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Record and Tape Stores, whether independent or chain, were Holy Power Places within our world. No matter where you were; in any state, city or town, you knew that there was a church where you would be welcomed and that once through the hallowed doorway you would enter a sonic and visual environment that would excite your senses and feel like home.

Prior to the late ’60s’ record store explosion, our only source for albums and tapes were within major department stores like the Broadway, May Co. and J.C. Penney’s in their “music departments’. These sequestered often cornered-off departments consisted of professionally-displayed bins with decent selections of catalog albums, singles and tape releases and top sellers but never anything outside mainstream.
Through Divine Intervention, 00individual would service those same department stores several years later as a Rack Jobber for an L.A. record and tape distributor.

The next best thing were the dedicated local Independent Music Stores that usually had a much wider selection of albums and tapes and sold guitars, drum kits, horns and other musical instruments as well as popular sheet music.
The biggest and most famous in L.A. was Wallach’s Music City in Hollywood which had semi-soundproof listening booths where you could play just about anything.
We of course, abused the privilege by playing and singing along to Zappa and the Mothers’ Freak Out over and over until they had to kick us out – but we had a ball and memorized the entire two LP set.

As the ’60s record industry and sales soared, new chains emerged like Tower, Wherehouse, Licorice Pizza, Music Odyssey – but then something happened; just like the Hippie Shops that were sprouting up across the U.S., so did Independent Record Stores.

These independents were smaller but important, and in fact more culturally-influential.
Perfect examples like Moby Disc out in the Valley, Aron’s up in Hollywood, DiscConnection (formerly Grammy ‘n’ Granny’s) in Westwood Village and Crane’s in downtown Inglewood near the Fabulous Forum all featured buy and sell album and tape trade-ins that the chains did not deal in.
Most independents carried posters and record care products, some carried pipes, papers and smoking paraphernalia in select supply in cases or behind the counter.
This grass roots buy/sell/trade coupled with imports and hard to get collectors albums as well as all of the new releases of the albums, singles and tapes gave the independents an edge and created a sub-cult of music consumerism.

We were aware that any business is there to make money, but regardless of intent, the Counter Culture’s natural sense of presenting creative transitional mores created the Tribal support and symbiotic celebration for our Rock ‘n’ Roll Churches.

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Churches’ Black Light Beacon of Brotherly Love”

Record Stores served as sacred places where kindred spirits would and could browse, intermingle, talk, appreciate amazing usually hand-painted 12″ by 12″ album cover art, discuss, discover and otherwise communicate in person – and all the while the Manager / Reverend’s music selections were like Rock Choir music and the familiar smell of incense anointed the Church.
The Phonolog was our Bible, and our churches’ welcome beacon was the Black Light that signaled Brotherly Love, Drugs and Music that literally lifted your spirit and put a smile on your face just being within its magical purple glow.
There was a reverent unspoken law of respectful silence while music played in church and we succumbed to the Sacred Vibe while in these Power Places.

Early on 00individual became a devotee of this good ol’ time Rock ‘n’ Roll Religion and through dedication eventually rose in the ranks – from a member of the congregation, to an Assistant Managerial Preacher in Inglewood, to a Managerial Preacher-in-Resident of a church in Palos Verdes. This Church and the one in Westwood were both Power Places within the Church network.
After gratefully serving as a Distributor of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Word throughout Greater Los Angeles, 00individual eventually became the Right Reverend at the “Church to the Stars” in Westwood Village, below UCLA, in the early-to-mid ’70s.

Imagine being in the presence of row after row and bin after bin of decades of so much talent, creativity and dedicated effort. The mere thought of it is magical, and was proven as such one night after closing Crane’s Church in Palos Verdes – and within that rarefied atmosphere, we levitated.

“Psychedelic Rendition of 1051 Gayley Ave, Westwood Village, CA – circa 1974″
copyright 2014 00individual TLL
Above image contains 21 album cover references, three notable people and a couple Escher-esque natural and architectural optical illusions. Click image to enlarge. Checklist at footer.

There was a style to the art of browsing through the record bins, as back in the day you had to stand your ground thumbing through with heightened glance-vision as the guy down a few bins from you was working his way toward you. A mind game of who will scan the most bins before doing the cross-over switch, a cosmically-agreed upon record store move – kinda like synchronized swimming only with albums instead of water.

A true Rocker was always in search of that elusive album that may turn up as a used, promo, cut-out or trade-in and while browsing there was always the possibility of some irresistibly cool unknown music in the air that became a favorite hymn; another of the benefits of going to church.

As the latest Rock album or esoteric Reverend’s choice spun through the atmosphere the fact of being there, in that space in time, was invigorating, it was like what one would expect from a High Holy Place. As while everything outside in the real world was mercurial, inside the church time stood still, all was well and good, you were among Tribe members, friendly spirits and the uplifting power of our Church: Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Our churches were also bearers of the gifts of the Gods: Rock, Pop, Folk, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Soundtracks, Country and Comedy.
While searching for an album was fun, finding it was exciting and could cause the Spirit of Rock to rise within you. And upon trading records or cash for your gifts from the Gods, the excitement continued until needle eventually touched vinyl – and then the real Religious Experience began.

So, Brothers and Sisters, in the Spirit of that Good Ol’ Time Rock ‘n’ Roll Religion
let’s all sing this rousing Gospel Blues Rocker together,
and feel the Power of the God of Rock ‘n’ Roll within us that will prevail!

Hallelujah!

“The GOD of ROCK ‘n’ ROLL!”

Nothing is easy; if you think it’s so you’d better check again.
Goals can be mined with obstacles named “friend”.
Avoid shiny objects; they’re distractions well-planned,
to keep your mind off the evil at hand.

You do the right thing and try hard to maintain.
Juggle responsibilities in a world gone insane.
Sometimes it makes you just want to give-in,
but you won’t, ‘cause you know, you can’t let ’em win.

Daily injustices make your blood boil;
but what’s a guy to do after a hard days’ toil?
You can’t take on everyone, so reserve the power,
choose your battles wisely; more Damage Per Hour.

In my home, I’m the God of Rock ‘n’ Roll,
out in the world I’m viewed as a troll,
it isn’t age that’s exacted its toll,
but the ravaged heart of a tortured soul.

Try to succeed in your profession of choice;
only to join others with no face, no voice.
The pay’s chump-change, how’re you going to get ahead?
Sound depressing? ‘Nuff said.

If you succeed; the pay and career are fine!
You only have to sell your soul and your mind.
After a few days off you begin to remember who you really were,
before success turned you into that strange person in the mirror.

Love is tough, don’t believe otherwise.
The toughest man alive is just “one of the guys”.
You’ve been to hell and back due to that chemical you’re so fond of,
that beautiful killer, personal revealer, insane heartbreaker; Love.

In my home, I’m the God of Rock ‘n’ Roll,
out in the world I’m viewed as a troll,
it isn’t age that’s exacted its toll,
but the ravaged heart of a tortured soul.

But know this,

No matter what the lows, life’s highs will abound,
savor those moments, stake claim to that ground,
those memories are proof that you lived and had some fun,
this is all we can take with us when we’re finally done.

Amen.

The Band – Chest Fever

Checklist for the albums and guests in the mid-post image:

the WHO Tommy, CREAM Disraeli Gears, BOWIE Ziggy, the STONES Sticky Fingers, the DOORS, HENDRIX Electric Ladyland, TOM WAITS Heart of Saturday Night, TROWER TRFY, BECK Truth, CSNY Deja Vu, TULL Aqualung, DEEP PURPLE Machine Head, the BEATLES Abbey Road, TRAFFIC Low Spark, LED ZEPPELIN IV, LOVE Forever Changes, DAVE MASON Alone Together, DR. JOHN – Gris gris, ALLMAN BROS Fillmore, QUATERMASS Quatermass, PINK FLOYD DSOTM and 00individual at the door with the Invisible Man taking in the view.

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EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

ALL TIME TOP 23 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970’S ROCK ALBUMS

The List
00individual was extremely fortunate to have experienced all of these albums when they were first released and first heard on the radio, turntable or tape-deck.
They all share a universal fact in that every track on every album is classic and therefore provide stimulating repeat listenings.
While many of these are cultural time-stamps on the specific times in 1970’s Pop Culture History, they also represent the Counter-Culture state of mind reflecting and encouraging the mass upheaval of society’s unquestioned traditions and values.
This resulted in a revolution that eventually touched on nearly every aspect of life.

The 1970s
In the early ’70s – most of the Tribes of the Nation were still riding high on the thrill ride of the ’60s. The United States second military Lottery of Death / Draft focused on 00individual and tens of thousands of other 19 year old teenagers. These were grim issues that made one reflectively appreciative of life. And even though more than half of U.S. Citizens were against the Viet Nam War, escalation continued.
The mid-70’s – 00individual beat the draft and was a seasoned Rocker – Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll got seriously fun, as life got serious.
The late 70s – saw a time of dissolution of the Counter Culture at large, as much of our Tribe, and Brothers and Sisters around the Nation began to splinter and create their own familial Tribes, or seriously sought their own dreams and applied the past decade’s knowledge and experiences to better their lives and those around them.

The Sincere Thanks
00individual has never stopped thanking all the Gods responsible for granting his soul the perfect specific time-frame to experience life on the earth plane, then, and now.

ALL TIME TOP 23 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970’S ROCK ALBUMS

Here ’tis:

It took only two months to make Deja Vu and anticipation of the album due to their debut smash CS&N album created advance sales of two million – a clear indication of CSN&Y’s creativity and popularity!

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
DEJA VU – March 11, 1970

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00individual had just turned 19 when he saw Hendrix perform songs from this album live to a sold out gathering of Hendrix Freax on the first date of his last U.S. tour at the Fabulous Forum on April 26, 1970, a month after this album’s release.
The Vibe was high – if you take the feelings of adulation, praise, love and excitement of and for Jimi, the epitome of “Rock”, and multiply by 17,000; you can imagine the electricity in the air that night. You could feel the awesome power Jimi possessed, the power he held in his hands as he captivated the population with sounds only he, the Guitar God of all Guitar Gods, could manifest.
This album contains that.

JIMI HENDRIX
BAND OF GYPSYS – March 25, 1970

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Cricklewood Green came along at the right time in Rock History to energize Rock and present an iconic example of Rock at its finest.
This was Alvin Lee’s masterpiece; in which he wrote every song and produced the entire album,

TEN YEARS AFTER
CRICKLEWOOD GREEN – April 17, 1970

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A Rolling Stone readers’ poll in 2012 ranked “Live at Leeds” as the best live album of all time. That’s something that any Rocker instinctively knows. It is so far out in front of any other that the WHO own that title for all time.

the WHO
LIVE AT LEEDS – May 16, 1970

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QUATERMASS were easily and truthfully one of the underlying seminal forces of Metal / Prog / Blues / Rock and are by far the Best Unknown Band EVER (along with Rumplestiltskin) that somehow slipped through the entire Rock History Canon. And they are also easily one of 00individual’s favorite bands and albums – seriously this album still delivers chills!

QUATERMASS
QUATERMASS – May 1970

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00individual was a huge fan of Deep Purple from their Tetragrammaton label days of “Shades of Deep Purple” and “Book of Taliesyn”.
“In Rock” was a surprising welcomed force that matched our drug-fueled lives and quickly became the Hard Rock Heavy Metal template for ever more.
In Rock – Indeed.

DEEP PURPLE
IN ROCK – June 3, 1970

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Abraxas was one of the first albums that 00individual remembers being aware of some major sophistication in the whole sound and presentation; it was a defining moment of excellence that set the bar for all album releases that followed.
Superb on all levels.

SANTANA
ABRAXAS – September 1970

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Rumplestiltskin got it right – from the start. They showed us how and why the the first half of the decade was going to be historically-regarded as the Pinnacle of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Unfortunately, Rumplestiltskin is the classic example of a band that very few even knew existed.
Every cut is really, really great – big chunks of guitar with monster hooks, earthquake basslines that shake the ground and slabs of hot, hot Hammond organ with a commanding soulful voice soaring through it all unscathed. Really solid unique meaty tracks!

RUMPLESTILTSKIN
RUMPLESTILTSKIN – 1970

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A month after ZZ Top’s First Album’s release 00individual turned 20 and was now a Marijuana Connoisseur. So with a band named ZZ Top, it immediately had us Hippies grinning by their combined use of the two most high-profile brands of rolling papers of the day; Zig Zag (ZZ) and Top (a spinning top).
With fifteen hit albums to date, ZZ Top knew where their career was headed when they named this their “first” album!
No matter how many albums they ultimately release, 00individual always comes back to the First.
Here’s where it all started:

ZZ TOP
ZZ TOP’S FIRST ALBUM – January 16, 1971

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Imagine hearing this album for the first time in 1971; we were still reeling from the Stones previous masterpiece “Let It Bleed” and our lives were in flux between serious issues of independence and exciting episodes of full-blown Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll highs.
The Stones’ “Sticky Fingers” fell right in place to inspire and Rock our lives.

the ROLLING STONES
STICKY FINGERS – April 23, 1971

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The Allman Brothers created the Southern Rock category and showed everyone their superior compositions and mastery of musicianship and laid down some of the most sophisticated jazz-tinged, yet stone rockin’ blues this side of Santana’s Abraxas.
The second best live album ever:

the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND LIVE
FILLMORE EAST – July 1971

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Who’s Next is one of those albums that immediately clicked with our DNA.
The Who’s follow-up to “Tommy” was a perfect progression of “The Who Sound”.
This was cutting edge stuff at the time, and apparently still is with record world-wide exposure and love for the CSI television series themes.
This album’s epic tracks reinforced the rebel yell of “My Generation” with “Won’t get Fooled Again”.

the WHO
WHO’S NEXT – August 1971

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It was the night before Hallowe’en, 1971 when an inter-dimensional cross-rip of truly transcendent Rock was released to the world – Pink Floyd’s “Meddle”
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason
THANK YOU!
You all have enhanced 00individual’s life experience tremendously!

PINK FLOYD
MEDDLE – October 30, 1971

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The transition from a 18 year old teenager to a 20 year old, er, uhm, teenager was marked by LZ I, II, III and then Legendary IV.
A truly Historic and Classic Rock album – IV delivered III’s acoustic etheric balance to I and II’s Psychedelic Hard Rock Blues.
An undeniable Rock Masterpiece.

LED ZEPPELIN
LED ZEPPELIN IV – November 8, 1971

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A “Starman” from Mars made himself known to a generation of Rockers yearning for a new sound who were on the verge of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide“.
His message of “Soul Love” was an inspiration and though “It Ain’t Easy” to do in this “Suffragette City” he told us to “Hang Onto Yourself” for just “Five Years” and we too would be a “Star“.
His name was “Ziggy Stardust” and along with “Lady Stardust” he led us into a “Moonage Daydream” of Rock ‘n’ Roll bliss!

DAVID BOWIE
The RISE and FALL of ZIGGY STARDUST
and the SPIDERS FROM MARS – June 6, 1972

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Two weeks after 00individual’s 22nd birthday Pink Floyd delivered a present:
Dark Side Of The Moon.
Since 00individual literally “grew up” with Pink Floyd, and being his all time favorite band it came as no surprise that they would create a masterpiece that, during the vinyl era, became successful and popular beyond belief – it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained in the charts for an astounding 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988.
For his sincere Pink Floyd dedication, 00individual was rewarded to a live performance of DSOTM 6 months prior to its release live at the Hollywood Bowl 9/22/72.

PINK FLOYD
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON – March 1, 1973

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Golden Earring injected a huge much-needed shot of solid Rock ‘n’ Roll into our lives!
Side one of this LP rates extremely high as each of these three extended tracks are truly exceptional; I mean Air Fist Pumpin’, Dashboard Drummin’, Head-Nodic, Body Rockin’, Howl-at-the-Moon(tan) songs!

GOLDEN EARRING
MOONTAN – July 1973

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Back in ’73 00individual was living in Inglewood and was at the tail-end of his Record and Tape Rack Jobber jobby-job where he’d get promo copies of just about any album desired.
00individual remembers the day of getting a copy of “Twice Removed From Yesterday”, holding the album’s gorgeous front and back cover concept art in his hands and once settled in at home listening to TRFY for the first time, found out that the the spacey austere blue mood of the covers soaked through the cardboard and inner sleeve and right into the vinyl!
This was Otherworldly Space Rock Blues – this was Trower!

ROBIN TROWER
TWICE REMOVED FROM YESTERDAY – 1973

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“Remember the Future” (part 1&2) album/song was, and still is, way, way, way up there on 00individual’s favorites list.
Nektar went through all phases of psychedelic rock from space truckin’ to heartbreakingly melodic passages. Exceptional.

NEKTAR
REMEMBER THE FUTURE – November 1973

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Trower Power Rules!
And although he idolized and emulated Hendrix he had his own very distinct otherworldly blues style and sound.
Bridge of Sighs is an example of a True Solid Rock Album.

ROBIN TROWER
BRIDGE OF SIGHS – April 1974

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By far the most creative and prolific Guitar God to come from out of the real first supergroup, The Yardbirds, was/is Jeff Beck.
Beck’s always been an innovator and like Van Morrison, doesn’t mind sharing the stage with potential up-and-comers.
This album puts Beck squarely in the Hard Rock Jazz Fusion genre with guitar wizardry worthy of John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana.

JEFF BECK
BLOW BY BLOW – March 1975

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Pink Floyd contributes 3 of the Top 23 and justifiably so. Regardless of 00individual’s bias if not for Meddle 1970, DSOTM 1973 and WYWH 1975 the ’70s would not have had a supreme level of mastery and perfection to guide them.
With classic extended instrumentals and what would be the last true joint effort by the band; WYWH (one of Gilmour’s favorites) stands as a Hallmark Album for Pink Floyd and their fans world-wide.

PINK FLOYD
WISH YOU WERE HERE – September 12, 1975

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Coming in just under the wire and ending the decade with a dynamic hard-rockin’ soulful and totally classic debut album release;
the Pretenders redeemed a decade that had nearly lost its Rock ‘n’ Roll spirit to the influx of the Singer/Songwriter Love Songs of the ’70s and that other ’70s monster, Disco.
Long Live Chrissie Hynde! Long Live Rock!

the PRETENDERS
December 27, 1979

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Top 79 Historic & Classic 1970s Rock Albums

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ALL TIME TOP 23 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1960’S ROCK ALBUMS

The List
00individual was extremely fortunate to have experienced all of these albums when they were first released and first heard on the radio, turntable or tape-deck.
They all share a universal fact in that every track on every album is classic and therefore provide stimulating repeat listenings.
While many of these are cultural time-stamps on the specific times in 1960’s Pop Culture History, they also represent the Counter-Culture state of mind reflecting and encouraging the mass upheaval of society’s unquestioned traditions and values.
This resulted in a revolution that eventually touched on nearly every aspect of life.

The 1960s
In the early ’60s – as a pre-teen life was a unique environment of truly carefree innocence.
The mid-60’s – Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll, countered the War, Injustice and Assassinations and saw the height of Pop Culture.
The late 60s – were a very magical, mind-expanding, consciousness raising, and sobering time.
But many of the Counter Culture could see the psychedelic spray-painted writing on the wall, intended as both a limited-time warning and a celebratory declaration, it read: Enjoy.
00individual followed that prophetic mind-set and was able to extend a psychedelic lifestyle up to the mid to late ’70s – at which time much of our Tribe, and Brothers and Sisters around the Nation began to splinter and create their own familial Tribes, or seriously sought their own dreams.

The History
History has already proven the 1960s to be the best economic decade ever and the height of Pop Culture as an influence on society and the phenomenal rise of Rock ‘n’ Roll as a voice and an emotional outlet – and if it were not for those nasty assassinations and that unnecessary war – the 1960s would be untouchable as the Best Decade Ever in History!

The Sincere Thanks
00individual has never stopped thanking all the Gods responsible for granting his soul the perfect specific time-frame to experience life on the earth plane, then, and now.

Groovy!

Let’s start off chronologically with 00individual’s first album purchase at age 11
– the King of the Surf Guitar and Electric Guitar God:

DICK DALE and his DELTONES
SURFERS’ CHOICE – 1962

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A Preternatural Transcendent Killer Album packed with seminal Space Rock Instrumental Gems:

the VENTURES
THE VENTURES IN SPACE – 1964

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This is one of the most Bad-Ass Albums ever!
00individual connected to this music on a primal level, back then and now – it seems like home. This is raw and honest and it all becomes very mystical and sometimes spiritual when music has the power to touch your soul – and become part of it.

THEM
THEM (Here Comes the Night) – July 1965

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Predecessors for nearly all Psychedelic Heavy Metal Hard Rock Blues bands to follow – The Yardbirds were on a far more advanced approach to Rock than anyone on the scene at that time.

the YARDBIRDS
HAVING A RAVE UP – November 20, 1965

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This as a classic Rock Album; the spirit of Rock goes far deeper than volume and virtuosity.
And as a Historic Album, there is no question as Sunshine Superman is recognized as the
First Psychedelic Song . . . and then there’s “Season of the Witch”.

DONOVAN
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN – September 1966

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To hear the Doors debut album for the first time is an exhilarating experience for anyone – to hear the Doors’ debut album for the first time at age 16 in 1967 was a life-changing experience.

the DOORS
the DOORS – January 4, 1967

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The first time 00individual heard the Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced” album was on an 8-track tape in my buddy’s ’52 Chevy. He was into R ‘n’ B and bought the new release tape thinking that the Experience was a new English soul group. We were going to cruise around but once the tape started we sat mesmerized – experienced.

the JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED – May 12, 1967

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This was the true essence of 1967 – this wasn’t about carnival characters – this was about us, this spoke to us.
A perfect non-concept concept album – a brilliant timeless piece of Rock Art.

LOVE
FOREVER CHANGES – November 1967

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. . . a special magic of innocence, wonder and psychedelic imagery with a sound that really fit and amplified the feelings we were experiencing – that everyday thrill and anticipation of a time when just being alive was enough to insure yet another day of exciting potential because
Heaven is in your Mind

TRAFFIC
HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND/MR. FANTASY
December 1967

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So here we have a man who was able to absorb the positive introspective Brotherly Love vibe and had the knowledge of what the Psychedelic Experience offered and through a unique combination of Words and Music preserved feelings of the ’60s for historic posterity.
Another excellent non-concept concept album.

JOHNNY RIVERS
REALIZATION – January 1968

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This album got heap strong power.
And to prove the primal potency of this album, upon 00individual’s virgin whiff of this bewitching funky goo he became addicted for life!
“Dey cawl mey . . .”

DR. JOHN, THE NIGHT TRIPPER
GRIS-GRIS – January 22, 1968

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After “Fresh Cream” and “Disraeli Gears” Cream decimated and dominated with this impressive Psychedelic Harder Rock Blues classic double album. This was CREAM. This was some serious shit.

CREAM
WHEELS OF FIRE – AUGUST 1968

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“Carnival of Life”, kicks ass and was released when 00individual was 17 in 1968 and experiencing the wondrous effects of marijuana and first trip on Mescaline and the album became an imprint of the beginning of a life-long journey of consciousness-raising, mind-expansion, awareness and Rock ‘n’ Roll.

LEE MICHAELS
CARNIVAL OF LIFE – 1968

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One of 00individual’s personal Top 23 All-Time Favorite Rock Albums;
truly Historic and Classic – to the core.
Back when future superstars; Beck, Wood, Stewart and Hopkins, were young and hungry and cutting loose – Moon’s in there too.

JEFF BECK
TRUTH – August 1968

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Arthur Brown’s Crazy World collided with our’s and brought forth Psychedelic Shock Rock filled with insane lyrics and high drama by a crazy wildman with his hair-on-fire.
But don’t be fooled, every track on this album is a gem. These addictive songs are driven with unique hooks and riffs by a band that created one of the most memorable imprints of the Psychedelic era. 00individual loves this album!

The CRAZY WORLD of ARTHUR BROWN
September 1968

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. . . and there we were, witnessing the birth of Electric Ladyland. In late ’68 we were chosen to connect to a higher level of Sophisticated Psychedelic Sounds. Shit got primal with deep emotion as Hendrix carved arcane future history with his supernatural ax.

JIMI HENDRIX
ELECTRIC LADYLAND – October 25, 1968

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If we can really look and listen to the essence of how and what music – Rock ‘n’ Roll – moves us, touches our soul, transcends genres, and is truly iconic, historic and pleasurable to our senses,
then “Astral Weeks” is that.

VAN MORRISON
ASTRAL WEEKS – November 1968

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00individual was almost 18 years old when this Rock ‘n’ Roll Monster was released and set a new standard for all those bands who followed.
Like the emergence of Hendrix firing off soundwaves of what was possible; this album created a huge impact – Led Zeppelin just blew the roof off of what we knew about Rock – and the Blues.

LED ZEPPELIN
LED ZEPPELIN – January 12, 196 9

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This was a perfect “summer of ’69” album that seemed ubiquitous.
The Who Rocked through a double album with many high-watermark highlights. The tracks emanated a positive sound and an empowered theme that touched on empathetic feelings – as if we were all a little bit “Tommy” at that time in our lives.

the WHO
TOMMY – May 23, 1969

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“Then Play On”, was of so full of excellent songs that it had two U.S. versions released; the original September release and the later November release swapping-out Danny Kirwan’s “When You Say” and “My Dream” to make way for Green’s Rock Epic “Oh Well” single parts 1 & 2.
A Stone Solid Classic masterful display of the Best Kick-Ass Cool English Blues Rock . . . and Beyond.

FLEETWOOD MAC
THEN PLAY ON – September 9, 1969

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The Beatles give us their best and final album filled with Rockers and infectious goodies. This album has always had a mystical quality that 00individual cannot separate from the music. It’s all good, pleasurable even, like a time machine for the mind and senses, still, mysterious, cool, hip . . . like the ’69 times and our state of minds.

the BEATLES
ABBEY ROAD – September 26, 1969

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Led Zeppelin began 1969 with their debut album and then ended ’69 with Led Zeppelin II – they owned 1969!
And that was a massive accomplishment as 1969 was the Second Best Year for Rock Album Releases (and in retrospect possibly #1)

LED ZEPPELIN
LED ZEPPELIN II – October 22, 1969

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It’s nice to realize (fantasize?) that as long as there are Rockers with Spirit, long after the population of the ’60’s and ’70’s Counter Culture is gone, this album will prevail.
Let It Bleed, in its entirety and/or with its individual iconic tracks, empowered the strengths needed of the last-years-as-a-teenager transition into a new level of life full of limitless possibilities.
A highly emblematic album of that very heightened time in history.

The ROLLING STONES
LET IT BLEED – December 5, 1969

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1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . LOVE . . FOREVER CHANGES . . November 1967 Possibly the Best Album Ever!

Posted by 00individual on February 8, 2015

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EXPERIENCE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK HISTORY!

For Valentine’s Day 2015, 00individual gives you the gift of
LOVE
FOREVER CHANGES
November 1967

YOWZA!
Well, here it is kidz! The Real Deal. Possibly the Best Album Ever.

LOVE’s eponymous debut album release and their second Da Capo were perfect creative stepping stones to the masterpiece that is Forever Changes.

LOVE was Arthur Lee’s band and as multi instrumentalist leader he evoked the best of mid-sixties: the unique creativity of Lennon and McCartney – only darker, attitude and hipness that Jagger emulated, really, look it up, remember this was ’67, creativity was exploding and everyone influenced everyone else.
Then there were Lee’s “Johnny Mathis Rock” vocals and Herb Alpert-esque trumpet cool that all crisscrossed perfectly within Pop, Folk, Ballad, Rock genres.
With orchestral strings, Morricone brass, flamenco-esque guitar and arrangements to die for, all delivered with LOVE’s underlying original 7&7 is punk attitude and mixed evenly with Lee’s meaningful poetic, psychedelic lyrics, that rivaled Dylan’s best, really, all together created the epic Forever Changes.

Forever Changes is/was a totally original West Coast, yet universal, non-concept concept album – a brilliant piece of Rock Art.

Love billboard on Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, 1967. Chateau Marmont in the background.

However, the album was not initially received with the adulation and praise that would come with the growing numbers who would eventually connect with this Stone Classic Album.
(See Rock History accolades below.)

LOVE were never as big as The Beatles, but back in the Summer of Love 1967, with Sgt. Pepper’s dominating the atmosphere, a little band in L.A. touched a far deeper groove of Soul-Searching, Psychedelic Rock Grandeur – this was the true essence of 1967 – this wasn’t about carnival characters, this was about us, this spoke to us.

And what’s more it was honest. These didn’t seem like songs, they somehow achieved a higher level and became an exchange of sonic altruistic feelings. A gift for those who Lee knew would appreciate his efforts.
In the classic way that legends are created; Forever Changes surpassed its unique modest intent to become a Major Rock Icon – now, that’s honesty.

There are very few bands, let alone single songs, that reach that level of intimacy – and here we have a solid album – every single track is honest, beautiful, truly unique and Rocks harder on a deeper level of psychedelic reality.

Here’s the Acid Test: one listen to this album and it could be heard as the next best Album of the Year, of any year, in the past or the future.
Although a time stamp of a specific era, it delivers a timeless yet unique sound.

It is a truly archival piece of Rock Music History Sound and Lyric – the Best of the Best.

LOVE – FOREVER CHANGES – 1967

All songs written by Arthur Lee, except for Bryan MacLean where noted.
Side one
“Alone Again Or” (Bryan MacLean) – 3:16
“A House Is Not a Motel” – 3:31
“Andmoreagain” – 3:18
“The Daily Planet” – 3:30
“Old Man” (MacLean) – 3:02
“The Red Telephone” – 4:46
Side two
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale” – 3:34
“Live and Let Live” – 5:26
“The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This” – 3:08
“Bummer in the Summer” – 2:24
“You Set the Scene” – 6:56

Arthur Lee: lead vocals, guitar, Johnny Echols: lead guitar, Ken Forssi: bass guitar,
Bryan MacLean: rhythm guitar, background vocals, Michael Stuart: drums percussion

00individual was fortunate to be one of the select of L.A. to experience

ARTHUR LEE with LOVE
at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood
2004!

A righteous nod to LOVE’s iconic and visually-striking psychedelic album cover art by Bob Pepper, design by William S. Harvey – and – to Jac Holzman at Elektra Records back in ’66 for signing LOVE and The Doors. Both bands played on the Strip back then and both created extremely unique Rock, both with a mysterious edge and both seminal in their creativity and both signed to Elektra.
This was the first time that 00individual really took to branding with the association of that capital E for Elektra that meant cool bands and albums.

LOVE FOREVER CHANGES ROCK HISTORY!

The 1979 edition of The Rolling Stone Record Guide gave the album a rating of five stars (out of five). It also received five stars in the 1983 edition of the guide and in the fourth edition that was published in 2004.

In a special issue of Mojo magazine, Forever Changes was ranked the second greatest psychedelic album of all time.
In the January 1996 issue, Mojo readers selected Forever Changes as #11 of the “100 Greatest Albums Ever Made.”

Forever Changes was praised by a group of Members of the British Parliament in 2002 as being one of the greatest albums of all time.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 40th in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in the December 11, 2003 issue.

In 2003, NME ranked the album #6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Forever Changes the 82nd greatest album of all time.

In a 2005 survey held by British television’s Channel 4, the album was ranked 83rd in the 100 greatest albums of all time.

The album was included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

As of 2015 the album is one of 00individual’s Top 23 Rock Albums of the Entire 1960 Decade.

and one of the

Top 13 Historic & Classic Psychedelic Albums 1967

BOO-BIP-BIP BOO-BIP-BIP
YEAH!

Yes, same here.
You Set The Scene, whew, what a powerhouse throughout on all levels – legendary!
Thanks once again to if6ws929 for the Turn-On!

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives
TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS!
MIND-BLOWER #22 . . . Winter 1970
HIPPIE ACID ROAD TRIP RACE
Los Angeles, California to Aspen, Colorado
and the race back!
featuring:
Driving Asleep, Snow Stranded with Crazy Colorado Chicks,
Deliverance Rednecks, LSD, and our VW Bug flies!

It is Winter 1970, 00individual and his good buddy Mike D were on a road trip in a classic late ’60s Volkswagon Bug from L.A. to Aspen, Colorado, and just like the far too many plot lines of future Rom-Com movies, they were going there to hang for a couple days and then escort their good friend back to L.A. for his wedding. The bride was a cute blonde Irish girl and former amicable-break-up short-term girlfriend of 00individual – what could go wrong?!

This chronicle post for the archives was written in first person by 00individual.

Driving Asleep
Somewhere about mid-way to Aspen I awoke to a sudden rumbling sensation to find myself behind the wheel, across the painted highway dividing line, through the opposing lane, off the road and sailing along flat, bumpy ground.
Instinctively, I put on the brakes to the floor without putting in the clutch and the Bug lurched and shuddered to a stop as Mike D sat frozen in fear from the sudden awakening.
If you live after falling asleep behind the wheel while driving you will never let it happen again and you will have a nice dose of adrenaline to keep you going, very alertly, for the next hundred miles or couple hours, or whichever comes first.
After at least eighteen hours on the drive straight through, and then after searching in the dark snowing landscape, we finally found our friend Rick’s cabin just before midnight.
We were glad to see each other and to finally rest, as we were exhausted and hadn’t slept, except from behind the wheel.

Snow Stranded
After smoking a bowl of Marijuana and giving Rick good-natured shit about his upcoming wedding, his phone rang and it was his landlord, he saw us arrive and told him that he would kick him out if those “Hippies” stayed the night. Great.
We had to leave, but where? We’d literally freeze in the VW. Rick made some calls and gave us a map to a nearby KOA trailer park where there were two girls who would put us up for the night.

Crazy Colorado Chicks
Remember kids, this was not uncommon at all, the vibe was one among us Hippies to help our fellow Brothers and Sisters when we could, as we would do the same for them. We were just very fortunate at his late hour and in a semi-isolated area that there were some of our Tribe who would receive us with open arms, literally.
Once inside their trailer we thanked the two girls very much for the intrusion and settled in to get some much needed sleep. But they seemed happy to have a couple guys there with them and wanted to talk.
Now under normal situations this would seem like a perfect movie moment hook-up, they were cute and spirited, but we were exhausted and sleepy. The girls wanted to talk and we were apparently a welcomed novelty.
After an interstate drive of which we stayed stoned for most all of the trip; Mike D and I would both look at each other and acknowledge the same feeling and thought: I’m exhausted - I just want to sleep! We were actually getting to that punchy state where even your own predicament is funny.
Finally, knowing that this would go on ’til dawn, I “eyebrowed” Mike D, he nodded in agreement. It was inevitable, we knew the only way to politely shut them up and get some sleep was if we got lovable and got it on with these two willing but Crazy Colorado Chicks and used up whatever energy we all had left to finally crash, peacefully.
This wasn’t misogynist or sexist; this was for our mental and physical health – and it worked!

Deliverance Red Necks (as in the Ars Gratia Artis-era hard core classic 1972 movie)
That next day we went on an explore (scroll down to “. . and the Ugly”).

The Race back to L.A. is on
After another day of Aspen knock-around snow fun (skiing was out, this was a quick escort trip), we all three planned to leave the following day and race from Aspen to L.A. – partly to insure Rick’s arrival for the wedding day priorities – and partly for the cosmic fun of it as Mike D and I agreed to drop some acid for the race.
Others of our Tribe had “raced” from L.A. to Aspen for best time one-way; Aspen was a popular place for skiers, actors, singers, artists, hippies, dopers, dealers and good people back in the day and someone always had a friend living there. It was the year that Hunter S. Thompson was running for Sheriff of Aspen and the surrounding Pitkin County.
So, it was Rick in his blue Toyota Land Cruiser verses us in the VW Bug. We didn’t leave ’til late but once on the road, the race was on!
We jockeyed through the night sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, but if behind always in view of the Toyota’s red tail lights.
Only one time we fell too far behind and ended up taking a wrong turn at Arizona and ended-up at the Grand Canyon – we just stopped, looked out at the moon-lit canyon, stared up at the stars, smoked a joint and got back on the road – and this was years before “National Lampoon’s Vacation” classic scene.

Car Breakdown, more Rednecks
Back on track, and after driving the equivalent time of side one of The Doors, the Toyota’s red lights soon came into view stopped off to the side of the road due to a dead battery, but it took a jump start to the next “town”. The gas station/garage was at the end of the town’s main strip and although it was still a couple hours til dawn the garage was open.
All three of us approached the three redneck mechanics on duty with our dilemma and with barely-disguised chuckles under their breath they said to come back when they “opened” at 6 AM – they could have sold us a battery on the spot – they were “open” – but we were long-haired Hippies and were easy targets for their ridicule and control.
The joke was ultimately on them, shortly after 6 AM with the new battery we installed, we were back on the road to Wonderland – a trip they’d never take.

LSD
The sun was rising and we decided to drop some acid. We were at least a couple days away from the comedown from the last trip; fuzzy but alert.
Mike D was a good psychedelic buddy, always good to go, and we still had a lot of ground to cover so we ceremoniously ingested our tabs of goodness and popped the perfect LSD Rock Album, The Who – Live at Leeds, in the cassette player and cranked it up.
On a particular area of vast nothingness somewhere in Arizona/Nevada, I saw something enormous moving way, way off in the distance to the right. By the size of the dirt-storm it was causing it had to be massive – it seemed to be a grinding mass of machinery coming right toward us! Whatever it was, Godzilla would be its very little pet.
Even though miles away, the early morning sun’s reflection shot gold and silver shards of light off the clockwork-machine-geared beast as it became closer and bigger still. When finally able to speak and point it out to Mike D, it had disappeared.
There is an acquired understanding regarding aspects of psychedelic trips of the possibility that not all hallucinations are mentally manifested and that some hallucinations are actually real. When the mind reaches specific psychedelic elevations, possible alternate existences’ frequencies align and can momentarily come into view and in a “real world” sense.
Although psychedelics can be frequency alignment enhancers; stoned or straight it’s where a person’s “head” is at that gets you closer to parting the veil, or observing / interacting with an entity who’s passing through. As long as the frequencies align the two (or more) realities exist together on the same mutual plane but once the frequency wavers even slightly then the connected realities are no more.
Having experienced both, I would state that the uniqueness of this “hallucination” was because of the actuality of two planes of existence intersecting for a five to ten second real world real time experience. Was it us who impinged on a like terrain of another plane? Or was this “thing” massively moving across its own homeworld and we were the invaders?
In life, a primary desired ability is to discern which is good and which is evil, and which is real and which is unreal.
And while you’re contemplating those realities just remember that “our reality” is based on agreement.

Locked-in the Slipstream to Oblivion: Our VW Bug flies!
None of that mattered now because for some reason Mike D wanted us to get in the slipstream of this huge diesel truck that was in front of us to take advantage of the lower air pressure behind the truck and thereby providing reduced air resistance on the VW; this translates into a requirement to do less work on the VW’ s part and therefore lower fuel costs and at the same time provides the sensation and reality of being held within a high-speed tailgate tractor beam along the highway.
He kept pushing his foot on my foot on the gas pedal all the way to the floorboard and as the VW became fully-enveloped behind the truck’s draft I felt something.
The front tires were leaving the road, I could feel it. We were maxed on the speedometer at 90 MPH and I was white-knuckled to the steering wheel keeping control as the little VW Bug wouldn’t hold much longer like a bigger heavier car would.
I knew that it would only be seconds before the back tires would lift off and we’d careen out and off the road into oblivion.
And for a split second I felt all four tires leave the ground and Mike D was still acid-laughing and pushing on the gas, I had to do something so I abruptly yelled, “Hey, don’t let the weed go out the window!” That diversion was enough for him to turn and let off the gas pedal and disengage from the slipstream as the truck roared on.
In all of the commotion we lost track of Rick and didn’t know if we were ahead or behind in the race.
Still it was a wonderful feeling coming in to L.A. still high on the waves of acid. The city dirt was grittier, the signs more colorful, the awareness of your humanity heightened, the tinges and twinges of the psychedelic magic still about, and stoned or not, we experienced that warm glow you get when you’re nearing home.

Epilogue
A week later, after the wedding and at the reception, someone actually fell on the middle of a very long table of food and drinks so that everything slid in V-formation to the center; the happily married couple divorced within a year; and as it turned out we officially won the interstate race!
World-Class Psychedelic Times!

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Posted by 00individual on January 24, 2015

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TYA’s immensely iconic psychedelic album cover by John Fowlie of Alvin Lee for Ssssh.

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

TEN YEARS AFTER – SSSSH. – August 1969

As a true “Teenager of the Sixties” at thirteen in ’64, up through nineteen in ’70, 00individual was the exact perfect age within historic Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll cultural times to experience a once in a lifetime perfect vibe/soul fit. And this vibe extended over into the early-to-mid ’70s.

And once things got up and runnin’ it was Ten Years After who were always there – from their first self-titled album with “I Can’t Keep from Crying, Sometimes“, Undead “Live“, Stonedhenge “Going to Try” and all the way up past Ssssh to Cricklewood Green “Love Like A Man” and beyond – Watt “The Band With No Name“, A Space in Time “One Of These Days“, TYA served as a core sound that was in the air throughout those psychedelic years.

Stonedhenge was one of 00individual’s defining LSD albums (TYA and 2001: A Space Odyssey – Dig this mini-MIND-BLOWER- scroll to middle of post) and with Ssssh, TYA delivered the sound our bodies and minds demanded – this was a true Energetic Hard Rock Psychedelic Blues Stoner Album.

Ssssh was another of the choice albums that was played on turntables, tape decks and FM radio and imprinted a specific period of drug-fueled shenanigans and kick-ass groovy times of free-spirited life. We were still in the Fun Zone.

Ten Years After – Ssssh.
Alvin Lee vocals, guitar, Chick Churchill keyboards, Leo Lyons bass, Ric Lee drums
All songs composed by Alvin Lee, except where noted.
Side one
“Bad Scene” – 3:30
“Two Time Mama” – 2:02
“Stoned Woman” – 3:30
“Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (Williamson) – 7:01
Side two
“If You Should Love Me” – 5:27
“I Don’t Know That You Don’t Know My Name” – 2:02
“The Stomp” – 4:35
“I Woke Up This Morning” (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lee) – 5:30
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Now on to the 1,000 pound acid trip that is the front cover art for Ssssh.
John Fowlie, who designed and photographed Watt and Cricklewood Green album covers, created an iconic graphic image with Ssssh that nailed moments in time that we were all familiar with.
Our mastery of psychedelics in the ’70s was based upon the trips that were taken prior, so Alvin Lee’s front cover image was timely in that it looked exactly how we saw ourselves on psychedelics – and how we saw others. Ssssh.

Coming in at #7 in the rarest of the rare
Top 13 Historic & Classic Rock Concerts 1968 – 1975
it’s the World-Class Battle of the Bands Concert!
TEN YEARS AFTER vs GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
Fabulous Forum – 07-22-70

Rock History Archives
A Testament to Ten Years After

“Grand Funk Railroad were set to play second bill to Led Zeppelin late Summer ’69 at Detroit’s Olympia Stadium but when the fans went full-blown crazed over GFR’s performance Led Zep’s manager Peter Grant told GFR’s manager Terry Knight to pull them off the stage – and in the middle of “Inside Looking Out” Grant literally pulled the plug, however GFR had time to warn the fans of Led Zep’s intentions.
Led Zep waited an hour and a half before coming on stage to let the fervor over GFR’s performance cool down, but by then half the stadium had left.”
— as told by both Don Brewer and Mark Farner (GFR).

The above says a Hell of a lot in the positive about Grand Funk Railroad,
even more in the negative about Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant,
and a true testament in the positive about Alvin Lee and Company who, a year later, fearlessly used another World-Class Performance by Grand Funk as a launching pad for their own Historic Performance at the Fabulous Forum on 07-22-70.

Like Grand Funk Railroad, Ten Years After had balls and confidence!
Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant had neither.

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Posted by 00individual on January 18, 2015

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This was not a Marijuana field, but the intent was there, our imagination did the rest.

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!
1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums

SAVOY BROWN – A STEP FURTHER – July 1969

This Album is Deep. These Gems are Heavy. Life was Cosmic.

Our Tribe were hip to the Savoy Brown Blues Band as one of the early English Blues bands but with their recent March ’69 album release Blue Matter – which was played to the indelible point – Savoy Brown became big in our Rock vocabulary. With Kim Simmonds one of the early Hard Rock Blues Master Guitar Gods, Chris Youldon’s lyrics and truly iconic Blues vocals, and future Foghat members; Roger Earl drums, Tone Stevens bass and Lonesome Dave Peverett guitar – Savoy Brown again delivered Very Heavy Cool Shit with their July ’69 release, A Step Further.

The whole side one was a Blues Rock Killer, excellent, world-class, and side two was full-on Savoy Brown Boogie “live” with a rousing medley – a really classic all-around great album that was nearly drowned in the wake of the sheer volume of highly creative, highly popular and prolific artists’ and bands’ album releases of 1969, 1970 and 1971.

By end of summer, fall and Winter ’69, the stone Rock Boogie Blues of Savoy Brown permeated the air to create a heartfelt unique blend: Introspective Rebellious Soulful Hard Rock Blues.

Savoy Brown
A STEP FURTHER

Side One
“Made Up My Mind” (Chris Youlden) – 2:56
“Waiting in the Bamboo Grove” (Youlden) – 3:37
“Life’s One Act Play” (Youlden) – 6:29
“I’m Tired” (Youlden) – 3:21
“Where Am I” (Youlden) – 1:51
Side Two
“Savoy Brown Boogie” (Live) – 22:02
“I Feel So Good” (Willis)
“Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On” (David Williams)
“Little Queenie” (Berry)
“Purple Haze” (Hendrix)
“Hernando’s Hideaway” (Alder, Ross)

Savoy Brown Live 1969

1960’s & 1970′s Album Track Gems
A Step Further resides in the upper echelon of Rock History Archives with the “one-two punch” of the serious soulful blues of “Life’s One Act Play” and then right into the empowerment of Rock that is “I’m Tired”.
These two-in-a-row Album Track Gems were sonic echoes within 00individual’s being at that exact period of time and could be relied upon as a sonic spirit-boost for ever after.

At eighteen, 00individual’s alignment to these lyrics may seem a bit premature/immature and dramatic; but these were heavy times building up to 1969 and we grew up quickly – and especially for those of us who took the truth of the LSD experience and applied it to our lives and the world we lived in. “Question Authority” was no longer a bumper sticker; it was a way of life.

And in their own way these two Album Track Gems were special acid trips – Life’s One Act Play sets up the “catch 22″ dilemma of the surreal daily life of “reality” as seen through enlightened eyes . . . I”m Tired, rebels and knowingly declares, “If I get myself together, You’ll have the blues, not me”, which in the end is the only real truth of, and for, our existence – getting our own shit together.
Heavy Shit? No, Savoy Brown.

Life’s One Act Play
My days are shaded gray, And my nights are shaded blue
My face is lined with worry, And my mind is split in two

Feel just like a man, Who’s last real hope is gone
Morality and religion, Didn’t teach me right from wrong

And I need a little something, Oh, just to mellow my days
‘Cause I’m getting tired of acting, In life’s one act play

The world is changing fast, Ain’t got time to think twice
Wanna keep on the ball, Then you got to pay the price

You can’t judge the future, By looking at the past
And there ain’t nobody out there, Who you can stop and ask

Oh, I need a little something, Just to mellow my days
‘Cause I’m getting tired of acting, In lifes one act play

Some people think, oh yes, they do, They found the way
But they’re a dime a dozen, You can see them everyday

Some people are happy, In their delusions
Oh, I wish sometimes, I could share, I could share their illusions

But nobody really knows, What this life is all about
Those who think they do, Are the ones who should have doubts

Sometimes I wonder, What they are going to do
When their cozy dreams are shattered, And reality shows through

Oh, I need a little something, Just to mellow my days
‘Cause I’m getting tired of acting, In lifes one act play

I’m Tired
And I’m tired of being a fool, And my mind going from hot to cool
And trying to conform to others ideas, And someone else’s rules

And the life I’m living ain’t mine, I’m supposed to feel that’s fine
I didn’t make the world I’m living in, And I ain’t gonna toe the line

I’m tired of trying to be something I know ain’t me
I’m tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know that some people are different, Now ain’t that a crying shame
Now wouldn’t it be a real drag if we were all the same

And I’m not gonna try to please, Eyes that just don’t see
If I get myself together, You’ll have the blues, not me

And I’m not gonna try to please, Eyes that just don’t see
If I get myself together, You’ll have the blues, not me
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Our Tribe would latch on to lyrics and use them as dialogue at appropriate times;
“You hab da blue, not me”, was was one of many.
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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives
00individual lived in a world that relied on intuition, not hand-held devices. As was typical of the times, sincere interest in anything would bring it to you – the Law of Attraction in action – so on a spontaneous and serendipitous December 1970 road trip north of L.A. with two buddies, with no real destination other than to get out of L.A. for a bit, and with no prior knowledge, found ourselves in San Francisco at the Fillmore just in time to see two of our favorite bands;
Savoy Brown and Humble Pie!
(for a fun review of the concert and shenanigans, scroll down, past TYA vs GFR)
This was Humble Pie‘s A&M “Beardsley” cover album and Savoy Brown’s “Looking In” album era – both stone favorite albums played as the foreground/background soundtrack of 1970/71.

Pure Magick!