DAY 174. (And the last day of the '60s)
Frank Zappa.................................Hot Rats   (1969)              (I can see you smiling Pat   )










By 1969 Zappa was a frustrated man, the Mothers Of Invention didn't sell well (ach awa) and paying his group left a big dent in his pocket, so Zappa broke up the band.


He retreated into the studio to record Hot Rats with a new group of musicians , including Ian Underwood, who had first appeared on Uncle Meat, and whose technical ability Zappa could rely upon, old friend Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet, and violinist Don "Sugercane" Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty.
 

PatReilly wrote:

arabchanter wrote:

DAY 174. (And the last day of the '60s)
Frank Zappa.................................Hot Rats   (1969)              (I can see you smiling Pat   )




 

You'll hate in arabchanter, I think this is a great album. 

F'kn bang on the money Pat!

And the bird has far too big hands, was told " always get a bird wi' sma hands," you know what I mean.
 

So a we draw the curtains on the '60s, what the fuck was going on then;



.British folks trying out "foot tickling machines." The purpose of which remains unclear other than sheer amusement and to say you tried it.

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What music did you listen to?

• The Beatles
• Cliff Richard and the Shadows
• Gerry and the Pacemakers
• The Searchers
• The Rolling Stones
• Elvis Presley
• Herman's Hermits

 These are some of your favourite movies from the sixties:

• James Bond ("Dr No", "Goldfinger", "From Russia with Love", "Thunderball")
• "Easy Rider"
• "The Sound of Music"
• "The Italian Job"
• Spaghetti Westerns ("The Good the Bad and the Ugly", "For a Few Dollars More", "A Fistful of Dollars"
• "Carry On" films
• "Did not like Elvis, but you had to go if you wanted to be sweet with a girl"

 These are some of the most popular gadgets

• TV
• Radio
• Record player
• Radiogram
• Reel to reel tape recorder
• Washing machine (twin tub)

 A prototype of the first computer mouse (wut?!), a creation by Douglas C. Engelbart.
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1960
Democrat John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. Presidential Election after defeating Republican Richard Nixon. Kennedy became the first president and was the youngest person to have been elected into the highest office at the time.
1961

• Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space. One month later, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.

• Construction on the Berlin Wall begins in an effort to separate East and West Berlin.

• The Bay of Pigs invasion is an unsuccessful U,S, backed operation to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.

• The Peace Corps is created.

• WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is created.

1962

• The Cuban Missile Crisis has the world on the edge of another World War as the United States and USSR come close to launching nuclear attacks.

• James Meredith becomes the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

• The comic book character of Spider-Man makes his debut in the Amazing Fantasy #15 comic.

• The Beatles release their first single, "Love Me Do," in the United Kingdom.

• Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart store in Arkansas.

 1963

• United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

• U.S. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives is famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

 1964

• United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

• NASA's Mariner 4 space probe successfully approaches Mars and becomes the first spacecraft to take images of a planet from deep space.

• Sidney Poitier wins the Academy Award for "Best Actor" becoming the first black actor to win that honor.

• The computer coding language BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is introduced.

1965

• The Voting Rights Act is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

• Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to perform a space walk.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a peaceful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama.

• The Vietnam War escalates and opposition to it begins to mount as anti-Vietnam protests become more common.

• Mary Quant designs the mini-skirt in London and it becomes a fashion craze.

 1966

• The first episode of the popular television show "Star Trek" airs.

• The Soviet Union's Luna 9 unmanned spacecraft lands on the Moon.

• Botswana and Lesotho gain independence from United Kingdom

• Indira Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister of India.

 1967

Rolling Stone publishes its first magazine issue.

• South African doctor Christiaan Barnard completes the first heart transplant operation.

• The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.

 1968

• Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in April by James Earl Ray.

• Egypt's Aswan Dam is completed.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed into law by President Johnson.

• Richard Nixon wins the United States presidential election.

• The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, is launched by NASA.

 1969

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission.

• The Woodstock music festival takes place in New York and features such acts as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and The Who.

• ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, relays its first communications between UCLA and Stanford.

• The popular children's television show "Sesame Street" debuts.

• The United Kingdom abolishes the death penalty.

I know pretty random,but at half past twelve what do you expect!

 

Seeing as we have now left the '60s, here's my

20 Tracks from the '60s, in no particular order, only from albums posted, and only one track per artist.


Got My Mojo Working,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Muddy Waters



Strychnine...........................................................................................The Sonics




Ah Minha Menina.................................................................................Os Mutantes




Don't You Know..................................................................................Dusty Springfield




Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On.............................................................Jerry Lee Lewis




I walk In Guilded Splinters....................................................................Dr. John




The Kids Are All Right.......................................................................The Who





Victoria..............................................................................................The Kinks





Here Comes The Sun.......................................................................The Beatles





Time Has Told Me...........................................................................Nick Drake





I'm Waiting for The Man...................................................................The Velvet Underground





Midnight Rambler ...........................................................................The Rolling Stones





Fixing To Die Rag...........................................................................Country Joe And The Fish





Folsem Prison..............................................................................Johnny Cash





Si Tuis Dois Partir...........................................................................Fairport Convention





Time Of The Season.......................................................................The Zombies



White Rabbit...................................................................................Jefferson Airplane



Lazy Sunday....................................................................................The Small Faces



Kick Out The Jams (motherfucker)...................................................  MC5                                                



It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.............................................................Bob Dylan



This would more than likely change on a daily basis.


Would be interested to see other viewers choices!







 

PatReilly wrote:

Think I share two songs with you, arabchanter, which is two more than I might have expected!
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To be honest Pat, on another day there's about half a dozen on your list that could easily have been on my list  
 

DAY 175.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.............................Cosmo's Factory   (1970)










Cosmo's factory, was a pretty good album, I enjoyed all the tracks even the 11 minute version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" wasn't as painful as I was dreading.


CCR have this uncanny knack grabbing you with the openings bars of their songs (Up Around The Bend one of  my favourite intros ever) and not letting you get away until the next track does the same again, John Fogerty (guitar, vocals, harmonica, saxophone, piano,) gives his usual superb guitary thing, and what about those vocals?

Often forgotten is brother Toms virtuoso rhythm guitar that keeps the whole thing together, in fact the whole crew tend to gel into making the swamp-rock masters that they are, this album is the best CCR that I've heard so far, and given that more than half the tracks are on the greatest hits album that should come as no surprise.


Now the question would I buy it?
As I have their greatest hits, but only on CD this will be getting put on the subbies bench, but to be purchased at some point but not needed just yet.



Bits & Bobs;   already done some in posts #540 & 559 (if interested)



Ramble Tamble


This song was basically built around a single riff. It runs for over 7 minutes, most of which is an intense jamming session.



The song is about the "evil" of big government and the restrictions political forces can put on society.


 
This was the only song on Cosmo's Factory that was not previously released as a single.



Travelin' Band

Written by lead singer John Fogerty, this song is all about the hectic lifestyle of Creedence Clearwater Revival and their road warrior ways. In 1969, the band toured constantly and played many of the major festivals, including Woodstock. There was a rush of excitement in going from place to place, but as their drummer Doug Clifford explained, their baggage was constantly getting lost ("baggage gone, oh well") and they spent a lot of time waiting around in the heat during those famous festivals. The traveling got easier for the band when they got their own private plane.


 
"Travelin' Band" is very similar in style to the music of Little Richard, which Fogerty saw as a heartfelt tribute to the singer. Specialty Records, which owned Richard's catalog, saw things differently and sued the band, reaching a settlement to earn some royalties from the song.




The lawsuit claimed the Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly" was being copied, but Creedence bass player Stu Cook said he thought it sounded more like "Long Tall Sally." Cook described the song as a combination of '50s Rock classics, but not a ripoff of any one song.


 
After the basic track was cut, John Fogerty went back to the studio and added many of the instrumental parts, including horns and piano, which he played himself.



Lookin' Out My Back Door


This song was partly written for John Fogerty's son Josh, who at the time was three years old. Fogerty said: "I knew he would love it if he heard me on the radio singing - doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door." In the song lyrics there is a reference to a parade passing by which John says was inspired by a Dr. Seuss book that he read as a kid titled To Think (That) I Saw It On Mulberry Street.


 
Much like The Beatles "Lucy In THe Sky With Diamonds" many people thought this was about drugs when it was really an innocent song inspired by a child. According to the drug theory, the "Flying Spoon" was a cocaine spoon, and the crazy animal images were an acid trip. This was even less plausible than the Beatles misinterpretation, since Creedence Clearwater Revival was never into psychedelic drugs.


 
This is played in the film The Big Lebowski.


 
The album cover shows Creedence Clearwater Revival's rehearsal space, which is not their original digs: they started rehearsing in a shed in the backyard of their drummer Doug Clifford's house. Clifford once said it was "better than working in a factory," so their rehearsal rooms became known as "The Factory." Clifford's nickname was Cosmo, so this space was known as "Cosmo's Factory."


 
John Fogerty played a bit of dobro on this track. He's seen holding the instrument on the cover of the 1969 album Green River, but "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is the only time he played it on a Creedence song. In 1993, he bought a dobro at a vintage guitar show and set out to master the instrument, playing it for hours on end and using it on his 1997 solo album Blue Moon Swamp. He got some help along the way from Jerry Douglas a preeminent dobro player who was part of Alison Krauss' band Union Station.



Run Through The Jungle


This is often believed to be about the Vietnam War, as it referred to a "jungle" and was released in 1970. The fact that previous CCR songs such as "Who'll Stop the Rain?" and "Fortunate Son" were protests of the Vietnam War added to this theory. In response, John Fogerty said: "I think a lot of people thought that because of the times, but I was talking about America and the proliferation of guns, registered and otherwise. I'm a hunter and I'm not antigun, but I just thought that people were so gun-happy - and there were so many guns uncontrolled that it really was dangerous, and it's even worse now. It's interesting that it has taken 20-odd years to get a movement on that position."

This position is best demonstrated in this lyric:

200 million guns are loaded
Satan cries, "Take aim!"

This opens with jungle sound effects created by, according to Stu Cook, "lots of backwards recorded guitar and piano."


 
Speaking about the musical influence on this song, John Fogerty said: "There were so many more people I'd never heard of - like Charlie Patton (an early Delta bluesman). I'm ashamed to admit that, but he wasn't commercially accessible, I guess. I read about him, and about a month or two later, I realized there were recordings of his music. To me, that was like if Moses had left behind a DAT with the Dead Sea Scrolls or something! 'You mean you can hear him?! Oh my God!' And then when I did hear Patton, he sounded like Howlin' Wolf, who was a big influence on me. When I did 'Run Through the Jungle,' I was being Howlin' Wolf, and Howlin' Wolf knew Charlie Patton!"


 
The line, "Devil's on the loose" ("They told me, 'Don't go walking slow 'cause Devil's on the loose'") was taken from music journalist Phil Elwood, who misinterpreted the line "doubles on kazoo" from the song "Down on the Corner" ("Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo"). Fogerty saw this misquoted lyric in the newspaper and loved it, so he thanked Phil and used it for "Run through the Jungle."


 
Former CCR executive Saul Zaentz claimed that the song "The Old Man Down The Road," which Fogerty released as a solo artist, was too similar to this song, and even took him to court. It was perhaps the first time an artist was sued for plagiarizing himself. Fogerty won that case, but Zaentz also sued him for his song "Zanz Kant Danz," professing that it was an attack on him. Zaentz won that case and Fogerty not only had to pay a fine, but also had to change the song's name to "Vanz Kant Danz."


 
This was released as the B-side to the single for "Up Around The Bend," which was issued in April and quickly went gold. Most artists didn't use songs that could be standalone singles as B-sides, but if you bought a CCR single, you often got two hit songs - another example is "Travelin' Band" and "Who'll Stop The Rain?," which were paired on the same single.


 
John Fogerty played the harmonica part. Like the vocals on "Down on the Corner," he recorded it after recording the actual song and dubbed it in, because it went from harmonica to vocals so quickly and he couldn't remove the harmonica from his mouth fast enough. John also played harmonica on his solo effort The Wall (not to be confused with the Pink Floyd album).


 
Fogerty told Guitar World in 1997 that when he sang "Run Through the Jungle," he was "being Howlin' Wolf," an artist he cites as a major influence on him.


 
The Gun Club covered this for their album Miami, although with different lyrics because vocalist and band leader Jerry Pierce couldn't understand what John Fogerty was singing. He took some lyrics from black slavery songs, a Willie Brown song and personal experience (a heroin overdose is mentioned). They first performed it at a friend's birthday party before they were persuaded to include it on the album.


 
Besides Gun Club, this has been covered by Bruce Springsteen, Georgia Satellites, 8 Eyed Spy, Los Lobos and Killdozer.


 
Tom Fogerty called this song, "My all-time favorite Creedence tune." He added, "It's like a little movie in itself with all the sound effects. It never changes key, but it holds your interest the whole time. It's like a musician's dream. It never changes key, yet you get the illusion it does."


Up Around The Bend


Written by lead singer John Fogerty, this is a very upbeat Creedence Clearwater Revival, giving a hint that, as bad as things were in the early '70s, there might be some hope for the future: Things would improve "Around The Bend." Bass player Stu Cook described the song as "Kind of the opposite of 'Run Through The Jungle"


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This song required a bit of translation for British audiences. In England, if you go "around the bend" it means you go crazy. Then the band toured the UK, they had to explain to the British press that the song was not about dementia or mental problems.


 
In his memoir Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, John Fogerty said that this song came to him when he was riding his motorcycle though the California hills.


 
Movies this song has appeared in include Michael (1996), Remember the Titans (2000) and Invincible (2006). It was also used in a 2008 episode of the TV show My Name Is Earl


 
Elton John covered this song shortly after it was released, and his version appears on several compilation albums. Hanoi Rocks recorded it for their 1984 Two Steps From The Move album.


 
In 2016, Wrangler used this in a commercial, surprising after John Fogerty lashed out at the company when they used "Fortunate Son" in ads without his permission beginning in 2000. Fogerty doesn't control the rights to the songs he wrote for CCR, so they can be used without his consent.



Who'll Stop The Rain?



 
Group leader John Fogerty wrote this song. The song is often interpreted as a protest of the Vietnam War (like "Fortunate Son"), but when he performed it at the Arizona state fair in 2012, Fogerty told the crowd that he had been at Woodstock, watching the rain come down. He watched the festival goers dance in the rain, muddy, naked, cold, huddling together, and it just kept raining. So when he got back home after that weekend, he sat down and wrote "Who'll Stop the Rain," making it not a Vietnam protest at all, but a recounting of his Woodstock experience.


 
This was used in the 1978 motion picture of the same name starring Nick Nolte as a Vietnam veteran. The movie was going to be called Dog Soldiers, but when the producers got the rights to use this song, they changed the title to Who'll Stop The Rain.


 
This was released as the B-side to "Travelin' Band." It's one of the many CCR singles to stall at #2. Creedence Clearwater Revival never had a #1 hit in the US.


 
The line, "I went down Virginia, seekin' shelter from the storm" gave Bob Dylan the idea for the title of his 1975 song "Shelter From The Storm."


 
This is one of many rain-themed CCR songs, including "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"



 
When interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, John Fogerty was asked, "Does 'Who'll Stop The Rain' contain lyrically specific meanings besides the symbolic dimension?" His response: "Certainly, I was talking about Washington when I wrote the song, but I remember bringing the master version of the song home and playing it. My son Josh was four years old at the time, and after he heard it, he said, 'Daddy stop the rain.' And my wife and I looked at each other and said, 'Well, not quite.'"



 





 
 




 

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DAY 176
Derek And The Dominos.............................Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs      (1970)








An almost fictitious group ended up making a double vinyl that, though it bombed at the time has since been re-evaluated as a rock classic thanks to it's title track single success.


The Derek in question was Eric Clapton who, after stints with various high flying groups, recruited a band and created his first solo gem

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DAY 176
Derek And The Dominos.............................Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs      (1970)








As it's a double album, will do the second disc early tomorrow morning, no' minding the music so far, but never liked Clapton as a person, full of his own self importance, and for what he done to poor wee Dode Harrison the cunt would deffo be called slowhand,  "see how you play Layla wi' just yer pinky and your thumb you fanny?"


Will finish this in the morning!

DAY 177.
Miles Davis.........................................Bitches Brew   (1970)









Recording sessions for Witches Brew began at 8am on Augest 18, 1969, a few hours after Jimi Hendrix had demolished "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and it is Hendrix's incendiary voice that haunts this double (FFS!!!)  album.


Miles wanted the loose limbed jam sessions of Electric Ladyland but, like most interesting homages, Bitches Brew sounds nothing like ot's source. nor does it resemble the "jazz-rock" that it pioneered.


The backbeats are relatively orthodox, whipcrack rimshots ( what a name that could be for a band The Whipcrack Rimshots) rumbling kick drums, and rubbery baselines borrowed from Sly and The Family Stone.Everything else is from another planet.


I thought I'd seen the back of this charlatan!
 

arabchanter wrote:

   




 

Guid cover but.........................

My heart goes out to you if you attempt to listen to this in one session.
 

DAY 177.
Miles Davis.........................................Bitches Brew   (1970)












Just done the first 47 minutes of this album (side 1 & 2 and can't say it's going well) will resume tomorrow and listen to side 3&4.


To be honest I dinny ken how I'll be able to sleep the night, wi' the sheer excitement and anticipation o' knowing I've got this to look forward to when I get up.  (sweet dreams eh!)

Day 178.
Spirit.............................Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus    (1970)









Feelings could not have been worse when Spirit recorded Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus. Luckily David Briggs, who worked with Neil Young, managed to harness all the animosity into Spirits masterwork.


The album was enriched by meaty horn arrangements, imaginative vocal harmonies and a structured approach to psychedelic studio trickery such as stereo panning and tapes run backwards. The band experimented with the new Moog, and unveiled perfect rock singles in "Mr Skin" and the funky "Animal Zoo."  It also spawned a classic FM single, the acoustic treat "Nature's Way"



Oh, and "Dr Sardonicus?" It is the nickname Spirit coined for the mixing desk at the studio.




















 

shedboy wrote:

Love this album AC! so much i may just stick it on now

Good to see you back shedboy, yeah it's a beezer of an album right enough