Friday 10/7/05--it's a 10@10 Freakout!

[ggould]

getting to listen now on the Saturday replay.  Looks pretty lame, but what the hay...

0/7/05 - FRIDAY!!!!!  It's a theme set..."Step Out of Your Mind" (the Golden Age of the Top 40 Drug Song)!!

American Breed - Step Out of Your Mind
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women 12 & 35
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Nancy Sinatra - Sugartown
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (B-O-S!!)
Amboy Dukes - I'll Prove I'm Right/Conclusion of Journey

OPPOSING VIEWPOINT:  Paul Revere & the Raiders - Kicks

BONUS TRACK:  Ringo Starr - No No Song

[RGMike]

getting to listen now on the Saturday replay.  Looks pretty lame, but what the hay...

I thought it was pretty groovy, and when you consider how terrified radio stations are these days of being construed as "endorsing" drug use, this set (despite Dave's disclaimers) was actually quite subversive.

I had never heard the American Breed song before; I was surprised to see it was actually a Top 40 single -- #24 summer of '67, some 6 months before "Bend Me Shape Me" hit the Top Ten. Don't think it ever got airplay in NYC, musta been a Midwest breakout.

I bailed after the replay of the drug set and got to KPIG in time to hear Marley's Ghost doing "Guava Jelly", which I never knew was a Bob Marley tune -- I only know it thru the Streisand version (!) from ButterFly.  And then they played someone's version of "Different Drum", which I'm tempted to say was Mike Nesmith himself, but they didn't identify it. Gaz? does a Nesmith version exist?

[Gazoo]

And then they played someone's version of "Different Drum", which I'm tempted to say was Mike Nesmith himself, but they didn't identify it. Gaz? does a Nesmith version exist?

I wouldn't be surprised if Nez recorded his own version; he has revisited his works many times over the years.  Also could have been the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who found Nez a sympathetic songwriter to cover during the early '70s.

[ggould]

getting to listen now on the Saturday replay.  Looks pretty lame, but what the hay...

I thought it was pretty groovy, and when you consider how terrified radio stations are these days of being construed as "endorsing" drug use, this set (despite Dave's disclaimers) was actually quite subversive.

I guess I was just reacting to the pop side of it.  I was listening to KMPX/KSAN at the time, and songs like "The Pusher," "The White Ship," Fred Neil's "Cocaine." and Country Joe's "Bass Strings" were all on the radio too.

Bass Strings

Hey partner, won't you pass that reefer round,
My world is spinnin', yeah, just got to slow it down.
Oh, yes you know I've sure got to slow it down.
Get so high this time that you know
I'll never come down, I'll never come down.

I believe I'll go out to the seashore, let the waves wash my mind,
Open up my head now just to see what I can find.
Oh, yes you know I'm gonna see what I can find,
Just one more trip now, you know I'll stay high
All the time, all the time.

Yes, I'll go out to the desert just to try and find my past.
Truth lives all around me, but it's just beyond my grasp.
Oh, yes you know it's just beyond my grasp.
I'll let the sand and the stars and the wind
Carry me back, oh carry me back.

L.S.D.
L.S.D.
L.S.D.

[Alicat]

I caught part of the replay last night and again this moring. I had the kids playing air guitar and groovy dancing to Are You Experienced?. Talk about subversion.