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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you...  Posted: March 26th, 2017, 4:52 am |
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Fact: When I was 14 I used to hang out at the local Budget Tapes and Records to listen to music they played on the good stereo and speakers (Speakerlab 7s) they had, browse LPs and read Freak Brothers comic books. The store manager used to let us kids loiter as long as we didn't cause trouble, stayed out of the way of the older paying customers, and bought something now and again. I probably bought half my album collection from that store (along with a good number of Zig Zags and other head gear) as my loyal payment for all the time I spent there when I was younger and had little money.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: March 30th, 2017, 4:20 pm |
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Fact: I went to the Monterey Pop Music Festival in 1967...
We were in the third row and I have photos of Pete Townsend destroying his guitar and some amps.
I'm sure you oldsters will remember some of the bands. It's interesting that all of these people who were there are now gone:
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas
Keith Moon and John Entwistle of the Who
Brian Jones (who I saw up close and personal when he walked by me...  )
This is from Wikipedia:
Sunday, June 18. Evening
Introduction by Paul Simon introduced by Tom Smothers
Blues Project
1.Flute Thing
2.Wake Me, Shake Me
Note: Blues Project set list is incomplete.
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Introduced by Tommy Smothers
1.Combination of the Two
2.Ball and Chain
Note: Big Brother and the Holding Company second set list incomplete. Also, this set was filmed for Monterey Pop. The first set was not filmed, but the band wanted to get on the film after their first set went down to huge acclaim.
The Group With No Name
Set list unknown.
Buffalo Springfield
Introduced by Peter Tork
(With David Crosby guesting in place of Neil Young, plus Doug Hastings)
1.For What It's Worth
2.Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
3.Rock and Roll Woman
4.Bluebird
5.A Child's Claim to Fame
6.Pretty Girl Why
The Who
Introduced by Eric Burdon
1.Substitute
2.Summertime Blues
3.Pictures of Lily
4.A Quick One, While He's Away
5.Happy Jack (the only song not filmed from this performance)
6.My Generation
Grateful Dead
1.Viola Lee Blues
2.Cold Rain and Snow
3.Alligator/Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Introduced by Brian Jones.
1.Killing Floor
2.Foxy Lady
3.Like a Rolling Stone
4.Rock Me Baby
5.Hey Joe
6.Can You See Me (The only song not filmed from this performance)
7.The Wind Cries Mary
8.Purple Haze
9.Wild Thing
The Mamas & the Papas
Introduced by Paul Simon.
1.Straight Shooter
2.Spanish Harlem
3.Somebody Groovy
4.Got a Feelin'
5.California Dreamin'
6.I Call Your Name
7.Monday, Monday
Scott McKenzie
(Backed by The Mamas & the Papas)
1.San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
The Mamas & the Papas & Scott McKenzie[edit]
1.Dancing In The Streets (Finale)
Quote: Fact: I just waged a bug-spray and fly swatter jihad on a big-@ss Huntsman spider that decided to traverse the kitchen floor.
OMG! Durían! I have arachnophobia and because of cane spiders, we had to move from the Big Island of Hawai’i after four months...
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: March 30th, 2017, 10:29 pm |
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Fact: It is hard to type and hold a sleeping baby at the same time... but when your baby will sleep through you typing AND you blaring Bob Seager singing and playing "Old Time Rock and Roll" it's a good evening!  hehehe
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: March 31st, 2017, 6:43 am |
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: March 31st, 2017, 3:11 pm |
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I'm way too young to have attended Monterey or Woodstock (though my family and I were in the States by then - my father was more of a Jazzer tending towards Armstrong, Ellington and Basie, and some 50s stuff) - but I have vague memories of having been told about Watkins Glen in 1973, when I was summer jobbing in the garment district of NY on Tenth Avenue in Manhattan (yes, there was once actually garment manufacturing in the US way back when!).
At least I have the triple LP "Woodstock" and the double LP "Woodstock Two" to listen to here at home.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: March 31st, 2017, 6:02 pm |
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Fact: Music has been as much a part of my life as Tolkien’s writings. I learned to play piano and several other instruments, although I don’t play any now.
But regarding the music at the times, I was very lucky for several reason. We lived close to San Jose and San Francisco where the bands would play.
At San Jose’s Civic Auditorium I saw The Dave Clark 5, Herman’s Hermits, The Animals, and Paul Revere and the Raiders. I went with girlfriends to those shows. They were kind of the “teeny-bopper” bands.
But, my two older brothers took me to Winterland in San Francisco where we saw The Who, The Moody Blues, the Doors, and of course all the local SF bands, like Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead, who would open for the top billing. At 2:00 am some mornings, Bill Graham would close the doors and call it a private party. Sometimes we’d be there until 3:00 or 4:00 am. Then we’d stop by the SF Airport and run on the people movers really fast!
Here’s something interesting: I wasn’t allowed to see The Rolling Stones or Sonny and Cher. My Mom didn’t approve of either. But, we DID take my Mom to Winterland one night to see Donovan. She was in love with his music.
The one show I’m sorry I missed was the last show of the Beatles. I had a girlfriend whose father had a box seat at the Cow Palace and I was invited to go. Mom wouldn’t let me because she said all it would be was a bunch of screaming girls. I wouldn’t even be able to hear what they were playing. I guess she didn’t realize that that’s what was going on at the shows at the Civic in San Jose. A bunch of screaming girls! I didn’t care! It was THE BEATLES!!!
Durían, I was star struck at 15. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have attended the Seattle Pop Festival at 11!  An eye opener for sure!
Gandolorin, I adore Louis, and Duke and The Count but especially Frankie!!! My folks would play that music until the British Invasion. We mostly skipped over the 50’s stuff. Wrong age.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 1st, 2017, 9:10 pm |
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Sounds like a lot of music around.  It always amazes me how music is such a universal thing regardless of culture, upbringing, etc... I am much more of a country western and bluegrass or folk music mind of guy but as I have grown older I have a wide variety of random songs I have added into my playlist from 70s rock, a few 50s tunes and even eaier from the 40s all the way up to modern country, contemporary, rock, celtic (lots of celtic and irosh music) and so forth which, I guess would be my fact about me.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 1st, 2017, 9:42 pm |
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Findë wrote: Fact:... Gandolorin, I adore Louis, and Duke and The Count but especially Frankie!!! My folks would play that music until the British Invasion. We mostly skipped over the 50’s stuff. Wrong age... Errrrr ... when I wrote 50s music above (my dad's), I wasn't thinking of Rock 'n' Roll ... I meant 50s Jazz like Stan Getz, Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Mann ... I have all of his records now, and bought more along the same lines myself. And I do have a 7-LP box of Elvis songs. _________________
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 2:28 pm |
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I have about 3,000 LPs covering everything from traditional folk music to classical symphonies and tons of 60's and 70's blues and rock.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 3:28 pm |
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Gandolorin wrote: Errrrr ... when I wrote 50s music above (my dad's), I wasn't thinking of Rock 'n' Roll ... I meant 50s Jazz like Stan Getz, Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Mann ... I have all of his records now, and bought more along the same lines myself. And I do have a 7-LP box of Elvis songs. Ah, ok. I do have the Dave Brubeck "Time Out" CD. I think what drew me to his music was the timings, 9/8, 5/4, 3/4, and 6/4, which you rarely heard or hear now. Your collection sounds like mine, Evil.Shieldmaiden. A bit of everything. Lately I've been wearing out The Rippingtons.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 5:50 pm |
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One of Brubeck's classics is of course "Take Five", a 5/4 time, but the real freaker is "Unsquare Dance", 7/4 time. I just love drummer Joe Morello's guffaw of relief at the end of the version I own.
I once was at a concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti in college around 1974/75.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 7:59 am |
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Fact: When I listen to Glenn Miller, I think of my dad.
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 11:44 am |
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Hanasian wrote: Fact: When I listen to Glenn Miller, I think of my dad. Fact: DITTO!
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 3:50 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 5th, 2017, 7:50 am |
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Fact: I was a 'Head' in the 1970's
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Post subject: Re: Getting to know you... Posted: April 5th, 2017, 9:12 am |
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Fact: I have a dolphin collection. I lost count at 500. They are anything from tiny earrings to a 2 foot tall one carved in ironwood, and even a neon one that's about three feet long. Most of them were gifts.
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