THE ROLLING STONES – AFTERMATH – 6/20/66 BETWEEN THE BUTTONS – 1/20/67

00individual continues with his tribute to Charlie Watts with two releases showcasing the Stones first full album with no cover songs, all originals; AFTERMATH – and – Watts’ prominent drums featured on the rockin’ BETWEEN THE BUTTONS.

“The Aftermath” – copyright 2012 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!
the ROLLING STONES – AFTERMATH – June 20. 1966

00 LOVES THE STONES!
Always have, always will – and what’s not to love? They truly are the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band with no one else coming even close – history has proven this.

00’s first Stones LP was “the Rolling Stones Now!” – he played that an obscene amount of times but when Aftermath was released he felt that they had really come into their own – no covers – all originals and while he really liked “Between the Buttons” (regardless of the Stones own disdain for it) Aftermath placed them on par with the Beatles as far as originality regarding the Jagger-Richards vs. Lennon-McCartney song writer teams.

Aftermath, the U.S. release, contained instant classics as well as songs that became classic upon repeated listenings. Side one, tracks one through four are well known, but “Doncha Bother Me” and “Think” had irresistible hooks that equaled them.
“Flight 505” and “High and Dry” foreshadowed the Stones future affinity with country blues and “It’s Not Easy” would’ve fit nicely on “Between the Buttons”. “I Am Waiting” is a beautiful composition and a companion piece to “Lady Jane”.
But to have “Going Home” as the album ender was perfect and it was a total fave as 00’s a sucker for extended tracks and the Stones pulled this off masterfully.  Its groove and the way it chugged along just made 00 want to listen to the whole LP all over again – which he did – many times.

Rock ‘n’ Roll is so much more than a song or even an attitude, it’s a way of life – and it’s the Spirit that matters, Man, the Spirit of Rock ‘n’ Roll – and the Stones are just that.

AFTERMATH – FULL ALBUM:
1. Paint It, Black  3:22, 2. Stupid Girl  2:56, 3. Lady Jane  3:08, 4. Under My Thumb  3:41
5. Doncha Bother Me  2:41, 6. Think  3:09, 7. Flight 505  3:27, 8. High And Dry  3:08
9. It’s Not Easy  2:56, 10. I Am Waiting  3:11, 11. Going Home  11:13

Here’s another historic and classic element of 1966

Charlie Watts wears the Between the Buttons on his jacket – seen enlarged below.

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!
The ROLLING STONES – BETWEEN THE BUTTONS – Decca – January 20, 1967

By the time 1967 arrived the British Invasion had peaked – although the Brit allure was still strong, the times moved fast, and other genres were too hot to ignore: Hard Rock, Hard Rock Blues, and Psychedelic Rock were on the rise.  That said, there were still a few more British album releases by groups with that hard-to-define element that made the whole British scene so cool.

Before The Rolling Stones paid tribute to Their Majesty they sealed the Pop/Rock ‘60s deal with an absolute gem of an album, Between The Buttons; a perfect mix of Pop, Rock, Power Pop, Ballads, and Psychedelia.

00individual is a devoted Stones fan and lived life from Now! to Exile religiously and BTB has always been a fave and is as solid an era album, track for track, as their future masterpieces Bleed and Sticky.  This was their swansong as R’n’B Hit-makers before their full immersion as the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band with the gritty Classic Rock of Beggars Banquet.  Let it be known that Charlie Watts gets a workout on this album – he is the undisputed driver of BTB.

Side one of kicks off with a typical Stones rocker, Yesterday’s Papers 2:04, then really picks up steam with My Obsession 3:17, and nestles into the melancholy magic of Back Street Girl 3:27, Connection 2:08 returns to the rock of Obsession and segues into the frenetic She Smiled Sweetly 2:44, which builds to even more frenzy with Cool, Calm & Collected 4:17.  Side two continues the Watts Workout with All Sold Out 2:17, then the psychedelically-tinged Please Go Home 3:17, Jagger’s accusatory Who’s Been Sleeping Here?  3:55, Watts still at it – and, its all about chicks, Man Complicated 3:15, then the truly whacked climax of Miss Amanda Jones 2:48, and after all of that, Rockers get to bathe in the afterglow of the fun stoned classic Something Happened to Me Yesterday 4:55 which finishes the album acknowledging their shift in consciousness – or altered states of mind –  through experimenting with Marijuana and psychedelics – as their next release would clearly reveal.

The U.S. “BTB” February release had the hits Let’s Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday minus the “Flowers” album’s Backstreet Girl and Please Go Home.

“Well, thank you very much and now I think it’s time for us all to go.
So from all of us to all of you not forgetting the boys in the band
And our producer, Reg Thorpe, we’d like to say “God Bless”
So, if you’re out tonight, don’t forget, if you’re on your bike, wear white
Ev’ning all.”, 

Lounge Music of the Sexy ’60s and Swingin’ ’70s (and some Fabulous ’50s too!): Spys, Sex, and Intrigue, Sci-Fi, Exotica, and Adventure, Groovy Tunes, Jazzy Vibes, and Psychedelic Soundtracks!

Lounge Music of the Sexy ’60s and Swingin’ ’70s (and some Fabulous ’50s too!):
Spys, Sex, and Intrigue, Sci-Fi, Adventure, and Exotica, Groovy Tunes, Jazzy Vibes, and Psychedelic Soundtracks!

Let’s get this Sexadelic Dance Party started!

Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party  Manfred Hüber & Siegfried Schwab – (1969)
“There’s No Satisfaction” is a lounge take on the Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Executive Party  Andre Previn – from Rollerball OST – (1975)
Now this is the kind of party and music 00 could groove to – in the future!
(Actual scene from the Exec Party – turn volume up all the way to hear voices and music)

This is a terrific film predicting a corporate run world with a fanatical worldwide sport better than any Base, Basket, or Foot ball – Rollerball!

00 saw this at the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Blvd. opening day in ’75.
With the Dome’s curved theater screen, the Rollerball scenes with motorcycles and skaters on the curved track was like being there as action went from one side of the screen to the other – trippy!

Back then seeing a good movie meant going back and seeing it again before it left the theater never to be seen until years later, edited, and with commercials on TV – so 00 would go back again, and in this case, the next night – as this was a really powerful and entertaining film – right up to the end – up to the very last frame. Excellent!
James Caan was the Man! Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!

Music Out of the Moon: Music featuring the Theremin – Les Baxter – (1947)
The THEREMIN!

Lounge Air – Soft Tempo Compilation
The Way Things Were – In-Flight Lounge – Groovy!

Harry Revel’s “Music from Out Of Space” feat Stuart Phillips and his Orchestra (1955)
The ’50s an ’60s were spacier than 2021!

Sid Bass – From Another World (1956)
Even the album covers were psychedelic!

Quiet Village (Original Mono Version) · Martin Denny – (1958)
Had to include the penultimate Tiki / Exotica Lounge instrumental that popularized the genre.

Russ Garcia – Fantastica (1959)
00 still has this album from 00’s Dad’s LP collection!

Song of the Sun – Paul Dupont and his Orchestra from “5 bambole per la luna d’agosto” (1970)
Great mellow representation of Lounge Music – regardless of the poster image.

Frank Comstock- Music From Outer Space (1962)
LAX Encounter restaurant serves as an excellent image for an excellent album!

The Avengers Theme – Laurie Johnson – (1960s)
A tad upbeat for Lounge purists but quite an impressive ditty and too cool to be omitted.

Our Man Flint – Jerry Goldsmith – (1966)
Taught martial arts by Bruce Lee, James Coburn balanced sophisticated camp with dead-on seriousness on par with Connery.
Great Espionage Lounge music.

“Striptease” from “Machine Gun McCain” – Ennio Morricone – (1969)
Enticing Morricone Lounge.

SOUNDPROOF – Ferrante and Teicher – (1956)
The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!

When 00 dabbled in oil painting in the ’70s, he was always captivated by the “Forbidden Planet” movie spacecraft and environment of this album cover and painted it sans text. Not a great accomplishment of mainly aqua-blues, but still a “foreboding and beautiful image”. Once again from 00’s Dad’s LP collection which 00 still has.
Here’s the oil painting – 00’s interpretation – while in his 20s.

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Three Days of the Condor – Dave Grusin – (1975)

Saved the best for last – this movie and soundtrack are the absolute best example of why the ’70s were the height of movie-making history and the creme de la creme of Spy Lounge and Adventure Intrigue soundtracks.

See the film and enjoy the soundtrack – whenever, wherever, you can – you will be thoroughly entertained by both – and can also vicariously groove to the Big Apple’s cool kick-ass gritty, groovy sexy, noir vibe of the ’70s – a long gone but not forgotten time, place, and era.

THE ROLLING STONES, NOW! February 13, 1965

Due to the passing of Rolling Stones’ drummer, Charlie Watts, 00individual wants to celebrate his life’s work with a post or two a month, in chronological order, of some of the best Stones album releases in Rock history, and therefore some of the best drumming in Rock History.

These albums were obtained by 00 at the time of their release and coincided with the historical era of the eight years from 1965 to 1972 when 00 was 14 through 21 – 00 was blessed.

Up first is “Now!”, (known as No. 2 in the U.K.) this 1965 Rockabilly R ‘n” B  Blues album not only juxtaposed the Pop of The Beatles, but set a level of badness that only The Animals approached at that time.

 THE ROLLING STONES, NOW!

On February 13, 1965 “The Rolling Stones, Now!” album was released in the U.S.- a week later it was 00individual’s 14th birthday, and with the gift of birthday money he bought the original monaural vinyl long playing record album.

Every 14 year old knows the weird transition of feeling old enough to do bigger things, but being held back because you were, well, 14.
At 11 and 12 you’re a long way off from the freedom you would like to enjoy. Even one more year at 15 the reins loosen, and at 16 you’ve made it, you can legally drive, to the Moon and back. But at 14 that seems like a decade away.

However, there was a maturing process going on under the radar. While 00individual had not experienced many of the emotions about relationships and love on the tracks of this album – ‘cept for spurts of Puppy Love – he knew that these were all important songs and were not Pop “Top 30” fare.

While the tunes on “The Rolling Stones, Now!” were infectious, and the Rockin’ Blues were down home, there was the double entendre or outright messages of the songs written by Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Willie Dixon that made 14 year old 00individual feel that he knew something others didn’t – and that, folks, is the essence of Rock ‘n’ Roll; you either got it, or you didn’t.

00individual was going to comment on each track but realized that it was every track, the whole entire album, that just felt sooo right – he had not heard anything like this before. This was the real deal; the choice of songs, the delivery, the musicianship, real raunchy Blues, and Jagger’s classic vocals were, well, perfect – perfect for a frustrated rockin’ 14 year old..

Side One
1. “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” Solomon Burke, Bert Berns, Jerry Wexler. The Rolling Stones No. 2 (UK version of Now!) has an alternative longer version 2:57
2. “Down Home Girl” Jerry Leiber, Artie Butler The Rolling Stones No. 2 4:15
3. “You Can’t Catch Me” Chuck Berry The Rolling Stones No. 2 4:30
4. “Heart of Stone” Jagger/Richards single (US) 2:49
5. “What a Shame” Jagger/Richards B-side of “Heart of Stone” (US) 2:50
6. “Mona (I Need You Baby)” Ellas McDaniel a.k.a. Bo Diddley The Rolling Stones (UK) 3:55
Side two
7. “Down the Road Apiece” Don Raye The Rolling Stones No. 2 3:00
8. “Off the Hook” Jagger/Richards B-side of “Little Red Rooster” (UK) 2:35
9. “Pain in My Heart” Naomi Neville a.k.a. Allen Toussaint The Rolling Stones No. 2 2:12
10. “Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’)” Barbara Lynn Ozen The Rolling Stones, Now! 2:06
11. “Little Red Rooster” Willie Dixon single (UK) 3:00
12. “Surprise, Surprise” Jagger/Richards The Rolling Stones, Now! 2:20

The songs were recorded between June 10 and November 8 1964 at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, and RCA Records studio in Hollywood, California; except “Mona (I Need You Baby)”, January 3–4 1964, Regent Sound Studios, London.

At the time of these recordings:
Jagger was 21, Richards 21, Jones, 22, Watts 23, and Wyman 28.
Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, percussion
Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and slide guitars, harmonica, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals

Additional personnel
Jack Nitzsche – piano (2), “Nitzsche phone” (sound effects on 9)
Ian Stewart – piano (1, 5)

It was like this, up ’til then it was all Pop, even Rock ‘n’ Roll was in the mold of Elvis, but this, this felt deeper – and right then The Stones cast their mold as the Bad Boys of Rock and Blues with gritty soulful electrified attitude within every member of this soon to be World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band.

00individual saw the Stones live in 2013 at the “50 & Counting World Tour” concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles – with VIP seats!
In 1972 for the now classic Hollywood Palladium “Exile On Main St. Tour” concert – up front and close
and in 1969 at the first show at the Fabulous Forum

With Jones long gone, Wyman retired, and now Watts enjoying Jazz on another level, that leaves the Glimmer Twins to carry on, which without a doubt they will continue to do til their dying day – all truly members of the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring September

“Bang A Gong Babe”  Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

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

September 1971 Happenings:

Sep 1 Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
Sep 2 Teenage debutants Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their first matches at the US Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills
Sep 2 NY’s Electric Circus Club goes out of business
Sep 3 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
Sep 3 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office
Sep 4 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
Sep 5 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
Sep 6 Jerry Lewis’ 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $8,125,387
Sep 8 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
Sep 9 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
Sep 9 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
Sep 9 John Lennon releases his “Imagine” album
Sep 13 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take-over at Attica State Prison
Sep 13 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
Sep 13 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
Sep 14 Cleveland Indians & Washington Senators, play 20 innings
Sep 14 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Sep 15 1st broadcast of “Columbo” starring Peter Falk on NBC
Sep 16 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
Sep 18 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it in a waterproof polystyrene container
Sep 19 New York City Marathon: inaugural women’s race won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22; 2nd men’s race won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
Sep 23 Jan Vermeer’s painting “The Love Letter” is stolen from The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels by a 21 year old thief
Sep 24 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
Sep 28 NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
Sep 28 UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
Sep 29 “McMillan & Wife” debuts on NBC-TV
Sep 29 Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
Sep 29 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
Sep 29 Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
Sep 30 Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
Sep – Yes begin a British tour with Rick Wakeman behind the keyboards for the first time this day in rock history!
Sep – Led Zeppelin played the first of two nights at the Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan.
Sep – Cat Stevens releases his single “Peace Train.” The song was later covered by 10,000 Maniacs, who pulled the tune from 1987’s In My Tribe after Stevens declared his support for the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
Sep – John Lennon appears as a guest on The Dick Cavett Show.
Sep – Pink Floyd give their album Meddle a quadraphonic mix at London’s Command Studios
Sep – Peter Frampton quits Humble Pie to start his solo career. His debut album, Wind of Change, follows the next year.
Sep – Pink Floyd performs at the Classical Music Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. They become the first rock group to play the festival, performing their work “Atom Heart Mother.”
Sep – An animated “Jackson 5” series premieres 

September 1971 US Top 20 Singles Week Ending 18th

1 GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL – Donny Osmond (MGM)
2 SPANISH HARLEM – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
3 AIN’T NO SUNSHINE – Bill Withers (Sussex)
4 MAGGIE MAY / REASON TO BELIEVE – Rod Stewart (Mercury)
5 UNCLE ALBERT / ADMIRAL HALSEY – Paul and Linda McCartney (Apple)
6 SMILING FACES SOMETIMES – The Undisputed Truth (Gordy)
7 I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE – Rare Earth (Rare Earth)
8 THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN – Joan Baez (Vanguard)
9 HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART – The Bee Gees (Atco)
10 WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET – The Dramatics (Volt)
11 STICK-UP – The Honey Cone (Hot Wax)
12 SUPERSTAR / BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN – The Carpenters (A&M)
13 TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS – John Denver with Fat City (RCA)
14 I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING – The Partridge Family (Starring Shirley Jones and Featuring David Cassidy) (Bell)
15 WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN – The Who (Decca)
16 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – Lee Michaels (A&M)
17 LIAR – Three Dog Night (Dunhill)
18 SIGNS – Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)
19 TIRED OF BEING ALONE – Al Green (Hi)
20 IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)

September 1971 Album Releases:

3 Future Games – Fleetwood Mac
5 From the Inside – Poco
8 Labelle – Labelle
9 Aretha’s Greatest Hits – Aretha Franklin Compilation
Imagine – John Lennon US; released in UK Oct 8
Second Album – Curved Air
15 Cahoots – The Band
Judee Sill – Judee Sill
17 Colosseum Live – Colosseum Live
20 Fly – Yoko Ono

24 Electric Warrior – T.Rex
Released while 00 was managing Crane’s Record Store in Palos Verdes, CA, it was a period when WEA – Warner Elektra Atlantic (and Reprise) labels were hot: Hendrix in the Wesr, Neil Young’s Harvest, Anerica’s first album, and T.Rex’ Electric Warrior. All of these titles sold for $2.99 retail.
00 would order cases from the one stops and other distributors and literally stack the cases, of usually 25 LPs per, in the store, opened them, and they flew out the door. That’s right, they sprouted wings. 
T.Rex was huge with this album, number one seller of the year in the U.K., and Harvest became the number one seller of the year in the U.S.. 

29 Goin’ Back to Indiana – The Jackson 5
30 Harmony – Three Dog Night
– 20 Granite Creek – Moby Grape
Aereo-Plain – John Hartford
April Wine – April Wine
Bark – Jefferson Airplane
Buddy Miles Live – Buddy Miles Live
Charlie Daniels –  Charlie Daniels
Closer to the Ground – Joy of Cooking
The Four of Us – John Sebastian
Free Live! – Free Live
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 – Johnny Cash Compilation
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves – Cher
James Gang Live in Concert – James Gang Live
Ko-ko Joe – Jerry Reed
Look at Yourself – Uriah Heep US; released Oct. ’71 in UK
The North Star – Grassman and the Ravens Sandy Denny
Pilgrimage – Wishbone Ash
Rock Love – Steve Miller Band
Santana – Santana aka Santana III
Seven Tears – Golden Earring
Street Corner Talking – Savoy Brown
Talk It Over in the Morning – Anne Murray
The Time to Live is Now – Buzzy Linhart
Trafalgar – Bee Gees
Transition – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
Welcome to the Canteen – Traffic Live

September 1971 Movie Releases:

Skin GameSeptember 30, 1971

 

The Cat o’ Nine TailsSeptember 29, 1971

 

The Peace KillersSeptember 29, 1971

 

The Raging MoonSeptember 29, 1971

 

The Last MovieSeptember 29, 1971

 

Chrome and Hot LeatherSeptember 29, 1971

 

Thank You Mask ManSeptember 28, 1971

 

Five Desperate WomenSeptember 28, 1971

 

HacksawSeptember 26, 1971

 

The Trojan WomenSeptember 26, 1971

 

Lock, Stock and BarrelSeptember 24, 1971

 

The Last RebelSeptember 24, 1971

 

Fragment of FearSeptember 24, 1971

 

A Tattered WebSeptember 24, 1971

 

Desperate CharactersSeptember 22, 1971

 

Adios SabataSeptember 22, 1971

 

Congratulations, It’s a Boy!September 21, 1971

 

We Have Come for Your DaughtersSeptember 20, 1971

 

Dracula vs. FrankensteinSeptember 20, 1971

 

You’ve Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You’ll Lose That BeatSeptember 19, 1971

 

Glen and RandaSeptember 19, 1971

 

 

Deus ExSeptember 19, 1971

 

The BirdmenSeptember 18, 1971

 

KotchSeptember 17, 1971

 

Once Upon a Dead ManSeptember 17, 1971

 

Terror in the SkySeptember 17, 1971

 

Murder by the BookSeptember 15, 1971

 

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to MeSeptember 15, 1971

 

Criminal AffairSeptember 14, 1971

 

The Forgotten ManSeptember 14, 1971

 

Evel KnievelSeptember 10, 1971

 

JoSeptember 9, 1971

 

The SaviorSeptember 9, 1971

 

Wild RidersSeptember 8, 1971

 

Sunday Bloody SundaySeptember 8, 1971

 

Cat BallouSeptember 6, 1971

 

Lust for a VampireSeptember 2, 1971

 

See No EvilSeptember 2, 1971

 

The Man Who Haunted HimselfSeptember 2, 1971

 

Dad’s ArmySeptember 1, 1971

 

Creatures the World ForgotSeptember 1, 1971

 

The Female BunchSeptember 1, 1971

 

Angels Hard as They ComeSeptember 1, 1971

 

Private Duty NursesSeptember 1, 1971

 

The Deadly DreamSeptember 26, 1971

 

Come TogetherSeptember 25, 1971

 

Prem NagarSeptember 24, 1971

 

ReggaeSeptember 23, 1971

 

Chain Gang WomenSeptember 22, 1971

 

Near the Big ChakraSeptember 21, 1971

 

The Pink Garter GangSeptember 17, 1971

 

The SteagleSeptember 15, 1971

 

A Necklace for My BelovedSeptember 15, 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jimi Plays BerkeleySeptember 13, 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cat BallouSeptember 5, 1971

 

Outlaw RidersSeptember 3, 1971

 

The OrchidSeptember 2, 1971

 

The Late LizSeptember 1, 1971

 

Sweet SaviorSeptember 1, 1971

 

Vietnam! Vietnam!September 1, 1971

 

Welcome to the ClubSeptember 1, 1971

 

LET’S GET EXTRATERRESTRIAL!

 

“Aliens Upgrade and Test Drive The Psychedelic Train”

copyright 2018 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.

MAD Magazine – ’60’s & ’70’s Gift of Enlightenment

A time-out is due to honor the drummer of the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band.
The legendary Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, their ONLY drummer, passed-on today.
Charlie never missed a tour in the band’s 58 years.
Rest In Peace Charlie – you were exemplary in all that you did.

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And now, MAD Magazine – ’60’s & ’70’s Gift of Enlightenment

A typical satiric MAD take on Timothy Leary’s, “Turn On Tune In Drop Out”

There was a saving grace for adolescents of the prevailng boredom of the ’50’s and early ’60’s, and that bit of pre-teen / teen enjoyment was available through the irreverent genius of MAD magazine by “the Usual Gang of Idiots”. Those Idiots were: founder editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines.

The first issue was October/November of 1952 and published through to 2017 (original magazine) and June 2018 – ? (reboot).

For kids who grew up during that era, decency, manners, politeness, and respect, were well-known traits that were upheld but it was MAD that allowed for a much-needed relief from those societal rules. Comic books were great fun and adventurous distractions and provided escapist entertainment, but Mad provided just what was needed – stupid fun that slyly revealed truths.

MAD magazine’s influence over more than a half-century is righteously apparent in the quotes by just these few:

In 1977, Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis wrote in The New York Times about the then-25-year-old publication’s initial effect:
“The skeptical generation of kids it shaped in the 1950s is the same generation that, in the 1960s, opposed a war and didn’t feel bad when the United States lost for the first time and in the 1970s helped turn out an Administration and didn’t feel bad about that either … It was magical, objective proof to kids that they weren’t alone, that in New York City on Lafayette Street, if nowhere else, there were people who knew that there was something wrong, phony and funny about a world of bomb shelters, brinkmanship and toothpaste smiles. MAD’s consciousness of itself, as trash, as comic book, as enemy of parents and teachers, even as money-making enterprise, thrilled kids. In 1955, such consciousness was possibly nowhere else to be found.”

In a 1985 Tonight Show appearance, Johnny Carson asked Michael J. Fox,
“When did you really know you’d made it in show business?”, Fox replied, “When Mort Drucker drew my head.”

In 1994, Brian Siano in The Humanist discussed the effect of MAD on that segment of people already disaffected from society:
“For the smarter kids of two generations, MAD was a revelation: it was the first to tell us that the toys we were being sold were garbage, our teachers were phonies, our leaders were fools, our religious counselors were hypocrites, and even our parents were lying to us about damn near everything. An entire generation had William Gaines for a godfather: this same generation later went on to give us the sexual revolution, the environmental movement, the peace movement, greater freedom in artistic expression, and a host of other goodies. Coincidence? You be the judge.”

In 2007, the Los Angeles Times’ Robert Boyd wrote,
“All I really need to know I learned from MAD magazine”, going on to assert: Plenty of it went right over my head, of course, but that’s part of what made it attractive and valuable. Things that go over your head can make you raise your head a little higher. The magazine instilled in me a habit of mind, a way of thinking about a world rife with false fronts, small print, deceptive ads, booby traps, treacherous language, double standards, half truths, subliminal pitches and product placements; it warned me that I was often merely the target of people who claimed to be my friend; it prompted me to mistrust authority, to read between the lines, to take nothing at face value, to see patterns in the often shoddy construction of movies and TV shows; and it got me to think critically in a way that few actual humans charged with my care ever bothered to.

Artist Dave Gibbons said,
“When you think of the people who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, the letters M-A-D were probably as influential as L-S-D, in that it kind of expanded people’s consciousness and showed them an alternative view of society and consumer culture — mocked it, satirized it.”

Robert Crumb remarked,
“Artists are always trying to equal the work that impressed them in their childhood and youth. I still feel extremely inadequate when I look at the old MAD comics.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote:
“I learned to be a movie critic by reading MAD magazine … Mad’s parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin—of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe.”

When Weird Al Yankovic was asked whether MAD had had any influence in putting him on a road to a career in parody, the musician replied,
“[It was] more like going off a cliff.”

Mystery Science Theater 3000 writer-actor Frank Conniff wrote,
“Without MAD Magazine, MST3K would have been slightly different, like for instance, it wouldn’t have existed.”

In 2019, Terence Winter, writer and producer of The Sopranos, told Variety,
“When we got into MAD Magazine, that was the highlight for me. That said everything.”

Rock singer Patti Smith said more succinctly,
“After MAD, drugs were nothing.”

The Aurora monster model kit craze of the ’60s – in reverse.

Like most kids his age, 00 looked forward to the next MAD issue. Everyone had their favorite segments; Spy vs Spy, The Lighter Side, the Back-Cover Fold In, but for 00 it was all about the parodies of current movies and TV shows and the excellent caricature likenesses of the stars, actors, celebrities, amd politicians that he liked best.

And of course, the back cover mock ads for current well-known products looking professionally shot, like: Marble Row (cemetary gravestones) Marlboro cigarettes, or a passed out drunk with the title Sadder, But Wiser for Budweiser Beer, and so on, those were just from memory.

A parody of Breck hair products usually done in the above style with a woman’s beautiful hair –
this time with Ringo done beautifully by Frank Frazetta:

Walking on his way home from grade school, then later junior high school, 00 would literally walk through the front door of Stewart’s Bottle Bar (liquor store) that was on the corner of his long block home and then out the side door with a 10 cent bag of suns (sunflower seeds), a 15 cent big sixteen ounce spiral-glass RC Cola, and the new 25 cent MAD magazine, or a couple of 12 cent comic books.

He’d eat the salted suns ’til his tongue was swollen from the salt and down slugs of the RC to quench his thirst. Then, once home, finish off the bag and RC while expanding his mind with smiles and appreciation while devouring MAD magazine.

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Here are the artists (“the Usual Gang of Idiots”) known and loved by those lucky and fortunate enough to have had them in their lives during the Best Times in United States History. the 1960s and the 1970s: Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, Kelly Freas, Dave Berg, Paul Coker, Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Norman Mingo, Basil Woolverton, and many others.

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MAD PREDICTS THE FUTURE – EVERY 50 YEARS!
1971 and now 2021!

MAD = Tribal Truth.

“A Chorus Line” – 1975 – Original Broadway Cast Album and Broadway Show Review – Psychedelic!

By mid-1975,
00individual was nearing his last days in the wonderful world of the record and tape biz as a store manager and rack jobber.

During those last days (weeks, months) of ’75, workin’ the Westwood Village store, DisConnectiion (formally Grammy n Granny – name change due to a petty threatened law suit by the Grammy Awards), Liz the owner, whom I worked with daily, was a New Yorker and played the “A Chorus Line” album, over and over, every day ever since it came out.

00individual is a Broadway Show and Movie Musical fan – he grew up with them: Oklahoma!, The Music Man, South Pacific, as well as all of the great entertaining and fun M.G.M. musicals, so A Chorus Line grew on him, he liked it. He could relate, as he was an artist and knew the creative struggle to be noticed, to get hired, to create and show what you can do.

In nearly every field of endevour, especially the arts, it can be a lonely experience for those who work hard at their craft and spend most of the time alone developing it. That’s why it seems easy for the obsessed, for they have no other choice: create, perfect, learn, compete with oneself, and be utterly self-disciplined and lovin’ it.

The things that most successful people have in common is dedication and self-motivation – and – they are blessed with good timing, as it really is timing that seems to be the catalyst for success in any career.

Even if you don’t make the cut, you know yourself, that you were worthy, and that your time will come.

And that is the heart of A Chorus Line – when one is cursed / blessed to have passion and true love for their chosen career – one has no choice other than to follow that dream, no matter what it takes, because as everyone knows its all about the journey, the experiences on the way, not the destination. Well, the destination too, but mainly the journey.

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Fast forward to the early ’80s;
00 is in New York on textile fashion design business and is treated to really great seats to the longest running Broadway show at the time, A Chorus LIne!

00 had never been to a Broadway Show, he saw “Hair” at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood – but this was Broadway, and it was exhilerating.
The energy of the songs, the dances, the reality portrayed in a real-life fantasy on stage was amplified by the fact that 00 knew this album as well as any favorite Rock album, and was singing along in his head throughout the whole show.

So there he was enjoyng the performance as if it were a Rock Concert – a live performance by a “group” he had come to know with songs from an album he liked  and had memorized – just like a Rock concert!

A Chorus Line
1 –Company* I Hope I Get It 4:58
2 –Wayne Cilento I Can Do That 1:32
3 –Carole Bishop, Nancy Lane, Kay Cole At The Ballet 5:53
4 –Renee Baughman, Don Percassi Sing! 1:51
5 –Company* Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love (Montage) 6:45
6 –Priscilla Lopez Nothing 4:19
1 –Donna McKechnie The Music And The Mirror 6:38
2 –Pamela Blair Dance: Ten; Looks: Three 2:51
3 –Company* One 4:46
4 –Priscilla Lopez And Company* What I Did For Love 3:45
5 –Company* One (Reprise) – Finale 5:02

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Musicals are psychedelic;
without knowing it people have been exposed to the psychedelic experience since the 1930’s boom of classic musicals of Fred Asdtaire and Ginger Rogers, the movies Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet, Swing Time (both 1936), and Shall We Dance (1937). Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz (1939) would become a landmark film for movie musicals – and as 00 can testify it is one of thee most psychedelic movies of all time.

While suspending belief while watching a movie or reading a book is a natural acquired human trait, plots and characters usually work within the realm of their shared genre to help carry the narrative along.

Whenever a movie is set within any genre, be it, romance, comedy, or drama, and has serious dialogue between main characters that suddenly changes into song – that is a psychedelic moment for real – and the reason is, when has anyone actually seen that happen? Maybe in an altered state of mind. 00 has tripped many times but never reached that point.

And then other uninvolved people in the background join in singing and dancing to the main character’s song and it turns into a full-blown production number – now that’s an acid trip folks – that’s LSD at its finest.

By now everyone has taken a tab and been conditioned to realize that musicals are just fantasy, but they are not fantasy. Fantasy is a quality of whimsy, of the known unreal, musicals are entrances to a place where humans, not elves and fairies, exist – but where humans exhibit strange choreographed movements and shared mind, vocal, and body actions – that’s not fantasy, that’s a psychotic break in reality.

But in the end, it don’t matter because . . . “That’s Entertainment!”

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – 1970 and “Wake Up Niggers” – 1971 and “Respect Yourself” – 1971

Gil Scott-Heron – The Last Poets – The Staple Singers

00individual is a white male with no apologies what-so-ever – he was born that way.

He was raised in a predominently white middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles.
His Father passed when he was 15, there was no trust fund nor rich relatives. 00, like many, had to make it on his own.

Anyone, everyone, who was given the opportunity at life here on Earth is blessed.
How they handle it is strictly within the realm of self-awareness, self-motivation, self-control, and self-esteem that, if serious about the gift of life, will hone these traits for a full life.

Therefore, everyone is here to learn for reasons personal and interpersonal. From the elite to the destitute everyone falls in there somewhere, and rich or poor everyone dies the way they came in – alone.

Howevere, when any individual or group of humans feel that they are not being treated equally or unjustly they raise their voice – the squeaky wheel gets the grease – and issues are raised.

Sometimes that’s not enough, so then peaceful protests with burning, looting, violence, destruction, and harm to innocent humans are seen to raise awareness further with no repercussions.

And there’s the rub.
Human nature tends to reject disingenuous words and actions.

Let’s take for example the universally-known term, “Black On Black Violence” – does not this action that rises to fact obviously cancel the intent of “Black Lives Matter”?
Many believe that it does, but it can be cured simply by an effort to “show by example” that Black Lives Do Matter.

The Staple Singers know this: “Respect Yourself”

If you disrespect everybody That you run into
How in the world do you think Anybody’s s’posed to respect you

If you don’t give a heck about The man with a bible in his hand
Just get out the way and Let the gentleman do his thing

You’re the kind of gentleman That wants everything their way
Take the sheet off your face, boy, It’s a brand new day

Respect yourself
Respect yourself
If you don’t respect yourself
Ain’t nobody gonna give a good Ca-hoot na na na oh oh
Respect yourself

If you’re walking around thinking That the world owes you something’ cause you’re here
You’re going out the world backwards Like you did when you first came here

Keep talking about the president Won’t stop air pollution
Put your hand over your mouth When you cough
That’ll help the solution

You cuss around women folk You don’ t even know their name
Then you’re dumb enough to think That it’ll make you a big ol’ man

Respect yourself
Respect yourself
If you don’t respect yourself
Ain’t nobody gonna give a good Ca-hoot na na na oh oh
Respect yourself

But, hey, 00 knows full well, as do many, that this racial (in)equality issue serves a much deeper purpose than its supposed intent as it is just part of the socio-political machination for control and is really not about equality, at all.

So, sadly, all of the bravado is purely mass-market advertising, pitting different groups against each other to actually further the divide with patronizing solutions that will not improve anything because that was never the goal. Division and Control – Divide and Conquer – that is the goal.

This is known now, but back in the ’70s it was well hidden, and the reality of these two songs is that while they were important, raised righteous awareness, and got a white guy to empathize, each of them could have been written today only with the zeitgeist of politicians, celebrities, class distinctions, and consumerism replaced in the lyrics.

Evidently, in the whole spectrum of time from 1970 to 2021, half a century, fifty years – not much has changed, at least not in a positive manner.

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – Gil Scott-Heron – 1970
This was heard on FM stations and became somewhat of a “hit”. The song is a response to the spoken-word piece “When the Revolution Comes” by The Last Poets, from their self-titled debut, which opens with the line,”When the revolution comes some of us will probably catch it on TV”.

You will not be able to stay home, Brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
Skip out for beer during commercials
Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
Hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Wood and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner
Because the revolution will not be televised, Brother

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32
On reports from 29 districts
The revolution will not be televised

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
Run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkins strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving
For just the proper occasion

Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
Women will not care if Dick finally got down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
Will be in the street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised

There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock news
and no pictures of hairy-armed women Liberationists
and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth
The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
Bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised
Will not be televised, will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run Brothers
The revolution will be live.

Well, they got that right,
the revolution will not be televised UNLESS it serves a propaganda purpose
the revolution will not be televised.

“Wake Up Niggers” – The Last Poets (written by Gil Scott-Heron) – 1971
The soundtrack to the Mick Jagger film, Performance is in 00’s serious top faves and Wake Up Niggers was featured on the album. 00 played the soundtrack, full of some of the best of the best music ever so many times that he knows these lyrics by heart, easily.
This is a powerful song that made this white boy sit up and listen; the track was cool and had attitude, and stated some grim truths.
The song’s lyrics dealt with the hypocrisy of some would-be black revolutionaries, and white middle-class ignorance of the difficulties faced by inner-city residents.

Night, descends, as the sun’s light ends
And black comes back, to blend again
And with the depth of the sun
Night blackness become one
Blackness being you
Peeping through the red, the white, and the blue
Dreaming of boss, black civilizations that once flourished and grew
HEY! – WAKE UP, NIGGERS or y’all through!

Drowning in the puddle of the white man’s spit
As you pause for some drawers in the midst of shit
And ain’t got nothing to save your funky-ass with!
You cool, fool – sipping on a menthol cigarette ’round midnight
Rapping about how the Big Apple is outta sight, you ain’t never had a bite
Who are you fooling? Me? You?
Wake up, niggers or ya ALL through!

In Uptown, two brothers are drowned in each other’s piss
In Downtown, interracial lovers secretly kiss
While junkies are dreaming of total bliss
Somewhere in the atmospheeeere, far away from heeeeere
Beyond realms of white dimensions, gathered by suppressed intentions
As their cries, cries, cries go unrecognized
Except by their keeper, the Grim Reaper
“SAVE ME!, ” a carnity shout, as the lights go out
’cause you ain’t paid your ‘lectric bill
And the rats and roaches move on in for the kill
As your lips struggle to drain that last drop from the wine bottle
When you roll snake eyes, never to realizing that you BLEW
WAKE UP, NIGGERS or ya all through!

Sitting in the corner with your minds tied to your behinds
Bonafied members of Niggers Anonymous
Never knowing which way you’re going – pimpin’ off whites
Turning tricks to slick dicks, with candy asses
“All masses will be held tomorrow morrning for the Late Great Black Maaaaaaan… “
(Ahhhhhhh-Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen…)

YOU NIGGERS UNDERSTAND?! UP AGAINST THE WALL
Black man with farmers, or I’ll blow you away
And you’ll never live to see the light of day
And the nightstick, the nightstick it glides gracefully upside yo’ head
That’s right, brothers and sisters, YOU livin’ dead
When the cock crows, and the night goes
And it saves your ass in the nick of time
As you wake up and start to find
Yourself, laying up in bed – scratching your ass, Man
Trying to remember from where when you recall this mid-nightmare
That always leave you feelin’ blue
But you still can’t place, The Man face, as hard as you try to
HEY! – WAKE UP, NIGGERS OR WE ALL THROUGH!

Well, it seems like they finally “woke” up.

The Loss of a Dear Friend – A Connection to the Afterlife

Last week 00individual lost his Best Friend of 40 years.

James Edward Oglesby was and still is a rare human being.

00 met him when both were hired as postmen for the Malibu post office in 1980, they became fast friends and immediately became soul brothers.

Their mutual interest in UFOs, metaphysical and paranormal subjects, the human condition, karma, synchronicity, and life after death were sources of deep conversations that usually turned into comedic takes on serious subjects.
Their understanding of the cosmic levels of existence through the planes of physical, astral, and etheric, proved to bring about some crazy fun realizations that possibly qualified for a successful stand-up comedy routine on the Astral Plane.

They co-wrote a full-blown screenplay together, “Karma Outlaws”, which was registered with the Directors Guild of America and shopped around. Jack H. Harris (The Blob – original and remake) showed serious interest, then he got divorced, and that was the end of that.

Jim grew up in towns near the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) in Florida and actually worked for a time on the base. This led to many visual experiences involving the “UFO monitoring” of the Apollo program.
He eventually made contact due to his tireless interest and efforts with his “ET friends” as he called them, to the point where he began to understand that he was in fact an alien/human hybrid.

Over the 40 years that 00 and Jim kept in touch through emails and a couple calls a month, (as Jim returned to Florida after they both did a nickel at the Malibu P.O.) 00 never encountered a lie from Jim, he was incapable of it. That is extremely rare. 00 never knew anyone like that and is why he trusted everything Jim told him.

Even though he was 81 years old at his passing Jim was exceptionally alert – he did several well-received shows on the popular Jeff Rense program (start at 49.00 minutes in for Jim Oglesby) with many  full color illustrations to accompany his very detailed experiences that continued past the Apollo program era.

Six days before his passing, 00 had a conversation with Jim, he was in good spirits, healthy, and happy, but told 00 that the next time he was invited to board a ship with his ET friends that he would. He had several opportunities over the years but was just not ready – and sometimes he regretted it. Jim was an avid Astral traveler but could return to his body – this could be different.

Very possibly, and 00 truly believes it, he finally gave in and willingly went with them. Also very possibly he somehow knew in the past that it meant he had to leave his earthly body to do so.

00 will never know for sure until he is contacted by him, which they both had a pact to do. 00 has had definite personal proof of the afterlife as he has been contacted by those close to him who knew that he would not only deeply appreciate it, but knew that he needed confirmation of that big question’s truth. And he got it.

00 is now waiting to hear from Jim.

Unlike all of the psychic shows that connect to loved ones who have passed, 00 only needed an undisputable fact – a word, a smile, that’s all that’s really needed to know this truth – and to know the difference between a dream, a vision, or a hallucination – and he does.

00 misses his best friend’s voice, his laughter, and kindred spirit already, but at 70, and unless he lives to be 100, 00individual doesn’t have long to wait to meet with him again and to enjoy the love from all those true friends and family who exist in the afterlife, most of which are from the animal kingdom where unconditional love is waitng for him as it was here on the earthly plane.

Goodbye for now Jim, see you in the relatively soon non-existent time of life after death where we will continue all of those plans we spoke of, and plenty we couldn’t possibly conceive of.

Love you, Zman.

The above was written within the last ten days, but was not posted until today.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
Here is a July 5th email from Jim that was at the top of the gmails this morning August 6th, sometimes when opened the most recent is not at the top but at the visible top and needs to be scrolled up for the most recent. Who caused this “random” act to happen? Jim.

This email from Jim was at the visible top with the subject title “My Oh My” – 00 had forgotten about this email – Jim obviously didn’t however, and communicated in writing, as their phone conversations were not recorded. This makes even more sense because, since 00 and he were both writers what better way to communicate than with a written message!
00 now has proof directly from Jim.

Here’s the complete email from July 5th – (re)read this morning August 6th:

Back to our wonderful “fun” chat just hours ago, out-of-the blue, you said to me, “If you get a chance to take a ride on a ship, do it! Well, here’s what occurred at about 11:30 pm, my time. So, I’m sitting here at the computer revising a chapter in “The Power”, and those very words that you had said to me, hours earlier, just flowed through my mind, and immediately, our friends, the ETs sent a wave of love to me, and that I must now follow through and make myself available for the possibility of a trip. Did “they” prompt you to remind me of that?
Now, I must commit.   

For those of you out there who are aware of signs, and do not excuse them away, know the feeling. For those who don’t allow yourself the freedom to accept and acknowledge that what may be seemingly strange is not, accept it for what it was and mentally log it. The more open to signs the more will come. Observable signs are there for a reason, subtle or abrupt, and should never be “explained away”. To close one off from a higher understanding, that is within everyone, is denying personal evolution.

Jim and 00 did the hard work for many decades – here’s their proof.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring August

“Who’s Next? Babe” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

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

August 1971 Happenings:

Aug 1 George Harrison’s concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
Aug 1 Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta, Georgia to become the first NASCAR driver to win $1m in career earnings
Aug 3 Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
Aug 4 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
Aug 6 3rd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Muir College, University of California
Aug 7 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
Aug 9 Satchel Paige inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame
Aug 9 Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of supporting paramilitaries
Aug 10 Twins’ Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
Aug 10 During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre
Aug 11 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
Aug 13 Paul & Linda McCartney release “Back Seat of My Car”
Aug 14 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
Aug 15 US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
Aug 15 The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland
Aug 15 Despite crashing out on lap 36, Scotsman Jackie Stewart clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the Austrian Grand Prix at Österreichring; French Tyrrell driver François Cevert wins the race
Aug 16 Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
Aug 18 New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake announces in Parliament that New Zealand’s combat force would be withdrawn from Vietnam before the end of the year, coinciding with a similar announcement by the Australian government
Aug 20 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
Aug 22 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
Aug 22 J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the “Camden 28”.
Aug 22 Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
Aug 25 Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations
Aug 25 32nd Venice Film Festival opens
Aug 26 NY Giant football team announces they’re leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
Aug 26 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
Aug 28 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.
Aug 31 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
Aug 31 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced

August 1971 US Top 20 Singles Week Ending 14th

1  HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART – The Bee Gees (Atco)
2  MR. BIG STUFF – Jean Knight (Stax)
3  TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS – John Denver with Fat City (RCA)
4  DRAGGIN’ THE LINE – Tommy James (Roulette)
5  YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND – James Taylor (Warner Brothers)
6  INDIAN RESERVATION (The Lament Of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) – The Raiders (Columbia)
7  BEGINNINGS / COLOUR MY WORLD – Chicago (Columbia)
8  WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE / ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN (Medley) – Tom Clay (Mowest)
9  MERCY MERCY ME (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye (Tamla)
10 SIGNS – Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)
11 IT’S TOO LATE / I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE – Carole King (Ode)
12 BRING THE BOYS HOME – Freda Payne (Invictus)
13 NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE  – Delaney and Bonnie and Friends (Atco)
14 LIAR – Three Dog Night (Dunhill)
15 SWEET HITCH-HIKER – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
16 HOT PANTS (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1) – James Brown (People)
17 RINGS – Cymarron (Entrance)
18 LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH – The Isley Brothers (T-Neck)
19 SPANISH HARLEM –– Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
20 RIDERS ON THE STORM – The Doors (Elektra)

August 1971 Album Releases:

2 Fillmore East – June 1971 The Mothers of Invention Live
14 Al Green Gets Next to You – Al Green
– The Inner Mounting Flame – Mahavishnu Orchestra
– Who’s Next – The Who
27 One Dozen Roses – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
30 Surf’s Up – The Beach Boys
31 The Sun, Moon & Herbs – Dr. John
– Barbra Joan Streisand – Barbra Streisand
Freedom Flight – Shuggie Otis
Himself – Gilbert O’Sullivan
I Wonder What She’ll Think About Me Leaving – Conway Twitty
If 3 – If
In Hearing of Atomic Rooster – Atomic Rooster
The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions – Howlin’ Wolf
My Baby Packed Up My Mind and Left Me – Dallas Frazier
New Riders of the Purple Sage – New Riders of the Purple Sage
Nigel Olsson’s Drum Orchestra and Chorus – Nigel Olsson
Ronnie Milsap – Ronnie Milsap
A Space in Time – Ten Years After
Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin’ – Butterfield Blues Band
Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk
White Light – Gene Clark aka Gene Clark
You’ve Got a Friend – Johnny Mathis
Tago Mago – Can

 

August 1971 Movie Releases:

Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & EnglishmenAugust 27

 

Schoolgirl Report Part 2: What Keeps Parents Awake at NightAugust 27

 

Siv, Anne & SvenAugust 26

 

Requiem for a VampireAugust 26

 

The DecameronAugust 25

 

A GunfightAugust 25

 

The Touch of SatanAugust 23

 

The GroupiesAugust 20

 

The Tiger GangAugust 20

 

ChristaAugust 20

 

The Marriage of a Young StockbrokerAugust 19

 

The Return of Count YorgaAugust 18

 

Soul to SoulAugust 18

 

Fools’ ParadeAugust 18

 

Cry Uncle!August 17

 

Romance of a HorsethiefAugust 17

 

The HorsemenAugust 16

 

Brother JohnAugust 15

 

The Love MachineAugust 14

The Hired HandAugust 11

 

 

Werewolves on WheelsAugust 11

 

The SuperwitnessAugust 11

 

Hot Pants HolidayAugust 11

 

About Me: A MusicalAugust 10

 

The Strange Vice of Mrs WardhAugust 6

 

The Brotherhood of SatanAugust 6

 

Let’s Scare Jessica to DeathAugust 6

 

The Vampire DollAugust 6

 

Pink Tuba-DoreAugust 4

 

Johnny Got His GunAugust 4

 

Night of Dark ShadowsAugust 4

 

Space AmoebaAugust 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cattle BattleAugust 4

 

 

 

Billy JackAugust 2

 

DocAugust 1

 

Curse of the Full MoonAugust 1

 

The Jesus TripAugust 1

 

Three Bullets… for a Long GunAugust 1

 

Clay PigeonAugust 1

 

Brain of BloodAugust 1

 

The Omega ManAugust 1

LET’S PARTY!

 

“The Psychedelic Train Throws an All Night Party for a Hundred Friends”
copyright 2018 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jade Warrior – Rare Album Track Gems

Rare Album Track Gems by Jade Warrior

00 did some mental mining and came up with a couple favorite gems by a fairly unknown band, Jade Warrior.

Jade Warrior were initially a U.K. duo – Tony Duhig, guitar and Jon Field, flute, percussion, and keyboards who recorded some very Esoteric Rock, especially in the mid-’70s.

“Floating World” (Island Records, 1974), “Waves” (Island Records, 1975), “Kites” (Island Records, 1976) were total instrumentals that formed a unique aspect of Prog and future Ambient done with Asian flair, Hard Rock guitar, flutes, and acoustic instruments that created a sound that was appreciated more with each listen.

But before those three albums there was their second album, “Released” (Vertigo 1971) and third album “Last Autumn’s Dream” (Vertigo, 1972) that had vocals, and from those two albums 00 has selected one track each that deserve a listen.

Now, before listening, there is a warning, these tracks are addicting and have very special interludes and lyrics that paint pictures and feelings in the mind. They seem to actually come from a distant not-traveled part of the Musical Universe. And there’s just something about the guitar, very distinct, well-placed, very haunting, and very cool vocals that make up a sound that soothes the soul.

Here ’tis:

“Bride of Summer”
In the garden, with violets gathered in your hair
Bride of Summer, what enchantment do you wear?
Kiss the water, river daughter, lock your smile away
Hidden treasure, future pleasure for a rainy day
You say

Outside my window, I hear your whisper in the evening breeze
You weave your story, a web of gold between the sleeping trees
Tired flowers, dying hours, veil across the sky
Distant thunder, sliding under, echoes of your sigh
Glide by 

and to chill the summer’s heat  . .

“A Winter’s Tale”

Ivy tapping on my window, wine and candle glow,
Skies that promise snow have gathered overhead.
Buttered toast and creamy coffee, table laid for two,
Lovely having you to share a smile with me.

And it’s all right, sitting in firelight
Making the room bright, keeping us warm.
Yes it’s so good, smelling that pine-wood
Burning like wood should, glowing like corn.

On the wall the clock is chiming, hours passing by,
And for you and I the wind sings winter songs.
In the village people gather at the Lamplight Inn
Drinking liquid sin to keep the cold away.

And it’s all right, sitting in firelight
Making the room bright, keeping us warm.
Yes it’s so good, smelling that pine-wood
Burning like wood should, glowing like corn.

Haunting, ethereal, moody, and so good – been listening to these for decades – never get enough of this good stuff.

Enjoy these gems!