i think one of the most talented bands of that time (though short lived) was cream. i really like donovan, too. season of the witch is probably my fave from him.
Yeah Al, but I think the Doors bumped it back into Rock. Cream was also Rock too. I think though that Donovan was strickly a Mellow Yellow kind of guy. I liked it but it wasn't Rock.
Saw John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat...sat about two yards away .Never forget that...Jerthro Tull ....too stoned to remember...John Mayall with Surgar Cane Harris , he played electric violin ...first time I ever saw one . or heard..
I was at a friends 60th birthday party on Sat, a well know Lpool music producer. Amongst others, a fella called Alex Evans was singing.
I hated the Beatles, too, until I learned to play some guitar. I freely give them the grudging respect they deserve ;). It's just hard to understand for all of us who were not around to hear radio and the music scene pre-Beatles, and how lame and formulaic it was all becoming.
You had your Elvis sound, and your Sha-na-na sound, and your Diana Ross "do wop" sound, your Frankie Valli sound, blah blah blah...all incredibly narrow and incestuous genres. With each one you knew 5 seconds into the song who did it and generally how it would play out. Now compare Helter Skelter and Yesterday...
Too many Lpool bands and artists to mention since but look out for Alex Evans; a terrific voice.
I liked the band Them with Van Morrison from Ireland. "Gloria" has been one of my favorite tunes since 1964 when it came out. The radio stations where I lived deleted the phrase "She make me feel so good, Lord
She make me feel all right".
However I already heard the original and I thought "Stop it".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY25OOVT3G0
I had the them 45 ..singing Gloria....but I prefer the way Patti Smith sings it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E2MyRsApm0
I had the them 45 ..singing Gloria....but I prefer the way Patti Smith sings it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E2MyRsApm0
I've heard Patti Smiths and The Doors version but I still prefer the Them cut. It was in Rolling Stones top 500 of all time at 211.
I like Donovan also , sort of a dark horse..especially Hurdy Gurdy man...I'm related by marriage to him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOE9lx_TEY
and here we thought you were related to zappa...
Doppelganger.
@ The Whip I never saw that one coming from you.
Now I got Green Grass and High Tides going. God it's been a long time.
Huh, I just realized that maybe the song title has a different meaning from the one I thought when I was a kid.
One of my favorite tunes of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk
Oh yeah, I know you know there is a diffence between green grass and weeds.
Did you live in the South?
Does Southern Cal count? I doubt it.
I like these guys too, "The Marshall Tucker Band". South Carolina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiLUTWcLCgU
The South also had this all time great band Lynyrd Skynyrd with "That Smell"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1x28DHF08
Blue Mountain, from Miss'sippi, with their take on Special Rider Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMTins7W7qw
i think one of the most talented bands of that time (though short lived) was cream. i really like donovan, too. season of the witch is probably my fave from him.