Posted on 04/21/2019 6:36:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
My friends there is such a thing. It makes you want to listen closely to the lyrics. My examples would be Emerson, Lake, and Palmer "From the Beginning". Then there's Elton with "Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters." Yes-"I've Seen All Good People and Rod Stewart's "Gasoline Alley". It makes your ears work a bit but worth it. Funny how it's mostly 70's music.
I would not have taken two hits of early 70s windowpane or orange sunshine
We were stupid and didnt realize lower dose acid was infinitely more pleasant
Like today kids say they took five hits....I just marvel...uh huh
I had a buddy deceased in a plane craah 1982
He loved to take LSD windowpane and press them together and double dose folks
Till we spiked his beverage one night...he panicked...lol...so we all dosed with him
Tripping alone sucked......major
Tripping especially post peaking was when I listened to thinking or lyric rock
We all know who they are...
Pink Floyd post Atom Heart Mother probably stands out
Atom Heart Mother and earlier was for gnarly peaking tripping rock
But Floyds very very first work was simple Blues..
Its on Napster......its amazing ...Im a King Bee...Double O Bo
Its really unique
I like Robert Hunter/Garcia lyrics too
So shoot me
Listening to Ripple right now
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle.
Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick.
Agree on all but Spyro
Spyro is like Gino Vanelli meets Dixie Dregs meets Aldo Novo to me
No offense
The rest is very very spot on
White Rabbit
For What Its Worth
Who doesnt know those lyrics
And Poco...
Was always Rocky Mountian music for me
Id head out from the Deep South in my little truck for friends in Gunnison or Jackson or Bozeman in 1976 or 77
When I could see purple bumps in the disatance usually after Clayton New Mexico
Id pop in Poco and turn it up loud...and fire one up
Hit Raton and up to Walsenburg and west to Salida and Gunnison
Man I loved my youth
And I still make those trips with my kids
And same music
No weed though. Alas
He viewed Reagan as staid Ray Gun Zap
I guess
I was anti Reagan at first
I morphed right after he got shot
To be honest South Africa ....a place I knew some....is what really changed me
My friends were all pro Mandela
I was like you just dont get what this really means
I can recall arguing with peers over it
Reagan got it
I know Zappa didn’t care for the Religious Right, nor did I.
But I always felt Reagan was smart to pay them enough lip service to get them on his side, even if he may not have totally shared in their beliefs.
So much to say about the subject and no time right now. A lot of Freepers have already mentioned many of my favorites.
Right at the top of my list, although there are no lyrics, is Mike Oldfield, especially his live concerts featuring Tubular Bells I, II and III.
TB I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWU8i8ZPDo
TB II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7U1fvpuWWU
TB III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZyudLLJSU
Tales from Topographic Oceans & just about anything else - Yes
Thick as a Brick and Passion Play, Benefit, Stand Up and Time Was - Tull
Supper’s Ready & just about anything till Gabriel left - Genesis
Just about anything from ELP
Just about anything from Pink Floyd
Song for Eternal by Kobatyu - My favorite Vocaloid epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-toPPijSE
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish - Somebody mentioned them up-thread, here’s a link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_eoR6r1Tw
Saturday Night in Bombay - Remember Shakti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFqOge9Nego
Paradis - Wintergarten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SKEgMEw5Y
Have seen Yes, Wakeman, Tull, Floyd, Genesis and ELP, amongst many others on multiple occasions.
Thus concludes my “short” post on the subject. Will there be a part 2 ?
Rock attained perfection in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE
It’ll Happen To You! (The Simpsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
Grand Funk Railroad, Homer’s Favorite Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A
"In a near random universe there are still certain combinations Picked out from all other possible ones Which, when given some time and the just-right circumstances Not too far from the earth or too close to the sun They will dance and they'll spin in the embrace of the trade winds Playing havoc with the hearts and the upturned faces down below Until the laws of curved spacetime, susponed without warning Kick back in with a vengeance for the last act of the show Going too far too fast in that final wing over As your glider comes tumbling out of the clouds And you clutch at your chest but the chute never opens And they find you there tangled in that white nylon shroud..."
Frank Zappa treatment of his musicians.....
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All correct and apparently now little known. Great comments.
Saw the Mothers on their first national tour and used to have all the LPs for years and now still have about 80% of the CDs.
Like John McLaughlin with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Zappa had to constantly educate his audience and build on that to keep his creativity unleashed from the constraints of truly becoming an artist “only in it for the money” as the industry tried to force him to be.
One of the rock magazines I get (which??Uncut,Classic Rock,Mojo?) said he is now in danger of being forgotten or overlooked as much of his work is serious and not easily accessible by newcomers. This can’t be allowed to happen.
Can’t we keep him along with Itchycoo Park and Friday on My Mind?
Rush.
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
Rush
Tom Sawyer
https://youtu.be/WJoTxywiRG0
Dudes, like hands down best all time rock opera Quadrophenia of all time best hands down, man.
Look at all the great songs that Pete abandoned for “Who’s Next” for the Lifehouse project: I Don’t Even Know Myself, Water, The Relay, Pure and Easy, etc., So many great songs, didn’t even make it onto their albums.
Steve Marriott is another one is was critically underrated. Might be the best front man ever. I think he totally was the inspiration for Robert Plant.
Even thunderclap Newmans Something in the Air was Townsend.
Not to Mention Whos Next
Not to mention Tommy
You ever hear “Melancholia”? That one was scrapped in favor of “Tommy”, but it’s just a great song.
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