Trying, hard , to stay, out of , 70's. OK just this one before I sign off for vascular surgery and a haze of morphine. Spirit (7 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus)....oooaaaaa flashbacks

Heal up quick!

Was bored playing upright bass the other day and this came to mind.

The moral of the story... we need more bongo sounding solos in music these days.

Recalling these old 70’s bands reminds me of when I was a pre-teen in Southern Indiana visiting a buddy of mine. His older brother was in a ‘rock’ band and we got into his stuff. Humble Pie, Flash in the Pan, and Santana Caravanserai albums combined with Robert Crumb magazines. It shook my Methodist upbringing to its’ core. I was never the same again. I remember his brother and band were busted will driving his VW Van for possession of marijuana. It was a BIG deal. You would have thought they burnt down a church while chanting Satanic verses or something. I think he’s still in maximum security.

[QUOTE=gomango;12636879]Never forget the look on my mother's face when I hauled home the original vinyl copy of Bowie's- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

She's a classically trained pianist and that darn near killed her.

Should have played her Aladdin Sane. Some of the piano on there is pretty inspired. Maybe she still wouldn't have liked it though.

I don't have it in me to read the entire thread - anyone mention Zappa yet? I don't think he got the serious attention he deserved.

he hangs out in my signature.

...I love Zappa but some Zappa I just can't dig. I suppose when you make as much music as he did you're not gonna like it all.

I'm with Zaphod...Zappa has some good albums, usually the simpler ones, but his jazz stuff is too experimental and too academic for me. He has things that are outright unlistenable.

And now we've come full circle to what you can do with your new bicycles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpTe...eature=related

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^^ i remember seeing this a little while back and thinking, "Man, Steve Allen is a real a-hole"

Those would probably be the ones I haven't listened to so much. I'm really thinking of his early stuff with the Mothers of Invention. Although I think Overnight Sensation is pretty good, if a bit randy.

It's loud, self-important, pretentious, makes bloody little sense, and doesn't really matter despite the initial experience . . . . . just like a bride.

Steve Allen made a career of signing all sorts of interesting rock, pop, and experimental music for his show, and then treating them like absolute crap while they're on stage. Elvis and 'Hound Dog' was only the beginning. Allen HATED rock and roll, so his shows appealed to the entire family. The teenagers got to see their faves (and probably didn't notice how they were being dissed) which mom and dad were entertained by having someone they'd really like shot being treated like ****.

Best concert ever: Saw the nation tour when Metallica and Guns and Roses were swapping headliner, with Faith No More as the opening act. Pittsburgh at the Civic Arena. I was (am) a metalhead, but didn't understand all the rave about Metallica (liked Megadeth better), kinda liked Guns and Roses.

Thanks to the traffic on Parkway West we missed the Faith No More set completely. Metallica was next up. Meanwhile, if you bothered to notice, the sky was clouding up, big time. Twenty minutes into their set a MASSIVE summer tunderstorm hit. Metallica stops for a moment, turns off all the lights and any other electric stuff, cranks up the amps and PA a bit more, and PLAYED!!!!!

We're talking Fantasia. Night on Bald Mountain. They absolutely outplayed the worst Mother Nature could throw at them. And the storm lasted all but about 20 minutes of the remaining set. Damn! Now I understood why my friends were talking Metallica.

Guns and Roses? Axel was having one of his 'special' nights. Three songs into the set, we left, and I've never been able to listen to them without sneering since.

Runner up concert: Gannon College, 1968. We were supposed to get the Jefferson Airplane. Slick cracked her voice, the band said they'd still play, but offered refunds. 90% of the advance sale took the offer. The remaining few of us got to see Hot Tuna the second time they ever played in public. I'm on two hits of microdot and so wasted that Cassidy and Kaukonen pull me up on the stage and sit me down against Cassidy's amp for the entire concert.

Second runner up: The Stooges (Raw Power tour) opening for Slade, the Agora, Cleveland. Hell of a wonderful night, helped by my being backstage before the concert matching Iggy shot for shot. We were still both walking by the time the band went on. He was walking better than me - and I had to drive back to Erie afterwards.

Just out of curiosity: Does the Agora still exist? Haven't been to Cleveland in decades.

:beer: Outstanding stories!

As for FZ, Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, and Freak Out are among my favorites.

Some other as yet unmentioned names: Camper Van Beethoven (the first three or four albums,) Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Tom Waits.

Yep, that pretty much supports what I suspected :lol:

That's why I like the Zappa appearance on that show...Frank handles Mr. Allen well.

Dude...Lowery in general is BRILLIANT. They usually don't attain the brilliance of Camper Van, but Cracker has a LOT of moments. Laurie Anderson is usually a little too out there for me.

I take back what I said about limiting CVB to the first few albums (though Key Lime Pie wasn't brilliant,) New Roman Times is pretty good for a concept-y album.

Victor Krummenacher was always fantastic, whether with CVB, the Monks of Doom, or Eugene Chadbourne.

Speaking of bass players, Jaco Pastorius is buried a few blocks from here...

Someone got around to mentioning the band in my av! Lowery goes from being smartass to sentimental in like one verse.

It took 11 pages for someone to mention the ultimate curmudgeon of rock, Neil Young? One of my favorite shows was just him and about 20 guitars and keyboards.

It went almost 11 pages and I was so thrilled no one broguht up Neil Young.

There's a guy I wish we could have heard more from. And I like just about anything from Weather Report. Stanley Clarke might as well be mentioned if we're heading toward fusion, and then of course there's Mahavishnu Orchestra if you really want to get out there with some cats who could play.

They can play but I can't stomach that smooth jazz sound....kinda like what the Crusaders became eventually. Weather Channel Music :lol:

Weather Report, and early Crusaders though, I can dig.

If we're talking Fusion.....Miles Davis. B1tches Brew.

I was once the singer for a short-lived Neil Diamond tribute band, I remember telling a friend about it and they were all like I can't stand that guy and his awful voice... turns out they were confusing Neil Diamond with Neil Young.

Seriously? Dude, I have to start watching more Weather Channel.

I can't help wondering why anyone would want to pay tribute to Neil Diamond. No offense.

Not gonna lie, its kinda cool to see your local forecast to the tune of the YellowJackets.