1960-1969
1960-1969 STATIC TEXT
TAJ MAHAL “CORRINA”
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THE BEATLES: SHEA STADIUM 1965
There was this guy named Ron whom I met through a fellow who worked at Warner Brothers Records. Ron was a Beatlemaniac. When I met Ron in 1974, it had been four years since The Beatles had broken up. Ron lived in New Jersey with his brother and his parents. Both Ron and his brother […]
THE BEATLES FIRST U.S. CONCERT: WASHINGTON D.C. 1964
There was this guy named Ron whom I met through a fellow who worked at Warner Brothers Records. Ron was a Beatlemaniac. When I met Ron in 1974, it had been four years since The Beatles had broken up. Ron lived in New Jersey with his brother and his parents. Both Ron and his brother […]
“BLOW-UP” 1967
Then I went to see Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Blow-Up. It is the story, set in “swinging London,” of an immensely successful English fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings. He drives a Rolls-Royce and is surrounded by beautiful models and musicians smoking hashish. For me, as much as the actors or the plot, the life Antonioni […]
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 […]
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH” 1967
One day I was tagging along with my brother as he went to visit some people he knew up the street on Fillmore. Jerry preceded me up the stairs. Again, though it is the middle of the day, all the windows are covered. A fellow in the corner with long hair looks at me suspiciously […]
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. […]
