Some fights go on forever

[Netzach]

I hated Chapin, I'm sad to say. It all sounded like Broadway Suicide music.

Has no one mentioned David Bowie yet? Or are we tied to 1972?

World altering everything-changed artist. But I am 80's kid.

I appreciate bands that sound completely spontaneously generated. Talking Heads still have no really obvious precedent to me, and no one copying them adequately.

 

[Netzach]

What about arena-hair-metallic-in-name stuff like Def Leppard? What's that?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I hated Chapin, I'm sad to say. It all sounded like Broadway Suicide music.

I loved Chapin, and Croce. To each his/her own, though.

Has no one mentioned David Bowie yet? Or are we tied to 1972?

I did.

In no particular order...

• Joplin
• Hendrix
• Dylan
  [*]Bowie
• Grace Slick
• CCR
• Aretha
• The Who
• KISS
• Doors
• Procol Harum
• Zeppelin
• Beatles
• Stones
• and more and more and more.

Too many, too good to ever pick a "best." They were so different, each almost deserves their own genre, or at least their own XM/Sirius channel.

 

[deehere]

David Bowie[/B] yet? Or are we t

Loved David Bowie's 'When The World Falls Down' from Labyrinth. Also, one by the group Mercy called 'Love Can Make You Happy' one of the prettiest love songs I've ever heard.

 

[Shankara20]

Or are we tied to 1972?

we can jump to '75 and discuss this rock anthem if you wish....

 

[Shankara20]

...she said 'Harry, keep the change'.
Well, another man might have been angry, and another man might have been hurt. But another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my shirt."
Yes, many parts of this song have personal meaning for me, too.

Hearing him sing those words in my head now - with his power and inflection really adds to the lyric.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"Another man never would have let her go"

yeah, now I remember what irritated me about the guy.

 

[Shankara20]

"Another man never would have let her go"

yeah, now I remember what irritated me about the guy.

sure, but the WAY he sang it was outasight!

 

[DVS]

Just a few favorites of mine...in no particular order. I'd say I'm sorry if you don't these, but to be honest, I'm not.

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4&feature=related

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_vyhAI1cE&feature=related

The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMjUU972So&feature=related

Yes, that's Steve Winwood on organ and vocals/
Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRjT5tyLXz0&feature=related

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY&feature=related

Ah, Jimi Hendrix. Another great gone too soon.
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAWcjX6Jqfo&feature=related

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJqYCgl1z0&feature=related

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6OxvU1t3o&feature=related

Joe Walsh is one of my favorite long time writers and players. This is long before he joined the Eagles. This is my favorite 'James Gang' song.
James Gang - "Walk Away" (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmpJZ8hNZR0&feature=fvwrel

Another favorite 'James Gang' song. I don't know why the clip takes so long to start. There's a lot of silence at the beginning. Bad editing on somebody's part.
James Gang - Tend My Garden/Garden Gate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeErugWXZ4&feature=related

JAMES GANG - The Bomber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2joVC7T9sc&feature=related

Joe is a great straight forward rock song writer and guitarist, similar to Eric Clapton. That's part of the reason the Eagles wanted him. I think only song writers might enjoy this version of "Life's Been Good" but it gives you an idea of the writing process...well, from Joe's point of view. He quit drugs and alcohol and this is one of the songs he wrote about his past. The next two also...listen to the lyric. They really tell the story.
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good (Live Spoken Word Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIzyTk1fuf0&feature=related

These are both from his new album 'Analog Man' which came out this year.
Joe Walsh - One Day At A Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEjHHhvR7Y&feature=related

I think this one says it all about his post drug/alcohol life. Song lyrics are at bottom of the screen. He's such a class act. I'm glad he's still around.
Joe Walsh - Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=tCqWMk8jXeY

Not rock, and not pop, but still favorites of mine.
Mahavishnu Orchestra Live at BBC 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyKBr0KXT8&feature=related

I played this in a band, back in the 80s.
Weather Report - Birdland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8q6sR6yZCE&feature=related

I played this one, too. Same band, same 80s.
Stanley Clarke - School days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMQ7xGxI3ME&feature=fvwrel

 

[Shankara20]

Joe Walsh

I am a great fan of Mr. Walsh,

For no reason at all I now free-associate to

Roy Oberison and Van Morrison

 

[Shankara20]

Jimi Hendrix

I never did get into Jimi, but Janis can still bring me to tears...

 

[DVS]

I am a great fan of Mr. Walsh,

For no reason at all I now free-associate to

Roy Oberison and Van Morrison

I like both of them, too, but not nearly as much as I like others.

 

[DVS]

I never did get into Jimi, but Janis can still bring me to tears...

Janis is OK, but I tend to like people who can also play an instrument well as sing well. But, Janis was one of the great ones, just the same.

 

[Shankara20]

Janis is OK, but I tend to like people who can also play an instrument well as sing well. But, Janis was one of the great ones, just the same.

Sing and play while that strung out!


You do ask a bunch, don't you, you old sadistic SOB?

 

[DVS]

I am a great fan of Mr. Walsh...

~Stevie Nicks Timespace liner notes, 1992
Written for Joe Walsh
Inspired by Joe Walsh

[After meeting Joe Walsh] I remember thinking, I can never be far from this person again... he is my soul. He seemed to be in a lot of pain, though hid it well. But finally, a few days later, (we were in Denver), he rented a jeep and drove me up into the snow covered hills of Colorado... for about two hours... He wouldn't tell me where we were going... but he did tell me a story of a little daughter that he had lost. To Joe, she was more than a child... she was three and a half... and she could relate to him.

I guess I had been complaining about alot of things going on on the road, and he decided to make me aware of how unimportant my problems were, if they were compared to worse sorrows. So he told me that he had taken his little girl to this magic park whenever he could, and the only thing she EVER complained about was that she was too little to reach up to the drinking fountain.

As we drove up to this beautiful park, (it was snowing a little bit), he came around to open my door and help me down, and when I looked up and saw the park... his baby's park, and I burst into tears saying, 'You built a drinking fountain here for her... didn't you?' I was right, under a huge beautiful hanging tree, was a tiny silver drinking fountain... I left Joe to get to it, and on it, it said, 'dedicated to HER and all others who were too small to get a drink.'

So he wrote a song for her [Emma's Song] and I wrote a song for him... 'This is your song...' I said... to the people... but it was Joe's song. Thank you, Joe, for the most committed song I ever wrote... But more than that, thank you for inspiring me in so many ways. Nothing in my life ever seems as dark anymore since we took that drive.

YouTube won't play it, so I found it on his MySpace page
Joe Walsh - Song For Emma
http://www.myspace.com/xjoewalshx/music/songs/song-for-emma-12373

Song For Emma
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the sky
As if someone is watching
Someone hears every word

We are filled with regrets
It was such a short time
But we told Him we loved you
Hoping somehow He heard
We hoped He heard

You were with us for a while
And He took you
And He made your mama cry
I can see it in her eyes
There's a question as to why?

And after all this time
Still I find that I'm without an answer
Goodbye
Bye love

 

[rekane]

This thread is great.
A big thumbs up on a lot of the great music already shared.

Here are some songs that are part of the soundtrack of my 60's/70's.

Richie Havens "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Cat Stevens "The Hurt"
Anything by Cat Stevens, really.

Elton John "Mona Lisas and Madhatters"

Queen "Tie Your Mother Down"
Queen was one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

I recently found a soft spot for some music that I hadn't really noticed much the first time around. (Of course, I was still in elementary school.)

Badfinger "Day after Day"

Todd Rundgren "Hello It's Me"

 

[rekane]

I forgot to say: Beatles, but I love the Stones too.

And early Rod Stewart kind of worked for me too.
Faces/Rod Stewart "Stay With Me"

 

[DVS]

Sing and play while that strung out!


You do ask a bunch, don't you, you old sadistic SOB?

OK, I will give her credit for not dropping the microphone that often. That could count as her "instrument".

But, musically, she was in a class all by herself. She had that special voice and she could belt out a song like nobody else. The way she moved around on stage made it seem like she was always on some kind of drugs or not quite drunk enough to fall down. But she was just getting into the music. And she really could get into the music.

OK, she was stoned while on stage, sometimes, too. But, back then, who wasn't?

 

[Shankara20]

OK, she was stoned while on stage, sometimes, too. But, back then, who wasn't?

Like they say "If you remember the 60's you weren't really there."





by-the-way who the hell are "They" and who do they think they are with all those damn sayings they are spouting any ol' way?

 

[Shankara20]

The music of the '60 and early '70 had another direction as will as Rock:

In 1967, McKuen began collaborating with arranger Anita Kerr and the San Sebastian Strings for a series of vocal pop albums, including The Sea (1967), The Earth (1967), The Sky (1968), Home to the Sea (1969), For Lovers (1969), and The Soft Sea (1970).

Rod


Harpers Bizarre


Hermans Hermits

 

[Shankara20]

...and then Dead Teen songs...

OMG! I just found this website link listing songs about teens dieing.

A few that live in my head...

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean.
Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson and the Caviliers.
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson.
Leader of the Pack . The Shangri-las.
Leader of the Laundromat - The Detergents. (humor)

Teen Angel - Mark Dinning. link - that damn "ohohohohho" haunts me like a church bell at a fuckin' funeral


Running Bear - Johnny Preston.
Indian Wedding - by Roy Orbison.
Moody River by Pat Boone.
Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry

and the last from my today on the subject of death songs from the '60's = Rose as sung be Glenn Yarbrough (link not found)

 

[Stella_Omega]

whoops, wrong thread!

 

[Netzach]

...and then Dead Teen songs...

OMG! I just found this website link listing songs about teens dieing.

A few that live in my head...

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean.
Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson and the Caviliers.
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson.
Leader of the Pack . The Shangri-las.
Leader of the Laundromat - The Detergents. (humor)

Teen Angel - Mark Dinning. link - that damn "ohohohohho" haunts me like a church bell at a fuckin' funeral


Running Bear - Johnny Preston.
Indian Wedding - by Roy Orbison.
Moody River by Pat Boone.
Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry

and the last from my today on the subject of death songs from the '60's = Rose as sung be Glenn Yarbrough (link not found)

The Shangri-La's do not get enough pantheon cred. It's always a step further along into melodrama, and thus into real people's problems. It's their live teen songs that really make me teary, You can Never Go Home Any More / Out in the Streets.

 

[DVS]

...and then Dead Teen songs...

OMG! I just found this website link listing songs about teens dieing.

A few that live in my head...

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean.
Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson and the Caviliers.
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson.
Leader of the Pack . The Shangri-las.
Leader of the Laundromat - The Detergents. (humor)

Teen Angel - Mark Dinning. link - that damn "ohohohohho" haunts me like a church bell at a fuckin' funeral


Running Bear - Johnny Preston.
Indian Wedding - by Roy Orbison.
Moody River by Pat Boone.
Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry

and the last from my today on the subject of death songs from the '60's = Rose as sung be Glenn Yarbrough (link not found)

So...you're looking for sick pop songs of the past?
Dickey Lee - Laurie (Strange Things Happen) - 45 rpm - 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLuNkZc5kM

I hear someone has covered this song recently. I don't know why.
Here are the lyrics. They were incorrect in some places. I fixed them. Now we can all sing along!

Last night at the dance I met Laurie
So lovely and warm
An angel of a girl
Last night I fell in love with Laurie
Strange things happen in this world

As I walked her home she said it was her birthday
I pulled her close and said
Will I see you anymore
Then suddenly she asked for my sweater
And said that she was very very cold

I kissed her goodnight at her door and started home
Then thought about my sweater
And went right back and said
I knocked at her door
And a man appeared
I told him why I'd come
Then he said

You're wrong son
You weren't with my daughter
How can you be so cruel
To come to me this way
My Laurie left this world on her birthday
She died a year ago today

A strange force drew me to the graveyard
I stood in the dark
I saw the shadows wave
And then I looked and saw my sweater
Lying there upon her grave
Strange things happen in this world

 

[DVS]

Like they say "If you remember the 60's you weren't really there."





by-the-way who the hell are "They" and who do they think they are with all those damn sayings they are spouting any ol' way?

There wasn't any auto-focus in the 60s, nor was there any kind of anti-motion camera. And any filming done at Woodstock with a tripod, they'd still be digging it out of the mud. So, the people who filmed the 60s just had to be sober.

And because these people were always watching what was going on, I think they could be the "they" you asked about. When you think about it, "they" are always there when something happens and get it on film as evidence of an event. If they didn't get it on film, did it happen? It's kind of like that tree in a forest.