Journey Through The Past

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:51 am

The Dolphins

Covered by too many to name here, by the original song written & sung by Fred Neil is beautiful. A favorite that takes me back to the 60's......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjAlICP ... re&related

Next for me, would be Tim Buckley's cover...live here, on The Old Grey Whistle Test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAo4xWIPFE0

Enjoy.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:50 pm

I'm guessing I'm the only one here that can make this journey, but this is a very cool vid of Joni Mitchell long before she was a hit......1965.

Those cheek bones are every models' dream !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp3lJg07u4w&NR=1

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:09 am

Way back to '72...Scotland's answer to the USA folk rock movement.....

Sweet Jacqui McShee (with the voice of an angel) & Pentangle. Still the pride of Scotland. Know em and love em, Hour?
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn are at the top of every list of the all time greatest guitarists.

On an easy ride.....Better to be going, Better to be moving, Than clinging to your past....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BS7MQdr ... re=related

One of my favorite drummers and bass players here......pretty mellow stoned folk rock

Ever tried the UPRIGHT, Chris?!

Post by **hourformagic** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:31 pm

jamestkirk wrote:Know em and love em, Hour?

Nope.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:13 pm

hourformagic wrote:
jamestkirk wrote:Know em and love em, Hour?
Nope.

Know 'em and hate 'em, Hour? Too bad......

Now I'll change to another UK master band....
Yardbirds

.....these guys spawned some of the best guitarists in history, along with John Mayall where they also seemed to go...before or after the Yardbirds..

I have an in-shrink "Little Games", mono of course. here is a fave with Jimmy Page using his signature violin bow on the guitar technique....the height of psychedelia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs42sJZR8D0

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier , Sailor

Post by **hourformagic** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:41 pm

jamestkirk wrote:
hourformagic wrote:
jamestkirk wrote:Know em and love em, Hour?
Nope.
Know 'em and hate 'em, Hour? Too bad......

Hate 'em? No way! I've listened to nothing else but Pentangle since yesterday.

Thank you for introducing me to such an incredible band!

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:27 pm

Yer welcome, "magic-hour"

......amazing artists with so many connections. Scottish pride!!

So many good ones...Bert Jansch and his connection to Anne Briggs (an amazing artist too), John Rebourn. Check out solo works too. Jacqui McShee you likely found is still performing as Jacqui McShee's Pentangle. and My favorite UK bass player and drummer from the folk rock scene. Danny Thompson appears on literally hundreds of others albums, such as Tim Buckley's "Dream Lettter"...the British musicians union was rather strong back then and backing US musicians were not always allowed to perform even with their American counterparts...being required to use British artists.

Glad to bring new musical joy to you...share with your fellow Scots the amazing Pentangle. I'm guessing you will if you haven't already.

Cheers mate!

Post by **jamestkirk** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:47 pm

Posted this at another spot too 'cause I just didn't want anyone to miss them!!..... one of the best blues psych bands to come out of the 60's SF music scene.

Linn County......catch the coolest videos of the era that we all would love to go back to, if only for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTvTOV1 ... re=related Lower Lemons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7XroRH9Zo Fever Shot

Set the "Way Back" machine for 1969........

Post by **jamestkirk** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:53 pm

Jackson Browne anyone else like his work?!!

Of course I go back to the beginnings and he jump-started more than a few careers...the Eagles for one....I don't know how many times I've driven through Winslow Arizona and that "tune" was playing on the radio...maybe they have it on endless loop there on the airwaves....

There was a billboard outside of town that said "Seven Women for every man!" ...the saying had to go back to the Old West days. Still cracks me up. "Got 'seven women' on my mind....there's a girl my lord, in a flat bed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me."

My favorite LP is Late For The Sky....guess I'm getting reflective, but I don't think there are many artists that "reflect" California in their music more than Jackson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhUH_XrF ... re=related

The Late Show....my favorite song of Browne's...BEAUTIFUL, powerful and bittersweet. Anyone else like his works?

Post by **twilla** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:47 pm

jamestkirk wrote:Jackson Browne anyone else like his work?!!

Of course I go back to the beginnings and he jump-started more than a few careers...the Eagles for one....I don't know how many times I've driven through Winslow Arizona and that "tune" was playing on the radio...maybe they have it on endless loop there on the airwaves.... There was a billboard outside of town that said "Seven Women for every man!" ...the saying had to go back to the Old West days. Still cracks me up. "Got 'seven women' on my mind....there's a girl my lord, in a flat bed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me."

My favorite LP is Late For The Sky....guess I'm getting reflective, but I don't think there are many artists that "reflect" California in their music more than Jackson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhUH_XrF ... re=related

The Late Show....my favorite song of Browne's...BEAUTIFUL, powerful and bittersweet. Anyone else like his works?

Have one of his vinyls, saw him on PBS recently, not changed much and his voice is still strong.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:13 pm

Back in the good old days of 60's AM radio we would listen to our little transistor radios in bed in the dark after everyone had gone to bed. AM radio stations were allowed to turn up their signals at night because many stations left the air and they wouldn't interfere with other signals.

I was in Iowa, the "middle" of the country......and the best stations were WLS in Chicago and the BEST one was in Little Rock, Arkansas....only "available" to us at night!! We'd get full length DOORS, King Crimson, Chambers Brothers' Time Has Come Today....all the best of deep album tracks. So good.

This was a big hit everywhere, and for me in 1967, nothing was more sublime, unique or perfectly beautiful than the trippy "Whiter Shade Of Pale".

It holds up today as well as then.......Procol Harum. I hope you all can close your eyes and go back there too....ot open your eyes and watch a really great music film too, from trippy the days of the Summer Of Love.
They weren't called videos back then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

Post by **twilla** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:26 pm

jamestkirk wrote:Back in the good old days of 60's AM radio we would listen to our little transistor radios in bed in the dark after everyone had gone to bed. AM radio stations were allowed to turn up their signals at night because many stations left the air and they wouldn't interfere with other signals.

I was in Iowa, the "middle" of the country......and the best stations were WLS in Chicago and the BEST one was in Little Rock, Arkansas....only "available" to us at night!! We'd get full length DOORS, King Crimson, Chambers Brothers' Time Has Come Today....all the best of deep album tracks. So good.

This was a big hit everywhere, and for me in 1967, nothing was more sublime, unique or perfectly beautiful than the trippy "Whiter Shade Of Pale".

It holds up today as well as then.......Procol Harum. I hope you all can close your eyes and go back there too....ot open your eyes and watch a really great music film too, from trippy the days of the Summer Of Love.
They weren't called videos back then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

Yeah
I always wondered why the reception was better at night
I remember my first transistor, it was yellow and had a wrist band
lol

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:33 pm

Can you imagine getting a radio station, 800 miles away, on a little radio with no external antenna nowadays??!! Ha! Driving cross country, an FM radio station lasts about 20-30 miles and then your searching for another.

Post by **twilla** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:37 pm

jamestkirk wrote:Can you imagine getting a radio station, 800 miles away, on a little radio with no external antenna nowadays??!! Ha! Driving cross country, an FM radio station lasts about 20-30 miles and then your searching for another.

Out here when you run out of stations on the open road with little scenery-all I can say is
thank god for CD player in the car

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:40 pm

twilla wrote:
jamestkirk wrote:Can you imagine getting a radio station, 800 miles away, on a little radio with no external antenna nowadays??!! Ha! Driving cross country, an FM radio station lasts about 20-30 miles and then your searching for another.

Out here when you run out of stations on the open road with little scenery-all I can say is
thank god for CD player in the car

Ya, that stretch between Tucumcari and Albuquerque is a dead zone!

Post by **twilla** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:46 pm

jamestkirk wrote:
twilla wrote:
jamestkirk wrote:Can you imagine getting a radio station, 800 miles away, on a little radio with no external antenna nowadays??!! Ha! Driving cross country, an FM radio station lasts about 20-30 miles and then your searching for another.

Out here when you run out of stations on the open road with little scenery-all I can say is
thank god for CD player in the car
Ya, that stretch between Tucumcari and Albuquerque is a dead zone!

OMG the one between Roswell to anywhere
lol

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:15 pm

Eric Burdon is as good as it gets. We love him here!! The Animals go right back to my little rock-band in Junior high when I sang and played drums to "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place".
Nothing lite for me, even then!! 1964...ya, I know..."god, he's SO old!!"
.....and wise!! Ha!

What's your favorite Eric Burdon song(s). For me.."Sky Pilot", "San Franciscan Nights", ALL of the original Animals material!!

I just found a nice Aussie CD on Polydor......
The Essential Eric Burdon and The Animals/A Decade Of Rock Blues (1990)

1. River Deep Mountain High 7.20
2. San Franciscan Nights 3.24
3. Anything 3/20
4. Monterey 4.18
5. White Houses 4.43
6. Winds Of Changes 4.00
7. To Love Somebody 7.20
8. Sky Pilot 7.27
9. Ring Of Fire 5.25
10. Coloured Rain 9.30
11. Serenade To A Sweet Lady 6.17
12. St James Infirmary 4.15

Really great set here!!!
so, what are your favorites by Burdon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58&fmt=35 When I Was Young (1967) HD & HQ video.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdjwuXRsFI

"White Houses You'd better get straight...!!

Post by **twilla** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:27 pm

jamestkirk wrote:Eric Burdon is as good as it gets. We love him here!! The Animals go right back to my little rock-band in Junior high when I sang and played drums to "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place".
Nothing lite for me, even then!! 1964...ya, I know..."god, he's SO old!!"
.....and wise!! Ha!

What's your favorite Eric Burdon song(s). For me.."Sky Pilot", "San Franciscan Nights", ALL of the original Animals material!!

I just found a nice Aussie CD on Polydor......
The Essential Eric Burdon and The Animals/A Decade Of Rock Blues (1990)

1. River Deep Mountain High 7.20
2. San Franciscan Nights 3.24
3. Anything 3/20
4. Monterey 4.18
5. White Houses 4.43
6. Winds Of Changes 4.00
7. To Love Somebody 7.20
8. Sky Pilot 7.27
9. Ring Of Fire 5.25
10. Coloured Rain 9.30
11. Serenade To A Sweet Lady 6.17
12. St James Infirmary 4.15

Really great set here!!!
so, what are your favorites by Burdon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58&fmt=35 When I Was Young (1967) HD & HQ video.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdjwuXRsFI "White Houses You'd better get straight...!!

JTK Can you still play the drums?

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:33 pm

twilla wrote:
jamestkirk wrote:Eric Burdon is as good as it gets. We love him here!! The Animals go right back to my little rock-band in Junior high when I sang and played drums to "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place".
Nothing lite for me, even then!! 1964...ya, I know..."god, he's SO old!!"
.....and wise!! Ha!

What's your favorite Eric Burdon song(s). For me.."Sky Pilot", "San Franciscan Nights", ALL of the original Animals material!!

I just found a nice Aussie CD on Polydor......
The Essential Eric Burdon and The Animals/A Decade Of Rock Blues (1990)

1. River Deep Mountain High 7.20
2. San Franciscan Nights 3.24
3. Anything 3/20
4. Monterey 4.18
5. White Houses 4.43
6. Winds Of Changes 4.00
7. To Love Somebody 7.20
8. Sky Pilot 7.27
9. Ring Of Fire 5.25
10. Coloured Rain 9.30
11. Serenade To A Sweet Lady 6.17
12. St James Infirmary 4.15

Really great set here!!!
so, what are your favorites by Burdon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58&fmt=35 When I Was Young (1967) HD & HQ video.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdjwuXRsFI "White Houses You'd better get straight...!!
JTK Can you still play the drums?

I gave up my drum kit some years back, but I have my sticks, practice pad...there's always 5 gallon buckets and tin cans!! I play wherever and on anything I can!!!

I'll be getting another kit someday soon. It's like riding a bike and I've always had rhythm and still do! Tapping along to "TO Love Somebody" from the "Essential Burdon" right now!!

Always keep on ROCKIN"!!

Post by **twilla** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:45 pm

I takes a certain ambidexterity to play the drums
You probably have a certain type of stick you like too.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:41 pm

twilla wrote:I takes a certain ambidexterity to play the drums
You probably have a certain type of stick you like too.

I'm for medium sticks..not the heavy fat sticks some use. Some feel better than others but i'm not picky about make, generally. I guess it takes some coordination, but I took piano and that kind of "both Hands doing something different" was not for me. Drumming , the hands work together, piano you have one hand doing something completely different from the other......total respect for great keyboard players.....

And try playing bass at the same time!!! Ray was a rock pioneer of that and influenced a lot of keyboard players.

Post by **twilla** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:45 pm

[quote="jamestkirk
And try playing bass at the same time!!! Ray was a rock pioneer of that and influenced a lot of keyboard players.

[/quote]

Yes I agree

Post by **jim4371** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:46 pm

In high school a buddy and I both played drums and bass at the same time.. bass and hi hat only of course

It's pretty trippy.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:55 pm

jim4371 wrote:In high school a buddy and I both played drums and bass at the same time.. bass and hi hat only of course
It's pretty trippy.

Now that's crazy!!

Randy Holden and his power blues trio had his drummer playing bass too....foot pedal with no high hat, I think. He said most of the music plodded along a bit more slowly than he would have liked...didn't want to get the drummer/bassist too maxed out!

Post by **jim4371** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:30 pm

OK now that's insane.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:23 pm

jim4371 wrote:OK now that's insane.

Right!! He wasn't required to
do it on the record, but I shouldn't have said power trio...it was a DUO!!

Randy in front of a stack of speakers stacked two high (8 or 10 feet high and running the full length of the stage...maybe 6 or 8 speakers on either side of the drummer.....no bass player, just the drummer (also playing bass). I guess he thought, hey, Jack Bruce got too much notice!, so I'll get rid of one guy up front and then it'll be just me!!

Seriously, I think Randy is one of the TOP guitarists of all time, but I think he set himself up for failure there. Think Blue Cheer, ten times louder!!

Speaking of great audiophile recordings. Believe this!! The Association's Self-Titled first LP with "Along Comes Mary" in MONO on Valiant Records.....wide open, clean. no extra crap like reverb. As close to live that a studio recording will ever sound. If you have it listen again. If not, it's around for $5 or $10 (or was). A great folk-rock, sometimes hard rockin' piece of psychedelia. A real gem.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:19 pm

Eric Anderson is a great songriter/musician that got his start in the early Greenwich Village days with Dylan, Ochs, Fred Neil and so on.

An influential artist, he wrote some famous and beautiful protest songs....heres an early one performed at the famous 1970 Festival Express tour in Canada---the Canadian answer to Woodstock. Great vid showing the same kind of Woodstock days love fest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g70zT3lXPZc Thirsty Boots

...and one of my favorite songs Is It Really Love At All from one of my favorite albums--Blue River.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjc0dJhR ... re=related

From the same festival here is Tom Rush another folk favorite from the Cambridge Mass scene.....I love his work too.
a beautiful song about leaving home that we've all been thru.....CHILD"S SONG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRNJ2VMy ... re=related

These videos really take me back....hope you enjoy them and maybe get you to discover an artist you never knew you loved!!

No Regrets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxEKfEBOWM

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:58 am

Eric Andersen occupies that small group of artists occupied only by the likes of Dylan, Joni Mitchell. Leonard Cohen......

He hit Greenwich Village in '62 and was instantly in the top coffee houses and clubs that Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs occupied....he went on to write & record some of the seminal folk protest songs of the early 60's. Thirsty Boots, Violets Of Dawn....Close the Door Lightly......

He is still writing and recording some of the best music of today including Beat Avenue a double CD (you can get a used CD for a couple bucks at amazon) with a 26+ minute track about his experience in SF, the day Pres. Kennedy was shot...powerful and compelling.

Again I send you to lastfm.com where you can listen to the full CD of "Beat Avenue" and most of his LPs. Here is a dark track ("Memory of the Future" the album that contains the song Misty gave us the lyrics to-- "Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam")....

Here is CHINA TOWN dark and compelling...you may want these lyrics too, MON!!....."there was a murder down in Chinatown, just a murder down in Chinatown..."
http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Andersen/ ... /Chinatown

For the full LP....
http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Andersen/ ... the+Future

Next we'll do Phil Ochs.........stay tuned

Post by **jamestkirk** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:33 pm

Today we'll explore the first truly psychedelic band to come out of San Fran and release a record.....

Country Joe and The Fish......ELECTRIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY is truly amazing. We all tripped out to this one in '67. They were THE BAND then and as the bio for the videos provided....many actually timed their acid trips to peak during the Country Joe portion at Fillmore West or the Avalon Ballroom. The bio provided is very good and gives a real nice backdrop for the music being played.

I never got to see them live, but they were the backdrop and soundtrack for our lives in the late 60's. Peace, love & acid were what The Fish were about, along with a healthy dose of Vietnam/anti-establishment tunes to fuel the flames of the "youth revolution".

TUNE IN, TURN ON AND DROP OUT. The slogan of the day back then...not necessarily taken literally..but dropping out of the established way of thinking was appropriate to the times......very cool songs below!!

"Happiness Is A Porpoise Mouth"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK2i3Cls2YU

"Death Sound Blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3w3v_DsPXQ

Add your favorite Fish tune.....!!

(Where's the long haired Hippie smilie?!!)

Post by **jamestkirk** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:31 pm

1967 would have to be considered the PEAK in the golden age of rock....well it was the Summer of Love.

The DOORS
Sgt. Peppers & Magical Mystery Tour
Small faces -"Itchycoo Park)
Animals-"Winds of Change"
Airplane _(Surealistic Pilow & Baxter's)
Floyd-(Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
Love--Forever Cahnges
Cream-Disraeli Gears
Stones-Satanic
Velvet Underground AND NICO
Are you Experienced and Axis--JIMI!!
David Bowie debut
Taj Mahal-Taj Mahal
Goodbye and Hello-tim buckley
13th Floor's Easter Everywhere
Chelsea Girl-NICO
CCR -newly formed
The Stooges-newly formed
The Monkees
Younger Than Yesterday-Byrds
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD-debut
Smiley Smile
Bee Gees 1st
Moby Grape
Strange Days
Procol Harum
Safe As Milk-Beefheart
Moodies' Days of Future Past
Traffic's Mr Fantasy
Phil Ochs' Pleasures of the Harbor

And a favorite...the CLASSIC "Tangerine Dream" by Kaleidoscope-UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQOJ657ptE "The Sky Children"
Some of the best psychedelia recorded.....mellow British Psych!!

I know you'll listen.