What are you listening to right now??? (3 Viewers)
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In case you didn't grow up around DC in the 80's, this captures it perfectly. "Be rich, dress poor". "Who's your favorite Kennedy"? These guys were 1-2 years older than me. I'd moved away by the time they formed. I'd like to think they'd have become my tribe had I stayed.
I was at this concert… one of many back in the early 1970’s. My friend Klaus was a big skier on the west German Olympic team and moved to the US after a crash. Brings back way too many memories. Lost contact with Klaus after they moved to Palos Verdes California so 15 years ago with all of the internet spy stuff, I looked him up…. He died from lung cancer about 7 years prior. This guy was the poster boy for a chimney…lotsa memories and I believe this show was one that added mandolin and banjo to my playing
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ABSOLUTELY remember these bands… born in the early 50’s and started guitar when I was 7…. My family were professional musicians and guitars were all over the house. Grandfather and his brother played with big bands in the 1930’s and 40’s..Paul Whiteman orchestra, Rudy Valley and his Connecticut Yankees. By the late 1960’s I had been shuffled between so many states and new schools that guitar was my best friend. Around 1967, I was a band guy and still only 14. Music of the late 60’s and 70’s was the absolute best.
By the end of summer ‘69 I had seen bands like the Young Rascals, Cream( a high school gym) Ten Years After ( a converted bowling alley in Miami held about 175 people) Hendrix, Youngbloods, Zeppelin, Lee Michaels and Frosty, Jethro Tull, Airplane and The Doors ( at the infamous Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami) and Johnny Winter at the Seminole Indian Arts Festival in south Florida. He was not scheduled that night but told the announcer he wanted to get his name spread around, he played. I was just turning 16. This stuff was way better than anything we were doing in the 60’s…then came Woodstock
HOLY COW!! I could write a book…a big book
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John,
I can't claim that I know these bands, but I have heard the songs a few times; mostly in college from others.
Growing up there was very little music at home. Farm houses were typically small and ours was no different, plus my parents did not have a stereo or even nice radio in the house (that was a luxury that never made it to the top of their list). As a result, my music exposure was limited to what played on the radio in the car. [dad's pick up did not have a radio because it was an optional item that he wasn't paying for]
Years later, I realized how the radio censors had limited my music exposure and taste was when my bride gave me a CD set cover the work of Jim Croce. Due to the Ball of Kerrymuir describing an orgy, it was never played on the radio so I had never heard it until I played my CD set. Now, I consider it one of his best ballads. Even better, I really enjoy visualizing how my parents would have reacted if it had played on the radio in 1972 with a carload of kids. I think it would have been hilarious.
Ball of Kirriemuir (Live)
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Odd question ... You mentioned your dad serving in Vietnam. Did your dad bring back any part or appreciation for Vietnamese culture or the country? I ask because my father served in Korea. It was during the conflict, but he had a great respect for the Korean people, their culture and the beauty of the country. It struck me as odd at the time when he talked about it, but now I think it may have given more meaning to his service.
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If he did, he kept it to himself. But we did eat at a Vietnamese restaurant once around 1983! Actually, he mentioned his deep admiration of, and respect for, the Hmong people more than a few times. He made sure I understood that fact once I was old enough to understand some of the history of that war.
@LDowney and @JohnVee I know how exposure will limit what you enjoy, and you mention Jim Croce. I had not heard of him..this was maybe 1972 as well except for Time In a Bottle and operator but did manage to see he and Maury twice on stage before the plane crash. It;s kinda like Chinese food. My friend from Brooklyn asked if I ate Chinese food…” sure, I love spare ribs”. He laughed and we went to Chinatown in NY. Wow! I never realized
My wife’s family listened to Conway Twitty, Buck Owen’s, Kitty Wells, patsy cline and those guys from the 50’s “real” county genre. I’d not heard these ever.
In 1973 I meet hippie from California who moved to VT for the farm life. He made is own clothes, mittens, cheese…you know the type. A nice gentle sweet man who that actually called Bambi. He was a fantastic guitar player with an amazing voice. We joined forces and played acoustic stuff in some of the bars dotted around the ski area we lived at. Quite a bit of his repertoire was Jim Croce.. he taught me the intricacy of alternate tunings and finger style guitar. From his west coast exposure he showed me some of the best acoustic artists of the day and we played many of them
Before my wife and I moved, I broke out my Robert’s reel to reel tape recorder and we did a set of songs. 44 years later I found this reel. Made it into a cd and using those crazy $5.99 internet search things, I found him in 2 places…Philo Ca and Vermont.
Wrote a few letters and we reconnected 45 years later. Of course, I sent the cd. He had gone on to do several great recordings and songwriting for a few celebrity names and became an author….twice. Had I not, by chance, run into him I honestly feel I would still not have heard so many great musicians of the 1970’s even though as a player I was around a ton of music. Once disco came along, I switched to all news and talk radio. Great days for sure
My wife’s family listened to Conway Twitty, Buck Owen’s, Kitty Wells, patsy cline and those guys from the 50’s “real” county genre. I’d not heard these ever.
In 1973 I meet hippie from California who moved to VT for the farm life. He made is own clothes, mittens, cheese…you know the type. A nice gentle sweet man who that actually called Bambi. He was a fantastic guitar player with an amazing voice. We joined forces and played acoustic stuff in some of the bars dotted around the ski area we lived at. Quite a bit of his repertoire was Jim Croce.. he taught me the intricacy of alternate tunings and finger style guitar. From his west coast exposure he showed me some of the best acoustic artists of the day and we played many of them
Before my wife and I moved, I broke out my Robert’s reel to reel tape recorder and we did a set of songs. 44 years later I found this reel. Made it into a cd and using those crazy $5.99 internet search things, I found him in 2 places…Philo Ca and Vermont.
Wrote a few letters and we reconnected 45 years later. Of course, I sent the cd. He had gone on to do several great recordings and songwriting for a few celebrity names and became an author….twice. Had I not, by chance, run into him I honestly feel I would still not have heard so many great musicians of the 1970’s even though as a player I was around a ton of music. Once disco came along, I switched to all news and talk radio. Great days for sure
That's insanely cool. I absolutely was born too late. All my favorite music was from the late 60's to mid-late 70's, including OITW! I'm envious you witnessed that!
