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 Eagles DIRTY LAUNDRY 1982
http://youtu.be/8icJnavt2So When the dominance of the LP ended – and with it the ”writerly” concept album, it was the sunset of an era. I didn’t remark it at the time. I just missed what those LP fueled inspirations had been able to tell me. I definitely noticed they were gone. The effects of television went […]
ROLLING STONES ON ED SULLIVAN 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIApQbZLDAk&feature=youtube_gdata_player Inside the studio, the set is some television designer’s idea of “far out.” Tall crescent shapes rise from the stage floor to approximate an underground cavern. The stage behind is lit with orange gels. Bleachers are set up in part of the studio for a small audience, but they are empty except for what […]
TAJ MAHAL “CORRINA”
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THE BEATLES “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE” 1967
On July 24, 1967, The Beatles release “All You Need Is Love.” If somehow, somewhere there were some promotional-director-in-the-sky who took care of these things, if somehow all of this were being done on purpose (as certainly we were sure it was), it could not have happened with more effect, nor at a […]
JANIS JOPLIN “PIECE OF MY HEART” 1967
At night people gathered at the Fillmore Auditorium. I went there with my brother to hear Jefferson Airplane. But I was straight. Even with that the swirling light show was impressive. The Fillmore hosted Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), the Quicksilver Messenger Service, or the Grateful Dead. The bands stood on […]
THE BYRDS “THE BELLS OF RHYMNEY”
In the winter of 1966 I arrive in New York I am wearing my father’s overcoat, purple pointed-toe Beatle boots, and long hair. There was a lot of music now. An American group called the Byrds released their first album, Mr. Tambourine Man. They took a lot of Bob Dylan songs and made them electric, […]
THE BYRDS “MR TAMBOURINE MAN” 1966
There was a lot of music now. An American group called the Byrds released their first album, Mr. Tambourine Man. They took a lot of Bob Dylan songs and made them electric, with harmonies. I must have listened to that record two hundred times. I would listen to the last track, The Bells of Rhymney […]
BOB DYLAN “LIKE A ROLLING STONE” 1965
http://youtu.be/hk3mAX5xdxo On a hot, muggy night, in the attic room of an old school administration building, I sit nursing a case of undergraduate angst: what am I doing with my life? Should I drop out? Get a job? Hair grows over the collar of my shirt. In the comer a small AM radio plays softly. […]
Bob Dylan RAINY DAY WOMEN (“Everybody Must Get Stoned”)
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THE BEATLES HARD DAY’S NIGHT 1964
The Beatles release their second movie. Help! I see it multiple times. It’s not Hard Day’s Night but The Beatles are as captivating as ever, and it’s in color. The music is great, getting even better. John Lennon lying on the couch in The Beatles’ common house sings, “Here I stand, head in hand / […]
