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Post subject: What was it like for you?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:24 am
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The late 60's early 70's was, as we all know, an amazing time for the birth of a new kind of rock and roll.( Iknow that all music comes from the past in some form) Many things were happening then that shaped our future music. My question is: does anyone have a story to tell?
How did it feel, did you participate? I was born in 1970 so I missed it!
I did, however, remember the death of Disco.....and the changes to hair metal to british love songs to heavy metal etc etc. what was the music revolution like for you personally?


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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:29 am
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Aw !! Jayro, I thought this was about somethin' else.

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:53 am
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Rhumba wrote:
Aw !! Jayro, I thought this was about somethin' else.

If anyone has any tales to share, it's this dude right here :wink:


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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:51 am
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I have some fantastic stories from the 60's! Now, if I could only remember them! 8) :)


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Hi jayro: I was there - though I was very young! I remember being extremely relieved halfway through the '70s when flaired pants finished. Unfortunately, they were replaced by trousers with lots of zips, buckles and safety pins, which I didn't like any better!

Very young indeed in the '60s. My mother's friend asked me if I liked The Beatles: I thought it was a question about insects...

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:05 am
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Very young indeed in the '60s. My mother's friend asked me if I liked The Beatles: I thought it was a question about insects...

:roll: - C[/quote]

OH! NO! Say it ain't so Ceri!! :lol:


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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:15 am
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Very young indeed in the '60s. My mother's friend asked me if I liked The Beatles: I thought it was a question about insects...

:roll: - C


OH! NO! Say it ain't so Ceri!! :lol:


I'm afraid it is so! I was most interested in insects at the time. And worms, snakes, spiders - anything icky! I was very young...!

I can't remember so much about the '60s - but for a different reason than other people!

Cheers - C


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This story didnt happen to me directly as I wasnt even born until the mid seventies. My dad was flying out of O'Hare airport heading to washington (he worked for the Gov't for 37 years) and had the good fortune of sitting next to Robert Plant on the flight.

On the same trip he was arrested by secret service while listening to president Nixon during a public speach. Apparently his black leather coat, gloves and fedora made him look like a potential assasin. :lol: He was released an hour later.

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:14 am
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I was 15 years old when Jimi Hendrix died in 1970. There was no Internet back then and all of our information came through FM or TV. My friends and I were in total gut wrenching shock. Hendrix was (and still is) our six string god. We made up black arm bands and wore them everywhere. School was just beginning and most of our teachers were older and not very tolerant of the "hippy" movement. They made us remove them in class. All but one. We had a history teacher that was very progressive and far and away the most popular teacher in school. One day he brought in his GE Wildcat portable stereo record player and played The Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock. Just for us. Never had one teacher so endeared himself to a bunch of gangly teenagers. Ah, those were the days.

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:00 am
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Having the great luck to be born in 50, I was comming out of folk and folkrock when electric rock and roll began to come alive. What a time!!! Everything was new - stereo sounds, surf music, wahwah pedals, fuzz, British rock, ectoplasmic light shows, bell bottoms, and don't even get me started on "free love."

What a fantastic time!!

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Snowy72 wrote:
Rhumba wrote:
Aw !! Jayro, I thought this was about somethin' else.

If anyone has any tales to share, it's this dude right here :wink:



Hi Snowy, Hope things are well.

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:30 pm
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Hi Jayro,
Yeah right, it happened in the early sixties as well.
Like Ceri alluded too, there is a saying in the UK. " If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there "
Well I do remember some things.
In 1964 we had got this residency in a cellar club in town, our manager and the club owner kind of joined forces and together took control of us and the club. Our job here was to last about two years about a month after the club opened.
We were only 14 years old, so we were the saturday afternoon matinee show for the kids, great stuff, all these screaming little girls had heard big sister talking about doing that with the big groups. So we were there thing :lol:

Anyway this clubs grand opening night was something else.
The Rolling Stones ( yes, the real ones ) were booked in to open the place and be the first group to play there, however this information kinda got too much exposure and the whole town turned out, I mean the whole town turned out and....wow!
The club, the streets around the club, the entire town centre was a sea of people, inside the club the crowd had spilled onto the stage, there was no space left for any band to play.
Our group set off to go and watch the Stones but we couldn't even get into town. So you've guessed what came next but really, the police had no choice, they had to bring in reinforcements from all around to spend all night moving everybody.
So, the big opening night got cancelled and nobody got to see the Stones.

However, a couple of days later, when everything had quietened down, we went into the club and into the office and there on the wall was a framed photograph of Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, taken in the office.
Apparently, those two had arrived earlier in the day, called in on the club and then went off to some hotel. The rest of the Stones were arriving in the evening and were actually on the outskirts of town but got turned back by the police on account of the crowds, fears of riots etc.

We practically lived in that club over the next two years and that picture was always on the wall and then one day.....it wasn't.
Nobody knows who took it, everyone looking at everyone else and denying it.
That picture would have been prized memorabilia today, probably hanging in the town museum but right to this day, no-one still admits to lifting it.

Just one last thing................it wasn't me... :(
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:19 pm
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I saw Kiss in 1979 when I was 4 years old, but I wish I could have been around in the 60s for The Doors, MC5, the original Blue Cheer line up (though Joe Duck McDonald has been in the band longer now than Leigh Stephens and does a great job...I got to finally see Blue Cheer a few years ago, but would love to have seen them 'back in the day'), and Iron Butterfly to name a few...

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:44 pm
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My first band started about 1963. We were playing all instrumental covers of The Ventures, The Shadows, Duane Eddy, etc. We were playing at a backyard house party after several months and this guy convinced us that he could sing and play saxophone.

He brought out his tenor sax and we followed him on tunes like 'Night Train', 'Watermelon Man', Comin' Home Baby', One Mint Julep', 'Tequila' and we thought he was GREAT!

The next night we got together with this Realistic (Radio Shack brand) wonky PA with a pair of 'horns' (PA speakers) and as we started to rehearse when we were called upstairs to hear this band called The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Well, the instros slowly faded away and we started working on vocals and harmonies and learning more about this "British Invasion" and soon were doing covers by The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and one thing led to another.

Next came James Brown. First real concert I ever saw and that band was FUNKY! So now we we're doing a few original tunes and getting some good gigs and eventually was on the same bill and played with this guy, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. We hung out with Bill Levise (Mitch) and his band (Jim McCarty, the guitarist is still giggin' around these days and is a fine player and hell of a nice guy!) and learned a lot about the 'biz' end of things. After that we went through many personnel changes started a roadband and the rest is history, as they say.

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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:03 pm
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new time for rock and roll, good times, i wish i was there. you remember the death of disco, i can't f wait for the death of hip hop. it's an abomination of music. hopefully there will be a new age of good times and i will be there, changing and shaping things.

into the future fellow musicians!...

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