The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or who ? ( or even the Who ? )

there were 13 women

and me, the only man in town...

WHAT ABBIE HOFFMAN LEARNED AT WOODSTOCK

best beware of Chairman Pete

lest his fretboard you will greet

Granola makes you flacid,

Stay away from the brown acid.

If your name is Wavvy Gravvy,

Join the Roast Beef Navy.

Thanks for the recent posts.

Today we have lost a major influence from the early days of Rock. A fellow who seemed to be forever young has passed away --- Dick Clark. In his heyday he had anyone who was anyone on his show. 

Well for the second day in a row we have lost someone in the Rock & Roll field. Levon Helm of " The Band " has passed away after having health problems for some years.

I first heard Levon Helm on the album The Legend of Jesse James; he sang the voice of Jesse James.  It's still my favorite album.

Thanks for the post Javan64. " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down " is probably my favourite song by The Band, but they had a lot of other good tunes out as well.

What a hard choice, in the end Beatles rule!  Then a little Sympathy for the Devil and for dessert, Pinball Wizard all with a nice bottle of Chianti

AUGUST 18, 1969

mud & peace & tunes & mud

how'd they clean up all that crud?

Thanks for the recent posts. With the recent passing of Dick Clark another pioneer of TV came to mind as to the shows that presented music for TV viewers. I had mentioned Ed Sullivan before and I think I should mention him again as he did other things besides bring the Beatles to the USA. For example when Ed had Bo Diddly on his show that was probably Bo's first appearance on national television. Ed had a lot of music on his show and along the way intoduced quite a number of new artists to the TV audience.

Oh Thanks Andy Clifton, because Ed and that little mouse was a very cute segment of his show. Wow that goes way back !  

I have just been watching the following:

Thanks for the info AndyClifton. I've got a set of 2 VHS tapes here that present some of the highlights of Ed's shows however I think that it would take at least a dozen or more tapes for that great program. He had on so many different types of acts, I loved all of the Comedians for example. Also I enjoyed the " plate spinners " as well, it is not easy to keep those darn things spinning  lol.   

He had this woman balancing a plate of wineglasses on her head in one...you'd have to see it.  

Oh I believe it. He had every type of act that one could imagine on his show. Since he was based in New York he could also bring on people from Broadway shows that were still in their theater runs as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUuGCl733S8

Jim Morrison went ahead and sang it the way it was written inspite of Ed.

And Jim got the boot (guess maybe he should've spent "some time" together with Ed)...

Another recipient of the Jackie Mason Trophy.