Posted on 08/05/2014 7:43:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I am the lizard king....I can do anything...
” Lawrence Welk was before my time but nice try at insulting me.”
Judging by what you wrote , it appears IO succeeded .
Don’t propose that one had to be high on LSD to appreciate a band’s music , and you won’t get insulted .
All the people in the bands you mentioned were at one time or another drug and or alcohol addicts .
Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to as it were...
Man you totally missed my point but that doesn’t surprise me one bit. So put on your headphones, smoke a doobie and turn it up to 11.
Enjoy.
Especially when Jim wanted to be a "poet" instead of a rock singer.
IMHO this was Jim at his best. He could be quite the crooner when he wanted to be.
One Toke Over The Line - Lawrence Welk - (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
Some of the Doors songs were genius.... Others just plain stunk.
Just my opinion.... Don’t anyone blow a gasket over it.
I am an accomplished working musician and singer who plays at least 5 instruments very well.... So at least it’s a qualified opinion.
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Is there a band out there that you could not say the same of?
I cannot think of one.
I prefer a little more ‘red meat’ in my rock and roll. Think Steely Dan, Bad Co, Lynard Skynnard, The Stones, The Who and of course, Led Zepplin just to name a few.
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Once you’ve supped on the Allman Bros (with Duane, of course), the rest of that southern rock thing never did it for me.
Steely Dan and Little Feat (oh if only they wrote lyrics worth listening to - Little Feat that is) were, IMO, among the best bands of the 70s.
But I logged more hours listening to Ry Cooder than any of them, so my tastes are easily questioned. Also a musician playing a handful of instruments - but chose the less popular route of playing/singing/writing original songs. The covers we play are so obscure most don’t know they are covers, or they have been so re-instrumented to the point of unrecognizability).
You made me think about Blue Sky...one of my favorite songs of all time. The world just melts away when it pops up on my Ipod while I'm walking along the Trinity River.
I loved Ry Cooder’s stellar guitar playing with Capt Beefheart and the magic band. The album “safe as milk” was incredible and remains one of my all time favs to this day.
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