You have to see the documentary "Beware of Mr. Baker." You'll love it. And just about everything I mentioned is on youtube; no need to go hungry while feed your soul; treat your children well, I've heard some say. And while Cream is one of my all-time favorites, I'm going for the more obscure--you know, like the Chambers Brothers, Richie Havens, Electric Prunes, Trapeze, Atomic Rooster--and not ELP, or Santana, or Deep Purple. I'm not much of a John Denver fan, but I saw Annie Haslam and Renaissance in 1976 and it changed my life; she is the most under-rated vocalist ever. The voice of an angel.
Were the '60's in the '60's ?
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There was a common theme Lola. It was youth challenging their elders and the elders finding that what youth said was just unarguably right. The Vietnam war was a foul absurdity, stockpiling weapons that can destroy the world is mad, making love is far better than making war, a rifle is better employed as a flower pot than as a weapon. And the older generations acknowledged these truths. Sadly, this did not prevent them continuing as before.
As, extraordinarily, we of the 60s have done in our turn.
You are right that the sexual revolution was a factor. So the pill (first authorised for use in the USA in 1960) can be added to the things that inaugurated the sixties.
Yeah, you gotta develop a taste for John Denver. The Grateful Dead had, "U.S.Blues". Whenever the commander was coming around, somebody would CRANK that. I almost forgot the movie, "TOMMY" with Ann Margaret. Let me write that down, Beware Of Mr.Baker. Wait a minute, is that about Ginger Baker?? I may have seen it.
@Lola; johnnyoudell is right; all this music and culture was just pushing the envelope to piss off middle class parents. In the 70's on TV, you had,"Happy Days". That was sapost to represent America in the late 50's.
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I was caught skipping school that day; I came home at the regular time, and there was my mother and sister sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I said, "What's wrong?" My mother looked at me and said, "Where were you today?" "In school." "All day?" I knew something was wrong, but I had already played my hand. "Sure, all day; why?" "The President got shot today and they didn't say anything in school? They sent everybody home early but you?" Needless to say, I was grounded awhile after that.
RJC
Of course, Beware of Mr. Baker is about Ginger, it's not a horror movie starring the Pillsbury doughboy. And listen to Ave Maria by Annie Haslam on youtube and tell me you don't get goose-bumps.
hahaha that's funny. they sent everybody home but you. I'm with Rooperi on that one. The nuns made us pray. OK, I will, Annie Haslam. Hey speaking of U-tube, there's one with James Brown(godfather of soul), and PAVAROTTI. 2 versions of, "It's A Man's World". yeah, my mouth dropped too.
Jesus Lola's not gonna be happy till she gets 100 post on the 60's. think, think, There's a thread for 50's. Lets meet here tomorrow for a thread on the 70's, then the 80's, 90's, etc. Wait a minute; Ave Maria was my mother's favorite song. Check out Jackie Evancho's version of it, when you can.
tubebender; come on in, the waters fine, but you have to contribute something to The Ghostess Lola about the 60's; anything. Jesus Christ; of ALL the days to pick to skip school, you had to pick Nov 22 1963. Go figure!, what are the odds.
I saw that James Brown/Pavarotti video; I thought Pavarotti must have lost a bet or something, but it was pretty good. Some more memories of the 60s--Bay of Pigs; Gulf of Tonkin; monks on fire; black power at the Olympics; Titletown, USA; The Greatest; Tet; Watts; Jim Brown; Broadway Joe; and, oh yeah, Diana Rigg!
RJC
That wasn't the first or only day I skipped, and it damn sure wasn't my last. It just turned out to be the most memorable.
Diana Rigg--in that skin tight black leather outfit. We had a monk on fire in Amherst, at U.Mass TV in the 60's--"Time Tunnel" Did you mention Bobby Seale? Its not the 60's but there's a new movie about Hector Chavez, I should mention that to Trysts. HEY TRYSTS, got your ears on??
Point of departure; In the late 80's I think, Diana Rigg appeared naked in a Broadway show, and it caused controvercy because of the AIDS epidemic. I didn't see it, but I'm told she still looked good. She would of been in her 50's ?? Wasn't it the late 60's ?? ATTICA,ATTICA. The French Connection was filmed in the early 70's, but I think it was based upon drugs in the 60's.
That was in 1971 in the play Abelard and Heloise. My father had a friend who saw every show. A critic who reviewed the play said she was "built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses."
That's the point of this thread. The 60's didn't start at midnight Jan 1 and end midnight Dec31, 1969. Tooo rigid. The calendar has ebb & flow, like these forums.
True story; I saw JAWS in 1973, I was in high school. I was sick as a dog. Too much blood. In 1975 in the Air Force, I was stoned as hell on Thai-stick, saw the same movie, I was rooting for the shark. The early 70's had the Dirty Harry movies, the Charles Bronson Death Wish, but I think they were based on drugs and violence from the 60's.
SHIT, stand by; the NSA's at my door. YOU DIDN'T HEAR NUTIN.
60's movies? The Great Escape, Easy Rider, I Am Curious (Yellow), Bonnie and Clyde. This is a fastball dished up for trysts.
TV? The Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, My Mother the Car, The Untouchables, The FBI, The Outer Limits, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Laugh-In, Branded, F Troop, I Spy, Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Lost in Space, Star Trek, The Saint, and oh, yeah, The Avengers.
How about those, Dean Martin Roast. Today you just get the clips, but that was real improv, on live TV. Or the Carroll Burnet Show, same thing. The show, Mary Tyler Moore was aired in the 70's, but that's the advice they were giving girls and women, in the 60's; "Your Gonna Make It Girl". On the show she was the last one to shut the lights off, and lose her job. A microcosm of things to come. There's a college that teaches a whole course on that show.
Rooperi; excellent, "Aquarious" @Lola, that is a beautiful song, both versions--studio, and live. How about the accoustic version of Hotel California?? @Czechsmex, thank you. I'll have to get that stamp. @Dashkee; I'm just kidding, I have no kids! @Long Island Mark; didn't Moby Grape originate from your neck of the woods?? OH! Hey; more Broadway for Lola; -- The musical "Hair", "Jesus Christ Superstar".