Posted on 08/19/2025 5:04:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Chet Baker didn’t like those guys either.
“If you can remember the 60’s you weren’t really there.”
————Robin Williams RIP-——————
Chet Baker, may very well have gone down as the greatest artist of the 20th Century, if not for the drugs. The guy had it all.
“The summer of 1969 saw the world united in hope”
Oh, really?
Maybe for the hippies who had no interest in contributing anything to society, just “being” and doing drugs.
Musicians commented that when you went into the offices of Motown Records, you'd hear records playing at volume, but when you went into the other labels' offices, it was quiet - just another corporate office.
4 l8r bump - thanks.
They all wanted to be like Charlie Parker and die a junkie.
Again, Parker killed jazz.
There is only Grade C Rap….
At least Miles did get clean in the 60s, but I was not onboard with him from Bitches Brew onwards.
A carload headed to it picked me up hitchhiking somewhere in the South and told me about it, so I said sure, let’s go, unfortunately II learned that I had something back in Houston I had to deal with immediately, so I had to leave them and start hitchhiking in the opposite direction.
I wonder what Tom would've thought about THIS (fiddle and all)?
I think it's solidly on-point, as covers go. BBS can definitely do all the southern rock classics full justice.
They seem to collaborate a lot with the Allman Betts Band, which is always an impressive pairing.
In the 1960s, there were many curated paths forward via “mom & pop”-owned AM radio stations, as well as plentiful mind-altering drugs, and payola, where money was put up to back the promoting mouth.
Meh... but I do like world music, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, accordians, brass, the whole guitar thing was steeped in mediocrity... until the 3rd wave. The Beatles ruined everything, Ringo was okay tho’
Post #79 - the “Doo Whop” transition period from the latter 1950s style up to the mid-60s ‘Super Groups’ that dominated the rest of the decade and longer. Pretty sure the Beatles were inspired by “Better Tell Him” and Bob Dylan liked how the singer on “Stop the Music” didn’t let the song’s structure dictate her vocal style.
“Pull the Covers Right Up” by The Tran-Sisters...their name was a take on transistor radios which were the MP3 players of that era. Today the name would be misconstrued as being ‘alternate lifestyle’. Innocence lost to time (sigh).
Thanks to everybody for sharing their faves here and expanding our cultural knowledge.
The observation that civilizations in their decline often revert to nostalgia—idealizing and clinging to the past—has been most explicitly discussed by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee in his monumental work, A Study of History.
Toynbee argued that as civilizations decay, people resort to “archaism” (idealization of the past), among other responses. This tendency toward nostalgia is seen as a symptom of civilizational breakdown, with people looking backward to recover meaning during times of crisis and insecurity.
Toynbee described this cultural archaism as a sign of declining creativity and an inability to face new challenges, often appearing when a civilization is nearing collapse
I remember listening to Wolfman Jack on XERB in 1969, their AM signal was so powerful it went all the way north to Mammoth Lakes. I too like '50s Oldies and used to have an Oldies show on the radio.
I would tune in late at night to XERB, a border blaster station from Rosarita, just below the Mexican border, and listen to Art Laboe play cool Oldies. And my tastes haven’t changed all that much over five-plus decades.
Heard It On The X - ZZ Top
Do you remember
back in nineteen sixty-six?
Country Jesus, hillbilly blues,
that’s where I learned my licks.
Oh, from coast to coast and line to line
in every county there,
I’m talkin’ ‘bout that outlaw X
is cuttin’ through the air.
Anywhere, y’all,
everywhere, y’all,
I heard it, I heard it,
I heard it on the X.
We can all thank Doctor B
who stepped across the line.
With lots of watts he took control,
the first one of its kind.
So listen to your radio
most each and every night
‘cause if you don’t I’m sure you won’t
get to feeling right.
Anywhere, y’all,
everywhere, y’all,
I heard it, I heard it,
I heard it on the X.
> In hindsight, recruiting Hells Angels as security was, according to Keith Richards, not a good idea. “But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead,” he told the Evening Standard. “The trouble is it’s a problem for us either way. If you don’t have them to work for you as stewards, they come anyway and cause trouble.”
Oh. Just like Black Panthers, then.
They were amazing. Interestingly the Allman Brothers and The Dixie Dregs (another incredible group) had the same road manager. His name was Twiggs Lyndon, and apparently he was quite a character. He died in a skydiving accident.
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