Re: The 1960s: Pop/Rock Comes of Age

Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:58 pm

Cool Cool Water wrote:Playing this in memory. Great lead vox from Tork on this....

Lovely track. Rest in peace, Peter.

Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:05 pm

Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:55 am

They say you should sow Sweet Peas on St Patrick's Day and that's exactly what my wife did yesterday. The 1960s: Pop/Rock Comes of Age - Page 4 Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Roe

Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:43 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

Keep hearing this classic at work lately. What a brilliant track!

Gets Mr. K's vote. Smile

Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:38 pm

This is extraordinary--the isolated vocals of Grace Slick on "White Rabbit"! The 1960s: Pop/Rock Comes of Age - Page 4 Rolleyes

Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:52 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

An excellent Byrds song.

Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:39 pm

To follow my last post on this thread with the same song, I just had to post this. It shows some excellent photos! Gene Clark was very underrated and one of the lost/forgotten Byrd members in my opinion.

Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:16 pm

Cool Cool Water wrote:To follow my last post on this thread with the same song, I just had to post this. It shows some excellent photos! Gene Clark was very underrated and one of the lost/forgotten Byrd members in my opinion.

Great Byrds song there, Rich. I remember Endless Roger was a huge fan. It might be worth considering giving them a topic of their own. The 1960s: Pop/Rock Comes of Age - Page 4 Wink

Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:31 pm

Mr. K wrote:Great Byrds song there, Rich. I remember Endless Roger was a huge fan. It might be worth considering giving them a topic of their own.

A good idea. Maybe worth it if ER comes back as well! Smile

Wed May 08, 2019 8:59 pm

Mon May 20, 2019 10:26 pm

Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:23 am

I remember that goofy Lemon Pipers track (oops!). I see now it was a single, their second and the one before their big hit.

I was reminded of this cool Who track by an altercation at Smiley yesterday (nothing to do with me!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_with_the_Shaky_Hand

Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:54 pm

I got recommend this on YouTube. Reminds me of Renbourn---awesome stuff!

Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:58 pm

Cool Cool Water wrote:I got recommend this on YouTube. Reminds me of Renbourn---awesome stuff!

Yes indeed! This is my favourite Gábor Szabó track: "Are You There?" Actually, it's the only one on the album I like but I think it's super!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind,_Sky_and_Diamonds

Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:08 pm

Saw this track mentioned in this great fanfic I'm reading right now. Wink

I wasn't taken with Ms. Springfield at the time--perhaps because she was a Brit and I was for all things USA. My favourites Dusty songs these days are "Am I The Same Girl?" (the absolute definitive version) and "Little By Little". This one ain't bad either! What a voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Only_Want_to_Be_with_You

Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:49 am

Mr. K wrote:Yes indeed! This is my favourite Gábor Szabó track: "Are You There?" Actually, it's the only one on the album I like but I think it's super!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind,_Sky_and_Diamonds

Brilliant stuff!

Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:49 pm

I heard this on the radio this morning on the way to work. Absolutely brilliant! Never heard it before either!

Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:18 pm

Cool Cool Water wrote:I heard this on the radio this morning on the way to work. Absolutely brilliant! Never heard it before either!

That was Marc Bolan's breakthough 45 (a UK #2). He'd had minor hits before then when the band was basically a duo and was called Tyrannosaurus Rex but this was the one that introduced him to a new and younger audience. The next single and Marc's look on TOTP marked the birth of glam rock. T. Rex were huge for a good three years. I remember playing "RAWS" on a piano at an all-night party in the year of its release (1970).

Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:12 pm

Mr. K wrote:That was Marc Bolan's breakthough 45 (a UK #2). He'd had minor hits before then when the band was basically a duo and was called Tyrannosaurus Rex but this was the one that introduced him to a new and younger audience. The next single and Marc's look on TOTP marked the birth of glam rock. T. Rex were huge for a good three years. I remember playing "RAWS" on a piano at an all-night party in the year of its release (1970).

Thanks for the information.

Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:38 pm

He playing my axe? lol!

Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:50 pm

Cool Cool Water wrote:He playing my axe?

Wow! What a player! What an axe! Razz

Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:59 am

I listened to this last night while in the throes of making a big decision (which will be forever associated with it). Canned Heat and the Airplane rock out at Monterey, the greatest pop festival ever. Grace seems to be playing an electric piano (a Hohner?) during "Today". And digging Blind Owl Wilson, one of the greatest slide guitar and harmonica players of all time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wilson_(musician)

Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:14 am

Mr. K wrote:

Excellent footage---thanks for posting! I have never heard of Alan Wilson. To read he had a short life and thus in the 27 club is crazy! silent

I also found this on YouTube, which is very interesting and a great in-depth look into his life if one doesn't know.

Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:01 am

Cool Cool Water wrote:Excellent footage---thanks for posting! I have never heard of Alan Wilson. To read he had a short life and thus in the 27 club is crazy!

I also found this on YouTube, which is very interesting and a great in-depth look into his life if one doesn't know.

Thanks! I've got it bookmarked. Wink

This is a lovely song of his from the Canned Heat double LP Living the Blues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_the_Blues

Thu Jul 04, 2019 9:52 pm

Going through a list of some 300 albums compiled by my former partner-in-crime at PSF and EH, I stumbled across this jewel. Love the ambience on Human Expression's "Optical Sound" (1967). The title is possibly a reference to the synaesthesia sometimes experienced when tripping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Expression