7 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

These two solo efforts from Roger Waters are 2 of my fave albums

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Amused to Death is a great album too. And so is his double live album In the Flesh, in which he mixes his solo and Pink Floyd work.

On 9/22/2026 at 5:35 PM, BigHewer said:

I keep thinking of this song in recent days. Timely and an absolute classic.

There’s still whiskey in the jar folks, still whiskey in the jar.

Many thanks to Charlie and the fine folk at AN for giving us a new home.

Yes a great song,played it many times.

This redo is also great i think,what do you think?

This is one of my faves.

Also

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Love it.

For all the Brits Aussies and Kiwis.
Can you recognise the theme from a popular BBC series that ran in the 70's.

Cuby and Van Morrison.

and some more with Eddie Boyd.

Edited Monday at 11:54 PM1 day by jvs

And since I not long ago watched Season 2 of Wednesday this Cramps song was featured: Goo Goo Muck. The '81 track — originally a '62 song by Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads — became a massive global streaming hit following the series premiere. Found on Psychedelic Jungle, released on March 27, '81

On 9/27/2026 at 7:31 PM, rattlesnake said:

Absolutely love that X track, will check them out.

Yeah, a lot of French bands sang in English as they thought it would give them more clout.

Funnily enough, Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros later did a 180° change in style and did radio-friendly pop music (in French). 😄

This is her:

She's got an Asian body.

On 9/27/2026 at 7:48 PM, rattlesnake said:

That locked-in riff! Great driving music.

Psychotic Reaction was one of the great songs of the 60s. Poison Ivy just put a mean guitar to it.

16 hours ago, jvs said:

Yes a great song,played it many times.

This redo is also great i think,what do you think?

That‘s a good‘un. Didn‘t know about it to be honest.

I wouldn’t have thought Metallica would be singing the more upbeat, cheery version of any song, but there we have it.

On 9/27/2026 at 7:48 PM, rattlesnake said:

That locked-in riff! Great driving music.

For another great rendition of a classic 60s tune I recommend the 13th Floor Elevators' awesome cover of the Kinks You Really Got Me. The cover did not come much later, though, and itself is a classic 60s song. The 13th Floor Elevators recorded their live cover version of the song in '67 during a performance in Austin, Texas, though the recording was not officially released until '78.

Another locked-in riff you'll enjoy, Rattles.

Here's some interesting history.

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The connection between the 13th Floor Elevators, The Moving Sidewalks, and ZZ Top is the foundation of Texas rock history. It is a story of shared houses, sonic inspiration, mutual respect, and a literal evolutionary line that bridges 1960s acid rock with 1970s arena blues.

At the center of it all sits a young Billy Gibbons and his deep bond with Elevators frontman Roky Erickson.

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🏡 1. The Roommates: Living in the "Louisiana House"

The relationship wasn't just built on listening to each other's records; for a time, they literally lived together. [1]

In the late 1960s, members of The Moving Sidewalks and the 13th Floor Elevators shared a subdivided, ramshackle mansion in Houston known as the Louisiana House. As Billy Gibbons later recalled, the house had been cut into tiny "matchbox cubicles" due to nearby freeway construction. Huddled together in the same building, the two bands engaged in a constant, intense exchange of musical, spiritual, and countercultural ideas.

🛗 2. How the Elevators Inspired the Moving Sidewalks

The 13th Floor Elevators (from Austin) were a couple of years older and are widely credited as the first band to ever use the word "psychedelic" to describe their music. When an 18-year-old Billy Gibbons formed The Moving Sidewalks in Houston in 1967, he did so largely because he was mesmerized by what Roky Erickson was doing.

Gibbons even structured his band's identity as a direct nod to them:

"Elevators go up, sidewalks move forward, so it was a match made in heaven." — Billy Gibbons [1]

The Moving Sidewalks' first major breakout hit in Texas was a song called "99th Floor". Written by Gibbons when he was a teenager, the title and the dizzying garage-psych groove were a deliberate, affectionate tribute to the 13th Floor Elevators.

🌪️ 3. The Shared Sonic DNA

While The Moving Sidewalks leaned a bit more heavily into heavy British blues (influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck), they heavily adopted the raw, blistering garage energy pioneered by the Elevators. Both bands specialized in what music critics call "the great white scream"—unhinged, piercing vocal delivery layered over heavily distorted, fuzz-drenched guitars.

When the Moving Sidewalks opened for the Elevators at Texas venues, it was a showcase of pure sonic chaos that completely predated the San Francisco "Summer of Love" scene.

⚡ 4. The ZZ Top Evolution & Lifelong Tributes

By 1969, the 13th Floor Elevators collapsed under the weight of drug busts and Roky Erickson’s tragic, forced institutionalization. Concurrently, two members of The Moving Sidewalks were drafted into the U.S. Army, causing that band to dissolve as well.

Left without a band, Billy Gibbons shifted gears. He moved away from pure psychedelia, recruited Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, and founded ZZ Top.

Even as ZZ Top became one of the biggest rock bands in the world, Gibbons never forgot his roots. He consistently paid homage to his old friends:

• The Covers: ZZ Top regularly covered the Elevators. They recorded a heavy blues-rock version of "Reverberation (Doubt)" on their 1990 album Recycler, and Gibbons recorded "(I've Got) Levitation" for a star-studded Roky Erickson Tribute Album.

• The Reunion: In 2007, when a recovered Roky Erickson made a triumphant return to performing, Billy Gibbons joined him on stage for a historic taping of Austin City Limits, bringing the 1960s Texas psychedelic brotherhood completely full circle.

On 9/28/2026 at 3:11 AM, rattlesnake said:

My favourite Floyd album is Animals.

@Hummin, since you're a Pink Floyd enthusiast.

My Favourite Floyd album is ther '69 Ummagumma double album. Years ago I had found this live performance track of Careful With That Axe, Eugene live at Brighton Dome, United Kingdom on 29 June '72. Absolutely explosive.

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On 9/28/2026 at 3:59 AM, Hummin said:

Could easily have mentioned three more albums among my favorites made by Pink Floyd ;-) Animals is one of them from that period.

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I wouldn't want to be without . . . .

1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) — The only album featuring Syd Barrett as the primary songwriter and leader.

2. A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) 🌟 The Last Album with Syd Barrett. He only appears on three tracks ("Remember a Day", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", and his final original contribution, "Jugband Blues"), as his declining mental health led to him leaving the band during recording.

3. More (1969)

4. Ummagumma (1969)

🛕 The 1970s

5. Atom Heart Mother (1970)

21 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

In one of the more surreal stories in rock history, a 19-year-old local fan filled in for a sick Ritchie Blackmore when Deep Purple played San Antonio, Texas on August 28, 1970.

When Blackmore collapsed backstage before the show, the band and promoter were hesitant to cancel the gig. Desperate to save the show, the promoter called up Chris Geppert, a local guitar whiz and Deep Purple fan he knew.  Geppert answered the call and arrived at the venue with his Gibson Flying V.   They played the Purple songs Geppert knew and then improvised some blues rock jams for the rest of the show.  Chris Geppert would later become known as Christopher Cross, sweeping the Grammys ten years later with his massive solo hit "Sailing."

The 1970 show was dismissed by many as Texas folklore for decades.  There are no known recordings or photographs of the show.  Purple keyboardist Jon Lord claimed it never happened. Purple bassist Roger Glover said he couldn't remember if Blackmore was replaced.

Cross told the story in an interview in 2018.  Local Austin, Texas guitar prodigy Eric Johnson confirmed Cross's account.  Johnson was 15 at the time and he and his band were the opening act.  Johnson would go on to win a Grammy in 1992 for the instrumental "Cliffs of Dover." In June 2026 Blackmore confirmed the story was true.

The Midnight Special live performance of "Ride Like the Wind" shows Cross's guitar skills, often overlooked because most know him as the soft rock singer behind "Sailing."

Cross said he wrote the lyrics to "Ride Like the Wind" while tripping on acid in a van riding from Dallas to Austin.

Thanks for the musical folklore, Oliver. Great story.

17 hours ago, Stiddle Mump said:

This is one of my faves.

Earth, Wind & Fire with Shining Star. I like their funk.

16 hours ago, LosLobo said:

For all the Brits Aussies and Kiwis.
Can you recognise the theme from a popular BBC series that ran in the 70's.

I cheated. But I won't tell.

17 hours ago, Stiddle Mump said:

When I was growing up in the States there were endless cowboy movies and TV series. Ironically, I thought the best westerns ever made weren't from America. Italian director Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western Dollars Trilogy is tops: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) all starring Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name.

The contrast between 1950s/early 1960s Hollywood Westerns (both cinema and TV series like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, or The Lone Ranger) and Leone's Dollars Trilogy represents a total paradigm shift in costume design and historical realism. Standard American Westerns of that era looked like they were populated by people who just walked out of a dry cleaner. Clothes were flawlessly tailored, pristine, and vividly colored. Cowboys wore crisp, brightly dyed shirts with perfectly creased collars. Hats were immaculately blocked and sat squarely on the head without a speck of trail dust. Even after a five-day horseback chase through the desert, nobody sweated through their clothes, and towns looked like neatly swept movie sets.

Sergio Leone deliberately set out to destroy this idealized, sanitized myth. He wanted to show an Old West that was poor, brutal, hot, and deeply uncomfortable. He replaced Hollywood's theatrical glamor with a hyper-textured, visceral reality. I appreciated the reality check in Leone's movies.

Not the original theme song but it's perfectly faithful to it.

5 hours ago, jvs said:

Cuby and Van Morrison.

I've gotta split your post up, jvs.

This is a true gem that I'd never come across before. Thanks.

And 60s chicks were so, well, chic. Or schick in German as it was a popular term back then.

Seems everyone likes to borrow from the French language, eh, @rattlesnake? LOL "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

5 hours ago, jvs said:

Cuby with Eddie Boyd.

I recall you posting this years ago. British blues has nothing over Cuby + Blizzard.

Geezus, this threads gotten busy. Getting hard to keep up. I've been on here for many years but I can't recall this much traffic from a variety of posters. It'w what I'd always wanted. Great to see everyone; old and new.

3 hours ago, BigHewer said:

That‘s a good‘un. Didn‘t know about it to be honest.

I wouldn’t have thought Metallica would be singing the more upbeat, cheery version of any song, but there we have it.

You earned your first badge posting your first tune, BH. Looking forward to seeing you work your way all the way up to "Advanced Music Member."

Remix of old Isaan music

18 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

And since I not long ago watched Season 2 of Wednesday this Cramps song was featured: Goo Goo Muck. The '81 track — originally a '62 song by Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads — became a massive global streaming hit following the series premiere. Found on Psychedelic Jungle, released on March 27, '81

Ah, I know that one, brought back memories. I'll have to reboot my old 120 GB Ipod from the 2000s, I had some Cramps albums on there… and loads of other awesome stuff.

17 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

@Hummin, since you're a Pink Floyd enthusiast.

My Favourite Floyd album is ther '69 Ummagumma double album. Years ago I had found this live performance track of Careful With That Axe, Eugene live at Brighton Dome, United Kingdom on 29 June '72. Absolutely explosive.

Great version, on a par with the one from the cult classic Live in Pompeii. I have often said that Pink Floyd effectively invented black metal with that scream on Eugene. Pioneers.

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17 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

I wouldn't want to be without . . . .

1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) — The only album featuring Syd Barrett as the primary songwriter and leader.

2. A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) 🌟 The Last Album with Syd Barrett. He only appears on three tracks ("Remember a Day", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", and his final original contribution, "Jugband Blues"), as his declining mental health led to him leaving the band during recording.

3. More (1969)

4. Ummagumma (1969)

🛕 The 1970s

5. Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is a haunting and fascinating track… and set the course for their change in direction after Waters took the songwriting seat.

@cmsally posted this on TT a while back and I loved it instantly.

37 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

Ah, I know that one, brought back memories. I'll have to reboot my old 120 GB Ipod from the 2000s, I had some Cramps albums on there… and loads of other awesome stuff.

I hope you do . . . and share!

34 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

Great version, on a par with the one from the cult classic Live in Pompeii. I have often said that Pink Floyd effectively invented black metal with that scream on Eugene. Pioneers.

Another "must have" Pink Floyd album. Covering the massive amount of Pink Floyd material could keep me busy all year.

On 9/25/2026 at 10:04 PM, rattlesnake said:

What a mesmerising 13 minutes those were, I will watch It Might Get Loud over the weekend.

So I watched it and (as I expected) it was great. If anyone here likes Led Zeppelin, U2, and/or The White Stripes, then it's a must-watch deep dive into the psychology, roots, and methods of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White.

And it contains this beauty from The Raconteurs: