To Celebrate 00individual’s 9th Consecutive Year of 595 Weekly Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy Posts – He Presents His Very First Post From June 2012! Historic Classic Rock Concerts: ALICE COOPER! and FRONT ROW CENTER for THREE NIGHTS of PINK FLOYD!

To Celebrate 00individual’s 9th Consecutive Year of 595 Weekly
Meaty, Beaty, Big, & Bouncy Posts,
He Presents His Very First Post From June 2012!

Hello Hippies, Hipsters, Rockers, Live Music Lovers, Individuals, and anyone interested in true archival reports and reviews on rock concerts, culture, real-life experiences, and observations made during the magical and surreal 1960s and 1970s!

00individual’s life, heart, and soul couldn’t have been at a better place in time than in his late teens in the late ’60s in Los Angeles. He gives eternal thanks to any and all responsible for being given the opportunity for once-in-history lifetime experiences.

These two 1975 concert and culture reviews of Alice Cooper “Welcome To My Nightmare” at the Fabulous Forum, and Pink Floyd “DSOTM”, and select tracks from “Wish You Were Here” and “Animals” at the L.A. Sports Arena, is 00’s very first post from June 2012.
Enjoy!

ALICE COOPER
Suzi Quatro
(Leather Tuscadero)
6-17-1975
Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA (Capacity: 17,000)

00individual was a big Alice Cooper fan and in 1971 he was just twenty but could still relate to “I’m Eighteen” from the new “Love It To Death” LP, with the original “thumb” cover.
Alice Cooper caused quite a scene back then; the guys cross-dressed, had scary make-up, performed rock ‘n’ roll drenched in the macabre.and of course, there was the python!
That was then, and this is now, 1975, and 00 was headed to the Forum to see Alice Cooper Superstar perform what was sure to be a historic phantasmagorical concert that would be forever imprinted in the mind of any fan who witnessed the “Welcome To My Nightmare” tour!

He was fortunate once again to have a great seat, especially for this highly visual concert; up off the floor left of stage but close in with a clear, slightly angled-down view of the stage at all times. It wasn’t just great it was almost perfect!

Since he doesn’t remember Suzi Quatro’s performance as opening act, it had to have been because he arrived “late”. His group had gotten somewhat jaded by ’75, no, not really jaded, just excellent at concert-going to the point that they’d squeeze out every drop of hangin’ before jammin’ – that meant sometimes missing the opening act – either deliberately or due to an unavoidable delay. In Suzi’s case it coulda been a little bit of both. You see sometimes you don’t want to taint your headliner enjoyment by wading (waiting) through an opening act and then the “intermission”.

Some Rockers knew who was worth seeing and who was not, and besides they always timed their drugs to take effect at just the right time; not on the way there, although that could liven up the ride, or too late, by coming on half-way into the concert, but perfectly to begin the trip just as the concert begins. So there was a science and a proper procedure to follow to maximize one’s concert-going experience and Rockers had it down.

00 liked Alice Cooper since back in the days of his association with Frank Zappa and played “Love It To Death” to death. “Killer”, “Billion Dollar Babies”, and “School’s Out” followed and having memorized “Welcome To My Nightmare”, this show’s featured LP, he was hyped and geared for what would be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Horror Hoot!

The whole set had a huge screen with a haunted graveyard projection / movie from behind that turned the whole stage into a spooky psycho graveyard with low mist everywhere – really cool!
It was just after Alice got guillotined, (and it was indeed very convincing), that they put his body (and head) in a coffin, and  some pall-bearer ghouls start to head for the projected screen. Now here’s where it got really cool, there were slits in the screen so when the coffin and ghouls passed through to the other side they had filmed them continuing on through on the screen, so they were eventually all off the stage and onto the projected film carrying the coffin off to the graveyard! Very cool effect; really, it was slick with perfect timing!
Then Alice with his head back is seen running from the graveyard and through the slit in the screen disappearing from the screen onto the stage. 00 gets a full-blown charge outta stuff like that!

One look at the setlist and it’s an Alice Cooper Fan’s Wet Dream. A definite Rock History Event – Alice Cooper was ever more popular than the build-up to this concert. Proud of his violent and scary rock songs and persona, Alice (Vincent Furnier) has said, affectionately, that, “We were the group that drove a stake through the heart of the Love Generation.” But how is that possible when he exudes such joy and happiness? Does he know that? Alice, are you aware that we love you? We do.

Lineup:
Alice Cooper (vocals), Steve Hunter (guitar), Dick Wagner (guitar), Josef Chirowski (keyboards), Penti Glan (drums), Prakash John (bass) Tony Levin (bass), Allan Schwartzberg (drums).

Setlist:
Welcome To My Nightmare, Years Ago (partial vocal), No More Mr. Nice Guy, Years Ago (partial vocal), Billion Dollar Babies, Years Ago (instrumental), I’m Eighteen, Years Ago (vocal), Instrumental intro – Some Folks, Cold Ethyl, Only Women Bleed, Devils Food (w/backing vocals only), Band Instrumental, The Black Widow, Steven, Welcome To My Nightmare reprise/(Graveyard Scene)/Escape/Escape.
Instrumental reprise to start Encore: School’s Out/Department Of Youth.

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PINK FLOYD
4-23/24/25-1975
Sports Arena, L.A. CA (Capacity: 16,000)

WISHES DO COME TRUE!
00individual had a Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairy Godmother” and she granted his wish!

The Holy Trinity:
FRONT ROW CENTER
for THREE NIGHTS
of PINK FLOYD!

That’s right; it’s true no one between 00 and David, Roger, Nick and Richard!
Justifiably these three concerts rank as his single best concert experience(s) ever!
A true once in a lifetime event!

And the story on how he got these tickets is equally as rare and truly magical!

Remember, this was 1975, and while automation set-in with Ticket-Tron booths (precursor to Ticket-Master) in major department stores; the personal handling of tickets through the mail was still in effect. Tickets for these PF concerts (check the prices on the poster!) were handled this way and required the usual info; number of tickets requested and payment, they also required a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) to be included for the tickets’ return.
That meant that someone would physically have to open the envelope and read the amount of tickets requested, then verify the amount paid, enter the data, print out the tickets and mail them back in his SASE.

00individual saw this as an opportunity and decided that he’d include a short letter stating his PINK FLOYD “obsessed fan status” followed by how much it would mean to him to have the best possible seats for the first three shows.
His intent was to see if he could appeal to anyone who still might have the power to grant his wish, er, request. He ended the letter with a sincere thank you, and sent the envelope.

When his SASE arrived he opened it like it was a Wonka candy bar with a possible golden ticket inside! Slowly he opened the envelope half-expecting to see at least decent seats (seats back then were sold on a first-come first-served basis) and pulled out twelve tickets; paid for by his fellow usual suspect concert fiends: Row 1 – Seats 1,2,3,4 for all three nights!!
FRONT ROW – CENTER – THREE NIGHTS of PINK FLOYD! ECSTACY!

He was stunned, and just stood there staring at those tickets making sure he wasn’t hallucinating (he wasn’t) he really had them! Better seats (well, the BEST seats!) than he could have imagined! His “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairy Godmother” really granted his wish! And you gotta know that whoever she or he was, they read the letter and thought, “Sure, what the heck, I have the power to blow a kid’s mind, I’ll grant his request because I can!”

00 has said it before and will continue to say it; those were magical times, truly magical. From the mid-’60s up to about the mid-’70s it was in the air, it was with the people you met, the clothes you wore, the music you heard, the life you led, and the belief that anything was possible – and proof that it was.

To insure the truth of this unbelievable event, he made sure he had evidence – he took photos. The photos themselves are proof, as he was so close that he could only fit one Floyd per frame at a time!!
Here’s how close – it was hard not to make eye contact with David and Roger as he was the same guy wearing the black neon Pink Floyd DSOTM logo t-shirt every night in the same seat – in the front row – in the center. Nick and Richard were set a bit farther back so he never made eye contact with them. On about the end of the second night David acknowledged his presence with a smile to the guy who just kept yelling, “The Best! The Best!” Hey, 00’s a fan, that’s what fans are for!
By the third night David acknowledged him early on with a smile and that was, well, beyond cool.

Between sets some whacked-out fans in the cheap seats (rows two through twenty) thought that since 00 was front and center (with his long hair and lookin’ all Official PF Roadie-like) that he was somebody who could get them Gilmour’s guitar – crazy fans, gotta love ‘em!

Behind the band was a huge round trampoline-shaped movie screen that rear-projected the entire video to DSOTM synchronized as Pink Floyd performed the whole LP.
It was truly like a dream was taking place. With a deja vu dream the next night and then another deja vu dream the following night – 00individual was in Pink Floyd Heaven!

He had a pretty good PF bootleg collection and was familiar with Raving and Drooling and You Gotta Be Crazy from the Screaming Abdab bootleg. The Wish You Were Here songs became instant favorites – easily one of his Top Five Floyd Faves.

He was just in awe, it really was all too much and after the first night the thought that he was allowed to go experience it all over again the next night was unbearably cool. He was in a perpetual State of Floyd

So, he’s sitting there in a Pink Floyd-induced rock ‘n’ roll stupor between sets on night two and gets an epiphany; he has another opportunity, another chance of a lifetime, right before him!
He needed to get a note to David about doing their next album cover! He’s an artist, a good artist, David’ll go for it!

Yeah, 00individual knows, … but remember he was high on so many levels that it seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea. So, on the last night, the third night of their five night gig 00 had it all planned out; he’d take his professional note and secure it into one of the brand new super exclusive unlicensed black and neon Floyd shirts he wore (a new one) and take it to the concert with him so at the very end he could toss it up on stage to David.

The concert concluded and the whole place was going insane and as David, Roger, Nick and Richard were smiling and waving from the front of the stage, he pulled out the neatly folded and compact-tucked t-shirt containing the note, took aim and fired off the t-shirt and watched as it flew right past David’s head and into a mass of cables near Nick’s drum kit – he over-compensated. He didn’t allow for the invisible yet interactive vibe level that was emanating within the Sports Arena and from Pink Floyd – damn, these were calculations he forgot to include in his throw. He knew better..

Anyway, 00individual never heard from David or Pink Floyd’s management – don’t give the Duh!-snicker. Soon after though, he found out that the art house Hipgnosis had a contract with PF to do their covers. From then on he could rest assured in the belief that if there hadn’t been a contract – he may have had a shot!
And who knows, he may have, much stranger things have happened – like rockin’ FRONT ROW CENTER for THREE NIGHTS of PINK FLOYD!

The set list was also historic, truly – Beyond Belief!
The Concerts include WYWH elements and Animals previews.

Set 1: Raving and Drooling (Sheep), You Gotta Be Crazy (Dogs), Shine On (part 1), Have A Cigar, Shine On (part 2).

Set 2: Dark Side of the Moon (with a continuous synchronized video on a huge round screen behind the band.)

Encore: Echoes

00individual have always held good vibes for his Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairy Godmother – wherever she/he is.

PINK FLOYD L.A. SPORTS ARENA 1975 – 00individual experienced these epic concert(s)
FRONT ROW and CENTER for THREE NIGHTS! Whew!

plus

PHOTOS TAKEN FROM FRONT ROW CENTER!

PINK FLOYD Original Bootleg Vinyl Album Collection – 1970s

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

Back in the ’60s and ’70s bootleg vinyl albums were available in select “mom and pop” record stores. Bootleg LPs were  just that, no PC pseudo-refined term of “Recording of Indeterminate Origin” – besides which sounds better in the Rock lexicon; RoIO or Bootlegs?  Case closed.

From 00individual’s personal Pink Floyd original vinyl bootleg album collection circa early ’70s, here ’tis:

PINK FLOYD – MIRACLE MUFFLER – WIZARDO Side 1- Green is the Colour/Careful with that Axe, Eugene/Cymbaline  (time-25:53) Side 2- The Embryo/Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (time-25:19) From the back cover- THE MIRACLE MUFFLER was recorded on Pink Floyd’s highly successful, 1970 European tour. This particular concert took place in Hamburg, Germany and was taped with Wizardo’s famous Mobile recording unit. This exceptional performance features 5 of their most brilliant masterpieces, including the previously unreleased song….”The Embryo”

PINK FLOYD – TAKE LINDA SURFIN’ – WIZARDO Side 1 – A Saucerful Of Secrets (18:50) Side 2 – Atom Heart Mother (28:47) 1 Father’s Shout, 2 Breast Milky, 3 Mother Fore, 4 Funky Dung, 5 Mind Your Throats Please, 6 Remergence Hamburg, Germany February 25, 1971

PINK FLOYD – IN CELEBRATION OF THE COMET (THE COMING OF KOHOUTEK) TAKRL 1903 Side 1- Breathe / On The Run / Time / Breathe (Reprise) (20:50) Side 2- Money / Us And Them / Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse (20:10) Rainbow Theatre, London U.K. February 20, 1972

PINK FLOYD – BEYOND BELIEF – ZAP 7862 Side 1: 1. Embryo  / Fat Old Sun (21:10) Side 2. Echoes (20:00) BBC’s Paris Theatre, London U.K. July 16, 1970

PINK FLOYD – NOCTURNAL SUBMISSION: ROBOT LOVE – TAKRL 1913 Side 1: Echoes (25:03)/ Point Me At The Sky (3:32) Side 2: One Of These Days (6:44)/ Atom Heart Mother (16:52)/ Astronomy Domine (4:02) Atom Heart Mother is MONO while everything else is indeed STEREO BBC Paris Cinema London September 30, 71 KQED TV Broadcast Fillmore West CA. April 29, 1970

PINK FLOYD – LIVE – DITTOLINO Side 1: Atom Heart Mother Part One Side 2: Atom Heart Mother Part Two Side 3: Fat Old Sun/Cymbaline Side 4: A Saucerful of Secrets Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA October 23, 1970

PINK FLOYD – OHM SUITE OHM – WE’VE BLOWN (AHHAA!) THE KLONE TAKRL 1933 Side 1 Cymbaline 8:35  /  Grandchester Meadows 7:22 /  Green Is The Colour 12:37 Side 2 Atom Heart Mother 17:50 / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 11:35 KQED TV Broadcast Fillmore West CA. April 29, 1970

PINK FLOYD – OMAYYAD – TMOQ Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point” Film Soundtrack Outtakes The live performances of The Embryo and Interstellar Overdrive come from the show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, California May 1st 1970, just 4-5 months after the ZP sessions and the day after the famous KQED sessions. Studio outtakes December ’69 & Live May 1, 1970

PINK FLOYD – FLOYDS OF LONDON – ContraBand Side 1: Fat Old Sun  / One of These Days Side 2: Echoes Rare OOAK Glossy Publicity Photo Front Cover Recorded live at the Paris Theatre, London October 12, 1971

PINK FLOYD – THE SCREAMING ABDAB – WRMB 330 Shine On (part 1), Have A Cigar, Shine On (part 2), Raving and Drooling (Sheep), You Gotta Be Crazy (Dogs),  Wembley Stadium 1974

and

PINK FLOYD Hollywood Bowl 1972 Debut of DSOTM Complete Concert! 00individual was there!

PINK FLOYD – CRACKED CRACKERS BOOTLEG Set 1: “Dark Side of the Moon” – Breathe, On The Run, Time, Breathe Reprise, The Great Gig In The Sky, Money, Us And Them, Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse. Set 2: One Of These Days, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, Echoes, A Saucerful Of Secrets. Encore: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood September 22, 1972 

and

PINK FLOYD LIVE LOS ANGELES SPORTS ARENA 1975 PINK FLOYD – CRUEL BUT FAIR BOOTLEG 00individual rocked FRONT ROW CENTER – THREE NIGHTS!!! (Last Tour Performances of Entire DSOTM & Echoes w/Waters!) Los Angeles Sports Arena – April 23/24/25, 1975

and

PHOTOS OF PINK FLOYD FROM THE ABOVE FRONT ROW CENTER SEATS!

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring June

“Milly Wonka” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
June 1971

June 1971 Happenings:

Jun 1 Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’ “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” opens at Golden NYC

Jun 6 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B
Jun 6 John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
Jun 6 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
Jun 6 Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
Jun 7 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut space station
Jun 8 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
Jun 8 White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
Jun 8 General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland could not be achieved
Jun 9 Paul McCartney’s album “Ram” goes gold
Jun 10 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois
Jun 10 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling “shalloon”
Jun 11 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
Jun 11 US ends ban on China trade
Jun 13 “The New York Times” begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam
Jun 13 In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry, causing a riot
Jun 15 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
Jun 16 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida
Jun 17 Carole King’s album “Tapestry” goes to #1 on US album charts and stays there for 15 weeks
Jun 19 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Georgia due to racial disturbance
Jun 21 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
Jun 21 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
Jun 26 “Man of La Mancha” closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 performances
Jun 26 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
Jun 26 21st Berlin International Film Festival: “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” wins the Golden Bear
Jun 27 “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” closes at Golden NYC after 31 performances


Jun 27 Bill Graham’s New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco


Jun 28 US Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
Jun 29 Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense
Jun 30 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space)

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending June 22, 1971:

1 IT’S TOO LATE / I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE – Carole King (Ode)
2 RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS – The Carpenters (A&M)
3 WANT ADS – The Honey Cone (Hot Wax)
4 INDIAN RESERVATION (The Lament Of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) – The Raiders (Columbia)
5 TREAT HER LIKE A LADY – Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (United Artists)
6 BROWN SUGAR – The Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
7 IT DON’T COME EASY – Ringo Starr (Apple)
8 DON’T PULL YOUR LOVE – Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds (Dunhill)
9 WHEN YOU’RE HOT, YOU’RE HOT – Jerry Reed (RCA)
10 SWEET AND INNOCENT – Donny Osmond of the Osmonds (MGM)
11 I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY – The Partridge Family (Starring Shirley Jones and Featuring David Cassidy) (Bell)
12 JOY TO THE WORLD – Three Dog Night (Dunhill)
13 DON’T KNOCK MY LOVE (Part 1) – Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)
14 YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND – James Taylor (Warner Brothers)
15 DOUBLE LOVIN’ – The Osmonds (MGM)
16 NATHAN JONES – The Supremes (Motown)
17 SHE’S NOT JUST ANOTHER WOMAN – The 8th Day (Invictus)
18 MR. BIG STUFF – Jean Knight (Stax)
19 THAT’S THE WAY I’VE ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE – Carly Simon (Elektra)
20 FUNKY NASSAU (Part 1) – The Beginning Of the End (Alston)

June 1971 Album Releases:

6 Toussaint – Allen Toussaint
14 Tarkus – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
16 Golden Bisquits – Three Dog Night Compilation
Love Letters from Elvis – Elvis Presley
19 Homemade – The Osmonds
21 Ruby – Buck Owens
22 Blue-  Joni Mitchell
23 Byrdmaniax – The Byrds
24 Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren – Todd Rundgren
25 Indelibly Stamped – Supertramp
30 Stephen Stills 2 – Stephen Stills
– Aerial Pandemonium Ballet – Harry Nilsson
Angel Delight – Fairport Convention
Blood, Sweat & Tears 4 – Blood, Sweat & Tears
Budgie – Budgie
First Pull Up, Then Pull Down – Hot Tuna
The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Flying Burrito Brothers
Grin – Grin
Historic Dead – Grateful Dead Live 1966
It Ain’t Easy – Long John Baldry
Link Wray – Link Wray
What You Hear Is What You Get – Ike & Tina Turner Live
Mick Abrahams – Mick Abrahams
New York City (You’re a Woman) – Al Kooper
One World – Rare Earth
Randy Newman Live – Randy Newman Live
San Francisco Dues – Chuck Berry
Sing Children Sing – Lesley Duncan
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song – Melvin Van Peebles Soundtrack
Touch – The Supremes
Touching Home – Jerry Lee Lewis

June 1971 Movie Releases:

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactoryJune 30, 1971

McCabe & Mrs. MillerJune 24, 1971

ShaftJune 25, 1971

Le MansJune 23, 1971

Death in VeniceJune 1, 1971

KluteJune 23, 1971

The Anderson TapesJune 17, 1971

Carnal KnowledgeJune 30, 1971

10 Rillington PlaceJune 9, 1971

The Million Dollar DuckJune 30, 1971

The Horror of FrankensteinJune 17, 1971

The Sex Adventures of the Three MusketeersJune 6, 1971

Von Richthofen and BrownJune 30, 1971

They Might Be GiantsJune 9, 1971

Wild RoversJune 23, 1971

Tales of Beatrix PotterJune 30, 1971

What’s the Matter with Helen?June 30, 1971

BloomfieldJune 1, 1971

Jane EyreJune 4, 1971

Drive, He SaidJune 13, 1971

The Young GraduatesJune 2, 1971

One More Train to RobJune 1, 1971

Scandalous JohnJune 22, 1971

The Hellstrom ChronicleJune 28, 1971

Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives AgainJune 6, 1971

The Dirty OutlawsJune 1, 1971

Josie’s CastleJune 1, 1971

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?June 15, 1971

Basic TrainingJune 1, 1971

Unman, Wittering and ZigoJune 13, 1971

SummertreeJune 6, 1971

Fortune and Men’s EyesJune 15, 1971

Growing Up FemaleJune 28, 1971

The Battle of Love’s ReturnJune 1, 1971

Midnite PlowboyJune 1, 1971

I Feel It ComingJune 1, 1971

End of the Art WorldJune 1, 1971

Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)June 1, 1971

Mangrove RingJune 1, 1971

Soul in Cinema: Filming Shaft on LocationJune 2, 1971

The Pioneer’s ViolinJune 5, 1971

Bitter MelonsJune 9, 1971

OrbitasJune 13, 1971

Ride The Hot WindJune 15, 1971

You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur LondonJune 15, 1971

Man and BoyJune 23, 1971

FidelJune 25, 1971

My Old Man’s PlaceJune 29, 1971

 

Get The Summer Started!
LET’S GO SURFIN’

 

“The Psychedelic Train Shoots The Tube!” copyright 2017 00individual TLL.

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Artists do not have to explain their work, but for anyone interested, 00individual grew up with Playboy magazine, back when it was the only form of seeing women nude. It was glorious. But what he also found exciting and fun were the comics like Annie Fanny and ALL of the sexy illustrated comics throughout the mag.

To honor those truly innocent and playful issues filled with artists like: Robert Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Jerry King, Kliban, Harvey Kurtzman, Bobby London, Roy Raymonde, Charles Rodrigues, Alberto Vargas, Shel Silverstein, Gahan Wilson, Rowland B. Wilson, and Dean Yeagle, 00individual features his own lovingly innocent but sexy “comic illustration” of an alluring female to present each month’s 50th anniversary highlights.

Once in a Lifetime: M.G.M. STUDIO BACK-LOT 3 ADVENTURES – 1968!

The Stoned Private Eye will be back next month, so instead 00 decided to share this
once-in-a-lifetime three night experience that folks of all ages should enjoy.

EXPERIENCE A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIP!
M.G.M. STUDIO BACK-LOT #3 ADVENTURES – 1968

Back in the ’60s, psychedelic trips could come in many different ways – and not all were based on smoking Marijuana and Hash or taking psychedelic drugs like LSD and Mescaline to alter your perception, reality and environment – some were the environment.

The following is a true psychedelic trip that many have only dreamed of, and quite possibly none, other than 00individual and his small band of adventurers, on three consecutive nights, would ever actually experience.  Surely, everyone (other than jaded people in the movie and entertainment park industry) who ever went to any of the Disney Parks or any of the Universal Movie Studio Tours at some time secretly imagined what it would be like to be able to wander and explore those parks, back-lots, and movie sets freely, after hours, with friends, and with no supervision.

Just to imagine what it would be like to experience the dream-like state where walking down the main street of a town in Victorian U.S.A. would, at the end of the street, and around the corner, switch the reality into a Western Town and around the end of that street corner it would magically turn into a New York-style city street, and then a Tarzan jungle, and then a Western Fortress, and then suddenly there is a Lake, and in that lake is a Pirate Ship and a Mississippi Riverboat – all of that would be a verified Psychedelic Trip for real! And it was!

At the intersection of Overland Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard in Culver City, California stood Lot 3, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 65-acres of detailed and authentic exterior sets.

There were three western towns and streets; a prosperous town called “Western Street,” a deserted and faded “Ghost Town” and a frontier town called “Billy the Kid Street”.  “Jungle Island” for the Tarzan series was at the southern end of a 63,000,000 gallon man-made lake that was used in “Show Boat” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.  At the north end of the lake, across a stone bridge were buildings used in “Gone with the Wind”.

To the north of that set was a giant tank with a massive painted sky background used for filming large scale miniature ships.  It was first used for “Mutiny on the Bounty” and as various backdrops for many other films.  All of these were permanent sets that were used over and over, refurbished, and shot from multiple angles to represent nearly any place, anywhere. One of its last useage, as seen above, was in 1969 for the terrifuc thriller “Ice Station Zebra”.

But by 1970 the once powerful, creative and profitable M.G.M. studios were in decline due to many economic issues of the times and the glorious days of Back-Lot 3 were limited to the point of becoming an unused “ghost land”.  The inevitable was approaching and M. G. M. was forced to hold an eighteen day auction of everything from costumes and props to eventually the back-lot land itself.  Fortunately, just prior to all of that, while in a mind-altered state of Marijuana, 00individual and a few friends got the bright idea to try and explore M.G.M.’s Back-lot 3 after dark.

Now it needs to be understood that back then things were still “loose”, a world apart from the lock-down everything-one-does-is-a-terrorist-threat climate of today; one could do just about anything and it was not a big deal, the world was still innocent; so “sneaking in” to a major studio’s lot was considered a mischievous adventure, not a criminal act.

Likewise there were no alarms, electrical fences, motion detectors, closed-circuit cameras or anything like that; as a matter of fact the only security, as they soon found out, was just one older man who would drive around the entire lot and that would take him at least an hour to complete his 65 acre rounds.

It was a nearly-full-moon night when they first arrived and located easy access through a separation of chain-link fence at the back North East corner of the Lot.  Once inside and through some outlying foliage they came upon one of the Western Town Main Streets and immediately the real-life psychedelic trip began.

Wisely realizing that taking LSD or any psychedelics would be a bit much to deal with in this unknown environment, they still made sure that they smoked some good weed before embarking on this adventure, as they figured that would be “psychedelic” enough.

The moonlight created an eerie cinematic-lit effect as they walked stealthily down the street watching out for any security guards or six-shootin’ outlaws that might ambush them.

There were about five in that night’s group and one was on the gym team at school; he walked through the saloon doors and disappeared inside as they swung back and forth behind him – then suddenly he came through the saloon doors holding his chest and did a flip over the hitchin’ rail into the street as if he was shot from inside the saloon!  That move gave the rest of them the courage to take the fantasy, which was now a reality, to another level and soon they were just a bunch of kids in a teenage dream of role-playing shoot-’em-up ecstasy.

After much western fun and imaginary shoot-outs they walked to the end of the Western Main Street and once “out of town” they came upon a Victorian-era neighborhood.  As they walked, the moonlight continued to cast an eerie Gothic spell over them and the Marijuana high greatly contributed to the psychedelic dream-world. It was easy to slip into character of being in that time and place, it became real spooky, but before they knew it the street ended and around that bend they came upon a fort and were back in the Western Frontier mode.

Around the backside of the fort was the beginning of the Tarzan Jungle, but finding no vines to swing from they continued on and crossed over a stone bridge.  This led them to the huge backdrop which was still filled with fake snow and ice chunks that were recently used in the classic, highly-revealing political thriller movie “Ice Station Zebra”.  This film became a repeat viewing obsession of Howard Hughes’ in his reclusive days with its “shocking truth” ending.

That night there were several full sized fighter jets and a half-track tank parked on the snowy set.  They were about to climb up into the cockpits when they saw the headlights from a security car coming from off in the distance, so they took off back the way they came in and decided to play it safe and not push their luck and come back the next night to further explore.

On the second night they headed straight for the jets and tank.  00individual remembers climbing up into the cockpit and seeing all of the gauges and controls and looking out through the windows as if ready to take off from the snowy landscape.  Unfortunately, someone in the half-track tank tried to start it up and it actually made some noise, enough that it must have certainly alerted the security guard.  

00individual climbed out of the jet, met up with a good buddy and headed up the set of a “seaside” European cobble-stoned street past the store-front buildings that curved around the tip of the lake where a Pirate ship was docked.  They crossed the plank onto the ship and were exploring the deck when they saw the security car headlights coming their way. They immediately climbed the rope ladder to one of the crow’s nests on the ship just in time to see the security guard’s car come into view below.  This was really exciting; up until now they were only interacting with themselves, now there was a real adversary to their adventure!

They huddled down and 00individual clearly remembers seeing the security car below slowly making its way up around the same old world cobble-stoned street they were just on.  They were pretty high up and the excitement of eluding “the enemy” was very cool indeed.  This whole trip was escalating into a real-life psychedelic fantasy real-life adventure!

(See the Pirate ship bow above left, the shadow of the crow’s nest to the right, and cobblestone street. The full Pirate Ship and Riverboat can be seen at the bottom middle to the right in the main header photo.)

After the security guard passed on by they climbed back down the Pirate ship’s rope ladder and tried to explore the Riverboat but there was no boarding plank and the boat was too far from the dock’s edge to jump so they just messed around a while longer in their dream-like fantasy land before leaving.  

Unfortunately, on the third night in a row of mind-bending surreal adventures their previous night’s fun must have alerted the “real” authorities because now some younger security guards were on the prowl.

They made the mistake of including a couple of “newbies” who wanted to join in the fun.  They were enjoying themselves as usual but even though 00individual warned one of the newbies about his non-stealth clothing of off-white pants and a bright blue and green t-shirt, they were all feeling confident and overzealous and allowed him to come along.  That was their undoing.

While really having a great time and role-playing like no Live Action Role Players will ever be able to do; they inadvertently allowed themselves to be seen by the “new” security guards and the chase was on!  They all scattered and 00individual and another of the explorers dove under a dressing room trailer and scooted to the back, 00individual looked next to him and it was the “colorful” newbie – great.  The security car pulled up and two younger guards got out and shined their flashlights around the area.  Just when 00individual thought that they had eluded them, one of them shined their light under the trailer and the beams of light bouncing off of the newbie’s clothes lit the whole underside of the trailer.  Sheesh, busted.

There was a certain ethic back then that when someone got caught they took it like a man.  But then, when caught for things of this nature authorities didn’t pull the knee-jerk reaction and call the cops, they called their parents – and they complied.  But that didn’t mean that when you arrived home that you couldn’t pull the old, “What?” “I was over at so and so’s and we went to a movie, party, whatever, and someone just gave them my name and phone number!” “I’m innocent!”  And angrily allude to maybe knowing who used their name, and because there was no way to disprove their alibi, they’d stick with their story. It would just cause some negativity and ill will for a few days and then that would be it – basically, no harm, no foul – you didn’t vandalize or destroy property, you were just having some truly innocent once in a lifetime fun!  

Today it would be considered a “terrorist act” and a gun would be held on you until the authorities came and took you away.  Like the world of Lot 3, the world of the ’60s was like no other – ultimately the coolest!

Soon after, the fabulous back-lots were finally sold off for real estate development.  Tract houses, apartments, and West L.A. College would replace those once wondrous lands of make believe; the history of the greatest of all movie studios was gone.  With ever-changing global finances, ever-increasing sources of entertainment, computer technology and Computer Graphic Images replacing hand-built movie sets – the likelihood of such a magical empire ever being built again is highly improbable.

But for three nights of surreal fantasy and mind-blowing adventure, 00individual and his friends were able to freely experience a truly once in a lifetime event of magickal fun, psychedelic excitement, and a dream come true!  Sigh.

00individual Presents POPCULTICONS – Original One Of A Kind Pop Culture Figure and Card Art 3

POPCULTICONS, through the awesome auspices of The Polyvinyl Science Institute (PSI), manifest the esoteric allure of PVC into Original Art featuring Icons of Rock, Pop, Sci-Fi, and Horror.

These one-of-a-kind art pieces feature an original custom figure representation and original background card art presented in classic action figure style.

00’s near decade mid-’90’s professional career of creating, sculpting, and designing action figures and collectibles came to a glorious end in the early 2000’s – those were the classic days prior to digital interference that welcomed and allowed for a once in a lifetime opportunity for hand-crafted creative influence, hard work (no holidays, no weekends, constant deadlines, and of nearly always at least fifteen hours a day, and at one time for three years straight – Hail Metabolife 356!) and incredibly creative fun times.

00 eventually overdosed on sculpting, not Metabolife 356, and turned from analog to digital, but only in word and visual art.

However, with still strong action figure blood running through his veins, heart, and soul for figural creation, 00individual thought it might be fun to create some relatively obscure small scale custom action figures for collectors.

Here ’tis:

Trip Three – Seven Pieces

Donnie Darko – Frank the Rabbit – 2006
Original Hand-Sculpt in Sculpey – Not a 3D print, nor a resin cast.
Hand Painted
5.75″ Tall
One Of A Kind
Original 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
Encased in 6″ x 9″ plastic case with hangtag.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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Jim Morrison – The Doors – 1967
Original Custom One Of A Kind Action Figure.
Original 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
3.75″ Tall
POPCULTICONS 2021

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LOBO
Original Custom One Of A Kind Action Figure.
Original 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
3.75″ Tall.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum
Original Custom One Of A Kind “battle damage” Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
3.75″ Tall.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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Frank Zappa
Original Custom One Of A Kind Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
3.75″ Tall.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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Barbarella – 1968
Original Custom One Of A Kind Action Figure.
Original 6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
For Display – Not Play.  Figure is glued in a stationary position.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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The Silver Alien – 1950
Rare Tomy Chocovader Japanese Action Figures.
6″ x 9″ Card Art on thick quality board.
For Display – Not Play.  Figures are glued in a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.
POPCULTICONS 2021

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For those interested here are the internal links to:

POPCULTICONS Trip 1

Hendrix – 1983 a Merman – 1968 
Bowie – Aladdin Sane – 1973 SOLD 
Black Magic Woman – BMW – 1972 
The Mist – Tentacles From Planet X – 2007 
Mick Jagger – Jumpin’ Jack Flash – 1968 – SOLD 
The Who – Pete Townshend V1 – early ‘70s – SOLD 
The Abominable Dr. Phibes – 1971 – SOLD

POPCULTICONS Trip 2

Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – 1968
One Million Years B.C. – Raquel Welch – 1967 – SOLD 
Altered States – Primordial Mass of Conscious Matter – 1980 
The Keep – Radu Molasar – 2005
Hunter S. Thompson – H.S.T. – ‘60s and ‘70s 
Buckaroo Banzai – Lord Whorfin (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) – 1984 – SOLD 
The Evil Dead – Ash’s Evil Hand – Original OOAK Sculpt – 1981

Trip 4 consisting of 7 pieces will debut late Summer 2021.

Those POPCULTICONS not sold can be seen with additional photos at 00’s newly-branded ROCK OAT etsy shop .

All of Trip 1,2,3 can be seen at the  POPCULTICONS website.

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ACTION FIGURES RULE!

CC vs CC: Cancel Culture vs Counter Culture

CC vs CC: Cancel Culture vs Counter Culture

There is a HUGE misinterpretation currently held by many that the Counter Culture of the ’60s and the ’70s were/are responsible for today’s atmosphere of criminal and emotional insanity.

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

While it is easy (lazy) to place 50 year old blame on ideas and concepts that were at the time: positive, relevant, important, and much-needed the present insane societal situation is, in fact, the opposite, not an extension.

The ’60s and the ’70s’s protests were done altruistically with no agenda other than the righting of evident wrongs and the opening of eyes; today eyes are opened to nothing positive, and everything negative.

00 is certain that the majority of people that write articles about the Counter Culture’s negative influence were not yet born during those times and therfore can only recite, or re-write history, written by others like them, for they do not know of what they speak or write.

While there were politically activated groups who promoted socialist agendas it never reached the masses as they grew up with values of respect for others, responsibilty, empathy, a strong work ethic, self-motivation, a live and let live attitude (do your own thing, just not on me), and individualism that built self-esteem and provided a confident pursuit of life goals.

These have now been perverted and replaced with no respect for others, irresponsibility, no work ethic, social media groupthink influence, hypocrites telling others how to live, and individualism sacrificed for sameness – all negative and mindless traits that decimate self-esteem and the pursuit of life goals.

Those values, that some say were “traditional” values that the Counter Culture rebelled against are once again wrong, most “hippies” came from middle-class working families, they knew right from wrong, and the basics of trust, respect, honesty, and love that were core family and hippie values that the Counter Culture held.

These values, basic human values, have no religion, race, or political influences, they are of human nature – from the first upights to now – live and let live.

Cancel Culture’s Demise

00 is no longer amazed, astounded, horrified, or angry, maybe repulsed, at the “news of the day” as he has taken LSD, he saw things, understood things, his mind was opened and accepting, but for the people and families living today, all over the world, it is surely, surely like an acid trip forced on them every day – and not in a good way.

00 is smiling right now as he is seeing an outright revolt against all of what the Cancel Culture has tried to do that will not only fail, but their nonsense will be driven back into the basements of their own minds to serve as a basis for a miserable life – and they did it to themselves.

While blaming teachers and the education system for a socialist upbringing of students is a viable factor – all this did was produce unproductive young adults unfit in a world where their only hope is to be cared for by Big Daddy.

The point is, that attempt to victimize entire generations applies only to those who are easily indoctrinated – the vast majority ignored the “philosphy” aspects and strove for self-motivation and self-learning, which was why even the most unmotivated hippie still had more real-life interaction, awareness, experience, and knowledge than most “graduates”.

Everyone is different, but it is those who know they are incapable of individual thought that want to bring everyone else down to their level and that is just not going to happen, no matter how hard they bully, lie, terrorize, demean, and attempt to “cancel” all it will continue to do is show the world just how nasty, sad, and pathetic they are.

Today more and more people are speaking out against the Cancel Culture, recently, rockers who have the knowledge and experience are leading the charge; Van Morrison at 75 just released a two record set of “protest songs against insanity” (00’s term), the Who singer Roger Daltry, actor singer Donald Glover, comedian Dave Chappelle, Punk Rockers Glenn Danzig, Johnny Rotten, Michale Graves, and John Joseph, comedian Ricky Gervais, actor Ethan Hawke, actress Kristy Swanson, author and journalist Mike Cernovich, comedian and popular Oscar host Billy Crystal (Oscar’s so woke they can’t get a host anymore), author J.K Rowling, comedian Bill Burr, and in no uncertain terms Trader Joe’s whose corporate office told the Cancel Culture to “Shove It”.

There are many, many more people and organizations rising against this cancer to culture; this rebellion feels like the inspiring energy of the ’60s and the ’70s where it didn’t matter; the detractors, instigators, and troublemakers were well known – they were just ignored and those adults rose above the childish whining and that is how they will fail – because it is the attention that they crave that will be ignored and that will be devastating to them – and they did it to themselves.

What this is really about is the attempt to bring about the homogenizing of individualism to the point where everyone speaks, looks, thinks, and acts the same – Communism.

And in the end, it was the ’60s and the ’70s that promoted self-awareness, a mentally and physically strong, informed, healthy, happy individual with the right of FREE SPEECH – whether the children were offended or not.

And to all the whiners, complainers, SJWs, and those without their own thoughts here’s all that needs to be said to them through a quote by the indomitable Joan Rivers: “Oh, grow up!”

For many it is too late.

“The only “ism” that matters is Individualism.”
– 00individual

Top 30 Historic DEBUT ROCK ALBUMS of the 1960’s and the 1970’s

Top 30 Historic DEBUT ROCK ALBUMS of the 1960’s and the 1970’s

The term “Rock” in the case of these debut albums represents sounds of the zeitgeist, and therefore can be seen as the birth of genres, or at the very least influential proponents of: Pop, Pop Rock, Rock, Prog, Folk, Blues, Hard Rock, Psychedelia, R’n’B, Avant Garde, Heavy Metal, Power Pop, Roots Rock, Goth, New Wave, Country Rock, Power Trio, Glam, Punk, Heartland Rock, Space Rock, and Experimental Rock, and those genres are only the obvious ones.

00individual was twelve years old in 1963 and twenty-eight in 1979 – astounding times to be living during the two decades that were Paradise On Earth – no shit – and the historic debut albums merely matched every other level of what it was like to wake up in Paradise every day.

These debut albums were peeks into the future – many more impressive sounds and classic lyrics were still to come.

The ’60’s minor trend of self-titled albums took off and became a major trend in the ’70’s.

Top 15 Historic Debut Rock Albums of the 1960’s

The Beatles – Please, Please Me – 1963
The Rolling Stones – England’s Newest Hit Makers – 1964
The Who – Sings My Generation – 1965
Love – 1966
The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! – 1966
Cream – Fresh Cream – 1966
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced – 1967
Pink Floyd – Pipers at the Gates of Dawn – 1967
The Doors -1967
The Velvet Underground with Nico – 1967
Dr. John, The Night Tripper – Gris-Gris – 1968
The Band – Music From Big Pink – 1968
Led Zeppelin – 1969
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left – 1969
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King – 1969

Top 15 Historic Debut Rock Albums of the 1970’s

Black Sabbath – 1970
Rumplestiltskin – 1970
Quatermass – 1970
The Eagles – 1972
Queen – 1973
Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park – 1973
Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd) – 1973
New York Dolls – 1973
Boston – 1976
Ramones – 1976
Talking Heads: 77 – 1977
The Cars – 1978
Van Halen – 1978
The Clash – 1979
The Pretenders – 1979

Please know that these debuts presented Rock in ways never heard or imagined before –
it was all new, refereshing, and wonderful – just like the times.

So, after over a half century traveling down the Rock ‘n’ Roll Road,
it can be righteously said that “Rock and Roll Forever Will Stand!”

And with that in mind, here’s the ultimate classic from 1962 by
General “Thee Voice” Johnson and the Showmen:

AMEN

 

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring May

“1971 Brown Sugar Babe” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
May 1971

May 1971 Happenings:

May 1 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
May 1 Rolling Stones release “Brown Sugar” – 50 Years Ago, Folks, 50 Years Ago!
May 3 “All Things Considered” premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
May 3 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German communist party leader
May 3 National Public Radio begins programming
May 3 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
May 5 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
May 9 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton win
May 9 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
May 9 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
May 9 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history
May 10 US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents
May 13 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
May 15 “70, Girls, 70” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
May 15 Radio Nordsee International’s ship bombed
May 15 Irish Republican Army member William ‘Billy’ Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast
May 16 US 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
May 17 Stephen Schwartz’ musical “Godspell” premieres off-Broadway
May 17 Washington State bans sex discrimination
May 18 US President Richard Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
May 18 Vampire rapist Wayne Boden’s last victim found in Calgary, Alberta
May 19 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
May 20 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
May 21 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
May 21 White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is given a lenient sentence for assassinating Mayor George Moscone and the openly gay elected official Harvey Milk
May 23 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
May 24 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
May 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
May 28 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album “Ram”
May 28 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
May 30 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
May 30 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
May 30 Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending May 22, 1971:

1 JOY TO THE WORLD – Three Dog Night (Dunhill)
2 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE – Jackson 5 (Motown)
3 BROWN SUGAR – The Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
4 PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND – Ocean (Kama Sutra)
5 ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO – Lobo (Big Tree)
6 WANT ADS – The Honey Cone (Hot Wax)
7 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER / BRAND NEW ME – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
8 IT DON’T COME EASY – Ringo Starr (Apple)
9 IF – Bread (Elektra)
10 CHICK-A-BOOM (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) – Daddy Dewdrop (Sunflower)
11 LOVE HER MADLY – The Doors (Elektra)
12 STAY AWHILE – The Bells (Polydor)
13 SWEET AND INNOCENT – Donny Osmond of the Osmonds (MGM)
14 I AM…I SAID / DONE TOO SOON – Neil Diamond (Uni)
15 SUPERSTAR – Murray Head and the Trinidad Singers (Decca)
16 HERE COMES THE SUN – Richie Havens (Stormy Forest)
17 I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM – Helen Reddy (Capitol)
18 WHAT’S GOING ON – Marvin Gaye (Tamla)
19 TIMOTHY – The Buoys (Scepter)
20 RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS – The Carpenters (A&M)

May 1971 Album Releases:
Notable releases in bold

3 Leon Russell and the Shelter People – Leon Russell
5 Peaceful World – The Rascals
12 Weather Report – Weather Report
14 Carpenters – Carpenters
Relics – Pink Floyd Compilation
17 Ram – Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney US; released in UK May 28
19 Aretha Live at Fillmore West – Aretha Franklin 
21 What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
23 Rory Gallagher – Rory Gallagher
28 Songs for Beginners – Graham Nash
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
– And So: On – Jimmy Webb
Another Dimension – Bo Diddley
Contact – Freda Payne
Curtis/Live! – Curtis Mayfield 
Edgar Broughton Band – Edgar Broughton Band
5th – Lee Michaels
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes – Ian Matthews
Joy to the World – Hoyt Axton
Just as I Am – Bill Withers
Live Johnny Winter And – Johnny Winter 
Man in Black – Johnny Cash
Smash Your Head Against the Wall – John Entwistle
Something Else – Shirley Bassey
Summer Side of Life Gordon Lightfoot
We Sure Can Love Each Other – Tammy Wynette
Winwood – Steve Winwood
This was a great two record vinyl set even though it was issued without Winwood’s authorization as catalogue number UAS-9950.
00 had the original and played the shit out of both LPs. It was taken off the market after legal action by Winwood and Island Records but was then reissued with minor changes as catalogue number UAS-9964. Currently out of print, it was issued on CD by Universal Music of Japan for the Japanese market. Winwood performs hits with the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith.

May 1971 Movie Releases:

Escape from the Planet of the ApesMay 20, 1971

Big JakeMay 26, 1971

 

KuronekoMay 26, 1971

 

10 Rillington PlaceMay 12, 1971

 

The Abominable Dr. PhibesMay 18, 1971  –  Custom OOAK action figure by 00

 

Taking OffMay 17, 1971

 

Daughters of DarknessMay 28, 1971

 

Support Your Local GunfighterMay 26, 1971

 

Leo the LastMay 11, 1971

 

When Eight Bells TollMay 26, 1971

 

Plaza SuiteMay 12, 1971

 

The Corpse GrindersMay 19, 1971

 

The Road BuilderMay 12, 1971

 

The Murder of Fred HamptonMay 1, 1971

 

Red Sky at MorningMay 12, 1971

 

The Gatling GunMay 1, 1971

 

VillainMay 26, 1971

 

The Grissom GangMay 28, 1971

 

Blood ThirstMay 14, 1971

 

Jimi Hendrix – Jimi Plays BerkeleyMay 30, 1971

 

Guess What We Learned in School Today?May 19, 1971

 

Johnny MinotaurMay 14, 1971

 

The CopMay 26, 1971

 

Law BreakersMay 7, 1971

 

Tales from Muppetland: The Frog PrinceMay 12, 1971

 

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in ParisMay 5, 1971

 

The Beguiled: The StorytellerMay 19, 1971

 

Runaway, RunawayMay 17, 1971

 

 

How We Were Searching for TishkaMay 5, 1971

 

The King of EightMay 21, 1971

 

Fear WomanMay 1, 1971

 

Cycles SouthMay 1, 1971

 

Tree DanceMay 9, 1971

 

Animated PaintingMay 13, 1971

 

UntitledMay 21, 1971

 

 

“The Psychedelic Train Goes Into SubAquaticMode For Deep Undersea Adventures in 1971”

copyright 2017 00individual TLL.

Next stop June 1971!

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Artists do not have to explain their work, but for anyone interested, 00individual grew up with Playboy magazine, back when it was the only form of seeing women nude. It was glorious. But what he also found exciting and fun were the comics like Annie Fanny and ALL of the sexy illustrated comics throughout the mag.

To honor those truly innocent and playful issues filled with artists like: Robert Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Jerry King, Kliban, Harvey Kurtzman, Bobby London, Roy Raymonde, Charles Rodrigues, Alberto Vargas, Shel Silverstein, Gahan Wilson, Rowland B. Wilson, and Dean Yeagle, 00individual features his own lovingly innocent but sexy “comic illustration” of an alluring female to present each month’s 50th anniversary highlights.

Top 13 Songs with the Rock Spirit of the ’60s and the ’70s BUT are from neither – and – The Last Fun Decade: The ’80s

Excerpt from 00individual’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Doodle Art – click for full image.

With this post 00individual invites one and all to take a little side trip with bands and songs that are not from the classic ’60s and ’70s – BUT exhibit those two decade’s Heart and Spirit of Rock.

It gives 00 solace to know that as long as there is electricity Rock with survive – and even if an EMP takes it out, there’s still acoustic and human vocals.
It all started with hand-clappin’, howls, and bangin’ on hollow logs keepin’ the soulful beat alive, and it can end that way – only to start up all over again.

So, here are 13 songs that once 00 heard them they seemed like he had heard them many times before – because he had – they are instant classics that embody the freshness and sponteneity of the songs of bands of the Classic Rock Era of the ’60s and the ’70s – the Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Top 13 Songs with the Rock Spirit of the ’60s and the ’70s – BUT – are from neither
(Songs with an asterisk* are 00 super faves)

* DMT – Purple – 2013

Eighties – Killing Joke – 1984

Hot For Teacher – Van Halen – 1984

We Care A Lot – Faith No More – 1987

A Million Miles Away – The Plimsouls – 1983

Birth, School, Work, Death – The Godfathers – 1987

* Tick, Tick, Boom – The Hives – Live in New York City – 2012

I’m An Adult Now – The Pursuit Of Happiness – 1986

Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz – 1993

* Vidage – 1000 Mods  – Live in Athens – 2011

Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana – 1991

Self Esteem – The Offspring – 1994

Rebel Yell – Billy Idol – 1984

AND

* The Funky Western Civilization – Tonio K. – 1979

Although technically a very late ’70’s song, 00 had to include it for a few good reasons: it rocks, it’s fun, it makes one want to get up and dance, and ironically it is a satirical depiction of the insane world we live in today.
So, take it from Tonio K., he’s the Man, he knew how to handle the problems of the day, any day.
For full lyrics including the translated French passage for this song check out this 00individual 2014 post.

THE LAST FUN DECADE: THE ’80S

It is telling that half of these are from the ’80s; perhaps a bleed-over from the late-’70s, but definitely because of the energized fun, assisted by music videos of Rock, Pop, and New Wave that were all a major contributing part of the Last Fun Decade; The ’80s.

00 can state this fact because it is obvious to all who have a discerning eye on this topic – and – that due to a lifetime as an observer and participater of the evolution of Rock since his birth in 1951, 00’s eye was/is discerning, as he was/is an all-around music fiend.  In the early ’70s and in his early 20s he was a Record Store Manager and Record and Tape Rack Jobber – all the while blissfully submerged in the Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll – life was a gas.

Then came the ’80s; MTV, Video Games, Fun Clothing Styles, Fun Movies, Playful Hairstyles, Positive Attitudes, Classic Cartoon Shows, Classic Fun Sit-Coms and other TV Shows, great, great Albums, Bands, and Songs, and the Last Vestiges of Innocense.

With the ’90s; Rock became serious and dark, suicide was in, joy left town, Alt-Rock, Goth, and Rap replaced Pop, Rock, and Roll, and innocense was becoming rare.

Sure, every decade has its faves, but it was the general negative atmosphere and attitudes that degraded the music and many other aspects of society and continues to this day.

And although sad, but true, is why he can state that the ’80s was the Last Fun Decade, and therefore is why they dominate this mere list of Top 13 Songs with the Rock Spirit of the ’60s and the ’70s – BUT – are from neither.

ROCK ON, REGARDLESS AND FOREVER!

Sleepwalk thru a Raunchy Boss Fiberglass Jungle with The Lonely Surfer to the Haunted Castle of Emotions to join in the Apache Rumble against The Band with No Name featuring Scratchy Mihalis.

THAT’S RIGHT, THE RUMBLE IS ON!

Here are 13 Historic Rock “Boss” Instrumental Sounds.

There was a dark but alluring primarily instrumental sound that rose from the depths of late ’50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll up into the mid-’60s. This sound had an ominous but pleasing vibe that seemed to connect on a gritty yet sublime level. It was Boss.

While “Boss” has a totally different meaning now, back in the ’60s it was a ubiquitous word like “Cool” only it was reserved for things that were distinguished as above Cool; more of an acknowledgement of a higher stature within the subject at hand. Out here in L.A. the top radio station took on the moniker of “Boss” radio 93 KHJ; the other top radio station in L.A. was KFWB Channel 98, but KHJ was “Boss”.

Some of these tracks are hard core, some have a mysterious edge, some are dreamy, some wail sax, some twang guitar, some express noir nightlife, some are adventurous, some are spacey, some are up, some are down, one even has the best lyrics ever recorded on the unique track, “Scratchy”.

So, Sleepwalk thru a Raunchy Boss Fiberglass Jungle with The Lonely Surfer to the Haunted Castle of Emotions to join in the Apache Rumble against The Band with No Name featuring Scratchy Mihalis – then bathe in these moody instrumental classics filled with heavy guitar, raunchy sax, throbbing drums, and serious moonlight.

Boss
The Rumblers – 1963
00 bought the single!

Raunchy
Bill Justis – 1957
And it is!

Fiberglass Jungle
The Crossfires – 1963
00’s hometown surf band before they went successfully Pop and were renamed The Turtles.

Emotions
LOVE – 1967
End credits background theme to a non-existent existential western film.

Sleepwalk
Santo & Johnny – 1959
Sublme!

Apache
Jorgen Ingmann – 1961
The sound of an arrowguitar in flight.

Rumble
Link Wray – 1958
The Godfather of Distortion!

Harlem Nocturne
The Viscounts – 1959
The sax that reaches deep into your nighttime bad ass soul.

Haunted Castle 
The Kingsmen – 1963
Righteous B side to “Louie, Louie”

The Band With No Name
Ten Years After – 1970
Opening theme to a criminally mysterious non-existent film.

The Lonely Surfer
Jack Nitzsche – 1963
Jack does Ennio – before Ennio.

Mihalis
David Gilmour – 1978
David soars solo.

Scratchy
Travis Whammack – 1964
00 bought this the second he heard it –
Whammack recorded it at 15 years old and is still scratchin’ as of 2019!

AND

if these tracks stimulate your bad ass soul then here’s a totally righteous album from 1964
(The) Ventures In Space
whereby every track represents all of the excellence of the above thirteen and is the recipiant of an ERA:

Seriously Dig It!