and NO Love For Kanye, Rick??? yer slipping buddy, Boy George??? Oh, I most agree with ya' on that one or dozen ass whippings the little asshole deserves, ten times over. A public disgrace of a runway teen dick....what a fkn role model for youth, no fkn wonder they lack direction other than "trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind".......*** *** Grateful Dead, lead vocals & guitar Jerry Garcia, Song Title: Casey Jones...."driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones, ya' better watch your speed. Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind". "Trouble ahead, Lady in red, Take my advice you'd be better off dead. Switchman's sleeping, train hundred and two is On the wrong track and headed for you." I too well recollect laying down on my back on the top of Northrop University's roof top, a couple of buddies there kept the roof entry a secret, where we'd lay out beach towels, pillows, mixed drinks, or beers, and always a Cheech and Chong EZ Wider Cigar, no blunts then never necessary, besides who wants to fk up the taste of an herb, with a cigar leaf, not fkn me, never......4:20 Pm.....like fkn Beach Combers on a LAX entry rooftop....... We laid down listening to The Grateful Dead, (b/t jets every 30-40 seconds come rush time, prime time flights); cuz we could not sit upright, not even in a lawn chair.......Those Amazing Machines..........sure beats a Tera dactyl....
"The pusher" by Steppinwolf. I don't think I ever heard that song way back then when I wasn't stoned.
Appreciated the abilities of the Dead but never bought any of their music Working Mans Dead excepted. Casey Jones was my favorite track and I taped it onto what I reffered to as a selective listening tape. Other tunes I added were Dream Weaver, Rock On, Pilot of the Airways, Holding on to Yesterday, I'm Not In Love, It's a Heartache. Those tunes were my exceptions on albums I heard in the mid Seventies. Rather than buy the Albums I'd borrow them and take what I liked.
Michael I figured you more for the 50s & 60s sound that I referred to in the OP. Hell maybe even a little of the big band stuff with I also enjoy.
When I first started listening to music there was no Rock & Roll. I heard the American Pop guys like Martin, Sinatra, and Bennett. When visiting realtives in West Virginia I heard the Grand Ole Oprey Stars. Unlike the Pop Guys they played their own instruments wrote their own stuff, very cool. When I was 10 Elvis arrived, like his early stuff, got caught up with Buddy Holly, Chuck, Jerry Lee, Fats Domino and a host of others. By the time I hit 14 Elvis was drafted, Buddy Holly dead, Chuck in Jail, Jerry Lee thrown out of England. That led to Dick Clarks Philly cheese steaks like Frankie Avalon, Fabian, and another real zushies. Fats and Ricky Nelson kept on bopping. With few exceptions I did not care for Doo Wop. I liked the Folk Groups like The Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary, the Brothers Four, Judy Collins and though her politics sucked liked Joan Baez as a singer player. I pretty much liked a lot of stuff probably into the mid eighties. With a couple of exceptions Rock & Roll was pretty much in decline after the late Seventies. Tow late Seventies/Early Eighties Band I enjoyed on a consistent basis were Van Halen & The Cars. Just made what I call a 7/8/9 CD that leads off with Always Somewhere the only Scorpions tune I ever liked. I do like to play wish I had started years earlier than I did but the US Army would only let me play tread toys. I have had the privilege of doing studio time and found that a wonderful experience, not many get to do that. I have always felt that Music is Humanities Finest Art Form.
I always said that if Janis Joplin balled like she sang it'd be one hell of a ride. Appreciated Grace Slick as a vocalist "White Rabbit" Lather" but I hated her politics.
I could never get into Joplin, her voice to me had the same effect as fingernails on a blackboard. Wasn't a big fan of screaming singers.
Actually, I saw an interview with Grace a yr or so ago and she was mocking these current fanatical environmentalists and health "freaks"...... she went on about being busted a couple of times in the old days for DUI when she wasn't actually in her car. Funny stuff.
I think Janis was toning it down a bit, liked her delivery on "Mercedes Benz" made a marketable item out of a crap song like Bobby McGee. Love the way she did "Break a Little Piece of my Heart". Don't know how much longer she could have kept it up though, booze and drugs are hard on the voice.
Yep, Down on Me was a good one. Anther female favorite of mine singer guitar player song writer was Melanie. I used to dream of sessions with her getting reduced to a dry withered husk. If Melanie balled like she sang it would have been a wild ride as well. I initially felt the same way about Melissa Etheridge until I found out she was on the other team.
Judy Durham was crackerjack, Morning Town Ride is a tune I like to sing and play myself. The Seekers did some really classy tunes, World of Our Own, Georgy Girl, I'll Never Find Another you were more of my favorites. Melanie, liked a lot of her stuff as well, every time I heard her sing "Please Love Me" I'd think I would if I could. She also did nice covers of Ruby Tuesday and Carolina In My Mind.
Michael, well stated, and one reason Your Musical Interests, and playing have always impressed and inspired me. A world without music, and a wide variety of it, would be boring as hell. I always liked Judy Collins, even a bit of Joan Baez. With Collins release of "I always cook with honey", which opened my eyes to a little known female writer who Judy did a cover version of her tune aforementioned. Which was Valerie Carter, ex Howdy Moon Lead Vocalist, then back up to Lowell George's Little Feat, as well as the bunch of work she did with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Rondstadt, and a few other Angelino natives.....that girl had a set of lungs on her like no one else, ie Carter..... I always appreicate your posts when it comes to music........very like minded, I've found joy as a kid, attending weekly Louisiana Hayride shows, or the Grand Old Opry, tho' we called the Hayride, the Opry of the West......and it was indeed. I cut my teeth first on C&W music as a kid, by going to those shows with my Dad. I believe I have seen every HOF C&W Musician in the 60s, who went on to infamy, if they weren't already there. Those shows were so much like watching Willie Mays, Mantle, Koufax, during their time playing ball, when everyone knew they were bound for the HOF, when they were in their prime. I love that feeling I get, when I see possible or no doubt HOF players, in their prime.....
With me the Judy Collins Standouts were Amazing Grace, Send In The Clowns, The Patriots game and Both Sides now. Even though Joni Mitchell wrote "Sides" I gave Judy C the nod on performance. Joni Mitchell was another artist whom I found to be excellent in all aspects of performance but my dollars never entered her record sales. Jennifer Warnes, and Tammy Wynette were two others in the same vein, liked their work, just never bought any. Feel sorry for kids today, Rap, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Jesus Christ thank God we old folks sampled better.
...I like many types of music as well as rock from different eras, but to me, the highest quality music came from the 70's.
