Wildwood 

My Mammy

Repack Rider

Smoked a joint with Jerry Garcia. His. He stuck it in my mouth and sparked it for me.

Met Janis Joplin one time, at her house when I delivered David Getz's drums for a rehearsal. All she had on were red panties and matching red shoes. Low-heel pumps, if I recall correctly.

Went mountain biking with Bob Weir and Gary Fisher.

Bikedued

At the moment, this keeps running through my head.,,,,BD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P63qGTm_g

And I dunno if anyone here would even remember these guys, but the guitar player is a relative of mine on my Mom's side of the family. Apparently they
have regrouped, and are playing again. "Children Of The Mushroom." Hehe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkh694lWT_w

I like this song much better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrzIN27GCc

rekmeyata

The oldest recording that I have in my collection is A Stack O' Lee Blues by Mississippi John Hurt recorded in 1928 in addition to others I have by Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Elmore James (whom Jimi Hendrix idolized), Muddy Waters, Howlin Ron Wolf, Freddie King, and BB King. The recording quality of those old recordings sucked but it is what it is, but it's about the music.

OldsCOOL

...more vintage than last year.

Velocivixen

My mom had a lot of old 78 records when I was really little. Her brother worked for a juke box company to change out the records, and he was allowed to keep them. So, as a 4 year old I was learning words to songs like "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" sung by Merv Griffin, and "Sweet Violets" by Doris Day. A song called "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy".

Having teenaged siblings, and being in the '60's I also learned words to songs by The Supremes, Beatles, Beach Boys, Cream, Slade, Paul Revere and the Raiders, on and on.

Grew up watching Lawrence Welk as well as Hee Haw, so learned lots of words to lots of songs.

etherhuffer 

Almost got shot to death at a Ted Nugent show in 1975. Scary stuff.

thinktubes 

The Golden Boy 

Damn Charlie, you've got some of the coolest stories!!!

The Golden Boy 

Sometimes the old ways are best.

trentschler

Went to Woodstock (1969) just before my 17th birthday and the start of my senior year in high school.

hillcountry

My first live concert - Summer od 65 at Comiskey Park, Chicago.

https://youtu.be/Ps1bZSNEMX8

eschlwc

first show: kiss dynasty tour in the fourth grade with three older kids down the block. one of their moms painted our faces perfectly. i was so happy they let me go as ace.

i musta been really cool back then.

among the best shows: neil young solo gig. just him with his guitars and pipe organ in an intimate theater. powerful.

others: bowie, stones, u2, robert plant (2x), sonic youth, police, yo la tengo (2x), bill callahan (3x), will oldham (2x), low, deerhoof (2x), flaming lips (4x), radiohead, wilco, son volt, melvins (3x), first lollapalooza tour, frank black (3x), built to spill (2x), modest mouse (2x), pavement, sebadoh (3x), dinosaur jr, etc etc etc ...

Trakhak

Pratt City Blues - Louis Armstrong showing off -


Blind Willie McTell and Georgia Slim -


Bunny Berigan doing Larry Clinton's A Study In Brown, restored 78 recording of exceptional quality - what a trumpet solo!


Blue Cheer playing Doctor Please live on the Steve Allen TV show in 1968 - recorded at home with a microphone placed at the TV speaker, sounds like -

Cougrrcj

OK, here's a couple of goodies from the Cleveland "World Series of Rock" of the 1970s...

Repack Rider

On this date, January 20, 1979, 37 years ago today, I actually know exactly what I was doing. I was racing downhill on Repack, on Breezer #2 , and the race was being filmed by KPIX, later broadcast nationally.




Here's the poster I had made for the race.

a77impala

Anything Hank Williams Sr. grew up listening to him. Anybody remember The Hit Parade on TV Saturday nights in the '50s?
Army days, '67 '68, The Letter by the Box Tops, drinking beer in the Guest House and singing along.

rekmeyata

My god, Blue Cheer, I had forgotten all about them, thanks for that memory jog, I'm going to try to find their "Rocks Europe" live CD or vinyl if I can after listening to it on You Tube, it brought back memories. The funny thing is I once had one of their records but after looking at their released albums none of the album covers jogged my memory, but man that was like over 45 years since I had that record, I do recall throwing it away because I wore it out. SO it's off to the record store to try to find it this weekend.

rootboy 

When I saw them, I thought they were too loud. And I, of course, liked loud music.
But there's loud, and then there's loud.

The Dead, when I saw them in '73 were loud. So loud I could feel it in the small of my back.
But not loud enough to hurt your ears. I liked and respected that about them.

rekmeyata

All rock concerts I went to were loud but the loudest I was ever at was when Boston was playing at UCSB (I think it was in 77) in the Robertson Gymnasium where there was no sky for the sound to get out of the area but instead bounced back at you. My ears were ringing for about 2 to 3 days after that concert, never had my ears ring at any other concert. I've been to so many concerts I couldn't possibly list all of them, I had a friend who worked at a radio station in Santa Barbara and he use to get us free tickets to all this stuff, I think I only ever paid twice to see a concert!

Some of these old bands would play for free in parks, I saw a lot of free stuff, some famous people/bands like Iron Butterfly, but mostly people that never made it big that should have because some were really good...though some were really bad too! LOL!!

I forgot to mention I also went to a Dead concert which I really didn't like too much, but later in 1984 I got to meet Jerry Garcia, he was a very nice down to earth guy which sort of caught me by surprise, but it was refreshing to know he was like that.

ctboyer

Classic Syd!

Deal4Fuji

Mine rang for a week straight after my 1st concert...Ted Nugent & REO Speedwagon opening for Aerosmith - I was on the floor 50' or so from the stage and at 6'5" there was nothing between me and the Marshall's (actually TN had walls of those old gray Fender amps) '75 I think

Sir_Name 

Been listening to these guys and the Dead again.


Some all-time favorites:

eschlwc

since bowie died, i've rediscovered his 'station to station' album among a few others like 'low' and 'scary monsters.' i've been interested in dissonant guitar for years through bands like polvo and sebadoh. it's very apparent on 'station to station,' and the hooks are so catchy. all this led to the discovery of his '78 live album, 'stage,' which i had never heard before. it's a must if you like his thin white duke period. anyway, here's an absolutely incredible video featuring bowie and adrian belew from the period:

https://youtu.be/etYWe6ylqGM

there are several more on youtube worth hearing. great musicianship.

i'm not sure what genre you call this post glam period. i'm calling it dissonant funk. it's very rich in both music and interpretive, symbolic lyric.

big chainring 

My son goes to West Virginia University. A Mountaineer! John Denvers "Country Roads" is the school song sung at just about every school event. Gets stuck in my head often.

Let's Go...Mountaineers!