometown near Woodstock, NY. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 2018 Simon wrote a book, <em>Truth Lies & Hearsay: A Memoir Of A Musical Life In And Out Of Rock And Roll</em> which received extensive favorable reviews as an accurate, yet personal rock history, combining first-person details of iconic recording sessions with lively, chatty wit. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">John Simon - The Song of the Elves</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Song of the Elves </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Once upon a time <br>In the land of Rhye <br>There was a ship at sail <br>Upon a magic sea <br>And stowed away on board was me <br>On the galley shelves <br>Was food for elves <br>And the elves rode along <br>Singing this song <br>For anyone who came along and for themselves <br>It went <br>Faiderol! </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I try and I strain <br>To make out their refrain <br>But the words tumbled out upon an endless sea <br>And following them along was me <br>So take a hand, take a hand <br>Down to that sand <br>Direct your soul and your senses too <br>And that ship will pull up alongside of you <br>Singing <br>Faiderol (You can make it out if your listen clear) <br>Faiderol (It's nothing you wouldn't wanna hear) <br>Faiderol (They're singing, singing) <br>Faiderol (Singing, singing, singing) <br>Elves something 'bout tall (Singing...) <br>Holy, holy, holy <br>'Cause elves believe in God <br>'Cause they know there's a possibility of dying in a fog <br>And they think of fortunes on the run <br>Singing 'bout the power of a gun <br>Singing battles lost and battles won <br>And staying clear until they're done <br>And having kids and having fun <br>And sailing high across the sun <br>Until out of rhymes they've run <br>They begin again, they go: <br>Faiderol (Singing, singing) <br>Elves something 'bout tall <br>Holy, holy, holy <br>Singing, singing Faiderol <br>Singing holy <br>Singing elves are tall <br>Singing, singing, singing <br>Singing holy, holy, holy <br>Holy, holy <br>Singing faiderol <br>Singing holy, holy, holy</h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">SATURDAY NIGHT (Hirth Martinez)</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here it is Saturday night <br>Time for the buzz to get tight <br>Time for the girls to get loose <br>It's time for the folks to get juice <br>Hold the wine, kill the bottle <br>Time to let yourself go <br>Here it is Saturday night <br>It's time for the boys to get up <br>It's time for the girls to get down <br>It's time for the folks to get high <br>Feeling good, looking bad <br>Time to get into something other than your usual boring job</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here it is Saturday night <br>It's time for the town to get hot <br>Time for the folks to get down <br>It's time for the trumpets to sound <br>Play it cool, play it crazy <br>It's time to get into something other than your usual boring life</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I first came across songwriter Hirth Martinez when I was attending college in Dayton, Ohio in 1975. There was a great record store called The Forest which was just off campus that I used to hang out at and one day while I was flipping through the albums in the $1 bin I came across a Hirth Martinez album called <em>Hirth From Earth</em> which just knocked me out. The album was produced by The Band's Robbie Robertson. After a first listen I just fell in love with the song, <em>Saturday Night</em> and to this very day I still listen to that song on a regular basis. <em>Saturday Night</em> captures the moments of moving through the weekend while looking for happiness. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Hirth's career as a solo recording artist began with him getting a plug from Bob Dylan who, at the time, described Hirth as a cross between "<em>Howling Wolf and Dave Brubeck"</em>! Dylan's support quickly led to Hirth getting signed to the Warner Bros label which was followed by the release of his first two critically acclaimed albums, <em>Hirth From Earth</em> and <em>Big Bright Street</em>. During his lifetime, Hirth had written a veritable mountain of songs and poems. Some of his songs ranged from stylish jazz songs to songs that emanate earthy bluesy sounds. Some of Hirth's songs were quirky, some were simple reminders of daily life and some were beyond complicated. I'd say that's the essence a great songwriter!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">JOHN HIATT</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ah yes...John Hiatt! He's one of my favorite songwriters. As a matter of fact, when I was in a band called the Freelance Vandals we opened a show for Hiatt at a club in NYC called Hurrah's back in the 1979. To me, Hiatt is one of the great American songwriters whose work continues to shine so today's lost song is a great John Hiatt tune called <em>Gone</em>.</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">"</span>Hiatt usually begins a song by noodling around the guitar until he comes up with a melody and chord progression that sounds original. Then he’ll sing gibberish until something comes out that makes sense." (American Songwriter)</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Hiatt finally came into success in 1987, when he released <em>Bring the Family</em>. For the album, Hiatt had a backing band consisting of Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner. Two of the songs on the album have been extensively covered: <em>Have a Little Faith in Me</em>, which has been interpreted by a number of artists, including Joe Cocker, Delbert McClinton, Jewel, Bill Frisell, Mandy Moore and Bon Jovi; and <em>Memphis in the Meantime</em>, which has been covered by Carl Perkins, Chris Smither, Spafford, and Gregg Allman. Most notably, Bonnie Raitt brought <em>Thing Called Love</em> to No. 11 on the US charts with her 1989 release Nick of Time. Following <em>Bring the Family</em>, Hiatt had a string of nine straight studio albums which hit the Billboard 200." (Wikipedia)</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">GONE</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gone like my last paycheck gone gone away <br>Gone like the car I wrecked gone gone away <br>Gone like a fifth of gin gone gone away <br>Gone like the shape I'm in gone gone away <br>My baby's gone away </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gone like a Nixon file gone gone away <br>Gone like my landlord's smile gone gone away <br>Gone like the furniture gone gone away <br>Gone like the mist of her gone gone away <br>My baby's gone away </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gone like the silhouette there by the bed where she undressed <br>Gone like the candlelight where we made love so sweet and bright <br>Gone like the one last turn she took before I let it burn <br>Gone like everything I earned gone gone away </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gone like my last paycheck gone gone away <br>Gone like the car I wrecked gone gone away <br>Gone like a fifth of gin gone gone away <br>Gone like the shape I'm in gone gone away <br>My baby's gone away</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Here's a cool jazz tune by Robert Kraft that appeared on his <em>Moodswing</em> album back in 1979. I remember he was quite popular in NYC back in the '70's. Kraft would go on to provide music for films such as <em>The Mambo Kings</em> (1992), <em>The Little Mermaid</em> (1989) and <em>Moulin Rouge</em> (2001).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Over the years, Robert Kraft has worked extensively in the recording industry, producing or co-producing such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Dr. John, Bette Midler, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Johnny Mathis, Bruce Willis, Jimmy Buffett, Don Henley, George Benson, Ozzy Osbourne, Southside Johnny, Albert Collins, Vonda Shepard, and Melissa Manchester. His songs have been recorded by The Manhattan Transfer, Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, Los Lobos, Diane Schuur, Bruce Willis, Joy Enriquez, Dr. John, and Kermit the Frog. As a solo artist and with his band, Robert Kraft and The Ivory Coast, he has released four albums on RCA, RSO, and Sonic Edge Records. Kraft went on to </span>become the chief executive of Fox Music Inc. from 1994 until October 2012, supervising the scores and soundtracks for over 300 Fox Filmed Entertainment motion pictures. Robert Kraft has also been active developing a project called <em>Jazz Ambassadors</em>, the true story of a jazz band that toured the world during the Cold War and he is also developing a docu-series about the life of Ray Charles." (Wikipedia)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">ROCK & ROLL IS A STATE OF MIND!</span></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Lost Music track is a tune called Lester's Methadone Clinic. The song, which has a cool vibe to it, was featured on an album called A Day At The Beach by a band called Sonia Dada; a combo that produced a mix of rock, gospel, doo-wop, soul and R&B music. I remember the first time I heard this song it simply knocked me out. As a matter of fact, I played the song 5 times in a row!</span></h3>
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<span class="font_regular">On the All Music site I came across a review of the album: "</span> Tucked amidst these more heady pieces are the street corner, doo-wop story of getting clean down at <em>Lester's Methadone Clinic</em>. The album,which was aptly titled, <em>A Day at the Beach</em> is an enjoyable, easy musical journey with a band that evades labels by reveling in their amalgamation of soul, pop, rock, blues, and gospel. Memorable melodies abound on this sadly overlooked 1995 release from Sonia Dada. Telling tales from all walks of life, the soaring, soulful vocal harmonies of Sam Hogan, Michael Scott, and Paris Delane sail smoothly over the exceptional musicianship of their backing band. The multi-talented Dan Pritzker tackles the roles of guitarist, producer and main songwriter, bringing a musical depth and lyrical intelligence that is often lacking in catchy, groove-oriented pop/rock songs." (All Music)</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Sonia Dada - Lester's Methadone Clinic</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lester's Methadone Clinic</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's methadone clinic <br>Gotta be down for you to be in it <br>It may take the rest of your days <br>To get away from the warmth of an opiated haze </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's methadone clinic <br>Indoor plumbing is just the beginning <br>They got the psychoanalytic device <br>Gonna blow the blues off your shoes <br>And eradicate your vices</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's they don't take chances <br>Ain't not smooth talking fools or lascivious dancin' <br>Sign on up and you're in the file <br>Ain't no state benefits if you're into denial </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The state say we don't want to see you <br>We don't want to hear you cry <br>I cry all the time <br>Sometimes I hit up <br>And I fly away <br>That's why I want to stay </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's methadone clinic <br>Take your time tying off if you're fixing to dig it <br>Hypo-allergenic supplies <br>Kitchen clean is the scene Lester's board certified </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's go on a roll <br>Lose your mind lose your time <br>Or just lose control <br>You can take whatever you'll use <br>But don't share needles blood or piss <br>And please wipe your shoes </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">We don't want to see you <br>We don't want to hear you cry <br>I cry all the time <br>Sometimes I hit up and I fly away <br>I fly away</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Down at Lester's Clinic </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I can look up out the windows <br>And look up at the sky <br>There's a roof over my head <br>And a bed upon which I can lie <br>At Lester's </span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Taking A Brief Hiatus </span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">From JUNE 8th Thru JUNE 14th!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">American Music Club - Crabwalk</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">CRABWALK</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He reels around the nightclub <br>like the hubcaps off of a car <br>That just crashed into a sign that said <br>"This way to the nightclub." </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He says you ain't worth a dime <br>to his life support systems <br>They still keep him talking <br>on the chance that he'll say something </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't you feel the decks rolling <br>I think that we're on a stormy sea <br>I'm having trouble keeping down the light that I've stolen <br>He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me." </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He's just trying to breathe some new life into the jukebox <br>But it doesn't take his crap it just keeps on staring back <br>And the quarters that he pours down its throat <br>Well they're just starting to get his goat <br>The song plays, "I gave you everything and I never got anything back." </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't you feel the decks rolling <br>I think that we're on a stormy sea <br>I'm having trouble keeping down the light that I've stolen <br>He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me." </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He went fishing in the ocean <br>and all he got was a couple of tires <br>And they came up dripping with emotion <br>And you know how fisherman are liars <br>The five hundred thousand dollar country guitar sits at home sad and lonely <br>No one has any pity for the life of the party </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't you feel the decks rolling <br>I think that we're on a stormy sea <br>He's having trouble keeping down the light that he's stolen <br>He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Crabwalk</em> is the 5th song on American Music Club's 1991 album, Everclear whichwas first recorded in 1989 during the aborted Everclear sessions with Tom Mallon.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1996 Mark Eitzel's sister Rene told the band's mailing list, 'A long time ago I met up with Mark and AMC in a tiny club in Newport, Kentucky...there was probably six people in the whole place (seven if you count the bartender). One of the <em>listeners</em> was a very drunk older gentleman who had a fascination with Vudi, the American Music Club's guitarist. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During most of the gig, this man crossed the club staggering sideways (doing the 'crabwalk') between Vudi and the jukebox. When he wasn't trying to play Vudi's guitar or talk to him about his own hugely expensive country guitar, he was trying to drown out the music played by AMC by pouring quarters in the jukebox. He never realized that the jukebox was unplugged. Perhaps this caused him to drink more? Another guy at the club stood directly in front of Mark the entire time trying to get the band to play some heavy metal tunes. This tune <em>Crabwalk</em> has its origins in this club in Newport. This evening was not one of AMC's finest but a great time was had talking about it for the next few days with the band."</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></em></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This track is part of Haiku Monday's album, </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">that features a unique solo performance by Alex Maes, the band's guitarist.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't Miss Some Of The Great Shows That Are Happening This Week!</span></h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 24</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">LISA POLIZZI BAND BAY TERRACE CAR SHOW BAYSIDE!</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Bay Terrace Shopping Center</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">21245 26th Ave New York, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 5 pm</span></h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 25</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">JAZZ NIGHT WITH THE JOHN MAURICE RESTREPO QUARTET</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Katie's of Smithtown</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">145 W Main Smithtown, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 9 pm - Midnight</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Your favorite Jazz Jam is back now at Katie's!. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Vincent Loccisano on Piano <br>Dominic Duval Jr. on Bass <br>Chris Covais on Drums <br>John Restrepo on sax </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bring your self and your friends and if you play an instrument and love jazz bring that too. Vocalist welcomed!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BRICKHOUSE BREWERY JAM</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Brickhouse Brewery</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">67 W Main St, Patchogue, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6:30 pm sign up / 7 pm start</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">HALF STEP</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Warehouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">203 Broadway Amityville, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Doors Open @ 6 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 11 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">PURCHASE TICKETS</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Half Step - a group of dedicated fans and students of the Grateful Dead, capturing the spirit, improvisation, sound and complexity of their music.</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">LAST MAN STANDING</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Warehouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">203 Broadway Amityville, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't miss out on a night of Blues, Blues Rock, and Funk!</span></h3>
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<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 26</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">INTERPLAY JAZZ BAND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Jazz Loft</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">275 Christian Ave Stony Brook, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm - 9:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't miss this 17 piece jazz band!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">GENE CASEY & THE LONE SHARKS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Clubhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">174 Daniels Hole Rd East Hampton, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 9 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Be sure to catch Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks as they celebrate Memorial Day Weekend @ The Clubhouse in East Hampton! Note: Gene & The Lone Sharks will be starting their summer residency every THURSDAY @ The Clubhouse on June 16...be there or be square!</span></h3>
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<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/21a15e50a501343c2c57826ee7ff70576875ca20/original/mike-barry-solo-show-a.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIKE BARRY</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Harrison</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">86 S Tyson Ave Floral Park, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 9 pm</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f74de574311d4215ccb85f1abcc2728eaee19dbc/original/thursday-last-thurs-of-the-month-creativity-slam.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a54a400044fc9c0a00e4b70ded14139169a044c4/original/steve-welner-acoustic-review-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Steve Welner...Don Gabis...Danny Dimaina</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Big Daddy's</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">1 Park Lane Massapequa, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 6 pm</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6a96c049c94e2a9afe25afa26afe3046791d72f3/original/may-26.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">CHRIS MILO</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Barrier Brewing Company</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">3001 New St Oceanside, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Chris Milo is a seasoned performer, having appeared on the Main Stage at NAMM as well as renowned venues including My Father's Place, Bitter End, Marriott Marquis, & The Suffolk Theater. He has opened for The Lords of 52nd Street (Billy Joel's original backing band), Randy Jackson of Zebra, and the legendary 60's band The Blues Project.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08ad69af306664e12291def1638cb2bee46c33d8/original/the-legendary-bredfrys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE LEGENDARY BREDFRYS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: JT's Farmhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">291 Bayport Ave Bayport, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 6 pm - 9 pm</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9c7410bf0d62d27e106c46ca37afc7d3dd14527a/original/may-26.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/a9a485313bcbd06b2d133ed14920af4e06b500f1/original/thursday-liams-landing-open-mic-jam-poster-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THIRSTY THURSDAY OPEN MIC JAM</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"> 248 S Ketcham Ave, Amityville, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 9 pm - Midnight</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/414df5705102e698b242659672f7d3d754a5e2f4/original/thursdays-mr-beerys-open-mic.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MR. BEERY'S OPEN MIC THURSDAYS!</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">40 19 Hempstead Tpke Bethpage, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 9 pm</h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 27</span></span></h2>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4ae6e896b886187c18d34b595ced1fe174853b10/original/haymakers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MEMORIAL DAY KICK-OFF WITH THE HAYMAKERS!</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: J&R Steakhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">181 NY-25A Rocky Point, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Haymakers play songs by music's greatest artists; Elvis Presley, Little Richard, the Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, NRBQ, King Curtis, the Everly Brothers, Juke Joint Jimmy, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Van Morrison and more!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d31d8f983e418bc33015f5704f80f269f292b33/original/reckoning-the-homestead.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">RECKONING</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: 107 South St Oyster Bay, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 10 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">2 sets electric Reckoning outside free show! Restaurant and bar open.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f89dd02ae947c57b14c68c7eb0442e6ac8155b99/original/kerrykarney.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">EPPY PRESENTS IN CONCERT</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">KERRY KEARNEY & THE KINGS OF PSYCHEDELTA</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Featuring Mike Falzarano</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Metropolitan Restaurant & Bar</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">3 Pratt Blvd Glen Cove, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 8 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tickets $20 advance / $30 @ Door</span></h3>
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<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/36a8a37796dfd5081231ad37aaab1674ba3896c1/original/shecky-the-twangtones-li-sounds-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">SHECKY & THE TWANGTONES</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: JT's Farmhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">291 Bayport Ave Bayport, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 10 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Come on down & catch Shecky & The Twangtones as they swing the good thing</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">with a heady mix of retro-surf, reggae & soul jam music!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3fc8b72fbf047c93eaf0d072b91842888734865e/original/jim-deb-big-daddys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JIM TREUTLEIN & DEBBIE NOVAK</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: RS Beanery</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">153 Merrick Ave Merrick, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/feecf8e24f00cda670a0dc6825eee072351b5e12/original/may-27-original-fridays.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3515665537d737ba9658f83c1e2ca90b5130782e/original/surfcasters-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE SURFCASTERS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: 89 North Music Venue</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">89 N. Ocean Ave Patchogue, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 10 pm - Midnight</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Surfcasters is a band comprised of Long Island singer Cait Fazio and some of Long Islands finest musicians and session players.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/171ee393e824d9a3f232192d2376ab1ba0304713/original/circus-mind-still-partners.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">CIRCUS MIND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Still Partners</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">225 Sea Cliff Ave Sea Cliff, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 8 pm - 11 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Circus Mind train is coming to town!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6e58c1e3952e0fc41cafd90b6e934812bb9c9050/original/lucky-chops-stephen-talkhouse-tickets-link.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">LUCY CHOPS BRASS BAND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Stephen Talkhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">161 Main St Amagansett, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 8 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Purchase Tickets</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.tixr.com/groups/stephentalkhouse/events/lucky-chops-38106"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">HERE</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Lucky Chops has been unleashing high-energy brassy funk on the world since forming in NYC in 2006. The intensity of the band’s energy is fueled by their desire to share the healing and inspirational power of music with others. That power has resonated with audiences around the globe, giving the band hundreds of millions of views on their online videos and leading to live performances in dozens of countries worldwide. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Lucky Chops maintains a busy schedule touring across several continents. The band members are also committed to music education, regularly performing clinics and educational outreaches to help train and inspire the next generation of musicians.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e2775d62cb5b0cdc329d4a5dcdd38e9291ee138b/original/joe-louis-the-groove-band-shot-11.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JOE LOUIS & THE GROOVE</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Charlotte's Speakeasy</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">294 Main St Farmingdale, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm - 11 pm</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fb79f5ab8c5963a01dcad5af808f1fc139896347/original/smokin-js-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE SMOKIN' J'S</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Gunther's Tap Room</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">84 Main St Northport, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 9:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Come on down and watch the Smokin' J's rock the joint why'doncha!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2ebd960a42195de07d68c86687cc32bbf41b30cd/original/cocktails-duo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">COCKTAILS DUO</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Villa Lobos</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">499 S. Main St Freeport, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm - 10 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Kick off the Memorial Day weekend with a couple of Cocktails. Joe and John will be performing as a duo at this new Freeport waterfront venue where the word is out that the food and drinks are something to rave about!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f42d8f9a550eed6379c45641fa4adbd966dbf918/original/danny-kean-4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">DANNY KEAN</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Paces Steakhouse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">325 Nesconset Highway Hauppauge, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Kick back and enjoy a night of blue eyed soul music with Danny Kean!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b8332072b4d93e46488d46807068fe946646395f/original/ernie-the-band-main-use.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">ERNIE & THE BAND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Beau's Bar</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 8:30 pm</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ernie & The Band will be jammin' out to start Memorial Day Weekend!</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/921c498ba204ae6a1a65b7cac382071335a27bd6/original/michael-braceland-smith-art-gallery-colonna-mt-26.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ee8f37e0894cf5d37a353c53574480cab1f0210/original/christine-sweeney-33.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">CHRISTINE SWEENEY & NICK DEPUY</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Michael Braceland Smith Art Gallery</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">25 E Patchogue Yaphank Rd # 3 East Patchogue, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Original Sets in a listening room setting!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5fc1a8391ff6b50f80cf5c4b99f1481ab12675b6/original/carrie-mcquade-durand-daniel-trio.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">CARRIE MCQUADE & DURAND DANIEL TRIO</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Brew Brothers Grille</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">183 Franklin Ave Franklin Square, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 9 pm - Midnight</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/04819eea4a0af9bba0e1c3788607db4c0d098019/original/may-27.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/619dc9948c0bd6aed74979c16ce1cff26bcf23ee/original/may-27-the-half-breeds.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE HALF BREEDS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Bobbique</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">70 W. Main St Patchogue, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7:30 pm - 11 pm</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">The Half Breeds experience returns to Bobbique. You can expect an evening of hilarious music and even more antics. No door cover.</span></h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 28</span></span></h2>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/839b69a301afd31a98a4b91974cc409dfcea9f1f/original/joe-rock-the-all-stars-tiki-joes-captree.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JOE ROCK & THE ALL STARS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Tiki Joe's Captree Boat Basin</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Unnamed Road Babylon, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The All Stars: <br>Lou Carrollo: Guitar & Vocals (Blues Hall of Fame member) <br>Gene Linefsky: Drums (from Southshore Jazz) <br>Mark “The Animal” Mendoza: Bass & Vocals (from Twisted Sister)</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Joe Rock and The All Stars are proud to make their debut @ Tiki Joe’s Captree. It’ll be a fun evening you don’t want to miss!!! This is the perfect way to spend a Summer evening!!! </span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5ac597a777b6c918bf1be27f36001d792ad958cb/original/phil-gammage-quartet-may-residency.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">PHIL GAMMAGE QUARTET MAY RESIDENCY! </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: John Brown Smokehouse </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">27-20 40th Ave Long Island City, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6 pm - 8 pm </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Join the Phil Gammage Quartet for a great night of roots music, dining, and dancing at the world famous John Brown Smokehouse in Long Island City, NYC. Every Thursday night in May! It's all happening under the stars on the beautiful outdoor stage. Terrific BBQ and craft beer. All ages and family friendly!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/192e08db3219153e4c2364a57e1c98af219bd379/original/may-28-pam-betti.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">PAMELA BETTI & STEVE LEIGHTON</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Garden Grill</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">64 N. Country Rd Smithtown, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Join Pam and Steve at the fabulous Garden Grill for a fun night of music! Great food and excellent specialty cocktails! Special musical guests too so COME ON DOWN TO THE GRILL!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4431d4d3fcc86268dcf28a47a7a9d194eb48bbc0/original/may-28-toby-tobias.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/22af3dc988b7956e8361526639077cf50197910a/original/mjt.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">MJT</span></span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Beau's</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 8:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">MJT...a Band of brothers with one goal. To create sounds that inspire us and those who listen, to reach for things unseen but felt in the soul.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/55580ae2c0118477aa88a25171d8f3e1db04364d/original/41-players-still-partners.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">41 PLAYERS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Still Partners</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">225 Sea Cliff Ave Sea Cliff, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 8 pm - 11 pm</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">41 Players visits from Brooklyn to burn down the house with NOLA inspired funk!</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3f7456801304403564f113409bcc7824ef500131/original/gene-casey-solo-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">GENE CASEY</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Jamesport Farm Brewery</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">5873 Sound Ave Riverhead, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 1 pm - 5 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Gene Casey is going to bring the barn down! Come on over to the brewery as the beats flow while delicious, local, craft beer flows right along too! 21 & OVER • All seating is first-come, first-served</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/99b7badf2b1f045f66e1a6e5507f6f32b00c6c3f/original/almost-brothers-band-live-color-shot.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE ALLMOST BROTHERS BAND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Plattduetsche Park</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">1132 Hempstead Tpke Franklin Square, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">It's that time of year again when the Summer is on the horizon, and one thing is for sure the Allmost Bros will be rocking the greatest biergarten in the land Plattdeutsche Park for what has become a Memorial Day tradition. So come on down and celebrate the kickoff to Summer with cold German lager, and the tasty jams of the Allmost Brothers Band!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/afa4ebf0e61913666469aa61d769491ddc3e09c2/original/hank-wavers-wankhavers.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">HANKWAVERS WANKHAVERS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Country Corner</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">270 Main St East Setauket, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">A fabulous evening of deep track covers from a wide variety of artists. New songs added and Hank had his Fiat fixed and should be there as well, jolly good!!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f41b1ec274293495a442c28767522d9fe35979f3/original/gypsey-felons-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE GYPSY FELONS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Sand City South Brewery</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">150 S. Wellwood Ave Lindenhurst, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 7 pm - 10 pm</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">The Gypsy Felons 6-pc. band will make our debut at the very cool 'Sand City Brewery' of Lindenhurst, for a special Memorial Day weekend performance!</h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 29</span></span></h2>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">GRASS MEETS TWANG!</span></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e96fc74f1e5070ff148b069a1160162d682f833e/original/free-grass-union-still-partners.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">FREE GRASS UNION</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9aa75e33f0dcc2a7cc0fd46701374c5c86b4491c/original/shecky-the-twangtones-acoustic-trio-fadeleys.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">SHECKY & THE TWANGTONES TRIO</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue; Fadeley's Deli Pub</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">422 W. Main St Patchogue, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 4 pm - 8 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Yes, it’s all about to happen! “Grass meets Twang” at Fadeleys!. Free Grass Union & Shecky & the Twangtones Trio will each perform one long set each as part of this special double bill event. Two Trios , no waiting!!!!</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/775ceaf6d97a1f47b4bd278969243dab90a09a56/original/real-east-end-brass-full-line.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">REAL EAST END BRASS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Greenport Harbor Brewing Company</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">42155 Main Rd Peconic, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 3 pm - 6 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This brass band is a wild west crew ready bring the heat!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e7c3e64b4dd8021d2a35f5f01ec2f5fbd0277e66/original/gene-casey-the-lone-sharks-alive-and-well.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">GENE CASEY & THE LONE SHARKS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Billy's By The Bay</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">2530 Manhanset Ave Greenport, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 2 pm - 6 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Return of Gene and the Lone Sharks, a real-deal North Fork tradition!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/4bec426015dca50fbb9231f1f2b762e7c8d87d45/original/danny-kean.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">DANNY KEAN</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Publicans </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">550 Plandome Rd Manhasset, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 12 Noon</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/388928e6ceda17906d8097acf9c44347da1c5818/original/jellyband-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">JELLYBAND</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Venue: Greenport Harbor Brewing Company</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">42155 Main Rd Peconic, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 4 pm - 7 pm</h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Take a mixture of rock, soul, jazz and funk. Shake well. Add a liberal dose of jam band improvisation and adventurousness. Serve to an audience ready to party and dance! </span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/87da29868407428d8f58a03becef680b67e4714e/original/sunday-jim-moran-jam.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">JIM MORAN'S SUNDAY FUNDAY JAM! </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: The Station Pub </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">3 Lakeland Ave Sayville, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 3 pm </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Join in the fun at the premier Open Jam on the Island!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/08f8bd5cde5d543fda4467808c7eca3b9f1f0592/original/reckoning-band-lineup.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">RECKONING SUNDAY FUNDAY @ BEAU'S!</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Beau's Bar</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">54 Broadway Greenlawn, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 4:30 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Reckoning Sunday Funday in the lot at Beau’s! Grateful Dead Sounds Galore!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2747ea5cc239913f1228b2a8ba9bb6fa7e02b5f3/original/june-29-sweet-suzi.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">SWEET SUZI & TONY BARCA</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Liam's Landing</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">218 S Ketchum Ave Amityville, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 5 pm - 8 pm</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9fddcb05c515f692fd357e21c10f576b3be30c39/original/may-29-bryan-gallo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BRYAN GALLO</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Harbes Family Farm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">715 Sound Ave Mattituck, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 1 pm - 5 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Bryan will be singing a sampling of songs he's written and many he wishes he had at Harbes Family Farm in Mattituck, NY. Harbes Family Farm offers up plenty of farm fresh foods and treats for the family to enjoy, along with additional attractions as well.</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/07d00ada8ee66fc51aebab9e7ac460eca12c8683/original/may-29-the-vibe.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE VIBE</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Oakdale Yacht Club</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">520 Shore Drive Oakdale, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Vibe is a high-energy, party/pop dance band based in Long Island, NY.</span></h3>
<hr><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_large">MAY 30</span></span></h2>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/48b7a5502a2f538e2e5dc14e5c8a949aa9c0bce8/original/bubba-band-blues-band.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BUBBA JAM BLUES BAND</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Lucharito's Taqueria & Tequila Bar </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">177 Main St Center Moriches, NY</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 4 pm - 8 pm</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Bubba Jam Blues Band unites four strange angels in pursuit of sublime, simple yet powerful grooves. Throw in tacos, margaritas and a generous splash of hot sauce, along with some Bubba Jam Blues and there will be a party going on!</span></h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/117bbc529c9346463e4b875d4fb0923141eaad0c/original/may-30-locksmiths.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">THE LOCKSMITHS</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">259 Front St NYC</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 7:30 pm</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Spend your Memorial Day with The Locksmiths as we sing you a mix of originals and covers.</h3>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/77918b0ff1ad88a95c89c06356af8c8ab8037aaf/original/mondays-prohibiton-open-jam-thorogood-jenkins-mondays.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/67d4305997e092917171d7180e5c2942f0a3d084/original/noahs-arc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">NOAH'S ARC</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Venue: JT's On The Bay</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">1 Curtis Rd Blue Point, NY</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Showtime: 4 pm - 8 pm</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">It's bound to be a memorable Memorial Day when</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Noah’s Arc brings the roots rock reggae to JT’s On The Bay!</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">270 Main St East Setauket, NY </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 8 pm</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Your Host: LISA POLIZZI </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">House Band: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">John Haseth </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Robert Sole </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Arnie Frank </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Showtime: 7 pm </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Open to one and all...singers & musicians, and comedians...so bring your voices, your basses , your guitars , keys , horns etc. all levels and styles!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Venue: Bartini Bar </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">124 N Carll Ave Babylon, Ave </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Open Mic this and every Monday at Bartini Bar! It's all happening @ 124 N. Carll Ave, Babylon (the west side of the Babylon RR station)! Sign up starts at 7:30. All skill levels and genres are welcome. Full backline provided. No cover charge. Nearly 16 years running! Come Out and PLAY!!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Beatles</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Beatles Stones Kinks Animals more Live Full Concert 1965</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"We all have our idea of what would constitute a dream concert, and if you were a British teen in 1965—or an adult in 2016 who happens to know where to find a good time machine—yours might go something like this: First, you’d book the Rolling Stones as one of your opening acts, performing some rhythm and blues favorites like Otis Redding’s “Pain in My Heart” and Solomon Burke’s “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” (beginning at the 34:40 mark, in the video above). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">You’d also invite some of the currently happening bands like the Moody Blues (who begin the concert), the soulful Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and Herman’s Hermits (at the 21:10 mark). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For the second half of your fantasy concert, you’d get serious, bringing on the heavyweights: the Searchers, Them (featuring that dynamic singer Van Morrison, beginning at 51:40) and the Animals, (at the 1:00:05 mark), along with a couple of the best solo artists the U.K. has to offer: Dusty Springfield and the young folk singer from Scotland, Donovan. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">And, of course, the Beatles, singing some of their recent hits like “I Feel Fine” and “Ticket to Ride” before closing out their five-song set with Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally.” And then you’d have the Kinks follow them, singing “You Really Got Me” (at the 1:29:45 mark). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">If only, right? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Well, if you were at London’s Wembley Empire Pool on April 11, 1965, you wouldn’t have to dream; you could have witnessed that very concert, filled out with other current faves like Cilla Black, Freddie and the Dreamers (at the 9:20 mark), folk-rockers the Seekers (at 16:30), Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Donovan, (at the 45:08 mark), and more. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Each year, beginning in 1953, the British music weekly NME (New Musical Express) polled its readers on the best of the year. The winners were then invited to perform for the people and, at the height of the British Invasion, that meant the Beatles, Stones, Animals, Kinks, etc. " (www.bestclassicbands.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Move ahead, don't get left behind...</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Rock & Roll is a State of Mind!</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Cab Calloway</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. He was associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he was a regular performer and became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the most popular big bands in the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. His band included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Jonah Jones, and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, guitarist Danny Barker, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Cozy Cole.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Calloway had several hit records in the 1930s and 1940s, becoming known as the "Hi-de-ho" man of jazz for his most famous song, "Minnie the Moocher", originally recorded in 1931. He reached the Billboard charts in five consecutive decades (1930s–1970s). </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Nicolas Brothers</h3>
<p>The Nicholas Brothers were a duo of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who excelled in a variety of techniques, including a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing". With a high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many to be the greatest tap dancers of their day. Their performance in the musical number <em>Jumpin' Jive</em> (with Cab Calloway and his orchestra) featured in the 1943 movie Stormy Weather has been praised as one of the most virtuosic film dance routines of all time. </p>
<p>Growing up surrounded by vaudeville acts as children, they became stars of the jazz circuit during the Harlem Renaissance and performed on stage, film, and television well into the 1990s." (Wikipedia)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Marshall Crenshaw - Rockin' Around In NYC</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Lost Music is <em>Rockin' Around In NYC</em> by Marshall Crenshaw which appeared on his first album in 1982. In 1976, I had moved to Long Island around then and time went on I began spending a real lot of time in NYC. Whenever I get nostalgic and look back on all the fun I had in NYC I am immediately reminded of this great song by Marshall Crenshaw. <em>"Round and 'round and 'round we go, Seventeen lights in a row, Take a hold of my hand and come with me, Let's go rockin' around in NYC!"</em></span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Rockin' Around In NYC</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Whenever idleness is making me insane <br>Then I feel, I should be getting to train on the double <br>Here comes trouble </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I hit the city and my head is a reelin' <br>I get the feelin' that it really was worth going after <br>When we're tastin' disaster </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">So 'round and 'round and 'round we go <br>Seventeen lights in a row <br>Take a hold of my hand and come with me <br>We'll go rockin' around in NYC </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Whenever Ennui is takin' me way down <br>Then I feel I should be gettin' to town on the double <br>Here comes trouble </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I hit the city and I'm feelin' the thunder <br>No need to wonder if it really was worth going after <br>When we're tastin' disaster </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">So 'round and 'round and 'round we go <br>Seventeen lights in a row <br>Take a hold of my hand and come with me <br>We'll go 'round and 'round in NYC</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">So 'round and 'round and 'round we go <br>Seventeen lights in a row <br>Take a hold of my hand and come with me <br>We'll go rockin' around in NYC </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Whenever idleness is making me insane <br>Then I feel, I should be getting the train on the double <br>Here comes trouble </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I hit the city and my head is reelin' <br>I get the feelin' that it really was worth going after <br>When we're tastin' disaster </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">'Round and 'round and 'round we go <br>Seventeen lights in a row <br>Take a hold of my hand and come with me <br>Let's go rockin' around in NYC</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Leon Russell - Spanish Harlem</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's <em>Lost Music</em> post is all about a swinging instrumental track called <em>Spanish Harlem</em> which was recorded by Leon Russell and The Gap Band back in 1974</span> at Leon Russell's House Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Paradise Studios in Tia Juana, Oklahoma; Pete's Place in Nashville, Tennessee; and Shelter The Church Studio, in Tulsa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I was familiar with <em>Spanish Harlem</em> having been familiar with the original recording by Ben E. King that was produced by Phil Spector. The song was written by the famous song writing team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. What impressed me about Levon's unique version is that he decided to cut the song as an instrumental with a calypso vibe. To me, the song took on a deeper resonance as an instrumental piece for sure. To this day, there isn't a week that goes by where I don't spin this tune and enjoy it every time as if it was the first time I heard it.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Haiku Monday's debut Mind Smoke Records release, The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition, is an imaginary movie soundtrack for a ghost story that takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Follow the dark trail of Sammy Thibadeaux aka The Ghost of Pontchartrain, as he returns home to his former life of underworld voodoo and murder. Salvation is at hand!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Mind Smoke Records Promotions Director, Judy Fleenor-Sheets, recently sat down with the members of Haiku Monday, a conceptual pop band, to discuss their popular Mind Smoke Records release, <a contents="The Ghost Of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/975769/the-ghost-of-pontchartrain-expanded-edition"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>The Ghost Of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition</strong></span></span></a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> First off, over the past year your album has made a splash with music fans. I also heard many stories when the band was making this album that things became quite difficult at times...is that true? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex: </strong>I guess that's an accurate statement. When we began working on this project, the conceptual elements of the music were quite obvious to the entire band. We were all deeply involved in the progression of the music and we all had different ideas for the album. At times it seemed like we would never be able to bring this project to a satisfactory conclusion. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Don: </strong> The hardest part of making this album was remaining true to the story behind the music. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex:</strong> That's a good point Don...if you listen closely to the music, it will tell you when it's a complete finished piece.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy: </strong> I've listened to the album several times when it was released in 2019 and my first reaction to the music is that all of the songs seemed to tell one big story. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex: </strong> Well Judy, from the start of this project, we had all decided that it would be fun to write an imaginary soundtrack. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy: </strong> An imaginary soundtrack? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex: </strong> Yes. We wanted to write a soundtrack to a film that didn't exist. Early on we envisioned an imaginary soundtrack to a film about a ghost in New Orleans. It's a real mind-movie of sorts. I mean, it's like sitting on the couch, staring out the window, and you start daydreaming; and suddenly, you find yourself creating a film in your head. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> Why, yes, I believe I've done that once or twice! The other day, you mentioned that the group started working on this project in 2002. Let's start things off by playing the album's opening track, <strong>South To Louisiana</strong>...</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> Were all of the songs written prior to the recording sessions or did the band write just one or two pieces and then let the other songs develop naturally during sessions for the album? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Margarite:</strong> Originally, I started composing on a synthesizer but I wasn't really happy with the string and orchestral sounds so the rest of the band helped me block out rough drafts of many of the songs and then we put the project on hold for a little while. We released a version of the album in 2012 but it basically wasn't fully conceived at that point in time. Over the years, I would come back to this project from time to time but it was just last year when I started working with Orchestra and String Section Emulators that things began to move ahead at a quicker pace. So, in 2019, we released what we call <em>The Ghost of Pontchartrain: The Expanded Edition</em> that includes all of the tracks that didn't make it onto the original release. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> The album contains a very cohesive collection of musical themes. What was the overall inspiration for this project? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Margaritte:</strong> To me, it always sounded like a soundtrack to a film I was seeing in my head. I'm sure you've noticed that many of the tracks are around 2 minutes long or under; that seemed best for dreaming up little movie scenes in a person's head. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex: </strong> Our original inspiration for the material came from the many trips we all made to New Orleans over the years; each one of us noticed that there was a certain vibe that hung in the air of that city. There's a palpable sense of mystery that flows along the cobblestone streets in the French Quarter. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> Was your overall vision of an imaginary soundtrack difficult to impart to all the members of the band along with any other musicians you brought in to help with the project? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Margaritte: </strong>Everybody was on board with the imaginary soundtrack theme from the get-go. Once I began working with various Samplers, things started to come together nicely. It's worth noting that since we all use the same recording software in our home studios, we were able to work on a lot of our individual parts separately which also helped move things along in a speedy manner. Once I had all the music back in my home studio, I would edit the parts a bit and then Alex would come over and we put each track together as we went along. In a certain way, putting this album together like this was almost like time travel for me.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy: </strong> Time travel?! </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Margarite: </strong> Of course! One day, a song is nothing but a bare bones type of thing and then…poof! Rudy would add drums or percussion and then…poof! Don would put down some bass parts and so on.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Judy: </strong>The next track reveals a lot about Sammy Thibadeaux, the main character of this imaginary film.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy: </strong> What other players did you ask to play on this album? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Alex: </strong> I was lucky enough to bring in Little Slim Lavaro to do the lead vocal on <em>I Am The Ghost of Pontchartrain</em> track. Margarite ran his vocal through a simulator and that gave the track a nifty "ghost" voice! Also, Little Slim sang a little scat vocal on <em>All the Way To Yazoo (in a body bag)</em> and played all of the blues guitar riffs on the <em>City of the Dead</em> track.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Don: </strong> It was my choice to bring in Alex's brother, Victor Maes, who played some horn parts for the project. That provided a lot of color to some of the tracks. I've done a lot of gigs and sessions with Victor and he always hits the right groove.</span></p>
<p><strong>Judy: </strong>Is there any song that you find to be reflective of the voodoo atmosphere in New Orleans?</p>
<p><strong>Alex:</strong> Definitely...it's a song called <em>The Devil Takes The World</em>. It has a dark sound that raises the hair on the back of your head.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Judy:</strong> Did anyone outside of the band write any of the songs for this album? </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Alex:</strong> Why yes, a matter of fact! Johnny Pierre, our record label boss, penned the aforementioned tune called <em>The Devil Takes the World</em>. When he heard what we were working on he sent me a digital file of the song. After listening to the song several times, we all realized that the dark mood of the song would be a perfect addition to the project. The track dates from 2009 when JP was working on the Biscuit Kings album, <em>Hambones & Trombones</em>. It was supposed to be on that album but it didn't make the final cut. What we did with the original track was strip it of everything but the bass parts. The way we wanted to integrate the song into our album was to develop it as a sparse instrumental. Margaritte created some string parts for the song on one of her synthesizers. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Don: </strong>The only original element of the song that we kept was the bass parts which were played by Biscuit King's Jeff Goldstein, one of the best bass player I've come across.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy: </strong> Tell us about some of the characters that appear in <em>The Ghost of Pontchartrain</em> project? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Alex:</strong> Well, at first, I Imagined a ghost named Sammy Thibodeaux returning home to New Orleans. Originally, I had a little ragtag lyric for one of the first songs; <em>Sammy Thibodeaux is my given name, I was born on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain, I'm coming home tonight with my ball and chain, I am the ghost of Pontchartrain</em>. It was almost like a child's schoolyard song actually. From there, Margarite and I started writing purely instrumental pieces with the ghost character in mind. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Margarite: </strong> Within a short space of time, we developed three other main characters; <em>The Preacher,</em> a local minister who seemed to have one foot in heaven and the other in hell, <em>Mama Legba</em>, a creole voodoo spiritualist and <em>Little Girl Blue</em>, a young girl who may or may not be Sammy Thibodeaux's daughter. <span class="font_regular">I think one of the best performances on this album is <em>Little Girl Blue</em> which was pretty much something Alex came up with all by himself. Since the release of the album,<strong> </strong><em>Little Girl Blue</em> is the most popular Haiku Monday track with music lovers around the world.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> Have any of you ever had any actual experiences with a ghost? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Don: </strong>There might have been a couple of sightings when I was coming home from a club date in the Quarter. Random shadows appearing by the side of the road. You know, that sort of thing. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Rudy:</strong> I have and I'll never forget it! When I was living in New Orleans back in the early 90's, there was this old lady who would push a little wishing well around on wheels throughout my neighborhood. Every time she came by my house, the temperature dropped 20 degrees and I felt really cold. One Halloween night, she freed 13 black cats from a big cage that overran the whole neighborhood! I'm damn sure she was ghost!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Judy</strong>: Some of the songs on <em>The Ghost Of Pontchartrain</em> seem to hint at voodoo rituals. What can you tell us about that?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Alex:</strong> There are definitely two songs in this project that reflect some voodoo magic; <em>Mama Legba Throws The Bone</em> and <em>Across The River To Algiers</em>. At some point it seemed like Mama Legba was controlling Sammy Thibadeaux to do some bad stuff. <em>Across The River To Algiers</em> surprised us because when we finished the track it sounded like one of those thrilling Chase Scenes in an Action Film! How did that happen??!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Judy:</strong> Any final thoughts on <strong>The Ghost of Pontchartrain Expanded Edition</strong>? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Margarite:</strong> I expect that some people who listen to this album might imagine a much different mind-movie than what my imagination conjures up when I listen to this music. But I think that just might be a good thing, n'est-ce pas?</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As I've stated in the past on this blog, I'm a collector of all types of music; one of the type of music I collect are Instrumentals! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Lost Music song is an instrumental called <em>Freeway Jam</em> by Jeff Beck which was written by Jeff Beck's keyboard player, Max Middleton. The song was one of the tracks on Beck's album Blow By Blow which was produced by George Martin, who most of you remember from his fine work with The Beatles.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1974, Jeff Beck decided his next album should be an all-instrumental effort. After listening to the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1974 album <em>Apocalypse</em>, which was produced by George Martin, Beck asked Martin to produce his next album which would be called <em>Blow By Blow, </em>a collection of instrumental tracks. This was a smart move on Beck's part as Martin was essential is helping Beck create an album that has certainly stood the test of time.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A major move on Beck's part to pull together the <em>Blow By Blow</em> album was to bring in was Stevie Wonder, who provided Beck with two of songs, <em>Cause We've Ended as Lovers</em> and <em>Thelonius</em>. Wonder ended up playing clavinet on <em>Thelonious</em> but was uncredited on the album's liner notes. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Working together with George Martin and the musicians he gathered to help him create the <em>Blow By Blow</em> album, "they produced a diverse set boasting funky fusion experiments like <em>You Know What I Mean</em> and <em>Constipated Duck </em>(a bass-driven standout ); propulsive virtuoso displays like <em>Freeway Jam </em>and <em>Scatterbrain</em> (even more catchy than it was spectacularly complex); and Bernie Holland’s positively sublime <em>Diamond Dust</em>. Beck had taken to a brand new musical lexicon like a fish to water. But, above all else, these tunes possessed a groundbreaking immediacy that was sorely missing in most attempts to fuse rock and jazz.(Classic Rock & Culture)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">OH THAT JERRY!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mick Fleetwood returning home from a Fleetwood Mac recording session</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Greetings music lovers. Johnny Pierre has a new single out that's called <em>Adios King</em>; the song was written around the time that the Freelance Vandals, after 10 years of trying to make it in the music business, decided to call it quits and go their separate ways. In the end, the music will live on forever!</h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="ADIOS KING" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/53787/adios-king"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">ADIOS KING</span></span></a></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">SQUEEZE - SLAP & TICKLE</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ah! Squeeze! They're one of the great English bands who broke big on the music scene starting in 1979. Today's lost music song is<em> Slap & Tickle</em>, a British slang for sexual intercourse, was the fourth single and opening track for the band’s second album <em>Cool For Cats</em>. In 1979, Billboard selected <em>Cool for Cats</em> as one of its recommended albums and praised <em>Slap &Tickle</em> as one of the best cuts on their <em>Cool For Cats</em> album.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The musical elements of <em>Cool For Cats</em> were obviously influenced by Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder which featured a synth-heavy arrangement. Co-written by Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook, the song was also influenced by the style of lyrics as parlayed by Ian Dury and Elvis Costello.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">SLAP & TICKLE</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She was frigid like a bible <br>When she met her boyfriend Michael <br>He took her in his Zephyr <br>They sat like salt and pepper <br>Looking out across the city <br>From Lover's Leap is pretty <br>The lights they flick and flutter <br>He told her how he loved her <br>Next night he called for her <br>But dad protected daughter <br>And told him she was poorly <br>A lie was told there surely <br>So Michael felt rejected <br>This wasn't quite expected <br>He drove off to his local <br>Where he felt anti-social </span></h3>
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<br><span class="font_regular">She cried all night at missing <br>The boy she could be kissing <br>While he was falling over <br>He drunk himself back sober <br>And went home in a taxi <br>And crashed out in the back seat <br>He slept just like a baby <br>Which he hadn't done just lately <br>He saw her in the morning <br>Out with his sister Pauline <br>She felt all shy and soppy <br>He acted cool and cocky <br>He said tonight at Charlie's <br>There's going to be a party <br>I'll meet you at half seven <br>She visualized the heaven </span>
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<br><span class="font_regular">If you ever change your mind <br>Which you do from time to time <br>Never chew a pickle <br>With a little slap and tickle <br>You have to throw the stone <br>To get the pool to ripple </span>
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<br><span class="font_regular">That night they danced together <br>It looked like love forever <br>He put his hand on her leg <br>You should have heard what she said <br>He tried again much later <br>It seemed to aggravate her <br>He drove home in silence <br>Avoiding all violence <br>She said let's watch the city <br>From Lover's Leap is pretty <br>I think I need the fresh air <br>She put a comb through her hair <br>Then while she turned to kiss him <br>And very nearly missed him <br>She put her hand on his leg <br>He felt her tongue in his head </span>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Squeeze - Slap & Tickle</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">TOO BAD</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">Too bad that you had to get caught, <br>That's not like you to lose face. <br>So sad that you're not as smart, <br>As you thought you were in the first place. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Baby, I could use some of your persuasion, <br>(Too bad, persuasion, too bad, persuasion) <br>To wipe away (wipe, wipe, a-wipe, a-wipe a-wipe away) <br>the taste of your machinations. <br>(Too bad, machinations, too bad, machinations) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It's over, <br>Kaput except for the tail spin. <br>(Too bad, for the tail spin, too bad, for the tail spin) <br>Save the dialogue (baby set your dialouge) <br>for the old men in the pool room. <br>(Too bad, such a cool room, in the pool room, such a cool room) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Try it once, well I'm not so sure, <br>Try it twice and you're by my door. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Too bad that you had to get caught, <br>That's not like you to lose face. <br>So sad that you're not as smart, <br>As you thought you were in the first place. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The money, no more than insulation. <br>(Too bad, insulation, too bad, insulation) <br>The getaway, (get get a-get a-get a-get away) <br>I watched with fascination. <br>(Too bad, fascination, too bad, fascination) <br>The hideway, Woooo! such imagination. <br>(Too bad, 'magination, too bad, 'magination) <br>Ah, the 45! Goodbye! <br>I used it with no hesitation <br>(Too bad, hesitation, too bad, hesitation) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Too bad that you had to get caught, <br>That's not like you to lose face. <br>So sad that you're not as smart, <br>As you thought you were in the first place.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Doug and the Slugs were a Canadian pop music group formed in 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band hit pay dirt on the Top 40 charts with their popular single <em>Too Bad</em> released in 1980. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The band built a solid following in the Vancouver area through constant live performances. Determined to exert control over their own music and artwork, the band founded their own record label, Ritdong Records, and worked out a distribution deal with RCA Records for their recordings (Bennett chose the name "Ritdong" because he described it as the sound produced by an out of tune guitar). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Their debut 45 single <em>Too Bad</em> was issued on Ritdong in February 1980, and became a substantial hit in Vancouver, rising to #2 on local Top 40 station CKLG. Shortly thereafter, the track entered the Canadian hit parade, becoming a top ten hit. The song would also be used in the late 1990s as the theme song to the sitcom The Norm Show. That same year, Doug and The Slugs' manager, Sam Feldman mortgaged his house to make The Slugs debut album, <em>Cognac & Bologna</em>, that was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">As I've stated many times on this blog, I really like collecting all sorts of songs and that includes cover songs! When The Beatles were just starting out, they recorded cover songs by other artists; among some of the great covers that the Fab 4 recorded include such classic tunes as <em>Twist and Shout</em> (originally recorded by the Isley Brothers), <em>Words of Love</em> (a great Buddy Holly tune) and <em>You Really Got A Hold On Me</em> (Smokey Robinson and The Miracles). For today's blog post I thought it would be cool to check out artists who covered songs that the Beatles created!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"After the Beatles became huge, hundreds of other artists began covering the group’s original tunes. These homages ranged from the sublime (Wilson Pickett’s dynamic reading of <em>Hey Jude</em>) to the ridiculous (Mrs. Miller’s horrific deconstruction of <em>A Hard Day’s Night</em> must be heard to be disbelieved)." (Goldmine Magazine)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, many artists have taken a shot at a Beatles song; some have produced great results and some efforts have come off as a train wreck. However, it's become obvious that so many artists have covered the Fab 4's catalog that it has become almost a necessary function of rock & roll. So without further adieu, here's my list of My Favorite Beatles Cover Songs!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lowell Fulson - Why Don't We Do It In The Road</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My all-time favorite Beatles cover song is Lowell Fulson's take on Why Don't We Do It In The Road. Fulsom brings a very tasty groove to his interpretation of this Beatles ditty. Along with T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulson was probably the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Note: many folks make the mistake of claiming that his last name is <em>Fulsom</em>, my research indicates that it's really "Fulson"...amen!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Count Basie - Hold Me Tight</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Another one of my all-time favorite Beatles covers is Count Basie's swinging version of <em>Hold Me Tight</em> which appeared on Basie's super cool album, <em>Basie's Beatle Bag</em> in 1966. "Count Basie and his orchestra tackle the music of the Fab Four, without any hint of condescension or lassitude. Indeed, the songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney are treated with the same kind of dignity and enthusiasm that the band would give to the likes of Johnny Mercer or Harold Arlen...the songs and the band are both well served by Chico O'Farrill's arrangements, which manage to maintain the familiar and emphasize some surprises...The band romps, and the soloists, in addition to Basie, include Eddie <em>Lockjaw</em> Davis and Al Grey." (All Music)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This amazing version of The Beatles <em>A Day In The Life</em> by Jeff Beck performed at The 25th anniversary rock and roll hall of fame concert is a magical moment indeed.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jaco Pastorius - Blackbird</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I've come across many versions of Paul McCartney's beautiful acoustic ballad but Jaco Pastorium (best remembered as a member of Weather Report) brings an entirely different vibe to the this song.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">William Shatner - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Shatner's take on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is probably the most bizarre song on my list. His Shakespearean performance is a genuine gag fest!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In 1968, one of the most famous and popular sci-fi actors of all time released his debut album ‘The Transformed Man,’ which included his take on the 1967 classic ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Shatner’s version, on the other hand, is a campy mix of spoken-word and outer-space-like echo effects, featuring a group of female vocalists singing the chorus as if they're part of an intergalactic Vegas revue. The last verse (<em>Picture yourself in a train on the station...</em>) is really something to behold. It sounds like Shatner has gone certifiably insane. Sorta like he did in that classic ‘Twilight Zone’ episode." (ultimateclassicrock.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Fats Domino - Lady Madonna</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Following a string of innovative singles, which were all so different from one another, The Beatles changed direction yet again. For their first single release of 1968, they went back to their roots for <em>Lady Madonna</em>. In a 1994 interview, Paul admitted, '<em>Lady Madonna’ was me, sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing … It reminded me of Fats Domino for some reason, so I started singing a Fats Domino impression. It took my other voice to a very odd place</em>.'”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>"Lady Madonna</em> is a 'raucous rock and roll song'. As such, it heralded the Beatles' return to a more standard form of songwriting after their recent psychedelic productions, a back-to-basics approach that many other artists pursued throughout 1968. Author Jonathan Gould views the timing as propitious, since the British music press in early 1968 began to tout the idea of a 'rock-and-roll revival' as a corrective to the excesses of psychedelia." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tiny Tim & Brave Combo - Girl</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Over the years, I became a big fan of a band called Brave Combo, a brilliant polka band from Denton, Texas. One of their more adventurous recordings was this Beatles cover that found them working with the one and only Tiny Tim. From the Brave Combo website: "<em>Brave Combo meets crooner Tiny Tim for a journey that spans a century of musical history!</em>"</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">B 52s - Paperback Writer</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 2004, The B-52’s recorded a crisp cover version of the Beatles’ <em>Paperback Writer</em> for a Buick TV commercial. "...this is a fairly faithful version, though the New Wave touches and the female harmonies make it just off enough that you can hear afresh how great that riff is." (salon.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Junior Parker - Taxman</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This version of George Harrison's <em>Taxman</em> as covered by blues artist Junior Parker really caught me by surprise. "</span>Blues singer Junior Parker completely dismantles <em>Taxman</em>, salvaging some spare parts and rebuilding the song into a weird soul-funk workout. Parker alternates between spoken word and croon, anchored by a groove both laid-back and deceptively manic." (Ultimate Classic Rock site)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me & My Monkey)</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Feelies, a combo from New Jersey, played an important part in the development of American indie rock. They did a great job on this quirky John Lennon ditty. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Louis Prima - Ob Bla Di Ob Bla Da</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ah! I'm a sucker for any Louis Prima recording that pops up on my radar. This track was recorded for an album called <em>Blast Off</em>. It's nice to hear ol' Louis swinging the good thing on this Paul McCartney track.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Buddy Rich Band - Norwegian Wood</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Buddy RIch and his Big Band bring the heat with this excellent version of <em>Norwegian Wood</em>. The Players: Buddy Rich - drums, Arranged by Bill Holman Quinn Davis - alto saxophone, Ernie Watts - alto saxophone and flute, Jay Corre, Robert Keller - tenor saxophone and flute, Marty Flax - baritone saxophone Bobby Shew, Yoshito Murakami, Charles Findley, John Scottile - trumpet Jim Trimble, Ron Meyers - trombone, Bill Wimberly - bass trombone Richie Resnicoff - guitar Ray Starling - piano James Gannon - double bass</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">While My Guitar Gently Weeps </span></h3>
<p>Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony with a rousing version of <em>While My Guitar Gently Weeps</em>...during the performance Prince turns into a wild man!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the early 1970's, The Ike and Tina Turner Revue were the most popular ensembles on the soul circuit. I love the energy they put into this great cover of The Beatles' <i>Come Together.</i></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"By the early weeks of the 70s, Ike and Tina Turner were marking a decade of their powerhouse live act and recording partnership. We know all too well that their relationship was not what it appeared on the surface, but nevertheless it was an alliance produced any number of outstandingly soulful records. The one that hit the Billboard R&B chart on February 7, 1970 had them taking a trip to Abbey Road. The Ike & Tina Turner version started on Billboard’s Best Selling Soul Singles chart at No.49, rising to No.21." (www.udiscover.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ah! It's St. Paddy's Day!</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">St. Patrick's Day celebrates the history of Ireland with festivals around the world that are filled with parades, dances and traditional social gatherings. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Although I'm not Irish, I do love this holiday because of the camaraderie that is a crucial element of celebrating good times and friendship. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This year's St. Paddy's Day playlist is dedicated to my dear friend, Chris Kerwin, who is a genuine Irishman if ever there was one!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Here at Mind Smoke Manor, joining me today to celebrate St. Paddy's Day is my partner, Journeyboy!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"The traditional music played by the Irish came to the country with the Celts 2,000 years ago. The Celts were influenced by the music of the East (which is why you may think you hear some resemblance of an Irish tune being played at Canal Street station) and it’s believed that the traditional Irish harp may in fact have originated in Egypt. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The harp was the most popular instrument in ancient times with harpists employed to play for chieftains and to create music for nobles. This was until the Flight of the Earls in 1607 when native Irish chieftains fled the land under threat from invaders. With the flight of their patrons to mainland Europe, the harpists were left to travel the country and play where they could.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It wasn’t until 1762 that tunes were officially written down for the first time and collectors began to travel the country compiling music.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Traditional music saw a revival, especially in the States, in the 1920s when recordings of traditional music were taken for the first time and made available to the Irish living abroad. The fiddle player Michael Coleman was one such player whose recordings in New York were to influence fiddle-players in the States and in Ireland for many years to come. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The main traditional instruments of Irish music are the fiddle, Irish flute, tin whistle, celtic harp, uilleann pipes and bodhrán. The fiddle is the exact same instrument as the violin but it is through the style of playing that we differentiate between them. The fiddle-player sees less conformity in the way in which the instrument is held and a traditional musician free to experiment with more musical ornamentation. This is true of each traditional player, whatever the instrument. Traditional Irish music is highly ornamented by the individual and it would be hard to meet two players who play the same tune the same way."</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="font_regular">From Oxford University Press</span></strong>: <span class="font_regular">"An important aspect of these festivities is of course reveling in the colorful and eclectic range of traditional music; music which represents the diversity of Ireland’s history, and music that continues to flourish today; swathes of styles rooted to the land and influenced and inspired by many social changes including the suppression and emigration of Irish people across the world. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Particularly during the Great Famine and the intense migratory period, the Irish people would often play songs of longing and sadness for their homeland as they made roots on continents far from their native soil (a fundamental example being the United States). Thanks to the influences of further worldly musical styles including American folk and Jazz, traditional Irish music saw an important revival in the later 20th century, a revival instigated by the descendants of Irish settlers and a movement which proved just how relevant and durable the legacies and lessons of traditional Irish music were years later. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Traditional Irish music was and still is, used for various reasons. Although unaccompanied vocals called sean nós (“in the old style”) are considered the ultimate representation of traditional singing, Irish folk music has developed in both the English and Irish languages. Whilst Caoineadh songs, (or laments) often expressed the pain and sorrow and longing for Ireland, much of Irish traditional music was meant for dancing at celebrations; weddings, social gatherings and saint’s days. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Whether it be for the purposes of singing, lamenting, or dancing; traditional Irish music remains an ever reverent and thriving genre in modern times. From haunting ballads to popular glass-clanking drinking songs filled with merriment, many popular Irish musicians continue to gather their inspirations from a rich heritage of Irish styles and instruments."</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Pogues - I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"<em>Say, Who Were The Pogues?</em>" </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Pogues, an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band that was led by Shane MacGowan, began performing under the name <em>Pogue Mahone</em> in Kings Cross, London in 1982. The name Pogue Mahone was the anglicization of the Irish Gaelic <em>póg mo thóin</em>, meaning <em>kiss my arse</em>. Oh my!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the 1980's and 1990's, The Pogues achieved international success after recording several hit albums and singles. When Shane MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to his problems with alcohol, the band soldiered on; first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals, before breaking up in 1996. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Pogues re-formed in late 2001, and began playing regularly across the UK and Ireland and on the US East Coast, until they called it quits once again in 2014.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"During their wide musical journeys in the 1980s, the Chieftains decided to collaborate with Van Morrison, who had an artistic peak at the end of the decade. The result was a highlight in both of their '80s productions: the traditional <em>Irish Heartbeat</em>, with Morrison on lead vocals and a guest appearance from Mary Black. Morrison and Moloney's production puts the vocals up front with a sparse background, sometimes with a backdrop of intertwining strings and flutes, the same way Morrison would later use the Chieftains on his <em>Hymns to the Silence </em>album. The arrangement and the artist's engaged singing leads to a brilliant result, and these Irish classics are made very accessible without being transformed into pop songs. Of the ten tracks included, eight are traditional Irish songs. The title track and <em>Celtic Ray</em> are written by Morrison, and also appear on two other Van Morrison albums, <em>Beautiful Vision</em> and <em>Inarticulate Speech of the Heart</em>, but since they are written in a pseudo-traditional style, the folksy treatment given them by the Chieftains makes these versions sound as if they were the originals." (All Music)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Chieftains - Ye Rambling Boys Of Pleasure</span></h3>
<p>In 1962, The Chieftains began their musical journey in Ireland. As the years went on, they won six Grammy Awards and have achieved much success for reinventing traditional Irish music on a contemporary and international scale. The band has a Midas touch when it comes to transcending musical boundaries that mix tradition songs with modern sounds. Their wonderful musical journey continues to this very day.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. Singer and bassist Ken Casey has been the band's only constant member. Other current members include drummer Matt Kelly (1997– ), singer Al Barr (1998– ), guitarist James Lynch (2000– ), multi-instrumentalist Tim Brennan (2003– ), multi-instrumentalist Jeff DaRosa (2007– ), and Campbell Webster Bagpipes (2022) </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and building a reputation locally through constant touring and yearly St. Patrick's Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The 2004 single, <em>Tessie</em> became the band's first mainstream hit and one of their biggest charting singles to date. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The band's final Hellcat release, 2005's <em>The Warrior's Code</em>, included the song <em>I'm Shipping Up to Boston</em>. The song was featured in the 2006 film <em>The Departed</em>, and went on to become the band's only platinum-selling single to date. It remains one of their best-known songs. The band is known for their loud, energetic live shows." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Flogging Molly is an Irish-American seven-piece Celtic punk band formed in Los Angeles in 1997. The band's music is influenced by various artists, such as The Dubliners, The Pogues, Greenland Whalefishers, Horslips, Johnny Cash and The Clash. Their songs typically touch on subjects such as Ireland and its history, drinking, poverty, politics, love, and death...amen!</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Rumjacks - An Irish Pub Song</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Rumjacks, a rock band originally formed in Sydney, Australia, are widely known for their loud and energetic live shows. One of The Rumjacks' best songs is <em>An Irish Pub Song which</em> went viral when released and it got over 75 million views on YouTube.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">WPIX 11 NEW YORK THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE 1988</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ah...sweet memories of Capt. Jack McCarthy!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The High Kings - The Beggarman Jig</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The High Kings formed in June 2007 when Brian, Darren, Finbarr and former member Martin Furey were asked to join a brand-new Irish ballad group by David Kavanagh after he had noticed a gap in the market for a band specializing in traditional Irish music. To this very day, The High Kings continue to set the bar extremely high for Irish Folk bands across the world and are widely regarded to be at the forefront of the genre.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">"If I should fall from grace with God <br>Where no doctor can relieve me <br>If I'm buried 'neath the sod <br>But the angels won't receive me <br>Let me go, boys <br>Let me go, boys <br>Let me go down in the mud <br>Where the rivers all run dry</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Bury me at sea <br>Where no murdered ghost can haunt me <br>If I rock upon the waves <br>No corpse shall lie upon me <br>Coming up threes, boys <br>Coming up threes, boys <br>Let them go down in the mud <br>Where the rivers all run dry..."</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Van Morrison - The Bright Side Of The Road</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">"From the dark end of the street <br>To the bright side of the road <br>We'll be lovers once again <br>On the bright side of the road </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Little darlin', come with me <br>Won't you help me share my load <br>From the dark end of the street <br>To the bright side of the road </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Into this life we're born <br>Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why <br>And time seems to go by so fast <br>In the twinkling of an eye </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can) <br>Won't you help me share my load (help me share my load) <br>From the dark end of the street <br>To the bright side of the road..."</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">U2 - It's A Beautiful Day</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"It's a beautiful day <br>Sky falls, you feel like <br>It's a beautiful day <br>Don't let it get away..."</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tim Janis - Celtic Instrumental Relaxing Music "St Patrick's Day Music"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Lost Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Love - 7 and 7 Is </span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The band Love recorded this genuine rock classic in June of 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood. At that time, Sunset Sound Recorders was one of the more popular recording studios that were favored by top rock acts.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>7 and 7 Is</em> made the Billboard Pop Singles chart on July 30, 1966, peaking at number 33 during a ten-week chart run and becoming the band's highest-charting hit single. The recording also featured on the band's second album, <em>Da Capo</em>. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cash Box magazine described the song as a "<em>pulsating, rhythmic extremely danceable bluesy ditty with a clever gimmick wind-up</em>."</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">According to several sources, the song was inspired by a high school sweetheart of Alvin Lee's. Describing how the song came to him during an interview, Lee stated: "<em>I was living on Sunset and woke up early one morning. The whole band was asleep. I went in the bathroom, and I wrote those words. My songs used to come to me just before dawn, I would hear them in dreams, but if I didn't get up and write them down, or if I didn't have a tape recorder to hum into, I was through. If I took for granted that I could remember it the next day and the song would be gone</em>."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>7 and 7 Is</em> required great deal of work to record, with Love's drummer, Alban <em>Snoopy</em> Pfisterer, being challenged with Alvin Lee's frantic demands after 30 takes or so during the recording session for <em>7 and 7 Is</em>. In an interview, lead guitarist Johnny Echols stated that the drumming on the song was done by Pfisterer. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In a 1989 interview, Arthur Lee stated that he himself taught Pfisterer how to play the part, and that the final record featured Pfisterer. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In what has been described as a '<em>flirtation</em>' with musique concrète, the song climaxes in an apocalyptic explosion—the supposed sound of an atom bomb—before a peaceful conclusion, in a blues form, which then fades out. Although many listeners thought that the explosion at the end of the song was a reverb unit being kicked or dropped, it was (according to the engineer Bruce Botnick), in actuality, taken from a sound effects record. He speculated that it was a recording of a gunshot slowed down. For live performances, the explosion was reproduced by kicking a reverb unit." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Music post is <em>It's The End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)</em>, a wild apocalyptic rock anthem by R.E.M. At first listen, this track simply knocked me out due to its incredible energy. As the song moves forward, the band kicks things into high gear and produces more power than I'd ever heard in a R.E.M. song. Sweet fancy Moses!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"The track is known for its quick-flying, seemingly stream of consciousness rant with many diverse references, such as a quartet of individuals with the initials L.B.: Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs. In a 1990s interview with Musician magazine, R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe claimed that the L.B. references came from a dream he had in which he found himself at a party surrounded by famous people who all shared those initials. '<em>The words come from everywhere</em>,' Stipe explained to Q Magazine in 1992. '<em>I'm extremely aware of everything around me, whether I am in a sleeping state, awake, dream-state or just in day to day life, so that ended up in the song along with a lot of stuff I'd seen when I was flipping TV channels. It's a collection of streams of consciousness</em>.' </span>Years later, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the song received an increase in downloads and streaming in March 2020 alongside other apocalypse- and sickness-themed songs." (Wikipedia)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"> That's great, it starts with an earthquake <br>Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes <br>And Lenny Bruce is not afraid </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">… Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn <br>World serves its own needs <br>Don't mis-serve your own needs <br>Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength <br>The ladder starts to clatter <br>With a fear of height, down, height <br>Wire in a fire, represent the seven games <br>And a government for hire and a combat site <br>Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry <br>With the Furies breathing down your neck </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped <br>Look at that low plane, fine, then <br>Uh oh, overflow, population, common group <br>But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself <br>World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed <br>Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right <br>You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light <br>Feeling pretty psyched </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">… It's the end of the world as we know it <br>It's the end of the world as we know it <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">… Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower <br>Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn <br>Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting <br>Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate <br>Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down <br>Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh <br>This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear <br>A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies <br>Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">… It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone) </span><br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone) <br>I feel fine (I feel fine) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide <br>Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein <br>Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs <br>Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom <br>You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… It's the end of the world as we know it <br>It's the end of the world as we know it <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">… It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone) <br>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre's new single</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Pierre started writing this song back in 1995 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">and then recently finished it after seeing the horrors of the invasion of Ukraine.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sunday </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Crescent City Gold - Hang Tough</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ooh baby! We had a great time during our Mardi Gras week so I thought it would be fun to to post a tasty Allen Toussaint song called <em>Hang Tough </em>which was a track on an album called <em>Crescent City Gold: The Ultimate Session</em>. <em>Hang Tough</em> has a real groove to it and is a song that captures the essence of moving ahead no matter what.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Crescent City Gold: The Ultimate Session features many renowned artist from the New Orleans music scene that include Allen Toussaint, Dr John, Lee Allen, Alvin Tyler, Earl Palmer along with a supporting cast of bass, drums, horn section, and backing vocalists. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This wonderful album recalls the golden era of New Orleans that fills the air with Second-line grooves, such New Orleans Piano Professors as Dr. John, Allen Toussaint along with third pianist Edward Frank. The New Orleans vibe is alive because of some Big Easy classics such as <em>Trick Bag</em>, <em>Don't You Just Know It</em> and <em>Junco Partner</em>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During these sessions, Allen Toussaint and Dr John took turns doing lead vocals on all of the tracks. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Crescent City Gold is the moniker for a dream team of some of New Orleans R&B's greatest musicians. Four of these great players, drummer Earl Palmer, baritone sax player Alvin Red Tyler, pianist Edward Frank, and tenor sax player Lee Allen, have been studio musicians since the 1950s, and they amply demonstrate their 40 years of musical experience on The Ultimate Session. Joining them are two musicians who are slightly younger, yet whose credentials are completely above suspicion: Allen Toussaint and Mac Rebennack (it is a tribute to the authenticity of The Ultimate Session that Rebennack is billed by his real name and not his more familiar stage name, Dr. John). Toussaint and Rebennack contribute most of the compositions on this album, featuring a fantastic sax melody, Earl Palmer at his best, and some extremely skanky guitar from Mr. Rebennack. The record is of such historic importance (and so downright funky throughout) that it is worth tracking down for fans of New Orleans R&B." (Goldmine Magazine)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Have a listen why'doncha!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Everything seems to fall short at times... baby </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And when it rains it really pours </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Even the darkest cloud On high... baby </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't mean there's darkness in your heart</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Even the champs go down Sometimes... baby </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">To fall don't mean To fall apart</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">(You got to) Hang tough... never give up Hang tough</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Never give up (You got to) Hang tough!</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Today is one of my favorite days of the year! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It's the culmination of the Mardi Gras season... </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It's FAT TUESDAY!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It's also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, depending on where the celebration is taking place. No matter the name, it's a day of revelry that includes parades, parties and gastronomic indulgence before the Christian fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It marks the last day of the Carnival season, basically a six-week period of partying around the globe. What began as a holiday rooted in religious tradition has become a cultural phenomenon, leading to parties for the sake of partying, and not necessarily in anticipation of 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Hideaways - Let's Have A Natural Ball</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mind Smoke Manor's Sgt. @ Arms aka Sir Leroy is ready for party duty!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/b0e3cbe159b15313e68366f04eb139495d7dce31/original/big-chief-journeyboy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Big Chief Journey Boy is in charge of guarding the food stuffs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Your hosts for the evening...</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Sweet Loretta & Johnny Pierre</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Galactic - Carnival Time</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Hector, our bartender, awaits your request for a libation!</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">John Mooney - Drink A Little Poison (4 U Die)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Somebody just started handing out a bunch of masks!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dirty Dozen Brass Band - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f43a9af59cb0b2875397300bd3b7c724dc154e0b/original/big-ol-pot-of-gumbo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">A big ol' pot of gumbo is simmering away on the stove!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Little Feat - Rad Gumbo</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp and Gumbo</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span class="font_regular">What would a Mardi Gras party be</span> </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">without some Mardi Gras Indians music, eh?</span></h3>
<p> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Wild Tchoupitoulas - Meet De Boys On The Battlefront</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Golden Eagles with Monk Boudreaux - Hold 'Em Joe</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/57ba2a66b58575b7d1e14ec35a1d22b6f8795955/original/elmo-hoodoo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="font_regular">Elmo Hoodoo, our DJ, has just arrived!</span>
</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He's pretty squirrely so you best watch your step!</span></h3>
<p> </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Elmo always starts a Fat Tuesday party with</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">this wild Beau Jocque track...</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Slide And Dip It (Party Dip Mix)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Once Elmo is in the groove</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">he'll hit it with 2 swinging tunes</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Preservation Hall Jazz Band - That's It!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Billie & Dee Dee Pierce & Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Peanut Vendor</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer While I Was In The Rear</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ramsey McLean & The Survivors - Drink Jax Beer</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">I'm partying with some of my Long Island friends today</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Shecky & the Twangtones - All on a Mardi Gras Day</span></h3>
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<p> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">As the libations begin to flow,</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">DJ Elmo gets jiggy with it</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& starts to spin some unusual tracks!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">New Orleans Swamp Donkeys - Theme From The Game of Thrones</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Cool It - George Coleman aka Bongo Joe</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ain't No Place To Pee On Mardi Gras Day - Benny Grunch</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Uh Oh! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">It Looks Like Hector The Bartender </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">is getting overwhelmed by the crowd!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1e45f62d1d24209e935408c20d4ccc8ff915020e/original/mardi-gras-strength.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't forget folks, </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">you can get a libation right over there at the Rum Machine!</span></h3>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/223b98fdb45303b2b52321cbfeac2f832e3ac64f/original/rum-machine.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="THE SECRET DOOR" data-link-type="page" href="/the-secret-door"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5538efba5a3f5b9d111507e225dfa076af3c30bd/original/enter-the-secret-door.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">If you need to take a break from the party</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="Enter The Secret Door" data-link-label="THE SECRET DOOR" data-link-type="page" href="/the-secret-door"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Enter The Secret Door</span></a></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d065ff7a34236ccae50bd00cadfd3d114ac53f8f/original/house-party-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Uh Oh! DJ Elmo has just disappeared into the crowd!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">We'll have to keep the music going on our own!</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Main Event: </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">a. Tornado Special, b. Waterfalls, c. Ooh Nah Nay, d. Rebirth on Fire</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This great Rebirth Brass Band tune </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">is a 25 minute work out that just might do you in...</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">...so damn the torpedoes and give a listen, eh?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/e4ebb93d8e2ebcc97e46b20902c9b8594cad11ef/original/sun-comes-up-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hey, I just looked out the window...</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I think the sun is coming up!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Huey Piano Smith - 'Fore Day in the Morning</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lord have mercy! </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">We just found DJ Elmo passed out in the dumpster out back! </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Big All Carson - Take Your Drunken Ass Home</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Looks like it's time to say goodbye to another Fat Tuesday!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hey Dude, where's my car?!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Why are there beads & masks in my toilet?</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Uh oh! Who left their alligator on my front lawn?!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">How did I end up getting a tattoo of a monkey on my ass?!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Damn! Mardi Gras is getting harder every year!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">MARDI GRAS IS OVER</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a contents="Mardi Gras is Over " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/single/50010/mardi-gras-is-over"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Mardi Gras is Over</span></strong></span> </a>was originally recorded for the <a contents="Biscuit Kings' Hambones &amp; Trombones " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2011/NOV1/CD107.html"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Biscuit Kings' Hambones & Trombones</strong></span></a><font color="#f1c40f"><b> </b></font>album (2010). This version is a remix I released under my own name a few years back. The video, which was put together by my daughter Molly, features footage me and my wife Sweet Loretta from our days restaurant days here in Long Island. Let the good times roll!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">so I will leave you all with one last New Orleans song</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Meters - They All Asked For You</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Day 6 of our Mardi Gras week of fun, music and tasty items! For today's blog post, I thought it would be fun to share with all of you some of my Mardi Gras recipes that i served up my various restaurants over the years. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My introduction to the cuisine of New Orleans took place in 1961 in New Orleans where I was living with my family,. My Dad was an army doctor who was in charge of running a large medical hospital right by Lake Pontchartrain. During my time there I became overwhelmed by the magical essence of the music, food and genuine atmosphere of the city of New Orleans. It was pivotal moment for me (especially with regards to the music). I saw my first Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans in 1962. Not bad for an 8 year old kid, eh? </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My love of the city's music would implant itself in my own music career that seriously started in 1977 when I moved to Long Island. Years later, when I decided to take a hiatus from the music biz, I got into the food service business and eventually became a chef and a restaurant owner. In those days my nickname was <em>The Chef From Hell</em>; most probably due to the influence of Chef Paul Prudhomme (a creative individual who brought Cajun back into the mainstream in the 80's). </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Chef JP aka The Chef From Hell (1987)</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Over the years as a Chef, I had a great time creating my own Cajun / Creole dishes at my various restaurants; The Bayou in Bellmore, NY, Big Daddy's in Massapequa, NY and Yazoo City in my hometown, Lindenhurst, NY. Throughout these years my most special time to cook was during MARDI GRAS WEEK which was a week long celebration starting on the Tuesday before Fat Tuesday and then on Fat Tuesday itself. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In the dark age before electricity and refrigeration, it took master cooks – culinary magicians – to deliver miracles out of the kitchens of the South; now, with good directions and modern equipment, it is possible for anyone with enough interest to do almost as well…when the chemistry is right, a Southern meal can still be an aesthetic wonder, a sensory delight, even a mystical experience.” John Egerton SOUTHERN FOOD (Alfred A. Knopf 1987)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As part of this blog's week-long Mardi Gras celebration, I thought it would be fun to share some of my Mardi Gras recipes with all of you rock & rollers out there who like swinging the good thing in the kitchen.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">So without further adieu, here are some of my favorite Mardi Gras recipes along with a tasty appetizer recipe and dessert recipe from my wifey, Sweet Loretta.</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPETIZERS</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">~ MARDI GRAS MAMBO GUMBO ~</span></span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">First you make a CAJUN ROUX</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/174b98bb92a559b76085b23b1f826293bfd4a9a6/original/roux-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />This is what your roux will look like in the beginning</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bruce Daigrepont - Stir Up The Roux</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This is what your roux should look like when you're done.</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Part One: Making A Roux</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Chef's Note: Making a roux is like learning to tie your shoes; it takes a bit of practice but in the end, it's a simple thing to do. The main thing you have to be careful of is burning yourself (or your roux) as you're working with oil that's heated in excess of 500 degrees.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Ingredients</h3>
<p>4 Cups Peanut Oil or Vegetable Oil </p>
<p>4 to 5 cups of Flour</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">How To Make A Roux:</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In a good sturdy pot, heat the oil over a high flame until it begins to bubble; the the oil by adding a pinch of the flour. If the oil is ready, then it bubble excessively once the pinch of flour has been added to the hot oil. Gradually add 2 cups of flour and whisk the roux vigorously for several minutes. Work your whisk around the far edges around the pot and as you whisk work your way to the center of the pot. Keep whisky as you wait for the oil and flour to begin to assume a light brown color. Add another cup of flour and repeat the whisking procedure. Never leave your roux until you reach the end of the process which is when the roux changes to the dark brown color you see above. Add another cup of flour and repeat the whisking procedure. One of the main ingredients of making a roux is patience. Once your roux has thickened and achieved the dark color, turn off the heat and continue whisking the roux. It usually takes about a 1/2 hour for a roux to cool down to room temp so continue whisking it from time to time. Once the roux has cooled down, put it in a container and set it aside.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">PART 2: MAKE A STOCK</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ingredients:</span></h3>
<p><span class="font_regular">4 1/2 quarts water (room temperature)</span></p>
<p>1 large Sweet Onion, quartered</p>
<p>1 large Carrot, split into 3 pieces</p>
<p>2 Celery Stalks, chopped coarse</p>
<p>1 Bay Leaf</p>
<p>1 TBS Cracked Black Pepper</p>
<p>1 1/2 tsp Salt</p>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">How To Make A Chicken Stock:</span></h3>
<p>In a large pot, place the above all ingredients into the pot and bring everything to a rolling boil over high heat. Then, turn the heat down to a simmer and skim some of the foam and grease that's floating on the top of the stock. Discard the foam and grease (I usually use an empty coffee can). Simmer your stock for three hours then strain your stock through a fine mesh colander into your gumbo pot. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Little Feat - Rad Gumbo</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">FINISHING YOUR GUMBO</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Heat up your oven @ 350 degrees</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Spice Mix</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1<span class="font_regular"> TBS Cayenne Pepper</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">1 tsp Black Pepper</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">1 tsp White Pepper</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2TBS Ground Sage</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 tsp Basil Leaf</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 tsp Oregano</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 TBS Salt</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mix together this spice mix and set it aside</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Note: if you like your gumbo very spicey then add more Cayenne Pepper</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Vegetables Chicken Thighs & Ham</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 cups diced celery</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 cups diced carrots</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">2 cups Green Bell Peppers (chopped small)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">1 medium sized Sweet Onion (chopped small)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2 lb Andouille Sausage (chopped into small pieces)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2 lbs. boneless Chicken Thighs (skin removed) & chopped into small pieces</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1 lb Ham (chopped small)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Season all of the vegetables, sausage, chicken thighs and ham with your spice mix & place everything in a large roasting pan</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Roast the vegetables, sausage, ham and boneless chicken thighs @ 350 in an oven for a half an hour then set the vegetables, sausage, ham and chicken thighs.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Note: Note some oven run hotter than the average oven so keep an eye on your roasted foodstuffs.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jambalaya Brass Band - Gumbo Ya-Ya</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">BRING IT ON HOME JEROME!</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Add the roasted vegetables, sausage, ham and chicken thighs into the gumbo pot and whisk the stock well. </p>
<p>Bring the pot to a high simmer and whisk in your roux. Whisk the roux for 10 minutes or so to make sure it has thickened the stock.</p>
<p>Add the roasted vegetables, sausage, ham, and chicken thighs into the gumbo pot</p>
<p>Whisk your gumbo for several minutes.</p>
<p>Lower the heat on the gumbo pot to a simmer</p>
<p>Let your gumbo simmer for 30 to 45 minutes and then serve up dat dere gumbo!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c447e2577ffdfa1d8a0996e6e6b06637ca5b3b77/original/dr-john-gumbo-mmmm-good.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7e18da344f5a8dd7bb3b1d3825d32cb7c90cfdda/original/sweet-lo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /><span class="font_regular">Here's a delicious appetizer recipe from my better half... Sweet Loretta!</span>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">~ Crawfish Remoulade Blanc ~</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Allen Toussaint - I Could Eat Crawfish Every Day</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">PART 1 </span></h3>
<p>2 TBS Spicy Brown Mustard </p>
<p>4 scallions, chopped fine </p>
<p>2 tsp parsley, chopped fine </p>
<p>1 TBS Horseradish </p>
<p>Juice of half a large lemon </p>
<p>1 oz White Wine </p>
<p>Hearty pinch white pepper </p>
<p>Hearty pinch cayenne </p>
<p>1 cup mayonnaise </p>
<p>1 lb Crawfish Tail Meat (rinsed well) </p>
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<h3><span class="font_regular">PART 2 </span></h3>
<p>Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Whisk well. Cover and refrigerate. </p>
<p>You can substitute chilled cooked shrimp if crawfish are unavailable.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Main Dish</span></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">~ New Orleans Muffaletta Sandwich ~</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Giardiniera: Italian Pickled Vegetable Mix</span></h3>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Ingredients </span></h3>
<ul> <li> <p>1 large round bread loaf, 9 inches in diameter (often referred to as a "Bishop's Loaf"</p> </li> <li> <p>1 cup Giardiniera (an Italian pickled vegetable mix) Giardiniera</p> </li> <li> <p>1/4 cup Black Olives, chopped coarse </p> </li> <li> <p>1/4 cup Green Pimento stuffed Olives </p> </li> <li> <p>Olive Oil </p> </li> <li> <p>4 oz Genoa Salami, sliced thin </p> </li> <li> <p>4 oz Prosciutto Ham, sliced thin </p> </li> <li> <p>4 oz Cappicola, sliced thin </p> </li> <li> <p>4 oz Provolone thin, sliced thin </p> </li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Cooking Procedure </span></h3>
<ul> <li> <p>Preheat your oven to 350 degrees </p> </li> <li> <p>Image 7 Giardinera pickled vegetable mix </p> </li> <li> <p>Drain the Giardinera of any liquid and place it in a food processor </p> </li> <li> <p>Add the black and green olives </p> </li> <li> <p>Drizzle in a little olive oil & pulse the ingredients until you achieve a chunky vegetable mix </p> </li> <li> <p>Set this mix aside </p> </li> <li> <p>Slice the round loaf in half horizontally </p> </li> <li> <p>Layer the bottom of the loaf with the processed vegetable mix </p> </li> <li> <p>Layer the sliced cheese and meats over the vegetable mix </p> </li> <li> <p>Place the top half of the bread on top of the meats </p> </li> <li> <p>Wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil </p> </li> <li> <p>Bake the sandwich in a 350 oven until the cheese is melted and the meats are warm; about 25 - 30 minutes </p> </li> <li> <p>Remove the sandwich from the oven and let it rest for 15 minutes </p> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Slice the sandwich into quarters to serve</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's what your Muffaletta should look like!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">CHEF'S NOTE </span></h3>
<p>There are two schools of thought when it comes to the famous Muffaletta sandwich. Some folks like it prepared cold much like a deli sandwich whereas others prefer the sandwich served hot. My preference is to heat it up and enjoy all that melted cheese. Yeah baby!</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">~ Dessert ~</span></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">~ Sweet Loretta's King Kake ~</span></span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Big Al Carson - King Kake</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here's a recipe that Sweet Loretta, makes every Mardi Gras. Traditionally, a small plastic or porcelain baby is hidden in the king cake. Originally, the baby was placed in the cake to symbolize baby Jesus. Fava beans were also used to represent Jesus. Today, the baby you'll find in your piece of King Kake will most probably be plastic and symbolizes luck and prosperity to whoever finds it in their slice of cake!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">King Kake Baby</span></h2>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Step 1 </span></h3>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 tbs cocoa powder </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">2 tsp cinnamon </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1/3 cup sugar </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Combine in a small bowl and set aside to use as ribbon through the cake </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Step 2 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">3 cups flour </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 ½ tsp baking powder </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 ½ tsp baking soda </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Combine and set aside. </span></p>
<h3><span class="font_regular">Step 3 </span></h3>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 ½ sticks butter, softened </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 ½ cups sugar </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">2 tsp vanilla </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">½ tsp salt </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">16 ounces sour cream </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">3 eggs </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 baby </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Preheat oven to 350 degrees </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Cream butter and sugar. Add flour mix, then the vanilla, salt, sour cream and eggs. Beat well. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">In a prepared bunt pan layer half of the batter. Sprinkle the spice mixture over that half as a ribbon. Lay in the King Kake baby. Cover with the remaining batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 60 minutes. Let cool on a rack before turning out. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Step 4 > When Your King Kake Has Cooled (about an hour) Prepare the Glaze: </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 cup powdered sugar </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">1 TBS melted butter </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Milk / or ½ and ½ to taste and texture </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Mix these ingredients until the glaze thin enough to drip over the top of the King Kake </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Pour on the glaze and decorate with purple, green and gold sprinkles</span></p>
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<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/68735682022-02-26T03:18:28-05:002022-02-26T09:26:58-05:00Remembering Bunny Matthews<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30ddfa46421124a264d904589a99f2077566606a/original/bunny-matthews-publicity-photo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bunny Matthews</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today we celebrate the life and artistry of Bunny Matthews, an American cartoonist and writer from New Orleans, who was best known for his depictions of New Orleans characters and local dialect.</p>
<p>In 1984, I first encountered Bunny Matthews' art when I journeyed to New Orleans on my honeymoon and came across some of his artwork in a bookstore. In short order, I became a lifelong fan of his art work.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Matthews most popular cartoon characters were Vic and Nat'ly Broussard</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"New Orleanian cartoonist Bunny Matthews made a name for himself in the early '80s with the creation of his two iconic characters, husband and wife Vic and Nat'ly Broussard, a satire duo who own and operate a bar and poor-boy emporium in the Ninth Ward. Their commentary on the local scene, on the city's cultural and social issues, served as the basis for much humor and controversy in the nineteen years they appeared in The Times-Picayune. The two can still be seen throughout New Orleans, despite no longer being printed in the city's most popular newspaper, brandished proudly by local companies like Harkins, The Florist and Leidenheimer Baking. Though Matthews' mass popularity in New Orleans has fluctuated in the years following Vic and Nat'ly's prevalence, and has since shifted into more of an underground status with local hipsters, his significance as a disparate/critical voice in a city all too willing to revel in its unique patina has not waned...the content of his cartooning reveals the depth of influence of New Orleanian (and its surrounding areas) lore and cultural cues; nary a Matthews cartoon panel exists without reference to Hubig's pies, George Rodrigue's Blue Dog, Boudin and Cracklins, or Morgus the Magnificent.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">T</span>o some of his fans, it is curious that Matthews chose an Italian/Sicilian ethnicity for his most famous cartoon creations, Vic and Nat'ly, New Orleans being a place synonymous with French whites and Creoles; after all, French is the language New Orleanians like to throw around when trying to impress tourists and each other, the same that Vic and Nat'ly are heard saying at their fictional Ninth Ward bar. Vic and Nat'ly's last name is Broussard, a Cajun French last name common to the region, '<em>the Jones or Smith of Louisiana</em>,' claims Matthews." <span class="font_regular">(Sottek and Button 2010).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Matthews's characters Vic and Nat'ly Broussard are an overweight husband and wife who speak in what some call the Yat dialect and run a working-class corner bar and po-boy emporium in the city's Ninth Ward. In light of these characters' sometimes unfavorable reception, it bears noting that Matthews has often and repeatedly described others' use of the word <em>Yat </em>as derogatory. Matthews' cartooning style has been called <em>post-psychedelic baroque</em>. Vic and Nat'ly first appeared in 1982 in Dixie, a former weekly supplement of The Times-Picayune. Matthews' first cartoon strip was titled <em>F'Sure: Actual Dialogue Heard on the Streets of New Orleans</em>, published from the late-1970s to the early-1980s in the defunct New Orleans weekly paper <em>Figaro</em>." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cartoons are not the only way that which Matthews expressed himself. In the 1980's, Matthews was the ffull-time music writer for the Times-Picayune. Matthews would go on to do music reviews for several local publications including Gambit and Offbeat Magazine. As a reviewer, Matthews brought the same intensity as he did as a cartoonist which on occasion would piss off the fans of those who were being reviewed. During his career as a music journalist, Matthews interviewed countless celebrities including James Brown, Brenda Lee, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Eddie Bo, Ernie K-Doe, King Floyd, Bobby Marchan, Jessie Hill, Albert Collins, Elvis Costello, Mark E. Smith, Marilyn Chambers, Cab Calloway, Black Flag, Jonathan Richman, Suzi Quatro and Al Green. Matthews composed album liner notes for artists including Smiley Lewis, The Meters, Earl King and James Booker, with whom Matthews was close friends until Booker's death in 1983.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1996, the Leidenheimer bakery commissioned Bunny to design artwork for their trucks to celebrate their 100th anniversary.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In 1999, Matthews became editor of OffBeat, a job he held until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. '<em>Bunny was one of the most talented New Orleanians, ever</em>,' said Jan Ramsey, publisher of OffBeat. 'His intellect was formidable, his wit was sharp and evil, and he has an eye for satire second to none. He was an inspired artist and writer, and an astute observer of the vagaries and quirks of New Orleans culture.' </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">One sample of Matthews’ colorful writing style can be found in this essay about Mardi Gras from the February 2004 edition of OffBeat: 'The history, briefly, goes like this: our ancient pagan tree-worshipping brethren, as winter chilled their fur-draped bones, decided that getting smashed on hallucinogenic berries and dancing madly about the campfire was a much better idea than chasing after woolly mammoths with flint-tipped spears. And chasing after ancient pagan madamoiselles was a somewhat safer enterprise, particularly after inhibitions had been erased by large doses of hallucinogenic berries.'" (Offbeat Magazine)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Here's some of my all-time favorite images </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">as parlayed by the one and only Bunny Matthews!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">THE DEW DROP INN</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">2836 Lasalle St New Orleans</span></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Meet those fine gals, <br>Your buddies and your pals, <br>Down in New Orleans on a street they call LaSalle <br>Down at the Dew Drop Inn, <br>You meet all your fine friends. <br>Baby do drop in, <br>I'll meet you at the Dew Drop Inn." </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dew Drop Inn <br>Richard Penniman / Esqrita-K. Winslow, <br> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"'From 1945 to 1970, the Dew Drop Inn was synonymous with top flight Black entertainment, drawing singers, musicians, dancers and comedians like a magnet. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mr. Google Eyes Okeh Records 1951</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">‘The Dew Drop was just it,’ contends Joseph August, better known as the renowned blues singer, Mr. Google Eyes, who often worked the club as a singer and emcee. ‘It was the foundation for musicians in New Orleans…If you couldn’t get a gig at the Dew Drop, you weren’t about nothing.’" (Wavelength Magazine 1987: The Dew Drop Inn by Almost Slim) </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Located on Lasalle Street in Uptown New Orleans, the Dew Drop was a music club, hotel, barber shop, and restaurant owned and frequented primarily by African Americans. The club remained open from the 1940s until the late 1970s under the ownership of the legendary Frank Pania. All the local musicians and entertainment people would play there and hang out there. Any national musician touring the country or the South would stay there or perform there. Everyone from Lloyd Price and Aaron Neville to Ray Charles and Duke Ellington passed through the doors of the Dew Drop and played on its stage. It was a gathering place for the music and entertainment community. Besides musicians, performers included vaudeville acts, comedians, dramatic readings, and a floor show with women and transvestites. This crossroads of so many talented and creative musicians and artists produced interesting anecdotes and interactions. Many stories and songs were inspired by incidents (notorious and otherwise) at the Dew Drop Inn. In addition, The Dew Drop Inn was a mainly African-American club. Sometimes Caucasian-Americans were allowed in, but it very much depended on the politics of the time. The content of the pieces reflects the social, racial, sexual, and psychological milieu of the time besides the personal histories of the club. There are comments about the antics that went on inside as well as the politics of touring, segregation, and police corruption that went on outside." (Tulane.edu Music Rising) </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the mid-1940s through the close of the 1960s, one of the most popular music venues in New Orleans was a combination nightclub, hotel, restaurant, and barbershop called the Dew Drop Inn. What began as a small sandwich shop for workers from the nearby Magnolia Housing Project (officially known as the C. J. Peete Housing Project) grew into a nationally known entertainment center.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Acts from all over the city and the country played the Dew Drop Inn, a star-studded roster of blues, rhythm and blues and early rock ‘n’ roll performers that included the likes of Ray Charles, Charles Brown, Big Joe Turner, Solomon Burke, Bobby <em>Blue</em> Bland, Little Willie John, Eskew <em>Esquerita</em> Reeder, Allen Toussaint, Shirley and Lee, Guitar Slim Jones, Earl King, Dave Bartholomew, and James Booker.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">(Meet All Your Fine Friends at) The Dew Drop Inn</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Little Richard and Esquerita even wrote a song about the club called “(Meet All Your Fine Friends at) The Dew Drop Inn.” </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Frank Painia - Owner of the Dew Drop Inn</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Frank Painia, an African American barber from Plaquemines Parish, opened the Dew Drop Inn at 2836 LaSalle Street in 1939 as a hotel. A nightclub was added in 1945. Frank booked the stage acts while his brother Paul ran the adjacent restaurant. Both the hotel and the nightclub filled a niche in segregated New Orleans by offering work and respectable overnight lodging to prominent African American entertainers. The music room, sometimes called The Groove Room, offered a nightly floor show that harkened back to the golden age of vaudeville. The stage featured comedians, snake dancers, magicians, female impersonators, and stunt performers who chewed glass or lifted tables with their mouths. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Dew Drop Inn also functioned as a community and business center. Musicians often gathered there before and after work, and Frank Painia, who owned a booking service, would assemble bands for gigs in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. When musicians were stranded or out of work, the charitable Painia reportedly let them stay at his hotel and then found them a gig so they could get back on their feet and repay him. Because the Dew Drop Inn operated when segregation was the law, white audiences were supposedly prohibited from the club. Painia not only allowed whites to frequent his establishment but also often went to jail when the police arrested his customers. The most famous raid occurred in 1952, when Painia and actor Zachary Scott, then in New Orleans filming a movie, were arrested along with several other patrons for “mixing.” </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"'There was no other club like the Dew Drop,' Earl King maintained. 'When you walked into the Dew Drop, you didn’t just hear musicians and singers. You saw comedians, actors, dancers, the whole gamut. All the big names came through there — Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Count Basie — and they would see their pictures in a mural that Frank Painia, the owner, had put up there. Frank’s brother, Paul, had a cafeteria in the back. There was also a barber shop and a hotel in the building. We had showtimes at midnight and maybe another at 3 in the morning. And after the last show is over, here come all the musicians, waiters, and bartenders from all the other clubs to hang out. The jams could go till sunup. I got a chance to play with just about everybody in New Orleans, people I was elated to be associated with.” (Earl King interview, bittersouthener.com)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">A couple out dancing @ The Dew Drop Inn</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"<span class="font_regular">Many performing artists at the Dew Drop Inn would become household names in the future world of Rock and Roll. A young Ray Charles (nee Robinson) as well as Lil’ Richard would not only live at the Drop but would record and perform there between 1953 and 1956. The Drop was skillfully managed by Patsy Valdez, who would become a close associate of Lil’ Richard (of ‘Tutti Frutti’ fame), who would record ‘Rip It Up’ and ‘Reddy Teddy’ under the auspices of Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell of Specialty Records at the Dew Drop Inn. The stage would host the likes of Professor Longhair, Dave Bartholomew, Don Albert, The Neville Brothers, Johnny Adams and Big Joe Turner. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Dew Drop Inn operated much as it always had until 1969, when the legendary nightclub went dark. As segregation laws were overturned, African Americans who had been regular customers could visit venues that were previously off limits. Frank Painia became ill in 1965; he was in and out of the hospital until his death in 1972. After Frank’s passing, the remaining businesses at the Dew Drop Inn gradually closed until the establishment only consisted of a hotel, which ultimately was shuttered as well. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Repeated attempts at reviving the business in the decades since the nightclub closed have failed. In 2010, the Louisiana Landmark Society placed the Dew Drop Inn on its New Orleans’ Nine Most Endangered Sites List to draw attention to the deteriorating condition of the building, where an iconic sign still marks what was once billed as “the South’s swankiest night spot.” (Wavelength Magazine 1987: The Dew Drop Inn by Almost Slim)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">The Brass Rail</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">1316 Canal St New Orleans</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"From the moment prohibition ended in 1933 until the vice squad padlocked it in 1962, the Brass Rail anchored a cluster of clubs on the 1300 and 1400 blocks on Canal Street that functioned as an extension of French Quarter nightlife. Its place in New Orleans music history comes courtesy of bandleader and producer Paul Gayten, a major figure in rhythm and blues who was headquartered here from 1952 to 1958. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Paul Gayten jamming @ The Brass Rail with some cool cats</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Gayten was a veteran pianist and singer who’d influenced Dave Bartholomew and others in the 1940s, when R&B was emerging in Black clubs like the Robin Hood... For the white-only crowd at the Brass Rail, Gayten also interpreted mainstream pop hits of the day. His house band featured some of the city’s best players, including, at various points, saxophonist <em>Lee Allen</em>, bassists <em>Chuck Badie</em> and <em>Frank Fields</em>, and drummers <em>Earl Palmer</em> and <em>Charles 'Hungry' Williams</em>—musicians earning national reputations for the hit records they cut in nearby J&M Studio. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Brass Rail was a happening club. Gayten’s residency coincided with a renovation that installed '<em>a unique, modern eighteen-foot stage recessed in the semi-circular bar'</em>, crowned by a '<em>canopy dome</em>'. There was a modern edge to the entertainment, too: Badie told A Closer Walk that a gig of his at the Brass Rail was the first appearance of an electric bass on a New Orleans stage (the club’s manager barked at the band for using two guitars before Gayten enlightened him.) </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mac Rebbenack before he became the one & only Dr. John</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Before he became famous as Dr. John, 12-year-old Mac Rebennack used to skip mass on Sunday mornings and take a streetcar to the Brass Rail, where, inside, it was still Saturday night. Gayten presided over after-hours cutting contests, and Rebennack finagled his way in to see soon-to-be legendary horn men like Sam Butera and Lee Allen blow each other away. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In his memoir Rebennack recalled: '<em>The whole scene was so sweet it was almost sugar diabetes, and I just couldn’t get enough of it</em>.' Rebennack went on: '<em>Paul [Gayten] was so progressive—and tough—about his views of race. He was instrumental in breaking up the strict color line that prevailed at that time in the clubs and recording studios in New Orleans</em>.' Segregation was enforced by the police and backed by the musicians’ union, but Gayten defied them to set up gigs with Black bands for Butera and, before long, Rebennack. It was a privilege unavailable to Black artists looking to break in with white groups. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bobby Charles circa 1955</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Gayten also helped launch Bobby Charles, a Cajun teenager from Abbeville, Louisiana, who became a revered songwriter. In 1955 Chess Records in Chicago had signed Charles thinking he was Black—he auditioned over the phone with a song he wrote, <em>See You Later, Alligator</em>. Gayten was an A&R man for Chess, helping the label cultivate talent around New Orleans. He used the stage at the Brass Rail to groom Bobby Charles, and produced many of the youngster’s records. '<em>I was father and mother to him</em>,' Gayten said later. (The paternalism extended to Charles’ paycheck, as Gayten took co-writing credits on a number of songs.) </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Clarence Frogman Henry circa 1956</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1956 Gayten broke another teenager, Clarence Henry... Gayten had label head Leonard Chess fly down to see Henry perform with his band at the Brass Rail. Chess liked what he heard and sent Henry and Gayten to Cosimo Recording Studios—the brand-new successor to J&M—where he cut the classic <em>Ain’t Got No Home</em>, with Henry singing 'like a girl' and, inimitably, 'like a frog'. He embarked on a storied career as <em>Clarence Frogman Henry</em>, which included a hit, <em>But I Do</em>, penned by none other than Bobby Charles. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Brass Rail had reputed ties to the New Orleans underworld, and had attracted attention from law enforcement going back to the 30s, when raids turned up illegal gambling operations. In 1961 the Brass Rail became a target of District Attorney Jim Garrison’s vice crackdown, and was shut down for good the following year." (Nola.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Candlelight Lounge</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">925 N. Robertson New Orleans</span></span></h3>
<p>"The Candlelight Lounge, a low-key neighborhood bar, took on outsized significance after Hurricane Katrina when it became the last redoubt of live music in Treme. The neighborhood had been a musical hotbed for more than century, but with longtime residents displaced after the flood, new neighbors and rising costs changed the character of the area.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 2014 the Cornerstones project and Tulane City Center collaborated with the Candlelight community to document the significance of the club: </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Barrooms are intensively-used spaces, and they can be viewed as ‘nuisance’ uses in communities, but in New Orleans, barrooms like the Candlelight Lounge have been central to some of the city’s most prominent cultural activities, as well as serving socially fundamental functions, such as providing food to hungry regulars or serving as a gig networking space for local musicians. The Candlelight and similar spaces in the city should not be overlooked for the important functions they play in keeping communities connected, particularly in times of disruption, like Hurricane Katrina, or major change, like gentrification, when residents profoundly need the continuity and comfort of community and tradition.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Candlelight addressed these needs thanks largely to Leona Grandison—known as Ms. Chine—who opened the lounge with her brother Landry Grandison in 1985. A Treme native, she made the club a second home for musicians, social aid and pleasure clubs, and other neighborhood residents. Music, along with her cooking, was a regular attraction on weekends. Sunday second lines often stopped at the Candlelight, and the White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians held practices here in the 80s.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">When Grandison’s business plummeted after Hurricane Katrina, brass band luminary Benny Jones (a relative by marriage) stepped in to help keep the Candlelight afloat. Jones, another Treme native, brought his Treme Brass Band to the club on Wednesday nights, and built an audience using his relationships in the second line community and the music business—he co-founded the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in the 70s before forming the Treme Brass Band in the 90s. The gig gave old regulars a chance to stay connected to the neighborhood and visitors a taste of the scene that defined Treme before it became a destination. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Rebirth Brass Band</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Their First Recording</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Live @ The Grease Lounge 1984</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The barroom’s legacy as a brass band headquarters goes back even further than Grandison. Before she took over it was called the Grease Lounge, for manager Gregory “Grease” Davis, Sr. (His son, Gregory Davis, Jr., is the longtime trumpeter with the Dirty Dozen). The elder Davis hosted the Rebirth Brass Band here when several members were still students at nearby Clark High School. Then known as the Rebirth Jazz Band, they made their first recording in the bar, <em>Here to Stay</em>: <em>Live at the Grease Lounge, 1984</em>. WWOZ co-founder Jerry Brock set up the session for the teenagers, who would become a dominant influence in brass band music in the decades to come. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Grease Lounge also featured blues and R&B artists (the Candlelight continued these bookings in its early years). One was Barbara George, who’d scored a national hit with “I Know” on Treme-based AFO Records in 1961. The 19-year-old singer brought the lyrics to the great Harold Battiste, who composed music for them based on the chords to the gospel song “Just a Closer Walk With Thee.” He also wrote a solo for cornetist Melvin Lastie to play on the record which became a touchstone of New Orleans R&B. The song looked like it would launch AFO Records to the big time, but a disgruntled business partner of Battiste lured George to another label, and both foundered. She left the music business in the 70s but started gigging again in the 80s at small clubs like the Grease Lounge. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today, the Candlelight, along with Tuba Fats Square on the next lot and Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion funeral home around the corner, anchors a segment of Treme that has resisted gentrification. This has been possible because Grandison was one of the few operators of Black nightclubs in New Orleans who managed to buy the property she managed, and the owners of Tuba Fats Square and the funeral home are also committed to supporting neighborhood traditions. Sadly, Grandison’s family has to carry on the mission without her: she passed away after contracting the coronavirus in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in New Orleans. Prohibitions against public gatherings during the pandemic prevented her from receiving a proper jazz funeral, but a memorial went up on the sidewalk in front of the Candlelight." (Ponderosa Stomp)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tipitina's</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">501 Napoleon Ave New Orleans</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Formerly known as the 501 Club, the building at the corner of Napoleon and Tchoupitoulas opened as Tipitina’s in 1977 to honor R&B pianist Professor Longhair, aka Henry Roeland Byrd. A group of young fans wanted the venerable musician to have a venue for his comeback, and he did for the last three years of his life. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"This poster from Tipitina’s inaugural year 1977, designed by iconic local artist Bunny Matthews, uses a collage style that includes an early photograph of Professor Longhair (or <em>Fess</em>, for short), advertisements and testimonials for <em>electric insoles</em>, a photograph of a scantily clad woman, a crab, Fess’s lyrics and quotes like <em>challawallamalla</em> (a nod to Fess’s hit <em>Tipitina</em>), and an eyebrow-raising remedy for insect bites that involves cocaine." (New Orleans Historic Collection)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Longhair, a master of the New Orleans piano tradition, wowed Atlantic Records impresario Ahmet Ertegun at a small club in 1949, and went on to cut records including <em>Tipitina</em> in 1953. His sound, especially the rhumba-infused boogie woogie rhythm of his left hand, influenced generations of musicians, such as Huey 'Piano' Smith, Allen Toussaint, James Booker, Eddie Bo and Mac Rebennack (also known as Dr. John).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Longhair recorded <em>Mardi Gras in New Orleans</em>, a song written by Earl King that went on to become one of the Crescent City’s most famous Carnival anthems. Fess was also known for mangling piano legs by kicking them rhythmically while he pounded the keys. Producer and arranger Wardell Quezergue recalled tying Longhair’s leg to the piano bench in the studio to keep the sound off of the record. Sadly, a heart attack cut short his late-career renaissance.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">the first thing you will see is a bust of Professor Longhair </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">which was sculpted by none other than hoodoo bluesman </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Coco Robicheaux</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"The nightclub also played a key role in launching New Orleans’ renowned community radio station WWOZ (90.7FM) in the early 1980s. The studio was on the second floor of the building. Legend has it that DJs aired live performances by dropping a microphone through a hole in the floor. The stage downstairs has hosted a who’s who of New Orleans musicians, including Chris Kenner, Snooks Eaglin, Earl King, Tuts Washington, the Radiators, the Wild Magnolias, and Marva Wright to name just a few." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">After changes in management and ownership and a brief closure, Tipitina’s in the past 20 years has become a popular venue for nationally known touring acts as well as local performers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/457297339e859527f5b4ab0aa88fb83b598f1c33/original/tipitinas-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="font_regular">The nightclub’s logo of a hand holding a banana has become a popular New Orleans icon.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1998, Tipitina's established the Tipitina's Foundation, a non-profit organization to support local music and musicians. The main focus of the Tipitina's Foundation is to provide musical instruments and uniforms to New Orleans public high school marching bands. The Foundation has been especially active in supporting musicians that were victimized by Hurricane Katrina and most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">During the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tipitina's hosts a concert series titled <em>Fess Jazztival.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In December 2018, Tipitina's was purchased by the members of the New Orleans-based jam band Galactic from Mary and Ronald von Kurnatowski, who had owned the venue since 1997:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"On a foggy night in December, Galactic bassist Rob Mercurio paused on the corner of Tchoupitoulas Street and Napoleon Avenue, pondering the entrance to Tipitina’s. Signs directed guest-list patrons and those picking up tickets to the left. Attendees with tickets already in hand queued up to the right. No category applied to Mercurio. 'There is no owners’ door,' he joked. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mercurio has frequented New Orleans’ flagship music venue for more than two decades, first as a fan, then as a member of one of the city’s most popular bands. On Nov. 30, he and his four bandmates closed a deal to purchase Tipitina’s.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For years, Galactic has headlined Tip's on New Year’s Eve. Monday’s show will be the band’s first at the venue since its members became Tipitina’s fourth group of owners.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">However high the stakes are for the new owners, they are even higher for Tipitina’s, whose turbulent 41-year saga is every bit as colorful as the thousands of musicians who have plugged in and played there." (Nola.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Club Tiajuana</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">1209 Saratoga New Orleans</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Club Tiajuana (spelled with three a’s) was a springboard for some of New Orleans’ top R&B talent in the 1950s. Like the Dew Drop Inn on the other end of Central City, the Tiajuana was a black-owned business that provided hotel and restaurant service for African American artists during segregation. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Musician Al Reed told author John Broven: 'The Tiajuana Club was the type of place where the down & outers could go. You might call it a cheap joint…This caused the place to be crowded most of the time…the best crowd you could ever play for. This crowd loved their music. But it was the poor type of people that really made the Club Tiajuana what it was.'</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Proprietor Oscar Bolden, Jr. featured a full show seven nights a week, including an emcee, a comedian, and shake dancers to go along with the music. Many of the city’s best rhythm and blues artists recalled an abiding sense of community at the club—it was a place musicians went to listen to each other.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Earl King</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">As Earl King put it, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">'The Tiajuana introduced me to a new circle of ideas and ambitions.'</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Guitar Slim</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">It was seeing Guitar Slim perform here with a teenaged Huey Piano Smith in the early 50s that got Earl King interested in playing guitar. To set up Slim at the Tiajuana, Bolden bought him a guitar and an extra long cable so he could hop offstage and play in the crowd. Slim and Smith started out playing intermissions here, but took over as the house band when Eddie Bo (then known as Spider Bocage) took his group on the road. Smith dropped out of high school to keep the gig. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Regarding other entertainers at the Tiajuana, Bolden’s daughter Gloria told Jonathan Foose,'There was a large group of female impersonators who would always stay at the hotel and dance for the shows. There was one girl we used to call Chicken Lady. She did a strip and ended up laying an egg!'</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bobby Marchan</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Another such group, the Powder Box Revue, led by singer Bobby Marchan, came to town in 1953.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Marchan caught on as an emcee at the Tiajuana the following year, and joined forces with Huey Smith in The Clowns in 1957. Together they recorded a string of hits including <em>Don’t You Just Know It</em>, and Marchan toured the country with the group before pursuing a solo career. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Robert Parker - Barefootin'</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">After Guitar Slim and Huey Smith’s residency, Robert Parker assumed the role of house bandleader at the Tiajuana. Best remembered for his 1965 hit <em>Barefootin’</em>, Parker was an in-demand saxophonist in the 50s, known for playing his horn on top of the bar at the Tiajuana, and flat on his back under the tables. The drummer in Parker’s band, Charles “Hungry” Williams, became one of the top session musicians in the city, playing on scores of hits cut at Cosimo Matassa's Recording Studio. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Cosimo Matassa (producer)</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As an engineer and proprietor, Matassa was crucial to the development of the New Orleans sound of R&B, rock and soul of the 1950s and 1960s, often working with producers Dave Bartholomew and Allen Toussaint. He recorded many hits, including Fats Domino’s <em>The Fat Man</em>, Little Richard's <em>Tutti Frutti</em>, and records by Ray Charles, Lee Dorsey, Dr. John, Smiley Lewis, Bobby Mitchell, Tommy Ridgley, the Spiders and many others. He was responsible for developing what became known as the <em>New Orleans sound</em>, with strong drums, heavy guitar and bass, heavy piano, light horns and a strong vocal lead.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Parker encouraged a fledgling guitar player at the Tiajuana named Ernest Kador to become a singer, landing him a regular gig here with a vocal group called the Blue Diamonds. As Ernie K-Doe, he ran talent shows at the club, though biographer Ben Sandmel noted that he kept the strongest competition, like Chris Kenner (later known for <em>Land of 1,000 Dances</em>) from taking the stage. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Talent scouts like Dave Bartholomew and label men like Johnny Vincent of Ace Records and Eddie Mesner of Aladdin Records were regulars at the Tiajuana, which had a reputation as a venue for emerging artists. (Among others, Little Richard held a regular gig here in 1953, two years before his big break.) Vincent recorded Eddie Bo in 1955 after seeing him at the club. He also signed Bobby Marchan to Ace after seeing him perform in drag, unaware that he was a man. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The bar here remained open into the 1980s. Jeff Hannusch reported that it was demolished in 1988 to make way for an approach to the Pontchartrain Expressway. All good things come to an end. (Ponderosa Stomp)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I've always been a music collector whether it be Christmas music, songs by one hit wonders, Tom Waits rarities or various obscure tunes from a wide variety of genres. One of my favorite music genres to collect is New Orleans Mardi Gras songs. Every year, I create a new Mardi Gras Playlist and along with some of the yearly staples (like Prof Longhair's <em>Go To The Mardi Gras o</em>r <em>Hey Pocky Way</em> by The Meters), I usually seek out songs I haven't come across before. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The songs of the Carnival Season play an integral part of New Orleans' Mardi Gras cultural identity. Since the 1700's this music has enhanced the traditions of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Along with the costumes, the food and the parades, the music enhances the spirit of Mardi Gras!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"Mardi Gras music is not so much a style of music as it is an aural milieu comprised of various forms. Among them: orchestral and big-band arrangements played at tableau balls; Mardi Gras-themed rhythm-and-blues numbers that pour out of jukeboxes, “cutting-loose” jazz tunes that drive revelers to “shake booty” and pump umbrellas in the air; Afro-Caribbean chants and percussive rhythms associated with Mardi Gras Indians; and parade-time beats from school bands marching between floats in parades. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The nexus between Carnival and music reflects the festive, let-the-good-times-roll culture of the Crescent City, where parading and dancing have long been obsessions…indeed, this spirit of joie de vivre — i.e., the Mardi Gras spirit — is almost a precondition of the sounds for which the Crescent City became famous. As Dr. John, arguably the foremost living interpreter of the city’s musical traditions stated ‘New Orleans music was not invented, it just kind of grew up naturally, joyously, just for fun.’ </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Being a musician in New Orleans is all about having fun with the music, and at no time is this more evident than during Carnival season. The same Mardi Gras spirit that prompts revelers to shed inhibitions and seek ritual transformation has a way of encouraging playfulness and spontaneity on the bandstand, as well as countless variations on old Carnival favorites such as <em>Carnival Time</em>, <em>Second Line </em>and <em>Big Chief</em>. And it seems that almost every year brings the release of new would-be anthems, as bands try to repeat the feat of the ReBirth Brass Band, whose infectious brass/funk number <em>Do Watcha Wanna</em> exploded during Carnival 1991. Thus, the Carnival songbook is continually expanded and reinvented, helping fuel a brisk business in releasing the Mardi Gras equivalent of Christmas-music anthologies. As long as there have been parades, dances and balls in New Orleans, there has been a steady demand for musicians." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">One of the most unique aspects of Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans is the rituals of the Mardi Gras Indians. From the neworleans.com site: “Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secrecy as any other carnival organization. Their parade dates, times and routes are never published in advance, although they do tend to gather in the same areas every year. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the African-American communities of New Orleans's inner city. While these Indians have paraded for well over a century, their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The music of Mardi Gras Indian tribes, or <em>gangs</em>, can be characterized as <em>call and response</em>, with the lead singer backed by a chorus and percussion. Generally speaking, their songs celebrate acts of bravery and defiance ('<em>We won’t bow down</em>'), as well as the proud heritage of the Indian nations. Lyrics include coded chants such as <em>tu way pocky way</em>, <em>oom bah way</em>, <em>mighty kootie-fiyo</em> and <em>Coochee marlee</em>. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In a city where culture bubbles up from the streets, the lyrics and beats of the Mardi Gras Indians have inspired and informed an extraordinarily diverse range of players, from jazz legends (Jelly Roll Morton and Danny Barker) to masters of New Orleans funk (The Meters and The Neville Brothers), rhythm and blues (Professor Longhair, Earl King and James <em>Sugar Boy</em> Crawford) and even modern jazz (Donald Harrison Jr.). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Mardi Gras Indian tradition goes back at least as far as Reconstruction, though it wasn’t until the 1950s that the sounds associated with that tradition began to be translated into popular music. Sugar Boy Crawford’s Jockomo, released on the Chess label in 1954, became a jukebox classic. And Huey Piano Smith used the Indian chant <em>Oom bah way, tu way pocky way</em>, in the very first line of his hit <em>Don’t You Know, Yockomo</em>. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Professor Longhair - Big Chief</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The most enduringly popular song associated with the black Indians of New Orleans is <em>Big Chief</em>. Written by the late New Orleans guitarist-composer Earl King, also the originator of the Mardi Gras anthem <em>Street Parade</em>, the song was first recorded in 1964 for Watch Records. The session included Rebennack, who later became known as Dr. John, on guitar and Professor Longhair on piano.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Professor Longhair</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Growing up in New Orleans, Professor Longhair became uniquely attuned to the rhythms of the streets. He danced tap on Bourbon Street and frequently joined in second-line parades, beating out rhythms on bottles, cans or whatever objects were at hand. He later accentuated the swinging marching-band music of street parades in his distinctively percussive piano playing.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">New Orleans is said to be a city where having a party has been elevated from a casual pastime to a way of life. Nobody understood this better than Professor Longhair, one of the pioneers of New Orleans rhythm & blues. His influence can be heard in Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Dr. John, among many others. Known for his unique mix of blues, jazz, calypso, ragtime, and zydeco, <em>Fess</em> (as he was known) defined and captured the essence of New Orleans in his music. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Professor Longhair - Crawfish Fiesta</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Of Professor Longhair's many recordings, perhaps his best and most fully realized is <em>Crawfish Fiesta</em>, recorded for Alligator Records in 1979. Bruce Iglauer, president of Alligator Records, continues the story. '<em>I was on the phone with Professor Longhair's manager, and I mentioned that I'd love to record Fess for Alligator. I loved his eccentric, rhumba-blues New Orleans piano style and wild, cracked vocals, and he was one of my favorite musicians. I flew down to New Orleans and listened to the master pound out all his old hits and a slew of Crescent City R&B standards. I made an offer, and, much to my amazement, it was accepted. Surrounded by friends (including Dr. John on guitar) and finding himself in a studio situation where he was completely in charge (maybe for the first time ever), Professor Longhair presented Alligator with perhaps the finest album of his long career and one of the best Alligator ever released</em>.'" (Alligator Records site)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Rebirth Brass Band - New Orleans Music</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Mardi Gras music has received a tremendous boost from the brass band revival movement that has been going on in New Orleans since the early 1970s. It all began after the late Danny Barker — a banjo and guitar player who worked with everyone from Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson to Cab Calloway, Benny Carter and Lucky Millinder — returned to his native New Orleans from New York and started the Fairview Baptist Church Band to turn young people onto the classic brass band tradition. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Mardi Gras songs usually reflect the musical sensibility of the era in which they’re written. The rhythms of modern urban culture inform Young Guardians of the Flames 1998 release, <em>New Way Pocky Way</em> (First Tribe Records). The title track is a traditional Mardi Gras Indian song infused with funk and elements of hip hop. It’s no wonder that musicians are drawn to Mardi Gras and its fabled cornucopia of sensory stimuli. In a way, the exuberant kaleidoscope of Mardi Gras is a metaphor for the cross-pollination and collaboration that characterizes the local music scene. The birthplace of jazz, New Orleans is the greatest musical Mecca on the planet.” (Traditions of Mardi Gras)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Amos Milburn - House Party</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Amos Milburn was a unique musician who combined a powerful voice along with strong songwriting skills and tasty chops on the piano to become one of the brightest stars in the early rock & roll era.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lloyd Glenn - Rompin' Rhumba</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Born in San Antonio, Texas, from the late 1920s, Glenn played with various jazz bands in the Dallas and San Antonio areas, first recording in 1936 with Don Albert's Orchestra. He moved to California in 1941, joining the Walter Johnson trio in 1944, and finding employment as a session musician and arranger. He accompanied T-Bone Walker on his 1947 hit <em>Call It Stormy Monday</em>, and later the same year made his own first solo records, billed as Lloyd Glenn and His Joymakers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 1949 he joined Swing Time Records as A&R man, and recorded a number of hits with Lowell Fulson, including <em>Everyday I Have the Blues</em> and the #1 R&B hit <em>Blue Shadows</em>. He also had major R&B hits of his own, with Chica Boo, which also made #1 on the R&B chart in June 1951. At the same time, he continued to perform as pianist in Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. Glenn left Ory in 1953, about the same time that he was contracted to Aladdin Records, where he both produced and played on, B.B. King's 1960 album, My Kind of Blues." (Wikipedia)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Floyd Dixon - Hey Bartender</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Widely known as <em>Mr. Magnificent</em>, Dixon specialized in jump blues and sexualized songs like <em>Wine Wine Wine</em>, <em>Too Much Jelly Roll</em> and <em>Hey Bartender</em>. In 1993, Dixon was honored with the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">John Mooney & The Soul Rebels Brass Band</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Drink A Little Poison (4 U Die)</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">John Mooney is a longtime player on the New Orleans scene who specializes in blues music. The Soul Rebels are an eight-piece New Orleans based brass ensemble that incorporate elements of soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and pop music within a contemporary brass band framework. On this tasty track, these two tight entities got together and came up with one of the all-time great Mardi Gras songs!</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jambalaya Brass Band - Parkway Bakery</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Jambalaya Brass Band is a NY based combo that always brings the heat! This song was inspired by the f</span>amily owned restaurant and bar, the Parkway Baker & Tavern, which was founded in 1911 and continues the 100 year tradition of serving comfort food and drink which includes over 25 poor boys!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Big Boy Myles - New Orleans</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"New Orleans R&B singer Edgar <em>Big Boy</em> Myles was born in the Crescent City in 1933. While attending Booker T. Washington High School, he and eight of his classmates formed the Sha-Weez in 1950. According to Marv Goldberg's profile in the September 1977 issue of Yesterday's Memories, the group's odd name derived from their theme song, bandmember Nolan Blackwell's <em>Cha-Paka-Sha-Wees</em>, which roughly translates from the Creole <em>We are not raccoons</em>; during an appearance on local radio, they were introduced as the <em>Cha-Paka-Sha-Wees</em> musicians and the moniker stuck. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Producer Dave Bartholomew signed the Sha-Weez to New Orleans imprint Aladdin Records in late 1952, helming their debut session at Cosimo Matassa's legendary J&M Studios. Bandmate James <em>Sugar Boy</em> Crawford was slated to sing lead vocal, but a previous live performance left his voice so strained that Myles stepped to the fore instead. In late 1953 Myles and Crawford began recording for Chess as Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters. Their Chess debut, <em>I Don't Know What I'll Do</em>, was the label's first release cut in New Orleans, and enjoyed strong local airplay. The follow-up, <em>Jock-a-Mo</em>, appeared in early 1954 and also proved a regional favorite. A decade later, the Dixie Cups recut the song as <em>Iko Iko</em>, one of the most popular and enduring Big Easy R&B records ever made." (All Music)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Buckwheat Zydeco - Turning Point</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Stanley Dural Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016),was widely known by his stage moniker, Buckwheat Zydeco. Known as a remarkable accordionist, Buckwheat is remembered as having one of the best bands in the USA; it was an outfit that knocked out audiences with their style of down home zydeco mixed with a rock & roll sensibility.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Donald Harrison - Iko Iko</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"The foundation of Harrison's music comes from his lifelong participation in New Orleans culture. He started in New Orleans second line culture and studied New Orleans secret tribal culture under his father, Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. Harrison Jr. is currently the Chief of Congo Square in Afro-New Orleans Culture.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Donald Harrison studied at the Berklee College of Music. As a professional musician he worked with Roy Haynes and Jack McDuff before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Terence Blanchard and recorded albums in a quintet until 1989. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This was followed by an album that reached into Harrison's New Orleans heritage with guest appearances by Dr. John and Cyrus Chestnut and chants by the Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians. He devoted half the album <em>Nouveau Swing</em> (1997) to mixing the swing beat of modern acoustic jazz with modern dance music and half to mixing the swing beat with Caribbean-influenced music. On the next album his experiments continued by mixing modern jazz's swing beat with hip hop, Latin music, R&B, and smooth jazz." (All Music)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Smiley Lewis - Caledonia's Party</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Smiley Lewis was a New Orleans guitarist, widely known for his big booming voice, is remembered for his lively R&B records. Sadly, while in the early 50s Smiley's records sold well for him, these songs often went on to provide worldwide hits for other artists. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Fats Domino shared top billing with Smiley at Lew Chudd‘s Imperial Records and early on the Chudd like to say that the pair was a ‘<em>one-two punch</em>’. However, when Fats Domino suddenly made it big in the record charts, Smiley was lost in the overwhelming popularity of Fats Domino and he became known as '<em>the unluckiest man in New Orleans</em>'.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dr. John - Careless Love</span></h3>
<p><span class="font_regular">At the very start of the 20th century. <em>Careless Love </em>was (and still is) one of the most widely known Carnival songs. It was initially part of the repertoire of the immortal Buddy Bolden band in New Orleans. To this very day <em>Careless Love</em> has remained a Mardi Gras standard. Over the years, <em>Careless Love</em> has also been sung by Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Odetta, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Dr. John, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Frankie Laine, Skip James, Snooks Eaglin and Harry Connick Jr.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Jon Cleary - The Crave (Jelly Roll Morton) @ Brooklyn Bowl</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Jon Cleary is a British-born American funk and R&B musician who left the UK to live in New Orleans where, over the years, he absorbed the <em>musical culture and life of New Orleans </em>. Cleary is widely known for his excellent work as a pianist along with being a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and excellent songwriter.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">At the present time, Cleary's current band is Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen. Their album <em>Go Go Juice</em> won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album in the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">New Birth Brass Band</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Show Me That Dance Called The Second Line</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The New Birth Brass Band is at the forefront of the current New Orleans brass band renaissance. The band produces a heady mix of hip-hop, Mardi Gras Indian chants, funk, and modern jazz with age old traditional sounds.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Astral Project - Bongo Joe</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Astral Projectco-op band comprised of world class improvisers and composers... Astral Project has been one of New Orleans' best kept musical secrets! "For more than thirty years, Astral Project has delighted audiences around the world with its unique brand of cutting edge improvisation and near telepathic interplay over deep New Orleans’ grooves." (Astral Project website)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Meters - Talkin' 'Bout New Orleans</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Meters, during their dozen or so years of existence (circa 1965 – 1977), helped develop the New Orleans R&B sound of that era along with influencing the musical style known as <em>funk</em>. In 1968, the band decided to work under the moniker, The Meters.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1969 they began working with producer Allen Toussaint and came up with such cool singles as <em>Sophisticated Cissy</em>, <em>Cissy Strut</em>, Look-Ka Py Py and <em>Chicken Strut;</em> all of which charted nationally. These Neville Brothers singles were all instrumentals that was influenced by the work of the Memphis-based group Booker T and the MGs. Over time, the Meters expanded their musical style to include material that featured vocals that honored the New Orleans’ second-line tradition.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1974, The Meters scored big with a song called <em>Hey Pocky A-Way</em>. Their use of Mardi Gras Indian material became a perennial New Orleans favorite. Around this time, The Meters added Art’s brother Cyril to take on the role of a lead vocalist and percussionist. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As time went on, The Meters continued to work with Allen Toussaint as he created hits for various artists such as Dr. John’s <em>Right Place, Wrong Time</em> (1973), LaBelle’s <em>Lady Marmalade</em> (1975); and Paul McCartney’s <em>Listen To What The Man Said </em>(1975).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1976, the Meters opened tours for the Rolling Stones in the U.S. and Europe. After appearing on national television on Saturday Night Live in 1977, the Meters broke up but their music lives on.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Allen Toussaint - It's A New Orleans Thing</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Music is everything to me short of breathing. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Music also has a role to lift you up </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">- not to be escapist but to take you out of misery”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">- Allen Toussaint</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Lost Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tom Waits - I Wish I Was In New Orleans</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Music song is a beautiful Tom Waits piece that captures the essence of New Orleans. The tune has a wistful melody and lyrics that combine both sadness and joy as the song rolls along.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I thought today would be the perfect day to post this particular piece of Lost Music as my blog's Mardi Gras Week festivities will begin on this coming Tuesday. After the rough year we've had, I figure some Mardi Gras madness just might be the thing to shake us all out of our pandemic doldrums, eh?</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I WISH I WAS IN NEW ORLEANS</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams, <br>Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen <br>To that tenor saxophone calling me home <br>And I can hear the band begin When the Saints Go Marching In, <br>And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I'll drink you under the table, be red-nosed, go for walks, <br>The old haunts what I wants is red beans and rice <br>And wear the dress I like so well, and meet me at the old saloon, <br>Make sure that there's a Dixie moon, New Orleans, I'll be there </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And deal the cards roll the dice, if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss, <br>And Claiborne Avenue, me and you Sam Jones and all </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And I wish I was in New Orleans, 'cause I can see it in my dreams, <br>Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me <br>New Orleans, I'll be there</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Back in December 2020, M. Frank, a longtime friend of mine who I met at the University of Dayton back in the 70's, emailed me and revealed that he had been working on a book called <strong>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</strong> which was about (you guessed it) The Beatles! Of course, we immediately began to discuss and critique any news about The Beatles and their music via emails. Along the way, M Frank decided he would like me to be involved with the book so I signed on as the Editor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The progression of events that consisted of remembering every element of The Beatles and their music spun my time clock back to those days in Dayton, Ohio. As the concept for the book developed, M. Frank imagined the book as a scrapbook; something that would reinforce the readers' personal memories of The Beatles. A short while later, after a title for the book was conceived (<em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em>), the scrapbook suddenly turned into an electronic flip book. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em> was the first in a trilogy of ‘digital scrapbooks’ that will re-tell the story of the Beatles via a blend of words, images & sound...and you can dance to it! This initial volume focuses on the group’s meteoric rise to fame and - by its end - explains why they turned their backs on ‘Beatlemania’ and adopted the musical alter egos that would later lead them to record the classic 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' album.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After the initial release of <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em>, the response to the book was overwhelming. so we created a Facebook page called <strong><a contents="The Beatles: Monographs in Stereo" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/mfrankfab4books/"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">The Beatles: Monographs in Stereo</span></span></a><span style="color:#f1c40f;"> </span></strong>which further increased interest in the <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper </em>book.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">There were many questions by some folks who had read the book which led us to do an interview on my blog. Here are a couple of moments from that interview:</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ed Yipsilanti (Mind Smoke Staff Writer)</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ed Yipsilanti: </strong><em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em> is yet another Beatle book among so many that have already been written? How is your book different? </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">M. Frank</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>M. Frank:</strong> I did a lot of research into books about the Beatles in the course of writing mine. I found some excellent photo books. And I found a few ‘memoires’ that were interesting. But I wanted to do something that told a story in the form of a ‘scrapbook.’ This format had never been used before for a Beatle book. I think the end product is something easy to read in about an hour. But it’s also something that you can go back to several times just to enjoy the photos. The real breakthrough came when we added music. Thankfully I had the technical support to get that done. Now I’m sure that we’ve created something that is quite different.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ed:</strong> M. Frank, I must tell you that I was amazed that as I was reading the book, suddenly music started playing! </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>M. Frank:</strong> Yes, our team who worked with me on the book like to refer to it as <em>A Book You Can Dance To! </em> When I set out to write <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper</em>, I decided I wanted to draw particular attention to the songs that I thought were ‘key’ to the musical history of the Beatles. The challenge was deciding which songs were ‘key’ and which weren’t. In the end I was largely guided by the Beatles themselves. I figured that if they (and their record company) chose a song as a single, that meant the song was slightly more important than the majority of songs they ‘buried’ on albums. Back in the 1960s, singles were ‘the thing’! Albums were meant to contain 1 or 2 recent singles and then the rest of the tracks were considered as ‘filler.’ The Beatles eventually challenged that tradition and by the time they released <em>Rubber Soul</em>, they even dared to release a whole album of non-singles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ed:</strong> Let me ask you this: can we expect the book to appear in other languages? </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>M. Frank:</strong> I would love to do a version in Chinese. There is no question the Beatles’ music has the capacity to bridge cultural barriers. Some of the Beatles’ most-fervent fans are in non-English speaking countries. Japan is just one example. In fact, the Beatles’ first real international success came in Germany. And I’m also sure that the Beatles music transcends generations."</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">M. Frank's last statement in that interview is the reason for today's blog post. Today we're happy to announce that there will be a Spanish version of <em>Becoming Sgt. Pepper!</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Para nuestros fanáticos de los Beatles en español, a continuación hay un enlace a la versión en español de Convirtiéndose Sgt. Pimienta.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="SPANISH VERSION LINK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://becoming-sgt-pepper.com/the_book_sp/"><strong><font color="#f1c40f">SPANISH VERSION LINK</font></strong></a></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's song that celebrates Valentine's Day is a great tune called <em>I Need Your Loving</em>...y'know, there aren't that many love songs that can top Don Garner & Dee Dee Ford's <em>I Need Your Loving</em>...you can just feel the wild energy grab ya when you listen to this recording...Ah Woooooooo! I remember hearing this song back in 1962 and I still listen to it to this very day!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"During the ’60s, the definition of a <em>commercial</em> R & B sound began to shift. Musical forms like the blues and doo-wop were fading in popularity; Ike & Tina Turner’s hot and sweaty sound was selling a lot of records. In 1961, a keyboardist named Dee Dee Ford met Don Gardner, and together they taped a gutsy duet of <em>Glory Of Love </em>for New York’s KC Records. The label sat on the sides until the duo’s <em>I Need Your Loving</em> took off and stimulated the need for more gospel influenced shouters. For a handful of months– starting with <em>I Need Your Loving</em> Don and Dee Dee had their sassy screams and screeches featured on AM radio. White boys and girls jumped all about. <em>Glory Of Love </em>(#75, 1962) charted later in the year, as did Don and Dee Dee’s official follow-up to <em>I Need Your Loving</em>, <em>Don’t You Worry</em> (#66). Internal discord was not apparent–if the two were fussin’, no one seemed to notice. By year’s end, however, Don and Dee Dee separated. Before an unsuccessful one-off reunion in 1966, they each issued a few solo singles. Don did resurface briefly in 1973 on the R & B charts with a tune called <em>Forever</em>, a duet, not with Dee Dee Ford, but with Jeanette Baby Washington." (Wayne Jancik, One Hit Wonders)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hmmm, I guess sometimes...true love doesn't last forever but hey! We still got the music!</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">I NEED YOUR LOVING</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Well, everyday (I need your loving everyday) <br>Every hour(I need your loving everyday) <br>Come on home, set my soul on fire, <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right now <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>I say, I'm in love, love, love, whoa, yeah <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Well, everyday (I need your loving everyday) <br>and every hour (I need your loving everyday) <br>Come on home, set my soul on fire, <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right now <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>I say, I'm in love, love, love, whoa, yeah <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>You hear what I say</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">(I need your loving everyday) <br>I need your love everyday <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>And every hour <br>(I need your loving everyday) <br>To set my soul on fire <br>(I need your loving everyday) </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Whenever I say, I need your love everyday <br>Well, every hour to set my soul on fire <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right now <br>Well, everybody needs someone sometime </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>Well, everyday, well, every hour <br>Set my soul on fire <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right now <br>Well, love, love, love, love <br>Come on everyday <br>Come on and give me your love <br>I'm sayin', I need love, love, love, whoa, yeah <br>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa <br>Well, everyday, well, every hour</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">COOL SOUNDS FOR THE MODERN WORLD!</span></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Family - Second Generation Woman</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Music is about a great British band called <a contents="Family" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.familybandstand.com/"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><strong>Family</strong></span></a>. The English band Family emerged in the 1960s rock scene and soon became a household name, which won the hearts of fans and music critics alike. Family’s peculiar style rejects simplification with the group dabbling in many different music genres such as blues, progressive, hard, psychedelic, folk and jazz-rock. The band members managed to mix and match these styles by performing on musical instruments like piano, saxophone, and violin, which were unconventional choices for a rock band, but their usage and brilliant harmony with the more conventional guitar, bass, and drums made Family stand out.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Family ended up signing a record deal with the production company Reprise Records, which led to creating their second studio album <em>Family Entertainment</em>. The cover of the album was a takeoff from the sleeve of the Doors' second album, Strange Days. <em>Family Entertainment </em>quickly became a commercial and critical success. Their first single for Reprise was a lively tune called <em>Second Generation Woman</em> which was produced by none other than Dave Mason (who had just bailed out of Traffic at the time).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Family Entertainment</em> was the last album featuring the group's original lineup. The band's momentum was almost derailed by the departure of bassist Ric Grech for Blind Faith two months after Family Entertainment's UK release, which caused their first US tour to fall apart in short order.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Second Generation Woman</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">(written by Ric Grech)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Smokes like a man getting higher than I can </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She knows how </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Ahead of her time but she don't give a damn </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Why should she </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She looks good to handle from a personal angle </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Second generation woman </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Last thing you gotta do is force her into lovin' you </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">No need to </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Knows then her time is right </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Comes to you without a fight </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She wants to </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She looks good to handle from a personal angle </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Second generation woman </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She's a woman that won't let you down </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Just as long as she's around </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">You don't have to worry </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She feeds you, loves you, lets you know she digs you</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She's in a hurry </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">She looks good to handle from a personal angle </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Second generation woman </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Second generation woman</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sunday </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were all about rock & roll?"</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Remembering Lost Songs!</strong></span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Spanish Harlem Incident - Chris Whitley</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Song is a cover version of a Bob Dylan song called <strong>Spanish Harlem Incident</strong>. I'm always a big supporter of artists who do cover versions that take the original version of a song somewhere else which is exactly what Chris Whitley did with this Dylan tune. There's a darkness that surrounds Whitley's version that succeeds in capturing the listener's attention as the song begins. As Whitley tells the tale of a troubled relationship with a woman the singer seems to be fighting a battle with himself and his loneliness. I think Chris Whitley does a better rendering of this tune; there's more raw emotion in his cover version than Dylan's original recording.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Bob Dylan recorded the song back in 1964 as part of his Another Side of Bob Dylan album. The song has been described as 'a gorgeous vignette' by critics and been praised for its multilayered, poetic dimensions. When Dylan himself has been questioned about the song's subject matter he has confessed that he has no idea. However, author Paul Williams describes the song as a portrait of a gypsy girl that Dylan has seen only fleetingly but who has completely captivated him. Williams goes on to say that within the context of the song, Dylan is falling in love with not only the gypsy girl but also with the whole idea of gypsies and of himself in love with one." (All Music)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">SPANISH HARLEM INCIDENT</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem <br>Cannot hold you to it's heat <br>Your temperature's too hot for taming <br>Your flaming feet are burning up the street </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I am homeless come and take me <br>Into the reach of your rattling drums <br>I gotta know babe all about my fortune <br>Down along my restless palms </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Gypsy gal, you've got me swallowed <br>I have fallen far beneath <br>Your pearly eyes so fast and slashing <br>And your flashing diamond teeth </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The night is pitch black, come and make my <br>Pale face fit in the place, ah please <br>I gotta know babe, I'm nearly drowning <br>If it's you, my lifelines trace </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I've been wonderin' all about me <br>Ever since I seen you there <br>On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding <br>I know I'm 'round you but I don't know where </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">You have slayed me, you have made me <br>I got to laugh half ways off my heels <br>I got to know babe, will you surround me? <br>So I can know if I'm really real</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In 1976, a young musician named Chris White released an album on the UK label Charisma called <em>Mouth Music</em>. It drew a lot of interest from many Brian Wilson fans as the album is chock full of White's song which are heavily influenced by the music of the Beach Boys. Oddly enough, many folks seem to think that this Chris White is the same Chris White who was a member of the Zombies...but he is not. Chris White passed away in 2014 his musical legacy lives on as <em>Mouth Music</em> lives on as a popular power pop classic.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">TRACK LIST</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">01. Don't Look Down <br>02. Books And Pages <br>03. Driftin' <br>04. Surfin' USA <br>05. Swing Low Sweet Chariot <br>06. Spanish Wine <br>07. Dancing In The Street <br>08. Natural Rhythm <br>09. Listed (To Be A Soldier) <br>10. Sister Caroline <br>11. Zombie Jamboree <br>12. Not For You <br>13. Mouth Music</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Mouth Music</em> was produced by the great Shel Talmy, who I'm sure many of you out there remember his work with The Who and The Kinks.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Review from the Daily Rocks Blog</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"This is the only album of 1976 by a British musician who devoted his life to the Beach Boys. I'm still working as a fanzine editor, so it's already hardcore. The only single hit in March 1976, with Spanish wine. First of all, I listened to it in advance and jumped. Complete BB chorus. Is it all cooperation as a guest? And the song. Too much heaven. As if time stopped. The truth is when you get the album. This chorus that I was doing all by myself. Aga. Play and sing to the finest melody that continues endlessly. I'm quite confused. Why is this a minor player who doesn't come? It seems that he is a very modest person, whether he is out of the scene due to unlucky things that overlapped little by little with abundant talent and passion, or if he is too serious, even when Japanese El Records negotiated for the CD of this album. My board is very, very ... " If I were you, please give me two replies. Like his respected Brian, I'm being asked if anyone always needs his music. It seems that all of Mr. Brian's suffering started from there, and he has inherited it to that point. It's a big difference from the music that it's fun to become Mick Jagger in my father's band. What is the comparison? I think that is the fun and suffering of wanting to convey music to real professionals and people. Moreover, the music I made is a whole body work. When it wasn't accepted by the world that I couldn't do anything more than myself with all my heart. Still, the music is incredibly wonderful. There are always people who support it. With tremendous passion without money. It's completely unknown why the single following Spanish Wine and this album didn't sell at all. When I listen to an unnamed person's board, I usually have something to convince, and I'm good at playing The song or the other way around. But in this case, there is no such thing in music. There are no flowers. Does that mean? Including that the personality is not pushed. Maybe it's the best key. Because it's the entertainment world. I just can't understand the world of music with music alone. I can't help it, so I can't divide it into adults. If anyone isn't convinced in the same way, this album will be a tremendous treasure. Time doesn't really matter 30 years ago. But that's it. I don't think it's a shame that I, who has such a great talent, isn't very talented in this world. Probably because of small lot production, the Japanese edition is also reasonably priced. I was fortunate enough to buy a used one at a low price, but I think that if I put it out, I would like the person himself to listen to it at a low price. Depending on the location, it's completely unknown, so it's ridiculously cheap, and in other places it's ridiculously expensive as a coveted board for maniacs. I'm in agony here as well. Is that all right? While listening to this wonderful music that is completely irrelevant and flowing. I'm trembling with Laps Carillon, who is just astonished whether this is the last one that hasn't been announced yet. I envy the talent that can express that I was impressed by music for my favorite musicians. I can't express the wonderfulness of your music that can be expressed in sentences. I just have to thank you. Thank you so much for betting your life and leaving this music. I will listen to it forever. But in this world, I'm not very talented, and I don't think I was so bad. Probably because of small lot production, the Japanese edition is also reasonably priced. I was fortunate enough to buy a used one at a low price, but I think that if I put it out, I would like the person himself to listen to it at a low price. Depending on the location, it's completely unknown, so it's ridiculously cheap, and in other places it's ridiculously expensive as a coveted board for maniacs. I'm in agony here as well. Is that all right? While listening to this wonderful music that is completely irrelevant and flowing. I'm trembling with Laps Carillon, who is just astonished whether this is the last one that hasn't been announced yet. I envy the talent that can express that I was impressed by music for my favorite musicians. I can't express the wonderfulness of your music that can be expressed in sentences. I just have to thank you. Thank you so much for betting your life and leaving this music. I will listen to it forever. But in this world, I'm not very talented, and I don't think I was so bad. Probably because of small lot production, the Japanese edition is also reasonably priced. I was fortunate enough to buy a used one at a low price, but I think that if I put it out, I would like the person himself to listen to it at a low price. Depending on the location, it's completely unknown, so it's ridiculously cheap, and in other places it's ridiculously expensive as a coveted board for maniacs. I'm in agony here as well. Is that all right? While listening to this wonderful music that is completely irrelevant and flowing. I'm trembling with Laps Carillon, who is just astonished whether this is the last one that hasn't been announced yet. I envy the talent that can express that I was impressed by music for my favorite musicians. I can't express the wonderfulness of your music that can be expressed in sentences. I just have to thank you. Thank you so much for betting your life and leaving this music. I will listen to it forever.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"</span>White was responsible for writing the majority of the 13 tracks on <em>Mouth Music</em>, with a couple of American pop classics and a strange traditional hymn (<em>Swing Low, Sweet Chariot</em>) rounding out the track listing. What made the album so different was White's Brian Wilson obsession. Tracks like <em>Don't Look Down</em>, <em>Books An Pages</em> and <em>Spanish Wine </em>(the latter a UK top-40 hit) weren't just influenced by Wilson, but in many cases could have easily fit on a Beach Boys album. Taken individually, songs like <em>Drifitin'</em> were actually quite impressive with White clearly having taken considerable time and effort in understanding the way Wilson put together his winning formula, as well as having figured out how to replicate those melodies, song structures and instantly recognizable harmonies...The decision to cover <em>Surfin' USA </em>reflects a nice thematic tie-in to the rest of the album...From a marketing perspective White's timing certainly could have been better - had this come out two decades later it would have undoubtedly been praised by scores of critics who'd rediscovered Wilson himself (think along the lines of the praise The Wondermints received in the wake of their work with Wilson). As it was the album never even saw an American release, though it attracted some attention in the UK and Japan. In fact, unless you live in Japan (where the album seems to have a fanatical following), good luck finding an original copy of <em>Mouth Music</em>!" (Bad Cat)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"<em>Mouth Music</em> is what some may call a guilty pleasure, but not me, I just call it great lost pop that deserves more ears, although I won't be playing it in the car with the windows down! Fans of 10CC and Alan Parsons Project will definitely dig this record." (Bite It Deep Blog: Forgotten Pop Gems From the 60s & 70s)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">The Imposter - Elvis Costello</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I've always liked Elvis Costello's work and today's Lost Song is my favorite Elvis Costello song; it's a tune called <strong>The Imposter </strong>which was a track on his 1979 epic album <strong>Get Happy! </strong> The song is filled with wild energy and as the sound comes pounding out of the speakers one can imagine someone has grabbed you by the lapels and gave you a good slap across the cheek. Ouch!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">I've always regarded <strong>The Imposter</strong> as a song that is clearly about betrayal. The second verse captures that exact feeling: "</span>You've never been this far, You've always been too smart, And you know all our boys Are really girls at heart, And he's not the man you'd think that he can be, I just don't know why you can't see, That he is only the imposter" Costello sells this song to the listener very well. His voice is charged with anger and bitterness. Sometimes in life things go that way, eh?</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">THE IMPOSTER</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Trying to be too bad <br>Trying to talk too tough <br>Trying to jack the lad <br>You'd think he'd had enough <br>But he's not the man you'd think that he can be <br>I just don't know why you can't see <br>That he is only the imposter <br>That he is only the imposter </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">You've never been this far <br>You've always been too smart <br>And you know all our boys <br>Are really girls at heart <br>And he's not the man you'd think that he can be <br>I just don't know why you can't see <br>That he is only the imposter <br>That he is only the imposter </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When I said that I was lying, I might have been lying <br>Never let me hear you say you're not trying </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">This is your big decision <br>Hope you're not disappointed <br>He's got double vision <br>When you want him double jointed <br>And he's not the man you'd think that he can be <br>I just don't know why you can't see <br>The imposter </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">He'll only bring you souvenirs <br>It's only gonna end in tears <br>And he is only the imposter <br>And he is only the imposter</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Los Lobos - Life Is Good</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here's a wonderful song that's filled with positivity. The lyrics are simplistic yet effective. The first time I came across this great Los Lobos track I played the song over and over. Sometimes songs can do that to you as they grab ahold of your imagination in an artful way.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves) are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">LIFE IS GOOD</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I get happy 'cause my life is good <br>I get laughin' 'cause I know I should <br>I get all happy 'cause my life is good, so good </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">And I go <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I get happy 'cause my life is good <br>Turnin' out just like I thought it would <br>I get all happy 'cause my life is so dang good </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">And I go <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">I get all happy 'cause my life is so damn good <br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm<br>Ooh la la Mm <br>Ooh la la Mm <br> </h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper. </span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">JB Lenoir - Feelin' Good</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Music post features on of my favorite blues songs, <em><strong>Feelin' Good</strong></em> by JB Lenoir. The song has a relaxed atmosphere that brings the listener in throughout the recording. Along with JB's guitar , a member of JB's family plays the spoons which enhances the song's stripped down sound.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I first heard <span class="font_regular"><strong>Feelin' Good</strong></span> back in 1970 while I was in a record store and subsequently left the record store with a JB Lenoir album titled <strong><em>Vietnam Blues</em></strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">John Mayall, a British blues musician who served time in Korea, found his life changed when he came across the music of JB Lenoir. In an interview in The Guardian, Mayall stated that "JB Lenoir wrote about Korea, too, in fact. Songs that reflect these current situations – in his case, racial issues for the most part: in my case, what has happened to me, and I was in Korea.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In 1949, JB Lenoir moved to Chicago, where Big Bill Broonzy helped introduce him to the blues community. He began to perform at local nightclubs, with musicians such as Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather, and Muddy Waters, and became an important part of the city's blues scene. He began recording in 1951 for J.O.B. Records and Chess Records. His recording of <em>Korea Blues</em> was licensed to and released by Chess, as having been performed by J. B. and his Bayou Boys. During the 1950s Lenoir recorded for various record labels in the Chicago area, including J.O.B., Chess, Parrot, and Checker. His more successful songs included <em>Let's Roll</em>, <em>The Mojo</em> (featuring saxophonist J. T. Brown) and the controversial <strong>Eisenhower Blues</strong>, which Parrot Records forced him to re-record as <em>Tax Paying Blues</em>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Lenoir was known in the 1950s for his showmanship, particularly his zebra-patterned costumes, and his high-pitched vocals. He became an influential electric guitarist and songwriter, and his penchant for social commentary distinguished him from many other bluesmen of the time. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">His most commercially successful and enduring release was <em>Mamma Talk to Your Daughter</em>, recorded for Parrot in 1954, which reached number 11 on the Billboard R&B chart and was later recorded by many other blues and rock musicians.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 1963, he recorded for USA Records as J. B. Lenoir and his African Hunch Rhythm, having developed an interest in African percussion. He was rediscovered by Willie Dixon, who recorded him playing acoustic guitar, with the drummer Fred Below, on the albums <em>Alabama Blues</em> and <em>Down in Mississippi</em> (inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and Free Speech Movement). Lenoir's work had overtly political content relating to racism and the Korean and Vietnam wars." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">FEELIN' GOOD</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">Feelin' good, feelin' good <br>All the money in the world spent on feelin' good </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A wino met me in the street <br>He said, "Help me on some Sneakin' Pete" <br>"Please help me brother, I wish you would" <br>"I feel so bad and I wanna feel good" </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Feelin' good, feelin' good <br>All the money in the world spent on feelin' good </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Riding around with friends <br>Cadillac and everything <br>All the fine dreams <br>Lemonade and everythin' </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Feelin' good, feelin' good <br>All the money in the world spent on feelin' good </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Feelin' good, feelin' good <br>All the money in the world spent on feelin' good </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You know all your fine things <br>A big Cadillac and everything <br>All they're making diamond rings <br>The expenses are all a dream </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Feelin' good, feelin' good <br>All the money in the world spent on feelin' good</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Geoff Muldaur's <em>Chevrolet / Big Alice</em> has always been a favorite track of mine most probably because it channels a definite New Orleans groove. There is a wild energy about this track that just won't go away.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Geoff Muldaur, alumnus of Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band and Paul Butterfield's Better Days, came back in 1998 with his first solo album in several years, and the self-assuredness that permeates <em>Secret Handshake</em> was well worth the wait. Muldaur, always an eccentric interpreter of other people's material (his version of <em>Brazil </em>pervades the soundtrack of the Terry Gilliam film with the same name), takes on a batch of his favorite old country-blues tunes and adds a couple of atmospheric originals to the mix as well. But rather than the standard, reverent solo acoustic approach, Muldaur definitely puts his own touch on each and every obscure chestnut that's here, with nary a one resembling the original version. Recorded over the course of a year in a variety of studios across the U.S.A., he has assembled a first-rank cast of players including Turner Stephen Bruton on guitar, Bill Rich on bass, and Larry Thompson on drums, with Hal Ketchum, Sean Hopper, Lenny Picktt, David Grisman, Amos Garrett and John Magnie all making guest appearances. Highlights include <em>Chevrolet</em>, <em>This World Is Not My Home</em>, <em>Alberta</em>, and a pair of Muldaur originals, <em>Got to Find Blind Lemon, Pt. 1</em> and <em>I Believe I'll Go Back Home</em>. Muldaur has created something unique and original with this disc; your standard-fare white country-blues album this is not." (All Music site)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As I've mentioned on this blog many times before, I collect all sorts of music; songs about food, cover songs and...wait for it...Christmas songs! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Back in the 70's, I started sending cassettes of Christmas tunes to friends and family and over the years, this ritual has continued as I sent out compact discs of yuletide music and then later on, downloads. My taste in Christmas music, more often than not, ranges from the obscure to the ridiculous. Along with mailing Christmas cards to friends, putting together a Christmas playlist is a wonderful way to get into that holiday mood, eh? </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">So without further adieu, here's my 2021 Christmas Playlist!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Joseph Spence</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Serious fans of acoustic guitar are probably familiar with the brilliantly idiosyncratic Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence, whose tangled phrasing has led to frequent Thelonious Monk comparisons, but his gnarled lines seem conventional compared to his habit of grunting, moaning, and wheezing along with his playing. Yet his performance of <em>Santa Claus Is Coming to Town</em> elevates those vocal quirks while denigrating his guitar technique: his instrument is out of tune and, even by his standards, his lines are ridiculously choppy and off-kilter. The real highlight of his performance is his singing: he obviously forgot or never knew the song's lyrics, so he crudely spits out a load of gibberish, in perfect time. It's a performance for the ages." (chicagoreader.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Deck The Halls - Johnny "Bowtie" Barstow</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Johnny "Bowtie" Barstow was a postman who went into a recording studio to record some of his wacky interpretations of Christmas songs just for the fun of it. One of the recording engineers at the session made a copy of the session and began passing it around to all of his friends in the music business. Eventually, so many tapes had been passed around (as if they were the holy grail) that Barstow suddenly gained a cult following in New York city in the 1990's.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Santa Claus Is Back In Town - Raul Malo & The Mavericks</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Santa Claus Is Back in Town</em> is a Christmas song written in 1957 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and first recorded that year by Elvis Presley as the opening track on Elvis' Christmas Album, the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of all time in the United States. The song has become a rock and roll Christmas standard. Raul Malo's version is a great update on this Christmas classic.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Christmas in Prison - Finn and his Rustkickers</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">December can be a rough month for some folks and seasonal music can often help in avoiding depressing. Finn & His Rustkickers, a cool combo out of Long Island, do a great job of capturing that feeling on their single, <em>Christmas in Prison</em>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Swingin' Them Jingle Bells - Fats Waller</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fats Waller always brings the groove! Fats was a prolific songwriter, pianist and composer who enjoyed critical and commercial success in the United States and Europe. Waller is believed to have composed many novelty tunes in the 1920s and 1930s and then, being in need of cash, sold them for small sums to other songwriters.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hang Your Balls On The Christmas Tree - Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Kay Martin and Her Body Guards was a nightclub act consisting of Kay Martin together with Jess Hotchkiss and Bill Elliot. From 1953 to 1963 their popular, often risqué material received top billing in Las Vegas and Reno casinos and was in demand across the southern United States. Their six live recordings became popular adult party albums, often sold at the door after the live show.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Kay Martin's best known recording was the 1962 Christmas album <em>I Know What He Wants For Christmas</em>…<em>but I don't know how to wrap it!</em>". This album, along with some Redd Fox records, were big hits at bachelor parties back in the day. Sometimes the graphic on the record sleeve would feature ex-model Martin but more often than not an anonymous model would appear on the cover." (Wikipedia)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Away In A Manger - Plank Eye</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many Years ago, I came across this wild version of <em>Away In A Manger</em> as performed by a band called Plank Eye. The band brings a lot of energy which something you don't usually come across when it comes to a religious Christmas tune. A tip of the hat to Plank Eye for such a unique spiritual performance!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Santa Stole My Whiskey - Johnny Manak</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Santa Stole My Whiskey </em>is a perfect addition to any Christmas party where adult beverages are being served.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Christmas With Satan - James Chance</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Back in 1981, when downtown New York was the epicenter of all things gritty cool, everyone it seems inexplicably decided to debut a Christmas album. Ze Records released a holiday compilation featuring underground acts like Suicide, Alan Vega, and The Waitresses. The strangest track on the album is from James White, who apparently spent <em>Christmas with Satan</em>. We have some questions about that." (elle.com)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Santa Claus Needs Some Lovin' - Albert King</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"There are a number of songs concerned with Santa's sexual satisfaction, and this is one of them. Just because he only works one day a year, doesn't mean the jolly dude doesn't have his needs — and while this isn't the weirdest Santa sex tune, it is the grooviest. Note: Let's appreciate the fact that there are enough songs to make a whole playlist of Santa sex tunes." (www.cbc)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) - Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Little Steven is a genuine rock & roller who definitely knows his business when it comes to rock & roll Chistmas songs! This lively cover version of a Ramones song really hits the mark for sure. "Do they know it’s Christmas? You wouldn’t expect the New York punk rock icons The Ramones to make a Christmas song. But with a killer riff and a plea for peace on Earth (or, at the very least, the apartment), this one is among the best Christmas rock songs ever." (www.udiscovermusic.com</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Scrooge - The Ventures</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Over the years, <em>The Ventures' Christmas Album</em> has always been one of my all-time favorite Christmas albums. This particular track stands out mostly because of the strange spooky laughter that adds a taste of weirdness to the entire song</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Big Blue Balls - Blue Velvo</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This swinging track is one of my Yuletide favorites! Blue Velvo are a rowdy combo that's located here in Long Island. Be sure to check out some of their other tracks on <a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bluevelvo.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>BANDCAMP</strong></span></span></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I'm A Christmas Tree - Wild Man Fischer</span></h3>
<p>Let me just say this: listening to this particular track is much like ripping a band aid off of a flesh wound!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">What A Wonderful World - Joey Ramone</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Joey Ramone's fabulous take on <em>What A Wonderful World</em> is the track that has always been the last song my annual Christmas playlist since 2001 (the year Joey Ramone passed away). To me, when it comes to Christmas songs, it doesn't get much better than this.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">One More Sound of the Season</span></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">"Ave Maria" sung in an incredible sounding stairwell</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Interviewer : You appreciate people that can combine that animal instinct with intellectual control. Keith Richards seems like that. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Tom Waits : He is, he's the best. He's like a tree frog. When he plays he looks like he's been dangled from a wire that comes up through the back of his neck, and he can lean at a forty five degree angle and not fall over. You think he has special shoes. But maybe it's the music that's keeping him up.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">1. He Fell Out Of A Tree And Wound Up With A Blood Clot </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 2006, after swimming with bandmate Ronnie Wood off a private island in Fiji, Keith climbed a tree and perched himself in it, seven feet off the ground. When he jumped off, he knocked his head on the trunk. Days later, he had a blinding headache and suffered two seizures. The rocker had to be flown four hours to New Zealand where a neurosurgeon operated on him to fix a blood clot in his brain. Keith was back on stage six weeks later. </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">2. He Refused To Take The Stage Until He Had Shepherd’s Pie </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During the Stones’ 1989 Steel Wheels Tour, Keith heard there was a shepherd’s pie at the venue and he was very excited to eat it. However, he arrived late and others took some of the food. Upset, he refused to go on stage until another pie was made for him. Keith wrote how people learned from the incident saying, “It’s now famous, my rule on the road. Nobody touches the shepherd’s pie til I’ve been in there. Don’t bust my crust, baby.” </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">3. He Was Kicked Out Of The Boy Scouts </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">During his teenage years, Keith was actually a Boy Scout, but he was kicked out for his bad behavior. He smuggled whiskey into events, fought with other scouts and punched out a recruit. He broke a bone in his hand during one fight when he tried to hit a guy but instead hit a tent pole. </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">4. He Was Poisoned </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the 70s, Keith smoked some dope that, unbeknownst to him, was laced with the poison strychnine. He told New Music Express, “I was totally comatose but I was totally awake. I could listen to everyone, and they were like, ‘He’s dead, he’s dead!’ waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, ‘I’m not dead!’”</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">5. He Almost Set The Playboy Mansion On Fire </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Before the Playboy Mansion was in LA, it was in Chicago, and when the Stones played in the city in 1972, Keith was invited to Hugh Hefner’s fabled home. While there, Richards did some drugs in a bathroom and somehow started a fire. It got smoky and soon after, there were men bringing buckets of water to douse whatever Keith set ablaze. Thankfully, they were able to save the house. </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">6. He Went Nine Days Without Sleeping </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">While working on 1978’s Some Girls, Keith spent five days straight in the studio without sleeping. It’s an impressive feat but not even close to his longest period of no sleep. That was nine days long and it ended poorly. Richards eventually fell asleep standing up and woke up in a pool of blood, having hit his head as his body collapsed in exhaustion. </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">7. Books Almost Killed Him </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In the late 90s, Keith was at his home library, standing on a chair to reach for a book about Leonardo da Vinci’s study of anatomy when he slipped. As he fell, he brought down large books that dropped on top of him, breaking three of his ribs. The injury caused the band to postpone a tour. Keith said of the incident, “It was one of those moments where you have to make a decision: take it in the ribs or take a shot in the temple on the desk. All part of life’s rich pageant.” </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">8. He Was Punched In The Face By Chuck Berry </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Keith learned the hard way never to touch Chuck Berry’s guitar. Richards was hanging out in the legendary rocker’s dressing room and Chuck left. Keith saw Berry’s guitar and decided to pick it up and strum a chord. Chuck returned screaming that nobody touches his guitar, then he punched Keith in the face.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">9. He Jumped Out Of A Window From A Burning House </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">While renting a house in LA in the late 70s, Richards fell asleep after accidentally setting fire to a room in the home. It spread and his girlfriend at the time woke him and told him the house was on fire. They jumped out of a window with Keith wearing just a t-shirt and his girlfriend with nothing on. A friend picked them up and brought them to safety. The next day, they returned to the house, or what was left of it, and found a sign in the blackened front yard grass that read, “Thanks a lot, Keith.” </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">10. He Snorted His Dad’s Ashes </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Keith lost his father in 2002 and found an interesting way to deal with his passing – by snorting him. In 2007, Richards confessed that after his dad was cremated, he took some of the ashes, mixed them with cocaine and snorted the concoction. He told New Music Express, “My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit.” </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog, we're celebrating Mickey "Guitar" Baker, one of the greatest guitarists who "helped transform rhythm & blues into rock & roll...Mickey Baker is one of the very most important, ranking almost on the level of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The reason he isn't nearly as famous as those legends is that a great deal of his work wasn't issued under his own name, but as a backing guitarist for many R&B and rock & roll musicians. Baker originally aspired to be a jazz musician, but turned to calypso, mambo, and then R&B, where the most work could be found.” (All Music)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"Mickey Baker was one of the very most important, ranking almost on the level of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The reason he wasn't nearly as well known as those legends is that a great deal of his work wasn't issued under his own name, but as a backing guitarist for many R&B and rock & roll musicians. Baker originally aspired to be a jazz musician, but turned to calypso, mambo, and then R&B, where the most work could be found. </p>
<p>In the early and mid-'50s, he did countless sessions for Atlantic, King, RCA, Decca, and OKeh, playing on such classics as the Drifters' "Money Honey" and "Such a Night," Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll," Ruth Brown's "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean," and Big Maybelle's "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On." He also released a few singles under his own name, and made a Latin jazz-tinged solo album, Guitar Mambo. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia</span></h3>
<p>Baker's best work, though, was recorded as half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia. Their hit "Love Is Strange," as well as several other unknown but nearly equally strong tracks, featured Baker's keening, bluesy guitar riffs, which were gutsier and more piercing than most anything else around in the late '50s. Mickey & Sylvia split in the late '50s (though they recorded off and on until the middle of the next decade), and Baker recorded his best solo album, the all-instrumental The Wildest Guitar. In 1961, he took the male spoken part (usually assumed to be Ike Turner) on Ike & Tina Turner's first hit, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine." Shortly afterwards he moved to France, making a few hard-to-find solo records and working with a lot of French pop and rock performers, including Ronnie Bird, the best '60s French rock singer. He recorded only sporadically after the mid-'60s." (Richie Unterberger)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In course of my research on Mickey "Guitar" Baker, I came across an excellent article on the Houndogblog Blog: "Mickey "Guitar" Baker came into this life as McHouston Baker, born in Louisville, Kentucky on Oct. 15, 1925. He was arrested for stealing clothing at age eleven and was incarcerated in the Ridgewood Orphanage for three years where he attempted to learn to play trumpet. Upon release he worked his way north, arriving in New York City in 1945 where he took up the profession of pimping, however a beating at the hands of rival players sent him into a career detour of the equally sleazy profession of musician. Since he couldn't afford a trumpet he bought a guitar from a local pawnshop and took lessons for a year or so eventually landing a job in a group called The Incomparables led by pianist Billy Valentine. Their music has been described at various times as mambo, calypso, be-bop, and according to Baker "<em>some weird shit</em>". </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Incomparables worked their way west and somewhere in or near San Francisco, Baker had a revelation. He witnessed Pee Wee Crayton, a popular rhythm and blues guitarist who was driving the women wild in a packed club. The response to Crayton's music included babes in tight dresses showering him with bank notes while he played the guitar behind his head T-Bone Walker style. The Incomparables were getting no such response, in fact the audiences barely paid attention to their music, but Baker's revelation-- if that guy could do it, so can I, sent Baker into a totally new direction musically. He would no longer attempt to play jazz, mambo, calypso, or any weird shit. The money was in primitive, raw, blues influenced sounds, the wilder the better. And so it came to be-- Baker would invent a guitar style with the accent on wildness.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By the mid 1950's Baker, a fast learner, was playing sessions all over the New York area. One of the best was for the Savoy label out in Newark where he and King Curtis (who would be another session regular) appeared on a series of instrumental sides by piano pounder Sam Price such as <em>Bar-B-Q Sauce</em> and <em>Chicken Out</em>. Sammy told me he thought Mickey was a "big mouth". He also started cutting discs under his own name, "Guitar" (with quotes) was now his middle name. </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mickey "Guitar" Baker - Greasy Spoon</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">As time went on, Baker knew instinctively just what to add to a record, whether it was the genius one note solo on the Coasters' <em>I'm A Hog For You</em> (Atco) or the crazed five thousand note fills on Louis Jordan's 1955 remake of <em>Caladonia</em> (Mercury/Wing) he left his personal stamp on each disc. He can be heard blazing away on discs as diverse as Wilbert Harrison's <em>Florida Special</em> (Savoy), Roy Gaines' <em>Right Now Baby</em> (Groove), Square Walton's <em>Bad Hangover</em> and <em>Pepper Headed Woman</em> (RCA), even with rockabilly bus driver Joe Clay on <em>You Look That Good To Me</em> (Vik), doo wop greaseballs the Continentals' <em>Don't Do It Baby</em> (Jay Dee) and folk bluesman Brownie McGhee's <em>Anna Lee</em> (Savoy). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">A complete session discography for Mickey Baker could fill up a medium size phone directory. It was around this time that Baker, who also gave guitar lessons to make ends meet, decided to team up musically with one of his students, the sultry Sylvia Vanderpool soon to be Sylvia Robinson when she married record biz gangster Joe Robinson (Note: Joe would end up owning labels like All Platinum, Sugar Hill and buy the Chess catalog for a mere 3 million in the late 70's, less than half of what the Chess brothers sold it for earlier in that decade).</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mickey and Sylvia hated each other, but commercially they were a winning team. After a few flops recorded for the Brooklyn based Rainbow label they were signed to RCA's Groove imprint. Mickey & Sylvia's first disc on Groove was a wild, upbeat, two guitar and washboard rocker-- <em>No Good Lover </em>and their second, adapted from Bo Diddley and Billy Stewart's Billy's Blues. <em>Love Is Strange</em> became a smash hit. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mickey & Slyvia's next disc- <em>Dearest </em>(with Bo Diddley playing rhythm guitar) was issued on Vik as was their excellent LP-- <em>New Sounds Of Mickey & Sylvia</em>. That LP featured an incredible instrumental called <em>Shake It Up</em>. Doc Pomus was at the session when <em>Shake It Up</em> was recorded and told me Mickey was in a particularly foul mood that day. Eventually Mickey & Sylvia's records grew softer and stopped selling, Mickey attempted to replace Sylvia with somebody named Kitty, recording for Atlantic a version of <em>St. Louis Blues</em> that failed to sell.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Atlantic also issued a Mickey Baker solo LP, titled, appropriately enough <em>The Wildest Guitar.</em> On said disc Mickey shows the influence of Les Paul, albeit, a twisted Les Paul, as he works his unique magic on standards like the <em>Third Man Theme</em>, <em>Old Devil Moon</em> and <em>Milk Train</em>. While not the wild rock'n'roll of his early 45's, it's a great album none the less, and rare too, since nobody bought it. That mattered little as the live work with Sylvia was lucrative and he was now New York's most in demand rock'n'roll session guitarist.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Another steady source of income came with series of instructional guitar booklets he wrote and published such as the one pictured above. These became his main source of income. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By the early sixties it's was over for Mickey "Guitar" Baker and not just in rock'n'roll but in America itself. He moved to Paris in 1962 and rarely returned to the States. Since relocating he has cut records with Champion Jack Dupree and returned to what he'd always badly wanted to do--- play jazz. And he does, that is, play jazz badly. The greatest rock'n'roll guitar player in the world is one of the worst jazz guitar players in France. He released a few mediocre discs before dropping from sight completely.</span><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Mickey "Guitar" Baker was last seen in New York City after the movie <em>Dirty Dancing</em> (1987) had made <em>Love Is Strange</em> a minor hit again, evidently he quietly slipped in and out of the country in a few days time. There's a rumor that he left the States after a row over his part of the copyright of <em>Love Is Strange</em> (which he shared with Bo Diddley although one Ethyl Smith is credited on the label) with a mobster, whom, since he's still alive I'll refer to only as "the Big Guy". It could even be true, who knows at this point? Only Mickey and the Big Guy, and neither of them are talking.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For those who still buy CD's Rev-O-La has issued an excellent 31 song career retrospective called <em>Mickey "Guitar" Baker In The 50's: Hit, Git & Split</em> while the German Bear Family label has a double CD representing the almost complete works of Mickey & Sylvia-- <em>Love Is Strange</em> and a set of his early solo discs with some Mickey & Sylvia outtakes thrown in entitled <em>Rock With A Sock</em>. There are worse ways to blow your money than this. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Last spring I was in Paris, just wandering around and every cafe I saw I'd scan the heads looking for a light skinned black man with reddish hair, knowing that somewhere in that city, Mickey Baker, middle name "Guitar", failed pimp, failed jazzman and the greatest rock'n'roll guitarist of them all, is living out his final years. I'll bet he's got some stories to tell." (The Houndblog)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Mickey Baker, whose prickly, piercing guitar riffs were featured on dozens if not hundreds of recordings and helped propel the evolution of rhythm and blues into rock ’n’ roll, died on Tuesday at his home in Montastruc-la-Conseillère, near Toulouse in southwestern France. He was 87. The cause was heart and kidney failure, his wife, Marie, said.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Memphis Slim & Mickey Baker live in 1968</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">As Leader</span></span></h3>
<ul> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">The Wildest Guitar (Atlantic, 1959) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Bossa Nova en Direct du Bresil (Versailles, 1962) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Mickey Baker Plays Mickey Baker (Versailles, 1962) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">But Wild (King, 1963) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Bluesingly Yours with Memphis Slim (Polydor, 1968) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Mickey Baker in Blunderland (Major Minor, 1970) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">The Blues and Me (Black and Blue, 1974) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Take a Look Inside (Big Bear, 1975) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Tales from the Underdog (Artist, 1975) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Mississippi Delta Dues (Blue Star, 1975) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Up On the Hill (Roots, 1975) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Blues and Jazz Guitar (Kicking Mule, 1977) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Jazz Rock Guitar (Kicking Mule, 1978) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Sweet Harmony (Bellaphone, 1980) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Back to the Blues (Blue Silver, 1981) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">The Legendary Mickey Baker (Shanachie, 1991) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">New Sounds (Legacy, 2015) </span></h3> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">As Sideman</span></span></h3>
<ul> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">With Colette Magny </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Melocoton (CBS, 1963) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Frappe Ton Coeur (Le Chant du Monde, 1963) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3><span class="font_regular">Colette Magny (Le Chant du Monde, 1967) </span></h3> </li>
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<ul> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Big Maybelle, The Okeh Sessions (Charly, 1983) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ronnie Bird, L'amour Nous Rend Fou (Decca, 1964) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Clarence Gatemouth Brown, The Blues Ain't Nothing (Black and Blue, 1972) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Nappy Brown, Don't Be Angry! (Savoy, 1984) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ruth Brown, Ruth Brown (Atlantic, 1957) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Ruth Brown, Miss Rhythm (Atlantic, 1959) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Solomon Burke, 1960 Debut Album (WaxTime, 2018) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Milt Buckner, Rockin' Hammond (Capitol, 1956) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Eric Charden, Eric Charden (Vega, 1963) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Gene "The Might Flea" Connors, Let The Good Times Roll (Big Bear, 1973) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Buck Clayton, Buck Clayton and Friends (Gitanes Jazz, 2007) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Jimmy Dawkins, Jimmy Dawkins (Vogue, 1972) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Jean-Jacques Debout, Jean-Jacques Debout (Vogue, 1964) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Bill Doggett, Moondust (Odeon, 1959) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Champion Jack Dupree, Champion Jack Dupree and His Blues Band Featuring Mickey Baker (Decca, 1967) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Champion Jack Dupree, I'm Happy to Be Free (Vogue, 1972) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Stefan Grossman, Friends Forever (Guitar Workshop, 2008) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Coleman Hawkins, Disorder at the Border (Milan, 1989) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Screamin' Jay Hawkins, At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Epic, 1958) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Screamin' Jay Hawkins, ...What That Is! (Philips, 1969) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Little Willie John, Fever (King, 1956) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Louis Jordan, Somebody Up There Digs Me (Mercury, 1962) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Booker T. Laury, Nothing but the Blues (Blue Silver, 1981) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Booker T. Laury, Booker in Paris (EPM, 1992) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Memphis Slim, Very Much Alive and in Montreux (Barclay, 1973) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Jimmy Scott, If You Only Knew (Savoy, 2000) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Back Country Blues (CBS, 1958) </span></h3> </li> <li> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sylvie Vartan, Sylvie Vartan's Story 1962 & 1963 (RCA Camden, 1969)</span></h3> </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Turn That Chicken Down</h3>
<p>I've always felt that Geraint Watkins is an undiscovered treasure. I love his unique approach to his original songs and the fact that he delivers a tasty sincere vocal every time out. Today's Lost music track is Turn That Chicken Down, one of Watkins' more bizarre songs. At first listen, you might assume you've stumbled into a drunken party in a bar but suddenly this song will grab hold of you and put a smile on your face. Amen!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Geraint Watkins is a Welsh singer, songwriter, rock and roll pianist and accordionist. He has backed many notable artists, including Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Roy St. John, Shakin' Stevens and most recently Status Quo. He has also pursued a solo career and issued a number of albums under his own name. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Get up Get up Getaway, everybody's going on a Holiday!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's Hot Platter is a 2005 concept album,<em> Illinoise</em>, by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. <em>Illinoise</em> was Stevens' fifth studio album which features songs that reference places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois was part of a planned series of albums that covered the fifty states in the USA. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Initially that series began with the 2003 album, <em>Michigan</em>, and later on Stevens acknowledged that the whole idea of recording a series of album on the fifty states was a joke. In 2009, Stevens told Andrew Purcell of The Guardian in October 2009: "I have no qualms about admitting that the fifty states project was a promotional gimmick." Illinois was released on July 4, 2005, on Rough Trade Records in Europe and in the US by Asthmatic Kitty Records. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">For this second album in the "series", Stevens chose to focus on Illinois with this recording because 'it wasn't a great leap', and he liked the state because he considered it the center of gravity for the American Midwest. Before creating the album, Stevens did extensive research by reading literature by authors who hailed from Illinois; Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg, as well as studying immigration records and history books about the state of Illinois. Throughout the planning for the album, Stevens made the deliberate decision to avoid current events and focused on historical themes; this led to Stevens taking trips through several locations in Illinois and asked friends and members of Internet chat rooms for anecdotes about their experiences in the state. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Subsequently, Stevens went to work and composed all the music, followed by Stevens recording it by himself at The Buddy Project studio and in his own apartment in New York. Stevens: “I was pretty nearsighted in the construction of Illinois. I spent a lot of time alone, a few months in isolation working on my own and in the studio. I let things germinate and cultivate independently, without thinking about an audience or a live show at all”. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">To achieve a DIY feel for the album, Stevens utilized lo-fidelity equipment. His process of creating the <em>Illinoise</em> album involved recording the material on 8 track tape and inexpensive microphones such as the Shure SM57. The mixing and other production elements achieved using the Pro Tools production workstation.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">ILLINOISE TRACK LIST</span></h3>
<p><span class="font_regular">1."Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois"2:08 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">2."The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'"2:14 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">3."Come On! Feel the Illinoise!" (Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition – Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream)6:45 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">4."John Wayne Gacy, Jr."3:19 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">5."Jacksonville"5:24 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">6."A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons"0:47 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">7."Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!"3:03 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">8."One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman!!"0:06 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">9."Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!"6:04 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">10."Casimir Pulaski Day"5:53 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">11."To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves Tube Socks, a Paper Airplane, and Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men"1:40 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">12."The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts"6:17 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">13."Prairie Fire That Wanders About" (Peoria)2:11 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">14."A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze"0:19 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">15."The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!"5:23 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">16."They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"5:09 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">17."Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bloomington-Normal"0:40 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">18."In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth"0:35 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">19."The Seer's Tower"3:53 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">20."The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders" (Part I: The Great Frontier – Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now)7:02 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">21."Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few"0:46 </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">22."Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run"</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I:</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">In 2005 the second part of the Fifty States Project was announced. This time the subject would be the state of Illinois. The following information was gleaned from Sufjan Stevens’ own site (sufjan.com) Illinois is described as follows: "Like the self-proclaimed <em>Spiderman </em>who climbed Chicago’s Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, <em>ILLINOIS</em>, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. An engrossing musical road trip, <em>Illinois </em>takes you through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms, and the City of Broad Shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, the goat that cursed the Cubs, and Decatur’s famous Chickenmobile. Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, <em>Illinois</em> ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens’ emerging falsetto. The lyrics mention many persons, places and events from the Illinois, like a UFO sighting near Highland, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the state celebration of Casimir Pulaski Day, Superman (Metropolis was based on Chicago), manufacturer Caterpillar, author Carl Sandburg, former president Abraham Lincoln, the Sangamon River, the Chicago Cubs, the Sears Tower and multiple city names." (sufjan.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Casimir Pulaski Day</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"All of the songs on Illinois were written, recorded, engineered, and produced by Stevens, with most of the material being recorded at The Buddy Project studio in Astoria, Queens, and in Stevens' Brooklyn apartment. As with his previous albums, Stevens recorded in various locations, with additional piano recorded in St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn; strings and vocals performed in collaborators' apartments; electronic organ recorded in the New Jerusalem Recreational Room in Clarksboro, New Jersey; and vibraphone played at Carroll Music Studios in New York City. Stevens mostly created the album without collaboration, focusing on the writing, performance, and technical creation of the album by himself: '<em>I was pretty nearsighted in the construction of Illinois. I spent a lot of time alone, a few months in isolation working on my own and in the studio. I let things germinate and cultivate independently, without thinking about an audience or a live show at all</em>.'" (Wikipedia)</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Various Covers of Illinoise</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"Artist Divya Srinivasan made the album cover, combining several Illinois themes, including Lincoln and Al Capone. Just moments before the initial release problems arose surrounding the depiction of Superman. DC Comics, owner of the image, agreed to the sale of the first pressings under the condition that the Superman image was deleted from further pressings. This ultimately led to various cover pressings: </p>
<p>01. with the Superman image <br>02. with the Superman image covered by a balloon sticker <br>03. with balloons instead of the Superman image <br>04. no image at the position containing the Superman image <br>05. with an image of the Marvel character Blue Marvel </p>
<p>Despite the controversy the cover won the PLUG Independent Music Award in 2006." (A Pop Life)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Sufjan Stevens on stage</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Shortly after the album’s release, Stevens went on tour with the album. The band he took along with him was named The Illinoisemakers. From September to November 2006 Stevens mounted another tour in Europe. During the second tour the costumes were changed from University of Illinois cheerleader outfits to outfits with butterfly and bird themes, including wings.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Illinoise (Full Album Mix)</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">When Interviewed about the <em>Illinoise</em> album by an online magazine, Stevens stated that "On some level, this record dramatizes the cause and effect of industrial capitalists like George Pullman or Andrew Carnegie. Pullman designed a more comfortable sleeping car for the railroads, as you know, but his urban planning balked. It was feudalism all over again. He did a lot of damage for the sake of capital gain. Our disdain for capitalism today has been commodified by people like Michael Moore and documentaries like The Corporation. But it's interesting to see how these issues began to simmer early on. There has always been tension between entrepreneurial enterprise and ethics. Perhaps because wealth and power rely on the subjugation of man, and man is not always willing to go along with that. Pullman's ambition for an ideal, efficient society did not necessarily take into account the convictions of the human heart, or the human soul. Every society suffers from a similar disease."</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">FINAL THOUGHTS</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"Album tracks like <em>John Wayne Gacy, Jr</em>., <em>Jacksonville</em>, <em>Decatur</em>, and <em>Predatory Wasp </em>give descriptions of the people the everyman feels a bond with through humble, vibrant folk plucks, offering some of the most intimate moments on the album. Particularly, the juxtaposition of Gacy’s horrific acts being described with beautifully mellow guitar, alongside the coy allusion to a sexual awakening at the center of the lattermost track. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When the album’s focus diverts from its main stories, the momentum is upheld by a healthy dosage of interludes. <em>Mary Todd</em> rounds out <em>Jacksonville</em>, <em>Night Zombies</em> isolates its <em>String Part,</em> <em>Decatur</em> endearingly ends with <em>One Last ‘Whoo-Hoo!</em> <em>for the Pullman!!</em>, and the ambient soundscapes of <em>A Conjunction of Drones</em> and In <em>This Temple</em> offer a more lush sense of resolve. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As peppy as it is, Illinois doesn’t shy away from the darker shades of the everyman’s psyche, as captured in <em>Casimir Pulaski Day</em>, an ode to a late friend and the crisis of what he finds to be the same inconsequential faith embedded in America’s past, alongside the desolate image of the Christian apocalypse painted by <em>The Seer’s Tower</em>.</p>
<p>With the album’s progression, we find that there’s no single light Stevens sees Illinois in. No, his stories run a wide gamut of emotions from pain and critique to reveling and optimism, and it works so well because Stevens uses his assured tone as a strong common thread.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Illinois is an album shaped by the many hats of sound and story it wears to illustrate its central interchange between the factors of America. While Sufjan Stevens is one in an extensive lineage of artists with something to say about this country, the balance in his empathetic tone and his taming of magnitudes is what influences what he says and how he says it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The American experience of today comes prepackaged with the most turbulent ends of the country’s complexity, and whether it’s through an organized push for what’s right or the latest oasis of outrage, the experience has found increasing definition inside the space between what it stands for and what it condones. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The final crescendo of Illinois, seeing the everyman starting his next adventure in “the great laugh of mankind,” accompanied by triumphant fanfare, is a resolution that seems out of reach to an extent. If there is a “great laugh” that governs us, it may very well exist to placate <em>a great scream</em> at our own unrest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, Illinois labors on being nothing if not truthful to the values of a modernized country, and even if Stevens’ interpretation exists as a distant beacon, there’s something vital to be found within the harmony of the album’s acknowledgment that our darkness and light are equally elemental, firmly communal forces. As “The Man of Metropolis” puts it: “We celebrate our sense of each other/ We have a lot to give one another.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It goes without saying that no songwriter of this generation could tame the beast that is the story of America quite like Sufjan Stevens, but it doesn’t end with his 74-minute odyssey — it continues in us. Illinois is a tale written by the everyman in us all, and it’s still being written to this moment, which poses one question: How will the story of America continue?" (The Consequence of Sound)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Curious Case of the Missing 48 States</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Remember when indie rock turned into a whimsical, state-by-state geography lesson? Sufjan Stevens was our banjo-plucking pied piper, traversing the map while delivering two outlandishly baroque masterpieces about specific U.S. states. First came Michigan. Then Illinois. Then Illinois again, sort of. And then—well, we’re still waiting. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Michigan</em> and <em>Illinois </em>seemed to unite the whole cynical swath of music lovers: Here were two kid-friendly, parent-friendly, grandparent-friendly concept albums capable of topping Pitchfork’s year-end lists and delighting your history teacher all at once. Yet by the last decade’s end, the singer’s overarching conceit had been mysteriously abandoned: Sufjan Stevens did not write and record an album about all 50 states. He didn’t even make it out of the Great Lakes region. No wonder millennials have trust issues. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I was reminded of the 50 states project recently while traveling through Michigan. As I passed Ypsilanti and Romulus—names familiar to me, I confess, because of Sufjan Stevens—I couldn’t resist revisiting the singer’s tribute to his home state. Then I thought of the years I spent waiting for 48 more state albums, and I wrote a silly tweet. It touched a nerve. “This hits hard,” one fan responded. “I even paid to see him dance in neon in 2010 cause I craved that sweet sweet Dakotas double album that never was.” I’d tapped into a diaspora of Sufjan fans, of people who’d spent their college years sipping Natty Light while secretly wondering when the singer might tackle Alabama. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My subsequent investigation has uncovered indie-folk corruption of the most galling degree: Stevens never really planned on recording 50 state albums. That was a joke. We were duped, our trust stolen in an audacious act of grand theft banjo. (Stevens was not available for comment for this article, and while I’d love to tell you that is because he is busy conducting scrupulous research into Delaware, that’s just wishful thinking.) </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s hard to stay mad. Without this absurd PR stunt, two of the greatest indie-pop albums of the 2000s might never have been heard by a wide audience. That they were is largely a testament to Daniel Gill and Marie VanAssendelft, the two publicists who worked on Michigan. The untold story begins in 2002, when Gill briefly became Stevens’s manager. Back then, Stevens was a little-known 27-year-old songwriter from Michigan, a skilled multi-instrumentalist with a wispy voice and unabashed Christian faith. He had two albums under his belt and a close association with the indie-pop sibling outfit Danielson Family, but did not, by most measures, seem headed for household-name status.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then came a kernel of an idea. In late 2002, Gill took Stevens to dinner at a Chinese restaurant in New York. They chatted about the songwriter’s budding career. Stevens mentioned he was working on two albums: one he wrote on piano—a concept album about Michigan—and another he wrote on banjo, which became Seven Swans. “I was like, ‘OK, you’re doing a concept album about the state of Michigan. Why don’t we just say in the press announcement that you’re going to do an album about all 50 states?’” Gill says. “It seemed like such a ludicrous idea. Because even if he puts out an album a year—which is ambitious—it would take 50 years. And he was already in his late 20s. We were all like, ‘No one’s really going to believe that you’re gonna do this. People won’t take it that seriously.’” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Stevens liked the idea—even if he had zero intention of making 50 albums. He has admitted as much in later years. “I have no qualms about admitting it was a promotional gimmick,” he said in 2009. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“From my perspective, it was like: Let’s just try to get you some attention,” Gill says. “At the time, he had no fan base. No one was paying attention.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When Michigan (sometimes styled as Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State) was completed in 2003, it was clear that there was something worth paying attention to. The record is fantastic: a sprawling and melancholy song cycle rich with geographic references and compositional eccentricities. But not many knew who Stevens was. “We were struggling, as most music publicists do sometimes, where you know you have an amazing album but just trying to get people to listen to it is super difficult,” says VanAssendelft, then a senior publicist at the music marketing firm Fanatic Promotion. “That’s where we really just pushed forward this 50 states [concept]. ... It was definitely what we used as a hook, in addition to ‘This is a great album.’” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As for actually completing the project, “I think we all knew that was never happening,” VanAssendelft says. But Stevens seemed excited by the prospect of people hearing his music. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The PR team chose to emphasize Stevens’s supposed (read: fictitious) bid to cover all 50 states in his bio and press packet. When people asked whether Stevens was serious, Gill would never give a straight answer. “It was definitely a PR stunt,” Gill says. “He knew it and I knew it.” But journalists were intrigued. “Their first question was, ‘Well, what state is next?’” VanAssendelft recalls. “Because we knew he would eventually be putting out an album about Illinois, that … gave it credibility.” (Gill remembers differently—he says they did not know Stevens would do a second state until later.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The tipping point came in late July. Pitchfork, the increasingly influential arbiter of indie (full disclosure: I am a contributor there), had given the album a lukewarm review—“a 7.5,” Gill claims, “and it wasn’t Best New Music.” Except the site’s top editor, Ryan Schreiber, had not actually heard it. “We were bugging him to actually listen to it. And then he listened to it and he freaked out and he was like, ‘I can’t believe we gave this album a 7.5,’” Gill says. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What happened next is a matter of some disagreement. According to Gill’s recollection, Schreiber deleted the original review, reassigned it, and published a far more glowing endorsement, with a Best New Music designation and an 8.5 score. Schreiber, however, says he simply republished the same review but tweaked the score. “The review had been sent to me by the writer, Brandon Stosuy, on a night when I was short on material for the next day, and I didn’t have a chance to listen before publishing,” Schreiber says in an email. “I think the score was originally a high 7 or flat 8. Over the weekend, I fell completely in love with the record and asked Brandon for his thoughts on republishing the review with a higher score.” The copy, Schreiber says, was unchanged; the original review does not appear to be archived on Wayback Machine today. Stosuy did not respond to a request for comment. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In any case, word got out. “Once they re-reviewed it, I remember getting calls like, ‘Hey, can you send me that album’—which I had sent, like, three times,” VanAssendelft says with a laugh. Subsequent reviews mentioned that this guy was recording 50 albums about 50 states, spreading the information to newly converted fans. An Irish Times review declared it “the beginning of a career-long project.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Months before names like Joanna Newsom and “freak-folk” lit up blog comment threads, Stevens was a minor sensation. Here was a Christian singer with an odd first name who made it cool for indie rockers to put down their Pavement and pick up a banjo. On tour, the singer’s shows grew bigger, his crowds more rapturous. “The devotion is the thing that really struck me,” says John Thomas Robinette III, who played drums on the Michigan tour. “It wasn’t the head-bopping type of devotion. It was, ‘I’m going to do whatever it takes to get into the green room after the show to hang out with this guy.’” Robinette had never seen anything like it.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Part II: The Prairie State</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Despite the success of Michigan, Stevens did not immediately lean into the 50 states concept. Instead, he quickly followed that album with Seven Swans, a small-scale folk record with a biblical motif and no discernible songs about U.S. states. It was well-received, if not what fans of Michigan had expected. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“I was trying hard to convince him to change the name of Seven Swans and make it a state album,” Gill says. “It doesn’t make any sense. Why would you put out another album right afterwards and not make it about a state? He was like, ‘Well, it’s not about a state.’ I was like, ‘Who cares? Let’s just call it New Jersey or whatever.’ He was like, ‘No, no.’ He fought me on it for sure. He was like, ‘There’s no way I’m gonna make this album a state album.’” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“I think he thought it was funny to release Michigan and quickly follow it up with an album that’s not a state album,” Gill adds. “He likes to play with the audience a little bit.”</p>
<p>Stevens’s prolific drive was astonishing. By the time Swans was released, in March 2004, he was already at work on songs about Illinois, the next target in his star-spangled geography lesson. Why Illinois? “I feel like specifically Illinois and Chicago are sort of the center of gravity for the American Midwest,” Stevens later told Dusted Magazine. He was attracted to the Midwest because it was where he’d grown up. But he planned to branch out. “I think my next state will definitely be in a different region, a different time zone,” he said. (When asked if he’d really cover all 50, he kept it vague: “That’s the intention, we’ll see how far I get,” he told The Guardian.) </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In April, Stevens played an early version of “Chicago,” Illinois’s centerpiece-to-be, during a show at New York’s Knitting Factory. The 2006 Danielson Family documentary captures the moment: Stevens tentatively strumming the tune backstage, then debuting the future classic in front of an adoring crowd. “The saying goes that I am recording a record for each of the 50 states,” he tells the audience (a coy choice of words). “Seven Swans is a little break from that. Now that we’ve had time to breathe and reassess the entire project, I’m moving on. We’re gonna end our set with a song from a record I’m working on now called Illinois.” The crowd cheers, thrilled to be let in on this little secret. In the documentary, this leads into a montage of press clippings signifying Stevens’s newfound stardom. One headline proclaims: “The 50 States of Rock.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That year the singer flung himself into research about Illinois: visiting towns, reading biographies of Abraham Lincoln, studying early immigration records, even browsing local newspapers and police logs. While Michigan drew heavily on Stevens’s personal experiences in that state, Illinois spanned outward. “He just went all in, studying the entire history of the state,” says Craig Montoro, who played trumpet on the album and tour. “In retrospect, that was another giveaway that this was either going to be a lifelong pursuit—he’d be near death by the time he got to the 50th state—or maybe it wasn’t gonna happen.” According to Montoro, this became a running joke among Stevens’s bandmates: “How was he gonna finish this? How old was he gonna be? Which joints would have been replaced.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If Michigan was ambitious, Illinois was doubly so: a 74-minute symphonic fever dream outfitted with oboes, glockenspiels, sleigh bells, and dramatic overtures. The arrangements were bolder, the song titles lengthier, the time signatures weirder, the emotional stakes higher. The record’s investment in local history ran deep, with sad songs about UFO sightings and John Wayne Gacy Jr. holding court with rousing sing-alongs about Andrew Jackson. Lincoln, of course, was mentioned. That a certain other Illinois senator began capturing headlines and presidential speculation around the time it was released was so perfect you’d think Stevens planned it. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Upon release (during the week of July 4, no less), Illinois was roundly hailed as a masterpiece. Pitchfork did not waffle this time; Amanda Petrusich awarded it a 9.2, calling it “a staggering collection of impeccably arranged American tribute songs.” “Illinois got the best press of any album I’ve ever worked in my career by far,” Gill says. “It was just ridiculous. Pretty much everyone said it was the best album of the year.” (Indeed, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and NPR all crowned it as such.) </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Midwestern fans were particularly moved. “Sufjan always felt like an especially important musician that the entirety of the Midwest could claim,” says Aaron Calvin, a longtime fan from Iowa. “Especially since he seemed so interested in elevating Midwestern stories that took place in those specific settings. Growing up in Iowa, it always felt fun to imagine him writing a song about a small town in Iowa because it seemed very possible.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The singer’s runaway success was surely a function of his ability to write songs that were as emotionally resonant as they were musically and textually intricate. But the gimmick helped. How could it not? In the absence of a fluke hit, indie rock requires a hustle to break through; in some cases, it needs to be “eventized” to be noticed on a wider scale. The imaginative sprawl of the 50 states project promised the former and delivered the latter. It was, for many listeners, genuinely irresistible. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Stevens was more popular than had ever seemed possible, but he remained press-shy. “Letterman and Conan were calling me all the time, like, ‘When can we get Sufjan on the show?’” Gill says. “And he didn’t want to do it. He thought it was crass or something to play on TV.” The singer did submit to non-televised interviews, and the 50 states project was a frequent topic of questioning, given that journalists now took it quite seriously. In a chat with Dusted Magazine, Stevens waxed philosophical about American identity and songwriting. “The states themselves are just kind of the fabric,” he said. “They’re kind of the canvas, and they create very helpful arbitrary guidelines.” Speaking to The A.V. Club in July 2005, he was surprisingly candid: “I’ll admit that it’s all advertising, and all gimmick,” he confessed. “Initially, it was intended just to get attention.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If that was meant as a veiled admission that he wouldn’t complete an album for all 50 states, the message was not received. During the fall tour, Stevens and his band wore University of Illinois cheerleading outfits. They even opened shows with “The 50 States Song,” a joyous theme song that mentioned every state by name. “Fans were coming to the shows and bringing him stuff about their home state,” Gill recalls. “Like: ‘Here’s an idea for when you do my state’; ‘Here’s a book I think you should read when you do Utah.’ It was crazy. I think I went to three of the California shows—people were like, ‘You have to do California next!’”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The speculation carried over to Stevens’s backing band. “It kinda was a contest among us to try to influence what the next state would be,” Montoro says. “I’m from Texas; I was trying to push him towards that. Other people were like, ‘What about Washington state?’ They were trying to sneak in a little influence in case his mind wasn’t made up.” Band members got in the habit of finding state quarters for Stevens and even gifted him a map of the 50 states where you could plug each state’s quarter into a corresponding hole. “Every time somebody would get a quarter with a state on it, we would say, ‘Oh, hey, does he have this one yet?’ We were all in. Everybody believed it.” </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Tom Eaton, who contributed trumpet to Michigan and backing vocals to Illinois, was more skeptical. “I sensed kind of an ambivalence about it,” he says of the 50 states conceit. “I had a hard time seeing him locking himself into that specific project for the next 75 years.”</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Part III: The Unsung States</span></h3>
<p>Which state was next? A bluegrass album for Kentucky? A gritty, Lou Reed–inspired New York opus? After Illinois, fans and journalists were eager to speculate, and Stevens seemed happy to join in. </p>
<p>“He played along with the 50 states thing to an amazing degree,” Gill says. “He was going to launch this website—I think he bought the URL, like The50States.com. It was an interactive map of America.” The project never got off the ground. At some point, Gill even floated the idea of outsourcing smaller states to other acts on the Asthmatic Kitty roster: “Every time there was a new Asthmatic Kitty signing, I was like, ‘Just have them do a state album and farm it out!’” But that idea never took. </p>
<p>In a clever segment, NPR convinced Stevens to come up with a song about Arkansas. That song, “The Lord God Bird,” was inspired by an ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered there. Then, in October 2005, The Guardian reported that Oregon was a “likely contender” for Stevens’s next state. Stevens had spent several summers there as a child, visiting his mother and stepfather. “The state has so far inspired some very simple guitar-based songs from Stevens,” the reporter, Laura Barton, noted. </p>
<p>But the Oregon album never materialized—not unless you count Carrie & Lowell, Stevens’s grief-borne 2015 album, which is thick with references to the Beaver State. (“It is essentially his Oregon album,” Gill says.) Nor did we ever get a Rhode Island 7-inch, as Stevens mused about releasing in that same Guardian profile (“Not all of the 50 states will be awarded a full-length album,” Barton wrote). Instead, he released another album about … Illinois. The 2005 album had yielded such an overflow of material that Stevens released an album of outtakes a year later, called The Avalanche. Here we got tunes about Saul Bellow and Adlai Stevenson and three different renditions of “Chicago.” </p>
<p>In the press release for The Avalanche, Gill wrote: “Sufjan has still not made an official decision on the next state he’ll tackle in his epic 50 States project, but we will definitely keep you posted.” Privately, though, Stevens seemed to be growing bored with the project. At some point—nobody knows when—he abandoned it. Though his next project, The BQE (2009), was also rooted in an exploration of place, he would never release another album about a state. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, fans saw signs everywhere. Calvin, the fan from Iowa, remembers hearing around 2007 that a relative had served Stevens at a local Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. “That kind of fueled our imaginations,” Calvin says, “like, what if he’s going around Iowa getting material or working on an Iowa record?” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By 2009, the faithful were growing impatient. Early that year, Paste editor Josh Jackson practically begged Stevens for another state entry: “Chinese Democracy miraculously saw the light of day last year,” he wrote. “Would it be too much to hope that 2009 is the year of Oregon? Or New Jersey?” Nine months later, Stevens publicly admitted the whole project had been a “promotional gimmick.” This concession was largely buried in a Guardian interview about the BQE project. Many fans never saw it. But the singer’s next proper album, The Age of Adz, was a jarring enough stylistic departure that it was clear he had moved on. (By this point, he had also moved on from Gill, having hired a new publicity team.) </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">And yet the 50 states project continues to exert a patriotic pull over the indie-rock imagination. Maybe it’s a nostalgic signifier of indie folk’s early-aughts golden period, or an unfulfilled promise, or just a nice fantasy to believe that 48 albums as great as Illinois are lurking just around the corner. Even as Stevens has graduated to Oscar nominations and Pride Month songs, some fans still carry the flag for his unfinished geography project. As the comedian Avery Edison tweeted in 2015, “Don’t keep asking where Frank Ocean’s album is if you’re not doing the same for the 48 U.S.-themed ones we’re owed by Sufjan Stevens.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The following year, after Donald Trump’s election, an Illinois writer named Nicky Martin called on Stevens to finish the project as a matter of national urgency. “Once Sufjan releases a record for every state, we’ll understand ourselves better as Americans,” Martin wrote in a hilarious and bizarre Medium post. “When we understand our American heritage, we’ll stop voting against our own interests!” </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Is there any chance Stevens might eventually resume the project? “I don’t think there’s any way he would consider doing another state release,” says Gill (who, it should be stressed, is not speaking on the artist’s behalf in any capacity). “But you never say never with Sufjan. He already has two box sets of Christmas songs—that’s crazy.” (theringer.com)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In 2006, Sufjan Stevens surprised everyone by releasing an album called T<em>he Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album! </em>aka <em>The Avalanche</em>. The album is “shamelessly compiled by Sufjan Stevens” and consists of outtakes from the Illinois sessions. </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">On the sufjan.com site, </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Stevens described The Avalanche album as follows:</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"The little secret behind the <em>Illinoise</em> record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in—as did the opinions of others—and the project was cut in half. But as 2005 came to a close, Sufjan returned to the old, forsaken songs on his 8-track like a grandfather remembering his youth, indulging in old journals and newspaper clippings. What he uncovered went beyond the merits of nostalgia; it was more like an ensemble of capricious friends and old acquaintances wearing party outfits, waiting to be let in at the front door, for warm drinks and interesting conversation. Among them were Saul Bellow, Ann Landers, Adlai Stevenson, and a brief cameo from Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls. The gathering that followed would become the setting for the songs on The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Sufjan gleaned 21 useable tracks from the abandoned material, including three alternate versions of Chicago. Some songs were in finished form, others were merely outlines, gesture drawings, or musical scribbles mumbled on a hand-held tape recorder. Most of the material required substantial editing, new arrangements or vocals. Much of the work was done at the end of 2005 or in January the following year. Sufjan invited many of the original Illinoisemakers to fill in the edges: drums, trumpet, a choir of singers. The centerpiece, of course, was the title track—The Avalanche—a song intended for the leading role on the Illinois album but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. In his rummaging through old musical memorabilia, Sufjan began to use this song as a meditation on the editorial process, returning to old forms, knee-deep in debris, sifting rocks and river water for an occasional glint of gold. “I call ye cabin neighbors,” the song bemuses, “I call you once my friends.” And like an avid social organizer, Sufjan took in all the odd musical misfits and gathered them together for a party of their own, like good friends. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the sufjan.com website: <span class="font_regular">"A careful listener may uncover the obvious trend on this record: almost every song on the Illinois album has a counterpart on the outtakes. Carl Sandburg arm-wrestles Saul Bellow. The aliens landing near Highland salute Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. The loneliness of “Casimir Pulaski Day” deepens even further in the foreboding soundtrack to “Pittsfield.” At its best, The Avalanche is an exercise in form, revealing the working habits of one of the most productive songwriters today. As an illustration, the avalanche refers to the snow and rubble that falls off the side of a mountain, or, in this case, the musical debris generously chucked from an abundant epic. It’s unlikely you’ll find a mountain in the Prairie State so the metaphor will have to do."</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><strong>Remembering Forgotten Songs</strong></span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">David Lindley & El Rayo-X</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tiki Torches At Twilight</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tiki torches at twilight <br>Hula girls at the bar <br>All the guys from the office <br>Are throwing up their cars <br>Get to cooking a roast pig <br>Like it's done in the book <br>Say hello to your sweetie <br>With a casual look </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Swinging deals and eating meals <br>Is all within the norm <br>Put away the axes <br>And pay those taxes <br>Let's all get normal at the luau </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Tiki torches at twilight <br>Hula girls at the bar <br>All the guys from the office <br>Are throwing up their cars </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Standing round at poolside <br>Talking shop with the boss <br>If you are a cool talker <br>You'll get your message across <br>Hold the drinks in the coaster <br>Standing round in our shorts <br>And I talk to a boaster <br>About professional sports <br>Swinging deals and eating meals <br>Is all within the norm <br>Put away the axes <br>And pay those taxes <br>Let's all get normal at the luau <br>Let's all get normal at the luau</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Today's forgotten song is <em>Tiki Torches At Twilight, </em>a charming siren song that captures life in suburbia. In 1981, Lindley formed his own band, <em>El Rayo-X</em>. Jackson Browne produced their first album. Their last show before breaking up was December 31, 1989. Since that time, he has toured as a solo artist, and as half of a duo, first with Hani Naser, then with Wally Ingram. He also played on a multitude of studio sessions. Between his work in the studio as a session musician or on tour as a sideman or bandleader, Lindley has worked on learning new instruments. He is famous for having written the only song glorifying (a brand of) male condoms, <em>Ram-a-Lamb-a-Man</em>, from his album <em>Win this Record</em>!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lindley is widely known for his work as a session musician. He has contributed to recordings and live performances by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Curtis Mayfield, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Terry Reid, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Rod Stewart and Joe Walsh. He has also collaborated with fellow guitarists Ry Cooder, Henry Kaiser and G. E. Smith. Artist Ben Harper has credited Lindley's distinctive slide guitar style as a major influence on his own playing, and, in 2006, Lindley sat in on Harper's album Both Sides of the Gun.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another aspect of Lindley's musicality is the fact that he is known in the guitar community for his use of cheap instruments sold at Sears department stores and intended for amateurs. He uses these for the unique sound they produce, especially with a slide. In the early 1990s, he toured and recorded with Hani Naser adding percussive instruments to his solo performances, and his instrumental repertoire which he uses in his session work.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Let's all get normal at the luau!</span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Howdy Folks!</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">I'll be taking a short Holiday Hiatus</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">& will be back with a new blog post</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">on Monday November 29th</span></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">A Moment In Time:</span></em></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">Van Morrison & Astral Weeks</span></em></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">George Winston - Thanksgiving</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs</span></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">John Prine</span></strong></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Jesus, The Missing Years</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Music post is a great forgotten John Prine song called <em>Jesus, The Missing Years.</em> The song speculates upon the unrecorded middle 18 years of Jesus Christ's life. The surreal piece features, among other things, Jesus traveling to France and Spain, marrying an Irish bride, inventing Santa Claus, and opening a show for country singer George Jones. Jesus, The Missing Years is filled with Prine's magical wit which carries the listener to another dimension.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">On his thirteenth birthday he saw "Rebel without a Cause" <br>He went straight on home and invented Santa Claus <br>Who gave him a gift and he responded in kind <br>He gave the gift of love and went out of his mind </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Couldn't Shake It If I Tried - Jim Treutlein</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Jim Treutlein, a longtime veteran of the Long Island music scene, is a popular musician here in Long Island. Widely known as a "songfinder", Jim's mastery of the Americana genre always captures the hearts of a live audience. His latest release, <em>Couldn't Shake It If I Tried</em>, is an excellent collection of songs written by Dee Harris.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Lost Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mink DeVille - Slow Drain</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">Little Miss Tragedy is so misunderstood <br>She can hear you sniff a whip of a bad drugs a hundred yards away <br>And if she gets, you cornered she won't be satisfied, no she won't <br>And everything around her just seems to fly apart <br>But it has nobody to blame, nobody but yourself of being pulled in again <br>Into a slow drain, a slow drain. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mr. West Coast dealer he wants a front for you, yes I do, yes I do <br>And being so experienced and all, he knows just what to do <br>He says: 'You must be tired of the street, my friend, here's a place for you to rest' <br>And the price is never mentioned utill he gets your best <br>Always stop listening, nobody to blame <br>Nobody but yourself of being pulled in again <br>Into a slow drain, a slow drain. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So you're new in town, you wanna meet some fans <br>They're all fresh hookers warming or pressing you in a doing thing <br>And if they get you cornered, they'd be coming 'round again and that's for shure <br>And everything they touch just seems to waste away <br>Always stop listening, nobody to blame <br>Nobody but yourself of being pushed in again <br>Into a slow drain, a slow drain <br>Slow drain, slow drain <br>Slow drain, slow drain <br>Hang you 'till you dry.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Lost Song is a track by Mink DeVille called <em>Slow Drain</em>. It just might be the best song about drug addiction I've ever come across. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Listening to this track off of Mink DeVille's <em>Le Chat Bleu</em> album always sparks the memories I have of meeting both Willey De Ville. In 1978, I was working in a studio with the Freelance Vandals and as it turned out, Mink De Ville were in an adjacent studio working on their second album, <em>Return To Magenta.</em> One afternoon, I happened to strike up a conversation with Willie De Ville in the hallway. We were both taking a break from cutting some vocals. I know Willie struggled with drug addiction throughout his life but as we stood there talking about the rigors of working in the studio, he struck me as a down to earth guy.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. His ninth release, At King Electric, delivers more than his trademark grit and groove. Songs such as <em>The Next Card to Fall </em>and <em>Codeine</em> gleam with intimate narratives of characters reaching for hope and wrestling with despair. Rich guitar and harmonica lines resonate over spare but spunky rhythms, while Bonneville’s deep, evocative voice confesses life’s harsh realities. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">An article in the Montreal Gazette describes his sound as '<em>folk-roots gumbo… a languid Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica wheeze</em>.' Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, '<em>With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves</em>.'</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Often called a<em> song and groove man</em>, Bonneville has lived the life of the itinerant artist. From his native Quebec, he moved to Boston at age twelve, where he learned English and picked up piano and guitar. Later, he served in Vietnam and earned a pilot’s license in Colorado before living in Alaska, Seattle, and Paris. Six years in New Orleans infused his musical sensibilities with the region's culture and rhythms. And then, a close call while piloting a seaplane proved pivotal: After two decades working as a studio musician, playing rowdy rooms with blues bands, and living hard, Bonneville’s lifetime of hard-won experience coalesced into an urge to write his own music. When not on the road, he resides in Austin, Texas." (Ray Bonneville website)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"Brave Combo remain the definitive polka-rock band. They were founded in 1979 by guitarist/accordianist/genius Carl Finch in Denton, Texas. For over 35 years, the group has been a major force in popularizing polka music in America, a genre that was once, believe it or not, actually frowned upon. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Brave Combo often plays and records covers of popular songs in a style radically different from the original version. In other words, they subvert the text. Some examples of this are the polka versions of Hendrix's "Purple Haze" and the Doors' "People are Strange." These restructured versions of familiar songs are performed with humor, but are not really considered a joke or a novelty release.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If I'm telling you stuff you already know, well, then here's some facts about Brave combo that might be news to you... </p>
<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">Brave Combo made an appearance as animated figures on the March 21, 2004, episode of The Simpsons. </li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Their song "Busy Office Rhumba" was used as the theme for the 1993 FOX television series Bakersfield P.D. </li> <li style="text-align: justify;">They wrote and performed the theme song for the 2005 series ESPN Bowling Night. </li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Two of their songs are on the 1989 Gumby album. </li> <li style="text-align: justify;">In 2000, they appeared on the national telecast of the MDA Labor Day Telethon, and the great Jerry Lewis danced along to their music." (www.strangethingsare happeningeveryday.com)</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">As the lyric in today's song goes:</span></strong></p>
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Over the years, I’ve often been surprised at exactly how many cool spooky tunes are in existence. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/1395aff9887d523545c056b4e4bf4cafa970b120/original/halloween-early.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The origins of Halloween can be found in Sangaubm a Celtic festival that celebrated the harvest season in Gaelic culture. The Gaels believed that on October 31 (a date on which we now celebrate Halloween) the distance between the living and the deceased dissolved. At these early Sangaubm festivals, masks and costumes came into use as a way to mimic or placate evil spirits. As time rolled on, the Sangaubm festival evolved into a celebration of All Hallows Eve. Flash forward to the present day and there are many elements that define Halloween; costumes, candy, pumpkins and most of all, cool creepy tunes!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7a817e2bbd5734e2abd369a31ffa3120eb5e2974/original/halloween-music-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>An explanation regarding what sort of musical elements that exist in many Halloween songs can be found in this 2018 article on </strong><i><strong>blog.thecurent.org</strong></i><strong>: "What musical techniques can make a song sound spooky? (there are) some common musical characteristics of Halloween songs from exploring the genre’s history.</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c78b966b7beb35d1d31596ec894b2051127486d4/original/mg-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Instrumentation and Timbre: Over the years, certain musical instruments have gained a spooky reputation. A large reason for associations of certain instruments with scary themes comes from film soundtracks. Bach’s </strong><i><strong>Toccata and Fugue in D Minor</strong></i><strong> was used in various silent films in the 1920’s, and in 1931 was featured in the opening credits to the 1932 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, cementing the song’s association with scaring audiences. </strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/8d8b68239e4c45432b160102d39b1a381266123f/original/season-of-the-witch-psycho.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Many 20th century horror films feature large string arrangements, including the iconic 1960’s horror flick, </strong><i><strong>Psycho</strong></i><strong>. Classical Minnesota Public Radio host Steve Staruch remembers when Minnesota Orchestra conductor Sarah Hicks was rehearsing the music from the famous shower scene for her orchestra. Several European members of the orchestra had never seen the film, and were unfamiliar with its score. '</strong><i><strong>They were asking her about how to play this, and they were trying to make it as beautiful as possible, and she said, ‘No, you don’t understand, it’s not beautiful...It’s like five minutes of pure aggression. The pitch isn’t as important as the quality of the sound, the ugliness of the sound, and the out-of-mind quality; it’s just not normal.</strong></i><strong>' The strings from </strong><i><strong>Psycho</strong></i><strong> are an example of the importance of timbre in creating a spooky atmosphere.</strong></span></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d1908018ced23b7d983ca41fa299ba74f416899b/original/spicy-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></h3><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Although there are songs associated with Halloween, the holiday’s musical canon (or that of any other holiday) doesn’t come close to the plethora of songs that surrounds Christmas. Maybe no other holiday is central enough to Western culture to garner that many thematic songs, or maybe Halloween is just too nebulous a holiday to have a well-defined genre of music surrounding it. Even if Halloween is centered around themes of fright, folklore, and evil spirits, the concept of fear can be hard to pin down. What we perceive as scary is largely dependent on our culture. What was once scary, can in retrospect seem cliché or campy. When first popularized in film soundtracks in the 1970’s and 1980's, the sounds of the theremin awed audiences with its extraterrestrial sound. Now, the electronic instrument has become a cliché for setting a supernatural or unsettling mood. Maybe it is impossible to have a concrete and well-defined genre of Halloween songs, because as sounds age, they lose their fright-factor. If the unknown frightens us while the familiar makes us nostalgic or at ease, then music aiming to frighten us has to be constantly evolving to capture our attention.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/9e97ea61b75d75bd2c12d3bdfd0fecc4aa1eb243/original/halloween-music.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween songs began to rise in popularity during the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's with the release of such songs as Haunted House Blues (Bessie Smith, 1924), Dead Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton, 1926), The Ghost of the St Louis Blues (Emmett Miller, 1929), Haunted Nights (Duke Ellington, 1929), Haunted House (Ray Noble and His All Stars, 1931), The Nightmare (Cab Calloway, 1931), Ghost in the Graveyard (The Prairie Ramblers, 1935), Mr. Ghost is Going to Town (Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, 1936), Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (The Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1939), Dracula (Gene Krupa, 1939), Dry Bones (Fats Waller, 1940), That Old Black Magic (Glenn Miller, 1942), The Halloween Song (Bing Crosby & Boris Karloff, 1947) and Ghost Riders in the Sky (Gene Autry, 1949).</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa3ed02814f7aa6f4630951a404205896ac56b21/original/further-investigation.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://blog.thecurrent.org/2018/10/what-is-halloween-music-and-why-does-it-scare-us/" data-link-type="url" contents="What Is Halloween Music &amp; Why Does It Scare Us?"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong><u>What Is Halloween Music & Why Does It Scare Us?</u></strong></span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/10094016166d08e55e3ad5cd49ccd641c7654004/original/frankenstein-rocks.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>By the time the 1950’s rolled around, novelty Halloween songs were the order of the day. From the MEtv site: “Halloween novelty songs were once so ubiquitous that they weren't really novelty — they were simply pop music. The high point was arguably 1958, a year steeped in horror. Movie marquees were lit with titles like The Fly, The Blob and It! The Terror Beyond Space. Four years earlier, the Comics Code Authority had been created to curb the bloody violence in comic books, though titles like House of Mystery and House of Secrets were still perhaps more popular than superheroes. Alfred Hitchcock was spinning dark tales on black & white television. Naturally, the world of music would follow suit. This love of B-movie monsters and graveyard rock carried through into the early '60s, as Americans tuned in to The Munsters and The Addams Family in their living rooms. In short, there was no better time to be a trick-or-treater.” </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/30903c4111973b9654b257db69ffa3ceefa52d77/original/surf-halloween-1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>One particular aspect of the fifties novelty Halloween songs I grew up with was the prevalence of many of these songs arose from the surf music scene. I have yet to find any concrete info on why this came to pass and to this day, the surf music genre is still heavily connected to Halloween music.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/fa3ed02814f7aa6f4630951a404205896ac56b21/original/further-investigation.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>FURTHER INVESTIGATION</strong></i></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/20937b644cac1ed7d7caee5174e24f46c563d929/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://medium.com/cuepoint/halloween-the-deeper-cuts-b235e950c233" target="_blank" data-link-type="url" contents="HALLOWEEN: THE DEEPER CUTS"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">HALLOWEEN: THE DEEPER CUTS</span></a></h3><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/7784a8c3a936cc6ec4a608ba773aa5540272ca85/original/halloween-rock.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These days, my favorite Halloween songs are a mix of a wide variety of genres; some basic rock, some surf-a-rama toonage, some dark cocktail lounge ditties and some ridiculous sounding tunes that just seem to capture that good old Halloween vibe. Without further adieu, here's some of the tunes on Season of the Witch, this year's Halloween Playlist!</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #1 > House on Haunted Hill Movie Trailer (Vincent Price) > Theme from Halloween (Los Straightjackets) > I Am The Wolfman (Round Robin) . It (Johnny Fraser & The Renegades) > Do The Zombie (Mr. Baseman & The Symbols)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Bsa9ymSDoJ0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bsa9ymSDoJ0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Vincent Price Trivia : "According to Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela Lugosi's body at Lugosi's funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped</strong><i><strong>, 'Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?'</strong></i><strong>"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6AECGiGPefI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6AECGiGPefI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Do The Zombie - Mr. Baseman & The Symbol</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #2 Goo Goo Muck (The Cramps) > Casting My Spell (The Spellbinders) > Black Magic (Jericho Jones)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="zGNLqyVXRpI" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGNLqyVXRpI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>"The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass guitarist Poison Ivy comprising the only ever-present members. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Balam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976. They were part of the early CBGB punk rock movement that had emerged in New York. The Cramps were one of the first punk bands, and also widely recognized as one of the prime innovators of psychobilly.' (Wikipedia)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #3 > The Witch Queen of New Orleans (Redbone) > Mad Witch (Dave Gardner) > Hell-o-Ween (The Swing Rays) </strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gUiiapfPF2k" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gUiiapfPF2k?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Swing Rays - Hell-O-Ween</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #3 > The Blob Movie Trailer > The Jungle (Diablito) > Popeye The Gravedigger (John Zacherle) > The Vampires (Archie King)</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TdUsyXQ8Wrs" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TdUsyXQ8Wrs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Trailer: The Blob (1958)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="s88qxBPbrLc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s88qxBPbrLc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Diablito - The Jungle</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>This high energy tune is often ranked as being part of the exotica genre but I find it's full of that Halloween goodness. From the Something For The Weekend blog: "Released as a standalone single in October 1962, “The Jungle” by Diablito remains one of the period’s rather more astounding examples of up-tempo lounge exotica. A product of the long-since defunct Parkway Records, the single became an oddity of the genre, disappearing quickly...Penned by Cameo/Parkway regulars Dave Appell (a.k.a. Dave Leon) and Kalman Cohen (a.k.a. Kal Mann and occasionally Jon Sheldon), “The Jungle” rips aloud with vocals shorn by maniacal laughter and crazed howling, while both percussion and bass dance with menace and doom-laden poise. On top of that, the song’s guitar line borrows much from ‘I Dovregubbens Hall (In the Hall of the Mountain King)’ from “Peer Gynt, Op.23” by Edvard Grieg, adding further depth to an already manic performance. The Diablito recording was one of a few once-off productions for Appell and Cohen in a period that openly embraced the burgeoning rockabilly scene, before moving toward exotica, lounge and eventually jazz."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #4 > Hell (Squirrel Nut Zippers) > Dead Man’s Party (Oingo Boingo) > Plan 9 From Outer Space Movie Trailer > No Costume, No Candy 9Swingin' Neckbreakers)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="u2ukRYsYPmo" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u2ukRYsYPmo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Plan 9 From Outer Space Movie Trailer</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0PXUapAUZD8" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0PXUapAUZD8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Swingin' Neckbreakers - No Costume, No Candy</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the All Music site: "Brought on together by brothers Tom and John Jorgensen in 1992, the vintage rock of The Swingin' Neckbreakers debuted in their hometown of Trenton, New Jersey with Don Snook on guitar. Along with Tom taking on the bass and vocal duties while John handling the drums, the three piece comfortably set themselves amongst the trash rock company of Southern Culture On The Skids, The Lyres, Flat Duo Jets and The Wooglers. Immediately signing to Telstar Records, the Neckbreakers debuted with the single </strong><i><strong>Diggin' A Grave</strong></i><strong>, followed by their first album Live For Buzz in 1993. Following a European tour and a number of singles that were released on various labels throughout 1994, The Neckbreakers' second album Shake Break came out the next year on Telstar. After Don Snook's departure from the band in 1996, Jeffery Lee Jefferson eventually filled in on guitar and debuted on the 1997 album Kick Your Ass. Return of Rock and Live Live Live were released in 2000."</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #5 > Robot Monster Movie Trailer > The Loneliest Ghost in Town (Southern Culture On The Skids) > Ghost Train (The Swanks) </strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6h9NdV4gc2E" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6h9NdV4gc2E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>The Swanks - Ghost Train</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Chuck DePrima blog: "</strong><i><strong>Ghost Train</strong></i><strong> was composed by The Swanks (Jack Revelle, lead guitar (age 17), Otha Libby (age 19) rhythm guitar and Bobby Jones (age 18) drums) in 1964 at Riposo Studios in Syracuse, New York. They had been rehearsing at the Jones’ family home in Brewerton, NY on a Saturday morning in preparation for a recording session at Riposo that afternoon. They were going to be recording a vocal song called </strong><i><strong>My College Cry</strong></i><strong> (which is nothing to write home about).</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>About an hour and a half before they were scheduled to leave for Syracuse, they realized they had no material for the flip side of the 45 rpm record they would be recording. They began to jam and trade ideas back and forth, and the result of their effort over the span of that hour and a half, and three takes at Riposo Studios, was </strong><i><strong>Ghost Train</strong></i><strong>. </strong><i><strong>Ghost Train</strong></i><strong> was originally released on Charm Records but has since been reissued as a bootlegged on at least two dozen 1960’s instrumental compilations. It has also been used on the soundtrack of a French film, </strong><i><strong>Violent Days</strong></i><strong> & the original Frankenstein movie. Original copies of the song on the Charm label are crazy rare and can command almost $2,000 on e-bay.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>These days Otha Libby is a retired police officer and college professor living in Seattle, Washington. Jack Revelle played professionally for over 20 years and retired from an automobile sales career and lives north of Syracuse, NY. During a recent interview Otha Libby said: '</strong><i><strong>It is the recording The Swanks did at Riposo Studios in Syracuse in 1964. It has been knocking around for 45 years and some kid in (I think) South America put it up as the sound track behind this piece of footage from the original Frankenstein’s Monster movie. There is an interesting story behind how this song came to exist, which I won’t bore you with unless you are interested. It has appeared on numerous compilations of American instrumental rock and was even used in the sound track of a French film</strong></i><strong>.'"</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #6 > Boris The Spider (The Who) > The Munster’s Theme (Los Straightjackets) > Bo Meets the Monster (Bo Diddley) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="bvFuUaCe8eY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvFuUaCe8eY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/c0527b5f6bc10bbfd022feecdd8af0a05ccb8160/original/john-entwistle-skeleton-suit.jpg" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><i><strong>Boris The Spider</strong></i><strong> is a great John Entwistle song which was the first tune he ever wrote for The Who. From the Classic Rock website: "Entwistle was his own influential force within The Who. He was the only member to have had any formal musical training, and was also proficient on multiple brass instruments, as well as being an adept arranger. When he wrestled the platform from Pete Townshend, he was also a capable songwriter. Starting with A Quick One in 1966, almost every album that Entwistle made with The Who included one or more of his songs. They were distinctive for being gruesome, steeped in pitch-black humor and populated by such characters as degenerates, depressives, prostitutes and, in one memorable instance, an arachnid named Boris. That latter song, </strong><i><strong>Boris The Spider</strong></i><strong>, was the most requested that The Who played on stage, which piqued Townshend no end."</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #7 > Voodoo Woman (Smiley Smith) > Psycho Killer (Talking Heads) > Monster Party (Bill Doggett) </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="kSlGofosdKA" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kSlGofosdKA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Bill Doggett - Monster Party (1959)</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>I've always enjoyed Bill Doggett's work and </strong><i><strong>Monster Party</strong></i><strong> is a perfect novelty track for a Halloween playlist. From the itsgreatshakes blog: "Happy Halloween, everybody! I just thought I'd check in with this appropriately-themed nugget from the ever-prolific Mr. Honky Tonk himself, Bill Doggett! I'm going to take a guess here and say that this was one of Doggett's follow-ups to his massive 1956 hit </strong><i><strong>Honky Tonk</strong></i><strong>. I know for sure that Doggett was with King from 1951 to 1960 after which he recorded for a slew of labels including Warner Brothers, Columbia, Roulette, ABC-Paramount and Sue. And while Doggett was best known as an organist, this particular recording follows a norm set by </strong><i><strong>Honky Tonk</strong></i><strong> in which the lead instruments are the sax and the guitar. What we have here is a rollicking novelty instrumental with a Halloween theme. I believe this might have also been released as </strong><i><strong>That's Enough, Lock 'Em Up</strong></i><strong>, which is how this record ends with all the monsters being rounded up and presumably taken to the pokey. In the interim, you get such wordplay as </strong><i><strong>'Who's there? Your man, Rodan!'</strong></i><strong> and </strong><i><strong>'Frankenstein! Where's the wine!'</strong></i><strong> So don't think too much about it and just join the party where you're likely to have as good a time as any."</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix #8 > Drac The Knife (Gene Moss) > I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) >Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon) </strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_null justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="axWgowaixS4" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/axWgowaixS4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Gene Moss - Drac The Knife</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/18a8150d07c38d5baca76070f3a1749b4ccbafbb/original/gene-moss.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>A professional songwriter in the 50's and 60's, Gene Moss wrote I Want to Bite Your Hand, Drac the Knife, Frankenstein, The New Frankenstein & many other songs. His Dracula parody of "Mack The Knife" is a real hoot!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/d21b7246bdb8b07f066f56630af7035d65c92d25/original/music-pumpkin.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" alt="" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Halloween Mix # 9 > Born Under A Bad Sign (Albert King) > Zombie Zoo (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) > Season Of The Witch (Donovan)</strong></span></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h_kmIsmw2fc" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h_kmIsmw2fc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Donovan - Season Of The Witch</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Huffinton Post site: "Sitting at a party strumming his guitar, the Scottish troubadour Donovan came upon a riff that seemed to hypnotize him. He played it over and over again and was told later he worked on it for seven hours. This riff was to become </strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch</strong></i><strong>, a dark and prophetic song suggesting the new age dawning brings with it darkness. Something about it stuck...</strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch </strong></i><strong>was a departure from the other songs on Donovan’s 1966 album Sunshine Superman, whose titular opener begins, '</strong><i><strong>Sunshine came softly a-through my window today</strong></i><strong>.' But </strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch</strong></i><strong> was oracular in another way. Something dark was coming for Donovan. The same year, Donovan was arrested for possession of cannabis, and while he wasn’t much of a drug user, the British press used him as the poster child to further exploit the middle-class fear that the counterculture was rife with amoral drug fiends. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/290438/7d5452e35a35ee11730a7a21df259ca7dd80f698/original/donovan-1968.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>From the Los Angeles Times in 1968: "Many rock musicians, the fans and the media were looking to Donovan to say something about the world, about the future of things. By this time, audiences were looking for wisdom, and it seemed rock musicians, by virtue of being incarnations of Bacchic energy, must also have spiritual wisdom. There was obvious power in their music, the way it shaped culture, the way the youth had followed it liked a pied piper toward drugs, sex, and other excessive rebellions. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>But Donovan wasn’t having any of it. Donovan grew up among Gaelic mythology and legend, and his music drew from other influences ranging from Bob Dylan to Eastern ragas with which he crafted whimsical and psychedelic pop. </strong><i><strong>Sunshine Superman</strong></i><strong> is a walk through a fantastical landscape of wizards, Arthurian legend, jewels and gemstones, and princesses. But </strong><i><strong>Season of the Witch</strong></i><strong> became an anthem, and in an interview decades later, Donovan described the song as '</strong><i><strong>ritualistic'</strong></i><strong>. Donovan eagerly jumped into the portal the 1960's had opened into Wonderland. There he had permission to explore musically the idea that divinity was not predisposed to exist only in heaven, but was part of the very fabric of the world. It expressed itself through myth as well as nature. This is pantheism, where God can be found in every tree and flower, every note of every song, every stoned romp in the bed of a lover. It is also pagan, where the world is animated by spirits, where nature is a book that tells the secret story of the world. Of his iconic song, Donovan said, '</strong><i><strong>Maybe it is the first kind of Celtic-rock thing I was doing, a rediscovery of our roots in Britain, which of course became the British sound</strong></i><strong>.'”</strong></span></p><p><span class="text-big" style="color:#eba707;"><strong>Season of the Witch Trivia: During Led Zeppelin's soundchecks, they often warmed up by playing this. 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<p style="text-align: center;">In the heat of the summer <br>Better call up the plumber <br>And turn on the street pump <br>To cool me off <br>With your newspaper writers <br>And your big crime fighters <br>You still need a drugstore <br>To cure my cough <br>Running wild in the streets <br>We got a gang called Shady <br>And a midnight lady <br>And two transvestites <br>To beat the band <br>You better not touch us <br>You best believe us <br>Your teenage Johnny's <br>Gonna be a man <br>Runnin' wild in the streets <br>Mrs. America <br>Tell me how is your favorite son? <br>Do you really care <br>What he has done? <br>Runnin' wild in the streets</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 1973, Garland Jeffreys released his first album, the self-titled <em>Garland Jeffreys</em>, on Atlantic Records. Around the same time Atlantic also released a single, <em>Wild in the Streets</em>, that was not included on the album. Jeffreys wrote the song after hearing about a pre-teen rape and murder in the Bronx. Dr. John played clavinet and helped arrange the song, with backing from guitarist David Spinozza, drummer Rick Marotta, the Brecker Brothers on horns and David Peel on background vocals. Back in 1973, I bought Garland Jeffreys' <em>Wild in the Streets</em> single after hearing it in a record store in Dayton, Ohio.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 1977, Jeffreys released an excellent album called <em>Ghostwriter</em> and <em>Wild in the Streets</em> was included on that record. Many progressive FM stations began to play <em>Wild in the Streets</em>. Having been such a big fan of the original <em>Wild in the Streets</em> single back in 1973, I was overjoyed to see that such a great song had finally achieved popularity from the listening public.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Whoooooo! it’s that time of the year again folks! The fall season is upon us and that means it’s almost time to celebrate Halloween! Today’s post is about some of my favorite spooky songs that always make an appearance on my annual Halloween playlist. Over the years, I’ve often been surprised at exactly how many cool spooky tunes are in existence.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The origins of Halloween can be found in Sangaubm a Celtic festival that celebrated the harvest season in Gaelic culture. The Gaels believed that on October 31 (a date on which we now celebrate Halloween) the distance between the living and the deceased dissolved. At these early Sangaubm festivals, masks and costumes came into use as a way to mimic or placate evil spirits. As time rolled on, the Sangaubm festival evolved into a celebration of All Hallows Eve. Flash forward to the present day and there are many elements that define Halloween; costumes, candy, pumpkins and most of all, cool creepy tunes!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="font-size: 1em;">"What musical techniques can make a song sound spooky? There are some common musical characteristics of Halloween songs from exploring the genre’s history. But I still wasn’t satisfied— I hadn’t yet found the secret sauce that could make a song sound like Halloween. In search of answers, I identified three potential musical qualities that could make a song sound Halloween-y. Over the years, certain musical instruments have gained a spooky reputation. A large reason for associations of certain instruments with scary themes comes from film soundtracks. Many 20th century horror films feature large string arrangements, including the iconic 1960’s horror flick, Psycho. The strings from Psycho are an example of the importance of timbre in creating a spooky atmosphere. Timbre describes the quality of a sound. The notes that the violins are playing in the Psycho shower scene aren’t all that important; what matters is that they are played with a shrill, grating timbre. The timbre of those stabbed violin notes is what makes describes the piece as '<em>five minutes of pure aggression</em>.' A key quality of many Halloween songs is a feeling of suspense. The sensation that there is someone behind your shoulder, that the monster you are hiding from can hear your stifled breathing." (blog.thecurent.org)</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"What was once scary, can seem, in retrospect, to be cliché or campy. When first popularized in film soundtracks in the 1970’s and 1980's, the sounds of an instrument called the Theremin awed audiences with its extraterrestrial sound. Now, the electronic instrument has become a cliché for setting a supernatural or unsettling mood. Maybe it is impossible to have a concrete and well-defined genre of Halloween songs, because as sounds age, they lose their fright-factor. If the unknown frightens us while the familiar makes us nostalgic or at ease, then music aiming to frighten us has to be constantly evolving to capture our attention.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Even if Halloween is centered around themes of fright, folklore, and evil spirits, the concept of fear can be hard to pin down. What we perceive as scary is largely dependent on our culture. During the Renaissance, the Church told audiences to fear unstable intervals. In the 1960’s Psycho frightened its listeners with the shrill stabs of violins. What was once scary, can in retrospect seem cliché or campy. When first popularized in film soundtracks in the 1970’s and 1980's, the sounds of the theremin awed audiences with its extraterrestrial sound. Now, the electronic instrument has become a cliché for setting a supernatural or unsettling mood. Maybe it is impossible to have a concrete and well-defined genre of Halloween songs, because as sounds age, they lose their fright-factor. If the unknown frightens us while the familiar makes us nostalgic or at ease, then music aiming to frighten us has to be constantly evolving to capture our attention." (scarymusic.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Haunted House Blues (Bessie Smith, 1924)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Dead Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton, 1926)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Mr. Ghost Goes To Town (Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang, 1936)</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The Halloween Song (Bing Crosby, Victor Moore & Boris Karloff, 1947)</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">By the time the 1950’s rolled around, novelty Halloween songs were the order of the day. From the METV site: “Halloween novelty songs were once so ubiquitous that they weren't really novelty — they were simply pop music. The high point was arguably 1958, a year steeped in horror. Movie marquees were lit with titles like The Fly, The Blob and It! The Terror Beyond Space. Four years earlier, the Comics Code Authority had been created to curb the bloody violence in comic books, though titles like House of Mystery and House of Secrets were still perhaps more popular than superheroes. Alfred Hitchcock was spinning dark tales on black & white television. Naturally, the world of music would follow suit. This love of B-movie monsters and graveyard rock carried through into the early '60s, as Americans tuned in to The Addams Family in their living rooms. In short, there was no better time to be a trick-or-treater.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">One particular aspect of the fifties novelty Halloween songs I grew up with was the prevalence of many of these songs arose from the surf music scene. I have yet to find any concrete info on why this came to pass and to this day, the surf music genre is still heavily connected to Halloween music. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">These days, my favorite Halloween songs are a mix of a wide variety of genres; some basic rock, some surf-arama toonage, some cocktail lounge ditties and some ridiculous sounding tunes that just seem to capture that good old Halloween vibe. </span>Without further adieu, here's my 2021 Halloween Playlist!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Track 1: Diablito - The Jungle</strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This high energy Halloween nugget is often ranked as being part of the exotica genre but I find it's full of that Halloween goodness. From the <em>Something For The Weekend blog</em>: "Released as a standalone single in October 1962, <em>The Jungle</em> by Diablito remains one of the period’s rather more astounding examples of up-tempo lounge exotica. A product of the long-since defunct Parkway Records, the single became an oddity of the genre, disappearing quickly. Penned by Cameo/Parkway regulars Dave Appell (a.k.a. Dave Leon) and Kalman Cohen (a.k.a. Kal Mann and occasionally Jon Sheldon), “The Jungle” rips aloud with vocals shorn by maniacal laughter and crazed howling, while both percussion and bass dance with menace and doom-laden poise. On top of that, the song’s guitar line borrows much from <em>In the Hall of the Mountain King</em> from <em>Peer Gynt, Op.23</em> by Edvard Grieg, adding further depth to an already manic performance. The Diablito recording was one of a few once-off productions for Appell and Cohen in a period that openly embraced the burgeoning rockabilly scene, before moving toward exotica, lounge and eventually jazz."</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 2: The Swanks - Ghost Train</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Next up in this parade of spooky tunes is <em>Ghost Train</em> by The Swanks! From the Chuck DePrima blog: "Ghost Train was composed by The Swanks (Jack Revelle, lead guitar (age 17), Otha Libby (age 19) rhythm guitar and Bobby Jones (age 18) drums) in 1964 at Riposo Studios in Syracuse, New York. They had been rehearsing at the Jones’ family home in Brewerton, NY on a Saturday morning in preparation for a recording session at Riposo that afternoon. They were going to be recording a vocal song called My College Cry (which is nothing to write home about). About an hour and a half before they were scheduled to leave for Syracuse, they realized they had no material for the flip side of the 45 rpm record they would be recording. They began to jam and trade ideas back and forth, and the result of their effort over the span of that hour and a half, and three takes at Riposo Studios, was Ghost Train. Ghost Train was originally released on Charm Records but has since been reissued as a bootlegged on at least two dozen 1960’s instrumental compilations. It has also been used on the soundtrack of a French film, “Violent Days” & the original Frankenstein movie. Original copies of the song on the Charm label are crazy rare and can command almost $2,000 on e-bay. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">These days Otha Libby is a retired police officer and college professor living in Seattle, Washington. Jack Revelle played professionally for over 20 years and retired from an automobile sales career and lives north of Syracuse, NY. During a recent interview Otha Libby said: 'It is the recording The Swanks did at Riposo Studios in Syracuse in 1964. It has been knocking around for 45 years and some kid in (I think) South America put it up as the sound track behind this piece of footage from the original Frankenstein’s Monster movie. There is an interesting story behind how this song came to exist, which I won’t bore you with unless you are interested. It has appeared on numerous compilations of American instrumental rock and was even used in the sound track of a French film.'"</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 3: The Swingin' Neckbreakers - No Costume, No Candy</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Another scary gem is <em>No Costume No Candy</em> by the (gasp!) Swinging Neckbreakers. From the All Music site: "Brought on together by brothers Tom and John Jorgensen in 1992, the vintage rock of The Swingin' Neckbreakers debuted in their hometown of Trenton, New Jersey with Don Snook on guitar. Along with Tom taking on the bass and vocal duties while John handling the drums, the three piece comfortably set themselves amongst the trash rock company of Southern Culture On The Skids, The Lyres, Flat Duo Jets and The Wooglers. Immediately signing to Telstar Records, the Neckbreakers debuted with the single Diggin' A Grave, followed by their first album Live For Buzz in 1993. Following a European tour and a number of singles that were released on various labels throughout 1994, The Neckbreakers' second album Shake Break came out the next year on Telstar. After Don Snook's departure from the band in 1996, Jeffery Lee Jefferson eventually filled in on guitar and debuted on the 1997 album Kick Your Ass. Return of Rock and Live Live Live were released in 2000."</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 4: Mr. Baseman & The Symbols: Do The Zombie</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">This bizarre Halloween nugget always seems to pop up on almost every Halloween compilation I've come across over the years. I contacted various record collectors and no one seems to know anything about the group and who produced the song. Hmmm....another Halloween mystery I guess!</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 5: Plan 9 From Outer Space Movie Trailer</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Plan 9 from Outer Space</em> is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced, written, directed, and edited by the one and only whacko Ed Wood. The film was shot in November of 1956, and had a theatrical preview screening on March 15, 1957 at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles (the onscreen title at this time read <em>Grave Robbers from Outer Space</em>). It later went into general release on July 22, 1959 in Texas and several other southern states re-titled <em>Plan 9 from Outer Space</em>, before being sold to television in 1961.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity from 1961 until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the 'worst film ever made' in their book The Golden Turkey Awards. Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film Ever. It has since been retrospectively described as 'the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema' and has gained a large cult following." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 6: The Three D's: Graveyard Cha Cha</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"In the early fifties in high school together in Boston, Arty Doyle and Johnny Dalton both had sung in the choir at church. They decided to form a duo and while performing at a variety show, they met Dean Paley who sang and played guitar. They really hit it off and just started harmonizing together. A friend who was there listening said, “You should call yourselves The Three D’s as you all have D’s in your name,” and that’s how they came to be. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Three D's released numerous records from 1956 through 1959, when they started their own record label Square Records. In 1959 they released a Halloween sng they called <em>Graveyard Cha Cha </em>Note that this song was written and recorded three years before <em>Monster Mash </em>which many people since have compared it to. <em>Graveyard Cha Cha</em> was never played on the radio and no one ever noticed it until 2013 when someone put it up on YouTube and in the 7 years since, it has garnered over one million views." (www.mmone.org)</span><br> </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">T<strong><span class="font_regular">rack 7: </span></strong> Nat Gonella & His Georgians<strong><span class="font_regular">: Skeletons In The Closet</span></strong>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Nathaniel Charles Gonella was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist, and mellophonist who founded the big band The Georgians, during the British dance band era. Gonella's reputation grew when he formed The Georgians in 1935. The band took its name from a popular version of the song "Georgia on My Mind" that he recorded for Lew Stone in 1932 and which became the trumpeter's signature tune. The Georgians began as a band within Stone's shows before setting up as an independent unit. He became a headline act on the variety circuit before the outbreak of World War II.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 8: Hayride To Hell: Rockin' Coffin Bar</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Get ready to Rock! This Aussie combo turns up the heat!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 9: Bo Diddley: Bo Meets The Monster</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Ellas Otha Bates died on June 2, 2008, and with him died a legend. The legend was mostly of his own making, of course, as Bates renamed himself Bo Diddley sometime back around 1951 and began singing self-composed odes about his own amazingness. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Long before rap music, with its stylized braggadocio, Bo Diddley was standing before the world and proclaiming his legend, most famously in the song <em>Who Do You Love</em>, in which he declared, 'I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire / I got a cobra snake for a necktie.' Bo Diddley was a heavyset, myopic man with hangdog features and, at the start of his career, a tendency to wear a checkered jacket and nerdy bow tie, but he played a unique, square guitar with a propulsive rhythm that has come to be associated with his name (and is one of the defining sounds of rock and roll), and when he told you that his was a figure of legend, man, you believed it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Bo Meets the Monster</em> was clearly inspired by the success of Sheb Wooley’s 1958 hit <em>Flying Purple People Eater</em> — the monsters voices are identical in both songs, created by speeding up the recording. When Bo Diddley recorded his version, he initially titled it Purple People, and the monster in Bo’s song is actually referred to as a <em>Purple People Eater</em>. The early days of rock and roll were filled with these sorts of answer songs, in which characters from a hit song appeared in other songs by other artists, and Bo Diddley, whose famous riff had been stolen a thousand times, probably had more right to borrow from another songwriter as anyone. It’s hard to imagine such a thing happening nowadays, though, without record company lawyers calling foul and instantly retiring to a back room with a hundred lawyers to prepare a lawsuit. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">And that’s a shame, because <em>Bo Meets the Monster</em> is <em>Purple People Eater</em> as seen through Bo Diddley’s huge lenses, and the results are hysterical. Sheb Woolley’s sees the monster and reacts with abject terror, but Bo responds in the manner a legend should — he leaps into a private airplane and takes off flying after it. It ends badly for Bo, as, when there is a monster loose, you shouldn’t leave your girlfriend alone in a house, even one made of rattlesnake hide. But nonetheless, the song leaves us with an excellent image, and it is the way I like to imagine Bo Diddley going. He might actually have died in bed in his hometown of Archer, Fla., but I like to image Bo Diddley leaping out of bed, grabbing his square metal guitar, tossing his black cowboy hat on, and running to his airplane to take to the skies after a rock and roll monster. " (www.minnpost.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 10: Archie Bleyer: The Rockin' Ghost</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Archie Bleyer was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. His father was a well-known trumpet player who had played with the Metropolitan Opera. The younger Bleyer began playing the piano when he was only seven years old. In 1927, he attended Columbia College, intending to become an electrical engineer, but as a sophomore switched to a music major. Without graduating, he left to become an arranger. In the early 1930s, Bleyer wrote a number of songs that were recorded; all 'hot' novelty numbers. In 1956, Bleyer wrote his most popular novelty number, <em>The Rockin' Ghost</em>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 11: The Cramps: Goo Goo</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">One of the greatest combos that celebrated the Halloween vibe were The Cramps. "The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass guitarist Poison Ivy comprising the only ever-present members. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Balam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976. They were part of the early CBGB punk rock movement that had emerged in New York. The Cramps were one of the first punk bands, and also widely recognized as one of the prime innovators of psychobilly.' (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 12: The 5 Jones Boys: Mr. Ghost Goes To Town</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Five Jones Boys, an Illinois group that relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s, were part of a long tradition of African-American tight harmony vocal groups that emerged from gospel. Using simple percussion and a careful blending of voices, African American a cappella vocalists were able to duplicate the sounds of a larger band — even impersonating musical instruments (“Mr. Ghost Goes to Town” contains several convincing horn solos). Bands such as the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers were able to find national audiences using such techniques, but none ever duplicated the strangeness of this number. “Mr. Ghost” has an infectious melody based around a deceptively simple bass line, over which the Jones Boys occasionally let out unearthly howls. The lyrics cheerfully tell of a dapper specter’s careful preparation for a night of “stepping.” “He’ll shake his bones to hot saxophones,” the Five Jones Boys inform us, calling to mind Ub Iwerks famous 1929 cartoon “The Skeleton Dance,” in which row after row of corpses pull themselves out of their graves to shimmy to a jazz band. The Jones Boys end the song with a little capper to let listeners know how entertaining this all must be to their titular spook: The lead singer launches into peals of sinister, hysterical laughter." (The Dr. Mysterian blog)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 13: Johnny Otis: Casting My Spell On You</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Johnny Otis was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario...whew! Otis was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll and discovered various artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right, including Little Esther Phillips, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard, and The Robins (later to change their name to The Coasters), among many others. Otis was often called the <em>Godfather of Rhythm and Blues</em>.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 14: Delta Rhythm Boys: Dry Bones</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"With their exciting Jubilee-style harmonizing, the Delta Rhythm Boys helped to bridge the R&B vocal groups of the 1930s and '40s and the doo wop groups of the 1950s. While they capped their early success with sophisticated renditions of traditional tunes, "Dry Bones" and Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," in 1941, they were still singing as the rock era became dominant in the mid-'50s. They appeared on radio shows, including Amos and Andy and the Joan Davis Show, Broadway, in such shows as Sing Out the News and Hot Mikado, and numerous films, including Bing Crosby and Rita Hayworth's first movie, You'll Never Get Rich, in 1941, and Rock and Roll Revue and Rhythm and Blues Revue in 1955. The lengthy list of film shorts in which they appeared include Big Band Parade, Banquet of Melody, Choo Choo Swing, Crazy House, Easy to Look At, Follow the Boys, and Harlem Rock and Roll </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Delta Rhythm Boys were extremely flexible. In addition to recording on their own, with piano accompaniment, the quintet provided background vocals for Charlie Barnet, Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ruth Brown. </span>Attracting a large following in Europe and Scandinavia in the early '50s, the Delta Rhythm Boys moved to Europe permanently in 1956." (All Music site)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 15: The Nu-Trends: Spooksville</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, I couldn't track down any info on this fabulous combo. Hmmm...perhaps they were the ones who created a new musical genre known as Spooky Doo Wop!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Track 16: Connoisseurs: Count Macabre</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Ah, here's a lively track called Connoisseurs! Apparently, this tune is a celebration of the late night TV horror movie host Count Macabre in the 1960's on WBRZ-TV. The Count was always joined on show by a skull named Erik!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Track 17: Ramones: Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">"<em>Howling At The Moon</em> was a track from the Ramones 8th album, <em>Too Tough To Die</em>. With Tommy Ramone/Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers, the album was, to some degree, the Ramones' response to America's burgeoning hard-core punk scene, and did much to restore the band's musical credibility. Too Tough to Die reclaimed the Ramone's original values of energy, catchiness, and brevity without resorting to retro pandering." (wikipedia)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"It's hard to explain why <em>Howling At The Moon</em> is such a special track on the Too Tough To Die album. Musically, it’s one of those <em>perfect pop songs</em>. Elements just come together perfectly. It’s a bit old-fashioned, with a simple structure and a non-lexical chorus are (like <em>Who Put the Bomp</em> and <em>Wooly Bully</em>, in this case the <em>sha-la-la</em>, as suggested in the title) and this is right in Joey’s wheelhouse. He’s so comfortable with the transition from verse to chorus, with the <em>ah-ah-ah-ah-ah</em> leading into the <em>sha-la-la-la</em>, it’s like he was born to sing this song. But it’s not just the musically breezy nature of this song I adore so much, as you might expect, the lyrics and mood of <em>Howling At The Moon </em>are so satisfying to me, just hearing the twinkly synth sound in the introduction is like a shot of adrenaline." (www.electricgrandmother.com)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_regular">Track 18: Johnny Pierre: Halloween Night</span></strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Feat is in the wind tonight, ghosts are in the trees tonight </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Everywhere you go, it’s Halloween </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Witches in the wind tonight, ghouls are hiding out of sight </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Everywhere you go, it’s Halloween </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Carve the pumpkin, slice and dice </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Walking home is such a fright </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Everywhere you go, it’s Halloween </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It’s Halloween!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bruce Hornsby</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Sneaking Up On Boo Radley</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Crawl up the back steps <br>Up to the back door <br>Reach up in the dark <br>Turn the handle a little more <br>Open up real slow <br>So the door won't creak <br>Look ahead, look behind <br>Don't shuffle your feet </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hey - They say he's crazy, they say he's gone <br>We play our tricks, make up funny songs <br>Sneaking around, feeling badly <br>Sneaking up on Boo Radley </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hear the caterpillar crawl <br>Hear the bedbugs bite <br>Hear the crickets scream <br>All the sounds of the night <br>Hear the sound of footprints <br>On the ground I think I see <br>Don't step on the lightning bugs <br>Watch the crack in your knees </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They say he's crazy, they say he's gone <br>We play our tricks, make up funny songs <br>Sneaking around, feeling badly <br>Sneaking up on Boo Radley </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They say he's funny, got a loose screw <br>Stay away, he's a threat to you <br>Give him a break, what do we know <br>Might turn out we would like him so <br>We fear what we just don't know </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I heard he served a long time ago <br>Saw some things we'll never know <br>We laugh and sneak around in the night <br>Fun and games but I know it's not right </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Both scared and fascinated <br>Ignorant we castigate him <br>Both scared and fascinated <br>Ignorant we flagellate him </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They say he's crazy, they say he's gone <br>We play our tricks, make up funny songs <br>Down the street, walking sadly <br>My little sister, loves him madly <br>I'm feeling like the Man From Gladly <br>Sneaking up on Boo Radley <br>Sneaking up on Boo Radley</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular"><em>Sneaking Up On Boo Radley</em> is a track on Bruce Hornsby's <em>Spirit Trail</em> album. The song was obviously inspired by Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>. One of the things I like the most about this particular track is that Hornsby employs some tasty imagery featuring the kids creeping around the Radley house, trying to catch a brief glimpse of the mysterious Boo Radley.</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Yardbirds</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Hot House Of Omagarashid</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Back in 1966, I picked up a cool Yardbirds album called <em>Roger The Engineer</em> at a record store while I was visiting Swinging London. My favorite track on this slab of vinyl was a bizarre middle eastern work out called <em>Hot House Of Omagarashid</em>. I've always found that this track has a distinctive hypnotic vibe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"By 1966, the Yardbirds had the respect of every young guitar-slinger in London due to their main axeman, Jeff Beck. Having replaced the more puritanical Eric Clapton in 1965, Beck had to both contend with an audience who missed the bluesman’s authentic tones and also management who couldn’t decide whether the band would be an out and out pop combo or retain their earlier R’n’B credibility. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Luckily for Beck, the nascent strains of psychedelia were just around the corner, fitting nicely with his disregard for anything approaching the straight playing of six strings. Even in his days before the Yardbirds with bands like the Tridents, Beck had demonstrated a stinging attack and ability to coax weird sounds from his guitar. On the Roger the Engineer album, the band approached something like the only proper studio album of this classic mid-period line-up. The well-oiled rhythm section were perfectly suited to support some of Beck’s wildest sounds to date. From The gloomy chant of <em>Hot House of Omagarashid</em> to the cod-Arabian whirlings of <em>Over Under Sideways Down</em> these are songs that sit midway between Eel Pie Island and the UFO club." (www.bbc.co.uk)</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980/1585924939"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">APPLE MUSIC</span></a></span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://freelancevandals1.bandcamp.com/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980?from=fanpub_fnb"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">BANDCAMP</span></span></a></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2045680/live-the-pastime-pub-1980"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h3>
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<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67550342021-10-07T03:36:55-04:002021-10-07T10:39:25-04:00This Week's Rock & Roll Cartoon<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/2eaff3fc7ca46d4af8782cc04192011ff66e13bd/original/dont-tell-lou.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://freelancevandals1.bandcamp.com/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980?from=fanpub_fnb"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">BANDCAMP</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980/1585924939"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPLE MUSIC</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="SPOTIFY" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qhy17Z6u9Csvt93uC5YJG"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">SPOTIFY</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2045680/live-the-pastime-pub-1980"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5f20c2461ac51e6db2f31129d7e14f6c08414e9b/original/lindey-buckingham.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Lindsey Buckingham</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't Look Down</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Diamonds in the sunset, now your time has come <br>Pretty yellow bird fly away into the sun </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't look down <br>Do not look down </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Spread your broken wings and learn how to fly <br>Take the diamonds from the sun, wipe the tear from your eye </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't look down <br>Do not look down </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">When the candles burn down worlds turn to stone <br>That's when you've got to fly, fly away home </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Don't look down <br>Do not look down <br>Get out of town <br>Follow the sound</span></h3>
<p> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://freelancevandals1.bandcamp.com/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980?from=fanpub_fnb"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">BANDCAMP</span></a></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980/1585924939"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPLE MUSIC</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="SPOTIFY" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qhy17Z6u9Csvt93uC5YJG"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">SPOTIFY</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2045680/live-the-pastime-pub-1980"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h3>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/mailing-list-freelance-vandals"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/6ce49e53817184b82afd36e8f92b7016238f2448/original/freelance-vandals-mailing-list.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></span></span></p>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67397292021-10-04T06:25:07-04:002021-10-04T06:25:07-04:00This Week's Rock & Roll Quote!<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/f0073ed485c74374d1113c8808ee8abce745af0e/original/einstein-stones-rock-roll-quote.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://freelancevandals1.bandcamp.com/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980?from=fanpub_fnb"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Bandcamp</span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><a contents="Apple Music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980/1585924939"><span style="color:#f1c40f;">Apple Music</span></a></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Spotify" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qhy17Z6u9Csvt93uC5YJG"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Spotify</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Mind Smoke Records Album Page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/album/2045680/live-the-pastime-pub-1980"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Mind Smoke Records Album Page</span></span></a></h3>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="BLOG" data-link-type="page" href="/blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67539142021-09-30T03:21:09-04:002021-09-30T08:34:21-04:00This Week's Rock & Roll Cartoon<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/60e1acfd8d7032b954606f5ebcc83e8d18b82dc0/original/this-weeks-rock-roll-cartoon-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/85359b516f25883c36bef98847f66c800d4e1575/original/1964-2014.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/56feb097d788329d06ba470764dc8bcd18628c1f/original/mind-smoke-records-2021-website-banner.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/0b154a14024ddea7d8816232617dac7a56b3f19a/original/live-the-pastime-pub-1980.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">OUT NOW!</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="BANDCAMP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://freelancevandals1.bandcamp.com/releases"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">BANDCAMP</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="APPLE MUSIC" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-the-pastime-pub-1980/1585924939"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">APPLE MUSIC</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="SPOTIFY" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qhy17Z6u9Csvt93uC5YJG"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">SPOTIFY</span></span></a></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="MIND SMOKE RECORDS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://msmokemusic.com/albums"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">MIND SMOKE RECORDS</span></span></a></h3>
<p> </p>
<hr><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Return To All Blog Posts" data-link-label="Mailing List Rock & Roll is a State of Mind Blog" data-link-type="page" href="/mailing-list-rock-roll-is-a-state-of-mind-blog"><span style="color:#f1c40f;"><span class="font_regular">Return To All Blog Posts</span></span></a></h3>Mind Smoke Recordstag:msmokemusic.com,2005:Post/67537882021-09-29T04:56:39-04:002021-09-29T05:11:31-04:00Lost Music: Love Love Love (Roxy)<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/5d696d572ef220286ae504fe5c18404d2278a96e/original/lost-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Remembering Forgotten Songs!</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/290438/3e4495cd8742acbddf0520aa12cb07e507db7009/original/roxy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Roxy - Love Love Love</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular">A Pure Pop Classic!</span></em></h3>
<p> </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Bob Segarini</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Roxy might be best known as the group from which a more widely known Elektra band emerged, as principal singer-songwriter Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop went on to found the Wackers, who issued three LPs for the label in the early 1970s. While the Wackers' albums (also reissued on CD by Collectors' Choice Music) often went in a Beatlesque pop direction, the earlier Roxy put a greater accent on rootsy if diverse rock of both the R&B- and country-influenced variety. Seeds of the Wackers, however, could be heard in Roxy's general back-to-basics approach at a time when much rock music was getting heavier, though Roxy never did get wide recognition before breaking up.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">The Roxy album, however, was not a big seller, despite a Rolling Stone review by the young Lester Bangs that hailed the band as '<em>a ripsnortingly tight outfit from Los Angeles. Live they are enormously exciting, running through Fifties standards and their own originals with unflagging energy and with a sound that for all its fast rippling instrumental tradeoffs is always absolutely clear</em>.' Bangs saved special praise for the opening track, "a classic blast called 'Love Love Love,' a brilliant thundering anthem in the great L.A. tradition of the Byrds, Love, and Clear Light's 'Black Roses.' It's all over too soon at 1:59 and leaves us begging for more." 'Love Love Love' was chosen as the first single off the album, and Segarini fondly recalls how it '<em>was all over the radio in L.A. for at least eight weeks or so. That was exciting, driving down Sunset Boulevard hearing one of our tunes back to back with somebody really big</em>.'" (Richie Unterburger)</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">A.J. Croce</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Hung Up (On You)</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"A.J. Croce has performed as an opening act for Carlos Santana; Rod Stewart; Aretha Franklin; Dr. John; Lyle Lovett; James Brown; B.B. King; Dave Matthews; Earth, Wind and Fire; and Ray Charles. Croce has sat in with many notable artists live, including Willie Nelson, Ben Harper, Ry Cooder, the Neville Brothers, Waylon Jennings, and David Hidalgo (Los Lobos). He has also performed on national television, on shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Today Show, Good Morning America, MTV, CNN, and Austin City Limits." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="font_regular">This wild & loose proto-punk band always conjures up an atmosphere of Chuck Berry meets The Ramones with a side order of Blonde on Blond Bob Dylan!</span></strong></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">One of These Days: Adrian Belew</span></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">One Of Those Days</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">"I guess", God said, <br>"It's time to let the little people have <br>The salad days <br>Somebody cut the rain, <br>Let there be lawn chairs in the shade <br>For everyone <br>Be sure to give it the works, <br>The barbecues and the fireworks <br>And make certain the night is fair <br>For my lovers in pairs <br>I'll be behind the sun, <br>Now let these things be done, uh huh, <br>It's one of those days" </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">We had iced-up beer in the park with the picnic gear <br>Uh huh, the salad days <br>Between the hoots and shouts <br>We were knockin' a volleyball around <br>Every which way <br>Tan dads without no shirts, <br>Young things tucked under skirts, <br>A baby girl whose face is smirched with some dessert, <br>Bad boys hurtin' their bikes <br>Shootin' for the world-record psyche <br>One of those days </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Now sometime later on <br>God peeked from behind the sun, he said, <br>"Looks like it's all worked out and I can rest a while" <br>God had His Great Snooze <br>And through the trees a sleepy breeze blew <br>It was one of those days</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">"Adrian Belew is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, Belew is noted for his unusual, impressionistic approach to guitar playing, which, rather than relying on standard instrumental tones, often resembles sound effects or noises made by animals and machines. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_regular">Perhaps best known for his long career as co-guitarist for the progressive rock group King Crimson from 1981 to 2009, Belew is widely recognized as an <em>incredibly versatile player</em> who has released nearly twenty solo albums for Island Records and Atlantic Records, blending or alternating Beatles-inspired pop-rock with more experimental fare. Belew is a member of the intermittently-active pop band the Bears, and fronted his own band GaGa in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has worked extensively as a session and touring musician, including periods with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, and Nine Inch Nails, as well as contributing to hit singles by Paul Simon, Tom Tom Club, and others." (Wikipedia)</span></p>
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