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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2017 18:33:17 GMT -5
The opening act was little-known session guitar player Jimi Hendrix. To draw attention Jimi, for the first time, lights his guitar on fire. He is hospitalized that night with burns on his hands Hah! What an idiot! It's not enough that his misspellings of "Jimmy" and "Hendricks" make Dan Quayle look like an Oxford scholar, he has to go and do a Richard Pryor on his first major gig! Let me guess, this clown was never heard from again, right? Hey "Jimi," leave the pyrotechnics to Arthur Brown, okay?  Not only that, but for years he was plagued by feedback and couldn't figure how to stop it.  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 19:07:51 GMT -5
Heh, when I googled Arthur Brown to make sure there was no "E" at the end of Brown, I learned the man is still performing! I watched a documentary some years back that explained the "God of Hell-Fire's" original head-piece was a simple colander inverted and fitted with a chin-strap. A hole was drilled through the apparatus to attach the fiery bit, and the screw head sat right atop Brown's head. It would heat up rapidly during the performance, causing considerable discomfort to the wearer. Talk about suffering for one's art! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2017 19:13:41 GMT -5
Heh, when I googled Arthur Brown to make sure there was no "E" at the end of Brown, I learned the man is still performing! I watched a documentary some years back that explained the "God of Hell-Fire's" original head-piece was a simple colander inverted and fitted with a chin-strap. A hole was drilled through the apparatus to attach the fiery bit, and the screw head sat right atop Brown's head. It would heat up rapidly during the performance, causing considerable discomfort to the wearer. Talk about suffering for one's art! Phil, you might as well embed the video of the song. I won't get to it for about a year. Here-I'll do it for you |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 19:36:58 GMT -5
Phil, you might as well embed the video of the song. . .Here, I'll do it for you. "Hey, I like the cut of this guy's jib. I wonder how I'd look in that crazy make-up." -Vinnie Furnier, Detroit, 1968. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2017 19:47:14 GMT -5
Phil, you might as well embed the video of the song. . .Here, I'll do it for you. "Hey, I like the cut of this guy's jib. I wonder how I'd look in that crazy make-up." -Vinnie Furnier, Detroit, 1968. 'We'd like to try that too"- Gene Simmons,Paul Stanley, Peter Kriss, Ace Frehley |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 20:06:09 GMT -5
"Hey, I like the cut of this guy's jib. I wonder how I'd look in that crazy make-up." -Vinnie Furnier, Detroit, 1968. 'We'd like to try that too"- Chaim Witz, Stanley Bert Eisen, George Peter John Criscuola, Paul Daniel FrehleyFixed that for you. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2017 20:13:15 GMT -5
"Is it too late to sue all those clowns?"-Bozo  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 20:24:09 GMT -5
"Is it too late to sue all those clowns?"-Bozo (Sigh!) Yeah, it probably is.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2017 20:27:48 GMT -5
"Damn-I had it all backward"-Al Jolson  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 20:41:52 GMT -5
 Think I'm done. G'night, Gracie!  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2017 0:11:30 GMT -5
Back to March 1967 and to keep things in perspective-Events In The Real World
US House of Representatives expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Grenada gains partial independence from England
Peggy Flemming wins World's Figure Skating Championship
Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisberg Federal Prison to serve 8 year sentence
Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective services for induction
Stalin's daughter asks for political asylum in the USA
NFL draft finds Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra wins best record, "Michele" by The Beatles best song
2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win
Indonesian congress strips president Sukarno of authority and names General Suharto as acting President
Clay Shaw is the 1st man arrested in the assassination of JFK
Nelson Eddy and Alice B. Toklas dies
CBS Reports airs the first documentary of it's kind "The Homosexuals"
Highest weekly US casualties in Vietnam reported-232 dead, 1381 injured for the first week in March
First list of endangered animals released shows 78 species
JFK's body along with his 2 children who died in infancy moved to permanent resting place
First use of slow motion replay on ABC Wide World Of Sports
In NYC 10,000 gather for the 1st Central Park Be-In
All employees of ABC,NBC and CBS TV and Radio go on a 14 day strike
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2017 13:04:31 GMT -5
R.I.P. Joni Sledge, member of The Sledge Sisters, passed away yesterday at the age of 60."We Are Family" became a dance anthem in 1979 and adopted as the team song for the Baseball World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. The group formed in 1971 and consisted of 4 Sledge sisters, Joni,Debbie, Kim and Kathy. Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards of Chic helped produce their breakthrough hits which included "He' The Greatest Dancer"
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Post by Confessor on Mar 13, 2017 13:53:46 GMT -5
I just realised that Pink Floyd's wonderfully eccentric and mind expanding debut single was released in the UK almost exactly 50 years ago. The band were already darlings of the London psychedelic underground when "Arnold Layne" was released on E.M.I.'s Columbia imprint on 10th March 1967. Written by the band's guitarist and lead singer, Syd Barrett, the song dealt with the well worn pop subject of a transvestite who gets his kicks from stealing women's underwear from washing lines! The record was banned by the supposedly hip pirate radio station Radio London, but reached number 20 in the UK Charts anyway...
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Post by berkley on Mar 13, 2017 17:59:23 GMT -5
That reminds me of something I was going to bring up a while ago: what do you think makes a song "psychedelic", in the pop music sense? Some things are obvious - surrealistic lyrics, certain exotic instruments, experimental recording techniques, tape effects, things like that. But it sometimes seems to me that there is something additional, something in the music of the song as written rather than just how it was arranged and recorded. Many of those early Barrett-era Pink Floyd songs like Arnold Lane and See Emily Play are prime examples: there's something about the melody that sounds different from the typical pop song. Is there anything to this, or is it just an illusion my untrained ears have fallen victim to?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 13, 2017 18:39:20 GMT -5
That reminds me of something I was going to bring up a while ago: what do you think makes a song "psychedelic", in the pop music sense? Some things are obvious - surrealistic lyrics, certain exotic instruments, experimental recording techniques, tape effects, things like that. But it sometimes seems to me that there is something additional, something in the music of the song as written rather than just how it was arranged and recorded. Many of those early Barrett-era Pink Floyd songs like Arnold Lane and See Emily Play are prime examples: there's something about the melody that sounds different from the typical pop song. Is there anything to this, or is it just an illusion my untrained ears have fallen victim to? I'm not a musician so I can't speak to the technical aspects of commercial pop songs versus "psychedelic" songs. Certainly back then there were pop songs that employed some psychedelic aspects because that was the trend. For instance, this one:Pop or Psychedelic? Should the term only be applied to the late 60's? There's been many homages to it since then Is electronica just modern day psychedelic music? Maybe I should just go by the quote from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart fro 1964 "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it" |
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