08-01-2007, 05:14 PM
these ARE some great stories! Sounds like a few of us are the same age ... I am Year of the Dragon ... I was 15 at Monterey Pop; I was 13 and 14 when I first saw the Beatles and Stones.
Don't have that Lou Reed album, sounds good!
I was the kind of Dylan fan who bought each new album, sat down and TYPED the lyrics while listening over and over to the record ... it was 1965 before I heard of him, but then I was only 13. I think I saw him at Glendale Civic just before the motorcycle accident ... then not again until '86 with Tom Petty at the Greek. that was a great night. Dylan was BACK!
I never saw Blind Faith but that was our favorite album when we lived in Taos in 1969. I did see Cream at the Forum in LA in December of '68, on their farewell tour.
Janis at Monterey Pop was amazing because relatively unknown and no expectations in the crowd, she was on in the Saturday afternoon blues concert ... got such a response that they brought her back that night and she stole the show.
Beachboy, did you ever know some guys who moved to Maui in the late 60's who called themselves Mu? They were an offshoot of Merle and the Exiles ... and Jeff Cotton was their main talent ... he got religion and quit the music business though.
I went to high school in the Palmdale desert, and our homegrown bands were Merle, Captain Beefhart, and Frank Zappa ... one of my high school musicians that I much admired has written a book on the Beefhart days now (Bill Harkelroad) ... and his bassist Doug Moon ran away from the band and lived in a travel trailer in our yard.
Strange days.
I have to say I had more fun then than I do now!
Don't have that Lou Reed album, sounds good!
I was the kind of Dylan fan who bought each new album, sat down and TYPED the lyrics while listening over and over to the record ... it was 1965 before I heard of him, but then I was only 13. I think I saw him at Glendale Civic just before the motorcycle accident ... then not again until '86 with Tom Petty at the Greek. that was a great night. Dylan was BACK!
I never saw Blind Faith but that was our favorite album when we lived in Taos in 1969. I did see Cream at the Forum in LA in December of '68, on their farewell tour.
Janis at Monterey Pop was amazing because relatively unknown and no expectations in the crowd, she was on in the Saturday afternoon blues concert ... got such a response that they brought her back that night and she stole the show.
Beachboy, did you ever know some guys who moved to Maui in the late 60's who called themselves Mu? They were an offshoot of Merle and the Exiles ... and Jeff Cotton was their main talent ... he got religion and quit the music business though.
I went to high school in the Palmdale desert, and our homegrown bands were Merle, Captain Beefhart, and Frank Zappa ... one of my high school musicians that I much admired has written a book on the Beefhart days now (Bill Harkelroad) ... and his bassist Doug Moon ran away from the band and lived in a travel trailer in our yard.
Strange days.
I have to say I had more fun then than I do now!