The Doobie Brothers and the original Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac bring back fond, nostalgic memories as well as the odd flashback, Oops. Better put Pink Floyd and The Electric Prunes in there as well. |
I'm not quite 60 but for me it's the ABB followed closely by Cream. I still own much of the vinyl I bought in the 1970's, The Allman Brothers Band, Idlewild South, and Fillmore East and Disraeli Gears. I own quite a bit of fusion and funk from the same period - Billy Cobham -Spectrum is an almost weekly play as is The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire or Between Nothingness and Eternity. Probably should mention Santana also, first LP for me was Santana III.
It's probably not a surprise that I am currently running stacked "Large" 1973 Advents as my mains (also owned since I got them in the '70's) |
Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and Dylan (I'm 79). :-) |
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so, topping 70....what was the question?....how in hell did I get in here?....oh, Jimmie Rodgers...in Nashville at Country Music Hall of Fame in 70's...sat alone in a little area watching "Waiting for a Train" historic film, thinking, "This is my lifetime opportunity to view this." Now, double-click and there it is on YouTube. Take a look. Joni, Richard Thompson and Greg Brown help me through life...oh, the question, Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus" tour...big system, small venue University of Alabama...best rock sound evah! (from Maine) Oh Lowell, what you were and could have been. |
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Impossible to distill to any particular band or any number of bands. No band or bands can describe the entirety of my life, too many changes.Childhood was top 40 radio, in adolescence the Beatles, British Invasion Bands, garage rock, later in adolescence the Who, Led Zeppelin and Psychedelia were very descriptive of my life.From young adulthood on, discovering music from every genre of music has fit my wandering mind.
Every artist listed thus far in this thread has filled various cavities in my brain.
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A fellow Canuck (albeit expat), Neil Young has covered most of the ups, downs and wanderings in my journey thus far. Bob Dylan and so many others have spoken to me and about me.
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I have to say The Mothers of Invention, and secondly Jefferson Airplane, especially their Baxter's LP.
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Okay, I am over 60. A band which sums up my listening pleasure would be the 1980's band The Alan Parsons Project. Alan wrote some complicated music, very progressive and out of the mainstream of the common bands which often blended into other bands, not necessarily unique. I am definitely not a hard rock person and prefer well written instrumentals and lyrics.
So much of todays rock is noise and too synthetic. Listen to Willie Nelson's acoustic guitar on the Super Audio CD "Stardust". Also Mark Knopler's remastered super audio "Brothers in Arms." No room for any flubs on these albums.
Love Rod Stewart's classic standards songs. Isn't the reference to all modern music Frank Sinatra. Hard for any thoughtful singer to get through an interview without a word or two about "Ole Blue Eyes."
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The Jefferson Airplane, Little Feat, R.E.M.
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Joe Walsh, solo.
2nd choice.... Traffic. |
55 next week,, gotta go with The Stones, capped at Some Girls. Lucky enough to see them once. Tie for 2nd with The Grateful Dead (100+) and The Clash (1). Wait, 3 way tie, Bob Marley & the Wailers (0), that way I get Peter Tosh (1) to boot.. I know the question was for one, but I'm just a punk kid of 55, I can bend the rules............(I just got home from The Jesus Lizard's possibly last show ever and they gave a class for the kids today on how to do it, whatta great time.)
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Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Crosby Stills Nash and Neil Young solo, Cat Stevens, Al Stewart, Gilbert o Sullivan, Christopher Cross and the great thing is with my Hi Fi setup now in my dedicated sound I still listen to them only now I fully realise just how good they were
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Bachman Turner Overdrive - gimme your money please? |
Now, in my mid to late 60s, the one band (artist) that best describes my life, at least at this point, is John Lennon - "Imagine". I'm pretty much tired of religion and politics.
For musical enjoyment, I find myself falling back on my old 60s - 80s favorites: Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylon, Neil Diamond, Jennifer Warnes, Neil Young, Pink Floyed, Fleetwood Mack, Moody Blues, Red Rider, Lover Boy and anything Classic Country. From time to time I still enjoy the Classics - Vivaldi, Bach and Beethoven.
Modern artists that would most define my listening pleasures of today: Amos Lee, Chris Iisaak, Ray La Montagne, Jack Johnson and anything with real instruments - Amy Winehouse, Hugh Masekela, Nora Jones, Jane Monheit, Chris Botti and anything Celtic, Jazz, Folk or Bluegrass...Jim
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To the OP’s intended point, my answer is one word:
ZAPPA
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So many other great bands and artists, that you all mentioned and in such a diversity of genres. Our generation truly did produce some great stuff, that, in a way, describes us as a generation...Jim
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Leonard Cohen, Ry Cooder, Leonard Cohen, Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin and Leonard Cohen. |
Give me the Grateful Dead & Jimi Hendrix and a remote island, I'll be happy.
Van Morrison, James Taylor, and the Allman Bros. would be nice additions to take to the island.
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What roped me in was Donovan and Lovin' Spoonful. Hearing much of their early stuff (thinking summer of '66) triggers a mental snapshot of my life, then to now as if to function as a containment boom with new sections continually added on. Just a different version of where you've been/where are you going analysis.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Mike Bloomfield and whatever groups and combos he was playing with from Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, The Electric Flag. Al Kooper, and many more. Probably the premier American blues/rock guitarist, who burned himself and his talent out.
Personally I can’t relate to his substance abuse, but instead to his talent as an American blues artist, whose artistry is now gone with the wind, no matter how well he played in his heyday. It’s like all our hippie dreams that went up in smoke. Current politics makes me feel like we’re reliving the fifties, and instead of our hopes and dreams being realized, they went the way of Mike Bloomfield, great then, gone now. I do still hope for the future though, because there’s not another available option. Like Elvis Costello sang, "What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?" Hope it happens pretty soon, "Before I get old" though, because I’m 66 now.
That any closer to what you were looking for, slaw?
Mike |
...Probably a little more than he was looking for.
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Not another available option? You gotta get out there man...If your "hopes and dreams" were hanging on Mike Bloomfield and you need an apolitical anti-depressant, get yourself some Julian Lage or John Scofield albums (And I have about 1200 more suggestions)...perk you right up. |
Bloomfield was SO important to use suburban white brats, introducing us to genuine Blues guitar playing in The Paul Butterfield Band in 1965. I was lucky enough to see Mike, Buddy Miles (a monster drummer), and Harvey Brooks (great bass player) live in The Electric Flag in the Summer of 1968. God were they great. They made Hendrix and his rhythm section sound like a buncha p*ssies. |
Why is Buddy Miles considered a great drummer? Hendrix, Santana and Bloomfield all dug him, but I just don't hear it. Love his vocals, guitar and even keyboard playing. My main point of reference is John McLaughlin's "Devotion". A stunning early fusion recording that Miles nearly derails. Please educate me.
Electric Flag were a true American Music Band.
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onhwy61, I used the term "monster" literally, not in terms of him being a great drummer necessarily. For whatever reason, his drums sound kind of thin and weak on the Electric Flag album. Live, he sounded as "punchy" as Keith Moon, pounding his drums as hard as anyone I have ever seen. He is a huge guy, and plays very physically. I have heard him only in The Flag and on his first solo album, so can’t comment on his playing in other settings. I can’t imagine he has the finesses that is required for playing Jazz and Fusion. I mean, he’s no Tony Williams or Billy Cobham! |
Mitch Mitchell from the Hendrix band was one of the best drummers out there, period. Also, I was a stage hand for a Buddy Miles show right after Hendrix checked out...great show, and Buddy was a really nice guy (hung out with him at the promoter's house). Charlie Karp, a CT legend, was playing lead guitar with that band. They ended their show (daytime thing at the University) by handing off their instruments to other musicians who were there for this "stunt," and while the stand-in dudes kept playing, Buddy lead the ENTIRE CROWD out of the amphitheater into the parking lot. Amazing. |
Miles vs. Mitchell is like Frazier vs. Ali, or a machete vs. a scalpel. |
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Eagles, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, BeeGees, Simon & Garfunkel |
Bach, Brahms , Schumann, Janacek, Bartok , Mozart and about 900 others. .I am over 80 .
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Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield.
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Why, Wrecking Crew, of course!
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Tom Rush.
Child's Song
Urge for going
Later blues stuff
No regrets
Etc.
All sorts of songs about life, love, growing up, blues, loss etc.
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Great question! Thanks Slaw. It was a fun exercise. I'm sure I left some stuff out: Teens 70’s: Bad Co first album, Jethro Tull Benefit, Marshal
Tucker Band
College 76-80: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia
Post College Crap Jobs: Camel, Bruce Cockburn
Jesuits 83-85 then Grad School: Beethoven, Stravinsky,
Puccini Turandot
Begin Teaching Career 89: Tom Verlaine: Flash Light, 13th
Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere
Then: Rediscover Grateful Dead Hartford FM broadcast 3-19-90,
Then all Dicks Pics Series
Then: Jerry Garcia, Van Der Graf Generator, Grateful Dead
different eras.
Mid-Career: Opera, Wagner, Springfield Symphony Subscription
8 years.
Late Career: Hum, War on Drugs, Grateful Dead
Just retired: Want to subscribe to symphony again, one seat in
the Loge because my wife is in pajamas by 7pm, concerts at 8pm.
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psag: if you are then I must be too! Those are two of my favorites! |
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@skyscraper,
I wasn’t looking for anything. I just though it was an interesting idea for a post that had merit. At over 6800 views so far, apparently, it did.
Happy Listening!
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