This weekend's musical treat

[gwand]

I liked the LPs Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) and Hot Rats (1969).

 

[GaryE]

Zappa was very popular with some of my friends, and it's altogether possible I caught him on a bad tour. I know I saw Dylan on an awful one. Other than unknown bands with no expectations, the worst shows I saw were those two, my free tickets to Frankie Goes to Hollywood (who appeared to be air guitar syncing), and Canned Heat, who were in a tragic state. I used to go see a lot of bands slightly older than my 'scene' because I had some hippy friends.
I wish I had seen some of the Chicago Blues players who came through near the ends of their time. I regret my ignorance at the time.

 

[gwand]

Dylan is notorious for giving bad, disjointed performances. I was 14 when I saw Zappa so my tastebuds were not mature. Ha. They’re still evolving. I remember the concert as outrageous and exciting. I was listening to Aaron Copeland’s Variations for Piano today. He created a composition that incorporated the microtones and rhythm structure of west African music that found its way into blues and then jazz. Cool stuff. I love Chicago blues both black and later white electric blues.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

One of my all time favorite bands is Little Feat. Lowell George was the force behind it and he died too soon. The band is still going today but was at its best when Lowell was alive.This albums helped keep me sane when I spent 18 months working ins Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. My typical work week was over 80 hours a week and at least 6.5 days. Fridays I would round up the supervisors and take them all over to the Aramco Campus for brunch (my treat) You could get some of the forbidden foods there- bacon, sausage etc. as part of a traditional American Breakfast.

I would head to work at about 7am most days from my apartment in Al kobar on the gulf coast. It was so hot that to get into my car I would open the door, reach in and put the key in the ignition and start the car. I would turn on the AC, shut the door and let it run for several minutes. Other wise it would be cooler stepping into an oven with wheels.

I returned home around 8 pm covered in filth. i was management, but the multiple in and out of the air conditioning and the dust filled outdoors at well over 100 F meant I would sweat, get covered in yuck, cool down and repeat this all day long, As soon as I got home it was into the shower where I watch the dirt coming of of me running down the drain. Then it was time for Little feat. I lay on the living room floor with a speaker from the stereo on either side of of my head like giant earphones and play it loud.

Btw- tune #5, "Old Folks Boogie" has been my theme song now for about a decade.
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[TwoTankAmin]

Since I missed a weekend at least, I thought I might show those who do not know this term, what A "Shaggy dog story" is. There are definitions out there on the net. But I do not describe it the same fashion:

It Is a very slowly developing and extremely lengthy pun.

No music- From Wiki ˅|˅

Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring character Geraldine. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and it was the second highest-rated show on network television for a time.[2]

Wilson was the first African American to host a successful TV variety show.[2][a]

Flip Wilson | My Worst Story - The Best of the Flip Wilson Show, Vol. 1​

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Still not feeling all that great. This weekend is for music I consider to be funk. My definition might comport with what is generally accepted. but I can live with that.

Little Stevee- or he was when we got "Stevie Wonder's first hit 45 (single) was "Fingertips-Pt 2", released in 1963."
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The Spinners from 1976.
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The Dead from the Festival Express Tour in 1970.
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Don't Make War, play it....
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I may have posted this one before, but it is worth listening to often.
From the acclaimed Little Feat live album “Waiting For Columbus”
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[TwoTankAmin]

This weeks treat is late due to ill health. It is something completely different. The music is probably what your grandparents or great grandparents grew up on. The piano player is insanely good. Try it you might like it.

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[TwoTankAmin]

In my opinion during the final years of the 1960s the number one rock band in the world was, without a doubt, the Rolling Stones. They released 3 albums from the end of 1968 through the the end of summer 1970 which supports my opinion.

This weekends musical treat is a triple header with 3 posts each of which will be one album. Number one is Beggars Banquet. The first song on this record is one of the greatest all time Rock songs.

This Album was released on December 6, 1968 which made for a very merry Xmas for many of us. Enjoy/.;
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[Back in the fold]

How would you categorize The Grateful Dead ? I never did think of them as rock . More a strange blend of blues , folk and something unidentifiable . Probably the most distinctly original band ever . Sugar Magnolia and Ripple are my favorite Dead songs .

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Here is Number two.-Let It Bleed. This Album was released on November 28, 1969. So it was another early Xmas gift.

1. Gimme Shelter 2. Love In Vain 3. Country Honk 4. Live With Me 5. Let It Bleed 6. Midnight Rambler 7. You Got The Silver 8. Monkey Man
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want

The album was recorded during a period of turmoil in the band; Brian Jones, the band's founder and original leader, had become increasingly unreliable in the studio due to heavy drug use, and during most recording sessions was either absent, or so incapacitated that he was unable to contribute meaningfully. He was fired in the midst of recording sessions for this album, and replaced by Mick Taylor. Jones died within a month of being fired; he contributed to only two songs, playing backing instruments.

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I prefer Country Honk to Honky Tonk Women.

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[TwoTankAmin]

And here is album Number 3. This was mostly recorded live.

The Rolling Stones 1969 American Tour's trek during November into December, with Terry Reid, B.B. King (replaced on some dates by Chuck Berry) and Ike and Tina Turner as supporting acts, played to venues with all tickets sold out. The tour was the first for guitarist Mick Taylor with the Stones, having replaced Brian Jones shortly before Jones's death in July; this was also the first album where Taylor appeared fully and prominently, having only played on two songs on Let It Bleed.[1] The performances captured for this release were recorded on 27 November 1969 (one show) and 28 November 1969 (two shows) at New York City's Madison Square Garden, except for "Love in Vain," recorded in Baltimore on 26 November 1969.

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The interesting thing about the above is that I, and 17 of my friends, were at the Baltimore show. We had 12 seats in one row and 6 more in the row behind that. I spent most of the show standing on the armrests of my seat. It may be the best show I ever attended.

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
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I saw the Dead 3 times. The first was in the Yale Bowl in New Haven in 1971. The last time was in Madison Square garden in NYC..My brother was a Dead head and saw them a ton of times.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Sorry to be late again.

I just bought the remastered CD of Mad Dogs and Englishmen. It was only about $10, But it only has 19/ Songs. So I just ordered a used copy of the Deluxe Edition which is over 2 hours and has 26 songs.

This is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, imo. It is mostly from the final show of the tour at the Filmore East in NYC. in 1970.
Play it in 1080p and play it loud.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Late yet again. I was getting ready to post last night when a phone call interrupted me. A friend in CA with whom I had not spoken it too long and I made contact. This was just before midnight my time. We talked until about a quarter to 4 in the morning at which time I needed to go to bed.

Here are 4 tunes from the 1950s. Yes, there was rock and roll even that long ago. I turned 10 in 1958.

Little Walter - My Babe (single version - 1955)​

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"Dust My Broom" is a blues song originally recorded as "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936.

In 1951, Elmore James recorded the song as "Dust My Broom" and "made it the classic as we know it", according to blues historian Gerard Herzhaft.[1] James' slide guitar adaptation of Johnson's triplet figure has been identified as one of the most famous blues guitar riffs and has inspired many rock performers.

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ROCK AND ROLL IS HERE TO STAY~ Danny & The Juniors (1958)​

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Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock (1955) HD​

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[GaryE]

I grew up thinking fifties music was doowop and all the teen stars, as that was all I heard (I was born in 1958). For those who aren't ancient, there was a fifties nostalgia outbreak in the 1970s, and I thought that music was awful, and that the period was a wasteland. Now, I would have to say some of my favourite music is from the 1950s R&B scene, a very different thing from the current use of the genre name. Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Louis Jordan (starting in the later forties), Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, Ruth Brown - these people were quite brilliant. I'll take a lot of fifties stuff over the sixties scene, easily.
They all flow together though, and playing the decades game doesn't work well, Some great 'sixties' music came from the early seventies before that scene petered out, and the late seventies scene meshed nicely with some of the better music into the mid eighties and beyond.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

In the 1970s when I was a partner in a sound company, Smilin Jack Enterprises, ltd., we did two shows with Muddy. The first was a daytime outdoor show where the stage was a flat bed normally seen attached behind a semi tractor. The second one was an indoor show, We borrowed a Phase Linear700w amp from some friends and managed to fry one of the two outputs. We had the 400s, but not enough of them yet for the show. When we started we used Mcintosh tube amps;

We paid for the repair of the 700, of course