yes, hbilly, perfect!
The Masters of Time Dilation!!!!
A little bit of acid goes a long long way!!!!!!!!!
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I just wanted to toss one more thing about New York. Here's a comparison of The Supremes big hit "You Keep Me Hanging On" with Vanilla Fudge's cover of the same.

For the Supremes, this song was a big hit, and it's a pretty good song. It was written by one of the Holland Brothers (I forget which one) and Lozier and the other Holland helped with the production. It's a heavy subject, and a position that no one wants to be in, but the girl version is more akin to driving somewhere with your girlfriend and you realize that after 15 minutes she's still taking and you're beginning to wonder what the hell is she talking about.


The Vanilla Fudge version is different. Your living the song in that moment. Those guys were really good at what they did. They only covered songs in the five albums they recorded before they broke up, but that's the thing about these New York bands, they were really good, really good. Just take a gander at some of the Al Kooper Super Sessions, or wait til I or someone else posts them. Phenomenal stuff. The Mamas and the Papas had a great harmony, but not really on par with what's going on here. Maybe it's just a question of doing the right drugs with the right people. Don't know.

Good morning, Ladies. I trust everyone is well. Today we shall discuss what Cactus was originally conceived as and might have been: Beck, Bogert and Appice.
With the break up of Vanilla Fudge, Appice and Bogert were to form up with Jeff Beck. Unfortunately, Beck was involved in a car accident and suffered injuries. But, as they say, the Show must go on!
They did one album together and then an domestic (to us) and international tour was done before Beck went off to form The Jeff Beck Group, and Appice and Bogert worked with other guitarists like Rick Derringer, for example, who even though short, is a great gutarists. (Those two things are not correlated, I understand, but it's fun to say.)

The last two clips are from their touring performances. Same deal as yesterday!

They always resulted in good times, especially with the wimenz....

Sometime in the 24th Century when Audio-archeologists are studying the 1970s, they're going to conclude that since they're finding PFunk everywhere, it must have been a dominating force to be reckoned with.

As you can see, Parliament has returned! It must be 1974. Here's where we consistently see Fred Wellsey, Maceo Parker and the Collins Brothers (working with Parliament.)

Only the Collins Brothers worked with Funkadelic, but only sometimes to play an instrument on a specific recording. Mostly they did the production and engineering side (working in the booth.)

The Islands, man; Come to Jamaica!! Ganja for some of you; dodging bullets for others!
Today's musical journey involves the ending of Ska in the early '70s to the beginning of Reggae by the mid-70s with our genial hosts Dave Barker and Ansel Collins. Please to enjoy.

This last clip is an entire album of what is now considered "roots" reggae. You'll notice a big difference in tempo, beats, rhythm, lyrical content, and now a message: fun times are over rude boys!!!

I just want to throw in a Desmond Dekker song here. His really cool stuff was in the '60s when Ska ruled them all, and everybody skanked. (The lingo is kind of fun; almost meaningless to me, though. Try just slinging it around today in conversations with people.)

Jimmy Carter 2.0!https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/07/28/gdp-q2-.html

ABBA – Dancing Queen

The Streets of Jeff Beck: a Quinn Martin Production. Tonight's Episode: Guitarists Never Touch, Part 1
Somebody already posted "Star Cycle." Take a Bow!!!

Tomorrow will be Part 2.

Tonight's Conclusion to "Guitarists Never Touch," Starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Inspector Louis Erskine and Jeff Beck as himself. A Quinn Martin Production.

I was 12 the year that this came out and was in "love" (As much as a 12yr old kid could be) with a beautiful little girl in my 7th grade class named Hillary (No, not THAT Hillary).  Every time I hear
it I think of her.

So, when I grabbed all these songs a few weeks back, I wasn't organizing them in chronological order. The Jeff Beck Group (JBG) when Jan Hammer moved from engineer to keyboardist is kind of mixed up for you Jan Hammer fans. I apologize. I'm getting better at this.

I also have songs for all the girls I fell in love with in schools. It's probably why I got interested in Music. Enjoy it!!!!
Frankie Valli had what I would call a very successful career.

Yeah, it was nice of all those wonderful folks to score my life for me.

The maestro Barry White had these ladies as a group (and they were back up singers on his albums); they were accompanied by the great 'Love Unlimited Orchestra:'

Barry White was one big dude! I can't imagine him being any thing other than a stage performer. I don't think he could fit in a club with his group. His shows must have been awesome.

There were a number of people whose shows none of you would've caught me dead at way back then, so I missed out on a lot of what's known as spectacular shows. In my mind, it was too much like the Drama club people. Always got a weird vibe from them.

When I was stationed at Nellis way back when, I saw "shows" at the Casinos. I was impressed. No body puking in the aisles on the one hand, but no titty flashing on the other. Mixed bag there, but over all, I was impressed by the big shows!

Before we leave Jeff Beck (Part 2 above), it's "Shout Out" Time to The Yardbirds. They were a mid-60s to about 1968 group, but just as important to music development as was The Beatles, The Animals and The Rolling Stones.

All four groups, as well as countless other British groups were interested in performing and writing their own version of the "American Blues." Oddly enough, as I've opined previously, the structure of the music itself was actually a return of structure back to Great Britain. That's the same kind of return that Spain experienced with Flamenco music. (The Flamenco that you hear today is different than the Flamenco music of 16th Century Spain which was more based on quarter-tone scales rather than semi-tone scales of European music while still retaining the very complex rhythm patterns. You can still hear what the original Flamenco sounded like by going to Morocco!)

With the return of the I-IV-V pattern back to Great Britain, theses groups added something that the Blues did not have when it left the US: melodies! The British added a melodic line to the harmonies instead of the simple cadence call of the vocalized lyrics. The Cowboy "Western" music, which again used the same basic chord progression, had already made such an addition based on the use of the Spanish guitar and exposure to various Spanish musical styles.

Back to the Yardbirds, they were a really interesting group. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimi Page all were members at one time in the almost 4 years of their existence. They would have two to three guitarists perform at the same time. Their songs featured "walking bass" lines! They wanted to do the "Blues" but had a hand in almost every style of popular music that existed at the time, from psychedelia to Hard Rock, all in one group. They were impressive is what I'm trying to convey albeit poorly.

The first song is the original Yardbirds hit, "Shape of things," and the second song is Jeff Beck's redo (he's on the original) from the first Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart singing. How the British changed the Blues! There's now a more complex pattern of chord changes with a melodic vocal line instead of the simple "make a statement then repeat before the next statement."

Our next musical lesson will deal with songs from 1955. How's that for a teaser????

"1970" off of Fun House would be the obvious choice per thread title, but this is a hell of an album opener off of same. Iggy singing through a Marshall stack, hooked to the gills:

https://youtu.be/fkC2lauXCKU

With your permission, black_cat:

No worries, and thanks!

Judas Priest
victim of changes

I got to say that black_cat and hbilly just laid down some nice choices!! And, remember how I said I would get better with chronological order? HA! I did this one a while ago as well. So......

Genesis!!!! One of my favorite groups. Somebody already posted "Lamb LIes Down" which is a hell of an album. The Story of the entire album is about a young punk who's killed in New York City, but is in a sort of purgatory. The Album is about what he must do and the sacrifices he makes to return to "Life." Anyway, even without anything from "Lamb," this will take two days.

"A Trick of the Tail" was the first Genesis Album I bought. On KOME radio, there was a Sunday show that played nothing, but what was called "prog rock." The one thing that always impressed me about the lyrics of Genesis songs was that they were novel-like in that there was always enough information where you could form mental images and follow along in the song.

Genesis used English History as the leit motif to comment on modern day England.

Ah the 1970s when LGBT first start gong mainstream and we were all going to die from "The Coming ICE AGE".
Both were cover stories for Time or Life magazine.

You forgot that in 1974 it was predicted that by 2004, the planet, Earth, third stone from the Sun, would run out of crude oil.

But, before that, in 1968, Paul Ehrlich, and alleged smart guy from Stanford, took up Malthus' 19th Century claim that the World would become over-populated and improved the claim by predicting wide spread famine AND over-population by the 1980s.

I can accept your first sentence about LGB (T was years off still) becoming mainstream in the 70s, but if you're also willing to extend that to the late '60s. But it's road to mainstream booya started probably with the Mass Conscription of WWII. That's when people started being thrown out for homosexual activity. It was judged prejudicial to military discipline and good order. A lot of people met that way!!!
And done forget the porn movies!!!! That was all underground stuff.

I, of course, have no idea why you're angry about an arbitrary nomenclature system. The years are just calendar dates. Society does what Society does. No one waited for a decade called the 1970s started to finally make some sort of weird changes. Law Makers do that kind of stuff, but not regular people. If it'll make you feel better, you can post your favorite Cher video even if it's not from the '70s.

Genesis: Day 2
They weren't popular with the womenz in the '60s and '70s; that is to say that some womenz did like them, but the majority, nope...not until Phil Collins started a solo career and the Genesis itself started making more "popular" type music after the Duke album. They were even on MTV with videos! (Friends and relatives were sending some of the guys VCR taps of hours of MTV programming back when they played music videos. That's how we stayed in touch with US culture while overseas.)

With the "...and then there were three" album, Genesis was down to three guys. Everyone else went off to do solo stuff. They whittled down slow album after album after "Lamb Lies Down." They were still cranking music with more than interested structure and chord progressions, though, as well as maintaining superb musicianship. A Testament to their talent!!

These last two are from an early '70s album, Foxtrot. I saved it for last because as the keyboardist Tony Banks said, "it was probably peak Genesis." (I just remembered why I did Genesis out of chronological order.)
The songs are entirely religious in nature: "Watcher of the Skies" and "Supper's Ready." Supper's Ready comes from the Book of Revelation. I tried to find some fan video that would help explain that, and this was the best out there I could find. It's tough material. "Watcher of the Skies," you guys could figure out who that is.

That Look or Life cover story was about a guy that wanted to be a gal so bad he tied a cinder block to his dick/balls and threw it off the top of a building.  Myra Breckinridge was published in 1968 but hit mainstream as a movie in 1970.  Walk on the Wild side was released in 1972.   Get Back was released by the Beatles in 1969.........

I get it, Brother, I do. I was born in San Francisco when it was still a working class town. "Industry" occurred there; in fact the entire Bay Area made things. San Francisco was part of CA, and CA was still part of the Ol' West. All of it is gone now, and never to return.

And not one single change that these people (leftists) made was for the better. Everything they did ended up destroying what was only to replace it with something that failed, and then needed to be bolstered with more policies that are continuing to fail. They never once asked themselves what could go wrong, but only think of their own brilliance in their proposals and what they attempt to accomplish.

They are blind, delusional and usually heading towards some sort of self-destruction. Sex and Drugs are used to medicate themselves from the reality they created for themselves. Hence the need for both to be extreme in one way or the other. I've always considered an orgy to be a last grasp of trying to enjoy sex before you give up on it all together. In the end, everything they do is meaningless, and therefore the need for more self-destructive behaviors because it's all meaningless anyway.

On the other hand, it's always been like this on this planet with human beings. In the Old Testament, one of the prophets (I can't remember which one) wrote that "...there's nothing new under the Sun..." He wrote that, probably, almost 3,000 years ago! Maybe even longer! He was right then, and right now.

So, I recommend to find some Joy in Life while you have the chance. You get a chance to help someone, do it. You get a chance to listen to some music that's 40 plus years old, enjoy it. None of us will be passing this way again.

And, if you really need a decade to hate, might I suggest the '90s? Before the Clinton Admin and the rise of politics uber alles, Americans believed that tomorrow was always going to be better, and that's even with all the shit that was happening. The Clintons and the Dems/progressives worked so very hard to destroy that.

In the mean time, please to enjoy this:

and might as well enjoy this too: Life can still be enjoyed without feeling like you're deluding yourself from what's going on around you.

I still have that album.

"Let's rap, little people." That's how the cool in-his-30s teacher with a curly perm would say to get us in a circle while sitting on the floor while mostly he discussed the topics of the day back in 1972. Whatever.
But, Let's Rap!

I'm not sure what year this scene takes place. I thought it was 1955?

What makes a song, no matter how good, sound dated? Normally, it's elements of music that no one does any more.

No matter how good "Contrasts" is, many people will be turned off by it right at the beginning and not bother to actually listen to it.

What makes a song timeless? Well, i don't have the authoritative answer, but before you start throwing objects at me, hear me out.
Usually it's some element that has not been heard before at the time the song was released into the public, but it is normally something that grabs the attention and gets into the psyche of even a casual listener.
Here's a song that is on the timeless side:

The Beatles wanted to be like Buddy Holly. Here's what they were doing in 1960:

Here's a song recorded in the late '50s, and finally released in 1960:

It's ahead of its time! How can I make that claim??? Am I bolder than smarter??? Perhaps. But, put this in your pipe and smoke it...a Canadian band called Chad Allen and the Expressions recorded an almost exact match of the Johnny Kidd song in 1965. The Who would record an almost exact match of the same song in 1970 on the live album "Live at Leeds." The Future is here, old Man." "Shakin' All Over" is still used on the soundtracks of our modern American movies!!

OH! These guys would become "The Guess Who." That picture reeks of Canadian!!
Then we have Link Wray!! His '50s recordings affected and influenced a great many people, Jimmy Page and Pete Townsend to just name two. This is from 1958:

He's got some '70s stuff he did while he was in San Francisco. We shall listen to it.
Link Wray's guitar stylings show up in a lot of guitarists. Ecoutez:

Francois Hardy is still a good looking woman Oh, and Jimmy Page did the fuzz guitar on the recording. Almost forgot that!
So, I'm not sure what we learned or gained, but some music will be with us forever spanning genres and decades!

Oh by the way, this is the song that started off Hip-Hop. It was originally recorded in 1959. Joe Sample was on the recording. We'll be hearing more from him...soon!!!

By the way, a chick named Bobbye played the Bongos.

The Purple People Eaters, 1970
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Only the text of your post showed up at first! You got me!!!!!
Fun Fact: High School football coach was Mike Holmgren. One of his buddies owned the photography company that used to take our team pictures. All I can remember was that he played on the Vikings and I think his last name started with a Y. (We're talking 1976.)

ETA: I finally remembered his name on 11AUG22!!!! Ron Yary!!

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember these guys. I think I know what to post for tomorrow.......

"Does anybody remember laughter????"
Man, did that movie suck. But, Led Zeppelin doesn't!!!!!!!!
I've decided to just post an album at a time. Why? Because, that's why!!!

Jimmy Page wanted to have a band to create and perform what he called the "electric blues." He actually created a band that did some blues, some rock, some heavy rock, etc., but a lot of music styled on 17th and 18th Century English music structures, oddly enough.
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp used to be Jennings Farm Blues. I liked the latter much better.

Josefus
(selection based on an hbilly post)
A Band that we talked about in the '70s, but very few people heard its music.
They're from Texas, and they still play around to this day. Back then, they were only a regional band as they remain so today. They were doing the "heavy" rock.
I stumbled over their music on youtube back in June. I was amazed in that we had a version of Black Sabbath before Black Sabbath got here. These days, though, the music would be called "stoner rock." Kind of an unfair name.

Today we visit with Procol Harum and thier 1970 release Home. It's the next to last album for Robin Trower before he forms up his power trio. This is right after they did A Salty Dog which is an all time favorite album that appropriately enough I would be marooned with.
You people are getting the whole album! It's a prescription for the rock n roll disease we all have!!!!!

Today we spend a little time with Jethro Tull's 1970's Benefit album. It's a dark album. It has very militant songs, love songs and songs when love is gone! We're going to listen to the militant songs, plus one song to remind us to be human. I figure with what's going on right now, we need this. For those of you that were never sent to a place on the throes of a political take over, this is about the speed at which it starts out.

Remember! Remain human no matter what needs to be done: