MUSIC
KEITH RICHARDS, A MASTER OF THE UNEXPECTED YET COMPELLING INSIGHT, OBSERVED THAT MUSIC RANKED – IN ORDER OF ITS PERVASIVENESS IN HUMAN ACTIVITY – THIRD, AFTER ONLY FOOD AND SEX . FOR MY GENERATION MUSIC WAS THE PLATFORM, THE GLUE THAT HELD US TOGETHER. IT SPOKE TO US, INSPIRED US. EVEN WHEN THE ALL THE PROMISES SEEMED TO FALL APART, WHILE SOME DISTANCED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS MOURNED THE PASSING, EVEN THAT WAS CHRONICLED THROUGH “THE MUSIC.” BELOW IN NO ORDER ARE LINKS TO A VAST ARRAY OF MUSIC. USE THE “SEARCH” BAR TO FIND MORE.
THE WHO “WE DON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN”
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LINDA RONSTADT “HASTEN DOWN THE WIND” 1976
For two years I continued. I photographed Deniece Williams. I photographed the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Every picture had its story, didn’t it? For Earth, Wind & Fire truckloads of sand were spread across a sound stage floor. Forty thousand watts of light were used, arcing and firing mysteriously. I pretended I was Field Marshal Rommel. […]
SLY STONE “HIGHER!” 1969
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. It was a somewhat surreal undertaking, as we raced through Tom’s locations in Southern California, wiring stuffed buzzards on weathered tree trunks at Big Bear Lake, tossing stuffed alligators into fire-ravaged canyons in Ojai, until finally, speeding on some […]
JONI MITCHELL “A CASE OF YOU” 1969
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MARIANNE FAITHFUL “THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE” 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3fV-2rnA4&feature=youtube_gdata_player Valerie had blond hair that hung to her shoulders and was cut in a flat bang across the front. She looked like Marianne Faithful, or Françoise Hardy, the look of the time. I found her beautiful and, of course, assumed she would have nothing to do with me, so it came as a great […]
BOB DYLAN “BALLAD OF A THIN MAN” 1965
I played Meet The Beatles a lot. What was it about them? Back in the roadside diner, on the little black and white screen Ringo shook his head, his hair bobbed. The girls screamed. Paul wiggled and smiled. The girls screamed. John Lennon bobbed up and down, singing into the mike, thin-lipped. Each young […]
ALTAMONT: THE STORM IS THREATENING 1969
Altamont was seen by many – I’m one of them – as the “end of the Sixties.” For reasons I didn’t appreciate for years the English seldom shared the American view that Altamont “ended the Sixties.” In part, I feel, since our Sixties and theirs bore little resemblance to one another. When I asked Mick […]
JIMI HENDRIX BACK UP MUSICIAN
(Though the text from AMERICAN STORY is about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard – and this clip is with another band – I still think it illustrates it wonderfully) One evening my sister and I cross the black Thames to the Royal Festival Hall, a modern cultural complex. I am excited for we have tickets […]
CREAM “I’M SO GLAD” 1968
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