Posted on 03/16/2013 3:31:44 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
Who among us used to be one of those long-haired flea-infested dope-smoking denizens of the rock concert world?
Guilty. And recovered.
Post up some old tunes for a Saturday night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdRjg1bIC8&feature=related
1970 Edison Lighthouse “Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes”
Venus - Shocking Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auoArgmzqN4
For years, I had no idea that it was a woman singing that, and as it turned out, she was pretty hot.
Here’s some very early, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, very experimental sound and light display, hilariously snotty Beeb music critic.
Pink Floyd - “Astronomy Domine,” from 1967.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-2lg5fpQ4
You may or may not enjoy it, but it had some influence at the time. For instance Velvet Underground, and even visually this turns up in the Byrds’ performance of “Eight Miles High.”
The Undertakers (Jackie Lomax’ early band) “Mashed Potato” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSjY0TdKP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ&feature=related
From the early 70’s Hollies “Long Cool Woman”
The Zettlers “Can’t Live Without Her” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0j2pXIBQw
Sorry for the bad format. I was trying to post an ODS spreadsheet I made of songs I occasionally want to play.
There were the Lemon Pipers, but then there were the Lemon Drops: “I live in the springtime” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGI6S-whJuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KtScrqtbc&feature=related
Another early 70’s Hollie’s “He an’t Heavy”
The Angry “Walk In the Sun” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biq0-PAYCHQ
It was among the next batch:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Honky Tonk Train Blues
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - I Believe In Father Christmas
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Maple Leaf Rag
Eric Burdon & War - Tobacco Road
David Essex - Rock On
Alan Parson Project = Eye in the Sky
Fifth Estate, The - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The – Fire
Fireballs, The - Bottle of Wine
First Edition, The - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Fleetwood Mac - As long as you follow
Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
Fleetwood Mac - Sara
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Foghat - Slow Ride
Free - All Right Now
Friends of Distinction, The - Grazing In The Grass
Gary Wright = Dream Weaver
Guess Who, The - American Woman
Heart – Barracuda
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Herman’s Hermits - There’s a Kind of Hush
Hollies, The - The Air That I Breath
Hollies, The - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
Hombres, The - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
immy Gilmer and the Fireballs - Sugar Shack
Irish Rovers, The - The Unicorn Song
Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jaggerz - The Rapper
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Jan & Dean - Little Old Lady From Pasadena
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
K.C. and The Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
Kansas - Dust in the wind
Kansas - Carry on my Wayward son
Kinks, The - Lola
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
Left Banke, The - Walk Away Renee
Lemon Pipers, The - Green Tambourine
Little River Band, The - Lady
Little River Band, The - Lonesome Loser
Little River Band, The - Reminiscing
Lobo - Me and a Dog Named Boo
Looking Glass - Brandi you’re a fine girl
The B52’s - Love Shack
Lovin’ Spoonful - Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?
Lovin’ Spoonful - Nashville Cats -
Loving Spoonful - Summer In The City
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
Marmalade, The - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Melanie – Brand New Key
Melanie - Ruby Tuesday
Men At Work- Down Under
Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts - Angel of the Morning
Michael Martin Murphey – Wildfire
Monkees, The – Valleri
Moody Blues, The Nights In White Satin
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
New Vaudeville Band, The - Winchester Cathedral
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Battle of New Orleans
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - House At Pooh Corner
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Remain Unbroken [album]
Norma Tanega - Walking My Cat Named Dog
Mainstream. Boring. Pedestrian.
That is really good.
It’s nostalgia, the good, the bad, and the ugly; but not a competition. It’s listening to Credence Clearwater Revival on the 8-track stereo with the homemade speakers in the trunk of a 1965 Ford Galaxy tooling down the blacktop to school, work, or the party.
Who remembers Ultimate Spinach? I don’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfsCcX9f2NE
“Mainstream. Boring. Pedestrian.”
Yes, so are many good things in life, like Apple Pie, mashed potato salad, honor, fidelity, pride in workmanship, and values that are conservative because they are worth keeping. I’ll guess you don’t like Peter Frampton because his album was so popular.
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