Captain Beefheart - Sometimes it seems that everyone who owned Trout Mask Replica (which came out in '69) ended up forming a punk band.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Gandalfe - May 11, 2005 7:33:10 am PDT #8607 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Gandalfe - May 11, 2005 7:35:39 am PDT #8608 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Taj Mahal - Back to basics blues at it's finest.
Fred Pete - May 11, 2005 7:45:54 am PDT #8609 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
influential American musicians in the 1960's
There was so much going on that I'd almost have to ask "what type of music?" A few more offbeat suggestions --
Brian Wilson -- not so much the Beach Boys and surf music, but a key part of the transition of rock 'n' roll from primarily singles-oriented to primarily album-oriented.
Blood, Sweat, & Tears -- I think Al Kooper was the guiding hand behind this band. Brought a jazz influence into rock that really was explored (for better or for worse and, in the case of Chicago, both) during the '70s.
Phil Spector -- more a producer than a musician in the '60s, but big on making production values an important factor.
The Shirelles -- the first big Girl Group, in the '60s sense of the term.
Lesley Gore -- a really offbeat choice here. But her "It's My Party" was Quincy Jones' first big producing moment, and "You Don't Own Me" may have been the first big feminist (or at least proto-feminist) hit.
Gandalfe - May 11, 2005 7:50:45 am PDT #8610 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Don't forget about Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire came out in, what, '63? And Fulsome Prison was '68.
Tom Scola - May 11, 2005 7:53:00 am PDT #8611 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
- James Brown
- Otis Redding
- Bob Dylan
- Jackie Wilson
- Jimi Hendrix
Jon B. - May 11, 2005 7:56:04 am PDT #8612 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Lou Reed, for the same reason Gandalfe gave about Beefheart.
Pix - May 11, 2005 7:58:43 am PDT #8613 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Excellent! Thank you so much.
DavidS - May 11, 2005 8:04:47 am PDT #8614 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I need some music savvy type to give ma a list of 5-10 influential American musicians in the 1960's. I have the more obvious, I think, but I have kids looking for a research topic still, and I'm tapped out.
For non-rock musicians of the sixties: Coltrane, John Fahey, Leonard Bernstein...
Kate P. - May 11, 2005 8:09:23 am PDT #8615 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro. Aretha Franklin.
Hayden - May 11, 2005 10:01:44 am PDT #8616 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
You have all you need, Kristen?
Why isn't this happening to Corwood or Tina or someone who could appreciate it?
Evil?