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Music in the Sixties in England
2007-08-11 07:04:00 Elvis, Motown, the Surf Sound, the British Invasion, Psychedelia, Woodstock, Hendrix, Bob Dylan and The Monkees. All set against the backdrop of a new permissiveness, Free Love and a war we couldn’t win. Turn on, tune in and drop out . . . In Britain we had The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Merseybeat and Pirate Radio, ... More About: England , Music , Sixties , Music I
San Francisco Sound - New Riders of the Purple Sage
2007-08-02 05:30:00 The roots of the New Riders can be traced back to the early 60s folk/bohemian/beatnik scene in San Francisco , where future Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, then considered to be one of the finest banjo players of the folk revival, often played gigs with like-minded guitarist David Nelson. The young John Dawson, also known as ... More About: Sound , Purple , Sage
San Francisco Sound - Jerry Garcia
2007-08-02 03:26:00 Jerome John “Jerry ” Garcia (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was viewed by the media as the leader or “spokesman” of the group. Performing with the Grateful Dead for its ... More About: San Francisco , Sound , Francisco
Beatle Controversies
2007-07-30 01:41:00 Paul McCartney is turning 65, Sgt. Pepper turning 40 (it was twenty years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play).. and the Beatle s aren’t controversial now, but they were back in the 60’s…. In July 1966, when The Beatles toured the Philippines, they unintentionally snubbed the nation’s first lady, Imelda Marcos, who had ... More About: Rove , Rover , Controversies
Billie Piper Gallery PopStar to Dr Who Companion
2007-07-28 05:06:00 Technorati : Women, celebs, commentary, entertainment, girls, pics, sexiest, sexy, wallpaper Del.icio.us : Women, celebs, commentary, entertainment, girls, pics, sexiest, sexy, video, wallpaper Ice Rocket : Women, celebs, commentary, entertainment, girls, pics, sexiest, sexy, video, wallpaper Flickr : Women, celebs, commentary, entertainment, girls, pics, sexiest, sexy, video, wallpaper Zooomr ... More About: Gallery , Billie Piper , Bill , Compa , Piper
Sixties TV Dr Who The Tardis
2007-07-25 00:37:00 The TARDIS is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television program Doctor Who. The name is an acronym of Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. A product of Time Lord technology, a properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and space. The interior of a ... More About: Sixties , Tardis , Dr Who
Sixties TV Dr Who The Daleks
2007-07-24 08:32:00 The Dale ks (pronounced “DAH-lecks”) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Dalek is a grotesque mutated organism integrated with a tank-like mechanical casing made of “dalekanium”. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse ... More About: The D , Sixties , Dr Who
Sixties TV Dr Who
2007-07-22 06:43:00 Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 pm (GMT) on 23 November 1963, following discussions and plans that had been in progress for a year, and was repeated at the same time the next week due to the disruption of viewing habits caused by coverage of the assassination of US President John F. ... More About: Sixties , Dr Who
Sixties TV The Great American Dream Machine
2007-07-20 05:11:00 Great American Dream Machine was a weekly television show broadcast on PBS in 1971-1972. The host of TGADM was Marshall Efron, a pudgy and entertaining young man in his mid thirties with curly, black hair. The show centered around skits and satirical political commentary. The hour and a half long show usually contained at least 7 ... More About: Great , Sixties
Sixties TV - The Twilight Zone
2007-07-16 06:22:00 One of television’s most rightly revered series, The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) stands as the role model for TV anthologies. Its trenchant sci-fi/fantasy parables explore humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional drama cannot. Creator Rod Serling wrote the majority of the scripts, and produced those of such now-legendary writers as Richard Matheson ... More About: Sixties
Television in the Sixties
2007-07-12 15:58:00 Today the TV set is part of our daily life. It’s often switched on continuously even if nobody is actually watching it. We’ll walk through the living room and glance at it while doing something else. But in the sixties, watching television was a separate activity. You scheduled time for it, and it was likely ... More About: Television , Visio , Levis , Sixties
Spirit of the Sixties - Ken Kesey
2007-07-06 11:44:00 Kenneth Elton Kesey was best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and as a counterculture figure who, some consider, was a link between the “beat generation” of the 1950s and the “hippies” of the 1960s. “I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie,” Ken ... More About: Spirit , Sixties
TV in the Sixties - The Prisoner
2007-07-05 16:33:00 1 9 6 7 - 1 9 6 8 (UK) 17 x 50 minute Episodes The Prisoner , an existential British spy/science fiction series, was first aired in England in 1967. Actor Patrick McGoohan conceived the idea for the series, wrote some of the scripts, and starred in the central role. McGoohan had become bored with ... More About: Riso , Sixties
San Francisco Diggers
2007-07-03 03:23:00 The social laboratory out of which the idea of the Diggers formed was the summer planning sessions of the Artists Liberation Front held at the Mime Troupe loft on Howard Street. Emmett Grogan is prominent in the photographs of those sessions. By the fall, ALF was planning a series of neighborhood street Free Fairs. These ... More About: San Francisco , Francisco , Franc , Francis
Classic Video - Bambi Meets Godzilla
2007-07-01 18:42:00 Technorati : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Del.icio.us : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Ice Rocket : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Flickr : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Zooomr : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Buzznet : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video Riya : 1960 s, entertainment, humor, video 43 ... More About: Video , Classic , Godzilla , Zilla
Video of Lenny Bruce?s Thank You Masked Man
2007-06-30 18:19:00 Leonard Alfred Schneider was born in Mineola, Long Island, New York. His youth was chaotic, his parents divorcing when he was five years old, and saw Lenny moving in with various relatives over the next decade. His mother, Sally Marr, was a stage performer who had an enormous influence on Bruce ’s career. A controversial American ... More About: Video , Mask , Lenny Bruce , Hank
Fantabulous Video of Moondance by Van Morrison
2007-06-30 03:05:00 Technorati : concerts, entertainment, music, van morrison, video Del.icio.us : concerts, entertainment, music, van morrison, video Ice Rocket : concerts, entertainment, music, van morrison, video Flickr : concerts, entertainmen, music, van morrison, video Zooomr : concerts, entertainmen, music, van morrison, video Buzznet : concerts, entertainment, music, van morrison, video Riya : ... More About: Video , Van Morrison , Morris , Riso , Onda
The San Franciso Sound - Sly & the Family Stone
2007-06-28 20:09:00 When you think of the San Francisco sound, the groups that come to mind are usually are the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service - and later David LaFlamme’s band It’s a Beautiful Day, Steve Miller Blues Band, Fifty Foot Hose, Santana, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer. Many ... More About: Family , Sound , Stone , The Family , Tone
Video of the 13th Floor Elevators
2007-06-24 00:57:00 Old Hippies post on the 13th Floor Elevator s is here More About: Video
Video - Its a Beautiful Day - white bird
2007-06-22 06:46:00 Click for Old Hippies post about Its a Beau tiful day More About: Video , White , Bird
Van the Man
2007-06-21 06:34:00 A paragon of blue-eyed soul, Van Morrison has been following his muse for four decades. His travels have led him down pathways where he?s explored soul, jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, rock and roll, Celtic folk, pop balladry, and more, forging a distinctive amalgam that has Morrison?s passionate self-expression at its core. With a minimum ... More About: The Man
Video of Wishbone Ash
2007-06-21 05:25:00 Wishbone Ash is the first album by legendary rock band Wishbone Ash. The band’s debut album became a reality when they were opening for Deep Purple in early 1970. Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was jamming during the band’s soundcheck when Wishbone guitarist Andy Powell boldly plugged in and began jamming with Blackmore. Wishbone Ashe’s dual ... More About: Video , Bone
Spirit - Psychedelic Roots
2007-06-19 22:27:00 Spirit was a highly regarded rock band that achieved modest commercial success, charting 11 albums in the U.S. between 1968 and 1977. Founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by musicians who had a mixture of rock, pop, folk, blues, classical, and jazz backgrounds, and who ranged in age from 16 to 44, the group ... More About: Psychedelic , Roots , Psych , Root
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN??
2007-06-18 00:33:00 I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere ...
The San Francisco Sound- The Electric Flag
2007-06-16 02:47:00 One of the bands that came out of the San Francisco scene with a lot of influence on music for years to come was ‘The Electric Flag ’. Though the Electric Flag was together in its original configuration less than a year, the band did make a strong impression on critics and musicians, primarily in the ... More About: Sound
The San Francisco Sound - the 13th Floor Elevators
2007-06-13 01:52:00 Featuring the yelping vocals and visionary, occasionally demented lyrics of Roky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevator s were one of the original acid rock bands. Formed in Texas in the mid-’60s, the Elevators started as a garage rock outfit, scoring their one and only modest national hit with “You’re Gonna Miss Me.” While Erickson’s loopy ... More About: San Francisco , Sound , Francisco
The Summer of Love - People in Motion
2007-06-11 23:06:00 The bus came by and I got onThat’s when it all beganThere was Cowboy NealAt the wheelOf a bus to never-ever land. Grateful Dead-Anthem of the Sun The trip to San Francisco in the spring of 1967 was eventful, there’s no doubt about that. We bought a 1954 Plymouth Belvedere, amazingly rough and we did a little ... More About: People , Love , Summer , Motion , Summer of Love
The San Francisco Sound - Moby Grape
2007-06-10 07:13:00 The Summer of Love, and the bands that were active in the San Francisco Bay area at the time, generated a list of influential musicians that is long and impressive: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band, Big Brother & The Holding Co. (featuring Janis Joplin), Santana, Quicksilver Messenger Service and many more. There were dozens ... More About: Sound , Moby , Rape
The True Story Of Casey Jones
2007-06-08 21:37:00 From “Erie Railroad Magazine” Vol 24 (April 1928), No 2, pp. 13,44. On the last day of April [1928] occurs the 28th anniversary of the death of Casey Jones , probably the most famous of a long line of locomotive engineer heroes who have died at their post of duty, one hand on the whistle and the ... More About: Story , True Story , True
San Francisco Sound - Janis Joplin
More articles from this author:2007-06-07 23:00:00 Janis Lyn Joplin was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970. In between she led a triumphant and tumultuous life blessed by an innate talent to convey powerful emotion through heart-stomping rock-and-roll singing. Born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas, a small Southern petroleum industry town, she gravitated to artistic interests cultivated by ... More About: San Francisco , Sound , Francisco , Franc , Francis 1, 2 |
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