4 Feb 2010: is today our '60s day? (yup -- 1968!)

[Lightnin' Rod]

2/4/10 - Thursday!  Good times!  1968!!
   1.  Hugh Masekela - Grazing in the Grass
   2.  Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions (remaster)
(TV:  The Hollywood Squares)
   3.  Sly & the Family Stone - Life
   4.  American Breed - Bend Me Shape Me
(Movie:  Planet of the Apes)
   5.  Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)
   6.  Quicksilver Messenger Service - Dino's Song (BOS!)
   7.  Steve Miller Band - Quicksilver Girl
   8.  Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
   9.  Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn
  10.  CCR - Suzy Q
BONUS TRACK:  Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind

I hate 10 o'clock meetings.  Will have to catch this one tonight.  Will probably go to sleep after track 8.  Not that I don't like the Quinn and the Q, but they are the least necessary. 

[RGMike]

2/4/10 - Thursday!  Good times!  1968!!
   
   2.  Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions (remaster)

Well, nice try, AL, but what you played was a flat-out remake (with a completely different lead singer, to my ears). A "remaster" is something else entirely.

KCDX, for some reason, has that awful CD of GrassRoots remakes in their library and every time a GR song comes up in their rotation, it's one of those. Happily, the originals are easy to find on Amazon.

[ggould]

another ATBB from Quicksiilver -- "Dino's Song". Bustout of the Month candidate, fo' sho'.  BOS5 (BOS4 was the Beatles, yay)

No kidding--proxy of Geoff, too. Pretty much any Quicksilver that's not Pride of Man would be a bustout--that was the only one DM ever played.

Yeah, wish I could've heard it.

[urth]

Not a bad set, but it really didn't take off until the SF Sound three-fer in mid-set. I'd have voted the Quicksilver tune BOS had I been here for it.

Loved the Vidal/Buckley debate. I assume it was Vidal that called Buckley a Nazi?

And I concur that the Grass Roots was unmistakeably a remake.

[ggould]

another ATBB from Quicksiilver -- "Dino's Song". Bustout of the Month candidate, fo' sho'.  BOS5 (BOS4 was the Beatles, yay)

With the possible exception of the drums, this album holds up really well after all these years.  Solid bass, great singing, exquisite guitar work, great melodies.

[ggould]

great to hear Quicksilver Girl right after Dino's song

[ggould]

and to finish off the SF threefer, great bass work, great Grace work, one of their high-water marks.