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Forseegood - nostalgia at your request
I remember the early 60s; the cafe Wha and the Village Gate. High on LSD and listening to Bob Dylan live before any one know who he was. There was a great store on 4th street that sold LSD and Peyote over the counter before it was illegal - no thanks to Timothy Leary.
Ah yes, love before Aids - the days of the quickie without worries :).
Ah yes, love before Aids - the days of the quickie without worries :).
Never saw Hendrix in his prime. I envy anyone who did. The boarding school I was at did have exchange dances with a girl's boarding school and at one of the dances Creedence Clearwater played. I remembered talking to the bass player about his bass (Rickenbacker) and how he kept the strings really high for better tone. The next day, Sunday, they interviewed them on that San Francisco ground-breaking FM station(I forgot the call letters) and then they played Suzy Q, long version and Creedence Clearwater became famous. sigh, those were the days when you were lucky to score one joint of pot for the whole weekend and if you got to kiss your date, you had "scored".
I used to know a guy that was the sound engineer for most, if not all, of the Hendrix albums. He used to be the co owner of the Electric Lady in the East Village. It was one of the great sound studios in NY at the time.
And. . . . .Janis Joplin and Big Brother played at my high school's prom. It was my junior year and I actually had a date! The next year it was the Chocolate Watchband and didn't have a date, I just stood around outside on LSD and talked to the security guard. I remember hiding a bicycle outside my dorm window and sneaking out all night to smoke bud with my friend Sid at his girlfriend's house who's mother was Joan Baez's lawyer. Sounds to me like you really were in the think of it.
Ohhh Nature's Way is my all time Favorite!! You guys are sure bringing back so many memories! I have most of these albums too. Geeze,,we had fun! Did some crazy stuff and some came back to haunt you....lol uh hummm... but I guess we were young and thought nothing could ever happen! That era definitely best music!! I also love classical now and probably would have laughed if someone said one day I would be listening to it but find I really love all kinds of music!
Hey Forsee ((((hugs))) Where is Califia these days? I really miss her!!!
Hey Forsee ((((hugs))) Where is Califia these days? I really miss her!!!
hey, we got lots in common...I stayed in the Haight for awhile - I was one of those sillys, and Eric Burden was a boyfriend for awhile (much later), we used to call him "Little Big Man" but I won't go into why, ...saw the only tour of Blind Faith, Ric Grech, Stevie Winwood, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker,at the LA forum....I was a big Spencer Davis fan, and later Traffic...saw Jimmie Hendrix first LA debut, in the daytime, at the Teenage Fair at the Palladium in Los Angeles...I was all of 15....had tons of fun, but gee I'm glad I made through those years...interesting times though....still see live music when I can, The Who gave a tremendous concert at the Hollywood Bowl just a few years ago,...Like Andiamo so deftly pointed out, many of these dinosour bands just show up to get the check, with phoned in performances, or arthritis, ha ha!
But man, you should of seen Pete Townsend, in his sixties and moving around the stage like he was 25, jumping 3 ft off the ground doing his amazing guitar riffs, wow....he's supposed to be a weird dude, but boy can he still perform...Zak Starkey, Ringo's son, sat in on drums...I grew up seeing these bands, and I still try to see them when I can still, though it costs the same as a cruise trip for decent tickets nowadays...
But man, you should of seen Pete Townsend, in his sixties and moving around the stage like he was 25, jumping 3 ft off the ground doing his amazing guitar riffs, wow....he's supposed to be a weird dude, but boy can he still perform...Zak Starkey, Ringo's son, sat in on drums...I grew up seeing these bands, and I still try to see them when I can still, though it costs the same as a cruise trip for decent tickets nowadays...
About 15 – 20 years ago Mafalda and I went to see Chuck Berry at the Stamford Forum in Connecticut. The last time I saw him was at the Brooklyn Fox in 1958!
Well this was sure different; the audience was mostly grey and so was Chuck. His playing was listless and instead of his famous Duck Walk he kind of shuffled around the stage.
A young lady walked up to him and handed him a balloon that said “Happy Birthday”. He tied the balloon on the end of his guitar and stood reflectively for a minute. He said “I can’t believe I am 70 years old.”
He struck a chord and instantly I knew the old Chuck Berry was back. He bounced around the stage doing his famous walk and in 2 minutes he had the crown standing on the seats screaming! It was fabulous. I am so glad that was my last memory of seeing him live.
Well this was sure different; the audience was mostly grey and so was Chuck. His playing was listless and instead of his famous Duck Walk he kind of shuffled around the stage.
A young lady walked up to him and handed him a balloon that said “Happy Birthday”. He tied the balloon on the end of his guitar and stood reflectively for a minute. He said “I can’t believe I am 70 years old.”
He struck a chord and instantly I knew the old Chuck Berry was back. He bounced around the stage doing his famous walk and in 2 minutes he had the crown standing on the seats screaming! It was fabulous. I am so glad that was my last memory of seeing him live.
The Yardbirds at the Filmore just before they broke up. Jimmy Page on guitar, whoa!
Eric Burdon and the Animals on the same bill.
Michael Bloomfield with The Electric Light Orchestra
Flying home from boarding school in Menlo Park to Hong Kong. Stopping in Haight Ashbury to buy some "blue wafer" LSD and hashish to smuggle back and smoke with my english musicians friends in Hong Kong. Going to all the Discos in Kowloon where all the RR soldiers would go from Vietnam and dancing to all the motown music (wilson pickett) and Procol Harum's Lighter Shade of Pale. Couple years later, stopped at Filmore on my way to summer job working on a frieghter that was taking beer over to Vietnam for the troops (dad had connections). Saw the Who, Ike And Tina Turner, Deep Purple. Had to cut my hair, felt stupid walking around the crowd.
Eric Burdon and the Animals on the same bill.
Michael Bloomfield with The Electric Light Orchestra
Flying home from boarding school in Menlo Park to Hong Kong. Stopping in Haight Ashbury to buy some "blue wafer" LSD and hashish to smuggle back and smoke with my english musicians friends in Hong Kong. Going to all the Discos in Kowloon where all the RR soldiers would go from Vietnam and dancing to all the motown music (wilson pickett) and Procol Harum's Lighter Shade of Pale. Couple years later, stopped at Filmore on my way to summer job working on a frieghter that was taking beer over to Vietnam for the troops (dad had connections). Saw the Who, Ike And Tina Turner, Deep Purple. Had to cut my hair, felt stupid walking around the crowd.
Oh yah, "I got a line on you" is still a great tune. Then there was quicksilver, sweathog, tower of power, head east... oh how i long for the days....
maybe we did! The more I read here, the more I wonder if we all didn,t pass the virus to each other! Wonder who had it first, hmmmm....
anybody who even knows who Spirit is great in my book! They were a local band here that I used to go see all the time, loved Randy California...and I love Tracy Nelson's version of Motherless Child...Gauf: and I love Maggot Brain, wonder how many of us bumped into to one another in the days of yore...or crashed into one another, as the case may be lol, ha ha ha ha! Have the best trip!!!!
Pentangle, Creedence, the Band, Country Joe, CSNY, Steeleye Span,Fairport Convention,Spirit, early Joni Mitchell(ethereal), Janis Ian, Tracey Nelson and Mother earth - her version of Motherless Child is my favorite
Thanks forseegood - yes I am planning on buying nothing - thank goodness I can expense all my meals
Thanks forseegood - yes I am planning on buying nothing - thank goodness I can expense all my meals
Acid tunes. "maggot brain" by funkadelic. "innagaddadavida", iron butterfly. "sitting in a cave and grooving with a pict" pink floyd. "tubular bells" mike oldfield. "hocus pocus" by focus. "quadraphenia" the who. Hmmm... what else.
totally know who he is, without looking him up either, have the best time, I envy you, used to stay in an apt in Chelsea that belonged to a friend of mine. London is sooo dang expensive now though, ouch! Have the best trip and please tell us all the details, I am a HARDCORE Beatles fanatic, since I was 13, ha ha...and unfortunately, haven't matured much beyond that...lol
leaving for another UK business trip tonight - planning on going to a party for the DVD release of A Hard Day's Night! Victor Spinetti will be there! Let's see who knows who he is! And this thread has made me determined to 'ave another walk down Portobello Rd - oh the days of velvet and lace and leather -- and the music!!! The music!!!!!
HA HA HA HA!!! I loved that line in Napoleon Dynamite, "we in America don't make pinatas out of people's likenesses, and then bash them..."really? we do it in Mexico all the time", HA HA HA HA!
Dave Van Ronk rocked!!!...my favorite dylan album was blonde on blonde.. at 1st .i thot it was an uber lesbian laison but keep that under yr mexican pillbox hat...
enjoyed it, and the utubers stuff...
some of you might like this by Dylan...it's pretty creative I think, you have to keep going past the first part of it, it's not all rap, just at the beginning, for It's Alright Ma, one of my favorite Dylan tunes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNU1EndU8I
some of you might like this by Dylan...it's pretty creative I think, you have to keep going past the first part of it, it's not all rap, just at the beginning, for It's Alright Ma, one of my favorite Dylan tunes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNU1EndU8I
geez louise, this board can get you in trouble! If I would of left that one post on there (it blips off really easy now while you're writing) youD'a thought I was calling you a big hick, ha ha! what I wanted to say was (my small attempt at finding that big, rich vien of irony here - is that for those of us who are uninitiated, you're a doctor for chrissake, and you're just unpretentious, but not a HICK! But lest I get in some trouble (and I know you gotta a high threshold for BS on here, but I better hurry up and post this other one...) yeah, what's that old saying, I wish all my friends could like each other...
I like what Orson Welles said in an interview once...with all these millions of people living on top of each other, under the stress that they are under, riding around in tin cans at high speeds, the amount of guns of the streets, and all the rest of it, he's not wondering why there is so much crime, he's wondering why there isn't a whole lot more!
to extrapolate, with all these varying personalities, and strong drugs, it's a wonder that people get along as well as they do here! lol luckily most of it washes away by the next day, most of it anyway lol...I wish you would post more, I so enjoy your humor, and god knows this place needs humor!!!!!
I like what Orson Welles said in an interview once...with all these millions of people living on top of each other, under the stress that they are under, riding around in tin cans at high speeds, the amount of guns of the streets, and all the rest of it, he's not wondering why there is so much crime, he's wondering why there isn't a whole lot more!
to extrapolate, with all these varying personalities, and strong drugs, it's a wonder that people get along as well as they do here! lol luckily most of it washes away by the next day, most of it anyway lol...I wish you would post more, I so enjoy your humor, and god knows this place needs humor!!!!!
HA, I've always been a hick!! It's always been 200 miles to anywhere, but I did see ZZTop in the Roswell New Mexico YMCA for a buck and a half- Rio Grande Mud- only reason is they were texas boys............
BTW - I see nothing changes, folks just look for somethin to get p!ssed about on tx,
BTW - I see nothing changes, folks just look for somethin to get p!ssed about on tx,
Are you having some trouble? You don't sound like (what I have come to read) yourself a'tall. Hope things get better for you....
Sincerely
Sincerely
As you point out, I have a rather good life. So, I guess the extremely dangerous drugs somehow didn't ruin mine while the legal alcohol ruined plenty of lives.
Perhaps you just enjoy poking people on treatment. I am not an advocate of anyone taking drugs or alcohol. I hope I am not as cranky as you when I get to 100.
Perhaps you just enjoy poking people on treatment. I am not an advocate of anyone taking drugs or alcohol. I hope I am not as cranky as you when I get to 100.
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