My ticket for the Monterey Pop Festival was only $6.50......a princely sum back in '67!



Arjay

Three day ticket to the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival--$18.

I got my first guitar, and guitar lesson, 50 years ago next month.

~Sigh~

It doesn't SEEM so long ago, but it is a half century. Who'd've thunk it?

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"To Be Is To Do" --Locke
"To Do Is To Be" --Thoreau
"Do Be Do Be Do" --Sinatra

Teisco,Silvertone,Beltone guitars and amps.Farfisa and Vox Jaguar organs, Traynor columns,skinny guitar straps,curly chords,boiling dirty strings,only 2 or 3 string choices-no gauge choices.I remember getting $25 between 4 of us when we were 15 and using a borrowed Silvertone 100W head with a lone Traynor column for a PA.Borrowing all the small amps we could and daisy-chaining them and stacking them to look like a big amp.Getting a lend of a decent amp with 3 or 4 inputs and all going into that.Getting a lend of an amp and spending all the gig money(and more)to get it fixed after we overloaded it.Stewart and Olympic drums. Cramming all the band and gear in an old 63 Pontiac station wagon. Cute little groupies who went googley eyed if a guy in the band chatted with them. Being set upon by hordes of fans who wanted to touch your clothes lol.The last statement is paraphrasing Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Band in their lovely rendition of The Sound of Music.Those certainly were the days.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Yep!!! I remember when........

I remember when everyone knew what was at number one in the charts each and every week.

Source of great annoyance - because the music we liked seldom climbed above about number 15.

When was the last time anyone knew or cared what was going on in the charts...?

Cheers - C

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Decades Ceri!!

Now I come to think of it, I can put a date to it, in my own case. In 1991 Bryan Adams' track Everything I Do from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood film was at number one in my country for no less than 16 weeks.

That was the point at which I finally gave up on the whole thing.

Actually, that's much more recent than I'd have thought...

Cheers - C

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How about the first time you heard stereo? Not just two speakers, but actual stereo!

Or the wa-wa pedal - amazing!

Plus a constant supply of the best, coolest new music...truly, we were blessed!

I remember the first time I heard Led Zep through headphones, I thought my head would explode.

Sigh.....

Gridlok

You're a young man Ceri! You've got to remember that I was born a poor boy on the wrong side of the tracks on the outskirts of a small Mississippi town. I remember Chubby teaching me to do the "Twist" I had the "Blues" and was chasing little girls around by the time I was 7 and my uncle was a "moonshiner"!!!

Heck, the Crossroads was less than a mile from my place!!

Ha - nothing like starting young! They don't call you Lite'nin for nuttin'...!!!

Respect - C

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And some herbs growing along the railroad track

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

SSHhhhhhhh!!!!!! Dem was collard greens.

Went everywhere in a Volkswagon microbus and didn't know squat about impedance............... Mike

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The blues ain't nothin but a good man feelin bad.

Impedance??? What's that?

early years- using the extra input on your amp for the microphone- and trying to avoid feedback.

the only effects you needed were a wah and a fuzztone.

never paying attention to string gauges- no setups needed- just go with it

playing a sunday show at a local theatre, and girls asking us to sign their program (our band was on tv a few times back in the 60"s).

oh yea- the 60's was a great time to be in a band.