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Post by mightyjack on May 19, 2007 10:01:34 GMT -5
Yeah I guess I shoud look at it like that Broadsword, but since I've been on the board its slowly morphed into - "I know better, and am smarter and wiser than the rest of you and my opinion has more vailidity than yours". So It's become a term I've grown to hate and have tried to stop using myself. I'm even planning on expunging it from my old reviews on the MST site. I love this story about Jimi playing in a club, testing out some new material. When a drunk Jim Morrison interupts the show, staggers on stage and starts swearing and sluirring. Joplin pops Jim on the head with a whiskey bottle to get him to shut up. Yeah, right. A "drunk" Jim Morrison? Mighty Jack, stop making things up! I'm so sure. I'm sorry. I'm a natural born lair. I can't help myself. We all know Jim was a Choir boy, I am shamed. Back to the 60s: I loved the names they came up with... one of my favorites, "The Bubby Puppies", what the heck's a bubble puppy? lol
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Post by mightyjack on May 19, 2007 14:09:13 GMT -5
Here's a 1967 Rock (including some contemporary blues, etc) Album Timeline and it's a work in progress... Steve Miller was mentioned in this thread. His first LP was actually released in 68, as were the first albums by the Move and Quicksilver MS. I also found that Joplin did have a rlease in 67, but she was more like a backup and side singer. The LP was self titled, "Big Brother and the Holding Company" but I haven't been able to nail a specific release date yet.
January 4th - The Doors (Self titled debut) 10th - More of the Monkees 20th - Rolling Stones, Between the Button (UK/FEB in US) 23rd - The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland
February ?? - Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow ?? - The Left Banke, Don't Walk Away Renee 6th - The Byrds, Younger Than Yesterday
March ?? - The Velvet Underground and Nico (Self titled debut) ?? - The Turtles, Happy Together 6th - Temptations Live! 10th - Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 17th - The Grateful Dead (Self titled debut)
April ?? - The Electric Prunes, I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
May ?? - The 5th Dimension, Up, Up and Away 12th - Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (UK, released in Aug in the US) 22nd - The Monkees, Headquarters 26th - Frank Zappa a/t Mothers of Invention, Absolutely Free
June 1st - The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1st - David Bowie (self titled debut) ?? - Donovan, Mellow Yellow ?? - Moby Grape (Self titled debut) ?? - The Hollies, Evolution 14th - The Bee Gees, Bee Gees 1st
July 17th - The Temptations with a Lot 'o Soul 24th - The Yardbirds, Little Games
August ?? - Joan Biaz, Joan 5th - Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
September ?? - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Safe as Milk (Though I never could get into this, it was John Lennons favorite album in 67) 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere 15th - The Kinks, Something Else 18th - The Beach Boys, Smiley Smile
October 7th - The Doors, Strange Days ?? - Nico, Chelsea Girl
November 14th - The Monkees, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. 27th - The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (Rleased as EP in UK) ?? - Buffalo Springfield Again ?? - Cream, Disraeli Gears ?? - The Zodiac, Cosmic Sounds ?? - Love, Forever Changes
December 1st - Donovan, A Gift from a Flower to a Garden and Wear Your Love Like Heaven 1st - Jimi Hendrix, Axis: Bold as Love (UK, Feb 68 in US) ?? - The 5th Dimension, The Magic Garden 8th - Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request 14th - The Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed 15th - The Who Sell Out 18th - Beach Boys, Wild Honey 27th - Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding ?? - Traffic, Mr. Fantasy -aka- Heaven Is In Your Mind (There are 4 different versions of this album, the US version was released in 68)
Unspecified Months Pretty Things, Emotion (The LPs okay, but the song "Sun" is freaking amazing!) Small Faces had some releases Big Brother and the Holding Company The Nice, The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack Devil's Anvil, Hard Rock From The Middle East The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints Red Krayola, Parable of Arable Land (They also had Coconut Hotel which the label -run by Kenny Rodgers brother, LeLand- refused to release. They later did an album with the great guitarist John Fahey, that they wouldn't release either. This band confounded them)
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Post by Phantom Engineer on May 19, 2007 14:22:46 GMT -5
An impressive list. I don't like them all but there's a lot of music history there.
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Post by mightyjack on May 19, 2007 14:26:36 GMT -5
Sure is,
oh and a bit of trivia that might interest Mr. Atari, the Oingo Boingo fan. Steve Bartek played flute and wrote songs for the "Strawberry Alarm Clock" on their debut album, but could not join the band because of school. lol, man he must have been like, what, 12 back then?
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 20, 2007 11:02:05 GMT -5
Back to Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues is Syd Barret's last published work with the band. I find it more interesting and like it much better than the Piper album. I'd be curious to see what you think of it too. I guess it slips in because it was recorded in '67
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Post by mightyjack on May 20, 2007 11:06:08 GMT -5
That's on A Saucerful of Secrets right? I'll go check it out.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 20, 2007 11:09:13 GMT -5
Yes it is. Maybe I like it because it's a bit darker and sadder lyrically than the previous works, but I also like the music better as well.
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Post by mightyjack on May 20, 2007 13:41:52 GMT -5
Okay, at first blush the album as a whole didn't grab me as much because it's starting to sound more like Pink Floyd. LOL. It starts off with that 11 minute song - and I hate to say this, but I just never liked the other vocalists. They kind of drone to me. And the band is starting to get that self important groove. I know they couldn't rehash Pippers playfulness, they'd be reduced to novelty if they tried. But later Floyd just doesn't click for me. My favorite songs on the album was the off kilter Captain Clegg and I kept replaying Jigsaw Blues. I liked it, nice lyrics, more serious but still had that playful spirit (The bouncing horn section) But hey, that's just me. Let me put it this way, I'm never more happy with rock and roll than when I'm listening to something like, oh, "Bits and Pieces" by the Dave Clark Five. I like other styles, but at its heart, I like Rock best when it's clipping away, 3 chords, 2 minutes and a plume of smoke. She Loves You, Dizzy by Tommy Roe - I'm a simple man.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 20, 2007 14:30:43 GMT -5
Yeah, I was thinking more of just the Syd Barrett song. "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" is the only other one I've heard off that album, and it didn't strike me too well.
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Post by Krista on Aug 1, 2007 11:04:58 GMT -5
I love Strawberry Alarm Clock.
My dad opened up for the Byrds. He said they were being jerks! They had just made it big and were being pissy since they had to play in a small town.
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Post by ArtCrow on Aug 29, 2007 21:30:20 GMT -5
I think 1966 was a better year.
The Beatles - Revolver
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Enough said.
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Post by soundandvision on Sept 2, 2007 0:06:30 GMT -5
I think 1966 was a better year. The Beatles - Revolver The Rolling Stones - Aftermath Enough said. The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds".
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Post by Don Quixote on Sept 2, 2007 9:07:37 GMT -5
I say that 1967 is the beginning of modern rock 'n' roll. Not rock's golden year, but modern rock's birthing year. It was when it had finished evolving from poppy, happy songs about how much you love your girl to something else, and while there were still songs about that later on, they were fundamentally different (assuming, of course, that they were sung by rock singers and not pop bands). True enough, the evolution had begun years before, but I think by '67 Rock had changed into more or less what we know today.
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Post by bobjohnson on Sept 5, 2007 13:00:18 GMT -5
I agree that Sgt Peppers was a very important album but I love the varied sounds of revolver better, its my favorite beatles album ever!
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