BLAST FROM THE PAST

I still got it...still pretty playable on my turntable. I used to sing to it, too. In fact, I think that was the first big time concert I ever went to as a kid.

It still sounds as great as then.

I never really lost the enjoyment of Animals or Eric Burdon, though I heard/saw him recently on Youtube and I winced a bit.

One of his best songs was after he left the Animals and toured with War

Don't ask me how it reminded me but this was my fave goodtime songs of that time era 1969-1971.

Another cool happytime song from that time-frame:

I know and love all those, ragman.

Yup! Our taste often overlaps. Quite a few of us'ns I think like this stuff.

I'm listening to this and mixed happy/sad feelings as it seems to resonate in my mind even when I am not playing it. The words mean a lot to me..maybe others here?

Melanie (gorgeous babe back then) is backed by the Edwin Hawkins singers:
The recognizable part starts at 1:46

Melanie was a great artist, in my view. Candles was likely her best.

I had no idea she did a great maybe even BETTER cover version of Dust in the Wind. Her singing is haunting and the guitar playing is superb!

Zamfir

I just posted this in another thread . . .



You need to get psychedelicized . . .

Here's one which i am surprised hasn't been posted yet (did i miss it?).



Good stereo separation on this one.

I just heard an interview on the radio of a man in Texas, now aged 96, who was an optometrist back in the 50s. I didn't get it at first. He was saying that he knew this boy, Buddy, who would come in all the time because he had busted his glasses. Finally, it got to him and he asked Buddy why he was always busting his glasses. So Buddy told him he was in a band, and they would be playing on a dark stage with bright lights shining on them, and he would take his glasses off to wipe his face, and then couldn't find them again, then somebody would knock them on the floor and they would get stepped on. So, he recommeded to Buddy a style of glasses which he (the optometrist) thought were dorky looking, but they were sturdy, and he thought Buddy would be able to find them in the dark. Then he said that the glasses must have worked, because he never saw Buddy again.



To be honest, the nickel dropped for me when they started playing a song in the background.

Buddy was one of the artists I always bought his new records. Still miss him after all these years.

My youngest aunt was just 13 when i was born. When my sister and i were just liddlies, she and her high school girlfriends would play Buddy, Eddie Chochran, the Big Bopper, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash . . . all those young cool dudes . . . and my sister and i would jump around in the belief that we were dancing, while the girls fell out laughing . . .

One of my favortie female vocalists sings a Willie Nelson song . . .

Here's Joan singing one of her "signature tunes" at Woodstock . . .

Here's Janis at Woodstock . . .

Then Joni wrote a song about it all . . .