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Hello Jayro,

By the 70's I was firmly entrenched into rock Music,
but still very much a conservitave maybe only
1 summer of hippeedom before returning to
regular citizenery. Ahhh to be immortal again.

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I was born in 1960.
The 70's were nothing(at least in my experience)like they are parodied and carictured on TV and Movies today.
The late 70's were a great time to be a teen ager.
Attitudes were completely different and more relaxed(and everything that entails)
Lots of great Rock and Roll with new bands and the Classics still going strong in many cases.
I saw the Movie 'The Buddy Holly Story' and was inspired by the revelation you didnt have to be a British Millionaire Junkie to pick up and play an electric guitar.
So I did.A black 1972 Fender Telecaster.
Just in time to get hit by the Sex Pistols and the Clash at the same time
I was going back and discovering the 60's early 70's output of the Who and the Doors.(which for some reason inspired me to cut my hair short like Roger Daltrey at the time and ditch the flared Jeans for Levi's 501's
totaly unlike everyone I went to school with)
I also saw Waylon Jennings live in 1979.
Keggers around a bonfire that lasted until the sun came up.
And the girls were stunning without that hard bitten used up look you see so much of today.
You should have been there.You would have loved it. 8)


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Miami Mike wrote:
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.

MM , bro , mitch ryder and the detroit wheels , such a great meet MM that band really did rock.

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The rock scene in the early 60's was pretty fractured. You had the surf movies, the Dions, Frankie Avalon, The Beach Boys, Dylan, Chubby & the Twist, Peppermint Lounge, holdover acts of the 50's like Little Richard, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry. then there was Dick Clark and American Bandstand where every Saturday you had the chance to see the lastest of the greatest. These were the days of Dancing. Every teenager had dance parties where the girls would play their 45's and dance, boys optional. Then on February 9th in 1964 it all changed. The world of rock 'n roll would never be the same. On the Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles became the tour de force. Every guy wanted to be and dress like one and every girl wanted to marry one. Every Teen magazine had polls as to what performer or group was better. It was age of rock band against rock band. The Beatles were the stimuli to the revolution that was to come front and center in 1967. Remember most major acts then played high school gyms, small theaters and some in small arenas of 3,000-5000. There were places that were closed to rock, no uncouth band would ever step foot on the hallowed ground of opera or classical houses. It was bad enough that some jazz and folk performers were able to come in through the back door. The rock movement led to rock emporiums like the Fillmore's, The Agora Ballrooms, Winterland and Whiskey a Go Go. Again, The Beatles changed all of that when they were booked for Carnegie Hall. They then broke every kind of barrier known to music. They went from the the basements clubs of Liverpool like The Casbah Coffee Club the Cavern to the beer halls of Hamburg, where they honed their skills playing cover songs for 6 to 8 hours a night. The endless caravan of Rock tours playing a the small circuit of theaters in England, Wales, Scotland and ireland, where they did their 20 minute set supporting other major English acts as well as the top American artists of the day like Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry & Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison, whose music was rooted in the blues. On their first real tour of America, they bypassed the theaters for Arenas and Stadiums. Then came the British Invasion, bands whose songs raced up the american music charts, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Peter and Gordon, The Animals, The Kinks, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, The Zombies, and Petula Clark. This also spawned a host of American Challengers, Dylan & The Band, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, the Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Jan and Dean, Simon and Garfunkel, Surf Music, The great groups from Mowtown and Stax. We were there to see it all happen and it has continued from the early pioneers of the 50's Like Elvis and Buddy Holly through today. One thing has rang true for the first 50 years of Rock, every generation grabs the torch and runs with it, spawning new branches on the Tree that is Rock and Roll! I guess this is the best way to sum it all up, Rock will never die!


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Being born in 1972, I remember my parents playing Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Sabbath, and of course Pink Floyd, among others. When I was a little, little boy, I always thought they were saying "Mommy" instead of "Money". I also remember looking at the DSOTM album jacket for hours, thinking that the photos of the pyramid(s) were actual photos from the moon, and the man playing his "guitar" to the fire was awesome. I owe my classic rock roots, and preference, to my parents.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sAWXncIcmU


The above is one of the groups that played at the cellar club I was talking about in an earlier post. The Kubi Club ( might as well give it the actual name ) had been going well for about a year with many British bands appearing. Some well known and some not so well known.
David John and the Mood, in my opinion capture, exactly, the sound and essence of the British r&b style of the cellar club groups of the early to mid sixties.
This is a B-side cover of a Bo-Diddley song ' I love To See You Strut ' released in 1965, the A-side ' Bring It To Jerome ' did not do well in the charts and the band split shortly after.
They played with us one day at the Kubi and I've got to say, they were one of the best sounding live bands I ever heard in the club. Shame it all ended so soon, they were only together 2-3 years.
So, if you want to hear how it was in the cellars of the sixties. This is it.
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I was born in 71 so i too missed a lot of that period mentioned. I caught the tale end of UK Punk and witnessed Goth.
I do feel priveliged to have witnessed the explosion of 'Indie' in the late 80s, it seemed to begin with the likes of The Smiths, The Fall and New Order then followed by The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Wonder Stuff, PWEI, Neds Atomic Dustbin, House of Love, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine... then the US bands like Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and finally Nirvana.
It was great to be around at that time and in some respects some of them bands deserve as much credit as the 60s/70s bands. I certainly would not swap places with an older guy anyway.

In comparison to past periods in music i think the last 5+ years have been quite dire. Maybe this is a result of me getting older or becomming a better musician with more understanding of music, i dunno?
Does anyone else feel this way about new music?


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sAWXncIcmU


The above is one of the groups that played at the cellar club I was talking about in an earlier post. The Kubi Club ( might as well give it the actual name ) had been going well for about a year with many British bands appearing. Some well known and some not so well known.
David John and the Mood, in my opinion capture, exactly, the sound and essence of the British r&b style of the cellar club groups of the early to mid sixties.
This is a B-side cover of a Bo-Diddley song ' I love To See You Strut ' released in 1965, the A-side ' Bring It To Jerome ' did not do well in the charts and the band split shortly after.
They played with us one day at the Kubi and I've got to say, they were one of the best sounding live bands I ever heard in the club. Shame it all ended so soon, they were only together 2-3 years.
So, if you want to hear how it was in the cellars of the sixties. This is it.
Cheers


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I was born in 71 so i too missed a lot of that period mentioned. I caught the tale end of UK Punk and witnessed Goth.
I do feel priveliged to have witnessed the explosion of 'Indie' in the late 80s, it seemed to begin with the likes of The Smiths, The Fall and New Order then followed by The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Wonder Stuff, PWEI, Neds Atomic Dustbin, House of Love, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine... then the US bands like Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and finally Nirvana.
It was great to be around at that time and in some respects some of them bands deserve as much credit as the 60s/70s bands. I certainly would not swap places with an older guy anyway.

In comparison to past periods in music i think the last 5+ years have been quite dire. Maybe this is a result of me getting older or becomming a better musician with more understanding of music, i dunno?
Does anyone else feel this way about new music?


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I thought you might like that one Snowy.
They were a very good band, still sounds good today.
Cheers :D

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Hello, all...

I was born in '53 and was exposed to music at a young age. I remember watching American Bandstand with my Dad. Thru the years, we would watch shows like Shindig! and Hullabaloo... Ed Sullivan and The Hollywood Palace would also have the big groups on.

The late 40's early 50's were when things got started. Earlier, even... But, the 60's and 70's were when things really heated up. At least for me. The first actual concert I ever saw was Frank Zappa. The opening act was the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think it was 1972. I don't remember exactly.

I was a really big Beatles fan. But, I'm sure most of the bands I listened to and learned from would say that too. I guess every era has a band that would rise up and be the model for a different spin on Rock 'n Roll.

We all know who they are... because they're the bands that are still loved even after the band is gone. Or, it's 20, 30 years later and they're still around. Still playing shows. And the companies who crafted the tools for these musicians are still around too.

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Well, I was born in 1955 so you could say that I witnessed most of rock history. I don't remember the very early period since I was too small, so I never really got into Elvis. It started for me more or less with the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show, which I remember vividly. Let me tell you, nothing was the same after that. Just before this time there was an instrumental period with bands like the Ventures and Shadows, as Miami Mike mentioned above. My older brother started playing guitar at this time so the guitar became a part of my everyday life even though I hadn't started playing yet.

I still remember what it was like to hear a live rock band for the first time. Local bands formed on every block of my Brooklyn neighborhood and would often play outdoors. Everybody would just flock around to listen and it sounded great. This was before guitarists were using distortion or any effects. Just the simple sound of an electrified band sounded awesome compared to hearing a record, even if the musicians were only one tenth as skilled.

I started playing guitar myself in 1968. It wasn't long after I started that my brother turned me on to Jimi Hendrix, who became my musical hero. Not long after that I also got into Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana. I don't listen to Clapton much now because knowing how he sounded then with his Gibson/Mashall combos, listening to him go deedlee-deedlee-dee on a strat just doesn't cut it.

I started playing in bands when I was thirteen. My first band was with a guy around the corner named Warren Cuccurullo, who went on to play with Zappa, Missing Persons, and Duran Duran (sheesh). There was three of us all plugged into one little Ampeg Reverberocket with the reverb on 10, playing Purple Haze over and over again, LOL.

I continued playing in bands non-stop until the age of 19. At that time my last band broke up and the music scene was going downhill fast with funk and the onset of disco. At that time I took a long break from playing for 3 or 4 years, then picked up again in 1980 when I got my first strat. From that point on I became mainly a bedroom player, which I still am for the most part. I would say that I learned more about playing and progressed more once I stopped playing in bands since I could play whatever I want.

Now being older, my musical tastes are more varied and somewhat more laid back. I love the guitar more than ever and I appreciate the pure sound of an electric guitar more than I ever did when I felt I had to step on a distortion box in order to play anything. Thinking back on all the musical heroes I idolized as a teenager and a young adult, I now realize that many of them were just a bunch of guys who couldn't hack a real job, LOL.


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dbrodie wrote:
.... The first actual concert I ever saw was Frank Zappa. The opening act was the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think it was 1972. I don't remember exactly....


Hey that was my second concert! It was at the Nassau Colisuem in Long Island. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was awesome and stole the show. The opening act for the opening act was Leo Kottke.


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FrancoAC wrote:
I was born in 71 so i too missed a lot of that period mentioned. I caught the tale end of UK Punk and witnessed Goth.
I do feel priveliged to have witnessed the explosion of 'Indie' in the late 80s, it seemed to begin with the likes of The Smiths, The Fall and New Order then followed by The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Wonder Stuff, PWEI, Neds Atomic Dustbin, House of Love, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine... then the US bands like Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and finally Nirvana.
It was great to be around at that time and in some respects some of them bands deserve as much credit as the 60s/70s bands. I certainly would not swap places with an older guy anyway.

In comparison to past periods in music i think the last 5+ years have been quite dire. Maybe this is a result of me getting older or becomming a better musician with more understanding of music, i dunno?
Does anyone else feel this way about new music?

Well there is still good music out there you just have to seek it out with an open mind.
If you have to go by the dreck that gets played on the radio or 'American Idol Nation' then yeah it has reached a real nadir.
The crap that the record comapanies have been marketing and promoting for the past ten years to the exclusion of everything else has esentially created the unhealthy stagnant state of the current music 'Scenes' which is as much responsible for their imminant demise as the internet or pirating.
Its hard to feel sorry for them.


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My first rock concert was The Who, at Union Catholic HS, in Scotch Plains, NJ. Second show I saw The Loving Spoonful same place. I never listened to the local top 40 station WABC, as much as my friends did. I listened enough to know all the top groups and music. When the Beatles played Ed Sullivan, I did get an acoustic guitar and took some lessons. I never could get the hang of it and after about 6 weeks or so, I just quit. My sister was one of the Huge Beatles fans, her room was covered completely with Beatels Photos. She also had every Bealtes thing you could have. We were at that age when you didn't like the things your sister liked, so I had to publicly dis-like the fab 4, though I actaully liked them a lot. She went to every concert in NYC, and I wish I had gone too. As I got older, I appreciated music more and more. Though I didn't own many albums of 45's, I was pretty versed in what was happening on the music scene. I was friendly with a couple of twins who lived up the street. They asked me if I wanted to go to Woodstock and my parents said it would be ok, because they trusted the twins. We never went because the NY Thruway was closed and there was no way to get there. Once I got to HS, music became more important. College I learned about FM and well, my musical interests exploded to all genres, rock, blues, country, jazz, classical. Now, music is a major part of my life.


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