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Mr. Natural - R Crumb
2007-06-07 02:01:00 KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ R. Crumb’s rebellious, sometimes just plain weird comix became reallypopular with the counter-culture. Zap featured an unforgettable image ofthis bearded character who looked a little like Father Time…….. This was of course, Mr. Natur al .. Who loved to say, go **** yourself, Do it today, Don’t Delay In January 1967, Crumb moved to California, where he did ... More About: Natura , Ural
History of The San Francisco Sound
2007-06-06 00:54:00 The late sixties was surely a peak in the short history of Vintage Rock. Perhaps there was no better location to spring forth the exuberant sounds that flowed out of the city by the bay. Bands like Tikis, Mojo Men, The Knight Riders and the Beau Brummels were beginning to create a different vibe throughout ... More About: History , San Francisco , Sound , Hist , Tory
The San Francisco Sound - It?s A Beautiful Day
2007-06-05 01:53:00 David LaFlamme arrived in California in 1962. He was twenty-one years old; he had been playing violin since he was five. During the Sixties he picked up all manner of musical influences: he played jazz with John Handy, he jammed with the band that would eventually become Big Brother and the Holding Company, and he ... More About: San Francisco , Sound , Beautiful , Beau , Francisco
Haight Ashbury Posters
2007-06-01 01:44:00 Since most of the artwork of the sixties was throwaway, advertisting for concerts and various gatherings being the most common, its hard to find. Included here are posters, album covers and a few of the be-in, hippie and San Francisco happening flyers.. and, even, an R. Crumb Mr. Natural cover… enjoy . Technorati ... More About: Posters , Ashbury
Haight Ashbury Posters
2007-06-01 01:44:00 Since most of the artwork of the sixties was throwaway, advertisting for concerts and various gatherings being the most common, its hard to find. Included here are posters, album covers and a few of the be-in, hippie and San Francisco happening flyers.. and, even, an R. Crumb Mr. Natural cover… enjoy . Technorati ... More About: Posters , Ashbury
The Fish Game in Haight Ashbury Land
2007-05-31 07:10:00 HOW TO PLAY THE GAME First… Pick out your own Fish to go around the game with. Get a piece of paper to keep score on and you’re ready to start. (Any number can play, and if you need extra figures you can use your high school graduation picture, a bottle cap, peach pits, your car key, etc., ... More About: Game , Land , Ashbury
Woodstock Heroes-Country Joe and the Fish
2007-05-31 06:48:00 Country Joe and the Fish Country Joe and the Fish came about as part political device, part necessity, and part entertainment. In the Fall of 1965, the remnants of the FSM (Free Speech Movement) on the Berkeley Campus were organizing a series of demonstrations against the war in Vietnam at the Oakland Induction Center. Drawing on ... More About: Country , Heroes , Woodstock , Hero
Never Kiss the Sky Again
2007-05-30 04:50:00 Johnny Allen Hendrix (later re-named James Marshall Hendrix) was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. Hendrix’s parents divorced when he was nine years old, and in 1958 his mother died. He went to live with his grandmother because of his unstable household. Hendrix did not graduate from high school. Hendrix later claimed that ... More About: Kiss
Drive-in Daze
2007-05-29 00:24:00 As the price of oil rises, and the gouging goes into uncharted territory seeing the profits of the oil companies soar into reaches unknown and undreamed of in the past, its hard to believe that at one time the automobile economy was the nearly unquestioned wave of the future. Thinking people realized that fossil fuel ... More About: Drive
Hot Licks
2007-05-28 10:25:00 Patron.insertIFrame("medium_rectangle_con tainer", 300, 250, { artist: "R80158", genre: "rock" }); Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as one of contemporary music’s true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knew few musical boundaries, drawing on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work which earned him ...
Hot Licks
2007-05-27 08:16:00 Patron.insertIFrame("medium_rectangle_con tainer", 300, 250, { artist: "R80158", genre: "rock" }); Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as one of contemporary music’s true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knew few musical boundaries, drawing on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work which earned him ...
Sixties Music in San Francisco
2007-05-27 07:52:00 May 14, 1965?Boss of the Bay,? KYA presents the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Beau Brummels, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Vejtables, at Civic Auditorium. August 13, 1965 The Matrix, San Franc isco ?s first folk night club, opened at 3138 Fillmore in the Marina District. New band called ?The Jefferson Airplane? performed. September 2, 1965 Beatles concert at the Cow Palace in ... More About: Music , Sixties
Danny O?Keefe
2007-05-27 07:09:00 Danny O’Keefe was born in Spokane, Washington in 1943 and spent his childhood in the Central Washington town of Wenatchee. His father was an avid jazz collector who had helped put himself through college as a drummer. “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” and “The Road”, both of which were covered by a host of ... More About: Danny
VAN THE MAN
2007-05-26 22:00:00 Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, ... More About: The Man
The Bluesbreakers
2007-05-26 08:33:00 John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers are a pioneering English blues band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE, that has included such luminaries as: * Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (both later in Cream), * Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (later all in Fleetwood Mac), ... More About: Breakers , Brea
QuarterFlash
2007-05-25 06:09:00 Quarterflash is a pop-rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. The band was made up of lead singer and saxophonist Rindy Ross, her husband guitarist Marv Ross, guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch and drummer Brian David Willis. Their original name was Seafood Mama. The band signed to Geffen Records and released ... More About: Lash , Quarter
Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
2007-05-24 23:57:00 To really appreciate this, you have to remember Abbott and Costello, though you youngsters might remember one sketch… In todays computer age “Who’s on First?” might have turned out something like this. Abbot’s the salesperson, Costello the customer calling in: ... More About: Microsoft , Money , Micro , Ense , Copy
How old is too old to rock and roll?
More articles from this author:2007-05-24 01:40:00 Did you know that Paula Abdul worked with ZZ Top on their ‘dance’ moves? Seems very strange, but apparently they needed work on their stage presence, and Paula is by trade a choreographer. The vague innuendo about her following the Milli Vanilli scandal would not seem to make her the optimum candidate for working with ... More About: Rock , Roll , Rock and Roll 1, 2 |
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