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Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's Music (2020)


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The Kinks with Strangers off of their '70 Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One LP.  Haven't heard this in decades.  A rediscovered lost gem.

 

Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two, we are one . . .

 

 

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On 1/4/2020 at 7:27 PM, bannork said:

Chill out with the man

 

Again, thanks for that Van Morrison tune.  Since I hadn't been aware of it I decided to do some checking and it turns out that he had put together a short lived band called The Caledonia Soul Orchestra, named after an outtake (the one you posted) from the '70 His Band And The Street Choir album sessions.  In '73 he took the 11-piece band on a 3 month U.S./U.K. tour which culminated in a double-LP live album entitled It's Too Late To Stop Now, now considered to be one of the best live albums ever recorded.

 

The two night performance at London's Rainbow Theatre in July 1973 was voted by Q Magazine readers as one of the top 100 live performances of all time.

 

So, without further ado, here's Listen To The Lion from his London performance that July.

 

 

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4 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

A Pink Floyd runner up, Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast from the '70 Atom Heart Mother LP.

 

 

Alan, I like marmalade, I like marmalade.

I remember as a teen looking at the back of the Ummagumma cover and the roadies (Alan on the left) and envying them. What a job, being a roadie for Floyd!

 

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8 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Led Zeppelin with Babe I'm Gonna Leave You off of their self-titled '69 debut.

 

 

I was 14 in 1969, got this album a year later and put it on on Dad's home built stereo system with its large speakers designed to hear Beethoven, Mozart and Bach in their full magnificence.

Luckily it was in his study so Led Zep at full tilt didn't disturb Mum and Dad too much volume wise. But content wise, they were shell shocked.

What a magnificent album!

 

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13 hours ago, bannork said:

I was 14 in 1969, got this album a year later and put it on on Dad's home built stereo system with its large speakers designed to hear Beethoven, Mozart and Bach in their full magnificence.

Luckily it was in his study so Led Zep at full tilt didn't disturb Mum and Dad too much volume wise. But content wise, they were shell shocked.

What a magnificent album!

 

Ha, we were born the same year, bannork, but fortunately I'm still in my mid-twenties.  I never seem to feel any different.

 

My older brother and sister and I began gifting each other with albums for birthdays and Christmas' back in '67 after our parents bought us a suitcase style phonograph.  My brother got Led Zeppelin's debut for his birthday in '69.   The detachable speakers were the top half of the phonograph and I would lay on my back on the bedroom floor with the speakers set right up to my ears.  I would play Zeppelin's album full tilt, in particular Dazed And Confused.  Slow moving at first, the sound echoing from one speaker to the next in it's stereophonic glory.  The crowning moment for me would be the explosion of sound at the 3:30 mark.  Still gives me goosebumps to this day.  And despite the abuse to my ears I suffered no permanent damage, 555555555.  I have since been accused of selective hearing, though.  :whistling:

 

 

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13 hours ago, bannork said:

Tippers, IF were a popular jazz rock band in the late 60s, early 70s in the UK. I first noticed them on the magnificent Bumpers album, a collection of songs from the Island stable.

 

I found this number particularly appealing.  So Sad off of their '70 If 2 LP.  Nothing like exploring new old music.

 

 

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On 1/4/2020 at 3:04 PM, bannork said:

Start rocking early. The granddaughter, aged 2, loves this.

 

Funny, last night my 7 year old daughter got home from school and came into the office to study for this weeks school testing.  I was playing The Byrds' Oil In My Lamp number and she loved it.  For one, the lyrics are simple . . . only 6 unique stanzas, repeated twice over.  Secondly, the lyrics are sung at a very slow pace so it's easy to pick up on them.  Perhaps I was singing too loudly, drowning out the vocals in the song, when she stopped me to say, "I like the way the guy sings," 555555.  We must of replayed it a dozen times.  Later, as she's off to bed the next thing I hear is her again replaying it again and again, with good volume no less, on the YT channel on the TV.

 

So we're singing it all night long, even after lights out, whilst the wifey was giving us odd stares.  Try as I may I just couldn't get her to join in, 555555555.

 

She also likes Deportee and Tulsa County off of the same LP.  Made me beam as it's my favourite Byrds LP.  Keepin' the music alive for another generation.

 

 

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