Thank you for your comments on my little posting.
Yes, Cbolt, I do vividly remember Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
As regards the 60s, I did have reference to the anti-war, anti-very thing aspects of the music but I also acknowledge that the early 60s music was outstanding. I was working as a DJ on a Talladega radio station in 1963 and I just loved the music.
Uh, that should be “anti-everything.” Sorry.
Oh, I should have added that I really loved the Stones, too. Still do.
“Texas Radio & the Big Beat”, by the DOORS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zayq41CZhc&feature=related
A 70’s tune but in honor to the original rock and roll and blues.
From an internet search:
“Texas Radio” refers to high power Mexican radio stations that blasted into Texas in the 1950s. Not restricted by American regulations these stations, whose call letters started with X, could have up to 150,000 watts. Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek both heard Wolfman Jack on one.
This is a spoken word piece of Jim Morrison’s poetry accompanied by John Densmore’s synthesized drums. Morrison wrote the lyrics years before this was recorded.
The verse, “Comes out of the Virginia swamps cool and slow with plenty of precision with a back beat narrow and hard to master” is most likely a reference to Morrison’s first real experience with the music scene. From 1958 to 1960 Morrison lived in Alexandria, Virginia and frequented the Juke Joints (blues clubs) on Route 1 just north of Fort Belvoir where Black Blues musicians would play on Friday and Saturday nights. That area where the Juke Joints used to be is right on the eastern edge of a swamp.