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Posted on 07/11/2012 7:44:44 PM PDT by Elle Bee
In the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinema on Oxford Street in London thought it wise to warn patrons that the film they were about to see, the big-screen adaptation of John Wyndham's novel about killer plants, The Day of the Triffids, "contained graphic horror" and "might prove disturbing to those of a nervous disposition". Today, Wyndham's mutant shrubs look blandly innocuous. But on the night of Thursday 12 July, in a basement club called the Marquee, just a few feet below the cinema where the Triffids was screening, something much more unsettling was about to get under way.
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I'm a music fanatic and have been since I was a kid (*many* years ago).Thanks,partially,to the magic of computer technology I have a music collection of over 5000 songs,about 95% of them being from '57 to '69.My collection includes everything from Dylan,to Anita Bryant,to Percy Faith,to the Who....and *lots* of stuff in between.The era you mention (late 50's/early 60's) was a truly great one and is *well* represented in my collection,I assure you.
Truly one of the most durable albums of all time
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This makes some of us feel very, VERY old....
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Christine McVie celebrates her 69th birthday today...that makes me feel old.
WTH, I'll be 60 in a couple of years...time marches on.
Mick Jagger was just a wee wee lad back then.
What about Can You Hear Me Knockin’?
What a drag it is getting old.
"We are not amused."
You got... cocaine eyes!
The show happened 50 years ago today, at the Marquee Club in London. The band would later become known as The Rolling Stones, referencing that Muddy Waters song.
Brian Jones (guitar)
Mick Jagger (vocals)
Keith Richards (guitar)
Ian Stewart (piano)
Dick Taylor (bass)
Tony Chapman (drums)
1. “Kansas City”
2. “Baby What’s Wrong”
3. “Confessin’ the Blues”
4. “Bright Lights, Big City”
5. “Dust My Broom”
6. “Down the Road Apiece”
7. “I’m a Love You”
8. “Bad Boy”
9. “I Ain’t Got You”
10. “Hush-Hush”
11. “Ride ‘Em on Down”
12. “Back in the U.S.A.”
13. “Kind of Lonesome”
14. “Blues Before Sunrise”
15. “Big Boss Man”
16. “Don’t Stay Out All Night”
17. “Tell Me You Love Me”
18. “Happy Home”
http://www.billyfgibbons.com/Bio.aspx
When the Moving Sidewalks parted ways in 1969, Gibbons sought to form a more boogie/blues rock-based band. He hooked up with Billy Etheridge from Dallas and Lanier Greig. At the time Billy had an apartment, and had nothing on the walls but stolen “rainbow” handbills. One day while sitting there, he noticed how these posters had been tacked up in no particular order just to cover the walls. At the left end of the wall was a B.B. King poster, toward the right was O.V. Wright and all the way over at the far end was ZZ Hill. From there he created the name ZZ Top from ZZ Hill and “Top” meaning King. The band soon got together and cut the first single, “Salt Lick” b/w “Miller’s Farm,” launched in-house with Scat Records.At the time when the ZZ single began taking off and the gigs started rolling in, there was an important change in the ZZ Top lineup….namely Mr. Frank Beard and his bandmate, Mr. Dusty Hill.
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