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Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 07:53:35 AM
Woo Hoo!
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:05:53 AM
get yer kicks in '66 on the Sloop John B. I know this is based on an old Jamaican folk song, but I heard it (in the early '70s) as a Vietnam metaphor.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:06:01 AM
"This is the worst trip I've ever been on."  Little did Brian know then what the '70s and '80s would be like.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:06:48 AM
BOS1 to Pittsburgh's own Lou Christie on one of the best falsetto choruses ever.  So great that one can ignore the painfully misogynist lyric.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:07:07 AM
There are NO coincidences: "Lightning Strikes", which Klaus Nomi did in his stage act, which there are clips of in the docu I saw this weekend.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:09:57 AM
BOS Kinks. I need me a good early Kinks anthology.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:10:59 AM
I've never heard this Kinks song.  It's fab!
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:13:20 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
I've never heard this Kinks song.  It's fab!


Little Steven plays a lot of early Kinks & early Who every week. it's been a revelation to me.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: princessofcairo on February 22, 2005, 08:14:28 AM
argh - i missed lou christie!

mmm...summer in the city, back o' my neck gettin' dirty and gritty. i've always loved that line.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:15:28 AM
BOS2 to "Summer in the City," even though it feels like anything but.  This is such a great song it allows me to forgive John Sebastian for two songs I absolutely DESPISE, "Daydream" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind."
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:17:40 AM
HM to Cream.  That Jack Bruce was a looker in the day, not much of a lyricist though.  But he's glad, he's glad, he's glad, and he feels free.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: princessofcairo on February 22, 2005, 08:18:57 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
HM to Cream.  That Jack Bruce was a looker in the day, not much of a lyricist though.  But he's glad, he's glad, he's glad, and he feels free.


and his mind wants to cry out loud!

this is another one of those songs that makes me wish i was born 20 years earlier. so i could be properly stoned the first time i heard it on the radio.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:18:58 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
BOS2 to "Summer in the City," even though it feels like anything but.  This is such a great song it allows me to forgive John Sebastian for two songs I absolutely DESPISE, "Daydream" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind."


Ah but he wrote some other wonderful tunes, "Rain on the Roof" and "Six O'Clock" and "You're a Big Boy Now" and "Darling Be Home Soon" and...
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: princessofcairo on February 22, 2005, 08:19:51 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
This is such a great song it allows me to forgive John Sebastian for two songs I absolutely DESPISE, "Daydream" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind."


wow. i love DYEHTMUYM. mabe the music more than the lyrics, though.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:20:57 AM
Super BOS! Blues Magoos! Woo Hoo!!!
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:21:29 AM
"Don't worry boy, life'll be sweet someday."  BOS3 to one of my favorite Freak anthems, "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet."  I bet Mike gives it BOS too.  Garage rock at its finest and most prototypical.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 08:22:03 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
HM to Cream.  That Jack Bruce was a looker in the day, not much of a lyricist though.  But he's glad, he's glad, he's glad, and he feels free.


If you want top see what he looks like now, just be at the Royal ALbert Hall in May.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:23:13 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
If you want top see what he looks like now, just be at the Royal ALbert Hall in May.

I'm more interested in seeing what Andrea True looks like now, per RGMike's comments on Deep Throat.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: princessofcairo on February 22, 2005, 08:26:16 AM
"everything you could ask for on a secretary's salary!"

wow. all that in a '66 mustang?
what a crazy commercial.

nice to follow with ?mark.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:26:17 AM
:?:
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:26:55 AM
Super BOS2! -- ? and the Mysterians! "96 Tears".
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 08:28:39 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"

nice to follow with ?mark.


Hey, another band leader who shares my ghiven name!
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: Gazoo on February 22, 2005, 08:30:40 AM
Byrds = proxy BOS from Geoff, I should imagine.
Title: 8 Miles High
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 08:32:10 AM
question for you older folks who might remember:  When people first heard McGuinn's guitars on this song, had they ever heard anything like it before?  This predates anything heard by the masses from Hendrix or the Airplane, who else might have come had a similar sound by this point (April '66)?
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:33:39 AM
"8 miles High" -- drugs? nah.

And SpongeBob's not gay, either :wink:
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: RGMike on February 22, 2005, 08:34:54 AM
Well, that was an early contender for Set Of The Week!
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: princessofcairo on February 22, 2005, 08:41:35 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Well, that was an early contender for Set Of The Week!


damn. i'd convinced myself today was thursday.
Title: the official list, so I can figure out the songs!
Post by: ggould on February 22, 2005, 10:55:00 AM
TEN @ 10 LOG FOR 02.22.05

1966

 1.  The Beach Boys  -  Sloop John B
 2.  Lou Christie  -  Lightning Strikes
 3.  The Kinks  -  Til the End of the Day
  4.  Wilson Pickett  -  Land of 1,000 Dances
 5.  The Lovin' Spoonful  -  Summer in the City
  6.  Cream  -  I Feel Free
  7.  The Blues Magoos  -  We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
  8.  The Isley Brothers  -  This Old Heart of Mine
  9.  ? & Mysterians  -  96 Tears
10.  The Byrds  -  8 Miles High


Actually, The Byrds would have been BOS4 behind Summer in the City, I Feel Free, and Sloop John B.

And in regards to Marks earlier comment about guitar styles, see the Grateful Dead's first album, the guitar crescendo on "Viola Lee Blues"
Title: Re: the official list, so I can figure out the songs!
Post by: urth on February 22, 2005, 11:21:09 AM
Quote from: "ggould"
TEN @ 10 LOG FOR 02.22.05

1966

 1.  The Beach Boys  -  Sloop John B
 2.  Lou Christie  -  Lightning Strikes
 3.  The Kinks  -  Til the End of the Day
  4.  Wilson Pickett  -  Land of 1,000 Dances
 5.  The Lovin' Spoonful  -  Summer in the City
  6.  Cream  -  I Feel Free
  7.  The Blues Magoos  -  We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
  8.  The Isley Brothers  -  This Old Heart of Mine
  9.  ? & Mysterians  -  96 Tears
10.  The Byrds  -  8 Miles High


Actually, The Byrds would have been BOS4 behind Summer in the City, I Feel Free, and Sloop John B.

And in regards to Marks earlier comment about guitar styles, see the Grateful Dead's first album, the guitar crescendo on "Viola Lee Blues"


Wow, a fab set indeed. Will have to try to tune in to the replay tonight at 8.
Title: 1966 on Tues 2/22/05
Post by: mshray on February 22, 2005, 11:36:40 AM
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And in regards to Marks earlier comment about guitar styles, see the Grateful Dead's first album, the guitar crescendo on "Viola Lee Blues"


but that was released 11 months later.  You may well have heard it before April of '66, but not many others did.

Reason I am asking is that it is always a challenge for me to recreate the chronologies of Pop Culture things like this that happened before my time & which were not usually documented with unnerring accuracy.
Title: time travels
Post by: ggould on February 22, 2005, 12:01:20 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
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And in regards to Marks earlier comment about guitar styles, see the Grateful Dead's first album, the guitar crescendo on "Viola Lee Blues"


but that was released 11 months later.  You may well have heard it before April of '66, but not many others did.

Reason I am asking is that it is always a challenge for me to recreate the chronologies of Pop Culture things like this that happened before my time & which were not usually documented with unnerring accuracy.
thanks for the correction; for some reason, since this is the 40th anniversary of the Dead, I assumed it was earlier before checking my facts.  Jim McGuinn (as he was then called) really did expand the sounds of the guitar, didn't he?  12-string guitars had existed for a long time, but the first time we heard Mr. Tambourine Man, boy, that was special.