It was the rain He may have been schduled to go on earlier, he may have been all strung out @LI Mark, Lola was joking, a pun on words. Your right about the lyric. Purple Haze was about smoking LSD, some people know it as angel dust.
Were the '60's in the '60's ?
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The_Ghostess_Lola wrote:
hmmm...I wonder how he ended up playing Sunday morning....not Friday or Saturday night....probably an interesting story behind it....they didn't explain that in the documentary....
He was the headline act, so his manager wanted him to go last no matter what time, plus weather and technical issues.
@Ron> please don't tell me you think Zepplin was noise and Nick Mason was drummer for Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd, thank you, I'm soo embarassed. Well I was young then, I didn't appreciate Zeppelin, till after I got into jazz. The musical lines were blured just as much as the cultural ones. In fact the 60's was pretty much improv. The people who sang, "All You Need Is Love" found out in the 70's that it ain't that SIMPLE. Another excellent group was, Crosby,Stills,Nash,&Young. Let's not forget SANTANA.
True all you need is chess
RJC
MC5; remember them? GFR was always a favorite, but there was Cactus, too, and they kicked everybody's butt; how about Blue Cheer? Rare Earth? Canned Heat? Budgie? And nobody has mentioned the Queen of them all; Janis! But for guitarists, Johnny Winter was it! Still Alive and Well is still my theme song. BTW, JW taught JH how to play slide--just thought I'd mention it.
Stop mentioning; your making me cry. In my 20's, I had 6000 albums. I had to butcher my collection as the years went by. A lot of the groups you mentioned didn't last, but I agree, they were all excellent. Booker T, and the MG's. The drummer for Cactus, was the same drummer for Vanilla Fudge. Janis had an excellent back up band--Big Brother & The Holding Co. The Doors, Jefferson Airplane. We forgot to mention the tightest brass section that created the bar--TOWER OF POWER. But to be truthful, they came about in the early 70's, no doubt honeing their craft in the late 60's. Excuse me, I have to stop crying. Wait!, BS&T, CHICAGO. God, I had 12 of their albums.
Here's one for Trysts; We had a local group, (western Mass), called "Clean Living". They had a tune called, "In Heaven There Ain't No BEER", that's why we drink it here. In the 70's I got into Big Band. I still have those albums thank god.
RJC
The drummer of Cactus is Carmine Appice, who also drummed for VF, and the bassist (Tim Bogert) was the same for both bands. The guitarist (Jim McCarty) came from Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. And I'll leave with just a couple more: Traffic, Hot Tuna, and Renaissance. I feel your tears, bro.
TRAFFIC; how did I forget that. "The Low Spark Of High Healed Boys". How about STEPPINWOLF. I bought a boxed collection of the last days of Fillmore West with Bill Graham. "White Bird", by It's A Beautiful Day. God my mind is racing. My albums are not at my apartment. The're down at my drum studio, about 5 mins away. Thank You, I'm gonna go down and appreciate them. I'll get back to you tonight.
RJC
Now, I'm going to hurt you: Mountain, Taunta (Sammy's Tune)/Nantuckett Sleighride, Theme For An Imaginary Western. I show you no mercy.
PS--my favorite Steppenwolf was Monster/Suicide/America. It still stands the test of time; it's just as relevant now as then.
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RJC
Now, I'm going to hurt you: Mountain, Taunta (Sammy's Tune)/Nantuckett Sleighride, Theme For An Imaginary Western. I show you no mercy.
PS--my favorite Steppenwolf was Monster/Suicide/America. It still stands the test of time; it's just as relevant now as then.
lest we forget the one-time wonder, Blind Faith
Need we mention the Velvet Underground or the Mothers of Invention? How about one-hit wonders like the Crazy World of Arthur Brown? Blues Image? Strawberry Alarm Clock? Bubblepuppy? Marmalade? ? and the Mysterians?
Rory Gallagher, Sam Cooke, Robin Trower, Savoy Brown, Joe South, Arlo Gutherie, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, Country Joe and the Fish.
Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Deep purple, Moody Blues, Status Quo....
All these have the same thing in common, I saw them live----- in the 90's!
Kennedy's election and his escalation of military support for South Vietnam (1960), large scale demonstrations against the Vietnam war (starting in England and Australia in 1963), people's especially young people's distaste for the cold war antics of politicians (building up from 1945 onwards) these were the beginings of the 60s. Popular music had a certain amount to do with it (but nor really so very much) and took a while to catch up.
Popular music was the voice of the 60's.
is is the dawning of the age of Aquarius :)
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To understand it all, I almost feel like I have to categorize it....music....war....politics....assassinations....race riots....sexual liberties....technology....so many things going on all at once....like a perfect convergence....totally nuts !....
I wish you people would talk quietely. I'm listening to all these groups. I hope your happy with your self Dashkee. I went out and spent my pay check on music. Now my kids won't eat this week and its all your fault. Very few people understood Frank Zappa. I was just talking to one of the mods about Ginger Baker. How many people played air guitar to, "Crossroads"?, CREAM, Genisis, King Crimson, and much later Spyro Gyra, Steely Dan. I listened to a lot of John Denver in the mid-70's. Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstad
hmmm...I wonder how he ended up playing Sunday morning....not Friday or Saturday night....probably an interesting story behind it....they didn't explain that in the documentary....