Who Remembers the 60's?

[Selena_Kitt]

Someone sent this.

They obviously thought I needed a laugh. I admit, I did. A lot.

But...who's April?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hmmm . . . I was then but not there. He was there but only partially, I guess. Whatever happened to Joe, anyway?

 

[sr71plt]

My 60s were more Peter, Paul, and Mary and Simon and Garfunkle. I sang backup for Ian and Sylvia at the Celler Door in D.C. in those years--but never thought they'd ever become A-listers in Folk.

 

[glynndah]

I was 13. I remember a lot; just not quite like that.

 

[Austin8]

Joe's still crankin it out. One of my all time fav. lps is Mad Dogs and Englishmen with Chris Staton.

You get the Jack, I'll roll!
Nice clip Selena

A friend framed his then expensive Wood Stock ticket, He didn't even need it to get in.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I was so jealous of the older kids in school.
As soon as the parents got wind of the mass
migration to Woodstock, they all clamped down.
I was fourteen. So I had to wait for the movie
and brave the city by myself, to find the theatre.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

 

[Austin8]

I was so jealous of the older kids in school.
As soon as the parents got wind of the mass
migration to Woodstock, they all clamped down.
I was fourteen. So I had to wait for the movie
and brave the city by myself, to find the theatre.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

I didn't go either but had both Lps and a copy of the concerts on VHS

 

[Middleagepoet]

Hmmm . . . I was then but not there. He was there but only partially, I guess. Whatever happened to Joe, anyway?

Had a singing part in "Across the Universe"

 

[Leto Degeneres]

Someone sent this.

They obviously thought I needed a laugh. I admit, I did. A lot.

But...who's April?

That's how I hear songs! That's funny. I remember that one, don't remember April

My 60s were more Peter, Paul, and Mary and Simon and Garfunkle. I sang backup for Ian and Sylvia at the Celler Door in D.C. in those years--but never thought they'd ever become A-listers in Folk.

As Ian would say, "Speaking of memories, here's one..."
YouTube - Ian and Sylvia Tyson w Emmylou etc Four Strong Winds life

DC has its clubs. The best I've heard; Eva Cassidy at Blues Alley. Maybe you've been there...
YouTube - Eva Cassidy Fields Of Gold @ Blues Alley 1996 (Montage) (((Stereo)))

 

[TE999]

Oh man! Ol' Joe was so fuckin' ripped that day...he didn't know what the hell he was singing...but he's still cool. Joe Cocker and his Travelin' Commune band...my fave was 'She Came Thru The Bathroom Window' (entered, you pervs)...I was in college when Woodstock went down...people I knew who went said you had to be there...the movie and the album didn't do it justice.

Thanks for the memory, Selena.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

That's how I hear songs! That's funny. I remember that one, don't remember April



As Ian would say, "Speaking of memories, here's one..."
YouTube - Ian and Sylvia Tyson w Emmylou etc Four Strong Winds life

DC has its clubs. The best I've heard; Eva Cassidy at Blues Alley. Maybe you've been there...
YouTube - Eva Cassidy Fields Of Gold @ Blues Alley 1996 (Montage) (((Stereo)))

So glad you posted the link to Eva Cassidy. She sang beautifully.
There was much more variety and different kinds of music, at single
radio stations, before Clear Channel.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I didn't go either but had both Lps and a copy of the concerts on VHS

I have that LP set to thank for a very disturbing experience with azz sid.
Had to leave a gathering because of Jimi Hendrix's Star-Spangled Banner.
I had a really strong crush on Santana's young drummer, after I watched
the movie.

 

[midwestyankee]

The big muddy was my senior year in high school. I didn't go, but it seems like half the folks at my undergraduate school had been there.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Man I love that song, now and back in the sixties. Of Course I don't quite remember those words, but they were a hoot, thank Selena. Joe was numero uno with me back then and now.

I too really like "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" it's a cool song.

I grew up in the sixties. I was eighteen when Woodstock happened. Didn't get to go though.

 

[sirhugs]

Joe's cameo in "Across the Universe" was sweet...

 

[xssve]

"Oh liver" he screams, and falls down, lol.

In the great tradition of Rock and Roll singers from Britain, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Jagger spring to mind as being almost impossible to understand - although Ozzy's fine when he sings, he just can't talk.

 

[Handley_Page]

I was old enough but was in England and broke.
Woodstock was THE happening as far as we could see; The Who (pure magic), Crosby Stills & Nash (who was higher than a kite).

As to the rest of the 60s, there was some real good music around. Some folk, some Jazz (Jimmy Smith) and enough to keep most folks quite happy for a while.

One other good thing was: We won the World Cup (England 4, Germany 2).

 

[Selena_Kitt]

"Oh liver" he screams, and falls down, lol.

In the great tradition of Rock and Roll singers from Britain, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Jagger spring to mind as being almost impossible to understand - although Ozzy's fine when he sings, he just can't talk.

I adore poor Ozzy. I LOVE the commercial with him trying to talk and instead texting everything!

And Eva Cassidy is one of my favs. She's on my "birth songs" ipod. *sigh*

 

[cloudy]

Joe Cocker & John Belushi performing on SNL

(one of my favorite clips )

 

[Chantilyvamp]

I remember reading about the 60's and i still listen to the music from the 60's if that counts?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I turned 21 in 1960, but most of the decade is a haze of beer and wine and booze and a little grass. I didn't go to Woodstock, and never even thought much about it. I have never been much of a music lover, and that includes any kind of music.

 

[trysail]

"If you remember the sixties, you weren't there."
-R. Crumb

The era is one more in a long list of examples of the susceptibility of humans to mass delusion. I blow lunch in disgust everytime I run across some phoney dumbass reformed hippie, now journalist/politician/businessman/perfessor.

Fortunately, I do remember the sixties. Woodstock would have been the last place on earth I would ever have wanted to be— I've always hated crowds. Throw in a lot of mud, a bunch of addle-brained druggies, near-anarchy, a mob of faddish, trendy hippies and you're very close to my definition of hell. The music was swell; it was better when heard in the comfort of home or a theater.

One guy at my school made it to Woodstock; that made him a minor celebrity ( briefly ). He turned out to be one of a myriad of folk who went into the sixties— and never quite managed to make it back out.

 

[Boxlicker101]

"If you remember the sixties, you weren't there."
-R. Crumb

The era is one more in a long list of examples of the susceptibility of humans to mass delusion. I blow lunch in disgust everytime I run across some phoney dumbass reformed hippie, now journalist/politician/businessman/perfessor.

Fortunately, I do remember the sixties. Woodstock would have been the last place on earth I would ever have wanted to be— I've always hated crowds. Throw in a lot of mud, a bunch of addle-brained druggies, near-anarchy, a mob of faddish, trendy hippies and you're very close to my definition of hell. The music was swell; it was better when heard in the comfort of home or a theater.

One guy at my school made it to Woodstock; that made him a minor celebrity ( briefly ). He turned out to be one of a myriad of folk who went into the sixties— and never quite managed to make it back out.

Correct. Woodstock was really a very minor occurrence during the Sixties. There were, literally, thousands of events of infinitely more importance, such as assassinations, Viet Nam, The Bay of Pigs, and many more, too numerous and well-known to list here.

 

[john-the-author]

I was so jealous of the older kids in school.
As soon as the parents got wind of the mass
migration to Woodstock, they all clamped down.
I was fourteen. So I had to wait for the movie
and brave the city by myself, to find the theatre.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Exactly! I was thinking "I need to be 4-5 years older and it's all mine! History's passing me by!!"

I was right. Shitski.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Correct. Woodstock was really a very minor occurrence during the Sixties. There were, literally, thousands of events of infinitely more importance, such as assassinations, Viet Nam, The Bay of Pigs, and many more, too numerous and well-known to list here.

The National Democratic Convention, Kent State, etc. To mention a few others of far more significance than Woodstock.