Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers with Christine’s Tune off of their '69 debut album, The Gilded Palace Of Sin.

 

 

Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA on Aug. 13, '75.

 

 

Hot Tuna with Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning off of their debut '71 album First Pull Up, Then Pull Down.

 

 

Neil Young with Natural Beauty off of his Harvest Moon release.

 

 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with their live version of Southern Man off of the '71 live album, 4 Way Street.

 

 

14 hours ago, bannork said:

Anniversary of the birth of the great Randy California.

Far out version of Hey Joe.

 

 

Same show this time taking turns on Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower with Robby Krieger (The Doors), Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash), Steve Howe (YES), & Pete Haycock (Climax Blues Band).

 

 

A very short documentary about Jimi Hendrix and Randy California.

 

 

Leslie West of Mountain and Derek Holt of the Blues Climax Band performing Mountain's classic Theme For An Imaginary Western in London's Hammersmith Odeon Theatre in '88.

 

 

Atomic Rooster with All Across The Country from their '73 Nice 'N' Greasy LP.

 

 

The anniversary of Nina Simone's birth.

A song lamenting the death of Martin Luther King

 

15 hours ago, KC 71 said:

Every picture plays a song.  I'll play that song, LOL.

 

Glen Campbell (d. August 8, 2017) with Wichita Lineman, the title track off of his '68 LP.

 

No slouch or a lack of talent, Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean, Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Bobby Vee, The Everly Brothers, Shelley Fabares, The Cascades, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Wayne Newton, The First Edition, The Kingston Trio, Roger Miller, Gene Clark, Lou Rawls, Claude King, Lorne Greene, Ronnie Dove and Elvis Presley.  He befriended Presley when he helped record the soundtrack for Viva Las Vegas in 1964. He later said, "Elvis and I were brought up the same humble way – picking cotton and looking at the south end of a north-bound mule.

 

Set to some appropriate imagery.
 

 

Glen Campbell's cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Universal Soldier reached 45 on the Hot 100 back in '65.

 

 

The original off of Buffy Sainte Marie's '65 debut album, My Way!

 

 

My favourite version is by Donovan, released on an  EP titled The Universal Soldier in the UK on August 15, '65.

 

 

Donovan with the Michael Softley (d. 1 September 2017) composition The War Drags On.  Included on that '65 Universal soldier EP.

 

 

Well, I guess our good overlords have, in their misbegotten and spurious 'wisdom', decided for us what we are able to view of this world and what we are not.  This video does not contain scenes any different from other Vietnam era videos readily available on and capable of being linked to from this same platform.  Only the most foolish of fools would allow others who are wholly inconsistent in applying their so-called 'values' to force them upon themselves.

 

Rant over and folks will ultimately choose for themselves the extent to which they will surrender their Providence-given responsibilities for life which only they alone have the purview and power over, not another.

 

Here's the link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKsown-yEE

 

 

Perhaps I should revisit my earlier theme, a few years past now, of Vietnam protest songs.   It is my view that as a race we are a highly technologically advanced species.  Spiritually, though, we are pathetically underdeveloped.  Look no further than the insanity of killing our own for transient causes.  Not always due to our misguided and deluded method of 'solving differences.'  But all too often for reprehensible and ignominious motives of personal profit and power perpetrated by the sickest members of our race.  Those whom we proudly call 'leaders,' fawn over and elect again and again to, in pure irony, 'serve' us.  Both perpetrators and their sheep, who not only allow it but oftentimes cheer it on, are spiritually bereft.

 

Another rant over, LOL.  Serious subject matter but then again not so serious given a proper perspective.  In the end all is truly well.

 

The studio version of the iconic Neil Young written and composed counterculture anthem Ohio  Recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on May 21, '70.  Not released on an album until the '74 compilation So Far.

 

 

Steppenwolf with Draft Register off of their '69 Monster LP.

 

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival with Fortunate Son off of their '69 Willy And The Poor Boys album.

 

The song, released during the peak period of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, is not explicit in its criticism of that war in particular, rather, it "speaks more to the unfairness of class than war itself," according to its author, John Fogerty.  "It's the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them."  In 2015, while on the television show The Voice, he also said:

 

The thoughts behind this song - it was a lot of anger. So it was the Vietnam War going on... Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why. So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song.

 

According to his 2015 memoir, Fogerty was thinking about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who married Julie Nixon, the daughter of then-President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, when he wrote "Fortunate Son" (though Eisenhower was actually to spend three years in the military).

 

"Fortunate Son" wasn't really inspired by any one event. Julie Nixon was dating David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the military. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their parents were doing. They weren't being affected like the rest of us.

 

 

Richie Havens performing Handsome Johnny live at Woodstock.  It eventually appeared as a bonus track on the CD release of his '69 double LP Richard P. Havens, 1983.

 

 

John Lennon performing Imagine live in the Mike Douglas Show in '72.

 

 

Edwin Starr with another iconic Vietnam era protest song, originally by the Temptations, simply entitled War.  Off of the '70 War & Peace LP.

 

 

Phil Ochs with Draft Dodger Rag off of his '65 I Ain't Marching Any More album.

 

Oops, more YT censorship to keep you and the world safe from ourselves.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlTf9fp07sw

 

 

Elston Gunn performing With God On Our Side live at Town Hall in '63.  Interestingly each side always likes to claim that God is on "their" side.  Though it appears contradictory perhaps it's true.  "God" wants nothing more than for people to do and create as they please given the unlimited and unrestricted freedom they were imbued with.  Thus he's rooting for the expressed freedom to choose by both sides.  Not the best choice people may settle on, granted, but freedom prevails.  Learning might result afterwards; lessons which never seem to migrate from one generation to the next.  Wash, rinse and repeat.

 

 

 

The Strangest Dream performed by John Denver live  at a war protest in '71.

 

 

Joan Baez performing What Have They Done To The Rain off of her '62 Joan Baez In Concert album.

 

 

This is footage from the Peter Green & The Splinter Group Chicago show back in '98 which I was at (if you watch carefully I'm the 8th silhouette from the left  ).  Man Of The World.

Listen to the last two notes of the song by Green at 2:41.  They're so pure and clean and sound like a frickin' bell.  The guy was phenomenal.
 

 

John Mayall was the first part of that show.  Unfortunately he didn't play with Green as he had another gig elsewhere that same night.  Room To Move off of his '70 The Turning Point LP.