Blasts From The Past - 50S,60S And 70S Music (2018)

[Hank Gunn]

Dave Mason, Only You Know and I Know. I remember when this was on the radio as a kid. (I was 9 at the time.)

 

 

[Hank Gunn]

Heard this on the radio a few years ago (Look at You Look at Me) and it prompted me to buy the album, which is excellent. (Excellent guitar solo just before the 5 minutes mark.)

 

 

 

[Tippaporn]

44 minutes ago, Hank Gunn said:

Heard this on the radio a few years ago (Look at You Look at Me) and it prompted me to buy the album, which is excellent. (Excellent guitar solo just before after the 5 minutes mark.)

 

 

 

There are few guitar solos that literally give me goosebumps.  No joke.  My body actually feels a slight rush.  That is one of them.  Great LP, BTW.  You should have bought the LP when you were 9, LOL.  The guitar solo on Stevie Miller's Going To The Country, from his 1970 Number 5 LP, is another one.  I just wish those solos would never end.

 

 

[CharlieH]

How about this list........

 

 

[Tippaporn]

It's a good question to put to other posters . . . what are you're favourite guitar solos?

 

Here's Hendrix on Hey Joe at an unidentified concert and date.

 

 

[CharlieH]

Although I have a wide taste,.......This is more my speed....????

 

 

and 

 

 

[Tippaporn]

Another great guitar solo, this one by Carlos Santana on Savor/Jingo from the 18.8.70 Tanglewood concert.  There's great drum solos as well.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

4 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Although I have a wide taste,.......This is more my speed....????

 

 

and 

 

 

LOL, you beat me to Carlos Santana by a hair, Charlie.

Edited December 8, 2018 by Tippaporn

[Tippaporn]

The guitar playing by Peter Green on Jenny, Jenny from the live shows at The Boston Tea Party in 1970 is absolutely phenomenal.  His solo stretches from 2:40 to 6:15 broken up only with a few short verses.

 

Legendary guitarist BB King on Peter Green:  "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by Tippaporn

[Andrew Dwyer]

Couldn’t let this bit go by without throwing my favourite in there !!

The Allman Brothers - Jelly Jelly

[Tippaporn]

26 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Couldn’t let this bit go by without throwing my favourite in there !!

The Allman Brothers - Jelly Jelly

Beautiful, Andrew!!  I'll pay you back with this one.  A very underrated guitarist, Roy Buchanan on Roy's Blues from a live show in '76.  To be honest the whole song is a guitar solo, LOL.

 

Check out the 5:42 mark where he toys around with audience by playing one-handed while he takes a drink and then feigns boredom.  Great guitarist.

 

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

Beautiful, Andrew!!  I'll pay you back with this one.  A very underrated guitarist, Roy Buchanan on Roy's Blues from a live show in '76.  To be honest the whole song is a guitar solo, LOL.
 
Check out the 5:42 mark where he toys around with audience by playing one-handed while he takes a drink and then feigns boredom.  Great guitarist.
 
 

Wonderful stuff, here’s another one from him where he takes a much played song and adds his own laid back ad lib style to it to create “ something different “.

[bannork]

A tour de force

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

A tour de force
 

Love this movie, a gritty insight to life on the road about one of the nicest guys ever to pick up a guitar.

Should be compulsory viewing for today’s wannabees who think the road to popularity is a two minute set in front of Simon Cowell and some has beens !!

[tutsiwarrior]

5 hours ago, Hank Gunn said:

Heard this on the radio a few years ago (Look at You Look at Me) and it prompted me to buy the album, which is excellent. (Excellent guitar solo just before the 5 minutes mark.)

 

 

 

 

Dave Mason was great and unappreciated...one of the creative forces behind Traffic with Steve Winwood...

 

Berkeley 1970 during the invasion of Cambodia and tutsi is in the streets staring and wondering 'I ain't in Pasadena no more...' later walking down Telegraph Ave with a paper bag fulla kilos of dope like walking home from the supermarket and calmly conversing with his high school chum who was peddling them at the time...this was before the sinsemilla revolution and a kilo with stems and seeds went for $100...he ran the border near TJ in an old yellow Mercury convertible with a fake gas tank and scored 30 kilos...he later got a house in Laguna Canyon and parked the old Mercury in his front yard as a monument to his success...

 

 

later another pal who wasn't as smart attempted to walk across the desert border with Mexico with a backpack fulla kilos and the border patrol busted his ass...he later became a pHd in political science...don't know whatever became of the other pal...

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by tutsiwarrior

[Hank Gunn]

6 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

There are few guitar solos that literally give me goosebumps.  No joke.  My body actually feels a slight rush.  That is one of them.  Great LP, BTW.  You should have bought the LP when you were 9, LOL.  The guitar solo on Stevie Miller's Going To The Country, from his 1970 Number 5 LP, is another one.  I just wish those solos would never end.

 

 

You know, I read somewhere recently (last couple yrs.) that there are two types of psychiatric profiles that doctors have discovered: those who hear music and enjoy it for its aesthetic qualities and perhaps the associated technical proficiency; and those who, for certain songs or musical phrases, experience a much deeper emotional response. I'm one of the latter types and there are certain songs or sections of songs (such as that Dave Mason guitar solo on Look at You Look at Me) that bring on a very strong emotional response. For me, it's as if the musician is sharing something from deep within his or her soul using a modality that is both primitive (non-linguistic but profoundly communicative) and deeply emotional. This reminds me of what Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said about the passing of keyboardist Richard Wright. He said he'd never be able to perform the song Echoes again, because he always considered it a personal conversation between himself and Richard. It sounds like you're one of those types of people as well.

 

Nice Steve Miller tune. I don't know much about his work other than the radio hits but that was indeed tasty.

[bannork]

I loved Steve Miller's early albums. Like Roxy Music, there was so much variety in the early work.

 

[Tippaporn]

9 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

Dave Mason was great and unappreciated...one of the creative forces behind Traffic with Steve Winwood...

 

Berkeley 1970 during the invasion of Cambodia and tutsi is in the streets staring and wondering 'I ain't in Pasadena no more...' later walking down Telegraph Ave with a paper bag fulla kilos of dope like walking home from the supermarket and calmly conversing with his high school chum who was peddling them at the time...this was before the sinsemilla revolution and a kilo with stems and seeds went for $100...he ran the border near TJ in an old yellow Mercury convertible with a fake gas tank and scored 30 kilos...he later got a house in Laguna Canyon and parked the old Mercury in his front yard as a monument to his success...

 

 

later another pal who wasn't as smart attempted to walk across the desert border with Mexico with a backpack fulla kilos and the border patrol busted his ass...he later became a pHd in political science...don't know whatever became of the other pal...

 

 

 

We were dealing in the early 70's but only in single pound quantities.  We weren't interested in making money but only to smoke for free.  Sold only to close knit friends.  A pound kept us high for a week.  Usually sold Mexican Wahawkin (spelling?).  $15 an oz.  The better grades, such as Colombian, Acupulco Gold, Sinse, Panama Red, Hawaiian were $30/oz.  Thai stick was a bit more.  Never bought any homegrown or skunk weed, but smoked it when all other sources failed.

 

Going back to your tales of hitchhiking, I was traveling locally once to visit some friends.  Maybe about a 5 mile trip.  I got picked up by three dudes in a 4-door sedan and hopped in the back.  The guy riding shotgun turns to me and asks if I smoke.  Well, natch. He passes me a joint they had already lit and tells me he's got something for me . . . Colombian.  While we're passing the doobie around he's rolling another one.  Fires it up and passes it to me.  So now we've got 2 joints going simultaneously and the round robin eventually stops with me holding both joints.  I went to pass one of them and was met with a "Nah, go ahead."  I'm feeling a bit suspicious around this time but everything seemed cool.

 

They were even so kind as to drive a bit out of their way to drop me off right at the front door of my friend's apartment building.  As the car came to a stop I flipped the door latch but nothing happened.  I flipped again . . . then again, but the door wouldn't open. The guy riding shotgun turns and says, "Try pushing on it."  Sure enough, that did the trick.  LOL  Man, I was buzzed!

 

Another great Dave Mason tune, World In Changes, off of the excellent 1970 Alone Together LP.

 

Geezus, I forgot to include the vid.  I'm straight right now . . . honest!

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by Tippaporn

[tutsiwarrior]

40 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

We were dealing in the early 70's but only in single pound quantities.  We weren't interested in making money but only to smoke for free.  Sold only to close knit friends.  A pound kept us high for a week.  Usually sold Mexican Wahawkin (spelling?).  $15 an oz.  The better grades, such as Colombian, Acupulco Gold, Sinse, Panama Red, Hawaiian were $30/oz.  Thai stick was a bit more.  Never bought any homegrown or skunk weed, but smoked it when all other sources failed.

 

Going back to your tales of hitchhiking, I was traveling locally once to visit some friends.  Maybe about a 5 mile trip.  I got picked up by three dudes in a 4-door sedan and hopped in the back.  The guy riding shotgun turns to me and asks if I smoke.  Well, natch. He passes me a joint they had already lit and tells me he's got something for me . . . Colombian.  While we're passing the doobie around he's rolling another one.  Fires it up and passes it to me.  So now we've got 2 joints going simultaneously and the round robin eventually stops with me holding both joints.  I went to pass one of them and was met with a "Nah, go ahead."  I'm feeling a bit suspicious around this time but everything seemed cool.

 

They were even so kind as to drive a bit out of their way to drop me off right at the front door of my friend's apartment building.  As the car came to a stop I flipped the door latch but nothing happened.  I flipped again . . . then again, but the door wouldn't open. The guy riding shotgun turns and says, "Try pushing on it."  Sure enough, that did the trick.  LOL  Man, I was buzzed!

 

Another great Dave Mason tune, World In Changes, off of the excellent 1970 Alone Together LP.

 

it's Oaxaca as in Mexico and a 'lid' (ounce) of dope was $10, usually measured with a Prince Albert tobacco can...remember riding up Laguna Canyon after an outdoor concert and folks were passing fat joints from car window to car window...good 'ol times...and yeah, folks (mostly surfers that lived at the beach) would sell lids just to have something to smoke but the dudes that I knew were serious dealers...then heroin and coke got popular and the mob and the bikers got involved and the whole complexion changed, I mostly kept to acid and booze as junkies and the like weren't very pleasant to be around...do a hit or two now and then depending on who I was with...was with a friend once and he broke in to an animal hospital in Corona del Mar and got some pharma morphine, a cc of that shit took my knees out from under me...young and reckless it was a world of changes...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by tutsiwarrior

[Tippaporn]

7 hours ago, Hank Gunn said:

You know, I read somewhere recently (last couple yrs.) that there are two types of psychiatric profiles that doctors have discovered: those who hear music and enjoy it for its aesthetic qualities and perhaps the associated technical proficiency; and those who, for certain songs or musical phrases, experience a much deeper emotional response. I'm one of the latter types and there are certain songs or sections of songs (such as that Dave Mason guitar solo on Look at You Look at Me) that bring on a very strong emotional response. For me, it's as if the musician is sharing something from deep within his or her soul using a modality that is both primitive (non-linguistic but profoundly communicative) and deeply emotional. This reminds me of what Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said about the passing of keyboardist Richard Wright. He said he'd never be able to perform the song Echoes again, because he always considered it a personal conversation between himself and Richard. It sounds like you're one of those types of people as well.

 

Nice Steve Miller tune. I don't know much about his work other than the radio hits but that was indeed tasty.

Well stated, Hank.  I completely agree with the non-verbal aspect of communication.  As far as I'm concerned there are different types of communication that have nothing to do with language.  There are times where a song of exceptional beauty, to me, evokes an emotive response so strong that it, dare I say, brings me to tears.  I've always thought that music provides a pure connection to our source.  Watching the body language and facial expressions of guitarists or vocalists 'getting into' their playing or singing I can't help but think that there's a definite melding going on, where the artist becomes so in tune with the music they're playing that they and the music become one and the same.  Transcendental, if you will.

 

Check out some early Steve Miller other than the selections most often played on main stream radio.  As bannork says, lots of variety.  Quality music, for certain.

 

Fannie May, off of their '68 debut, Children Of The Future.

 

 

And Kow Kow Calculator, off of their '69 LP, Brave New World.  A very beautiful tune.

 

 

[tutsiwarrior]

 

'ol Steve useta shake it up...part of the 60s SF rock scene...saw him lots in SoCal when I was in high school...his mate Boz Skaggs went on to be a local 'personality' in SF...

 

 

[Tippaporn]

15 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

it's Oaxaca as in Mexico and a 'lid' (ounce) of dope was $10, usually measured with a Prince Albert tobacco can...remember riding up Laguna Canyon after an outdoor concert and folks were passing fat joints from car window to car window...good 'ol times...and yeah, folks (mostly surfers that lived at the beach) would sell lids just to have something to smoke but the dudes that I knew were serious dealers...then heroin and coke got popular and the mob and the bikers got involved and the whole complexion changed, I mostly kept to acid and booze as junkies and the like weren't very pleasant to be around...do a hit or two now and then depending on who I was with...was with a friend once and he broke in to an animal hospital in Corona del Mar and got some pharma morphine, a cc of that shit took my knees out from under me...young and reckless it was a world of changes...

 

LOL, all of the years I've lived in the States and with all of the Mexicans I've dealt with I've never attempted learning Spanish. Now after all of these decades thanks for finally clearing that up for me, tutsi.  Phonetically the word seemed to me to start with a 'w'.  I opened up Google maps to search for a Mexican state that started with a 'W' so I could post the correct spelling.  What a fool!!!  LOL

 

One of our high school mates got himself heavily into dealing.  We witnessed his progression and saw him more and more infrequently.  Many years later after most of us had 'growed' up we threw a party and contacted everyone we used to hang with.  We could not find this particular individual so we called his mom.  She didn't even know his whereabouts.  He went very deep.

[Tippaporn]

5 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

'ol Steve useta shake it up...part of the 60s SF rock scene...saw him lots in SoCal when I was in high school...his mate Boz Skaggs went on to be a local 'personality' in SF...

 

 

We had collected most of Boz' early works when they debuted.  Excellent artist.

 

 

[tutsiwarrior]

58 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

LOL, all of the years I've lived in the States and with all of the Mexicans I've dealt with I've never attempted learning Spanish. Now after all of these decades thanks for finally clearing that up for me, tutsi.  Phonetically the word seemed to me to start with a 'w'.  I opened up Google maps to search for a Mexican state that started with a 'W' so I could post the correct spelling.  What a fool!!!  LOL

 

One of our high school mates got himself heavily into dealing.  We witnessed his progression and saw him more and more infrequently.  Many years later after most of us had 'growed' up we threw a party and contacted everyone we used to hang with.  We could not find this particular individual so we called his mom.  She didn't even know his whereabouts.  He went very deep.

my pal that ran the border with the kilos was a good student...his brother was a leader of the student anti war protests at UC Berkeley and got expelled...strange folks, their dad was a heavily tattooed US navy machinist (betty boop on his calf that shook her butt when he flexed) and they were solidly working class but high achieving...he ran an insurance scam when he was 14 y.o. collecting payment when he alleged that his surfboard was stolen...he knew the value of money and that's probably why he became a successful dope dealer...he never became a part of our band because he had no musical talent but he knew good music and he turned me on to Peter Green in 1966...and them blues sure did take hold of me, sorta like discovering the roots of rock and roll...

 

he was gay and he beat the shit out of some dude that called him a queer when we were about 13 y.o....it wasn't cool to be gay in the early 60s...I always knew that he was a bit weird but he was a good pal...I was in love with his mother, a slim red head with blue eyes with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth...she was very kind and she liked me too as I was always very polite...

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by tutsiwarrior

[bannork]

 

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[bannork]

I remember years ago reading that Winwood, Capaldi and Wood felt that Mason's songs were too poppy for the jam/ groove feel they were into at the time. Probably  a clash of personalities too what with Mason being somewhat of a loner.

I saw an interview with him recently, I thought he was an American, he'd lost all trace of his English accent. Gone native, the whole hog.

[Tippaporn]

Stones & Gravel outtake by Elston Gunn from '63.

 

 

[bannork]