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You Have Been Transported Back to 1969 9 9 9 9……
I Have Been Transported Back to 1969, And I Think Music is Dreamy
Jen and Kristi and Tuesday and Mix Tape (though there were no mix tapes ) but twisted surely there was an opportunity… #10
Yeah, none of us could read the psychedelic lettering on the Poster then either!
Just to qualify briefly, I do, in fact, still have a couple of the Posters from the day… Fillmore West and Winterland/
In any event, this era is simply too crowded for me to present a mix-tape that is comprehensively representationalistic of this time in (my life). Having said that, I offer 5 little views into a world long gone.
…this would be the first song I recall hearing when first I discovered that there was more to radio that am and/or pop music. Listening to (the Brown University radio station) WBRU… this is the song that made me think, ‘man! what a great song…and it’s more than 2.3 minutes long!”
Chambers Brothers
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…after school with friends. (‘hey, come on over, ya gotta hear this new record…)
Steppenwolf
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Procul Harum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz9TgN8PmE0~~~~~~~~~~~~~
hey… some recreational drugs had the side-effects of stretching time, so why not listen to… what were we talking about?
King Crimson
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Following is the first song that I listened to real loud. Hard for the ‘less-than-ancient’ Readers to appreciate that ‘loud music’ was new for the world in the 60s. Sure, performances were at higher volumes, but every effort was made to not be too loud. Even the Beatles, while playing on the Ed Sullivan Show, had the PA up enough so that everyone in the theater could hear them. Great pride was taken in raising the volume without allowing distortion or feedback or any of the other by-products of 100+ dB. They were playing at high volume but they were not making ‘loud music’.
Led Zepplin was.
Led Zepplin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TdDqv0qRqw~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
no, of course you can’t have a mixtape of this era without ‘the man with the guitar’
Jimi Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTSAu_D7sY
About clarkscottroger
Ahhh to Zeppelin. I thought I was so deep and groovy while in highschool listening to this “classic” rock. Here I am, 25 years later, still listening to it, still loving it and swaying along in my chair. Awesome choices, Clark! I’d never heard the King Crimson song before but it makes me want to get naked and eat some questionable mushrooms.
@Kristi
lol (I really liked the loud music on th earphones)
lol! (II was really into Robert Fripp and the festivals had so many people at them)
hey!! ( I’ll be right over!!!)
……..the Wakefield Doctrine is nothing if it is not versitile!
Well, you have introduced this old dog to a few new-to-me tricks. Errr, songs. Thanks for this tour through your 1960s!
And I think I have some Clark-energy (with both the others as well). But that may just be momentary.
@Lori
It was the best of times, it was the… oh! sorry, channeling high school English. lol
fun topic this Tuesday
New here… Enjoyed the “tour.” Could not get J H though. Love the King Crimson selection & The Pusher is a fave. Have a great week, Slu
@Slu
the King Crimson was one of the songs that jumped out as just plain sounding like the late 60s
Funny that this should come up today. On Sunday, I actually sat and listened to the first Zeppelin album in its entirety, still marveling at how goddamned good it is. Sadly, I was fully clothed, but eating pizza with mozzarella and Baby Bellas. That’s as close as I get these days.
@RCoyne
lol to this day I smile when I hear the ‘reverse reverb’ in ‘you shook me’
wow yes – hendrix, zeppelin, king crimson. excellent playlist!!
@MM B Dom
thank you the dawn of the era of loud music very fun time
(I had trouble getting a comment to post earlier, hope its working now)
We had some similar choices and each a bit of a nod to the drug-fueled creativity of the time. Nice to know my brain isn’t the only one that functions that went that direction. And the King Crimson? New to me (which is unusual) so thanks for that!
@Dream
Thank you… so what you will about drug fueled creativity… it was certainly, effective?… efficacious??? mind altering,. yeah I gonna go with that. Good to see that there were other (on the hop) who know why god invented Marshalls lol
So I’m listening to Red House right now and thinking how happy I am that we are both Jimi fans and that you chose a lesser known Jimi song to use in your mix. It’s a groovy bluesy one too. Nice. AND nice psychedelic art you had there in 1 and 2. Are you trying to subconsciously tell us something? Cause I know what those are for you know. I replied on my post, but the incense from my hippie days was Nag Champa, that smelled brown. Then there was that strawberry incense everyone burned, I thought that smelled purple. hmmm….
@Jen
I don’t think I have heard a bad Hendrix song (and that’s including Dolly Dagger… lol) I should mention that I saw him in concert twice and the tickets were $3.50 for the first show and (a year later) it was $4.50 (inflation, I guess).
Yeah I can still picture the red and black boxes that the incense came in (this was the type with the long stem that stuck in something semi-fireproof.
I think I mentioned that I still have 2 posters somewhere in the attic… (god! how old does that make me??! not that I have them, but that I have my own attic in which to put away stuff!! as the kid who got those posters, an attic would be a place to go and sneak into with a friend or friends… not frickin own and then put-neat-stuff-in-and-ignore!
LOL…you’re hilarious. Look at all those psychedelic videos. I BET you like That 70’s Show, too, huh? Don’t worry, I LOVE that show. ^_^
Interesting post for the Doctrine – creative way to make it part of this blog hop. :)
@Cyndi
actually it’s because I can’t keep up with everything! no, ‘fraid the ‘thats 70’s show is not realistic… too many too attractive people in it (but then TV never does justice to reality, probably cause reality is so lumpy… lol)
So on your hop tomorrow, do I write a wordless Post or a wonderful Post and link it there? or go there ( to ‘the ‘tude’) and write something?
OK…so I just have to say it…YOU BROUGHT OUT JIMI ! I am jumping up and down with glee right now…excellent choice!
@MMologues
you can’t have the 60’s without Hendrix!! like the Baroque without Bach… or Classical with Beethoven ain’t no bad Hendrix music
lol with your list I am stoned…under the influence of some good music. :) okay cheesy.
I can’t freakn believe I didn’t have Red House on MY list I love it and forgot about it :( but at least you grabbed it! :)
@LM
I was totally sincere with my ‘this is too big a subject’ music of the 60’s my god it’s just to intertwined. I think Jen is going to go redux on this… let me know your thoughts…so we don’t miss anyone… ( I mean there’s Leon Russell, Jeff Beck… frickin Iron Butterfly lol) later
as for that post – it’s however you want to work it. Tie it in with the Doctrine. You know us clarks…we like wonderful things. :D
@Cyndi
10 4 Eleanor* I just got a photo of an actual, if unidentified flower for the Post.
*from one of the Firesign theatre albums