Posted on 08/30/2014 11:23:12 AM PDT by EveningStar
Glenn Cornick, the original bassist for Jethro Tull, passed away August 29 at his home in Hilo, Hawaii. He was 67. Billboard reports that Cornick died of congestive heart failure and had been receiving hospice care recently. Cornick was a founding member of Jethro Tull, appearing on their first three albums before departing the group in 1970.
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Your time frame is off.
Look at hippy happenings in 1967, or even Woodstock in 1969. There were still a lot of men with short hair.
It was early 70’s when it went mainstream and Like you said fast.
It was also pants going from straight legged to flared.
LOL!!!
Tell you what, I will compromise with you on the timeframe. Every guy you see with short hair in the late ‘60s had already stopped going to the barber shop, it just didn’t really show until the early ‘70s. Bell-bottoms have come to represent the ‘60s (not the seventies). Perhaps your errors in timing stem from your west coast perspective.
Anyway, being that this thread is about the passing of a former band mate of Ian Anderson, please say something nice, or don’t say anything at all.
New Day Yesterday - perhaps the first 3/4 piece I’d heard with heavy rock drums.
Inside - sweet melody, excellent phrasing.
Bourree - Handel as cheesy lounge act stuff (sorry).
Nothing is Easy - high energy rallying song, excellent phrasing.
With You There to Help Me - cool vocal fifths, breaking into melodic chorus. Laughing flute over the top.
To Cry You A Song - driving guitar harmonies, great baseline rock.
Inside - nice groove, pretty melody, moving flute and guitar counters. Fifths harmony in the chorus.
RIP.
Flares, like long hair, started hitting the mainstream in the 70’s, being widespread.
So what kind of music and bands do you like?
Good music of any genre.
I tend to like Americana.
Last songs I downloaded were
Jailisco No Te Rajes by Lucha Reyes (the song Disney’s Three Caballeros was based on)
You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ by Billy Ray Shaver
Casino by Houndsmouth
Up and Down, Going For a Ride, Somebody Come and Play and I Love Trash from the original Sesame Street soundtrack
I’ve been listening to Hank Williams Mothers Flower radio shows.
I love old music on Internet archive. I enjoyed listening to the original Cajun recordings in American French from way back.
I accept your apology and thank you for checking in from the Midwest. I still wonder about the hitchhikers. They were a big part of the scene. I never figured out who they were, where they came from or where they were going. Have you ever delved in to the mechanisms of what was driving that whole movement?
I think it was existentialism, or the focus on experiencing rather than on achieving. The youth prior, and currently, for the most part go to college directly from high school for the purpose of career advancement. Those early 70s, when the hippie brotherhood came on in full force as a nationwide movement, a huge swathe of the young chose to “be”, “Are you experienced” (Hendrix), “happenings”, etc. The all-important moment, hearkening back to Proust and Whitman and Thomas Wolfe and of course Kerouac and the Beats. Young people had always done this, but with Kesey’s experiments spilling out into the mainstream, and music as the soundtrack, and most importantly, the incredible mass of humanity coming of age at that exact moment (aka Baby Boomers), it took on societal-shifting power. For the most part, to our detriment.
You my fiend have a fixation on Long Hair and equating same with being a Hippie or something else.
So how do you rationalize those throughout history that had long hair.
By your thinking then I should assume that Washington, Jefferson and others were the fore runners of Hippies?
Keep I mind that the advent of modern barbershop hygiene is rather recent, say the last 100 years or so and that there has always people with ling hair and such all through history.
No I am not an academic but I do read a great deal.
You, my friend, have an inability to read.
Nice post. I remember as well. I was a kid and saw and experience it.
I will say that with regard to this:
“But 1970 and beyond, the country coast to coast was now in lock-step: long hair, jeans, dope, anti-establishment thinking.”
It’s true and the point I’ve been making except I think it was a few years in to the 70’s by the time it became fully ubiquitous.
Again, you did not bread my statement.
I said men who grew there hair long IN THE 60’s were hippies.
I never said anyone ever in all time who had long hair was a hippie.
You must be a hippy. Or were one.
Neal Cassady was never a hippie!
Jack Kerouac was never a hippie!
Clinton was a hippie.
I hate them hippies.
Long haired hippy cut your hair.
I love how Kerouac put that hippie Sanders in his place.
Stupid hippies, learn to read.
;)
As soon as I can find the next old hippie reunion I will let you know.
And no I was never a hippie but I do have tolerance for others.
You seem to have no tolerance to me.
You might have tolerance, but sense of humor and intelligence seem lacking.
God bless, Captain, God bless!
I have gobs of Intelligence and a Sense of Humor.
You comments did not seem to be of either, but if they were then I apologize.
Never really cared for Tull but he was a rocker so RIP....
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